cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Poisson distribution of a prime counting function corresponding to elliptic curves
Creators: name: Balasubramanian, R.
name: Giri, Sumit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11G05, 11G20, 11N05

description: Let $E$ be an elliptic curve defined over rational field $\mathbb{Q}$ and $N$ be a positive integer. Now, $M_E(N)$ denotes the number of primes $p$, such that the group $E_p(\mathbb{F}_p)$ is of order $N$. We show that $M_E(N)$ follows Poisson distribution when an average is taken over a large class of curves.
description: 17 pages
Light Unstable Sterile Neutrino Search in IceCube
Creators: name: Moulai, Marjon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Anomalies in short-baseline neutrino experiments suggest the existence of an eV-scale sterile neutrino. Recent fits, to the relevant global neutrino data, find preference for a 3+1 model where the heaviest mass state decays. IceCube, a gigaton ice-Cherenkov neutrino detector, is uniquely sensitive to the effect of these sterile neutrinos on the atmospheric muon neutrino flux at TeV energies. We present the latest from an analysis searching for light unstable sterile neutrinos in IceCube using eight years of data.
Anticonvulsant effects of the BK-channel antagonist paxilline.
Creators: name: Sheehan, Jesse J.
name: Benedetti, Brett L.
name: Barth, Alison L.
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: PURPOSE: Mutations that enhance currents through the Ca(2+)- and voltage-gated K(+) channel BK (Slo, maxiK, KCNMA1) have been associated with seizure disorders in both rodent models and humans. Previously we have found that seizures themselves induce a gain-of-function in BK channels that is associated with elevated excitability in neocortical neurons. In this study, we sought to examine whether administration of BK-channel antagonists possess anticonvulsant activity in vivo.
METHODS: Seizures were induced in animals by intraperitoneal (i.p.) injection of the gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)(A) antagonists picrotoxin or pentylenetetrazole. Twenty-four hours following induction of the initial seizure episode, animals were reinjected with chemoconvulsant in the presence of the BK-channel antagonist paxilline or saline. The presence and duration of tonic-clonic seizures were evaluated.
RESULTS: Intraperitoneal injection of paxilline was sufficient to eliminate tonic-clonic seizures in picrotoxin-treated animals. Paxilline reduced seizure duration and intensity in pentylenetetrazole-injected animals.
DISCUSSION: The BK-channel antagonist paxilline possesses significant anticonvulsant activity in both picrotoxin and pentylenetetrazole seizure models, an effect that may be related to the seizure-dependent gain-of-function in BK channel previously observed in neocortical neurons in vitro.
On the equivalence of LIST and DIIS methods for convergence acceleration
Creators: name: Garza, Alejandro J.
name: Scuseria, Gustavo E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Self-consistent field extrapolation methods play a pivotal role in quantum chemistry and electronic structure theory. We here demonstrate the mathematical equivalence between the recently proposed family of LIST methods [J. Chem. Phys. 134, 241103 (2011); J. Chem. Theory Comput. 7, 3045 (2011)] with Pulay's DIIS [Chem. Phys. Lett. 73, 393 (1980)]. Our results also explain the differences in performance among the various LIST methods.
Calibrating the SNO+ PMT Array
Creators: name: Nolan, Lorna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: SNO+ is a multipurpose liquid scintillator experiment based at SNOLAB, Canada, with a primary focus to search for neutrino less double beta decay of 130Te. The experiment is currently approximately half filled with liquid scintillator and taking commissioning data 24 hours a day. A variety of calibration methods are employed in SNO+ to ensure that the charge, timing, occupancy and systematic effects of the ~9300 PMTs are calibrated and understood. This poster details these methods, with particular attention to the timing calibrations and software based calibrations.
On thermal fluctuations and the generating functional in relativistic hydrodynamics
Creators: name: Harder, Michael
name: Kovtun, Pavel
name: Ritz, Adam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss a real-time generating functional for correlation functions in dissipative relativistic hydrodynamics which takes into account thermal fluctuations of the hydrodynamic variables. Starting from the known form of these correlation functions in the linearized regime, we integrate to find a generating functional which we can interpret within the CTP formalism, provided the space-time and internal global symmetries are realized in a specific manner in the (r,a) sectors. We then verify that this symmetry realization, when implemented in an effective action for hydrodynamic fields in the (r,a) basis, leads to a consistent derivative expansion for the constitutive relations at the nonlinear level, modulo constraints associated with the existence of an equilibrium state.
description: 23 pages
Automated grading of renal cell carcinoma using whole slide imaging.
Creators: name: Fang-Cheng  Yeh
name: Parwani, Anil V.
name: Pantanowitz, Liron
name: Ho, Chien
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: INTRODUCTION: Recent technology developments have demonstrated the benefit of using whole slide imaging (WSI) in computer-aided diagnosis. In this paper, we explore the feasibility of using automatic WSI analysis to assist grading of clear cell renal cell carcinoma (RCC), which is a manual task traditionally performed by pathologists.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: Automatic WSI analysis was applied to 39 hematoxylin and eosin-stained digitized slides of clear cell RCC with varying grades. Kernel regression was used to estimate the spatial distribution of nuclear size across the entire slides. The analysis results were correlated with Fuhrman nuclear grades determined by pathologists.
RESULTS: The spatial distribution of nuclear size provided a panoramic view of the tissue sections. The distribution images facilitated locating regions of interest, such as high-grade regions and areas with necrosis. The statistical analysis showed that the maximum nuclear size was significantly different (P < 0.001) between low-grade (Grades I and II) and high-grade tumors (Grades III and IV). The receiver operating characteristics analysis showed that the maximum nuclear size distinguished high-grade and low-grade tumors with a false positive rate of 0.2 and a true positive rate of 1.0. The area under the curve is 0.97.
CONCLUSION: The automatic WSI analysis allows pathologists to see the spatial distribution of nuclei size inside the tumors. The maximum nuclear size can also be used to differentiate low-grade and high-grade clear cell RCC with good sensitivity and specificity. These data suggest that automatic WSI analysis may facilitate pathologic grading of renal tumors and reduce variability encountered with manual grading.
Landscape of data repositories and platforms
Creators: name: Varrato, Francesco
name: Blumer, Eliane
name: Weil, Charlotte
name: Braskova, Miriam
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Dissemination
Online platform
Comparative table
Open Data
Data repositories
Collaboration
University services

description: Scholarly Communication is still shifting from papers to richer content, as for instance research data and code. Data dissemination has a crucial role and yet it is in its infancy, with visible fragmentation and too many unknowns for researchers to get onboard.

With our work, we want to mitigate this situation and help researchers decide which platforms are best suited to disseminate their data and code. The table we elaborated is based on multiple feedback from EPFL researchers, and its purpose is both to capture the variety of use-cases, and to guide researchers to make their choice.

This poster is principally conceived for colleagues working in university services related to Open Science and Research Data Management, to provide them with an example of collaboration that might be reproduced in their institutions, and to create awareness on the challenges that such an endeavor entails.

In this publication, we also include the current version of the comparative table of data dissemination solutions.
Valorisation of hazardous medical waste using steam injected plasma gasifier: a parametric study on the modelling and multi-objective optimisation by integrating Aspen plus with RSM
Creators: name: Singh, Deepak Kumar
name: Tirkey, Jeewan V.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Plant Biology

description: The COVID-19 Pandemic has a detrimental effect on the environment related to the exponential rise in medical waste (MW). Extraction of energy from the toxic MW with the latest gasification technology instead of conventional incineration is of utmost importance to promote sustainable development. This present study investigates the processing of MW for the generation of enriched hydrogen syngas using steam injected plasma gasifier. Modelling of Plasma gasifier was performed in Aspen Plus and Model validation was done with the experimental result and, a good agreement was attained. Sensitivity analysis was implemented on MW in which the influence of gasification temperature, equivalence ratio (ER), and Steam/Biomass (S/B) on the producer gas (PG) composition, gas yield, H2/CO ratio, cold gas efficiency (CGE), and the higher heating value (HHV) was calculated. Furthermore, Response surface methodology (RSM) has been incorporated for the multi-objective optimisation of the variable gasification parameters. R2 values obtained from ANOVA for H2, CGE, and HHV are 98.62%, 99.10%, and 98.9% respectively. Using the response optimiser, the optimum values of H2, CGE, and HHV were found to be 0.43 (mole frac), 89.95%, and 7.49 MJ/Nm3 for temperature at 1560.60°C, equivalence ratio 0.1, and S/B 0.99, respectively. The observed coefficient of desirability was about 0.97.
Οι "άλλοι" λαοί στον Δούκα(Μιχαήλ): Οθωμανοί, Τούρκοι, Δυτικοί, Βαλκανικοί
Creators: name: Κυρανάκη, Ιωάννα
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πελοποννήσου
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Δούκας -- Μιχαήλ -- π.1400 - π.1470 -- Βυζαντινοτουρκική Ιστορία -- Ερμηνεία και κριτική
subject: Βυζαντινή αυτοκρατορία -- Ιστορία -- 1081-1453 -- Πηγές
subject: Βυζαντινή αυτοκρατορία -- Κοινωνικές συνθήκες -- 1081-1453
subject: Εθνολογία -- Βυζαντινή αυτοκρατορία
subject: Μιχαήλ Δούκας
subject: Βυζαντινοτουρκική Ιστορία
subject: Βυζαντινοί
subject: Οθωμανοί
subject: Δυτικοί λαοί στη Βυζαντινή Αυτοκρατορία
subject: Σέρβοι
subject: Βλάχοι
subject: Αλβανοί
subject: Michael Ducas
subject: Byzantine - Turkish History
subject: Byzantines
subject: Othomans
subject: Western peoples in the Byzantine Empire
subject: Serbs
subject: Vlachs
subject: Albanians

description: Η παρούσα εργασία αποτελεί την τελική διπλωματική μου εργασία που εκπονήθηκε στο πλαίσιο του Προγράμματος Μεταπτυχιακών Σπουδών «Βυζαντινός Κόσμος: Η σχέση του με την Αρχαιότητα και τον Νεότερο Ελληνισμό» και υλοποιείται από το Πανεπιστήμιο Πελοποννήσου σε συνεργασία με το Ινστιτούτο Έρευνας Βυζαντινού Πολιτισμού. Σκοπός μας ήταν να αναδείξουμε τους «άλλους» εθνοτικούς λαούς, δηλαδή τους μη Βυζαντινούς ερευνώνταςτην πολύ σημαντική ιστορική πραγματεία του Μιχαήλ Δούκα «Βυζαντινοτουρκική Ιστορία», που καλύπτει κυρίως την περίοδο από την εμφάνιση των Οθωμανών Τούρκων στις αρχές του 14ου αιώνα έως και το έτος 1462. Αφού παρατίθεται αρχικά μια εκτενής περίληψη της «Βυζαντινοτουρκικής Ιστορίας», εστιάσαμε διαδοχικά στους Οθωμανούς, στα έθνη της Δυτικής Ευρώπης και τα βαλκανικά έθνη όπως οι Σέρβοι, οι Βλάχοι και οι Αλβανοί, αλλά και στις περιπτώσεις ηγετών όπως οVlad Țepeș και ο Ταμερλάνος που δρούσαν σε βυζαντινά και βαλκανικά εδάφη, πέτυχαν μεγάλες νίκες επί των Οθωμανών και χαρακτηρίστηκαν για τις πολεμικές τους ικανότητες αλλά και για τις απάνθρωπες πρακτικές τους. Η μελέτη ανέδειξε θρησκευτικές ιδιαιτερότητες, παραδόσεις και πολιτισμικές διαφορές μεταξύ αυτών των εθνοτικών πληθυσμών.
Backbone resonance assignment of human adult hemoglobin in the deoxy form.
Creators: name: Sarata C. Sahu
name: Simplaceanu, Virgil
name: Ho, Nancy T.
name: Giovannelli, Janel L.
name: Ho, Chien
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Letter to the Editor
Hawking-Hayward quasi-local energy under conformal transformations
Creators: name: Prain, Angus
name: Vitagliano, Vincenzo
name: Faraoni, Valerio
name: Lapierre-Léonard, Marianne
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive a formula describing the transformation of the Hawking-Hayward quasi-local energy under a conformal rescaling of the spacetime metric. A known formula for the transformation of the Misner-Sharp-Hernandez mass is recovered as a special case.
The Sanford Underground Research Facility
Creators: name: Horn, Markus
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: The Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) has been operating for over a decade as a facility dedicated to supporting underground research in rare-process physics, as well as offering research opportunities in other disciplines. SURF laboratory facilities include a Surface Campus as well as two main campuses at the 4850-foot level (4300 m.w.e.) that host a range of significant physics experiments: the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) dark matter experiment, the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR neutrinoless double-beta decay experiment and the CASPAR nuclear astrophysics accelerator. Furthermore, the BHUC laboratory dedicated to critical material assays for current and future experiments has been operating since Fall 2015. Plans to accommodate the Fermilab-led international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) at the Long Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) are well advanced, and initial construction has commenced. SURF is a dedicated research facility with significant expansion capability, and applications from other experiments are welcome.
Valorization of Hazardous Medical Waste using Steam injected Plasma Gasifier: A Parametric Study on the Modeling and Multi-Objective Optimization by integrating Aspen Plus with RSM
Creators: name: Singh, Deepak Kumar
name: Tirkey, Jeewan V
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Plant Biology

description: The COVID-19 Pandemic has a detrimental effect on the environment related to the exponential rise in medical waste (MW). Extraction of energy from the toxic MW with the latest gasification technology instead of conventional incineration is of utmost importance to promote sustainable development. This present study investigates the processing of MW for the generation of enriched hydrogen syngas using steam injected plasma gasifier. Modeling of Plasma gasifier was performed in Aspen Plus and Model validation was done with the experimental result and, a good agreement was attained. Sensitivity analysis was implemented on MW in which the influence of gasification temperature, equivalence ratio (ER), and Steam/Biomass (S/B) on the producer gas (PG) composition, gas yield, H2/CO ratio, cold gas efficiency (CGE), and the higher heating value (HHV) was calculated. Furthermore, Response surface methodology (RSM) has been incorporated for the multi-objective optimization of the variable gasification parameters. R2 values obtained from ANOVA for H2, CGE, and HHV are 98.62%, 99.10%, and 98.9% respectively. Using the response optimizer, the optimum values of H2, CGE, and HHV were found to be 0.43 (mole frac), 89.95%, and 7.49 MJ/Nm3 for temperature at 1560.600C, equivalence ratio 0.1, and S/B 0.99, respectively. The observed coefficient of desirability was about 0.97.
Comparative study of low-cost fluoride removal by layered double hydroxides, geopolymers, softening pellets and struvite
Creators: name: Wei, Liangfu
name: Li, Zhenming
name: Ye, Guang
name: Rietveld, Luuk C.
name: van Halem, Doris
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Excessive F- in drinking water due to natural and anthropogenic activities is a serious health hazard affecting humans worldwide. In this study, a comparative assessment was made of eight mineral-based materials with advantageous structural properties for F- uptake: layered-double-hydroxides (LDHs), geopolymers, softening pellets and struvite. These materials are considered low-cost, for being either a waste or by-product, or can be locally-sourced. It can be concluded that Ca-based materials showed the strongest affinity for F- (Ca-Al-CO3 LDHs, slag-based geopolymer, softening pellets). The Langmuir adsorption capacity of Ca-Al-CO3 LDHs, slag-based geopolymer and softening pellets was observed to be 20.83, 5.23 and 1.20 mg/g, respectively. The main mechanism of F- uptake on Ca-Al-CO3 LDHs, Mg-Al-Cl LDHs, slag-based geopolymers and softening pellets was found to be sorption at low initial F- concentrations (<10 mg/L) whereas precipitation as CaF2 is proposed to play a major role at higher initial F- concentrations (>20 mg/L). Although the softening pellets had the highest Ca-content (96-97%; XRF), their dense structure and consequent low BET surface area (2–3 m2/g), resulted in poorer performance than the Ca-based LDHs and slag-based geopolymers. Nevertheless, geopolymers, as well as struvite, were not considered to be of interest for application in water treatment, as they would need modification due to their poor stability and/or F- leaching.
Balanced synaptic input shapes the correlation between neural spike trains.
Creators: name: Litwin-Kumar, Ashok
name: Oswald, Anne-Marie
name: Urban, Nathan
name: Doiron, Brent
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Stimulus properties, attention, and behavioral context influence correlations between the spike times produced by a pair of neurons. However, the biophysical mechanisms that modulate these correlations are poorly understood. With a combined theoretical and experimental approach, we show that the rate of balanced excitatory and inhibitory synaptic input modulates the magnitude and timescale of pairwise spike train correlation. High rate synaptic inputs promote spike time synchrony rather than long timescale spike rate correlations, while low rate synaptic inputs produce opposite results. This correlation shaping is due to a combination of enhanced high frequency input transfer and reduced firing rate gain in the high input rate state compared to the low state. Our study extends neural modulation from single neuron responses to population activity, a necessary step in understanding how the dynamics and processing of neural activity change across distinct brain states.
Three-dimensional spin-orbit coupled Fermi gases: Fulde-Ferrell pairing, Majorana fermions, Weyl fermions and gapless topological superfluidity
Creators: name: Liu, Xia-Ji
name: Hu, Hui
name: Pu, Han
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically investigate a three-dimensional Fermi gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling in the presence of both out-of-plane and in-plane Zeeman fields. We show that, driven by a sufficiently large Zeeman field, either out-of-plane or in-plane, the superfluid phase of this system exhibits a number of interesting features, including inhomogeneous Fulde-Ferrell pairing, gapped or gapless topological order and exotic quasi-particle excitations known as Weyl fermions that have linear energy dispersions in momentum space (i.e., massless Dirac fermions). The topological superfluid phase can have either four or two topologically protected Weyl nodes. We present the phase diagrams at both zero and finite temperatures and discuss the possibility of their observation in an atomic Fermi gas with synthetic spin-orbit coupling. In this context, topological superfluid phases with an imperfect Rashba spin-orbit coupling are also studied.
description: 13 pages, 14 figures
Cargo regulates clathrin-coated pit dynamics.
Creators: name: Manojkumar Puthenveedu
name: Zastrow, Mark Von
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Clathrin-coated pits (CCPs) are generally considered a uniform population of endocytic machines containing mixed constitutive and regulated membrane cargo. Contrary to this view, we show that regulated endocytosis of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) occurs preferentially through a subset of CCPs. Significantly, GPCR-containing CCPs are also functionally distinct, as their surface residence time is regulated locally by GPCR cargo via PDZ-dependent linkage to the actin cytoskeleton. Such cargo-regulated CCPs show delayed recruitment of dynamin and can undergo an abortive event in which clathrin coats separate from the plasma membrane without concomitant receptor endocytosis. Segregation of cargo into CCP subsets, combined with cargo-dependent control of CCP dynamics, suggests a simple kinetic mechanism to generate functional specialization early in the endocytic pathway and reduce competition between diverse endocytic cargo.
Iterated Quasi-Arithmetic Mean-Type Mappings
Creators: name: Pasteczka, Paweł
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 26E60, 26A18, 39B12

description: For a family of quasi-arithmetic means satisfying certain smoothness condition we majorize the speed of convergence of the iterative sequence of self-mappings having a mean on each entry, described in the definition of Gaussian product, to relevant mean-type mapping. We apply this result to approximate any continuous function which is invariant with respect to such a self-mappings.
description: 13 pages
Supplementary Data 2 for "Genomic characterization of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in mechanically ventilated COVID-19 patients and impact of infection control measures in reducing its circulation during the second wave of SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Milan, Italy"
Creators: name: Mangioni Davide
name: Fox, Valeria
name: Chatenoud, Liliane
name: Bolis, Matteo
name: Bottino, Nicola
name: Cariani, Lisa
name: Silverj, Flaminia Gentiloni
name: Matinato, Caterina
name: Monti, Gianpaola
name: Muscatello, Antonio
name: Teri, Antonio
name: Terranova, Leonardo
name: Piatti, Alessandra
name: Gori, Andrea
name: Grasselli, Giacomo
name: Stocchetti, Nino
name: Alteri, Claudia
name: Bandera, Alessandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Supplementary Data 2 representing the Beast xml file used to infer the Bayesian tree.
Replication of Feelings of Culpability by Malter @ BYU-I Winter 2023
Creators: name: Rogers, Truman
name: McKay Judkins
name: Bowser, Emma
name: Wiggins, Bradford J.
name: Breen, Spencer
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: This is an update to our previous registration. Due to the needs of the psychology subject pool, we extended our study to include all participants who complete the study by March 15 at 11:59AM local time. We have not looked at the data collected so far.
Charge Induced Fluctuation Forces in Graphitic Nanostructures
Creators: name: Drosdoff, D.
name: Bondarev, Igor V.
name: Widom, Allan
name: Podgornik, Rudolph
name: Woods, Lilia M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Charge fluctuations in nano-circuits with capacitor components are shown to give rise to a novel type of long-ranged interaction, which co-exist with the regular Casimir/van der Waals force. The developed theory distinguishes between thermal and quantum mechanical effects, and it is applied to capacitors involving graphene nanostructures. The charge fluctuations mechanism is captured via the capacitance of the system with geometrical and quantum mechanical components. The dependence on the distance separation, temperature, size, and response properties of the system shows that this type of force can have a comparable and even dominant effect to the Casimir interaction. Our results strongly indicate that fluctuations induced interactions due to various thermodynamic quantities can have important thermal and quantum mechanical contributions at the micro- and nanoscale.
A Novel Approach for the Intranuclear Cascade
Creators: name: Lovato, Alessandro
name: Jay, William
name: Machado, Pedro
name: Isaacson, Joshua
name: Rocco, Noemi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Traditional intranuclear cascades assume point like interactions which neglects the fact that the nuclear force has a finite interaction range. In this new cascade, we use Quantum Monte Carlo nuclear configurations, along with a model for nucleon wavepacket overlap to incorporate more quantum mechanical effects into the cascade. We demonstrate how this approach correctly reproduces the mean-free path, can be evolved using constant time steps, and reproduces the proton-Carbon reaction cross-section. Additionally, we vary the parameters of the new cascade model as a means to estimate the uncertainty associated with our calculation.
Cholinergic interneurons mediate fast VGluT3-dependent glutamatergic transmission in the striatum.
Creators: name: Higley, Michael J.
name: Aryn Gittis
name: Oldenburg, Ian H.
name: Balthasar, Nina
name: Seal, Rebecca P.
name: Edwards, Robert H.
name: Lowell, Bradford B.
name: Kreitzer, Anatol C.
name: Sabatini, Bernardo L.
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The neurotransmitter glutamate is released by excitatory projection neurons throughout the brain. However, non-glutamatergic cells, including cholinergic and monoaminergic neurons, express markers that suggest that they are also capable of vesicular glutamate release. Striatal cholinergic interneurons (CINs) express the Type-3 vesicular glutamate transporter (VGluT3), although whether they form functional glutamatergic synapses is unclear. To examine this possibility, we utilized mice expressing Cre-recombinase under control of the endogenous choline acetyltransferase locus and conditionally expressed light-activated Channelrhodopsin2 in CINs. Optical stimulation evoked action potentials in CINs and produced postsynaptic responses in medium spiny neurons that were blocked by glutamate receptor antagonists. CIN-mediated glutamatergic responses exhibited a large contribution of NMDA-type glutamate receptors, distinguishing them from corticostriatal inputs. CIN-mediated glutamatergic responses were insensitive to antagonists of acetylcholine receptors and were not seen in mice lacking VGluT3. Our results indicate that CINs are capable of mediating fast glutamatergic transmission, suggesting a new role for these cells in regulating striatal activity.
title: Καλλυντικά προϊόντα με βάση συστατικά της αμπέλου (Vitisvinifera)
title: Cosmetic products based on vine ingredients (Vitisvinifera)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Μποτσάκος, Θεόδωρος
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής
Year: 2022
Subjects: Άμπελος
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description: Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία έχει ως στόχο να πραγματοποιήσει μία ανασκόπηση στις ιδιότητες που μπορούν να προσδώσουν τα συστατικά της αμπέλου στα καλλυντικά προϊόντα. Για την μελέτη της διεθνούς βιβλιογραφίας χρησιμοποιήθηκαν οι βάσεις δεδομένων Googlescholarκαι sciencedirect. Οι λέξεις κλειδιά που χρησιμοποιήθηκαν ήταν: Άμπελος, καλλυντικά, σταφύλι, κοσμητολογία. Ακόμα, το πειραματικό μέρος, σκοπό είχε να μελετήσει την επίδραση δύο εκ των πιο σημαντικών συστατικών-παράγωγων του σταφυλιού, που χρησιμοποιούνται στην κοσμητολογία.Αυτά είναι τα εξής:GSP-T (Inciname: Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Seed Extract, PEG-40 Hydrogenated Castor Oil, Tocopherol, Glycerin, Alcohol and Aqua/Water) από την εταιρίαMibelleκαι Resveratrox 2% (Ιnciname: Propanediol (and) Water (and) Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Vine Extract), από την εταιρίαActichem. Αναπτύχθηκαν αντηλιακά προϊόντα με αυτά τα δραστικά παράγωγα του σταφυλιού, τόσο ξεχωριστά όσο και σε συνδυασμό. Έπειτα, εξετάστηκε η φυσικοχημική σταθερότητα των προϊόντων και η αποτελεσματικότητα τους στην βελτίωση στον δείκτη SPF με μέτρηση UVA-UVBinvitro. Συμπερασματικά προέκυψε ότι η προσθήκη της πρώτης ύλης GSP-T στο maximum ποσοστό στην συγκεκριμένη φόρμουλα δεν επηρεάζει ουσιαστικά τη σταθερότητα του προϊόντος. Αντίθετα, η προσθήκη της πρώτης ύλης Resveratrox στο maximumπροτεινόμενο ποσοστό, επηρεάζει την σταθερότητα του προϊόντος. Η προσθήκη της πρώτης ύλης Resveratrox αύξησε το ιξώδες και μείωσε ελαφρά το pHσε σχέση με το Placebo, η προσθήκη της πρώτης ύλης GSP-T δεν επηρέασε πρακτικά ούτε το ιξώδες ούτε το pH ενώ η συνδυασμένη προσθήκη των δύο πρώτων υλών είχε πρακτικά την ίδια επίδραση στο ιξώδες και το pH όπως όταν προστέθηκε αποκλειστικά Resveratrox. Αναφορικά με τις δοκιμές invitroπου πραγματοποιήθηκαν στις κρέμες που προέκυψαν με βάση την κρέμα με SPF 30, δε παρατηρήθηκε πρακτικά σημαντικήαλλαγή στον δείκτη SPF., παρά μόνο μία μικρή αύξηση. Αντίστοιχα Αποτελέσματα προέκυψαν και από τις δοκιμές invitroπου πραγματοποιήθηκαν στις κρέμες που προέκυψαν με βάση την κρέμα με SPF 15.
On what a construction is
Creators: name: Haspelmath, Martin
Publisher: name: Constructions
Year: 2023

description: In this short think-piece, I propose a definition of the term construction for general linguistics and I relate it to the earlier literature. The term construction has a general meaning that was not defined in the earlier literature, but several specific definitions were proposed in work by construction grammarians. Here I point out that construction grammarians actually tend to use the general meaning, even though it is widely known that “construction in the sense of construction grammar” has been defined in more specific senses. I propose that the novel senses are perhaps better expressed by novel terms (such as “inventorial item”), and that the primary insight about the continuity of word knowledge and constructional knowledge is best expressed by using a different term (such as “inventorium”) to cover all “stored pieces of structure”.
description: Constructions, Bd. 15 Nr. 1 (2023): Special Issue "35 Years of Constructions" (Editors: Lotte Sommerer & Stefan Hartmann)
Measuring Coherent Neutrino Scattering with Ge
Creators: name: Mann, Keith
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) is a standard model process that has been predicted for over 40 years; however, despite the large cross section of this interaction, CEvNS has been measured for the first time only very recently by the COHERENT collaboration. Since first measuring CEvNS in a CsI detector in 2017, the COHERENT collaboration has been working to implement several other detectors with a wide range of atomic masses. Recently, the Collaboration began construction of a 16-kg array of low-noise, low-threshold germanium detectors for a precision measurement of the cross section with a target of intermediate N and reduced systematic uncertainties compared to other targets. This array is scheduled for deployment at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) in early 2021. Details of the design, simulated backgrounds, and physics reach will be presented.
Comparative study of low-cost fluoride removal by layered double hydroxides, geopolymers, softening pellets and struvite
Creators: name: Wei, Liangfu
name: Li, Zhenming
name: Ye, Guang
name: Rietveld, Luuk C.
name: van Halem, Doris
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Excessive F- in drinking water due to natural and anthropogenic activities is a serious health hazard affecting humans worldwide. In this study, a comparative assessment was made of eight mineral-based materials with advantageous structural properties for F- uptake: layered-double-hydroxides (LDHs), geopolymers, softening pellets and struvite. These materials are considered low-cost, for being either a waste or by-product, or can be locally-sourced. It can be concluded that Ca-based materials showed the strongest affinity for F- (Ca-Al-CO3 LDHs, slag-based geopolymer, softening pellets). The Langmuir adsorption capacity of Ca-Al-CO3 LDHs, slag-based geopolymer and softening pellets was observed to be 20.83, 5.23 and 1.20 mg/g, respectively. The main mechanism of F- uptake on Ca-Al-CO3 LDHs, Mg-Al-Cl LDHs, slag-based geopolymers and softening pellets was found to be sorption at low initial F- concentrations (<10 mg/L) whereas precipitation as CaF2 is proposed to play a major role at higher initial F- concentrations (>20 mg/L). Although the softening pellets had the highest Ca-content (96-97%; XRF), their dense structure and consequent low BET surface area (2-3 m2/g), resulted in poorer performance than the Ca-based LDHs and slag-based geopolymers. Nevertheless, geopolymers, as well as struvite, were not considered to be of interest for application in water treatment, as they would need modification due to their poor stability and/or F- leaching.
Παράγοντες που επηρεάζουν την ψυχική υγεία και ευεξία Ευρωπαίων ηλικίας 50 ετών και άνω βάσει διαγενεακών στοιχείων
Creators: name: Χαϊδεμενάκη, Διονυσία
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Ψυχική υγεία
subject: Ποιότητα ζωής
subject: Πολυωνυμική λογιστική παλινδρόμηση
subject: Στοιχεία παιδικής ηλικίας

description: Ένα έκτακτο γεγονός παγκοσμίων διαστάσεων, όπως η πρόσφατη πανδημία COVID-19, φέρνει τους ανθρώπους αντιμέτωπους με απομόνωση, φοβίες, άγχος και άλλα δυσάρεστα συναισθήματα. Η καταγεγραμμένη διεθνώς επιδείνωση των συνθηκών ζωής των ατόμων τρίτης ηλικίας, προβληματίζει και ταυτόχρονα προκαλεί αναθεώρηση της σημαντικότητας των εννοιών της καλής «ψυχικής υγείας» και της «ποιότητας ζωής». Αφορμώμενος, λοιπόν, από την επικαιρότητα, ο στόχος του παρόντος πονήματος είναι η διερεύνηση των χαρακτηριστικών που συμβάλλουν στην μεταβολή της ποιότητας ζωής των Ευρωπαίων πολιτών άνω των 50. Για τον σκοπό αυτόν αξιοποιούνται πληροφορίες από το έβδομο κύμα της πανευρωπαϊκής έρευνας SHARE (Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe). Τα χαρακτηριστικά που εξετάζονται αφορούν σε δημογραφικά, οικονομικά, κοινωνικά καθώς και στοιχεία σωματικής και ψυχικής υγείας, αναδρομικά από την παιδική ηλικία των συμμετεχόντων έως και το 2017, έτος διεξαγωγής της συγκεκριμένης έρευνας. Στο 1ο κεφάλαιο, παρατίθενται κάποιοι βασικοί ορισμοί, όπως της ψυχικής υγείας και της ποιότητας ζωής, εννοιών που στη συνέχεια μελετώνται. Το 2ο κεφάλαιο αποτελεί συνέχεια του θεωρητικού πλαισίου με παράγοντες που, κατά τη βιβλιογραφία, επιδρούν στην ψυχική υγεία και στην ποιότητα ζωής σε άτομα άνω των 50. Ακολουθεί η περιγραφική στατιστική ανάλυση των μεταβλητών ενδιαφέροντος ενώ στο 4ο κεφάλαιο εξετάζεται, μέσω δισδιάστατης ανάλυσης, αν και σε τι βαθμό συσχετίζεται η ποιότητα ζωής με δημογραφικούς και κοινωνικοοικονομικούς παράγοντες. Στο 5ο κεφάλαιο αναπτύσσονται μοντέλα πολυωνυμικής λογιστικής παλινδρόμησης με σκοπό τη βέλτιστη πρόβλεψη των παραγόντων που επηρεάζουν την ποιότητα ζωής. Στο 6ο και τελευταίο κεφάλαιο καταγράφονται συνοπτικά τα κυριότερα συμπεράσματα της έρευνας. Στις σύγχρονες μεταβλητές που επηρεάζουν σημαντικά την ποιότητα ζωής των ατόμων περιλαμβάνονται ενδεικτικά οι κινητικοί περιορισμοί, η αυτοαναφερόμενη υγεία, η χώρα διαμονής, η ηλικία και o βαθμός νευρωτισμού ως χαρακτηριστικό της προσωπικότητας. Ταυτόχρονα, η σωματική μητρική κακοποίηση και ο αριθμός προσβάσιμων βιβλίων κατά την παιδική ηλικία είναι δύο από τις σημαντικότερες μεταβλητές των αναδρομικών στοιχείων που επιδρούν στην μετέπειτα ποιότητα ζωής των συμμετεχόντων της έρευνας.
title: Creativity with care during COVID-19
Creators: name: Sullivan, Paul
Publisher: name: Strathprints - University of Strathclyde
Year: 2021

description: The importance of music and creativity in promoting the social development and wellbeing of children and young people is well documented. For children and young people with care experience, music can build resilience, help to heal trauma and support the development of supportive relationships; however, despite these myriad benefits, significant challenges remain that prevent care experienced children and young people's access to creativity. This article explores the impact of these challenges, many of which are being exacerbated by COVID-19; and, shines a light on one initiative 'Musicares' that is helping to overcome these challenges in Scotland.
Reverse mathematics, well-quasi-orders, and Noetherian spaces
Creators: name: Frittaion, Emanuele
name: Hendtlass, Matt
name: Marcone, Alberto
name: Shafer, Paul
name: Van der Meeren, Jeroen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A quasi-order $Q$ induces two natural quasi-orders on $P(Q)$, but if $Q$ is a well-quasi-order, then these quasi-orders need not necessarily be well-quasi-orders. Nevertheless, Goubault-Larrecq showed that moving from a well-quasi-order $Q$ to the quasi-orders on $P(Q)$ preserves well-quasi-orderedness in a topological sense. Specifically, Goubault-Larrecq proved that the upper topologies of the induced quasi-orders on $P(Q)$ are Noetherian, which means that they contain no infinite strictly descending sequences of closed sets. We analyze various theorems of the form "if $Q$ is a well-quasi-order then a certain topology on (a subset of) $P(Q)$ is Noetherian" in the style of reverse mathematics, proving that these theorems are equivalent to ACA_0 over RCA_0. To state these theorems in RCA_0 we introduce a new framework for dealing with second-countable topological spaces.
description: minor changes suggested by referees, added table
Proton light yield of water-based liquid scintillator
Creators: name: Gann, Gabriel Orebi
name: Callaghan, Edward
name: Laplace, Thibault
name: Manfredi, Juan
name: Brown, Joshua
name: Goldblum, Bethany
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Future neutrino detectors, whether answering questions of fundamental physics or exercising nuclear monitoring techniques, will require advanced technologies for optimal performance. One such candidate technology is water-based liquid scintillator (WbLS), a material for which Cherenkov and scintillation light may be discriminated and examined independently. We present a measurement of the relative proton light yields of WbLS and an LAB-based liquid scintillator, using a broad-spectrum neutron source at the 88-Inch Cyclotron at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. A double-time-of-flight technique was employed, which allows for relatively pure selection of proton recoil events over a continuous energy range. We also present a characterization of the nonlinearity in photomultiplier tube response over the full dynamic range of the electronics system.
Determination of the Fermi Contour and Spin-polarization of $ν=3/2$ Composite Fermions via Ballistic Commensurability Measurements
Creators: name: Kamburov, D.
name: Mueed, M. A.
name: Jo, I.
name: Liu, Yang
name: Shayegan, M.
name: Pfeiffer, L. N.
name: West, K. W.
name: Baldwin, K. W.
name: Lee, J. J. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report ballistic transport commensurability minima in the magnetoresistance of $ν=3/2$ composite fermions (CFs). The CFs are formed in high-quality two-dimensional electron systems confined to wide GaAs quantum wells and subjected to an in-plane, unidirectional periodic potential modulation. We observe a slight asymmetry of the CF commensurability positions with respect to $ν=3/2$, which we explain quantitatively by comparing three CF density models and concluding that the $ν=3/2$ CFs are likely formed by the minority carriers in the upper energy spin state of the lowest Landau level. Our data also allow us to probe the shape and size of the CF Fermi contour. At a fixed electron density of $\simeq 1.8 \times 10^{11}$ cm$^{-2}$, as the quantum well width increases from 30 to 60 nm, the CFs show increasing spin-polarization. We attribute this to the enhancement of the Zeeman energy relative to the Coulomb energy in wider wells where the latter is softened because of the larger electron layer thickness. The application of an additional parallel magnetic field ($B_{||}$) leads to a significant distortion of the CF Fermi contour as $B_{||}$ couples to the CFs' out-of-plane orbital motion. The distortion is much more severe compared to the $ν=1/2$ CF case at comparable $B_{||}$. Moreover, the applied $B_{||}$ further spin-polarizes the $ν=3/2$ CFs as deduced from the positions of the commensurability minima.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures
The Impact of Ionizing Radiation on Qubits
Creators: name: Formaggio, Joseph Formaggio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: The practical viability of technologies that rely on qubits require long coherence times and high-fidelity operations. Unfortunately, the coherence of superconducting qubits is impacted by broken Cooper pairs, referred to as quasiparticles, whose experimentally observed density is orders of magnitude than their theoretically predicted values. Here we provide evidence that ionizing radiation from environmental radioactive materials and cosmic rays contributes to this observed difference. The effect of ionizing radiation leads to an elevated quasiparticle density, which we predict would ultimately limit the coherence times of superconducting qubits of the type measured here to the millisecond regime. We further demonstrate that introducing radiation shielding --a technique readily employed by many neutrino experiments-- reduces the flux of ionizing radiation and positively correlates with increased energy-relaxation time. Albeit a small effect for today's qubits, reducing or otherwise mitigating the impact of ionizing radiation will be critical for realizing fault-tolerant superconducting quantum computers.
title: Extending out-of-home care in the state of Victoria, Australia : the policy context and outcomes
Creators: name: Mendes, Philip
Publisher: name: Strathprints - University of Strathclyde
Year: 2021

description: In November 2020, the State (Labour Party) Government of Victoria in Australia announced that it would extend out-of-home care (OOHC) on a universal basis until 21 years of age starting 1 January 2021. This is an outstanding policy innovation introduced in response to the Home Stretch campaign, led by Anglicare Victoria, to urge all Australian jurisdictions to offer extended care programmes until at least 21 years. It also reflects the impact of more than two decades of advocacy by service providers, researchers, and care experienced young people (Mendes, 2019).
Cell micromanipulation with an active handheld micromanipulator.
Creators: name: Tabares, Jaime Cuevas
name: MacLachlan, Robert
name: Ettensohn, Charles A.
name: Riviere, Cameron N.
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The paper describes the use of an active handheld micromanipulator, known as Micron, for micromanipulation of cells. The device enables users to manipulate objects on the order of tens of microns in size, with the natural ease of use of a fully handheld tool. Micron senses its own position using a purpose-built microscale optical tracker, estimates the erroneous or undesired component of hand motion, and actively corrects it by deflecting its own tool tip using piezoelectric actuators. Benchtop experiments in tip positioning show that active compensation can reduce positioning error by up to 51% compared to unaided performance. Preliminary experiments in bisection of sea urchin embryos exhibit an increased success rate when performed with the help of Micron.
Investigation of homogeneity and matter distribution on large scales using large quasar groups
Creators: name: Li, Ming-Hua
name: Li, Zhi-Bing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use 12 large quasar group (LQG) samples to investigate the homogeneity of $0.5\lesssim z \lesssim 2$ Universe ($z$ denotes the redshift). We calculate the bias factor $b$ and the two-point correlation function $ξ_{\rm LQG}$ for such groups for three different density profiles of the LQG dark matter halos, i.e. the isothermal profile, the Navarro-Frenk-White (NFW) profile, and the (gravitational) lensing profile. We consider the $Λ$CDM concordance model of our Universe with $Ω_m=0.28$, $Ω_Λ=0.72$, the Hubble constant $H_0=100h~$km s$^{-1}$ Mpc$^{-1}$ with $h=0.72$ in our calculations. Dividing the samples into three redshift bins, we find that the LQGs with higher redshift are more biased and correlated than those with lower redshift. The redshift-increasing LQG correlation amplitudes we find is incompatible with that predicted by the standard theory of structure growth. The homogeneity scale $R_H$ of the LQG distribution is also deduced. It is defined as the comoving radius of the sphere inside which the number of LQGs $N(
description: 16 pages, 16 figures