cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Hybrid Architectures for Object Pose and Velocity Tracking at the Intersection of Kalman Filtering and Machine Learning
Creators: name: PIGA, NICOLA AGOSTINO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Genova
Year: 2022

description: The study of object perception algorithms is fundamental for the development of robotic platforms capable of planning and executing actions involving objects with high precision, reliability and safety. Indeed, this topic has been vastly explored in both the robotic and computer vision research communities using diverse techniques, ranging from classical Bayesian filtering to more modern Machine Learning techniques, and complementary sensing modalities such as vision and touch. Recently, the ever-growing availability of tools for synthetic data generation has substantially increased the adoption of Deep Learning for both 2D tasks, as object detection and segmentation, and 6D tasks, such as object pose estimation and tracking.
The proposed methods exhibit interesting performance on computer vision benchmarks and robotic tasks, e.g. using object pose estimation for grasp planning purposes. Nonetheless, they generally do not consider useful information connected with the physics of the object motion and the peculiarities and requirements of robotic systems. Examples are the necessity to provide well-behaved output signals for robot motion control, the possibility to integrate modelling priors on the motion of the object and algorithmic priors. These help exploit the temporal correlation of the object poses, handle the pose uncertainties and mitigate the effect of outliers. Most of these concepts are considered in classical approaches, e.g. from the Bayesian and Kalman filtering literature, which however are not as powerful as Deep Learning in handling visual data. As a consequence, the development of hybrid architectures that combine the best features from both worlds is particularly appealing in a robotic setting.
Motivated by these considerations, in this Thesis, I aimed at devising hybrid architectures for object perception, focusing on the task of object pose and velocity tracking. The proposed architectures use Kalman filtering supported by state-of-the-art Deep Neural Networks to track the 6D pose and velocity of objects from images. The devised solutions exhibit state-of-the-art performance, increased modularity and do not require training to implement the actual tracking behaviors. Furthermore, they can track even fast object motions despite the possible non-negligible inference times of the adopted neural networks. Also, by relying on data-driven Kalman filtering, I explored a paradigm that enables to track the state of systems that cannot be easily modeled analytically. Specifically, I used this approach to learn the measurement model of soft 3D tactile sensors and address the problem of tracking the sliding motion of hand-held objects.
Indirect Dark Matter Searches and Models
Creators: name: Munoz, Carlos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Indirect dark matter searches are briefly reviewed. Current experimental data from satellites and Cherenkov telescopes searching for antimatter and gamma rays in galactic and extragalactic regions, are compared with predictions from theoretical models of dark matter. The analysis is focused on WIMPs such as the neutralino and the sneutrino, and a superWIMP such as the gravitino, in several interesting supersymmetric models. In particular, the discussion is carried out in the context of R-parity conserving models such as the MSSM, the NMSSM, and an extended NMSSM, and the R-parity violating model $μν$SSM.
description: Proceedings of RICAP 2011; 19 pages, 3 figures; Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A (2012)
Inhalt
Creators: name: Redaktion, Die
Publisher: name: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
Year: 2020

description: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege, Bd. 26 Nr. 7 (1973): Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
title: Estimating the COVID-19 Prevalence in Spain With Indirect Reporting via Open Surveys
Creators: name: Garcia-Agundez, Augusto
name: Ojo, Oluwasegun
name: Hernández-Roig, Harold A.
name: Baquero, Carlos
name: Frey, Davide
name: Georgiou, Chryssis
name: Goessens, Mathieu
name: Lillo, Rosa E.
name: Menezes, Raquel
name: Nicolaou, Nicolas
name: Ortega, Antonio
name: Stavrakis, Efstathios
name: Fernandez Anta, Antonio
Publisher: name: Frontiers
Year: 2021

description: During the initial phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, accurate tracking has proven unfeasible. Initial estimation methods pointed toward case numbers that were much higher than officially reported. In the CoronaSurveys project, we have been addressing this issue using open online surveys with indirect reporting. We compare our estimates with the results of a serology study for Spain, obtaining high correlations (R squared 0.89). In our view, these results strongly support the idea of using open surveys with indirect reporting as a method to broadly sense the progress of a pandemic.
Bei der Redaktion eingegangene Neuerscheinungen
Creators: name: Redaktion, Die
Publisher: name: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
Year: 2020

description: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege, Bd. 26 Nr. 7 (1973): Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
Extending The Its2-Workbench With Dna Barcoding Capabilities
Creators: name: Ankenbrand, Markus J.
name: Keller, Alexander
name: Koetschan, Christian
name: Wolf, Matthias
name: Schultz, Jörg
name: Förster, Frank
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: ITS2-workbench
DNA barcoding
Internal transcribed spacer 2

description: Background

The internal transcribed spacer 2 (ITS2) is a well-established marker for DNA barcoding, especially for plants and fungi.

Yet so far, no specific reference database exists dedicated to this purpose.

Extracting ITS2 sequences for a taxonomic group from GenBank is tedious manual work, which is prone to errors due to misannotations.

The same challenges also apply for phylogenetic analyses, for which we have already developed the ITS2-workbench.

It provides structure-based annotations and quality control for sequences extracted from GenBank.

Further, it offers tools for Hidden Markov Models (HMM) annotation, secondary structure prediction, alignment, and tree calculation.

However, it lacked the ability to taxonomically classify barcode sequences with confidence estimations.

Results

Here, we present an extension of the ITS2-workbench for the application in DNA barcoding.

It is based on the underlying data of 700,000 quality-controlled sequences from more than 175,000 species (2015 update).

This includes approximately 80,000 distinct species for plants and fungi, each.

Additionally, other eukaryotic groups that have been so far less represented in barcoding studies are covered (e.g., the class Bacillariophyceae).

The workbench uses UTAX as the classifier, which allows for barcoding of user-provided sequences and provides confidence values for each taxonomic rank.

For smaller data sets the results can be immediately viewed on the website.

For large data sets (e.g., next-generation sequencing amplicon data), the user is notified by email as soon as the download of the classification results is ready.

Significance

The combination of a huge amount of quality-controlled ITS2 sequences with the powerful classification algorithm UTAX facilitates the broad usage of ITS2 as a DNA barcode.

The integration into the ITS2-workbench provides the means to also use the rich phylogenetic methods and supplementary reference sequences for further analyses.

The ITS2-workbench is freely accessible online at http://its2.bioapps.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de
description: Slides are also available via Speakerdeck: https://speakerdeck.com/iimog/extending-the-its2-workbench-with-dna-barcoding-capabilities
Taxonomy and distribution of Italian and Antarctic Pycnogonida, with identification keys to genera and species
Creators: name: COLASANTO, ELISA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Genova
Year: 2022

description: Questa tesi fornisce una descrizione dei progetti realizzati nel triennio 2018-2021 nell'ambito dello studio dei Picnogonidi.
Viene riportata una panoramica generale della classe Pycnogonida (Arthropoda, Chelicerata), evidenziando le principali caratteristiche di questi organismi.
Successivamente viene proposta la checklist aggiornata dei Picnogonidi italiani (Colasanto e Galli, 2021) con la distribuzione dettagliata delle specie, generata undici anni dopo quella di Bartolino e Chimenz (2010). La chiave dicotomica proposta per l'identificazione delle specie fa riferimento a questi documenti. La chiave � stata ottenuta attraverso indagini bibliografiche sulle caratteristiche morfologiche della specie, integrando con informazioni tratte da chiavi gi� presenti in letteratura (in particolare, Munilla e Soler-Membrives, 2014) e analisi di campioni in laboratorio.
Parallelamente allo studio dei Picnogonidi italiani, sono stati esaminati gli esemplari conservati al Museo Nazionale dell'Antartide ed � stato effettuato uno studio di DNA barcoding su alcuni di essi. Sono state abbozzate chiavi di identificazione di generi e specie, sulla base delle caratteristiche morfologiche.
Conseguentemente, viene riportata anche la checklist aggiornata dei Picnogonidi antartici e sub-antartici.
Si riportano infine alcune considerazioni sulla possibilit� di coinvolgere i subacquei nel monitoraggio dei Picnogonidi attraverso progetti di citizen science.
Das 7. Colloquium der Société française d'Archéologie: Sainte-Foy in Conques
Creators: name: Sauerländer, Willibald
Publisher: name: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
Year: 2020

description: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege, Bd. 26 Nr. 8 (1973): Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
Zuschriften an die Redaktion
Creators: name: Redaktion, Die
Publisher: name: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
Year: 2020

description: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege, Bd. 26 Nr. 8 (1973): Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
The close T Tauri binary system V4046 Sgr: Rotationally modulated X-ray emission from accretion shocks
Creators: name: Argiroffi, C.
name: Maggio, A.
name: Montmerle, T.
name: Huenemoerder, D. P.
name: Alecian, E.
name: Audard, M.
name: Bouvier, J.
name: Damiani, F.
name: Donati, J. -F.
name: Gregory, S. G.
name: Güdel, M.
name: Hussain, G. A. J.
name: Kastner, J. H.
name: Sacco, G. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report initial results from a quasi-simultaneous X-ray/optical observing campaign targeting V4046 Sgr, a close, synchronous-rotating classical T Tauri star (CTTS) binary in which both components are actively accreting. V4046 Sgr is a strong X-ray source, with the X-rays mainly arising from high-density (n_e ~ 10^(11-12) cm^(-3)) plasma at temperatures of 3-4 MK. Our multiwavelength campaign aims to simultaneously constrain the properties of this X-ray emitting plasma, the large scale magnetic field, and the accretion geometry. In this paper, we present key results obtained via time-resolved X-ray grating spectra, gathered in a 360 ks XMM-Newton observation that covered 2.2 system rotations. We find that the emission lines produced by this high-density plasma display periodic flux variations with a measured period, 1.22+/-0.01 d, that is precisely half that of the binary star system (2.42 d). The observed rotational modulation can be explained assuming that the high-density plasma occupies small portions of the stellar surfaces, corotating with the stars, and that the high-density plasma is not azimuthally symmetrically distributed with respect to the rotational axis of each star. These results strongly support models in which high-density, X-ray-emitting CTTS plasma is material heated in accretion shocks, located at the base of accretion flows tied to the system by magnetic field lines.
description: paper accepted by ApJ
Additional file 1 of Comparison of intraocular lens power calculation formulas in patients with a history of acute primary angle-closure attack
Creators: name: Kim, Na Hyun
name: Gim, Yujin
name: Choi, Kyu-Ryong
name: Suh, Wool
name: Jun, Roo Min
name: Han, Kyung Eun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Supplementary Material 1
Verzeichnisse [Bd. 27, H. 1-12 / 1974]
Creators: name: Redaktion, Die
Publisher: name: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
Year: 2020

description: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege, Bd. 27 (1974): Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
Ein kaiserzeitliches Bandgrubengräberfeld in Schwarmstedt, Kreis Fallingbostel
Creators: name: Potratz, Hans Albert
Publisher: name: Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte
Year: 2020

description: Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte, Bd. 16 (1942): Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte
Introducción a la supersimetría
Creators: name: Vallejo, José A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81Q60, 17B70, 17B81, 16W50

description: These notes are an elementary introduction to supersymmetric quantum mechanics for students of mathematics. We start from the very basic concepts of quantum mechanics and proceed to construct a realization of Heisenberg's superalgebra as a subalgebra of the graded algebra of endomorphisms of a certain supervector space (obtaining thus an example of Ado's theorem for Lie superalgebras), using Witten's model of supersymmetric quantum mechanics. The notes were written for a graduate seminar at the Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí.
description: Notes for a course on quantum mechanics for students of mathematics, in Spanish
Thaerigen, Günter: Die Nordharzgruppe der Elbgermanen bis zur sächsischen Überlagerung
Creators: name: Jacob-Friesen, Karl Hermann
Publisher: name: Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte
Year: 2020

description: Rezension zu: Thaerigen, Günter: Die Nordharzgruppe der Elbgermanen bis zur sächsischen Überlagerung. Band 2 der Arbeiten zur Ur-, Vor- und Frühgeschichte des Deutschen Ahnenerbes. 8°. 99 Seiten mit 27 Tafeln und 53 Tertabbildungen. Ahnenerbe-Stiftung Verlag, Berlin-Dahlem 1939.
description: Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte, Bd. 16 (1942): Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte
Additional file 1 of Introducing a triage and Nurse on Call model in primary health care – a focus group study of health care staff’s experiences
Creators: name: Gelin, Maria
name: Gesar, Berit
name: Källberg, Ann-Sofie
name: Ehrenberg, Anna
name: Gustavsson, Catharina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1: Interview guide for the focus groups.
Między metropolią a prowincją Tradycjonalizm i modernizm w projektach architekta Jarosława Wojciechowskiego (1874–1942)
Creators: name: Kibort, Piotr
Publisher: name: Pamiętnik Sztuk Pięknych / Fine Arts Diary
Year: 2019

description: Pamiętnik Sztuk Pięknych / Fine Arts Diary, Bd. 10 (2015): Pamiętnik Sztuk Pięknych / Fine Arts Diary
Supp_Expertise_inversion_Proceeding_Royal_revisions_march28.docx from Deep learning models challenge the prevailing assumption that face-like effects for objects of expertise support domain-general mechanisms
Creators: name: Yovel, Galit
name: Grosbard, Idan
name: Abudarham, Naphtali
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: 170299 Cognitive Science not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The question of whether task performance is best achieved by domain-specific, or domain-general processing mechanisms is prevalent in both artificial and biological systems. This question has generated a fierce debate in the study of expert object recognition. Because humans are experts in face recognition, face-like neural and cognitive effects for objects of expertise were considered support for domain-general mechanisms. However, effects of domain, experience and level of categorization, are confounded in human studies, which may lead to erroneous inferences. To overcome these limitations, we trained deep learning algorithms on different domains (objects, faces, birds) and levels of categorization (basic, sub-ordinate, individual), matched for amount of experience. Like humans, the models generated a larger inversion effect for faces than for objects. Importantly, a face-like inversion effect was found for individual-based categorization of non-faces (birds) but only in a network specialized for that domain. Thus, contrary to prevalent assumptions, face-like effects for objects of expertise do not support domain-general mechanisms but may originate from domain-specific mechanisms. More generally, we show how deep learning algorithms can be used to dissociate factors that are inherently confounded in the natural environment of biological organisms to test hypotheses about their isolated contributions to cognition and behaviour.
The Merger-Triggered Active Galactic Nuclei Contribution to the Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxy Population
Creators: name: Draper, Aden R.
name: Ballantyne, David R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has long been thought that there is a connection between ultraluminous infrared galaxies (ULIRGs), quasars, and major mergers. Indeed, simulations show that major mergers are capable of triggering massive starbursts and quasars. However, observations by the Herschel Space Observatory suggest that, at least at high redshift, there may not always be a simple causal connection between ULIRGs and mergers. Here, we combine an evolving merger-triggered AGN luminosity function with a merger-triggered starburst model to calculate the maximum contribution of major mergers to the ULIRG population. We find that major mergers can account for the entire local population of ULIRGs hosting AGN and ~25% of the total local ULIRG luminosity density. By z ~ 1, major mergers can no longer account for the luminosity density of ULIRGs hosting AGN and contribute \lesssim 12% of the total ULIRG luminosity density. This drop is likely due to high redshift galaxies being more gas rich and therefore able to achieve high star formation rates through secular evolution. Additionally, we find that major mergers can account for the local population of warm ULIRGs. This suggests that selecting high redshift warm ULIRGs will allow for the identification of high redshift merger-triggered ULIRGs. As major mergers are likely to trigger very highly obscured AGN, a significant fraction of the high redshift warm ULIRG population may host Compton thick AGN.
description: Accepted ApJL, 3 figures
T-Shape Molecular Heat Pump
Creators: name: Zhong, Wei-Rong
name: Hu, Bambi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the first molecular device of heat pump modeled by a T-shape Frenkel-Kontorova lattice. The system is a three-terminal device with the important feature that the heat can be pumped from the low-temperature region to the high-temperature region through the third terminal. The pumping action is achieved by applying a stochastic external force that periodically modulates the atomic temperature. The temperature, the frequency and the system size dependence of heat pump are briefly discussed.
description: 6 figures
Discussion of "Is Bayes Posterior just Quick and Dirty Confidence?" by D. A. S. Fraser
Creators: name: Singh, Kesar
name: Xie, Minge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Discussion of "Is Bayes Posterior just Quick and Dirty Confidence?" by D. A. S. Fraser [arXiv:1112.5582].
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/11-STS352B the Statistical Science (http://www.imstat.org/sts/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
The Suffering Animal. On the Weakness and the Power of the Living
Creators: name: GHELLI, SIMONE
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Genova
Year: 2021

description: The following PhD dissertation aims to provide a philosophical investigation of the contemporary debate on the human-animal relationship. Starting from a reassessment of modern debate on Descartes? animal-machine paradigm ? polemically built upon a critique of the ?official philosophical narration? of current animal studies -, I will then track down the theoretical coordinates of what I named the paradigm of the suffering animal. The suffering animal is a materialist thesis on the condition of the living, which, while atheistically contesting the metaphysical structure of western axiology, it eventually redefines and re-establishes ethics on the experience of suffering. The suffering animal claims the fragility and the vulnerability of the living matter we are all, as living beings, made of. By comparing Darwin?s theory of evolution by natural selection and Nietzsche?s notion of will power, I will highlight how contemporary anti-metaphysical understanding of the human-animal relationship developed through two main guidelines. Indeed, beside the suffering animal, there stands the powerful animal, an alternative materialist paradigm claiming rather the power of life and the living beings? right to express and perform their inner vitality against all those subtle restrictions set by western traditional morality. The analysis contained in the following book examines the commonalities and the disagreements between these two paradigms. Such a confrontation will be carried out through the philosophical productions of two very different Twentieth-Century thinker: Primo Levi and Gilles Deleuze. The ultimate aim of this dissertation is to define the ?ethical equilibrium? between aspects of the living, such as weakness and power, joy and suffering, which tends to exclude one another. What is at stake in such an equilibrium is the possibility for our civilization to ground effectively the chance of equality inside and out the border of our species. This might be possible if the suffering animal and the powerful animal harbouring in each of us succeed in standing one to one without rising up one another.
Editorial
Creators: name: Fayet, Roger
Publisher: name: Jahresbericht SIK-ISEA / Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft
Year: 2019

description: 2012 restera sans doute dans les annales de SIK-ISEA comme l’année des catalogues raisonnés. Pour la première fois, l’Institut a publié l’oeuvre d’une femme artiste – et même de trois: Eva Aeppli, Aloïse Corbaz et Verena Loewensberg. Par ailleurs, un deuxième volume du catalogue raisonné des peintures de Ferdinand Hodler, consacré aux portraits et autoportraits, est paru et les travaux du troisième, sur les figures, vont bon train. Il en va de même des catalogues raisonnés de Cuno Amiet et de Niklaus Manuel.
description: Jahresbericht SIK-ISEA / Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft, 2013: Jahresbericht 2012 SIK-ISEA
Additional file 1 of Association between muscle quality index and periodontal disease among American adults aged ≥ 30 years: a cross-sectional study and mediation analysis
Creators: name: Song, Jukun
name: Wu, Yadong
name: Ma, Hong
name: Zhang, Junmei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Figure 1. Dose-response relationship between MQIarm and periodontitis. A. is for the continuous variable of MQIarm, and B is the categorical variable of MQIarm. Supplementary Figure 2. Dose-response relationship between MQIapp and periodontitis. A. is for the continuous variable of MQIapp, and B is the categorical variable of MQIapp. Supplementary Figure 3. The association between MQIarm and periodontitis stratified by sex. Supplementary Figure 4. The association between MQIapp and periodontitis stratified by sex. Supplementary Table 1. Threshold Effect Analysis between MQIapp and periodontitis. Supplementary Table 2. Threshold Effect Analysis between MQIarm and periodontitis.
title: A Synthetic Riboswitch to Regulate Haloarchaeal Gene Expression
Creators: name: Born, Johannes
name: Weitzel, Kerstin
name: Süß, Beatrix
name: Pfeifer, Felicitas
Publisher: name: Frontiers
Year: 2021

description: In recent years, synthetic riboswitches have become increasingly important to construct genetic circuits in all three domains of life. In bacteria, synthetic translational riboswitches are often employed that modulate gene expression by masking the Shine-Dalgarno (SD) sequence in the absence or presence of a cognate ligand. For (halo-)archaeal translation, a SD sequence is not strictly required. The application of synthetic riboswitches in haloarchaea is therefore limited so far, also because of the molar intracellular salt concentrations found in these microbes. In this study, we applied synthetic theophylline-dependent translational riboswitches in the archaeon Haloferax volcanii. The riboswitch variants A through E and E* were chosen since they not only mask the SD sequence but also the AUG start codon by forming a secondary structure in the absence of the ligand theophylline. Upon addition of the ligand, the ribosomal binding site and start codon become accessible for translation initiation. Riboswitch E mediated a dose-dependent, up to threefold activation of the bgaH reporter gene expression. Raising the salt concentration of the culture media from 3 to 4 M NaCl resulted in a 12-fold increase in the switching capacity of riboswitch E, and switching activity increased up to 26-fold when the cultivating temperature was reduced from 45 to 30°C. To construct a genetic circuit, riboswitch E was applied to regulate the synthesis of the transcriptional activator GvpE allowing a dose-dependent activation of the mgfp6 reporter gene under PpA promoter control.
Numerical evolution of general Robinson-Trautman spacetimes: code tests, wave forms and the efficiency of the gravitational wave extraction
Creators: name: de Oliveira, H. P.
name: Rodrigues, E. L.
name: Skea, J. E. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an efficient numerical code based on spectral methods to integrate the field equations of general Robinson-Trautmann spacetimes. The most natural basis functions for the spectral expansion of the metric functions are spherical harmonics. Using the values of appropriate combinations of the metric functions at the collocation points, we have managed to reduce expression swell when the number of spherical harmonics increases. Our numerical code runs with relatively little computational resources and the code tests have shown excellent accuracy and convergence. The code has been applied to situations of physical interest in the context of Robsinson-Trautmann geometries such as: perturbation of the exterior gravitational field of a spheroid of matter; perturbation of an initially boosted black hole; and the non-frontal collision of two Schwarzschild black holes. In dealing with these processes we have derived analytical lower and upper bounds on the velocity of the resulting black hole and the efficiency of the gravitational wave extraction, respectively. Numerical experiments were performed to determine the forms of the gravitational waves and the efficiency in each situation of interest.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures. To appear in Physical Review D
Ad fontes
Creators: name: Gockel, Matthias
Publisher: name: Cursor_ Zeitschrift für explorative Theologie
Year: 2019

description: Was bedeutet das protestantische Motto »zurück zu den Quellen« eigentlich für die Möglichkeit einer Open-Source-Theologie? Ist der Quellcode der Theologie, z. B. der biblische Kanon, offen, zugänglich, veränderbar?
description: Cursor_ Zeitschrift für explorative Theologie, Nr. 1 (2019): Neuland
Implementation of the Inter-Agency Collaboration in Vocational Education of Students with Learning Disabilities towards Preparation of Career Experience: A Qualitative Approach
Creators: name: Noraini Abdullah
name: Mohd Hanafi Mohd Yasin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Inter-agency collaboration
vocational education
students with learning disabilities
career experience preparation

description: Inter-agency coordination is critical to the advancement of technical education services for students with special needs, including those with learning difficulties. Inter-agency partnership is a group of teachers, guardians, school representatives, and representatives from outside organizations that work together to execute, coordinate, and create programmes for students. However, the implementation of inter-agency collaboration with schools has remained at low levels. Therefore, this study was undertaken to explore the implementation of inter-agency collaboration and the obstacles faced by teachers in vocational education of students with learning disabilities towards career experience preparation. This study used a qualitative approach with case study design. Data were collected using interviews involving 10 teachers from vocational education in 6 Integration Program with Learning Disabilities (IPLD) schools. The findings show that there is inter-agency collaboration implemented with the schools involved but the implementation is not comprehensive. Results from interviews show that there are several obstacles in the implementation of inter-agency collaboration in terms of student attitude, parental attitude, and attitude of employers, financial problems and lack of information about the implementation of vocational education in IPLD. This study is expected to assist schools in implementing inter-agency collaboration to provide the best service to enhance the skills and careers of students with special needs especially students with learning disabilities. Moreover, teachers should work to establish a collaboration with various parties such as a joint venture especially in the field of vocational education, to get advice and work to highlight the existing potentials in students with learning disabilities.
Evaluation of focal low dose rate brachytherapy in men with low-intermediate risk prostate cancer
Creators: name: ANDERSON, ELLIOT PETER
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 320226
subject: Surgery

description: Definitive treatment for localized prostate cancer is associated with significant morbidity. Focal therapy for patients with low-intermediate risk features is an emerging modality aimed at reducing treatment-related toxicity. This thesis evaluates the dosimetry, toxicity and oncological outcomes of men receiving lesion-targeted focal low-dose-rate (LDR) brachytherapy for low to intermediate risk prostate cancer (PCa)
Constraining an R-parity violating supergravity model with the Higgs induced Majorana neutrino magnetic moments
Creators: name: Góźdź, Marek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is well known, that R-parity violating supersymmetric models predict a non-zero magnetic moment for neutrinos. In this work we study the Majorana neutrino transition magnetic moments within an RpV modified minimal supergravity model. Specifically, we discuss the contributions coming from the charged Higgs bosons, higgsinos, leptons, sleptons, charged gauge bosons, and charginos. We use the experimental results from the MUNU collaboration to restrict the model's parameter space. A comparison with two other types of contributions (only trilinear RpV couplings and trilinear plus neutrino--neutralino mixing) is also presented. We have found that the presently discussed processes dominate significantly, exceeding in some cases even the experimental limits.
description: Submitted to Phys. Rev. D
Capture of Irregular Satellites via Binary Planetesimal Exchange Reactions in Migrating Planetary Systems
Creators: name: Quillen, Alice C.
name: Hasan, Imran
name: Moore, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By logging encounters between planetesimals and planets we compute the distribution of encounters in a numerically integrated two planet system that is migrating due to interactions with an exterior planetesimal belt. Capture of an irregular satellite in orbit about a planet through an exchange reaction with a binary planetesimal is only likely when the binary planetesimal undergoes a slow and close encounter with the planet. In our simulations we find that close and slow encounters between planetesimals and a planet primarily occur with the outermost and not innermost planet. Taking care to consider where a planet orbit crossing binary planetesimal would first be tidally disrupted, we estimate the probability of both tidal disruption and irregular satellite capture. We estimate that the probability that the secondary of a binary planetesimal is captured and becomes an irregular satellite about a Neptune mass outer planet is about 1/100 for binaries with masses and separations similar to transneptunian planetesimal binaries. If young exoplanetary debris disks host a binary planetesimal population then outwards migrating outer planets should host captured irregular satellite populations. We discuss interpretation of emission associated with the exoplanet Fomalhaut b in terms of collisional evolution of a captured irregular satellite population that is replenished due to planetary migration.
Plain language summary for the manuscript: Tofacitinib for the Treatment of Ulcerative Colitis: An Integrated Summary of up to 7.8 Years of Safety Data from the Global Clinical Programme
Creators: name: Sandborn, WJ
name: D’Haens, GR
name: Sands, BE
name: Panaccione, R
name: Ng, SC
name: Lawendy, N
name: Kulisek, N
name: Modesto, I
name: Guo, X
name: Mundayat, R
name: Su, C
name: Vranic, I
name: Panés, J
Publisher: name: Pfizer
Year: 2022
Subjects: Gastroenterology and hepatology

description: This is a plain language summary (PLS) of an article published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal. This PLS is not peer-reviewed. The publisher of the orignial manuscript was not involved in the preparation of this PLS and has neither reviewed not approved its content.
Effect of Coulomb interactions on the physical observables of graphene
Creators: name: Vozmediano, Maria A. H.
name: Guinea, Francisco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We give an update of the situation concerning the effect of electron-electron interactions on the physics of a neutral graphene system at low energies. We revise old renormalization group results and the use of 1/N expansion to address questions of the possible opening of a low-energy gap, and the magnitude of the graphene fine structure constant. We emphasize the role of Fermi velocity as the only free parameter determining the transport and electronic properties of the graphene system and revise its renormalization by Coulomb interactions in the light of recent experimental evidence.
description: Proceedings of the Nobel Symposium on graphene 2010, to appear as a special issue in Physica Scripta
Different thermal conductance of the inter- and intra-chain interactions in a double-stranded molecular structure
Creators: name: Zhong, Wei-Rong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A double-stranded system, modeled by a Frenkel-Kontorova lattice, is studied through nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations. We have investigated the thermal conductance influenced by the intra-chain interaction as well as by the inter-chain interaction. It is found that the intra-chain interaction always enhance the thermal conductance. The inter-chain interaction, however, has a positive effect on the thermal conductance in the case of strong nonlinear potential, and has a negative effect on the thermal conductance in the case of weak nonlinear potential. This phenomenon can be explained by the transition of thermal transport mode and the phonon band shift of the particles. It is suggested that the inter-and intra-chain interactions present different thermal properties in double-stranded lattices.
description: 6 figures
Cathrin Schmitt, Aphrodite in Unteritalien und Sizilien. Heiligtümer und Kulte
Creators: name: Albers, Jon
Publisher: name: Bonner Jahrbücher
Year: 2020

description: Rezension zu: Cathrin Schmitt, Aphrodite in Unteritalien und Sizilien. Heiligtümer und Kulte. Studien zu antiken Heiligtümern, Band 5. Verlag Archäologie und Geschichte, Heidelberg 2016. 474 Seiten mit 54 Abbildungen, 16 Tafeln und einer CD.
description: Bonner Jahrbücher, Bd. 216.2016(2017): Bonner Jahrbücher
Motion of a deformable drop of magnetic fluid on a solid surface in a rotating magnetic field
Creators: name: Zakinyan, Arthur
name: Nechaeva, Oksana
name: Dikansky, Yury
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The behavior of a magnetic fluid drop lying on a solid horizontal surface and surrounded by a nonmagnetic liquid under the action of a uniform magnetic field which is rotating in a vertical plane with low frequency (of the order of 1 Hz) has been investigated experimentally. Shape deformation and translatory motion of the drop were observed and studied. The drop translation velocity for different field amplitudes and field frequencies has been measured.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures
Euthalia thawgawa subsp. wuzhenjuni H. Huang 2021
Creators: name: Huang, Si-Yao
name: Xu, Yong-Qiang
name: Lu, Di
name: Lu, Fei
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Nymphalidae
Euthalia
Euthalia thawgawa
Euthalia thawgawa wuzhenjuni h. huang, 2021

description: Euthalia thawgawa wuzhenjuni H. Huang, 2021
Fig. 47 & 48
Euthalia thawgawa wuzhenjuni H. Huang, 2021: 350, figs. 240 & 255.
Material examined. 1 female, 7.VIII.2021, Gongshan County, Yunnan Province, China, leg. Si-yao Huang (CHSY); 1 female, 2.IX.2023, Chawalong, Chayu County, Xizang Autonomous Region, China, leg. Yong-qiang Xu (IPBX)
Remarks. This is the first record of the female of this recently described taxon, which inhabits only in the Nujiang Valley. Compared with the females of the nominate subspecies from Dulongjiang Valley (Fig. 46), Northwest Yunnan and Kachin State, Northeast Myanmar (Yokochi 2011), the females of E. thawgawa wuzhenjuni differ in the absence of the white spots in spaces 6 and 7 on hindwing upperside and the medial band on forewing upperside slightly broader near the costa.
Distribution. Southwest China (Along Nujiang valley from Northwest Yunnan (Gongshan County) to extreme Southeast Xizang (Chawalong, Chayu County)).
description: Published as part of Huang, Si-Yao, Xu, Yong-Qiang, Lu, Di & Lu, Fei, 2025, Taxonomic notes on certain species in the subgenus Limbusa Moore of the genus Euthalia Hübner (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea, Nymphalidae, Limenitinae) from China and adjacent countries, pp. 386-400 in Zootaxa 5613 (2) on pages 396-398, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5613.2.12, http://zenodo.org/record/15216377
Assessment of toxicity of particulate matter in the sub-micrometric range by an Atmospheric Simulation Chamber
Creators: name: VERNOCCHI, VIRGINIA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Genova
Year: 2022

description: Atmospheric aerosols (or Particulate Matter, PM) play an important role in human health and global climate changes, being a central topic in atmospheric physics and chemistry. PM consists of solid and liquid particles suspended in the atmosphere, with high variability in size, composition, concentration, shape, life-time and sources. Among PM constituents, carbonaceous compounds cover a substantial fraction. My thesis focuses on soot particles that are carbonaceous particles generated as by-products of incomplete combustion of hydrocarbon fuels. Soot particles are responsible of negative impacts, both on climate and health. Therefore, it is necessary to investigate their properties and behaviour in the atmosphere in order to fully understand their adverse effects.
Aerosols properties can be investigated by experiments performed in Atmospheric Simulation Chambers (ASCs), which are exploratory platforms that allow to study atmospheric processes under realistic but controlled conditions, for long enough time periods to reproduce realistic environments. My PhD took place in the Laboratory for Environmental Physics at the Physics Department of the University of Genoa, where the only Italian ASC, ChAMBRe, is installed.
The employ of a soot generator is useful to perform experiments concerning soot particles. They are stable source that generate particles with controlled and known properties, similar to the real atmospheric ones. During my PhD, the Mini-Inverted Soot Generator (MISG) was used, fuelled with both ethylene and propane and varying the oxygen-fuel ratio.
The main objective of this thesis was to develop an experimental setup and a procedure that allow to perform systematic studies on soot particles exposed and maintained in different conditions thus investigating their properties, effects and interactions with the other atmospheric pollutants. Combustion conditions and resulting flame shapes were classified; a deep characterization of MISG exhaust, in connection to ChAMBRe, was performed in terms of concentration of emitted particles and gases, particle size distribution, composition and optical properties. The characterization of the MISG exhausts is an important piece of information to design the subsequent experiments. Well-characterized soot particles could be used to investigate the effects that atmospheric parameters can have on soot particles, and to study the interactions between soot particles and other pollutants. During my PhD work, preliminary studies on the soot oxidative potential and toxicological effects as well on interactions between soot particles and bio-aerosols were performed.
title: Effects of non-driving related tasks on mental workload and take-over times during conditional automated driving
Creators: name: Müller, Andreas Lars
name: Fernandes-Estrela, Natacha
name: Hetfleisch, Ruben
name: Zecha, Lukas
name: Abendroth, Bettina
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2021

description: Background Automated driving will be of high value in the future. While in partial-automated driving the driver must always monitor the traffic situation, a paradigm shift is taking place in the case of conditional automated driving (Level 3 according to SAE). From this level of automation onwards, the vehicle user is released from permanent vehicle control and environmental monitoring and is allowed to engage in Non-Driving Related Tasks (NDRT) in his or her newly gained spare time. These tasks can be performed until a take-over request informs the user to resume vehicle control. As the driver is still considered to be the fall-back level, this aspect of taking over control is considered especially critical. Methods While previous research projects have focused their studies on the factors influencing the take-over request, this paper focuses on the effects of NDRT on the user of the vehicle during conditional automated driving, especially on the human workload. NDRT (such as Reading, Listening, Watching a movie, Texting and Monitoring ride) were examined within a static driving simulator at the Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors with 56 participants in an urban environment. These NDRT were tested for mental workload and the ability to take over in a critical situation. To determine the perceived workload, the subjective workload, psychophysiological activity as well as performance-based parameters of a secondary competing task performed by a were used. Results This study revealed that the selected NDRT vary significantly in their mental workload and that the workload correlates with the length of the time needed for take over control. NDRT which are associated with a high workload (such as Reading or Texting) also lead to longer reaction times.
Time dependent action in $ϕ^6$ potential
Creators: name: Widyan, Hatem
name: Al-Wardat, Mashhoor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The false vacuum decay in field theory from a coherently oscillating initial state is studied for $ϕ^6$ potential. An oscillating bubble solution is obtained. The instantaneous bubble nucleation rate is calculated.
description: 15 pages, Accepted for publication in Communications in Theoretical Physics. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:hep-th/9604151
Crystallization behaviour of recycled polyolefins blends
Creators: name: CARMELI, ENRICO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Genova
Year: 2022

description: A novel tailor-made thermal fractionation protocol, based on the Successive Self-nucleation
and Annealing (SSA) method, was developed to investigate the complex chemical composition of
PE/PP blends derived from recycling. The temperature regions where co-crystallization among the
blend components do not occur were assessed, enabling the development of the quantitative
method. Furthermore, a set-up for achieving Continuous Cooling Curve diagrams was designed,
and allowed to study the crystallization kinetics at processing-relevant cooling conditions of the
phases in the blends. An ?inversion point? in the crystallization order of the two polymers arises
from the difference in crystallization rates between PP and PE with increasing cooling rate. Mutual
nucleating effects, found at the interface between the phases, correlate with the inversion point.
Moreover, the order of crystallization of the two polymers at low cooling rates, i.e., before the
inversion point, can be tuned by employing neat or nucleated PP. This demonstrates the importance
of knowing and controlling the type of components in recycled blends. Finally, the nature of such
nucleating effects was revealed by a novel approach for studying surface-induced crystallization in
the blends. The method consists of detecting variations in the crystallization kinetics of the
dispersed phase (PE) with changing the crystalline state of the matrix (PP) through self-nucleation.
The enhancement of crystallization kinetics of PE that was achieved when increasing the lamellar
thickness of PP, together with the very low value found for the interfacial free energy difference,
are evidence that such nucleating effects occur through epitaxial growth.