cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Relativistic two-body currents for one-nucleon knockout in electron-nucleus scattering
Creators: name: Franco-Munoz, T.
name: García-Marcos, J.
name: González-Jiménez, R.
name: Udías, J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a detailed study of the contribution from two-body currents to the one-nucleon knockout process induced by electromagnetic interaction. The framework is a relativistic mean-field model (RMF) in which bound and scattering nucleons are consistently described as solutions of Dirac equation with potentials. We show results obtained with the most general expression of the two-body operator, in which the intermediate nucleons are described by relativistic mean-field bound states; then, we propose two approximations consisting in describing the intermediate states as nucleons in a relativistic Fermi gas, preserving the complexity and consistency in the initial and final states. These approximations simplify the calculations considerably, allowing us to provide outcomes in a reasonable computational time. The results obtained under these approximations are validated by comparing with those from the full model. Additionally, the theoretical predictions are compared with experimental data of the longitudinal and transverse responses of carbon 12. The agreement with data is outstanding for the longitudinal response, where the contribution from the two-body operator is negligible. In the transverse sector, the two-body current increases the response from 30 to 15%, depending on the approximations and kinematics, in general, improving the agreement with data.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures
title: Klinische Wertigkeit der Serum Cholinesterase in Patienten mit Urothelkarzinom des oberen Harntraktes, die mit radikaler Nephroureterektomie behandelt wurden
Creators: name: D'Andrea, David
name: Resch, Irene
name: Margulis, Vitaly
name: Karakiewicz, Pierre I.
name: Roupret, Morgan
name: Lotan, Yair
name: Rink, Michaerl
name: Abufaraj, Mohammad
name: Grubmüller, Bernhard
name: Soria, Francesco
name: Shariat, Shahrokh F.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Ziel der Arbeit: Die prognostische und klinische Wertigkeit der Serum Cholinesterase (ChoE) in Patienten mit klinisch nicht metastasiertem Urothelkarzinom des oberen Harntraktes (UTUC), die mit radikaler Nephroureterektomie (RNU) behandelt wurden. Methoden: In unserer multiinstutionellen Datenbank[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 45. Gemeinsame Tagung der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Urologie und Andrologie und der Bayerischen Urologenvereinigung
THz Field Control of In-Plane Orbital Order in La0.5Sr1.5MnO4
Creators: name: Miller, Timothy A.
name: Chhajlany, Ravindra W.
name: Tagliacozzo, Luca
name: Green, Bertram
name: Kovalev, Sergey
name: Prabhakaran, Dharmalingam
name: Lewenstein, Maciej
name: Gensch, Michael
name: Wall, Simon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In-plane anisotropic ground states are ubiquitous in correlated solids such as pnictides, cuprates and manganites. They can arise from doping Mott insulators and compete with phases such as superconductivity, however their origins are debated. Strong coupling between lattice, charge, orbital and spin degrees of freedom results in simultaneous ordering of multiple parameters, masking the mechanism that drives the transition. We demonstrate that the anisotropic orbital domains in a manganite can be oriented by the polarization of a pulsed THz light field. Through the application of the Hubbard model, we show that domain control can be achieved either through field assisted hopping of charges or a field-induced modification of bond angles. Both routes enhance the local Coulomb repulsions which drive domain reorientation and the dominant mechanism is dictated by the equilibrium Mn-O-Mn bond angle. Our results highlight the key role played by the Coulomb interaction in driving orbital order in manganites and demonstrate how THz can be utilized in new ways to understand and manipulate anisotropic phases in a broad range of correlated materials.
description: 19 pages including supplementary information, 5 figures
title: Mangelernährung nach Zystektomie – Stellenwert einer Proteinsubstitution
Creators: name: Zellner, Michael
name: Ridderskamp, David
name: Riedl, Rudolf
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Fragestellung: Insbesondere für Patienten in fortgeschrittenem Lebensalter stellt eine radikale Zystektomie eine besondere Belastung für den Organismus dar. Zwar finden zunehmend auch in dieser Indikation „Fasttrack“ Konzepte Anwendung, dennoch zeigen diese Patienten oftmals [zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 45. Gemeinsame Tagung der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Urologie und Andrologie und der Bayerischen Urologenvereinigung
Graffenrieda anomala Triana 1871
Creators: name: Murillo-Serna, Jhon S.
name: Michelangeli, Fabián A.
name: Alzate-Guarín, Fernando
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Myrtales
Melastomataceae
Graffenrieda
Graffenrieda anomala

description: Graffenrieda anomala Triana (1871: 71)
 Type (lectotype, designated by Lima et al. 2017):— COLOMBIA. “In provincia Choco Novae Granatae”, s.d. [1851-1857], J. Triana 3866 (K000329508!, isolectotypes BM [cited by Lima et al. 2017 but not seen], G-DC00319859 [digital image!], P02274704 [digital image!], remaining syntypes BR000000562829 [digital image!] [fragments!], COL000003221 [digital image!], NY 00228577).
 Calyptrella littoralis Gleason (1945: 473)
 Type (lectotype, designated here):— COLOMBIA. “collected at Quebrada de Guapecito, on the coast of El Valle”. 16 May 1944, Cuatrecasas 17698 (NY 00221480!, isolectotypes COL 000003195!, F1297505!, P00700692 [digital image!]).
 Notes: The lectotype of Graffenrieda anomala was designated by Lima et al. (2017). However, these authors did not include Calyptrella littoralis as a synonym of this species as previously proposed (Almeda et al. 2016). Calyptrella littoralis does not have a single designated specimen type, as required by Art. 8.1 of the ICN (Turland et al. 2018). Gleason (1945) in the protologue of C. littoralis designated the collection Cuatrecasas 17698 without reference to any herbarium. Considering that there are duplicates in COL, F, NY and P, the specimen deposited in NY is designated as lectotype since it has the seal “Dissected and draw by HA Gleason”, so it is inferred that it is a specimen in accordance with the author’s taxonomic concept for the species.
description: Published as part of Murillo-Serna, Jhon S., Michelangeli, Fabián A. & Alzate-Guarín, Fernando, 2019, Typification of some names of Graffenrieda (Melastomataceae: Merianieae), pp. 131-137 in Phytotaxa 391 (2) on page 132, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.391.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/13724186
Parameters for Cold Collisions of Lithium and Caesium Atoms
Creators: name: Jamieson, M. J.
name: Ouerdane, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the s-wave scattering length and effective range and the p-wave scattering volume for $^7$Li atoms interacting with $^{133}$Cs atoms via the X$^1Σ^+_g$ molecular potential. The length and volume are found by fitting the log-derivative of the zero energy wave function evaluated at short range to a long range expression that accounts for the leading van der Waals dispersion potential and then incorporating the remaining long range dispersion contributions to first order. The effective range is evaluated from a quadrature formula. The calculated parameters are checked from the zero energy limits of the scattering phase shifts. We comment on ill-conditioning in the calculated s-wave scattering length.
Immunogenicity of a novel tetravalent dengue envelope protein domain III-based antigen in mice
Creators: name: Fahimi, Hossein
name: Sadeghizadeh, Majid
name: Hassan, Zuhair M.
name: Auerswald, Heidi
name: Schreiber, Michael
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Dengue
subject: Serotypes
subject: Domain III
subject: Vaccine
subject: Tetravalent
subject: 610

description: Dengue virus is a mosquito-borne pathogen that causes dengue diseases. All four serotypes of dengue virus are infectious for humans. Therefore, an efficacious dengue vaccine should be tetravalent to provide protection against all types of virus. The goal of this study was to design a new tetravalent recombinant protein from envelope protein of dengue viruses to induce virus-neutralizing antibodies against all four serotypes in mice. A chimeric protein was designed from domain III of envelope protein of all serotypes of dengue virus. Four domain III fragments were linked together by alpha helix making linkers. The final sequence of the designed protein was analyzed in silico and the coding gene sequence was deduced by reverse translation. After cloning and expression of the recombinant protein (ED3-tetravalent protein), identity of the purified protein was confirmed using a pan-dengue specific monoclonal antibody in Western blotting. Then, the immunogenicity of the purified protein was studied in mice using antibody titration. The efficacy of induced antibodies in neutralization of the virus was studies by FRNT method. Furthermore, the induction of cellular immunity was studied by measurement of cytokines using ELISA method and measurement of lymphocyte proliferation using MTT assay. The ED3-tetravalent protein was able to enhance neutralizing immunogenic response against all four dengue serotypes; in similar way to that of tetravalent formulation of four individual domain III-based polypeptides. It is suggested that the ED3-tetravalent fusion protein can induce broadly neutralizing antibody responses against all four serotypes of dengue virus in mice.
description: EXCLI Journal;Vol. 17 2018
GPU-accelerated micromagnetic simulations using cloud computing
Creators: name: Jermain, C. L.
name: Rowlands, G. E.
name: Buhrman, R. A.
name: Ralph, D. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Highly-parallel graphics processing units (GPUs) can improve the speed of micromagnetic simulations significantly as compared to conventional computing using central processing units (CPUs). We present a strategy for performing GPU-accelerated micromagnetic simulations by utilizing cost-effective GPU access offered by cloud computing services with an open-source Python-based program for running the MuMax3 micromagnetics code remotely. We analyze the scaling and cost benefits of using cloud computing for micromagnetics.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures
Comprehensive analysis of The Cancer Genome Atlas reveals a unique gene and non-coding RNA signature of fibrolamellar carcinoma
Creators: name: Dinh, Timothy A.
name: Greene, Kevin G.
name: Oikawa, Tsunekazu
name: Wauthier, Eliane
name: Torbenson, Michael S.
name: Chen, Mengjie
name: Sethupathy, Praveen
name: Silva, Grace O.
name: Pitman, Wendy A.
name: Reid, Lola M.
name: Vitucci, Eva C.M.
name: Graham, Rondell P.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Fibrolamellar carcinoma (FLC) is a unique liver cancer primarily affecting young adults and characterized by a fusion event between DNAJB1 and PRKACA. By analyzing RNA-sequencing data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) for >9,100 tumors across ~30 cancer types, we show that the DNAJB1-PRKACA fusion is specific to FLCs. We demonstrate that FLC tumors (n = 6) exhibit distinct messenger RNA (mRNA) and long intergenic non-coding RNA (lincRNA) profiles compared to hepatocellular carcinoma (n = 263) and cholangiocarcinoma (n = 36), the two most common liver cancers. We also identify a set of mRNAs (n = 16) and lincRNAs (n = 4), including LINC00473, that distinguish FLC from ~25 other liver and non-liver cancer types. We confirm this unique FLC signature by analysis of two independent FLC cohorts (n = 20 and 34). Lastly, we validate the overexpression of one specific gene in the FLC signature, carbonic anhydrase XII (CA12), at the protein level by western blot and immunohistochemistry. Both the mRNA and lincRNA signatures support a major role for protein kinase A (PKA) signaling in shaping the FLC gene expression landscape, and present novel candidate FLC oncogenes that merit further investigation.
A Gramscian analysis of how multinational corporations influence EU trade policy towards Africa
Creators: name: SGAMBELLONE, NATHANIEL RICHARD
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: International relations

description: Orthodox theories of how the European Union’s trade policy is formed do not fully explain why its trade agreements with Africa often prioritise the interests of multinational corporations. This thesis argues that Gramscian state theory is more able to provide an explanation as to why multinational corporations are able to influence European Union trade policy towards the African members of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States. This is because these corporations’ command of capital, technology and resources renders European policymakers more receptive of their business interests than those of African states or civil society organisations.
“Constellation” and “Mimesis”: A conceptual analysis of Walter Benjamin’s influence on Theodor W. Adorno
Creators: name: Bradford, Edward Lawrence
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Philosophy not elsewhere classified
Political theory and political philosophy

description: Walter Benjamin’s influence on Theodor W. Adorno is often narrativized through the latter’s early work, whereby Adorno is seen as Benjamin’s “disciple” in the 1930s before transitioning beyond this early phase. I seek to complicate this narrative through an investigation of the terms “constellation” and “mimesis,” both of which appear prominently in Benjamin’s work before being repurposed by Adorno.
Predicting Strategic Energy Storage Behaviors
Creators: name: Bian, Yuexin
name: Zheng, Ningkun
name: Zheng, Yang
name: Xu, Bolun
name: Shi, Yuanyuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Energy storage are strategic participants in electricity markets to arbitrage price differences. Future power system operators must understand and predict strategic storage arbitrage behaviors for market power monitoring and capacity adequacy planning. This paper proposes a novel data-driven approach that incorporates prior model knowledge for predicting the strategic behaviors of price-taker energy storage systems. We propose a gradient-descent method to find the storage model parameters given the historical price signals and observations. We prove that the identified model parameters will converge to the true user parameters under a class of quadratic objective and linear equality-constrained storage models. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach through numerical experiments with synthetic and real-world storage behavior data. The proposed approach significantly improves the accuracy of storage model identification and behavior forecasting compared to previous blackbox data-driven approaches.
description: accepted by IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2023
Read across for the derivation of Indoor Air Guidance Values supported by PBTK modelling
Creators: name: Schupp, Thomas
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Indoor air
subject: Polyurethane
subject: Read across
subject: PBTK modelling
subject: VOC
subject: Metabolism
subject: 610

description: Polyurethane Flexible Foams (PUF) are versatile materials used in upholstered furniture and bed mattresses. Due to the production procedure, fresh foams emit volatile organic compounds (VOC) which may contribute to indoor air exposure. To evaluate the risk for consumers, the VOC concentration measured in chamber tests can be matched against existing benchmarks for indoor air like “Richtwerte” (RW) of the German UBA (Umweltbundesamt), “Lowest Concentration of Interest” (LCI) for construction products or derived no effect levels (DNEL) for consumer inhalation exposure. In a previous paper a method for the derivation of Indoor Air Guidance Values (IAGV) for VOC without RW, LCI or DNEL was developed. The method described made use of a sufficient toxicological database. For substances with an insufficient database, read across to structural analogues is a way forward to estimate Indoor Air Guidance Values (IAGV). In this work a read across exercise, supported by an open source physiology based toxicokinetic (PBTK) modelling program is demonstrated. The use of enzyme kinetic data for phase I and phase II metabolism is discussed and areas for further work were identified. For two substances with very limited toxicological data, allyloxypropanol (isomer mixture of 1-allyloxy-2-propanol and 2-allyloxy-1-propanol) and 2,3-di-ethyl-2,3-dimethylsuccinodintrile, Tentative Indoor Air Guidance Values of 750 μg/m³ and 65 μg/m³ were derived.
description: EXCLI Journal;Vol. 17 2018
Raman Study of Layered Breathing Kagome Lattice Semiconductor Nb3Cl8
Creators: name: Jeff, Dylan A.
name: Gonzalez, Favian
name: Harrison, Kamal
name: Zhao, Yuzhou
name: Fernando, Tharindu
name: Regmi, Sabin
name: Liu, Zhaoyu
name: Gutierrez, Humberto R.
name: Neupane, Madhab
name: Yang, Jihui
name: Chu, Jiun-Haw
name: Xu, Xiaodong
name: Cao, Ting
name: Khondaker, Saiful I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Niobium chloride (Nb3Cl8) is a layered 2D semiconducting material with many exotic properties including a breathing kagome lattice, a topological flat band in its band structure, and a crystal structure that undergoes a structural and magnetic phase transition at temperatures below 90 K. Despite being a remarkable material with fascinating new physics, the understanding of its phonon properties is at its infancy. In this study, we investigate the phonon dynamics of Nb3Cl8 in bulk and few layer flakes using polarized Raman spectroscopy and density functional theory (DFT) analysis to determine the material's vibrational modes, as well as their symmetrical representations and atomic displacements. We experimentally resolved 12 phonon modes, 5 of which are A1g modes while the remaining 7 are Eg modes, which is in strong agreement with our DFT calculation. Layer-dependent results suggest that the Raman peak positions are mostly insensitive to changes in layer thickness, while peak intensity and FWHM are affected. Raman measurements as a function of excitation wavelength (473-785 nm) show a significant increase of the peak intensities when using a 473 nm excitation source, suggesting a near resonant condition. Temperature-dependent Raman experiments carried out above and below the transition temperature did not show any change in the symmetries of the phonon modes, suggesting that the structural phase transition is likely from the high temperature P3m1 phase to the low-temperature R3m phase. Magneto-Raman measurements carried out at 140 and 2 K between -2 to 2 T show that the Raman modes are not magnetically coupled. Overall, our study presented here significantly advances the fundamental understanding of layered Nb3Cl8 material which can be further exploited for future applications.
description: 18 pages, 8 figures, 1 table
Se connecter: Guide pratique
Creators: name: Aldis, Helen
name: Allamand, Ana
name: Osborn, Simone
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Ces guides mettent en évidence ce que nous avons appris des actions et des études de cas dans LIAISON. L’objectif est d’aider tous ceux qui utilisent ces méthodes à améliorer la manière dont ils co-innovent dans le domaine de l’agriculture, de la sylviculture et du développement rural. LIAISON (Better Rural Innovation: Linking Actors, Instruments and Policies through Networks) est un projet multi-acteurs qui a été financé dans le cadre du PEI Agri, une initiative lancée par la Commission européenne en 2012 dont l’objectif est de favoriser une agriculture et une sylviculture compétitives et durables qui « réalisent plus et mieux avec moins ». L’innovation interactive rassemble une diversité d’acteurs publics et privés de l’innovation (agricul-teurs, conseillers, chercheurs, entreprises, ONG, etc.) possédant des connaissances et des expériences com-plémentaires dans l’évaluation, la co-création et la diffusion de solutions pratiques aux besoins réels des agriculteurs et des forestiers. Ces besoins découlent des problématiques quotidiennes auxquelles sont confron-tés les agriculteurs, les forestiers et les entreprises rurales. Les innovations générées par une approche interactive peuvent fournir des solutions bien adap-tées au terrain et plus faciles à mettre en oeuvre.
Attracted to de Sitter II: cosmology of the shift-symmetric Horndeski models
Creators: name: Martin-Moruno, Prado
name: Nunes, Nelson J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Horndeski models with a de Sitter critical point for any kind of material content may provide a mechanism to alleviate the cosmological constant problem. Moreover, they could allow us to understand the current accelerated expansion of the universe as the result of the dynamical approach to the critical point when it is an attractor. We show that this critical point is indeed an attractor for the shift- symmetric subfamily of models with these characteristics. We study the cosmological scenario that results when considering radiation and matter content, and conclude that their background dynamics is compatible with the latest observational data.
description: V1: 20 pages, 11 figures. V2: 1 reference added. V3: 21 pages. Clarifications in the discussion; no physics changes. This version accepted for publication in JCAP
Heresy, Conversion and Power: Ex-Cathar Inquisitors and their Impact on the Early Inquisition (c. 1229–1263)
Creators: name: RUBENSTEIN, ALEXANDRA CLAIRE
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis focuses on three ex-Cathar Dominican inquisitors – Robert ‘le Bougre’, Peter of Verona, and Ranerio Sacchoni – all of whom were active between 1229 and 1263. It examines their contribution to, and influence on what would become the medieval inquisition, which was originally formed to destroy all heresies, including Catharism.
Graffenrieda rupestris Ducke 1935
Creators: name: Murillo-Serna, Jhon S.
name: Michelangeli, Fabián A.
name: Alzate-Guarín, Fernando
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Myrtales
Melastomataceae
Graffenrieda
Graffenrieda rupestris

description: Graffenrieda rupestris Ducke (1935: 66)
 Type (lectotype, designated here):— BRAZIL. “Habitat in rupibus humidis humo obtectis secus ripas fluminis Curicuriary (Rio Negro superioris affluentis, in civitate Amazonas)”, 21 December 1931, A. Ducke s.n. H.J.B.R. 24107 (RB 00541385!, isolectotypes K000329499!, P01818657!, RB00556690!, US 00120420!).
 Notes: In its original publication, Ducke (1935), referenced his own collection, without number and with the consecutive number 24.107 of the Herbarium of the Botanical Garden of Rio de Janeiro (RB). However, in this herbarium there are two sheets with the same registration number (barcodes RB00541385] and [RB00556690. The specimen RB00541385 is more complete with buds, flowers and fruits, and has illustrations and handwritten notes presumably made by the author. For this reason, in addition to be the herbarium indicated in the protologue, this collection is selected as the lectotype, following the art. 8.1 of the ICN (Turland et al. 2018). Additionally, there are duplicates at K, P and US.
description: Published as part of Murillo-Serna, Jhon S., Michelangeli, Fabián A. & Alzate-Guarín, Fernando, 2019, Typification of some names of Graffenrieda (Melastomataceae: Merianieae), pp. 131-137 in Phytotaxa 391 (2) on page 135, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.391.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/13724186
Cryopreservation protocol for human biliary tree stem/progenitors, hepatic and pancreatic precursors
Creators: name: Alvaro, Domenico
name: Berloco, Pasquale Bartolomeo
name: Aliberti, Camilla
name: Costantini, Daniele
name: Bosco, Daniela
name: Reid, Lola
name: Cardinale, Vincenzo
name: Panici, Pierluigi Benedetti
name: Carpino, Guido
name: Cantafora, Alfredo
name: Di Matteo, Sabina
name: Nevi, Lorenzo
name: Brunelli, Roberto
name: Gaudio, Eugenio
name: Bastianelli, Carlo
name: Melandro, Fabio
name: Monti, Marco
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Human biliary tree stem/progenitor cells (hBTSCs) are being used for cell therapies of patients with liver cirrhosis. A cryopreservation method was established to optimize sourcing of hBTSCs for these clinical programs and that comprises serum-free Kubota's Medium (KM) supplemented with 10% dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), 15% human serum albumin (HSA) and 0.1% hyaluronans. Cryopreserved versus freshly isolated hBTSCs were similar in vitro with respect to self-replication, stemness traits, and multipotency. They were able to differentiate to functional hepatocytes,cholangiocytes or pancreatic islets, yielding similar levels of secretion of albumin or of glucose-inducible levels of insulin. Cryopreserved versus freshly isolated hBTSCs were equally able to engraft into immunocompromised mice yielding cells with human-specific gene expression and human albumin levels in murine serum that were higher for cryopreserved than for freshly isolated hBTSCs. The successful cryopreservation of hBTSCs facilitates establishment of hBTSCs cell banking offering logistical advantages for clinical programs for treatment of liver diseases.
A meta-analysis of the relationship between body mass index and risk of rheumatoid arthritis
Creators: name: Zhou, Ying
name: Sun, Mingfang
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA)
subject: Body mass index (BMI)
subject: Meta-analysis
subject: Risk factor
subject: 610

description: The present meta-analysis aimed to evaluate the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA). A systematic search of the Cochrane, Pubmed, and Embase databases was conducted to identify relevant studies published before September 2017 using terms related to BMI and RA. Fixed or random-effect models were used to estimate the pooled relative risk (RR) with 95 % confidence interval (CI). Subgroup analyses by sex were performed to investigate the association between BMI and RA in male and female subgroups. A total of 14 eligible studies containing 353,948 patients were included in the analysis. The pooled results suggested that the odds ratios (ORs) of RA were 1.08 (95 % CI: 1.00~1.15) for overweight, and 1.32 (95 % CI: 1.11~1.54) for obesity, respectively, suggesting that a higher BMI increases the risk of RA compared to normal weight. Further subgroup analyses showed a positive association between BMI and RA risk but only in females, with a RR of 1.11 (95 % CI: 1.00~1.22) for overweight and 1.40 (95 % CI: 1.24~1.57) for obesity. In conclusion, an increased BMI may lead to a higher risk for RA development. Furthermore, the positive association between BMI and RA risk may be stronger in female populations than in males. However, additional analyses are needed.
description: EXCLI Journal;Vol. 17 2018
Primordial perturbations from dilaton-induced gauge fields
Creators: name: Choi, Kiwoon
name: Choi, Ki-Young
name: Kim, Hyungjin
name: Shin, Chang Sub
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the primordial scalar and tensor perturbations in inflation scenario involving a spectator dilaton field. In our setup, the rolling spectator dilaton causes a tachyonic instability of gauge fields, leading to a copious production of gauge fields in the superhorizon regime, which generates additional scalar and tensor perturbations through gravitational interactions. Our prime concern is the possibility to enhance the tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$ relative to the standard result, while satisfying the observational constraints. To this end, we allow the dilaton field to be stabilized before the end of inflation, but after the CMB scales exit the horizon. We show that for the inflaton slow roll parameter $ε\gtrsim 10^{-3}$, the tensor-to-scalar ratio in our setup can be enhanced only by a factor of ${\cal O}(1)$ compared to the standard result. On the other hand, for smaller $ε$ corresponding to a lower inflation energy scale, a much bigger enhancement can be achieved, so that our setup can give rise to an observably large $r\gtrsim 10^{-2}$ even when $ε\ll 10^{-3}$. The tensor perturbation sourced by the spectator dilaton can have a strong scale dependence, and is generically red-tilted. We also discuss a specific model to realize our scenario, and identify the parameter region giving an observably large $r$ for relatively low inflation energy scales.
description: 39 pages, 8 figures; minor revision, version published in JCAP
Graffenrieda cinna , Macbride 1941
Creators: name: Murillo-Serna, Jhon S.
name: Michelangeli, Fabián A.
name: Alzate-Guarín, Fernando
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Myrtales
Melastomataceae
Graffenrieda
Graffenrieda cinna

description: Graffenrieda cinna Macbride (1941: 321)
 Type (lectotype, designated here):— PERU. “ San Martín: Zepelacio, near Moyobamba” October–November 1933, G. Klug 3313 (F736357!, isolectotypes GH 00072289 [digital image!], MO 1081982!, NY 00228584!, S05-3275 [digital image!], US 00120400!, WIS 0255924 [digital image!]).
 Notes: in the original description of G. cinna, Macbride (1941) assigned the collection Klug 3313 as the type, but there are duplicates of this collection at F, GH, MO, NY, S, US and WIS. Considering that in the protologue there was no reference to one of these duplicates from which the holotype could be inferred, according to Art. 9.1 Note 1, the F specimen is here designated as the lectotype. This specimen was selected following recommendation 9A of the ICN (Turland et al. 2018), since F is the depository of the Macbride type collections (Stafleu & Cowan 1981) and it corresponds to the description. It should be noted that all isolectotypes (but not the specimen here designated as lectotype) bear the annotations “ Graffenrieda pubescens Gleason ” and “type coll.”. This name was never published and presumably Macbride was not aware of Gleason’s name as the F specimen is the only one that does not have that name in the label.
description: Published as part of Murillo-Serna, Jhon S., Michelangeli, Fabián A. & Alzate-Guarín, Fernando, 2019, Typification of some names of Graffenrieda (Melastomataceae: Merianieae), pp. 131-137 in Phytotaxa 391 (2) on page 133, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.391.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/13724186
The Career of Thomas Randolph, earl of Moray: Power, Patronage and Politics in Brucean Scotland, 1306-1332
Creators: name: GOULD, ETHAN SAMUEL
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Historical studies not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis presents a thematic study of dynamic collaboration between the king and his nobility in late medieval Scotland, through the case study of Thomas Randolph, earl of Moray. It concludes that patronage, service, and successfully managing a network of affiliates and allies were critical to Randolph's rise in status and efficacy as Robert I's chief representative, culminating in his appointment as Guardian of Scotland in the minority of Robert's son, David II. Randolph's case sheds new light on Scottish medieval political life
Discovery of Millimeter-Wave Excess Emission in Radio-Quiet Active Galactic Nuclei
Creators: name: Behar, Ehud
name: Baldi, Ranieri D.
name: Laor, Ari
name: Horesh, Assaf
name: Stevens, Jamie
name: Tzioumis, Tasso
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The physical origin of radio emission in Radio Quiet Active Galactic Nuclei (RQ AGN) remains unclear, whether it is a downscaled version of the relativistic jets typical of Radio Loud (RL) AGN, or whether it originates from the accretion disk. The correlation between 5 GHz and X-ray luminosities of RQ AGN, which follows $L_R = 10^{-5}L_X$ observed also in stellar coronae, suggests an association of both X-ray and radio sources with the accretion disk corona. Observing RQ AGN at higher (mm-wave) frequencies, where synchrotron self absorption is diminished, and smaller regions can be probed, is key to exploring this association. Eight RQ AGN, selected based on their high X-ray brightness and variability, were observed at 95 GHz with the CARMA and ATCA telescopes. All targets were detected at the $1-10$ mJy level. Emission excess at 95~GHz of up to $\times 7$ is found with respect to archival low-frequency steep spectra, suggesting a compact, optically-thick core superimposed on the more extended structures that dominate at low frequencies. Though unresolved, the 95 GHz fluxes imply optically thick source sizes of $10^{-4}-10^{-3}$ pc, or $\sim 10 - 1000$ gravitational radii. The present sources lie tightly along an $L_R$ (95 GHz) = $10^{-4}L_X$ (2$-$10 keV) correlation, analogous to that of stellar coronae and RQ AGN at 5 GHz, while RL AGN are shown to have higher $L_R / L_X$ ratios. The present observations argue that simultaneous mm-wave and X-ray monitoring of RQ AGN features a promising method for understanding accretion disk coronal emission.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures; submitted to MNRAS (2 referee revision); comments are welcome
Dean Flow Dynamics in Low-Aspect Ratio Spiral Microchannels
Creators: name: Ligrani, Phillip
name: Nivedita, Nivedita
name: Papautsky, Ian
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: A wide range of microfluidic cell-sorting devices has emerged in recent years, based on both passive and active methods of separation. Curvilinear channel geometries are often used in these systems due to presence of secondary flows, which can provide high throughput and sorting efficiency. Most of these devices are designed on the assumption of two counter rotating Dean vortices present in the curved rectangular channels and existing in the state of steady rotation and amplitude. In this work, we investigate these secondary flows in low aspect ratio spiral rectangular microchannels and define their development with respect to the channel aspect ratio and Dean number. This work is the first to experimentally and numerically investigate Dean flows in microchannels for Re > 100, and show presence of secondary Dean vortices beyond a critical Dean number. We further demonstrate the impact of these multiple vortices on particle and cell focusing. Ultimately, this work offers new insights into secondary flow instabilities for low-aspect ratio, spiral microchannels, with improved flow models for design of more precise and efficient microfluidic devices for applications such as cell sorting and micromixing.
Differential pattern of brain functional connectome in obsessive-compulsive disorder versus healthy controls
Creators: name: Yazdi-Ravandi, Saeid
name: Akhavanpour, Hassan
name: Shamsaei, Farshid
name: Matinnia, Nasrin
name: Ahmadpanah, Mohammad
name: Ghaleiha, Ali
name: Khosrowabadi, Reza
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Electroencephalography (EEG)
subject: Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
subject: Functional connectivity (FC)
subject: Weighted phase lag index (WPLI)
subject: 610

description: Researchers believe that recognition of functional impairment in some of brain networks such as frontal-parietal, default mode network (DMN), anterior medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) and striatal structures could be a beneficial biomarker for diagnosis of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Although it is well recognized brain functional connectome in OCD patients shows changes, debate still remains on characteristics of the changes. In this regard, little has been done so far to statistically assess the altered pattern using whole brain electroencephalography. In this study, resting state EEG data of 39 outpatients with OCD and 19 healthy controls (HC) were recorded. After, brain functional network was estimated from the cleaned EEG data using the weighted phase lag index algorithm. Output matrices of OCD group and HCs were then statistically compared to represent meaningful differences. Significant differences in functional connectivity pattern were demonstrated in several regions. As expected the most significant changes were observed in frontal cortex, more significant in frontal-temporal connections (between F3 and F7, and T5 regions). These results in OCD patients are consistent with previous studies and confirm the role of frontal and temporal brain regions in OCD.
description: EXCLI Journal;Vol. 17 2018
Graffenrieda obliqua Triana 1871
Creators: name: Murillo-Serna, Jhon S.
name: Michelangeli, Fabián A.
name: Alzate-Guarín, Fernando
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Myrtales
Melastomataceae
Graffenrieda
Graffenrieda obliqua

description: Graffenrieda obliqua Triana (1871: 71)
 Type (lectotype, inadvertently designated by Wurdack & Renner 1993):— GUYANA. “In Guiana Britannica ad Roraima”, 1843, Schomburgk 1014 (K000329497!, isolectotypes B destroyed, negative at F (F0 BN 016889) [digital image!], BR562876[fragments] [digital image!]).
 Notes: The original material of G. obliqua is referenced by Triana (1871) as Schomburgk 1014 and he did not designate a specific herbarium. Wurdack and Renner (1993) mention “ holotype K”. Because this publication predates January 1 st 2001, it should be considered an inadvertent lectotypification (see Prado et al. 2015, 2017; Turland et al. 2018 Art. 7.11).
description: Published as part of Murillo-Serna, Jhon S., Michelangeli, Fabián A. & Alzate-Guarín, Fernando, 2019, Typification of some names of Graffenrieda (Melastomataceae: Merianieae), pp. 131-137 in Phytotaxa 391 (2) on page 134, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.391.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/13724186
Dynamic reconfiguration of cortical functional connectivity across brain states
Creators: name: Galindo-Leon, Edgar
name: Engel, Andreas K.
name: Stitt, Iain
name: Fiedler, Eva
name: Nolte, Guido
name: Engler, Gerhard
name: Pieper, Florian
name: Stieglitz, Thomas
name: Hollensteiner, Karl J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Throughout each day, the brain displays transient changes in state, as evidenced by shifts in behavior and vigilance. While the electrophysiological correlates of brain states have been studied for some time, it remains unclear how large-scale cortico-cortical functional connectivity systematically reconfigures across states. Here, we investigate state-dependent shifts in cortical functional connectivity by recording local field potentials (LFPs) during spontaneous behavioral transitions in the ferret using chronically implanted micro-electrocorticographic (?ECoG) arrays positioned over occipital, parietal, and temporal cortical regions. To objectively classify brain state, we describe a data-driven approach that projects time-varying LFP spectral properties into brain state space. Distinct brain states displayed markedly different patterns of cross-frequency phase-amplitude coupling and inter-electrode phase synchronization across several LFP frequency bands. The largest across-state differences in functional connectivity were observed between periods of presumed slow-wave and rapid-eye-movement-sleep/active-state, which were characterized by the contrasting phenomena of cortical network fragmentation and global synchronization, respectively. Collectively, our data provide strong evidence that large-scale functional interactions in the brain dynamically reconfigure across behavioral states.
title: Cyclosporin A attenuating morphine tolerance through inhibiting NO/ERK signaling pathway in human glioblastoma cell line
title: the involvement of calcineurin
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Rashki, Asma
name: Mumtaz, Faiza
name: Jazayeri, Farahnaz
name: Shadboorestan, Amir
name: Esmaeili, Jamileh
name: Ejtemaei Mehr, Shahram
name: Ghahremani, Mohammad Hossein
name: Dehpour, Ahmad Reza
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Cyclosporin A
subject: Morphine
subject: Tolerance
subject: Nitric oxide
subject: T98G cells
subject: Extracellular signal-regulated kinases
subject: 610

description: Cyclosporin A (CsA) is known to have an immunosuppressive action. However, it is also attracting attention due to its effects on the nervous system, such as inhibiting the development and expression of morphine-induced tolerance and dependence through unknown mechanisms. It has been shown that CsA modulates the nitric oxide (NO) synthesis and extracellular signal-regulated kinases (ERK) activation, which are potentially involved in signaling pathways in morphine-induced tolerance in cellular models. Therefore, the current study was designed to evaluate the modulatory role of CsA on the MOR tolerance, by targeting the downstream signaling pathway of NO and ERK using an in vitro model. For this purpose, T98G cells were pretreated with CsA, calcineurin autoinhibitory peptide (CAIP), and NG-nitro-l-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME) 30 min before 18 h exposure to MOR. Then, we analyzed the intracellular cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) levels and also the expression of phosphorylated ERK and nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) proteins. Our results showed that CsA (1 nM, 10 nM, and 100 nM) and CAIP (50 μM) have significantly reduced cAMP and nitrite levels as compared to MOR-treated (2.5 μM) T98G cells. This clearly revealed the attenuation of MOR tolerance by CsA. The expression of nNOS and p-ERK proteins were down-regulated when the T98G cells were pretreated with CsA (1 nM, 10 nM, and 100 nM), CAIP (50 μM), and L-NAME (0.1 mM) as compared to MOR. In conclusion, the CsA pretreatment had a modulatory role in MOR-induced tolerance, which was possibly mediated through NO/ERK signaling pathway.
description: EXCLI Journal;Vol. 17 2018
Volumes of strata of Abelian differentials and Siegel-Veech constants in large genera
Creators: name: Eskin, Alex
name: Zorich, Anton
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We state conjectures on the asymptotic behavior of the volumes of moduli spaces of Abelian differentials and their Siegel-Veech constants as genus tends to infinity. We provide certain numerical evidence, describe recent advances and the state of the art towards proving these conjectures.
description: Some background material is added on request of the referee. To appear in Arnold Math. Journal
title: Präoperatives C-reaktives Protein (CRP) als prognostischer Faktor bei Patienten nach radikaler Zystektomie
Creators: name: Kalogirou, Charis
name: Sokolakis, Ioannis
name: Schwinger, Marcel
name: Kübler, Hubert
name: Gakis, Georgios
name: Hatzichristodoulou, Georgios
name: Riedmiller, Hubertus
name: Kocot, Arkadius
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einführung & Ziele: Ziel dieser Studie war es, den präoperativen CRP-Spiegel als prognostischen Marker für das Überleben einer Kohorte von Patienten mit Urothelkarzinom (UC) und radikaler Zystektomie (RC) zu validieren. Materialien & Methoden: Wir identifizierten[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 45. Gemeinsame Tagung der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Urologie und Andrologie und der Bayerischen Urologenvereinigung
A hexachordal combinatoriality compositional approach for jazz big band
Creators: name: OGRIN, DARIO FRANCIS
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Music composition and improvisation

description: This research explores how a dodecaphonic compositional system called hexachordal combinatoriality (HC) can be used to compose music for a jazz big band. To undertake this research, I used HC to create an original multi-movement composition, Cosmica Sidera, for a jazz big band. The analysis of this composition found that HC readily incorporated common jazz features like walking bass lines and improvisations and provide shorthand ways of communicating what pitches were required to execute these; analysis also found that HC was flexible in providing both melodic and harmonic material usable in jazz big band composition.
Graffenrieda sessilifolia Triana 1871
Creators: name: Murillo-Serna, Jhon S.
name: Michelangeli, Fabián A.
name: Alzate-Guarín, Fernando
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Myrtales
Melastomataceae
Graffenrieda
Graffenrieda sessilifolia

description: Graffenrieda sessilifolia Triana (1871: 70)
 Type (lectotype, inadvertently designated by Wurdack & Renner 1993):— GUYANA. “In Guiana Britannica ad flum. Roraima” 1843, Schomburgk 1017 (K000329492!, isolectotype B destroyed, negative at F (F0 BN 016893) [digital image!]).
 Notes: When Triana (1871) published G. sessilifolia, he only cited the collection Schomburgk 1014, but not a herbarium. Two specimens of this collection are known: one at K and one at B. The B specimen was presumably destroyed during World War II, thus the only extant specimen at K. Wurdack & Renner (1993) mentioned the K specimen as the holotype, which constitutes an inadvertent lectotypification according to Art.7.11. Note 2 (Turland et al., 2018).
description: Published as part of Murillo-Serna, Jhon S., Michelangeli, Fabián A. & Alzate-Guarín, Fernando, 2019, Typification of some names of Graffenrieda (Melastomataceae: Merianieae), pp. 131-137 in Phytotaxa 391 (2) on page 135, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.391.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/13724186
title: Roboter-assistierte radikale Zystektomie mit intrakorporaler Harnableitung bei Patienten mit muskelinvasivem Urothelkarzinom der Harnblase. Operationstechnik
Creators: name: Alexandrov, Assen
name: Kassabov, Bojidar
name: Haydter, Martin
name: Hasenzagel, Christian
name: Kheyfets, Oleg
name: Hofbauer, Johann
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Ziel: In diesem Film beschreiben wir unsere Technik der roboter-assistierten radikalen Zystektomie mit intrakorporaler Harnableitung mit Verwendung des „EndoWrist Staplers“ für das daVinci Xi System bei Patienten mit muskelinvasivem Urothelkarzinom der Harnblase. Methoden: Alle[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 45. Gemeinsame Tagung der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Urologie und Andrologie und der Bayerischen Urologenvereinigung