cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Pottery making at Silverdale and Arnside.
Creators: name: White, Andrew
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2002

description: Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, 100, 285-291
description: Considers the evidence for pottery making in the area and suggests a sixteenth- or seventeenth-century date for the industry. Presents the possibility that members of the Hadwen family were manufacturing the pottery.
Detailed description of the flow features characteristics for the individual birds from Flow pattern similarities in the near wake of three bird species suggest a common role for unsteady aerodynamic effects in lift generation
Creators: name: Roi Gurka
name: Krishnamoorthy, Krishnan
name: Hadar Ben-Gida
name: Kirchhefer, Adam J.
name: Kopp, Gregory A.
name: Guglielmo, Christopher G.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biophysics

description: Analysis of the aerodynamics of flapping wings has yielded a general understanding of how birds generate lift and thrust during flight. However, the role of unsteady aerodynamics in avian flight due to the flapping motion still holds open questions in respect to performance and efficiency. We studied the flight of three distinctive bird species: western sandpiper (Calidris mauri), European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) and American robin (Turdus migratorius) using long-duration, time-resolved Particle Image Velocimetry, to better characterize and advance our understanding of how birds use unsteady flow features to enhance their aerodynamic performances during flapping flight. We show that during transitions between downstroke and upstroke phases of the wing cycle, the near wake-flow structures vary and generate unique sets of vortices. These structures appear as quadruple layers of concentrated vorticity aligned at an angle with respect to the horizon (named as ‘double branch’). They occur where the circulation gradient changes sign, which implies that the forces exerted by the flapping wings of birds are modified during the transition phases. The flow patterns are similar in (non-dimensional) size and magnitude for the different birds suggesting that there are common mechanisms operating during flapping flight across species. These flow patterns occur at the same phase where drag reduction of about 5% per cycle and lift enhancement were observed in our prior studies. We propose that these flow structures should be considered in wake flow models that seek to account for the contribution of unsteady flow to lift and drag.
Strain Solitons in an Epitaxially Strained van der Waals-like Material
Creators: name: Dong, Jason T.
name: Inbar, Hadass S.
name: Dempsey, Connor P.
name: Engel, Aaron N.
name: Palmstrøm, Christopher J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Strain solitons are quasi-dislocations that form in van der Waals materials to relieve the energy associated with lattice or rotational mismatch in the crystal. Novel and unusual electronic properties of strain solitons have been both predicted and observed. To date, strain solitons have only been observed in exfoliated crystals or mechanically strained bulk crystals. The lack of a scalable approach towards the generation of strain solitons poses a significant challenge in the study of and use of the properties of strain solitons. Here we report the formation of strain solitons with epitaxial growth of bismuth on an InSb (111)B substrate by molecular beam epitaxy. The morphology of the strain solitons for films of varying thickness is characterized with scanning tunneling microscopy and the local strain state is determined from the analysis of atomic resolution images. Bending in the solitons is attributed due to interactions with the interface, and large angle bending is associated with edge dislocations. Our results enable the scalable generation of strain solitons.
Real-world experience of CPX-351 as first-line treatment for patients with acute myeloid leukemia
Creators: name: Rautenberg, Christina
name: Stölzel, Friedrich
name: Röllig, Christoph
name: Stelljes, Matthias
name: Gaidzik, Verena
name: Lauseker, Michael
name: Kriege, Oliver
name: Verbeek, Mareike
name: Unglaub, Julia Marie
name: Thol, Felicitas
name: Krause, Stefan W.
name: Hänel, Mathias
name: Neuerburg, Charlotte
name: Vucinic, Vladan
name: Jehn, Christian-Friedrich
name: Severmann, Julia
name: Wass, Maxi
name: Fransecky, Lars
name: Chemnitz, Jens
name: Holtick, Udo
name: Schäfer-Eckart, Kerstin
name: Schröder, Josephine
name: Kraus, Sabrina
name: Krüger, William
name: Kaiser, Ulrich
name: Scholl, Sebastian
name: Koch, Kathrin
name: Henning, Lea
name: Kobbe, Guido
name: Haas, Rainer
name: Alakel, Nael
name: Röhnert, Maximilian-Alexander
name: Sockel, Katja
name: Hanoun, Maher
name: Platzbecker, Uwe
name: Holderried, Tobias A. W.
name: Morgner, Anke
name: Heuser, Michael
name: Sauer, Tim
name: Götze, Katharina S.
name: Wagner-Drouet, Eva
name: Döhner, Konstanze
name: Döhner, Hartmut
name: Schliemann, Christoph
name: Schetelig, Johannes
name: Bornhäuser, Martin
name: Germing, Ulrich
name: Schroeder, Thomas
name: Middeke, Jan Moritz
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Haematological cancer
subject: Leukaemia
subject: VERSUS-HOST-DISEASE
subject: AML
subject: AZACITIDINE
subject: VENETOCLAX
subject: DIAGNOSIS
subject: SECONDARY
subject: ADULTS
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health

description: Abstract To investigate the efficacy and toxicities of CPX-351 outside a clinical trial, we analyzed 188 patients (median age 65 years, range 26–80) treated for therapy-related acute myeloid leukemia (t-AML, 29%) or AML with myelodysplasia-related changes (AML-MRC, 70%). Eighty-six percent received one, 14% two induction cycles, and 10% received consolidation (representing 22% of patients with CR/CRi) with CPX-351. Following induction, CR/CRi rate was 47% including 64% of patients with available information achieving measurable residual disease (MRD) negativity (<10−3) as measured by flow cytometry. After a median follow-up of 9.3 months, median overall survival (OS) was 21 months and 1-year OS rate 64%. In multivariate analysis, complex karyotype predicted lower response (p = 0.0001), while pretreatment with hypomethylating agents (p = 0.02) and adverse European LeukemiaNet 2017 genetic risk (p < 0.0001) were associated with lower OS. Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (allo-HCT) was performed in 116 patients (62%) resulting in promising outcome (median survival not reached, 1-year OS 73%), especially in MRD-negative patients (p = 0.048). With 69% of patients developing grade III/IV non-hematologic toxicity following induction and a day 30-mortality of 8% the safety profile was consistent with previous findings. These real-world data confirm CPX-351 as efficient treatment for these high-risk AML patients facilitating allo-HCT in many patients with promising outcome after transplantation.
Fourth-order operators with unbounded coefficients
Creators: name: Gregorio, Federica
name: Spina, Chiara
name: Tacelli, Cristian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove that operators of the form $A=-a(x)^2Δ^{2}$, with $|D a(x)|\leq c a(x)^\frac{1}{2}$, generate analytic semigroups in $L^p(\mathbb{R}^N)$ for $1
Copula-based modeling and simulation of 3D systems of curved fibers by isolating intrinsic fiber properties and external effects
Creators: name: Weber, Matthias
name: Griesser, Andreas
name: Mosbach, Dennis
name: Glatt, Erik
name: Wiegmann, Andreas
name: Schmidt, Volker
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Applied mathematics
subject: Coarse-grained models
subject: Porous materials
subject: DDC 500 / Natural sciences & mathematics

description: In this paper we lay the foundation for data-driven 3D analysis of virtual fiber systems with respect to their microstructure and functionality. In particular, we develop a stochastic 3D model for systems of curved fibers similar to nonwovens, which is fitted to tomographic image data. By systematic variations of model parameters, efficient computer-based scenario analyses can be performed to get a deeper insight how effective properties of this type of functional materials depend on their 3D microstructure. In a first step, we consider single fibers as polygonal tracks which can be modeled by a third-order Markov chain. For constructing the transition function of the Markov chain, we formalize the intuitive notions of intrinsic fiber properties and external effects and build a copula-based transition function such that both aspects can be varied independently. Using this single-fiber model, in a second step we derive a model for the entire fiber system observed in a bounded sampling window and fit it to two different 3D datasets of nonwovens measured by CT imaging. Considering various geometric descriptors of the 3D microstructure related to effective properties of the pore space, we evaluate the goodness of model fit by comparing geometric descriptors of the 3D morphology of model realizations with those of tomographic image data.
Table S1 from Rules to fly by: pigeons navigating horizontal obstacles limit steering by selecting gaps most aligned to their flight direction
Creators: name: Ros, Ivo G.
name: Partha S. Bhagavatula
name: Huai-Ti Lin
name: Biewener, Andrew A.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 110601 Biomechanics
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Variability of local head positioning.
The miR-125 family is an important regulator of the expression and maintenance of maternal effect genes during preimplantational embryo development - Lee et al
Creators: name: Kyeoung-Hwa Kim
name: You-Mi Seo
name: Kim, Eun-Young
name: Lee, Su-Yeon
name: Jini Kwon
name: Jung-Jae Ko
name: Lee, Kyung-Ah
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: supporting figures and tables
Interactions of local habitat type, landscape composition and flower availability moderate wild bee communities
Creators: name: Neumüller, Ulrich
name: Burger, Hannah
name: Krausch, Sabina
name: Blüthgen, Nico
name: Ayasse, Manfred
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Wild bee
subject: Landscape composition
subject: Grassland
subject: Flower planting
subject: DDC 550 / Earth sciences
subject: DDC 570 / Life sciences
subject: DDC 910 / Geography & travel
subject: Pollination
subject: Bees
subject: Wildbienen
subject: Bestäubung

description: Context Landscape and local habitat traits moderate wild bee communities. However, whether landscape effects differ between local habitat types is largely unknown. Objectives We explored the way that wild bee communities in three distinct habitats are shaped by landscape composition and the availability of flowering plants by evaluating divergences in response patterns between habitats. Methods In a large-scale monitoring project across 20 research areas, wild bee data were collected on three habitats: near-natural grassland, established flower plantings and residual habitats (e.g. field margins). Additionally, landscape composition was mapped around the research areas. Results Our monitoring produced a dataset of 27,650 bees belonging to 324 species. Bee communities on all three habitats reacted similarly to local flower availability. Intensively managed grassland in the surrounding landscape had an overall negative effect on the studied habitats. Other landscape variables produced diverging response patterns that were particularly pronounced during early and late season. Bee communities in near-natural grassland showed a strong positive response to ruderal areas. Flower plantings and residual habitats such as field margins showed a pronounced positive response to extensively managed grassland and woodland edges. Response patterns regarding bee abundance were consistent with those found for species richness. Conclusion We advise the consideration of local habitat type and seasonality when assessing the effect of landscape context on bee communities. A reduction in the intensity of grassland management enhances bee diversity in a broad range of habitats. Moreover, wild bee communities are promoted by habitat types such as ruderal areas or woodland edges.
The effect of a smaller spacer in the PASCAL Ace on residual mitral valve orifice area
Creators: name: Paukovitsch, Michael
name: Felbel, Dominik
name: Tadic, Marijana
name: Keßler, Mirjam
name: Scheffler, Jinny
name: Gröger, Matthias
name: Markovic, Sinisa
name: Rottbauer, Wolfgang
name: Schneider, Leonhard Moritz
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Mitral valve orifice area
subject: Mitral valve edge-to-edge repair
subject: Latrogenic stenosis
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health

description: Background Mitral transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (M-TEER) is an established treatment for functional mitral regurgitation (FMR) associated with a risk of creating iatrogenic stenosis. Objectives To investigate the impact of the P10 and its larger spacer compared to the narrower Ace and its smaller spacer on reduction of mitral valve orifice area (MVOA) during M-TEER. Methods Consecutive patients undergoing M-TEER for treatment of severe FMR were screened retrospectively. Patients with a single PASCAL device implantation within the central segments of the MV leaflets, non-complex anatomy, and baseline MVOA ≥ 3.5cm2 were selected. Intraprocedural transesophageal echocardiography was used to compare MVOA reduction with 3D multiplanar reconstruction and direct planimetry. Device selection did not follow a prespecified MVOA threshold. ResultsSeventy-two patients (81.0 years, IQR {74.3–85.0}) were included. In 32 patients, the P10 was implanted (44.4%). MR severity (p = 0.66), MR reduction (p = 0.73), and body surface area (p = 0.56) were comparable. Baseline MVOA tended to be smaller in P10 patients with the larger spacer (5.0 ± 1.1 vs. 5.4 ± 1.3cm2, p = 0.18), however, residual MVOA was larger in these patients (2.7 ± 0.7 vs. 2.3 ± 0.6cm2, p = 0.03). Accordingly, relative MVOA reduction was significantly less in P10 patients (− 45.9 ± 7.6 vs. − 56.3 ± 7.0%, p < 0.01). Indirect annuloplasty was more pronounced in Ace patients whereas mean transmitral gradients were similar. Conclusion In FMR patients with non-complex anatomy, the larger spacer of the P10 maintains greater MVOA with similar MR reduction. Hence, the use of the PASCAL Ace device in patients with small MVOAs might correlate with a risk of both clinically relevant orifice reduction and even iatrogenic stenosis.
Safety of conscious sedation in electroanatomical mapping procedures and cryoballoon pulmonary vein isolation
Creators: name: Weinmann, Karolina
name: Heudorfer, Regina
name: Lenz, Alexia
name: Aktolga, Deniz
name: Rattka, Manuel
name: Bothner, Carlo
name: Pott, Alexander
name: Öchsner, Wolfgang
name: Rottbauer, Wolfgang
name: Dahme, Tillman
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Electroanatomical mapping
subject: Cryoballoon pulmonary vein isolation
subject: Sedation safety
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Electrophysiology
subject: Conscious Sedation
subject: Analgosedierung
subject: Elektrophysiologie

description: Abstract Immobilization of patients during electrophysiological procedures, to avoid complications by patients’ unexpected bodily motion, is achieved by moderate to deep conscious sedation using benzodiazepines and propofol for sedation and opioids for analgesia. Our aim was to compare respiratory and hemodynamic safety endpoints of cryoballoon pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) and electroanatomical mapping (EAM) procedures. Included patients underwent either cryoballoon PVI or EAM procedures. Sedation monitoring included non-invasive blood pressure measurements, transcutaneous oxygen saturation (tSpO2) and transcutaneous carbon-dioxide (tpCO2) measurements. We enrolled 125 consecutive patients, 67 patients underwent cryoballoon atrial fibrillation ablation and 58 patients had an EAM and radiofrequency ablation procedure. Mean procedure duration of EAM procedures was significantly longer (p < 0.001) and propofol doses as well as morphine equivalent doses of administered opioids were significantly higher in EAM patients compared to cryoballoon patients (p < 0.001). Cryoballoon patients display higher tpCO2 levels compared to EAM patients at 30 min (cryoballoon: 51.1 ± 7.0 mmHg vs. EAM: 48.6 ± 6.2 mmHg, p = 0.009) and at 60 min (cryoballoon: 51.4 ± 7.3 mmHg vs. EAM: 48.9 ± 6.6 mmHg, p = 0.07) procedure duration. Mean arterial pressure was significantly higher after 60 min (cryoballoon: 84.7 ± 16.7 mmHg vs. EAM: 76.7 ± 13.3 mmHg, p = 0.017) in cryoballoon PVI compared to EAM procedures. Regarding respiratory and hemodynamic safety endpoints, no significant difference was detected regarding hypercapnia, hypoxia and episodes of hypotension. Despite longer procedure duration and deeper sedation requirement, conscious sedation in EAM procedures appears to be as safe as conscious sedation in cryoballoon ablation procedures regarding hemodynamic and respiratory safety endpoints.
Neuronavigated repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation as novel mapping technique provides insights into language function in primary progressive aphasia
Creators: name: Mueller-Sarnowski, Felix
name: Sollmann, Nico
name: Schröder, Axel
name: Houri, Leen
name: Ille, Sebastian
name: Grimmer, Timo
name: Krieg, Sandro M.
name: Diehl-Schmid, Janine
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Navigated repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation
subject: Primary progressive aphasia
subject: Language mapping
subject: Cortical plasticity
subject: CORTICAL STIMULATION
subject: SPEECH
subject: TMS
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health

description: Abstract Navigated repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (nrTMS) is an innovative technique that provides insight into language function with high accuracy in time and space. So far, nrTMS has mainly been applied in presurgical language mapping of patients with intracranial neoplasms. For the present study, nrTMS was used for language mapping in primary progressive aphasia (PPA). Seven patients (median age: 70 years, 4 males) with the non-fluent variant of PPA (nfvPPA) were included in this pilot study. Trains of nrTMS (5 Hz, 100% resting motor threshold) caused virtual lesions at 46 standardized cortical stimulation targets per hemisphere. Patients’ errors in a naming task during stimulation were counted. The majority of errors induced occurred during frontal lobe stimulation (34.3%). Timing errors and non-responses were most frequent. More errors were induced in the right hemisphere (58%) than in the left hemisphere (42%). Mapping was tolerated by all patients, however, discomfort or pain was reported for stimulation of frontal areas. The elevated right-hemispheric error rate in our study could be due to a partial shift of language function to the right hemisphere in neurodegenerative aphasia during the course of disease and therefore points to the existence of neuronal plasticity in nfvPPA. While this is an interesting finding for neurodegenerative disorders per se, its promotion might also harbor future therapeutic targets.
Analysis Codes for Exploring the role of initial skills in response to emergent literacy intervention
Creators: name: Piasta, Shayne
name: Lewis, Kandia
name: Logan, Jessica
name: Zettler-Greeley, Cynthia
name: Hudson, Alida
name: Shea, Zhiling
name: Shen, Ye
Publisher: name: OSF
Year: 2024

description: Analysis Codes for Exploring the role of initial skills in response to emergent literacy intervention
Effect of apical root resection, orthodontic extrusion, and surgical crown lengthening on load capability
Creators: name: Naumann, M.
name: Adali, U.
name: Rosentritt, M.
name: Happe, A.
name: Frankenberger, R.
name: Sterzenbach, G.
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Dental caries
subject: Dental cements
subject: Dental restoration failure
subject: Dental restoration
subject: Permanent
subject: Tooth
subject: Nonvital
subject: Resin cements
subject: Nonvital tooth
subject: Nonvital teeth
subject: Endodontically treated teeth
subject: Endodontically treated tooth
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health

description: Objectives This study aims to investigate the load-to-fracture of procedures changing crown-to-root ratio (RCRR) aimed to restore severely damaged upper central incisors to avoid tooth extraction compared to implant placement. There is no evidence on load capability after apical root resection (AR), orthodontic extrusion (OE), and surgical crown lengthening (SCL) in respect to RCRR, respectively. Material and methods Human maxillary central incisors were endodontically treated, decoronated, and divided into 4 groups (n = 48). The following specimen preparation was performed: (I) adhesive core-and-post build-up (control), (II) as (I) and 2 mm apical root resection (AR), (III) before adhesive core-and-post build-up teeth were shortened 2 mm coronally (OE) (IV) as (I), but specimens were embedded 4 mm instead of 2 mm below the CEJ (SCL), group (V) implant-borne restoration with individual all-ceramic abutments (n = 12; ∅4.1/l = 12 mm) (IBR). All specimens received all-ceramic crowns, thermo-mechanical (TML), and subsequent linear loading (LL) until failure. RCRR were calculated and log-rank, Kruskal–Wallis, Mann–Whitney U, ANOVA, and chi-square tests applied (p = 0.05). Results Fracture loads after subsequent LL differed significantly (p = 0.001) between groups, while implants showed the highest values. Fmax median (min/max) were as follows: (I) 252 (204/542), (II) 293 (243/443), (III) 253 (183/371), (IV) 195 (140/274), and (V) 446 (370/539). Pair-wise comparison showed significant differences (p = 0.001) between group I/IV and group V, I, and IV (p = 0.045), II and IV (p = 0.001), and III compared to IV (p = 0.033), respectively. RCRR below 1 significantly increased load capability compared to RCRR = 1. Conclusions OE appears to preferably ensure biomechanical stability of teeth that are endodontically treated and receive core-and-post and crown placement compared to SCL. AR has no adverse biomechanical impact. RCRR < 1 is biomechanically beneficial. Clinical relevance For endodontically treated and restored teeth, orthodontic extrusion should be preferred compared to surgical crown lengthening prior single-crown restoration. As orthodontic extrusion, apical root resection has no adverse effect on load capability. Single-crown implant-borne restorations are most load capable.
A smart granular intruder
Creators: name: Martínez-Ortíz, Lázaro
name: Rivera-Rivera, Alex
name: Altshuler, Ernesto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has been recently reported that irregular objects sink irregularly when released in a granular medium: a subtle lack of symmetry in the density or shape of a macroscopic object may produce a large tilting and deviation from the vertical path when released from the free surface of a granular bed. This can be inconvenient -- even catastrophic -- in scenarios ranging from buildings to space rovers. Here, we take advantage of the high sensitivity of granular intruders to shape asymmetry: we introduce a granular intruder equipped with an inflatable bladder that protrudes from the intruder's surface as an autonomous response to an unwanted tilting. So, the intruder's symmetry is only slightly manipulated, resulting in the rectification of the undesired tilting. Our smart intruder is even able to rectify its settling path when perturbed by an external element, like a vertical wall. The general concept introduced here can be potentially expanded to real-life scenarios, such as ``smart foundations'' to mitigate the inclination of constructions on a partially fluidized soil.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
An Early Tudor Coiner's Mould and the Working of Borrowdale Graphite.
Creators: name: Boon, George C
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2008

description: Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, 76, 97-132
description: The mould found in Netherwasdale in 1865, which was used for counterfeiting Henry VII coins no later than 1500, is the earliest evidence for the exploitation of Borrowdale graphite. The coins to be copied were hammered into the graphite and the resulting impression was deepened by engraving; the resulting casts would have been difficult to pass off. The earlier phases of working of the two graphite mines on Seatoller Fell are described with the help of documents 1555-97. Mention is made of graphite from the medieval Passau (Bavaria) mines, used in ceramics etc. Marketing arrangements for the Seatoller mines are also described.
“Looking for a good laugh”: Using ontologies to access pragmatic phenomena through spoken corpora
Creators: name: Haugh, Michael
name: Musgrave, Simon
name: Schalley, Andrea
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Abstract of presentation for ALS2016
A Privacy-preserving key transmission protocol to distribute QRNG keys using zk-SNARKs
Creators: name: Soler, David
name: Dafonte, Carlos
name: Fernández-Veiga, Manuel
name: Vilas, Ana Fernández
name: Nóvoa, Francisco J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: High-entropy random numbers are an essential part of cryptography, and Quantum Random Number Generators (QRNG) are an emergent technology that can provide high-quality keys for cryptographic algorithms but unfortunately are currently difficult to access. Existing Entropy-as-a-Service solutions require users to trust the central authority distributing the key material, which is not desirable in a high-privacy environment. In this paper, we present a novel key transmission protocol that allows users to obtain cryptographic material generated by a QRNG in such a way that the server is unable to identify which user is receiving each key. This is achieved with the inclusion of Zero Knowledge Succinct Non-interactive Arguments of Knowledge (zk-SNARK), a cryptographic primitive that allow users to prove knowledge of some value without needing to reveal it. The security analysis of the protocol proves that it satisfies the properties of Anonymity, Unforgeability and Confidentiality, as defined in this document. We also provide an implementation of the protocol demonstrating its functionality and performance, using NFC as the transmission channel for the QRNG key.
description: 36 pages, 6 figures. Submitted to Computer Networks
Sporadic inclusion body myositis : no specific cardiac involvement in cardiac magnetic resonance tomography
Creators: name: Rosenbohm, Angela
name: Buckert, Dominik
name: Kassubek, Jan
name: Rottbauer, Wolfgang
name: Ludolph, Albert C.
name: Bernhardt, Peter
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Inclusion body myositis
subject: Cardiac magnetic resonance tomography
subject: Late gadolinium enhancement
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Myositis, Inclusion body
subject: Myocarditis
subject: Magnetic resonance imaging
subject: Myokarditis
subject: Herz
subject: Myositis
subject: Kernspintomografie

description: Objective To investigate cardiac involvement in patients with sporadic inclusion body myositis (IBM) by cardiac magnetic resonance tomography (CMR). Methods A case series of 20 patients with IBM underwent basic cardiac assessment and CMR including functional imaging, native and contrast-enhanced T1-weighted, and late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) imaging. Results All IBM patients reported no cardiac symptoms. Echocardiography was normal in 16/17 IBM patients. In CMR, IBM patients had normal ejection fractions (mean LVEF 63 ± 7%) and ventricular mass. They had reduced left (mean 55 versus 88 ml) and right ventricular stroke volumes (mean 54 versus 86 ml) and increased early myocardial enhancement (pathological T1 Ratio in 44% versus 5%), as compared to age- and gender-matched controls. Since arterial hypertension was more often observed in IBM patients, hypertensive heart disease can also be causative for these changes. Late gadolinium enhancement did not differ statistically from healthy controls. There was no apparent association between elevated biomarkers, echocardiography and CMR. Conclusion CMR revealed subtle changes in cardiac geometry and tissue characterization in IBM patients when compared to a gender- and age-matched control group. Findings in CMR indicated a higher extent of diffuse myocardial fibrosis as well as smaller left ventricular stroke volumes. These alterations may be due to a higher prevalence of arterial hypertension in the IBM cohort.
Attentional capture by physically salient stimuli in the gamma frequency is associated with schizophrenia symptoms
Creators: name: Kornmayer, Laura
name: Leicht, Gregor
name: Mulert, Christoph
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Objectives: Aberrant salience mainly is attributed to excessive dopaminergic processing in the ventral striatum. Increased gamma power during sensory processing of physical salience has been shown to be associated with positive trait schizotypy. In the present study, this is assessed in patients with schizophrenia. Methods: The early evoked visual gamma-band response (GBR) at 40 Hz was assessed for a schizophrenia patient group (N = 22) and a matched healthy control group (N = 22) applying EEG time-frequency analysis. The GBR was assessed for two conditions within a visual detection paradigm: a target with or without a physically salient distracter and evaluated in relation to the PANSS. Results: A 2 × 2 ANOVA revealed a significant main effect of condition and a trend interaction of group and condition for the GBR, with highest power for schizophrenia patients in the physically salient distracter condition. Moreover, evoked GBR power in this condition was correlated with positive (r = 0.664; P = 0.001**) and disorganised (r = 0.618; P = 0.002**) schizophrenia symptoms. Conclusions: Evoked GBR power during processing of physical salience in schizophrenia was associated with positive symptoms. We suggest that abnormal processing of physically salient stimuli might be involved in the pathophysiological genesis of positive symptoms.
Using keywords to search for relevant research || Engineering
Creators: name: Berg, Devin
name: Hardeman, Megan
name: Harja, Adrian
name: Team Figshare
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: 90602 Control Systems, Robotics and Automation
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Using keywords to search for relevant research - a figshare case study of Devin Berg's Engineering and Education research.
Open and accessible teaching data for the National Ecological Observatory Network || Ecology
Creators: name: Jones, Megan A.
name: Wasser, Leah
name: NEON Data Skills Teaching Data Subsets
name: Hardeman, Megan
name: Harja, Adrian
name: Team Figshare
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Open and accessible teaching data for the National Ecological Observatory Network - a figshare case study of Megan Jones' work at the National Ecology Observatory Network.
A quantization of interacting particle systems
Creators: name: Akahori, Jirô
name: Konno, Norio
name: Okamoto, Rikuki
name: Sato, Iwao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Interacting particle systems studied in this paper are probabilistic cellular automata with nearest-neighbor interaction including the Domany-Kinzel model. A special case of the Domany-Kinzel model is directed percolation. We regard the interacting particle system as a Markov chain on a graph. Then we present a new quantization of the interacting particle system. After that, we introduce a zeta function of the quantized model and give its determinant expression. Moreover, we calculate the absolute zeta function of the quantized model for the Domany-Kinzel model.
description: 16 pages
Using keywords to search for relevant research || Engineering
Creators: name: Berg, Devin
name: Hardeman, Megan
name: Harja, Adrian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: 90602 Control Systems, Robotics and Automation
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Using keywords to search for relevant research - a figshare case study of Devin Berg's Engineering and Education research.
Neural signature of error processing in major depression
Creators: name: Malejko, Kathrin
name: Hafner, Stefan
name: Plener, Paul L.
name: Bonenberger, Martina
name: Grön, Georg
name: Abler, Birgit
name: Graf, Heiko
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Error processing
subject: Commission errors
subject: Major depression
subject: Go/NoGo
subject: DDC 150 / Psychology
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Depressive disorder, Major
subject: Depression
subject: Chronische Depression

description: The clinical presentation of major depression (MD) is heterogenous and comprises various affective and cognitive symptoms including an increased sensitivity to errors. Various electrophysiological but only few functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies investigated neural error processing in MD with inconsistent findings. Thus, reliable evidence regarding neural signatures of error processing in patients with current MD is limited despite its potential relevance as viable neurobiological marker of psychopathology. We therefore investigated a sample of 16 young adult female patients with current MD and 17 healthy controls (HC). During fMRI, we used an established Erikson-flanker Go/NoGo-paradigm and focused on neural alterations during errors of commission. In the absence of significant differences in rates of errors of commission in MD compared to HC, we observed significantly (p < 0.05, FWE-corrected on cluster level) enhanced neural activations of the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) and the pre-supplementary motor area (pre-SMA) in MD relative to HC and thus, in brain regions consistently associated to neural error processing and corresponding behavioral adjustments. Considering comparable task performance, in particular similar commission error rates in MD and HC, our results support the evidence regarding an enhanced responsivity of neural error detection mechanisms in MD as a potential neural signature of increased negative feedback sensitivity as one of the core psychopathological features of this disorder.
High-resolution MHz time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy based on a tunable vacuum ultraviolet source
Creators: name: Hellbrück, Lukas
name: Puppin, Michele
name: Guo, Fei
name: Hickstein, Daniel D.
name: Benhabib, Siham
name: Grioni, Marco
name: Dil, J. Hugo
name: LaGrange, Thomas
name: Rønnow, Henrik M.
name: Carbone, Fabrizio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Time and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (trARPES) allows direct mapping of the electronic band structure and its dynamic response on femtosecond timescales. Here, we present a new ARPES system, powered by a new fiber-based femtosecond light source in the vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) range, accessing the complete first Brillouin zone for most materials. We present trARPES data on Au(111), polycrystalline Au, Bi2Se3 and TaTe2, demonstrating an energy resolution of 21 meV with a time resolution of <360 fs, at a high repetition rate of 1 MHz. The system is integrated with an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) high harmonic generation (HHG) beamline, enabling excellent tunability of the time-bandwidth resolution.
description: The following article has been published in Review of Scientific Instruments. The article can be found at https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0179549
Open and accessible teaching data for the National Ecological Observatory Network || Ecology
Creators: name: Jones, Megan A.
name: Wasser, Leah
name: NEON Data Skills Teaching Data Subsets
name: Hardeman, Megan
name: Harja, Adrian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Open and accessible teaching data for the National Ecological Observatory Network - a figshare case study of Megan Jones' work at the National Ecology Observatory Network.
Unveiling the early stage evolution of local atomic structures in the crystallization process of a metallic glass
Creators: name: Ma, Lin
name: Yang, Xiao-Dong
name: Yang, Feng
name: Zhou, Xin-Jia
name: Wu, Zhen-Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The early stage evolution of local atomic structures in a multicomponent metallic glass during its crystallization process has been investigated via molecular dynamics simulation. It is found that the initial thermal stability and earliest stage evolution of the local atomic clusters show no strong correlation with their initial short-range orders, and this leads to an observation of a novel symmetry convergence phenomenon, which can be understood as an atomic structure manifestation of the ergodicity. Furthermore, in our system we have quantitatively proved that the crucial factor for the thermal stability against crystallization exhibited by the metallic glass, is not the total amount of icosahedral clusters, but the degree of global connectivity among them.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures, accepted by CPB
Triterpenoid CDDO-Me induces ROS generation and up-regulates cellular levels of antioxidative enzymes without induction of DSBs in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells
Creators: name: Beinke, Christina
name: Scherthan, Harry
name: Port, Matthias
name: Popp, Tanja
name: Hermann, Cornelius
name: Eder, Stefan
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Bardoxolone-methyl
subject: CDDO-me
subject: Radioprotective activity
subject: gamma-H2AX foci analysis
subject: GAMMA-H2AX FOCI FORMATION
subject: SYNTHETIC OLEANANE
subject: H2AX PHOSPHORYLATION
subject: COMET ASSAY
subject: PREVENTION
subject: THERAPY
subject: DDC 570 / Life sciences
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Antioxidants
subject: DNA Damage
subject: Micronucleus Tests
subject: Pentacyclic Triterpenes
subject: Oxidative Stress
subject: DNS-Schädigung
subject: Oxidativer Stress
subject: Comet Assay
subject: Therapie

description: Abstract Ionizing radiation produces reactive oxygen species (ROS) leading to cellular DNA damage. Therefore, patients undergoing radiation therapy or first responders in radiological accident scenarios could both benefit from the identification of specifically acting pharmacological radiomitigators. The synthetic triterpenoid bardoxolone-methyl (CDDO-Me) has previously been shown to exert antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and anticancer activities in several cell lines, in part by enhancing the DNA damage response. In our study, we examined the effect of nanomolar concentrations of CDDO-Me in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC). We observed increased cellular levels of the antioxidative enzymes heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1), NAD(P)H dehydrogenase (quinone1) and mitochondrial superoxide dismutase 2 by immunoblotting. Surprisingly, we found increased intracellular ROS-levels using imaging flow-cytometry. However, the radiation-induced DNA double-strand break (DSB) formation using the γ-H2AX + 53BP1 DSB focus assay and the cytokinesis-block micronucleus assay both revealed, that nanomolar CDDO-Me pre-treatment of PBMC for 2 h or 6 h ahead of X irradiation with 2 Gy did neither significantly affect γ-H2AX + 53BP1 DSB foci formation nor the frequency of micronuclei. CDDO-Me treatment also failed to alter the nuclear division index and the frequency of IR-induced PBMC apoptosis as investigated by Annexin V-labeled live-cell imaging. Our results indicate that pharmacologically increased cellular concentrations of antioxidative enzymes might not necessarily exert radiomitigating short-term effects in IR-exposed PBMC. However, the increase of antioxidative enzymes could also be a result of a defensive cellular mechanism towards elevated ROS levels.
Teach Me How to ImproVISe: Co-Designing an Augmented Piano Training System for Improvisation
Creators: name: Deja, Jordan Aiko
name: Štor, Sandi
name: Pucihar, Ilonka
name: Pucihar, Klen Čopič
name: Kljun, Matjaž
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Improvisation is a vital but often neglected aspect of traditional piano teaching. Challenges such as difficulty in assessment and subjectivity have hindered its effective instruction. Technological approaches, including augmentation, aim to enhance piano instruction, but the specific application of digital augmentation for piano improvisation is under-explored. This paper outlines a co-design process developing an Augmented Reality (AR) Piano Improvisation Training System, ImproVISe, involving improvisation teachers. The prototype, featuring basic improvisation concepts, was created and refined through expert interaction. Their insights guided the identification of objectives, tools, interaction metaphors, and software features. The findings offer design guidelines and recommendations to address challenges in assessing piano improvisation in a learning context.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures, 1 table, 15 references
A coarsening algorithm on adaptive red-green-blue refined meshes
Creators: name: Funken, Stefan A.
name: Schmidt, Anja
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Coarsening
subject: Meshes
subject: Grids
subject: Adaptivity
subject: Refinement
subject: Adaptive finite element method
subject: RGB
subject: Red-green-blue
subject: 65M50
subject: DDC 510 / Mathematics
subject: Ostwald ripening
subject: Gitterverfeinerung

description: Adaptive meshing is a fundamental component of adaptive finite element methods. This includes refining and coarsening meshes locally. In this work, we are concerned with the red-green-blue refinement strategy in two dimensions and its counterpart-coarsening. In general, coarsening algorithms are mostly based on an explicitly given refinement history. In this work, we present a coarsening algorithm on adaptive red-green-blue meshes in two dimensions without explicitly knowing the refinement history. To this end, we examine the local structure of these meshes, find an easy-to-verify criterion to adaptively coarsen red-green-blue meshes, and prove that this criterion generates meshes with the desired properties. We present a MATLAB implementation built on the red-green-blue refinement routine of the ameshref-package (Funken and Schmidt 2018, 2019).
The Roman fort at Stanwix, Carlisle: a geophysical survey.
Creators: name: Biggins, J Alan
name: Taylor, David J A
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2002

description: Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, 100, 279-281
description: No meaningful data was obtained and it is considered that this is because there is little extant material to record.
Terahertz plasmonic resonances in coplanar graphene nanoribbon structures
Creators: name: Ryzhii, V.
name: Tang, C.
name: Otsuji, T.
name: Ryzhii, M.
name: Shur, M. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze plasmonic oscillations in the coplanar graphene nanoribbon (GNR) structures induced by the applied terahertz (THz) signals and calculate the GNR impedance. The plasmonic oscillations in the CNR structures are associated with the electron and hole inductances and the lateral inter-CNR capacitance. A relatively low inter-GNR capacitance enables the resonant excitation of the THz plasmonic oscillations in the CNR structures with long GNRs. The GNR structures under consideration can be used in different THz devices as the resonant structures incorporated in THz detectors, THz sources using resonant-tunneling diodes, photomixers, and surface acoustic wave sensors.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
Validation of the irritation scale on a representative German sample: new normative data
Creators: name: Gralla, Maria S.
name: Gündel, Harald
name: Müller, Andreas
name: Brähler, Elmar
name: Häuser, Winfried
name: Kruse, Johannes
name: Muschalla, Beate
name: Rigotti, Thomas
name: Strauß, Bernhard
name: Balint, Elisabeth Maria
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Irritation scale
subject: DDC 150 / Psychology
subject: Occupational health
subject: Occupational stress
subject: Arbeitspsychologie
subject: Stress
subject: Arbeitsplatz

description: The irritation scale is a widely used and reliable self-report scale for measuring cognitive and emotional strain related to the work environment. It extends existing measures by providing a sensitive assessment for pre-clinical stress at work. Existing normative data are based on convenience samples and are therefore not representative. This study provides new normative data for the irritation scale based on a representative German sample (N = 1480). The new normative data indicate that the overall level of irritation in the German workforce is significantly lower compared to previously published data. Convergent and discriminant validity is confirmed by correlations with depression and anxiety (Patient Health Questionnaire-4 for Depression and Anxiety), somatic symptom scales (Bodily Distress Syndrome 25 checklist, Somatic Symptom Scale-8, Giessen Subjective Complaints List-8, comorbidity), psychological functioning (Mini-ICF rating for activity and participation disorders in mental illness), work-related stressors (overcommitment and bullying) and individual resources (self-efficacy). The results confirm the utility of the irritation scale and provide new benchmarks that avoid an underestimation of the levels of irritation in future studies.