cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Waves in the gas centrifuge: asymptotic theory and similarities with the atmosphere
Creators: name: Rodal, Marie
name: Schlutow, Mark
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Internal waves
subject: Waves in rotating fluids
subject: Atmospheric flows
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::530 Physik::530 Physik

description: We study the stratified gas in a rapidly rotating centrifuge as a model for the Earth's atmosphere. Based on methods of perturbation theory, it is shown that in certain regimes, internal waves in the gas centrifuge have the same dispersion relation to leading order as their atmospheric siblings. Assuming an air filled centrifuge with a radius of around 50 cm, the optimal rotational frequency for realistic atmosphere-like waves is around 10 000 revolutions per minute. Using gases of lower heat capacities at constant pressure, such as xenon, the rotational frequencies can be even halved to obtain the same results. Similar to the atmosphere, it is feasible in the gas centrifuge to generate a clear scale separation of wave frequencies and therefore phase speeds between acoustic waves and internal waves. In addition to the centrifugal force, the Coriolis force acts in the same plane. However, its influence on axially homogeneous internal waves appears only as a higher-order correction. We conclude that the gas centrifuge provides an unprecedented opportunity to investigate atmospheric internal waves experimentally with a compressible working fluid.
Metalanceolidae Zeidler 2009, new family
Creators: name: Zeidler, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Amphipoda
Metalanceolidae

description: Family METALANCEOLIDAE, new family   Diagnosis. Body length up to 8 mm. Pereon inflated in females, not markedly inflated in males. Head without rostrum. Eyes relatively small, round. Pereonites all separate. Coxae separate from pereonites. Antennae 1 with stout callynophore, peduncle 3-articulate. Antennae 2 shorter than A1. Mandibles with moderately strong palp, length about 1.3x body length of mandible; third article of palp slightly shorter than second; left with lacinia mobilis reduced to small protuberance. Maxillae 1 with broad, rectangular palp, shorter than outer lobe; outer lobe also rectangular, with straight distal margin armed with three robust setae and two smaller setae subterminally; inner lobe oval-shaped, armed with numerous fine setae. Maxillae 2 with narrow lobes. Maxilliped with semi-circular outer lobes with distal margin slightly excavate between two strong setae; inner lobes short, rounded, relatively narrow, mostly separate, projected laterally from outer lobes. Gnathopod 1 simple with carpus marginally broadened distally. Gnathopod 2 simple, slightly longer and more slender than G1. Pereopods 3-7 simple. Pereopods 3 & 4 with relatively strong, curved dactylus. Pereopods 5–7 with fully retractile and hooded dactyls; spoon-shaped formation hypertrophied, swollen posterodistally. Urosomite 2–3 with partial suture ventrally. Uropoda relatively slender with slender, articulated exopoda and endopoda. Telson triangular with rounded apex, about half-length peduncle of U3. Gills on pereonites 4–6. Oostegites on pereonites 2–5.
 One genus: Metalanceola.
 Remarks. This new family is proposed here to accommodate Metalanceola which, prior to this study, was placed in the family Lanceolidae. However, like the previous taxon, this genus is very distinctive possessing unique characters that distinguish it from all other families of Hyperiidea. The structure and relative lengths of the antennae, the short and rectangular palp of the first maxillae, the bulbous nature of the spoon-shaped process of pereopods 5–7 and the fact that the gills are restricted to pereonites 4–6, are particularly distinctive characters that distinguish Metalanceola and the family Metalanceolidae. The latter character is especially noteworthy because a reduction in the number of gills (usually on pereonites 2–6) is rare amongst the Hyperiidea. Otherwise this family resembles the Lanceolidae in the general morphology of the gnathopoda, pereopoda and the mandibles.
description: Published as part of Zeidler, Wolfgang, 2009, A review of the hyperiidean amphipod superfamily Lanceoloidea Bowman & Gruner, 1973 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea), pp. 1-117 in Zootaxa 2000 on page 70
Examining Two Sides of Food System Challenges: A Case Study of the Potential Impacts of the Food Safety Modernization Act on U.S. Produce Growers and a Descriptive Analysis of the International Food Certification Industry
Creators: name: Lynch, Kathryn E
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2016

description: The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) represents a major change to U.S. food policy. Because several FSMA rules require that covered businesses comply with standards by 2019 at the latest, the legislation is expected to have considerable effects on the U.S. food system in the near future. This research examines potential challenges associated with two different FSMA rules. The first essay uses farm-level data from the 2012 Census of Agriculture to estimate the number of farms and acres covered by the FSMA Final Rule on Produce Safety in the California, the Northeast, and the entire U.S. Industry information and interviews with stakeholders are assessed in conjunction with the Census data to hypothesize how farms in two distinct U.S. production regions, California and the Northeast, will fare under the rule. For the second essay, we developed unique datasets containing information on 425 food certification standards and 581 certification bodies. The certification data is used to develop a descriptive analysis of patterns in the international food certification industry. We show how offices of certification bodies that offer food safety certification services are distributed geographically, which serves as a basis for assessing international auditing capacity under the FSMA Final Rule on Accredited Third-Party Certification.
Equation Systems of Generalized Hydrodynamics for Soft-Matter Quasicrystals
Creators: name: Fan, Tian-You
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The equation systems of generalized hydrodynamics, or generalized dynamics for simplicity, for soft-matter quasicrystals were established. Considering the fluidity of the matter with high order we introduced a new elementary excitation---fluid phonon to the quasicrystals, and the equation of state is necessary and introduced too. By considering other two elementary excitations---phonons and phasons, a theory---generalized hydrodynamics for soft-matter quasicrystals is set up, in which the governing equations of the dynamics are reported in this letter.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1908.06547
Charged Higgs Boson Production in Bottom-Gluon Fusion
Creators: name: Plehn, Tilman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the complete next-to-leading order SUSY-QCD corrections for the associated production of a charged Higgs boson with a top quark via bottom-gluon fusion. We investigate the applicability of the bottom parton description in detail. The higher order corrections can be split into real and virtual corrections for a general two Higgs doublet model and into additional massive supersymmetric loop contributions. We find that the perturbative behavior is well under control. The supersymmetric contributions consist of the universal bottom Yukawa coupling corrections and non-factorizable diagrams. Over most of the relevant supersymmetric parameter space the Yukawa coupling corrections are sizeable, while the remaining supersymmetric loop contributions are negligible.
description: 18 pages, v2: some discussions added, v3: published version
Optimal two-qubit states for quantum teleportation vis-à-vis state properties
Creators: name: Ghosal, Arkaprabha
name: Das, Debarshi
name: Roy, Saptarshi
name: Bandyopadhyay, Somshubhro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum teleportation with a two-qubit state can be suitably characterized in terms of maximal fidelity and fidelity deviation, where the former is the maximal value of the average fidelity achievable within the standard protocol and local unitary operations and the latter is the standard deviation of fidelity over all input states. In this paper, we consider the problem of characterizing two-qubit states that are optimal for quantum teleportation for a given value of some state property. The optimal states are defined as those states that, for a given value of the state property under consideration, achieve the largest maximal fidelity and also exhibit zero fidelity deviation. We provide a complete characterization of optimal states for a given linear entropy, maximum mean value of the Bell-CHSH observable, and concurrence, respectively. We find that for a given linear entropy or Bell-CHSH violation, the largest maximal fidelity states are optimal, but for a given concurrence, the optimal states form a strict subset of the largest maximal fidelity states.
description: 25 pages; published version
Carmen(Es) Y Lola. El Continuo Generacional De La Educación De La Mujer Desde La Novela Y El Monólogo Teatral De Cinco Horas Con Mario Hasta La Película Función De Noche
Creators: name: Pallàs, Elisabet
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2016

description: Taking as a point of reference the voice and figure of Carmen Sotillo, the present study analyzes Miguel Delibes’ Cinco horas con Mario (1966), the theatrical adaptation with the same name directed by Josefina Molina, and the film Función de noche (1981), directed also by Molina. The study addresses, on the one hand, the analysis of the mentioned works, establishing a cause-consequence relationship between Carmen’s speech and the educational paradigms of the Francoist regime in regard to women. On the other hand, the study is interested, from a general perspective, in the ideological state apparatuses and the mechanisms destined to reinforce a specific women archetype, among which will be included the postwar school structure, the institution of la Sección Femenina, women’s legal status, and other spaces devoted to reproduce and reinforce ideological content –religion, family–. Lastly, the essay also reflects on the contents of the works from their own media specificity, pointing out the links between content and their particular staging and ideological approach, trying from a general point of view to give an answer to the questions brought up by Carmen Sotillo and Lola’s speech, her alter ego.
Encapsulation of Probiotic Microorganisms in Food-Grade Hydrogel Microbeads for Improving Long-Term Storage and Oral Delivery
Creators: name: Yeung, Timothy W
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2016

description: Probiotics die over time during processing, storage and digestion, resulting in reduced health benefits to the consumer. Microencapsulation of microorganisms is an effective way to improve probiotic viability by restricting cell exposure to extreme conditions through the gastrointestinal tract until release in the colon. In this work, appearance and survival of encapsulated probiotic species from two genera was explored. Lactococcus lactis and Bifidobacterium longum were suspended in calcium alginate microbeads by spraying droplets of alginate-probiotic mixture into calcium chloride solution. This produced uniformly shaped transparent microbeads with high encapsulation yield. Encapsulating Lactococcus lactis extended viability during dry room temperature storage. Encapsulating Bifidobacterium longum revealed high variation between eight different strains from subspecies longum and infantis. Coating alginate particles with chitosan did not improve viability and, viability of free and encapsulated bifidobacteria decreased when exposed to simulated gastric and intestinal conditions. Data from these studies suggest microencapsulating probiotic cells is an invaluable process to extending cell viability. Future research should optimize current formulations to improve encapsulation yield and cell survival during processing, storage, and gastrointestinal transit.
Criticality and oscillatory behavior in non-Markovian Contact Process
Creators: name: Gerami, Rouzbeh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A Non-Markovian generalization of one-dimensional Contact Process (CP) is being introduced in which every particle has an age and will be annihilated at its maximum age $τ$. There is an absorbing state phase transition which is controlled by this parameter. The model can demonstrate oscillatory behavior in its approach to the stationary state. These oscillations are also present in the mean-field approximation which is a first-order differential equation with time-delay. Studying dynamical critical exponents suggests that the model belongs to the DP universlity class.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures, to be published in Phys. Rev. E
Exploring the Effect of Conversion on the Distribution of Inflectional Suffixes: A Multivariate Corpus Study
Creators: name: Rauhut, Alexander
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: conversion
subject: dispersion
subject: gamlss regression
subject: lexical ambiguity
subject: multivariate
subject: verb-noun continuum
subject: 400 Sprache::420 Englisch, Altenglisch::425 Englische Grammatik

description: Lexical ambiguity in the English language is abundant. Word-class ambiguity is even inherently tied to the productive process of conversion. Most lexemes are rather flexible when it comes to word class, which is facilitated by the minimal morphology that English has preserved. This study takes a multivariate quantitative approach to examine potential patterns that arise in a lexicon where verb-noun and noun-verb conversion are pervasive. The distributions of three inflectional suffixes, verbal -s, nominal -s, and -ed are explored for their interaction with degrees of verb-noun conversion. In order to achieve that, the lexical dispersion, context-dependency, and lexical similarity between the inflected and bare forms were taken into consideration and controlled for in a Generalized Additive Models for Location, Scale and Shape (GAMLSS; Stasinopoulos, M. D., R. A. Rigby, and F. De Bastiani. 2018. “GAMLSS: A Distributional Regression Approach.” Statistical Modelling 18 (3–4): 248–73). The results of a series of zero-one-inflated beta models suggest that there is a clear “uncanny” valley of lexemes that show similar proportions of verbal and nominal uses. Such lexemes have a lower proportion of inflectional uses when textual dispersion and context-dependency are controlled for. Furthermore, as soon as there is some degree of conversion, the probability that a lexeme is always encountered without inflection sharply rises. Disambiguation by means of inflection is unlikely to play a uniform role depending on the inflectional distribution of a lexeme.
MOESM1 of Citrus limetta peels: a promising substrate for the production of multienzyme preparation from a yeast consortium
Creators: name: Shariq, Maria
name: Sohail, Muhammad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Computational Biology
subject: Cardiology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Regression coefficient and P-values of endoglucanase (EG), β-glucosidase (BGL), xylanase (Xyl), pectinase (PEC) and amylase (AMY) for acid pretreated Citrus lametta peels’ fermentation. Table S2. Regression coefficient and P-values of endoglucanase (EG), β-glucosidase (BGL), xylanase (Xyl), pectinase (PEC) and amylase (AMY) for Plackett-Burman of SSF of alkali pretreated substrate. Table S3. Summary of two-way ANOVA. PBD designs executed for fermentation of acid and alkali pretreated Citrus limetta peels were compared to determine suitability of the substrates. Table S4. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) of (a) EG, (b) BGL, (c) Xyl, and (d) AMY production for regression model. Table S5. Optimum conditions for the production of mulienzyme preparation as suggested by the Box Behnken deisgn. The model also predicted values of individual enzyme activities that can be obtained under optimum conditions. An experiment was conducted under optimum conditions and actual values of the enzyme activities are given. Table S6. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) of pectinase (PEC) response for regression model. Table S7. Rate of hydrolysis of various substrates when loaded with multienzyme preparation from the yeast consortium. Fig. S1. Surface plots of EG showing relationship between (a) Moistening agentand pretreatment. (b) Media pH and pretreatment. (c) Incubation time and pretreatment. (d) Moistening agent and media pH. (e) Moistening agent and incubation time. (f) Media pH and incubation time. Fig. S2. Surface plots of BGL showing relationship between. (a) Moistening agent and pretreatment. (b) Media pH and pretreatment. (c) Incubation time and pretreatment. (d) Moistening agent and media pH. (e) Moistening agent and incubation time. (f) Media pH and incubation time. Fig. S3. Surface plots of XYL showing relationship between (a) Moistening agent and pretreatment. (b) Media pH and pretreatment. (c) Incubation time and pretreatment. (d) Moistening agent and media pH. (e) Moistening agent and incubation time. (f) Media pH and incubation time. Fig. S4. Surface plots of AMY showing relationship between (a) Moistening agent and pretreatment. (b) Media pH and pretreatment. (c) Incubation time and pretreatment. (d) Moistening agent and media pH. (e) Moistening agent and incubation time. (f) Media pH and incubation time. Fig. S5. Saccharification of apple peels, sugarcane bagasse, banana peels, mosambi peels, mango peels, orange peels, pomegranate peels, CMC, Xylan, Pectin by multienzyme preparation.
Field and Analytical Studies of the First Folded Plate Girder Bridge
Creators: name: Sit, Man Hou
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2014

description: Integral abutment bridges are very common for short span bridges in the United State due to their less construction and maintenance cost and generally good performance. This thesis studies the first integral abutment bridge using Folded Plate Girder (FPG) Bridge System. The bridge is instrumented with a variety of gauges to capture the behavior of the bridge, and a total of two year and one month [11/2011~12/2013] of data are collected and long-term data monitoring is performed. Live load test and long term temperature effect on the bridge are studied using finite element modeling and compared with actual field data. Girder strain/stress at mid-span and quarter-span and abutment rotations were investigated. From the result, first the bridge was found to show good performance. Shear lag effect was found to be happening at the bottom flange-to-web junction of the steel girder when subjected to concentrated loading. Thermal gradient was found to be significant on the girder strain and abutment rotations.
Insights into structure, affinity, specificity, and function of GAG-protein interactions through the chemoenzymatic preparation of defined sulfated oligohyaluronans
Creators: name: Schiller, Jürgen
name: Lemmnitzer, Katharina
name: Dürig, Jan-Niklas
name: Rademann, Jörg
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: GAG oligosaccharides
subject: GAG-protein binding
subject: spectroscopic methods
subject: structure-activity relationships
subject: sulfation
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::540 Chemie::540 Chemie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften

description: High amounts of glycosaminoglycans (GAG) such as hyaluronan (HA) occur in connective tissues. There is nowadays increasing evidence that a “sulfation code” exists which mediates numerous GAG functions. High molecular weight and inhomogeneity of GAG, however, aggravated detailed studies. Thus, synthetic oligosaccharides were urgently required. We will review here chemoenzymatic and analytic strategies to provide defined sulfated and anomerically modified GAG oligosaccharides of the HA type. Representative studies of protein/GAG interactions by (bio)chemical and biophysical methods are reported yielding novel insights into GAG-protein binding. Finally, the biological conclusions and in vivo applications of defined sulfated GAG oligosaccharides will be discussed.
New solutions of the Ermakov-Pinney equation in curved space-time
Creators: name: Bini, Donato
name: Esposito, Giampiero
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An Ermakov-Pinney-like equation associated with the scalar wave equation in curved space-time is here studied. The example of Schwarzschild space-time considered in the present work shows that this equation can be viewed more as a model equation, with interesting applications in black hole physics. Other applications studied involve cosmological space-times (de Sitter) and pulse of plane gravitational waves. In all these cases the evolution of the Ermakov-Pinney field seems to be consistent with a rapid blow-up, unlike the Schwarzschild case where spatially damped oscillations are allowed. Eventually, the phase function is also evaluated in many of the above space-time models.
description: 20 pages, 10 figures. The presentation has been improved
Between colonial medicine and global health: protein malnutrition and UNICEF milk in the Belgian Congo
Creators: name: Coghe, Samuël
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Kwashiorkor
subject: Colonial medicine
subject: International health
subject: Belgian Congo
subject: FORÉAMI
subject: Protein malnutrition
subject: 900 Geschichte und Geografie::960 Geschichte Afrikas::967 Geschichte Zentralafrikas und vorgelagerter Inseln

description: During the last decades of colonial rule, Belgian colonial authorities, health agencies and researchers intensely engaged with kwashiorkor, a severe syndrome that was deemed widespread among young children in some parts of the Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi and chiefly attributed to protein malnutrition. To fight kwashiorkor, the Belgian government, in the early 1950s, set up a joint milk distribution campaign with the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, Food and Agriculture Organization and World Health Organization, the first of its kind in colonial Africa. Placing this campaign in the context of mounting international and inter-imperial concern about kwashiorkor and other nutritional problems in Africa and across the globe, this article explores its rationales, mechanisms and consequences, and in particular, how the campaign was shaped and publicised by FORÉAMI, one of the main health providers on the ground. It not only contributes to the history of European colonial medicine and nutritional policies, but also opens new perspectives on international health collaboration during late colonialism. It argues that Belgian authorities were wary of international interference in colonial policies, but that especially FORÉAMI also viewed and used the campaign as an opportunity to display its ‘mastery’ in rural and infant healthcare and control the narrative on Belgium’s colonial medicine.
Metalanceola , Pirlot 1931
Creators: name: Zeidler, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Amphipoda
Metalanceolidae
Metalanceola

description: Genus Metalanceola Pirlot, 1931
 Metalanceola, Pirlot, 1931: 12. Pirlot 1939: 12–13. Bowman & Gruner 1973: 21–22. Vinogradov et al. 1982: 88.
 Type species. Metalanceola chevreuxi Pirlot, 1931 by monotypy. The unique type, a male measuring about 6 mm, is in the MOM (37 2105), on microscope slides. The type locality is the North Atlantic, near Madeira [31°06’N 24°06’45”W]; Princesse Alice II Stn. 1781 (not 1871 as stated by Pirlot), 0–5000 m, 21 Aug. 1904.
 Diagnosis. Body length up to 8 mm. Eyes very small, round. Antennae 1 with large callynophore (narrower in female) with one short and two elongated terminal articles. Antennae 2 a little shorter than A1. Mandibles with relatively broad incisor; body sub-triangular in shape. Maxillae 1; palp without feathered setae on outer distal corner, shorter than outer lobe; outer lobe with straight distal margin armed with three robust setae which are much larger than two similar setae located sub-terminally; inner lobe narrowly oval. Maxillae 2 with relatively narrow lobes, each armed with three strong setae distally. Maxilliped with short, narrow inner lobes. Gnathopoda and pereopods 3 & 4 simple. Pereopods 5–7 with retractile and fully hooded dactyls; spoon-shaped formation hypertrophied.
Monospecific.
 Sexual dimorphism. Females have a moderately inflated pereon but it is not especially inflated in males. However, the most significant difference occurs in the structure of the antennae. In males antennae 1 are relatively longer with wider articles and the callynophore is much more robust; in females the callynophore is relatively longer and narrower. Antennae 2 are relatively longer than the first in females, about 0.6x A1, whereas in males they are only about half as long (or less) than the first. In addition, pereopod 7 is stronger in males, the telson is relatively shorter in females and males have small genital papillae, medially near the base of the seventh pereopods.
 Remarks. This is a very distinctive genus, as noted above. The strong dactyls of pereopods 3–7 indicate that it probably has a close relationship with a gelatinous host.
description: Published as part of Zeidler, Wolfgang, 2009, A review of the hyperiidean amphipod superfamily Lanceoloidea Bowman & Gruner, 1973 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea), pp. 1-117 in Zootaxa 2000 on pages 70-71
Network Formation and Financial Fragility
Creators: name: Beteto Wegner, Danilo Lopomo
name: Beteto Wegner, Danilo Lopomo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Government interventions
subject: financial fragility
subject: financial networks
subject: sytemic risk
subject: robustness

description: A tractable model of the formation of financial networks is developed, allowing the use of concepts from portfolio theory. The optimal financial network maximizes a Sharpe ratio defined for financial networks, whereas the equilibrium financial net- work emerges from banks bargaining over future proceeds of co-investment oppor- tunities. Measures of financial fragility, systemic risk and robustness are developed. The equilibrium financial network is shown to be the most connected and with the lowest level of financial fragility, whereas the optimal is the one least connected and with lowest exposure to systemic risk, being also the most robust financial network.
Causality, unitarity, and indefinite metric in Maxwell-Chern-Simons extensions
Creators: name: Avila, Ricardo
name: Nascimento, Jose R.
name: Petrov, Albert Yu.
name: Reyes, Carlos M.
name: Schreck, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We canonically quantize $(2+1)$-dimensional electrodynamics including a higher-derivative Chern-Simons term. The effective theory describes a standard photon and an additional degree of freedom associated with a massive ghost. We find the Hamiltonian and the algebra satisfied by the field operators. The theory is characterized by an indefinite metric in the Hilbert space that brings up questions on causality and unitarity. We study both of the latter fundamental properties and show that microcausality as well as perturbative unitarity up to one-loop order are conserved when the Lee-Wick prescription is employed.
description: New version published in PRD, Lee-Wick prescription in Sec. IV-C, 27 pages, 5 figures
MOESM1 of Persistent and sporadic Listeria monocytogenes strains do not differ when growing at 37 °C, in planktonic state, under different food associated stresses or energy sources
Creators: name: Taylor, Alexander
name: Stasiewicz, Matthew
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Box plots of the average growth rate for L. monocytogenes isolates exposed to stress conditions. Data includes the average of only replicates whose growth was observed (ΔOD600 ≥ 0.1), in log scale. The box represents the interquartile range (IQR), the line represents the median of the treatment, whiskers are drawn to the furthest point within 1.5 x IQR from the box, and the points are outliers of the data. Groups were created by use of Tukey’s HSD, where the same letters indicate means that are not different from each other.
title: Η επίδραση της πανδημίας Covid-19 στην παροχή υπηρεσιών χειρουργικής ιατρικής
title: The effect of Covid-19 pandemic on the provision of surgical services
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Γιαμούρης, Στυλιανός
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Πανδημία
subject: COVID-19
subject: SARS-CoV-2
subject: Χειρουργική ιατρική
subject: Μη επείγουσες χειρουργικές επεμβάσεις
subject: Επιπτώσεις

description: Εισαγωγή: Η νόσος COVID-19 είναι μια μολυσματική ασθένεια, γνωστή και ως οξεία αναπνευστική νόσος 2019-nCoV, η οποία προκαλείται από τον κορωνοϊό σοβαρού οξέος αναπνευστικού συνδρόμου τύπου 2 (SARS-COV-2). Λόγω της υψηλής μεταδοτικότητας, η εξάπλωση του νέου κορωνοϊού σε όλο το κόσμο ήταν ραγδαία και ο Παγκόσμιος Οργανισμός Υγείας κήρυξε «πανδημία» τον COVID-19 επισήμως στις 11/03/2020. Η κατάσταση που επικρατεί παγκοσμίως θα μπορούσε να χαρακτηρισθεί ως «κατάσταση πολέμου», με τους επαγγελματίες υγείας να βρίσκονται στη πρώτη γραμμή άμυνας ενάντια σε μια ασύμμετρη και απρόβλεπτη απειλή για την ανθρωπότητα. Σκοπός: Η συγκεκριμένη μεταπτυχιακή εργασία έχει σκοπό τη διερεύνηση της επίδρασης της νόσου COVID-19 στον τομέα της υγείας και συγκεκριμένα στην παροχή υπηρεσιών χειρουργικής ιατρικής, η οποία σύμφωνα με τον ΠΟΥ έχει διαταραχθεί κατά τη διάρκεια της πανδημίας. Υλικό και Μέθοδος: Πραγματοποιήθηκε λεπτομερής βιβλιογραφική ανασκόπηση της λοίμωξης COVID-19, της χειρουργικής ιατρικής και του αντίκτυπο της πανδημίας COVID-19 στον τομέα της χειρουργικής. Σχετικά με την εμπειρική ανάλυση, αξιοποιήθηκαν δεδομένα από τις εισαγωγές του ιδιωτικού νοσοκομείου Metropolitan General. Κατά την επεξεργασία των πρωτογενών δεδομένων, παρουσιάζονται περιγραφικά στατιστικά μέτρα, διαγράμματα και τεστ καλής προσαρμογής X2 χειρουργικών περιστατικών. Αποτελέσματα: Τα ευρήματα από την εμπειρική μελέτη τονίζουν την αξιοσημείωτη πτώση των εισαγωγών και ιδιαίτερα εκείνων με θεράποντα ιατρό κάποια χειρουργική ειδικότητα για το τρίμηνο Μάρτιος-Απρίλιος-Μάιος του 2020. Μάλιστα οι μεγαλύτερες μειώσεις, σε απόλυτες διαφορές εντοπίζονται σε οφθαλμολογικά, ορθοπεδικά και γενικής χειρουργικής περιστατικά. Συμπέρασμα: Η εξάπλωση της νόσου COVID-19 έχει επηρεάσει αρνητικά την παροχή υπηρεσιών χειρουργικής ιατρικής και ιδιαίτερα τις προγραμματισμένες μη επείγουσες χειρουργικές επεμβάσεις. Λαμβάνοντας υπόψη τις προβλέπεις για επαναλαμβανόμενους κύκλους της πανδημικής νόσου, καθίσταται απαραίτητη η διαμόρφωση ενός σχεδίου για τη διαχείριση των μη επειγουσών χειρουργικών περιστατικών.
Toward stable 3D numerical evolutions of black-hole spacetimes
Creators: name: Scheel, Mark A.
name: Kidder, Lawrence E.
name: Lindblom, Lee
name: Pfeiffer, Harald P.
name: Teukolsky, Saul A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Three dimensional (3D) numerical evolutions of static black holes with excision are presented. These evolutions extend to about 8000M, where M is the mass of the black hole. This degree of stability is achieved by using growth-rate estimates to guide the fine tuning of the parameters in a multi-parameter family of symmetric hyperbolic representations of the Einstein evolution equations. These evolutions were performed using a fixed gauge in order to separate the intrinsic stability of the evolution equations from the effects of stability-enhancing gauge choices.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures. To appear in Phys. Rev. D. Minor additions to text for clarification. Added short paragraph about inner boundary dependence
Precarious Provenance: Legitimacy, Surrogacy and Betrayal in the Value of Art and Family in Honoré de Balzac's Le Cousin Pons and Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch
Creators: name: Coburn, Ryan
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2017

description: This thesis focuses on the problematic nature of art valuation, more specifically concerning the ideas of use-value and exchange-value in Honoré de Balzac’s Le Cousin Pons and Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch. Written in nineteenth-century France, Balzac’s novel paints a bleak portrait of what he believes to be a morally corrupt society obsessed with the lesser things in life such as money and status rather than what is truly important: culture and art. In her novel, which bears a striking resemblance to Balzac’s, Tartt presents her perception of present-day United States, also plagued with moral corruption and disregard for the cultural significance of art, but ultimately attempts to convey the message that art will prevail and transcend not only time but human weakness as well.
This analysis will attempt to trace the evolution of the value of the collections of art in these two novels. Through the examination of the themes of legitimacy, surrogacy and betrayal, I will analyze the paradoxes of value of both art and family structure.
Size, Age and the Growth of Firms: New Evidence from Quantile Regressions
Creators: name: Distante, Roberta
name: Petrella, Ivan
name: Santoro, Emiliano
name: Distante, Roberta
name: Petrella, Ivan
name: Santoro, Emiliano
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Political Economy
subject: Firm Growth
subject: Size
subject: Age
subject: Conditional Quantile

description: The nexus between firm growth, size and age in U.S. manufacturing is examined through the lens of quantile regression models. A number of interesting features are unveiled that linear frameworks could not detect. Size pushes both low and high performing firms towards the median rate of growth, while age is never advantageous, and more so as firms grow faster.
Three-Dimensional Generalized Dynamics of Soft-Matter Quasicrystals
Creators: name: Fan, Tian-You
name: Tang, Zhi-Yi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The three-dimensional generalized dynamics of soft-matter quasicrystals was investigated, in which the governing equations of the dynamics are derived for observed 12-fold symmetry quasicrystals and possible observed 8- and 10-symmetry ones in near future in soft matter. The solving methods, possible solutions for some initial and boundary value problems of the equations and possible applications are discussed as well.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1908.06425
title: Anthropologie der Unsterblichkeit
title: Über die Möglichkeit post-mortaler Fortexistenz und die Vergeblichkeit des ‚mind-uploading‘
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Streubel, Thorsten
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Post-mortale Fortexistenz
subject: personale Identität
subject: Ich
subject: mind-uploading
subject: Fundamentalanthropologie
subject: Post-mortem existence
subject: personal identity
subject: ego
subject: 100 Philosophie und Psychologie::100 Philosophie::102 Verschiedenes

description: Ich möchte in diesem Artikel aufzeigen, dass ein Leben oder zumindest eine Fortexistenz des Subjekts nach dem physischen Tod aus anthropologischer Sicht durchaus nicht ausgeschlossen, die Fortexistenz einer Person durch die (vermeintliche) Übertragung ihres Geistes auf eine Festplatte (mind-uploading bzw. whole brain emulation) dagegen aus prinzipiellen Gründen unmöglich ist. Beide Thesen lassen sich durch eine Reflexion auf die humane Verfassung begründen.
description: In this paper I would like to show why the continued existence of the subject after physical death cannot be ruled out from an anthropological point of view. But I also argue that the continued existence of a person through mind-uploading is in principle impossible. Both theses can be justified by reflecting on the human condition.
Additional file 1 of Expression characteristics of pineal miRNAs at ovine different reproductive stages and the identification of miRNAs targeting the AANAT gene
Creators: name: Di, Ran
name: Liu, Qiu-Yue
name: Song, Shu-Hui
name: Tian, Dong-Mei
name: He, Jian-Ning
name: Ge, Ying
name: Wang, Xiang-Yu
name: Hu, Wen-Ping
name: Mwacharo, Joram-Mwashigadi
name: Pan, Zhang-Yuan
name: Wang, Jian-Dong
name: Ma, Qing
name: Cao, Gui-Ling
name: Jin, Hui-Hui
name: Liang, Xiao-Jun
name: Chu, Ming-Xing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Percentage of reads number with different lengths at three reproductive stages of sheep.
THE FAR C-TERMINUS OF TPX2 CONTRIBUTES TO SPINDLE MORPHOGENESIS
Creators: name: Estes, Brett
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2017

description: A cell must build a bipolar mitotic spindle in order to faithfully segregate replicated DNA. To do so, multiple microtubule nucleation pathways are utilized to generate the robust spindle apparatus. TPX2, a microtubule binding protein, holds crucial roles in both the Ran-dependent and Augmin-dependent pathways where microtubules are nucleated near the chromosomes and from pre-existing microtubules. However, the exact role TPX2 plays in branching microtubules is less understood. Here, we explored the effect of truncating the essential TPX2 C-terminal 37 amino acids on Augmin localization and branching microtubule activity. First, we depleted LLC-Pk1 cells of the Augmin subunit HAUS6 and show that microtubule nucleation around the chromosomes following a nocodazole washout is strongly reduced leading to exaggerated kinetochore microtubule growth. Next, we depleted endogenous TPX2 in LLC-Pk1 cells harboring full length or truncated TPX2 bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) DNA. Results show that TPX2 710 LAP cells have reduced Augmin localization on the spindle fibers, which correlates with reduced microtubule regrowth in the chromosomal region. In TPX2 710 LAP cells, regrowth was like Augmin depleted cells.  Therefore, we provide evidence that the far C-terminus of TPX2 is required for branching microtubule nucleation and that kinetochore microtubule growth is Augmin-independent. In addition, we investigated cell cycle regulation of TPX2 by mutating the S738 phosphosite in the C-terminal motor interacting region.  We utilized BAC recombineering to create phospho-mimetic and phospho-null mutants. In combination with plasmid DNA knockdown/rescue, overexpression and spindle assembly assays, we show that the phosphorylation of the C-terminal domain contributes to early mitotic events. LLC-Pk1 cells showed a significant increase in aberrant spindle morphology and reduced spindle stability in the presence of 738A and absence of endogenous TPX2. While rescue with the alanine mutant caused in an increase in multipolar spindles, overexpression resulted in a strong dominant negative monopolar phenotype. Therefore, S738 appears to contribute to mitotic force regulation during mitosis. In conclusion, the far C-terminus of TPX2 and its regulation play a role in the formation of a proper mitotic spindle.
Advanced Analysis Methods in High Energy Physics
Creators: name: Bhat, Pushpalatha C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: During the coming decade, high energy physics experiments at the Fermilab Tevatron and around the globe will use very sophisticated equipment to record unprecedented amounts of data in the hope of making major discoveries that may unravel some of Nature's deepest mysteries. The discovery of the Higgs boson and signals of new physics may be around the corner. The use of advanced analysis techniques will be crucial in achieving these goals. I will discuss some of the novel methods of analysis that could prove to be particularly valuable for finding evidence of any new physics, for improving precision measurements and for exploring parameter spaces of theoretical models.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures, To be published in the Proceedings of the VII International Workshop on Advanced Computing and Analysis Techniques in Physics Research, Fermilab, Oct. 16-20, 2000 (American Institute of Physics, NY, 2001) edited by P.C. Bhat and M. Kasemann
Megalanceola Pirlot 1935
Creators: name: Zeidler, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Amphipoda
Megalanceolidae
Megalanceola

description: Genus Megalanceola Pirlot, 1935
 Megalanceola Pirlot, 1935: 1. Pirlot 1939: 8. Bowman & Gruner 1973: 20–21. Vinogradov 1964: 114. Vinogradov et al. 1982: 81–82. Vinogradov 1999: 1171.
 Type species. Lanceola stephenseni Chevreux, 1920, designated by Pirlot (1935). The unique type, a male measuring about 12 mm in the curled position, is in the MOM (37 1081), on microscope slides. The type locality is the North Atlantic, near the Azores [36°17’N 28°53’W]; Princesse Alice II Stn. 1849, 0–3000 m, 8 Sept. 1904.
 Diagnosis. Body length of females up to 95 mm, of males up to 56 mm. Pereon broadened dorsoventrally. Eyes relatively large, oval. Antennae 1 with large callynophore; terminal three articles subequal in length or marginally progressively longer. Antennae 2 relatively strong; length about 2.5x A1. Mandibles with massive palp; length about 1.8x mandibular body; third article of palp shorter than second; mandibular body relatively narrow, especially above insertion of palp towards incisor. Maxillae 1; palp with feathered setae on outer distal corner; inner lobes narrow, papilliform. Maxillae 2; outer lobe armed with six long setae terminally; inner lobe with four long setae. Maxilliped with relatively large, broad inner lobes, about half-length outer lobes or slightly less. Pereopods 3 & 4 with moderate, curved, non-retractile dactylus. Pereopods 5–7 with retractile and hooded dactyls with spoon-shaped process.
Monospecific.
 Sexual dimorphism. Males differ from females mainly in the shape and size of the first antennae, which are relatively larger in males (Fig. 27). Mature males also have distinct genital papillae, medially near the base of the seventh pereopods. Females also tend to achieve a much larger size than males.
 Remarks. This is a relatively distinctive genus bearing some resemblance to Lanceola. It contains one of the largest species of Hyperiidea, exceeded only by some species of Cystisoma (Cystisomatidae)
 This genus was established by Pirlot (1935) to accommodate his new species, M. terra-novae, which he later (1939) concluded to be synonymous with Lanceola stephenseni Chevreux, 1920. Only one other species, Lanceola remipes Barnard, 1932, was previously included in this genus, but it is here removed to a new genus, Megalanceoloides gen. nov. Thus, the genus is now monospecific. Its relationship to Megalanceoloides gen. nov. is discussed under that genus.
description: Published as part of Zeidler, Wolfgang, 2009, A review of the hyperiidean amphipod superfamily Lanceoloidea Bowman & Gruner, 1973 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea), pp. 1-117 in Zootaxa 2000 on pages 75-76
The Unreliable Narrator: Simplifying the Device and Exploring its Role in Autobiography
Creators: name: Ferry, James
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2017

description: The primary goal of this paper is to gain a better understanding of the unreliable narrator as a literary device. Furthermore, I argue that the distance between an author and narrator in realist fiction can be simulated in autobiographical prose. While previous studies have focused mainly on extra- and intertextual incongruities (factual inaccuracies; disparities between two nonfiction texts), the present study attempts to demonstrate that the memoirist can employ unreliable narration intratexually as a rhetorical tool. The paper begins with some examples of how the unreliable narrator is used, interpreted, misused and misinterpreted. The device’s troubled history is examined—Wayne Booth and James Phelan have argued for an encoded strategy on the part of the (implied) author while Tamar Yacobi and Ansgar Nünning have embraced a reader-oriented model—as well as the recent (and in my opinion, inevitable) convergence of the rhetorical and cognitive/constructivist models. Aside from “What is the unreliable narrator,” two questions underlie the present study: 1) Does a fiction writer using homodiegetic narration have an obligation to adhere to formal mimeticism (do we believe it)? 2) Being that unreliable narrators are so prevalent in everyday life, why is the device, in nonfiction, considered almost verboten? Two texts are analyzed for the first question: Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is argued to be a mimetically successful fictive “memoir” penned by a disillusioned, albeit reliable, narrator. Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day is presented as a synthetically flawless example of unreliable narration, but alas, a mimetic failure. Likewise, two texts are analyzed for the second question: Nick Flynn’s Another Bullshit Night in Suck City is viewed through the lens of overt fiction as a means of depicting uncertainty in autobiography. Similarly, Richard’s Wright’s Black Boy, with its overarching themes of survival and deception, is examined for the narrator’s use of “tall tales.” The critical and commercial success of both books suggests that the unreliable narrator does indeed have a place in autobiography—provided that the device is employed in service of a greater truth.
Application of Modified Hypervirial and Ehrenfest Theorems and Some of its Consequences
Creators: name: Khelashvili, Anzor
name: Nadareishvili, Teimuraz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is well-known that owing to the restricted character of the area additional surface terms emerge in the traditional form of hypervirial and/or Ehrenfest theorems. Especially, when one considers spherically symmetric potentials and operators the radial distance in spherical coordinates is restricted by a half-plane. Therefore the extra term arises in this case as well in view of boundary conditions at the origin of coordinates. We analyse the role of this term for various model-potentials in the Schrodinger equation. We consider regular as well as soft-singular potentials and show that the inclusion of this extra term is very essential in obtaining correct physical results. Among the well-known results some new ones are also derived.
description: 28 pages