cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Islam, Deportation and Return
title: Removal Experiences of Muslim Irregularised Migrants
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Sökefeld, Martin
name: Mahar, Usman
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2022

description: Muslim conceptions of what being human means are often ignored in migration research. These conceptions, however, play an affective and central role in the experiences of many religiously affiliated migrants from different Muslim communities. This is particularly true for irregularised migrants struggling with mobility or facing removal, i.e. deportation or “voluntary” repatriation. Their view of cross-border mobility and life more generally, including notions of freedom of mobility and human rights, are often intimately entangled with religious ideas, experiences, interpretations, narratives, and feelings. Which are in turn profoundly bound up with their migration and removal experiences. To bracket out religion in migration research as is often done in secular legal and human rights frameworks may marginalise people’s religious experiences and ontological notions. For ethnographers working with Muslim migrants, it is all the more difficult to ignore this aspect of the lives of their interlocutors. Often, religion is the lens through which their research partners make sense of their migratory lives. However, there is no single understanding of Islam, and different collective beliefs, conceptions or subjective interpretations inform the experiences and narratives of Muslim migrants: From religious ideas of taqdeer or muqaddar (destiny) in one Muslim community to istikhaara (seeking Allah’s counsel) in another, various Islamic practices, ideas, and subjectivities play an essential role in the lives of many Muslim migrants.
RSPA-2022-0175_Supp_Mat;Supp_Mat2_CodeFigures from Tiered social distancing policies and epidemic control
Creators: name: Bliman, Pierre-Alexandre
name: Carrozzo-Magli, Alessio
name: d’Onofrio, Alberto
name: Manfredi, Piero
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 10109 Ordinary Differential Equations, Difference Equations and Dynamical Systems
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 10110 Partial Differential Equations
subject: 10302 Numerical Solution of Differential and Integral Equations
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional theoretical results and figures;Code used to simulate the model
Additional file 2 of Lymphocyte antigen 6G6D-mediated modulation through p38α MAPK and DNA methylation in colorectal cancer
Creators: name: Caruso, Francesca Pia
name: D’Andrea, Mario Rosario
name: Coppola, Luigi
name: Landriscina, Matteo
name: Condelli, Valentina
name: Cerulo, Luigi
name: Giordano, Guido
name: Porras, Almudena
name: Pancione, Massimo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Table S1. Differentially expressed genes Mucinous vs Adenocarcinoma in COAD.
Additional file 3 of Lymphocyte antigen 6G6D-mediated modulation through p38α MAPK and DNA methylation in colorectal cancer
Creators: name: Caruso, Francesca Pia
name: D’Andrea, Mario Rosario
name: Coppola, Luigi
name: Landriscina, Matteo
name: Condelli, Valentina
name: Cerulo, Luigi
name: Giordano, Guido
name: Porras, Almudena
name: Pancione, Massimo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Table S2. Differentially expressed genes Mucinous vs Adenocarcinoma in READ.
Commensurate lock-in in holographic non-homogeneous lattices
Creators: name: Andrade, Tomas
name: Krikun, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the spontaneous formation of striped structures in a holographic model which possesses explicit translational symmetry breaking, dual to an ionic lattice with spatially modulated chemical potential. We focus on the perturbative study of the marginal modes which drive the transition to a phase exhibiting spontaneous stripes. We study the wave-vectors of the instabilities with largest critical temperature in a wide range of backgrounds characterized by the period and the amplitude of the chemical potential modulation. We report the first holographic observation of the commensurate lock-in between the spontaneous stripes and the underlying ionic lattice, which takes place when the amplitude of the lattice is large enough. We also observe an incommensurate regime in which the amplitude of the lattice is finite, but the preferred stripe wave-vector is different from that of the lattice.
description: 21 page, 10 figures; v2: references added, v3: published version
Additional file 1 of Economic analysis of the different endodontic instrumentation techniques used in the Unified Health System
Creators: name: Merchan, Laura Paredes
name: Probst, Livia Fernandes
name: Simões, Ana Clara Correa Duarte
name: Raimundo, Augusto Cesar Santos
name: Cavalcanti, Yuri Wanderley
name: Cavalcante, Denise de Fátima Barros
name: Câmara, João Victor Frazão
name: Pereira, Antonio Carlos
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file1. Table S1: Microcosting of the analyzed endodontic instrumentation techniques.
Universal mechanism for the binding of temporal cavity solitons
Creators: name: Wang, Yadong
name: Leo, François
name: Fatome, Julien
name: Erkintalo, Miro
name: Murdoch, Stuart G.
name: Coen, Stéphane
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present theoretical and experimental evidence of a universal mechanism through which temporal cavity solitons of externally-driven, passive, Kerr resonators can form robust long-range bound states. These bound states, sometime also referred to as multi-soliton states or soliton crystals in microresonators, require perturbations to the strict Lugiato-Lefever mean field description of temporal cavity solitons. Binding occurs when the perturbation excites a narrowband resonance in the soliton spectrum, which gives long oscillatory tails to the solitons. Those tails can then interlock for a discrete set of temporal separations between the solitons. The universality of this mechanism is demonstrated in fiber ring cavities by providing experimental observations of long-range bound states ensuing from three different perturbations: third-order dispersion (dispersive wave generation), the periodic nature of the cavity (Kelly sidebands), and the random birefringence of the resonator. Sub-picosecond resolution of bound state separations and their dynamics are obtained by using the dispersive Fourier transform technique. Good agreement with theoretical models, including a new vector mean-field model, is also reported.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Technischen Universität Dortmund Nr. 37/2022
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Promotionsordnung der Fakultät Physik der Technischen Universität Dortmund vom 19. Dezember 2022
description: Verwaltungs- und Benutzungsordnung der „Dortmund Graduate School of Physics“ der Fakultät Physik der Technischen Universität Dortmund vom 19. Dezember 2022
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Technischen Universität Dortmund;2022; 37
Small-scale linear Fresnel collector using air as heat transfer fluid experimental characterization
Creators: name: Famiglietti, Antonio
name: Lecuona, Antonio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Linear Fresnel collectors offer great potential for producing solar heat for industrial processes, both on a small and large scale. Thermal oil, pressurized water, or steam are used as heat transfer fluid in most applications, due to their suitable thermal properties. A heat exchanger is required for thermal power delivery to the user unless the heat transfer fluid is directly used as a medium in the industrial process. For those industrial applications using hot air as a process fluid, direct air heating inside linear Fresnel collectors can be an interesting solution aiming at simplification, cost reduction, and environmental and safety benefits.

In this experimental study air is heated inside a commercial small-scale Linear Fresnel collector row of 79.2 m2 active surface, demonstrating the viability of direct air heating up to 500 °C at its outlet. A commercial turbocharger pressurizes the air and reduces the blowing power. The purposely designed test campaign carried out in Madrid (Spain) during spring and summer seasons allowed the experimental contrast of a detailed 1D opto-thermal numerical model. Both static and purposely developed dynamic models of the receiver tube have been scrutinized and tested. The models and the experimental information allowed for the accurate characterization of both thermal losses and optical efficiency.
Recent development in cellulose nanocrystal-based hydrogel for decolouration of methylene blue from aqueous solution: a review
Creators: name: Rahman, Mohammed Mizanur
name: Rimu, Sunzida H.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
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: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Due to its high specific surface area, high specific strength, hydrophilicity, biodegradability and abundance of surface hydroxyl groups, the unique structural features and remarkable physicochemical properties of cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) have generated considerable interest in the production of hydrogels. This review discusses the development of cellulose nanocrystal-based hydrogel preparation and its adsorption properties for the removal of cationic methylene blue dye from wastewater over the last decade. In this comprehensive study, we discussed the synthesis of various cellulose nanocrystal-based hydrogels, their characteristics and their ability to remove cationic methylene blue dye that is widely used in wet textile processing. Subsequently, adsorption isotherm and kinetic models of methylene blue removal efficiencies that determine the mechanism of adsorption of cellulose nanocrystal-hydrogels are also addressed. The study revealed that the introduction of other polysaccharides such as chitosan and alginate into cellulose nanocrystal-based hydrogels have shown remarkably enhanced adsorption capacity for methylene blue, which is a good indication for future research in the removal of organic dye pollutants from wastewater. A comprehensive analysis on the production and properties of hydrogel-based cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs). The evaluation of the adsorption capacity of methylene blue on CNC-based hydrogel is studied for its mechanism, kinetics and isotherms. The hydrogel prepared by adding a second polysaccharide, such as chitosan, and alginates significantly improved methylene blue adsorption ability.
Scrambling and thermalization in a diffusive quantum many-body system
Creators: name: Bohrdt, A.
name: Mendl, C. B.
name: Endres, M.
name: Knap, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Out-of-time ordered (OTO) correlation functions describe scrambling of information in correlated quantum matter. They are of particular interest in incoherent quantum systems lacking well defined quasi-particles. Thus far, it is largely elusive how OTO correlators spread in incoherent systems with diffusive transport governed by a few globally conserved quantities. Here, we study the dynamical response of such a system using high-performance matrix-product-operator techniques. Specifically, we consider the non-integrable, one-dimensional Bose-Hubbard model in the incoherent high-temperature regime. Our system exhibits diffusive dynamics in time-ordered correlators of globally conserved quantities, whereas OTO correlators display a ballistic, light-cone spreading of quantum information. The slowest process in the global thermalization of the system is thus diffusive, yet information spreading is not inhibited by such slow dynamics. We furthermore develop an experimentally feasible protocol to overcome some challenges faced by existing proposals and to probe time-ordered and OTO correlation functions. Our study opens new avenues for both the theoretical and experimental exploration of thermalization and information scrambling dynamics.
description: 7+4 pages, 8+3 figures; streamlined version
Surface depression with double-angle geometry during the discharge of close-packed grains from a silo
Creators: name: Pacheco-Vazquez, F.
name: Ramos-Reyes, A. Y.
name: Hidalgo-Caballero, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When rough grains in standard packing conditions are discharged from a silo, a conical depression with a single slope is formed at the surface. We observed that the increase of the volume fraction generates a more complex depression characterized by two angles of discharge: a lower angle close to the one measured for standard packing and a considerably larger upper angle. The change in slope appears at the boundary between a densely packed stagnant region at the periphery and the central flowing channel formed over the aperture. Since the material in the latter zone is always fluidized, the flow rate is unaffected by the initial packing of the bed. On the other hand, the contrast between both angles is markedly smaller when smooth particles of the same size and density are used, which reveals that high volume fraction and friction must combine to produce the observed geometry. Our results show that the surface profile helps to identify by simple visual inspection the packing conditions of a granular bed, and this can be useful to prevent undesirable collapses during silo discharge in industry.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures
What is the Reynolds Number of the Solar Wind?
Creators: name: Wrench, Daniel
name: Parashar, Tulasi
name: Oughton, Sean
name: de Lange, Kevin
name: Frean, Marcus
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 5109
subject: Space sciences
classificationCode: 5101
subject: Astronomical sciences
classificationCode: 5107
subject: Particle and high energy physics

description: Abstract
 The Reynolds number, Re, is an important quantity for describing a turbulent flow. It tells us about the bandwidth over which energy can cascade from large scales to smaller ones, prior to the onset of dissipation. However, calculating it for nearly collisionless plasmas like the solar wind is challenging. Previous studies have used formulations of an “effective” Reynolds number, expressing Re as a function of the correlation scale and either the Taylor scale or a proxy for the dissipation scale. We find that the Taylor scale definition of the Reynolds number has a sizable prefactor of approximately 27, which has not been employed in previous works. Drawing from 18 years of data from the Wind spacecraft at 1 au, we calculate the magnetic Taylor scale directly and use both the ion inertial length and the magnetic spectrum break scale as approximations for the dissipation scale, yielding three distinct Re estimates for each 12 hr interval. Average values of Re range between 116,000 and 3,406,000 within the general distribution of past work. We also find considerable disagreement between the methods, with linear associations of between 0.38 and 0.72. Although the Taylor scale method is arguably more physically motivated, due to its dependence on the energy cascade rate, more theoretical work is needed in order to identify the most appropriate way of calculating effective Reynolds numbers for kinetic plasmas. As a summary of our observational analysis, we make available a data product of 28 years of 1 au solar wind and magnetospheric plasma measurements from Wind.
Continuous Measurement of an Atomic Current
Creators: name: Laflamme, C.
name: Yang, D.
name: Zoller, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We are interested in dynamics of quantum many-body systems under continuous observation, and its physical realizations involving cold atoms in lattices. In the present work we focus on continuous measurement of atomic currents in lattice models, including the Hubbard model. We describe a Cavity QED setup, where measurement of a homodyne current provides a faithful representation of the atomic current as a function of time. We employ the quantum optical description in terms of a diffusive stochastic Schrödinger equation to follow the time evolution of the atomic system conditional to observing a given homodyne current trajectory, thus accounting for the competition between the Hamiltonian evolution and measurement back-action. As an illustration, we discuss minimal models of atomic dynamics and continuous current measurement on rings with synthetic gauge fields, involving both real space and synthetic dimension lattices (represented by internal atomic states). Finally, by `not reading' the current measurements the time evolution of the atomic system is governed by a master equation, where - depending on the microscopic details of our CQED setups - we effectively engineer a current coupling of our system to a quantum reservoir. This provides novel scenarios of dissipative dynamics generating `dark' pure quantum many-body states.
description: 14 Figures, Published Version
Degradation of Ceftriaxone from aquatic solution using a heterogeneous and reusable O3/UV/ Fe3O4@TiO2 systems: operational factors, kinetics and mineralisation
Creators: name: Hashemi, Seyed Yaser
name: Badi, Mojtaba Yegane
name: Pasalari, Hasan
name: Azari, Ali
name: Arfaeinia, Hossein
name: Kiani, Amin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
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: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: The present study was developed to evaluate and optimise catalytic oxidative degradation of Ceftriaxone (CTX) from aqueous solution using heterogeneous O3/UV/Fe3O4@TiO2 systems. The performance of combined system O3/UV/Fe3O4@TiO2 was examined as a function of operational parameters including catalyst dosage, solution pH, initial concentration and ozone concentration in a batch system. Physical and chemical properties of the catalyst composite materials were characterised using scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, Fourier transform infrared spectra and vibrating sample magnetometer. A high removal efficiency of CTX (92.40%) and total organic carbon (TOC) reduction (72.5%) were obtained under optimum conditions, i.e. (time: 30 min, photocatalyst dosage: 2 g/L, pH: 9, initial CTX concentration: 10 mg/L and ozone dosage: 0.2 g/h). The high removal efficiency of CTX and TOC after six consecutive catalyst uses proved the excellent reusing potential of Fe3O4@TiO2. Quenching experiments confirmed that OH° played major roles compared with h+ and O2− in photocatalytic degradation of CTX. Integration of O3/UV/Fe3O4@TiO2exhibited an excellent performance into CTX removal over 30 min reaction, which can be considered as a promising and effective technique for the decontamination of polluted waters.
Optimizing stability of mutual synchronization between a pair of limit-cycle oscillators with weak cross coupling
Creators: name: Shirasaka, Sho
name: Watanabe, Nobuhiro
name: Kawamura, Yoji
name: Nakao, Hiroya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider optimization of linear stability of synchronized states between a pair of weakly coupled limit-cycle oscillators with cross coupling, where different components of state variables of the oscillators are allowed to interact. On the basis of the phase reduction theory, the coupling matrix between different components of the oscillator states that maximizes the linear stability of the synchronized state under given constraints on overall coupling intensity and on stationary phase difference is derived. The improvement in the linear stability is illustrated by using several types of limit-cycle oscillators as examples.
description: 12 pages, 13 figures, revised version, to be published in PRE
Additional file 1 of Physician associate (PA) students’ perceptions of team-based learning (TBL) for teaching in Geriatric medicine
Creators: name: Aweid, Basaam
name: Parnis, Natalie
name: Harrison, David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Additional file 1 of Improved gliotransmission by increasing intracellular Ca2+ via TRPV1 on multi-walled carbon nanotube platforms
Creators: name: Lee, Won-Seok
name: Kang, Ji-Hye
name: Lee, Jung-Hwan
name: Kim, Yoo Sung
name: Kim, Jongmin Joseph
name: Kim, Han-Sem
name: Kim, Hae-Won
name: Shin, Ueon Sang
name: Yoon, Bo-Eun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Description of materials and methods; colloidal stability of f-CNT samples by cycles. Figure S2. Characterization of FT-IR and TGA of pristine CNT, f-CNT 100 and f-CNT 1000. Figure S3. XPS full spectrum of the substrate before, during, and after functionalized CNT and contact angle of 12, 30 mm glass. Figure S4. Photograph of 12- and 30-mm glass substrates before and after f-CNT coating. Figure S5. Additional AFM images of glass substrates coated with or without CNT. Figure S6. Low magnification FE-SEM images of 12- and 30-mm glass substrates. Figure S7. Yap expression of astrocyte on CNT platforms. Figures S8. Glutamate uptake of astrocytes on CNT platforms.
Synthesis of ZnO Co-doped Ph-g-C3N4 for enhanced photocatalytic organic pollutants removal under visible light
Creators: name: Warshagha, Murad Z. A.
name: Muneer, M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
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: Plasma Physics

description: The paper deals with the synthesis of a binary ZnO/Ph-g-C3N4 nanocomposite, a highly efficient visible light active catalyst for the photodegradation of organic pollutants in aqueous suspension by single-step calcination and combustion process. The synthesised materials have been characterised using different techniques such as X-ray diffraction, UV-Vis, FTIR, SEM-EDX, and TEM. The UV-Vis DRS analysis indicates 20–30 nm red-shift and a decrease in bandgap from 3.1 to 2.7 eV on doping ZnO with Ph-g-C3N4. The photocatalytic activity of the prepared nanocomposites was tested by studying the degradation of two different chromophoric dyes, rhodamine B (RhB) and methyl orange (MO) and a drug derivative, Paracetamol. The composite, 0.05% ZnO/Ph-g-C3N4, displayed the best activity for the degradation of both dyes and the drug. The trapping and quenching studies indicate that both hydroxyl and superoxide radical anions are responsible for the degradation of pollutants under investigation. The higher photocatalytic activity of the prepared samples could be attributed to the generation of heterojunction between the Ph-g-C3N4 and ZnO, which is the response for improved light absorption and efficient separation of the photo-excited electron and hole pair.
Deep uncertainties in sea-level rise and storm surge projections: Implications for coastal flood risk management
Creators: name: Oddo, Perry C.
name: Lee, Ben Seiyon
name: Garner, Gregory G.
name: Srikrishnan, Vivek
name: Reed, Patrick M.
name: Forest, Chris E.
name: Keller, Klaus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Sea-levels are rising in many areas around the world, posing risks to coastal communities and infrastructures. Strategies for managing these flood risks present decision challenges that require a combination of geophysical, economic, and infrastructure models. Previous studies have broken important new ground on the considerable tensions between the costs of upgrading infrastructure and the damages that could result from extreme flood events. However, many risk-based adaptation strategies remain silent on certain potentially important uncertainties, as well as the trade-offs between competing objectives. Here, we implement and improve on a classic decision-analytical model (van Dantzig 1956) to: (i) capture trade-offs across conflicting stakeholder objectives, (ii) demonstrate the consequences of structural uncertainties in the sea-level rise and storm surge models, and (iii) identify the parametric uncertainties that most strongly influence each objective using global sensitivity analysis. We find that the flood adaptation model produces potentially myopic solutions when formulated using traditional mean-centric decision theory. Moving from a single-objective problem formulation to one with multi-objective trade-offs dramatically expands the decision space, and highlights the need for compromise solutions to address stakeholder preferences. We find deep structural uncertainties that have large effects on the model outcome, with the storm surge parameters accounting for the greatest impacts. Global sensitivity analysis effectively identifies important parameter interactions that local methods overlook, and which could have critical implications for flood adaptation strategies.
Optimizing mutual synchronization of rhythmic spatiotemporal patterns in reaction-diffusion systems
Creators: name: Kawamura, Yoji
name: Shirasaka, Sho
name: Yanagita, Tatsuo
name: Nakao, Hiroya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Optimization of the stability of synchronized states between a pair of symmetrically coupled reaction-diffusion systems exhibiting rhythmic spatiotemporal patterns is studied in the framework of the phase reduction theory. The optimal linear filter that maximizes the linear stability of the in-phase synchronized state is derived for the case where the two systems are linearly coupled. The nonlinear optimal interaction function that theoretically gives the largest linear stability of the in-phase synchronized state is also derived. The theory is illustrated by using typical rhythmic patterns in FitzHugh-Nagumo systems as examples.
description: 18 pages, 14 figures, revised version, to be published in PRE
Magnetically recoverable nickel ferrite coated with CuS nanocomposite for degradation of metronidazole in photocatalytic and photo fenton like processes
Creators: name: Rahimi, Seyydeh Masoumeh
name: Arghavan, Fatemeh Sadat
name: Othmani, Amina
name: Nasseh, Negin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
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: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: 60506 Virology

description: This study aims to investigate the efficacy of photocatalytic and Fenton-like photocatalytic processes using the FeNi3/SiO2/CuS nanocomposite in the removal of metronidazole (MNZ) from aqueous solutions in the presence of ultraviolet (UV) light. The desired magnetic nanocomposite was first synthesised and then characterised using electron microscopy (TEM), x-ray diffraction device (XRD), fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM), energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS), and scanning electron microscopy (FESEM). The effects of various physicochemical parameters on the degradation process like the initial MNZ concentrations, the nanocomposite dose, the hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) concentrations, the contact time, and the pH were investigated. According to TEM and FESEM analyses, it was found that the obtained nanoparticles tend to accumulate due to their magnetic properties; hence, the particle size (about 52 nm) was greater than that obtained from the Scherrer equation in the XRD analysis. VSM analysis results revealed that the studied nanocomposite was dispersed in water and could be easily separated by an external magnetic field in a short time, and then be easily re-dispersed with shaking slightly. The maximum removal efficiency was obtained by an exposure time of 200 min, pH of 7, MNZ concentration of 20 mg/L, and a catalyst dosage of 0.02 g/L in the photocatalytic degradation stage. Optimum conditions in the Fenton-like photo-catalytic stage were a pH of 7, a time of 180 min, MNZ concentration of 20 mg/L, a catalyst dose of 0.01 g/L, and an H2O2 concentration of 150 mg/L. The photocatalytic degradation of MNZ has followed the pseudo-first-order kinetic model. Results of catalyst recovery and recycling tests showed that the synthesised nanocomposite had a very high recovery and recycling capacity, with only a 5.05% reduction in contaminant degradation efficiency after six alternating cycles. In the Fenton-like photo-catalytic degradation stage, the difference of catalyst degradation percentage was very small among the cycles, showing a decrease of 2.84% from the first to the last cycles. Therefore, the magnetic nanocomposite synthesised in the photocatalytic and heterogeneous Fenton-like photocatalytic degradation of MNZ can be used as a suitable catalyst in the removal and degradation of resistant organic drugs contaminants.
First version of high-resolution city emission inventory for GHGs and co-emitted species for 2019 or 2020
Publisher: name: ICOS ERIC -- Carbon Portal
Year: 2024

description: The aim of task 1.1 'State-of-the-art emission inventories' is to provide complete, spatially explicit, state-of-the-art emission inventories for greenhouse gases CO2 and CH4 and co-emitted species (CO, NOx, BC) to WP2 using both available and new datasets and methods. This research focuses on the three pilot cities: Paris, Munich, and Zurich. Strong interaction and information exchange between the three pilot cities are essential for the harmonization of the emission datasets. For Paris and Zurich, emission inventories are developed by respectively AIRPARIF and EMPA in collaboration with the municipality of Zurich. TUM is currently developing the emission inventory for
Munich in collaboration with TNO. In the current version for Munich, one sector (transport) is provided with a full bottom-up estimate. Over time more sectors will be added.
The goal of this deliverable report is to describe the first city emission inventories, as provided for deliverable 1.1. Chapters 2-4 provide an overview of the available data and a description of the methodology used to prepare the city inventories (Paris in chapter 2, Munich in chapter 3 and Zurich in chapter 4). In Chapter 5, some conclusions and the way forward are presented.
Additional file 2 of Physician associate (PA) students’ perceptions of team-based learning (TBL) for teaching in Geriatric medicine
Creators: name: Aweid, Basaam
name: Parnis, Natalie
name: Harrison, David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 2.
Additional file 2 of Comparative analyses of chloroplast genomes from Six Rhodiola species: variable DNA markers identification and phylogenetic relationships within the genus
Creators: name: Zhao, Kaihui
name: Li, Lianqiang
name: Quan, Hong
name: Yang, Junbo
name: Zhang, Zhirong
name: Liao, Zhihua
name: Lan, Xiaozhong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. List of genes in six Rhodiola chloroplast genomes.
Unifying quantum heat transfer in a nonequilibrium spin-boson model with full counting statistics
Creators: name: Wang, Chen
name: Ren, Jie
name: Cao, Jianshu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To study the full counting statistics of quantum heat transfer in a driven nonequilibrium spin-boson model, we develop a generalized nonequilibrium polaron-transformed Redfield equation with an auxiliary counting field. This enables us to study the impact of qubit-bath coupling ranging from weak to strong regimes. Without external modulations, we observe maximal values of both steady state heat flux and noise power at moderate coupling regimes, below which we find those two transport quantities are enhanced by the finite qubit energy bias. With external modulations, the geometric-phase-induced heat flux shows monotonic decrease as increasing the qubit-bath coupling at zero qubit energy bias (without bias). While under finite qubit energy bias (with bias), the geometric-phase-induced heat flux exhibits an interesting reversal behavior in strong coupling regime. Our results unify the seemingly contradictory results in weak and strong qubit-bath coupling regimes, and provide detailed dissections for the quantum fluctuation of nonequilibrium heat transfer.
description: 10 pages,5 figures
Smart technology adoption and integration in urban forestry: a national study of Australian stakeholders
Creators: name: Stead, David George
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 410404
subject: Environmental management

description: Urban forests are increasingly recognised for their importance for ecosystem services, producing benefits for human health and well-being. The emerging application of smart sensing technologies provides opportunities to improve urban forest management. Previous studies focussed on the unique use of technologies, or their use in one or more locations. Technology integration is another emerging opportunity; however, research in this area is lacking. While the benefits are compelling, knowledge of widespread technology adoption is limited, and there appears to be a gap in current research on adoption at a country-wide level.This study assessed the adoption of smart technology across Australia, surveying professionals and land managers in urban forestry. Use of smart technology, satisfaction with technology choices, and technology integration were examined, along with barriers to entry and intentions for future use. Responses (n=87) were evenly distributed across all Australian states, with respondents using smart technology (57%) reporting a high level of technology integration (67%). Lack of awareness of the technology, or the cost and complexity of technology or implementation, were major barriers to adoption. This study is a unique snapshot of adoption at a country-wide level, prompting the need for further research on the broad-scale adoption of smart urban forestry.
Why urban cyclists should keep their distance from each other - Riding in a congested cycle lane can increase exposure to vehicle pollutants
Creators: name: Schmeer, Joy
name: Hayden, Paul
name: Robins, Alan
name: Prashant, Kumar
name: Placidi, Marco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Air Pollution
Vehicle Emissions
Group cycling
Urban Canyon
Environmental Flow
Wind Tunnel Measurement

description: Cycling is a popular means of transport in cities, this experimental wind tunnel study models groups of cyclists’ exposure to road vehicle emissions on a typical London street. Transport for London state that polluting vehicles are responsible for half of London’s air pollution and research shows a direct link between poor air quality and increased rates of respiratory diseases. Cyclists are particularly at risk due to their increased inhalation rates and proximity to traffic, therefore expressing the importance and significance of this research. This is the first study to specifically look at the implications of cycling in groups, often the case in congested cycle lanes at peak hours. The results of this project, carried out in the Environmental Flow wind tunnel, confirm that pollutant concentration decreases rapidly with increased separation distance from an exhaust when a rider and vehicle are in line. However, cyclists at the front of a group of in-line riders are subjected to the least pollution when adjacent to polluting vehicles, regardless of their separation distance. Following other riders may therefore increase exposure to air pollution. The increased pollutant concentration observed in groups of riders is likely linked with the complex aerodynamic field generated by upstream cyclists, trapping the vehicle exhaust fumes among the riders. This is combined with the reduced wind speed within groups which is less effective at sweeping the pollutants away. These findings suggest policy makers should construct wider cycle paths, or even better, separate riders from the road. Meanwhile, cyclists should distance themselves from both vehicles and other riders to minimise exhaust emission exposure. Drivers should also be advised to maximise the space they leave cyclists on the road.
On the Uniqueness of FROG Methods
Creators: name: Bendory, Tamir
name: Sidorenko, Pavel
name: Eldar, Yonina C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The problem of recovering a signal from its power spectrum, called phase retrieval, arises in many scientific fields. One of many examples is ultra-short laser pulse characterization in which the electromagnetic field is oscillating with ~10^15 Hz and phase information cannot be measured directly due to limitations of the electronic sensors. Phase retrieval is ill-posed in most cases as there are many different signals with the same Fourier transform magnitude. To overcome this fundamental ill-posedness, several measurement techniques are used in practice. One of the most popular methods for complete characterization of ultra-short laser pulses is the Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating (FROG). In FROG, the acquired data is the power spectrum of the product of the unknown pulse with its delayed replica. Therefore the measured signal is a quartic function of the unknown pulse. A generalized version of FROG, where the delayed replica is replaced by a second unknown pulse, is called blind FROG. In this case, the measured signal is quadratic with respect to both pulses. In this letter we introduce and formulate FROG-type techniques. We then show that almost all band-limited signals are determined uniquely, up to trivial ambiguities, by blind FROG measurements (and thus also by FROG), if in addition we have access to the signals power spectrum.
Evaluation of seasonal variation of heavy metal contamination and health risk assessment in Sabore field Adamawa State, Nigeria
Creators: name: Chukwuneke, Chikaodili E.
name: Adams, Feyisayo V.
name: Madu, Joshua O.
name: Agboola, Bolade O.
name: Inyang, Victory F.
name: Olumoh, Jamiu S.
name: Reith, Charles
name: Okere, Christiana
name: Tyndall, Jennifer A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
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: 20199 Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Sabore field is characterised by a high level of artisan activities that contributes to water pollution by heavy metals; these heavy metals when present in drinking water can be deleterious to human health. Consequently, in 2018 we investigated the seasonal variations of the water samples from the Sabore vicinity to determine its suitability for drinking. Six metals (Mn, Cu, Cd, Zn, Ni, Pb) were studied, the health risk assessment was investigated using Hazard Index (HI), Hazard Quotient (HQ) and Cancer Risk (CR). The results showed that water from this locality have HI values > 1, Pb and Cd were top contributors to non-carcinogenic risk while Ni and Cd caused concern for carcinogenic health risk making it unsuitable for consumption. The seasonal spread of the metals shows that Mn varied from 148 to 976 µg/L; Cu from 923 to 1676 µg/L; Cd from 1.167 to 22.5 µg/L; Zn from 63 to 118 µg/L, Ni from 37 to 95 µg/L and Pb from 128 to 185 µg/L in the rainy season. For the dry season, Mn shows a spread of 1442–1802 µg/L; 344–776 µg/L for Cu; 57–82 µg/L for Cd; 48–187 µg/L for Zn; 147–242 µg/L for Ni and 79–256 µg/L for Pb. The increased concentration of some metals during the dry seasons could be attributed to the increased human activities around the field, increased evaporation rate, absence of rainfall and runoff water. The heavy metal content of water from some of the sites exceeded the stipulated permissible limits and poses serious health risk to its consumers.
Additional file 3 of Comparative analyses of chloroplast genomes from Six Rhodiola species: variable DNA markers identification and phylogenetic relationships within the genus
Creators: name: Zhao, Kaihui
name: Li, Lianqiang
name: Quan, Hong
name: Yang, Junbo
name: Zhang, Zhirong
name: Liao, Zhihua
name: Lan, Xiaozhong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Table S3. List of species used to evaluate the sequence divergence.
Enhanced Malachite Green uptake using chemically-modified reed-based powder: equilibrium, kinetics, mechanism, and reusability
Creators: name: Arfi, Rim Ben
name: Karoui, Sarra
name: Mougin, Karine
name: Vaulot, Cyril
name: Josien, Ludovic
name: Schrodj, Gautier
name: Michelin, Laure
name: Ghorbal, Achraf
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Novel bio-adsorbents based on abundant and invasive plants such as reeds represent an original and ecological route for the development of innovative biomaterials. Sustainable, eco-efficient, and facile processes have been suggested to improve the adsorptive performances and physicochemicalproperties of reedparticles. The morphological, textural, and physicochemical characteristics of the prepared reed-based adsorbents, namely untreated reed particles (RP), NaOH-treated RP (NaOH-RP), and sodium dodecyl sulphate impregnated RP (SDS-RP) were assessed by SEM, FTIR, XRD, BET, and TGA/DTG. The adsorptive performances of RP, NaOH-RP, and SDS-RP were evaluated for a triphenylmethane dye (Malachite Green, MG) elimination from water.The experimental results and kinetic models proved the improvement of MG uptake by modified reed-based adsorbents.The maximum MG uptake capacity of NaOH-RP and SDS-RP materials reached 82.64 and 102.88mgg−1, respectively, but it only attaineda value of 75.93mgg−1 for RPat the same conditions. The used reed-based adsorbents can regenerate four times with an MG removal capacity permanently superior to 80%. Besides, their experimental data obeyed the Freundlich equation and the pseudo2ndorder kinetic model, indicating the heterogeneous multilayer adsorption of MG onto reed-based materials. The adsorption/desorption, kinetic, isotherm, and thermodynamic studies, and physicochemical characterisations revealed that electrostatic interactions might be the governing mechanism of MG dye adsorption onto RP, NaOH-RP, and SDS-RP. Nonetheless, interactions such as H-bonding interactions, π-π stacking interactions, and hydrophobic interactions would also exist.
Manifestation of T-Exciton Migration in the Kinetics of Singlet Fission in Organic Semiconductors
Creators: name: Shushin, A. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Kinetics of singlet fission in organic semiconductors, in which the excited singlet state (S_1) spontaneously splits into a pair of triplet (T) excitons, is known to be strongly influenced by back geminate annihilation of TT-pairs. We show that this influence can be properly described only by taking into account the diffusive exciton migration. The migration effect is treated in the model of two kinetically coupled states: the intermediate state of interacting TT-pairs and the state of migrating excitons. Within this model the singlet fission (including magnetic field effects) is studied as applied to the fluorescence decay kinetics (FDK) I_{S_1}(t) for S_1-state. The analysis shows that migration strongly affects the FDK resulting, in particular, in the universal long-time dependence I_{S_1}(t) \sim t^{-3/2}. The model accurately describes the FDK, recently observed for a number of systems. Possible applications of the considered model to the analysis of mechanisms of migration, using experimentally measured FDK, are briefly discussed.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures, misprint in Eq.(1) and some misprints in the text of the paper are corrected
Additional file 4 of Comparative analyses of chloroplast genomes from Six Rhodiola species: variable DNA markers identification and phylogenetic relationships within the genus
Creators: name: Zhao, Kaihui
name: Li, Lianqiang
name: Quan, Hong
name: Yang, Junbo
name: Zhang, Zhirong
name: Liao, Zhihua
name: Lan, Xiaozhong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4: Table S4. List of species used for phylogenetic tree construction.