cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Physicochemical stability and controlled release of vitamin D3-loaded emulsions stabilised by whey protein isolate-basil seed gum conjugates
Creators: name: Kouravand, Farzaneh
name: Shahidi, Fakhri
name: Fathi, Milad
name: Koocheki, Arash
name: Roshanak, Sahar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: The present study was conducted to produce a new carrier containing whey protein isolate-basil seed gum (WPI-BSG) conjugate to achieve superior physicochemical stability of emulsions containing vitamin D3 (Vit-D3). Zeta-potential and particle size analysis, spectrophotometric method, encapsulation efficiency, loading capacity and dialysis bag method were used to examined physicochemical stability and Vit-D3 release from the emulsions. The conjugate-stabilised emulsion showed maximum encapsulation efficiency (87.05 ± 3.37% (w/w)) and loading capacity (5.43 ± 0.08% (w/w)) at the Vit-D3 concentration of 200 and 300 mg/kg. This emulsion also demonstrated good physical stability after 30 days of storage with the zeta potential and mean droplet size of −79.60 ± 0.62 mV and 1346.82 ± 5.95 nm, respectively. Additionally, the conjugate-stabilised emulsion had a maximum Vit-D3 retention (chemical stability) of 72.79 ± 3.58% after a 15-day storage period. Our findings suggest that the conjugate-stabilised emulsion has a good stabilising capacity as a carrier for hydrophobic compounds such as Vit-D3.
title: Компьютерная графика. КОМПАС и AutoCAD
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Профобразование, Уральский федеральный университет
Year: 2024

description: В учебном пособии изложены основные принципы работы в графических пакетах КОМПАС и AutoCAD. Рассмотрены правила настройки рабочего пространства, текстовых и размерных стилей, создания слоев, формирования блоков, необходимых для выполнения машиностроительных чертежей на компьютере. Практические примеры, приведенные в пособии, позволяют последовательно выполнять графические задания средствами компьютерной графики и способствуют закреплению навыков работы в данных программах. Учебное пособие предназначено для изучения дисциплин «Компьютерная графика», «Инженерная компьютерная графика» по специальностям среднего профессионального образования «Строительство и эксплуатация зданий и сооружений», «Компьютерные сети», «Сетевое и системное администрирование», «Технология машиностроения», дисциплинам «Основы инженерной графики» по профессии «Сварщик (ручной и частично механизированной сварки (наплавки)»; «Техническая графика» по профессиям «Оператор станков с программным управлением», «Фрезеровщик на станках с числовым программным управлением», «Инженерная графика» по специальностям «Аддитивные технологии», «Технология металлообрабатывающего производства», «Компьютерная графика и прикладное программное обеспечение» по специальности «Техническое обслуживание и ремонт систем вентиляции и кондиционирования».
Repurposing of DrugBank molecules as dual non-hydroxamate HDAC8 and HDAC2 inhibitors by pharmacophore modeling, molecular docking, and molecular dynamics studies
Creators: name: Sarkar, Kakali
name: Debnath, Sudhan
name: Ghosh, Rajat
name: Choudhury, Deijy
name: Chakraborty, Kanak
name: Saha, Partha
name: Singha, Achinta
name: Nandi, Addrita
name: Goswami, Bidhan
name: Ghosh, Arabinda
name: Sil, Samir Kumar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: HDAC8 and HDAC2 are recently reported to be overexpressed in cervical cancer. To date, studies related to the use of dual targeted HDAC inhibitor to treat cervical cancer are not well explored. Again, majority of the selective HDAC inhibitors discovered so far are hydroxamic acids, which have multiple adverse side-effects due to their strong zinc chelating ability. In this study, we repurposed DrugBank molecules to identify novel non hydroxamate compounds as potential HDAC8/2 dual inhibitors that can be effective for cervical cancer management. Therefore, a comprehensive integrated in silico approach, involving two-tier virtual screening, has been adopted. An initial e-pharmacophore model generation based on the co-ligands associated with HDAC8 and HDAC2 and subsequent PBVS of 12223 drug molecules were performed which eventually yielded 658 hits having fitness scores ≥ 1.0 for both the proteins. Then, SBVS for these hits was done using Glide XP method into the HDAC8 and HDAC2 crystal structures which resulted in 52 hits having XPGS ≤ −9.0 kcal/mol against both the proteins. Following this, they were re-docked into other HDAC isoforms to confirm isoform selectivity. DB11747, DB03973, DB03812, DB07890, and DB03448 were identified as top hits and were finally subjected to molecular dynamics simulation for stability of the complexes and MM-GBSA studies to calculate binding free energies. These hits have stable interactions with both HDAC8 and HDAC2 protein binding sites. In silico ADMET studies brought to limelight the promising pharmacokinetics and safety profiles of the hits. In silico cytotoxicity prediction studies also revealed potent anticancer activity.
USK loot box labelling
Creators: name: Xiao, Leon Y.
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Consumer Protection Law
subject: Comparative and Foreign Law
subject: Gaming Law
subject: Computer Law
subject: Science and Technology Law
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: To check whether the USK, PEGI and the ESRB have consistently labelled games as containing loot boxes in the year 2023.
title: Краткая история английской архитектуры
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Профобразование, Уральский федеральный университет
Year: 2024

description: В учебном пособии в исторической последовательности показано развитие национальной английской архитектуры в доисторический период, в период Античности, в романский период и во времена готики. Дана краткая характеристика тюдоровской архитектуры Великобритании как наиболее яркой страницы проявления национальных особенностей зодчества, предшествовавшего Ренессансу. Рассмотрены вопросы организации строительного производства, показаны конструктивные особенности зданий, а также применяемые строительные материалы и технологии их обработки. Представлены фотографии объектов, схемы, рисунки. Учебное пособие предназначено для изучения дисциплины «История архитектуры» по специальности среднего профессионального образования «Архитектура».
Simultaneous maintenance of emotions in affective working memory
Creators: name: Kardosh, Nour
name: Waugh, Christian
name: Mikels, Joseph
name: Mor, Nilly
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health

description: Affective Working Memory (AWM) is the ability to maintain an emotion after the emotion-eliciting stimulus is no longer present. Emotions are dynamic, and emotion-eliciting stimuli are encountered simultaneously and sequentially. Therefore, this research aimed to examine AWM when more than one emotion is being maintained. We aimed to re-examine previous findings, that people are better at maintaining positive than negative emotions in the context of dynamic presentations of multiple stimuli. We introduce a modified maintenance task, and present a novel metric that models the latent maintenance processes to acquire an accurate measure of AWM. Participants (N = 49) were asked to complete the study online. On each trial, participants were presented with a sequence of three images, and were asked to compare the intensity of the emotion elicited by image 1 to image 3, whilst maintaining the emotion elicited by image 2 to rate it at the end of the trial. The results showed that people are successful at simultaneously maintaining two emotions in AWM, and they replicate previous findings concerning the advantage of maintaining positive compared to negative emotions. Overall, the study highlights the complexity of AWM and provides insight into the processes involved in maintaining multiple emotions simultaneously.
Urban vertical air pollution gradient and dynamics investigated with low-cost sensors and large-eddy simulations
Creators: name: Frederickson, Louise B.
name: Russell, Hugo S.
name: Raasch, Siegfried
name: Zhang, Zhaoxi
name: Schmidt, Johan A.
name: Johnson, Matthew S.
name: Hertel, Ole
Publisher: name: Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier Science
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: LES
subject: Low-cost sensors
subject: PALM
subject: TRAP
subject: Urban air pollution
subject: Vertical gradient
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::550 | Geowissenschaften
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::690 | Hausbau, Bauhandwerk

description: A network of five low-cost air pollution sensor (LCS) nodes was deployed vertically on the exterior of the H. C. Ørsted Institute at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, to investigate the transport of pollution from the road below. All LCS nodes measured PM2.5, NO2, and O3 at 1-min time resolution, and one of them also measured noise. Traffic was monitored with a webcam, where traffic type and levels were derived using a machine-learning algorithm. We investigated how well traffic-related air pollution, noise, and real-time traffic counts serve as proxies for one another. The correlations between NO2, noise, and traffic count exhibited relatively low values when considering all the data. However, these correlations significantly increased under southwesterly wind direction and low wind speed, reaching R2 = 0.40 for NO2 and noise, R2 = 0.51 for NO2 and traffic volume, and R2 = 0.70 for noise and traffic volume. These results indicate a common source, namely traffic, for all three parameters. The five LCS nodes spanning 25 m vertically had extremely low intervariability with minimum R2-values of 0.98 for PM2.5, 0.89 for NO2, and 0.97 for O3. The system could not detect a vertical gradient in pollution levels. Large-eddy simulation model runs using the PALM model system generally supported the lack of gradient observed in measured observations. Under slightly unstable stratification, concentration remained relatively constant with height for southwesterly and southerly winds. Conversely, winds from the north, west, and northwest showed an increase in concentration with height. For other wind directions, the concentration decreased with height by approximately 40 % to 50 %, which is not as strong as for neutral stratification, attributed to enhanced vertical mixing under unstable stratification. Based on the measurements and modeling, we conclude that the vertical concentration profile is very sensitive to stratification, and under these conditions, the concentration outside the window of a fifth-floor office is almost the same as for an office on the ground floor.
The influence of dynamism and expression intensity on face emotion recognition in individuals with autistic traits
Creators: name: Corluka, Natalie
name: Laycock, Robin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Face emotion recognition (FER) ability varies across the population, with autistic traits in the general population reported to contribute to this variation. Previous studies used photographs of posed facial expressions, while real social encounters involve dynamic expressions of varying intensity. We used static photographs and dynamic videos, showing peak and partial facial expressions to investigate the influence of dynamism and expression intensity on FER in non-clinical adults who varied in autistic traits. Those with high autistic traits had lower accuracy with both static peak and dynamic partial intensity expressions, when compared to low autistic trait participants. Furthermore, high autistic traits were linked to an accuracy advantage for dynamic compared with static stimuli in both partial and peak expression conditions, while those with low autistic traits demonstrated this dynamic advantage only for partial expressions. These findings reveal the differing importance of dynamism and expression intensity for FER across the non-clinical population and appear linked to self-reported social-communication skills. Furthermore, FER difficulties in autism might relate to the ability to integrate subtle, dynamic information, rather than static emotion categorisation alone.
Drug-drug interaction between danshensu and irbesartan and its potential mechanism
Creators: name: Li, Yuexia
name: Liu, Liheng
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biochemistry
Neuroscience
Pharmacology
Biotechnology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Mental Health

description: 1. To uncover the effect of danshensu on irbesartan pharmacokinetics and its underlying mechanisms. 2. To investigate the effect of danshensu on the pharmacokinetics of irbesartan, Sprague-Dawley rats (n = 6) were orally administered 30 mg/kg irbesartan alone (control group) or pretreated with 160 mg/kg danshensu (experimental group). The effect of danshensu on the metabolic stability of irbesartan in RLMs was examined by LC-MS/MS method. The effect of danshensu on CYP2C9 activity was also determined. 3. Danshensu markedly increased the AUC(0-t) (9573 ± 441 vs. 16157 ± 559 μg/L*h) and Cmax (821 ± 24 vs. 1231 ± 44 μg/L) of irbesartan. Danshensu prolonged the t1/2 (13.39 ± 0.98 vs. 16.04 ± 1.21 h) and decreased the clearance rate (2.27 ± 0.14 vs. 1.19 ± 0.10 L/h/kg) of irbesartan. Danshensu enhanced the metabolic stability of irbesartan in vitro with prolonged t1/2 (36.34 ± 11.68 vs. 48.62 ± 12.03 min) and reduced intrinsic clearance (38.14 ± 10.24 vs. 28.51 ± 9.06 μL/min/mg protein). Additionally, the IC50 value for CYP2C9 inhibition by danshensu was 35.74 μM. 4. Danshensu enhanced systemic exposure of irbesartan by suppressing CYP2C9. The finding can also serve as a guidance for further investigation of danshensu-irbesartan interaction in clinical practice.
Press X to Pet: A Critical Analysis of Dog-Petting Mechanics in High-Profile (MMO)RPGS
Creators: name: Baugus, Samantha
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Within high-profile RPGs, dogs (and other nonhuman animals) often cannot be petted. This state of affairs has been changing, though, in response to player demand. In this article, I argue that players want pet-type animals categorized as petable to maintain anthropocentric notions of the relationship between humans and animals. Pairing the idea of petability with that killability, I examine Alice, a German shepherd, from The Last of Us 2 (2020), Fortnite (2017) patch 8.40 (2019), and Patrick Lenton’s (2016) viral Twitter thread about The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (2011). Each of these texts features very different reasons for dogs being present and very different ways the player can interact with these in-game dogs. Using the notion of killability to examine the role of pet-type animals, the implicit beliefs about the place and purpose of dogs are made explicit within game worlds. These examples of ‘pet-able’ dogs speak to cultural anxieties surrounding companionate human–animal relationships. Incapable of interacting with pet-type animals in friendly or familial ways, players either must acknowledge the arbitrariness of anthropocentric friend/object divides or reassert the (il)logics of contemporary American anthropocentrism and demand the ability to press X to pet.
Animal Ownership and Ecological Consciousness in Three American Horror Texts
Creators: name: van Leeuwen, Evert Jan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: This essay explores three popular horror narratives’ engagement with the commodification and exploitation of animals within American society. It reveals that the attitude towards animals as commodified products is a natural outgrowth of the modern materialistic American Dream in which possession of private property and the accumulation of material wealth is equated with getting ahead and living the good life. The essay also shows how the films Burning Bright (2010) and Pet (2016), as well as the comic book Animosity (2017–2021) reveal the environmental destructiveness inherent in the ideology of individual ownership as a measure of human wellbeing. In each text values of empathy, co-habitation and plenitude are repressed by human beings in a drive to own, control and exploit both animals as well as other humans. By reversing relations of power and agency, these three horror texts stress a need for what Theodore Roszak has termed the development of an ecological consciousness in the human mind through which humanity’s knowledge of the inherent interrelatedness of all lifeforms on earth can be re-awakened and the slow violence (Nixon) of human materialism can be exposed.
Acoustic Identification of Ae. aegypti Mosquitoes using Smartphone Apps and Residual Convolutional Neural Networks
Creators: name: Paim, Kayuã Oleques
name: Rohweder, Ricardo
name: Recamonde-Mendoza, Mariana
name: Mansilha1, Rodrigo Brandão
name: Cordeiro, Weverton
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In this paper, we advocate in favor of smartphone apps as low-cost, easy-to-deploy solution for raising awareness among the population on the proliferation of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. Nevertheless, devising such a smartphone app is challenging, for many reasons, including the required maturity level of techniques for identifying mosquitoes based on features that can be captured using smartphone resources. In this paper, we identify a set of (non-exhaustive) requirements that smartphone apps must meet to become an effective tooling in the fight against Ae. aegypti, and advance the state-of-the-art with (i) a residual convolutional neural network for classifying Ae. aegypti mosquitoes from their wingbeat sound, (ii) a methodology for reducing the influence of background noise in the classification process, and (iii) a dataset for benchmarking solutions for detecting Ae. aegypti mosquitoes from wingbeat sound recordings. From the analysis of accuracy and recall, we provide evidence that convolutional neural networks have potential as a cornerstone for tracking mosquito apps for smartphones.
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title: Development of constructive-planning and analytical skills of prospective foreign language teachers while creating mind maps at pedagogical design studies
Creators: name: Ð¢Ð°ÑÐ°ÑÐ¾Ð², ÐÐ»ÐµÐºÑÐ°Ð½Ð´Ñ
name: Ð¨Ð°ÑÐ¸Ð»Ð¾Ð²ÑÐºÐ¸Ðµ ÑÑÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ
Publisher: name: ÐÐÐÐÐ¢ÐÐ¥-ÐÐ ÐÐ¡Ð¡
Year: 2024
Subjects: Ð¼ÐµÐ½ÑÐ°Ð»ÑÐ½Ð°Ñ ÐºÐ°ÑÑÐ°
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mind map
associogram
pedagogical design
professional skills
professional development of a foreign language teacher

description: Ð ÑÑÐ°ÑÑÐµ ÑÐ°ÑÑÐ¼Ð°ÑÑÐ¸Ð²Ð°ÐµÑÑÑ ÑÐ°Ð·Ð²Ð¸ÑÐ¸Ðµ ÐºÐ¾Ð½ÑÑÑÑÐºÑÐ¸Ð²Ð½Ð¾-Ð¿Ð»Ð°Ð½Ð¸ÑÑÑÑÐ¸Ñ Ð¸ Ð°Ð½Ð°Ð»Ð¸ÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¸Ñ ÑÐ¼ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ð¹ ÑÑÐ°ÑÐ¸ÑÑÑ - Ð±ÑÐ´ÑÑÐ¸Ñ ÑÑÐ¸ÑÐµÐ»ÐµÐ¹ Ð¸Ð½Ð¾ÑÑÑÐ°Ð½Ð½Ð¾Ð³Ð¾ ÑÐ·ÑÐºÐ° Ð½Ð° ÑÑÐ°Ð¿Ðµ ÑÐ¾ÑÑÐ°Ð²Ð»ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ Ð¼ÐµÐ½ÑÐ°Ð»ÑÐ½ÑÑ ÐºÐ°ÑÑ Ð² Ð¿ÑÐ¾ÑÐµÑÑÐµ Ð¿ÐµÐ´Ð°Ð³Ð¾Ð³Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¾Ð³Ð¾ Ð¿ÑÐ¾ÐµÐºÑÐ¸ÑÐ¾Ð²Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ñ. ÐÐ»Ð°Ð³Ð¾Ð´Ð°ÑÑ ÑÐ°Ð·Ð²Ð¸ÑÐ¸Ñ Ð´Ð°Ð½Ð½ÑÑ ÑÐ¼ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ð¹ Ð¼ÐµÐ½ÑÐ°Ð»ÑÐ½ÑÐµ ÐºÐ°ÑÑÑ Ð¿Ð¾Ð·Ð²Ð¾Ð»ÑÑÑ ÑÑÑÐ´ÐµÐ½ÑÐ°Ð¼ Ð¿ÑÐµÐ¾Ð´Ð¾Ð»ÐµÑÑ ÑÑÑÐ´Ð½Ð¾ÑÑÐ¸ Ð¿ÑÐ¸ Ð²ÑÐ±Ð¾ÑÐµ ÑÐµÐ¼Ñ Ð¸ ÑÐµÐ¼Ð°ÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¾Ð¼ Ð¿Ð»Ð°Ð½Ð¸ÑÐ¾Ð²Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ð¸. ÐÐ¾ÐºÐ°Ð·ÑÐ²Ð°ÐµÑÑÑ, ÑÑÐ¾ Ð³Ð»Ð°Ð²Ð½ÑÐ¹ Ð¿ÑÐ¾Ð±Ð»ÐµÐ¼Ð½ÑÐ¹ Ð²Ð¾Ð¿ÑÐ¾Ñ Ð¿ÑÐ¾ÐµÐºÑÐ° Ð¾Ð±Ð¾Ð³Ð°ÑÐ°ÐµÑ Ð¼ÐµÐ½ÑÐ°Ð»ÑÐ½ÑÑ ÐºÐ°ÑÑÑ Ð½Ð¾Ð²ÑÐ¼Ð¸ ÑÐ²ÑÐ·ÑÐ¼Ð¸.
description: The article examines development of constructive-planning and analytical skills of future foreign language teachers at the first steps of pedagogical design. Due to the development of the stated skills, mind maps allow students to overcome difficulties in choosing a topic and thematical planning. The main problematic question of the project enriches the mind map with new components.
Determinants for positive and negative experiences of interpersonal touch: context matters
Creators: name: Sailer, Uta
name: Friedrich, Yvonne
name: Asgari, Fatemeh
name: Hassenzahl, Marc
name: Croy, Ilona
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: The goal of the study was to determine which aspects of interpersonal touch interactions lead to a positive or negative experience. Previous research has focused primarily on physical characteristics. We suggest that this may not be sufficient to fully capture the complexity of the experience. Specifically, we examined how fulfilment of psychological needs influences touch experiences and how this relates to physical touch characteristics and situational factors. In two mixed-method studies, participants described their most positive and most negative interpersonal touch experience within a specific time frame. They reported fulfilment of nine needs, affect, intention, and reason for positivity/negativity, as well as the body part(s) touched, location, type of touch, interaction partner, and particular touch characteristics (e.g. humidity). Positive and negative touch experiences shared similar touch types, locations, and body parts touched, but differed in intended purpose and reasons. Overall, the valence of a touch experience could be predicted from fulfilment of relatedness, the interaction partner and initiator, and physical touch characteristics. Positive affect increased with need fulfilment, and negative affect decreased. The results highlight the importance of relatedness and reciprocity for the valence of touch, and emphasise the need to incorporate psychological needs in touch research.
Impact of Beam-Beam Effects on Absolute Luminosity Calibrations at the CERN Large Hadron Collider
Creators: name: Babaev, A.
name: Barklow, T.
name: Karacheban, O.
name: Kozanecki, W.
name: Kralik, I.
name: Mehta, A.
name: Pasztor, G.
name: Pieloni, T.
name: Stickland, D.
name: Tambasco, C.
name: Tomas, R.
name: Wańczyk, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: At the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), absolute luminosity calibrations obtained by the van der Meer (vdM) method are affected by the mutual electromagnetic interaction of the two beams. The colliding bunches experience relative orbit shifts, as well as optical distortions akin to the dynamic-$β$ effect, that both depend on the transverse beam separation and must therefore be corrected for when deriving the absolute luminosity scale. In the vdM regime, the beam-beam parameter is small enough that the orbit shift can be calculated analytically. The dynamic-$β$ corrections to the luminometer calibrations, however, had until the end of Run 2 been estimated in the linear approximation only. In this report, the influence of beam-beam effects on the vdM-based luminosity scale is quantified, together with the associated systematic uncertainties, by means of simulations that fully take into account the non-linearity of the beam-beam force, as well as the resulting non-Gaussian distortions of the transverse beam distributions. Two independent multiparticle simulations, one limited to the weak-strong approximation and one that models strong-strong effects in a self-consistent manner, are found in excellent agreement; both predict a percent-level shift of the absolute pp-luminosity values with respect to those assumed until recently in the physics publications of the LHC experiments. These results also provide guidance regarding further studies aimed at reducing the beam-beam-related systematic uncertainty on beam-beam corrections to absolute luminosity calibrations by the van der Meer method.
Platinum-absorbed Defective 2D Monolayer Boron Nitride: A Promising Electrocatalyst for O2 Reduction Reaction
Creators: name: Yadav, Lokesh
name: Pakhira, Srimanta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The large bandgap and strong covalent bonds of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) had long been thought to be chemically inert. Due to its inertness with saturated robust covalent bonds, the pristine 2D monolayer hBN cannot be functionalized for applications of energy conversion. Therefore, it is necessary to make the 2D hBN chemically reactive for potential applications. Here, we have computationally designed a single nitrogen (N) and boron (B) di-vacancy of the 2D monolayer hBN, noted by VBN defective-BN (d-BN), to activate the chemical reactivity, which is an effective strategy to use the d-BN for potential applications. Single Pt atom absorbed on the defective area of the VBN d-BN acts as a single-atom catalyst which exhibits distinctive performances for O2 reduction reaction (ORR). First-principles based dispersion-corrected periodic hybrid Density Functional Theory (DFT-D) method has been employed to investigate the equilibrium structure and properties of the Pt-absorbed 2D defective boron nitride (Pt-d-BN). The present study shows the semiconducting character of Pt-d-BN with an electronic bandgap of 1.30 eV, which is an essential aspect of the ORR. The ORR mechanism on the surface of 2D monolayer Pt-d-BN follows a 4e-reduction route because of the low barriers to OOH formation and dissociation, H2O2 instability and water production at the Pt-d-BN surface. Here, both the dissociative and associative ORR mechanisms have been investigated, and it is found that results for both mechanisms with the ORR pathways are almost equally favorable. Therefore, it can be mentioned here that the 2D monolayer Pt-d-BN exhibits a high selectivity for the four-electron reduction pathway. According to the calculations of the relative adsorption energy of each step in ORR, the Pt-d-BN is anticipated to exhibit substantial catalytic activity.
description: 35 pages
“I’m so dumb and worthless right now”: factors associated with heightened momentary self-criticism in daily life
Creators: name: Veilleux, Jennifer C.
name: Clift, Jeremy B.
name: Brott, Katherine Hyde
name: Warner, Elise A.
name: Schreiber, Regina E.
name: Henderson, Hannah M.
name: Shelton, Dylan K.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Self-criticism is a trait associated with increased psychopathology, but self-criticism is also a personality state reflecting an action that people do in moments of time. In the current study, we explored factors associated with heightened self-criticism in daily life. Participants (N = 197) received five random prompts per day for one week on their mobile phones, where they reported their current affect (negative and positive affect), willpower self-efficacy, distress intolerance, degree of support and criticism from others, current context (location, activity, hunger, tiredness) and momentary self-criticism. We first demonstrated that self-criticism varies over time and across contexts, and is associated with heightened trait self-criticism. Then, using multilevel modelling, we explored the contextual factors associated with greater self-criticism. We found that self-criticism was higher when people were at home, and more tired. We also found higher self-criticism to be associated with greater negative and lower positive affect, greater distress intolerance, lower willpower and greater perceived criticism from others. In addition, self-criticism predicted subsequent distress intolerance, willpower and positive affect in lagged analyses. This study provides evidence that both environmental and psychological factors are associated with the dynamics of self-critical thoughts.
An integrative analysis of potential mechanisms of reduced positive affect in daily life in depression: an ESM study
Creators: name: Pacheco-Romero, Ana Mar
name: Martín-García, Óscar
name: Rey-Sáez, Ricardo
name: Boemo, Teresa
name: Blanco, Iván
name: Vázquez, Carmelo
name: Sánchez-López, Álvaro
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Decreased levels of positive affect (PA) are a hallmark of depression. Current models propose as potential main mechanisms a dysfunctional use of emotion regulation (ER) strategies (i.e. dampening, positive rumination), and a maladaptive activation of pro-hedonic goals. However, the role of these mechanisms in PA in daily life remains understudied. We used a 10-day ESM design to assess how these mechanisms influence each other and contribute to depressive symptomatology-related low momentary PA in 139 individuals. Higher depressive symptoms were associated with lower PA, pro-hedonic goals, more frequent use of positive rumination, and higher use of dampening. Further, experiencing higher levels of PA predicted lower following time point use of dampening in individuals with higher symptoms. Finally, using positive rumination was more beneficial (i.e. predicted higher PA increases one moment later) for individuals with higher symptomatology. Our findings suggest that moment-to-moment changes in PA daily life are affected by, and have an effect on, both pro-hedonic goals and the use of dampening and positive rumination, highlighting specific cognitive–affective mechanisms that should be considered when designing interventions aimed at improving low PA characterising depression symptomatology.
Long-run impulse control with generalised discounting
Creators: name: Jelito, Damian
name: Stettner, Łukasz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 93E20, 49J21, 49K21, 60J25

description: In this paper, we investigate the effects of applying generalised (non-exponential) discounting on a long-run impulse control problem for a Feller-Markov process. We show that the optimal value of the discounted problem is the same as the optimal value of its undiscounted version. Next, we prove that an optimal strategy for the undiscounted discrete time functional is also optimal for the discrete-time discounted criterion and nearly optimal for the continuous-time discounted one. This shows that the discounted problem, being time-inconsistent in nature, admits a time-consistent solution. Also, instead of a complex time-dependent Bellman equation one may consider its simpler time-independent version.
description: Corrected version
Does cognitive load influence expressive flexibility? Comparing civilian and veteran populations
Creators: name: Hart, Roland P.
name: Benzshawel, John A.
name: Bonanno, George A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health

description: Expressive flexibility (EF) is a component of emotion regulation flexibility repertoire that constitutes the ability to enhance or suppress the expression of emotion in accordance with a given situational context. Previous research has associated EF with healthy adjustment to adversity. This association has also been observed in combat veterans with elevated post-traumatic stress. EF and other elements of regulatory flexibility are believed to rely on functions of cognitive control, such as working memory. However, previous research has yet to investigate this link. Accordingly, we examined performance in veterans (N = 42) and non-veterans (N = 75) on an EF Task with and without the inclusion of a numerical cognitive load task. Results indicate an interaction between cognitive load and expressive condition. Specifically, suppression abilities were weaker in cognitive load conditions. These findings did not vary in veteran and non-veteran samples. These results add to a growing body of work indicating a relationship between cognitive control and regulatory flexibility, and suggest similar mechanisms between veteran and non-veteran populations.
Benign landscapes of low-dimensional relaxations for orthogonal synchronization on general graphs
Creators: name: McRae, Andrew D.
name: Boumal, Nicolas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 90C26, 90C30, 90C35, 90C46

description: Orthogonal group synchronization is the problem of estimating $n$ elements $Z_1, \ldots, Z_n$ from the $r \times r$ orthogonal group given some relative measurements $R_{ij} \approx Z_i^{}Z_j^{-1}$. The least-squares formulation is nonconvex. To avoid its local minima, a Shor-type convex relaxation squares the dimension of the optimization problem from $O(n)$ to $O(n^2)$. Alternatively, Burer--Monteiro-type nonconvex relaxations have generic landscape guarantees at dimension $O(n^{3/2})$. For smaller relaxations, the problem structure matters. It has been observed in the robotics literature that, for SLAM problems, it seems sufficient to increase the dimension by a small constant multiple over the original. We partially explain this. This also has implications for Kuramoto oscillators.
 Specifically, we minimize the least-squares cost function in terms of estimators $Y_1, \ldots, Y_n$. For $p \geq r$, each $Y_i$ is relaxed to the Stiefel manifold $\mathrm{St}(r, p)$ of $r \times p$ matrices with orthonormal rows. The available measurements implicitly define a (connected) graph $G$ on $n$ vertices. In the noiseless case, we show that, for all connected graphs $G$, second-order critical points are globally optimal as soon as $p \geq r+2$. (This implies that Kuramoto oscillators on $\mathrm{St}(r, p)$ synchronize for all $p \geq r + 2$.) This result is the best possible for general graphs; the previous best known result requires $2p \geq 3(r + 1)$. For $p > r + 2$, our result is robust to modest amounts of noise (depending on $p$ and $G$). Our proof uses a novel randomized choice of tangent direction to prove (near-)optimality of second-order critical points. Finally, we partially extend our noiseless landscape results to the complex case (unitary group); we show that there are no spurious local minima when $2p \geq 3r$.
Effects of age on the interactions of attentional and emotional processes: a prefrontal fNIRS study
Creators: name: Yeung, Michael K.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Mental Health

description: The aging of attentional and emotional functions has been extensively studied but relatively independently. Therefore, the relationships between aging and the interactions of attentional and emotional processes remain elusive. This study aimed to determine how age affected the interactions between attentional and emotional processes during adulthood. One-hundred forty adults aged 18–79 performed the emotional variant of the Attention Network Test, which probed alerting, orienting, and executive control in the presence and absence of threatening faces. During this task, contexts with varying levels of task preparatory processes were created to modulate the effect of threatening faces on attention, and functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) was used to examine the neural underpinnings of the behavioural effects. The behavioural results showed that aging was associated with a significant decline in alerting efficiency, and there was a statistical trend for age-related deficits in executive control. Despite these age differences, age did not significantly moderate the interactions among attentional networks or between attention and emotion. Additionally, the fNIRS results showed that decreased frontal cortex functioning might underlie the age-related decline in executive control. Therefore, while aging has varying effects on different attentional networks, the interactions of attentional and emotional processes remain relatively unaffected by age.
Comparing local energy cascade rates in isotropic turbulence using structure function and filtering formulations
Creators: name: Yao, H.
name: Schnaubelt, M.
name: Szalay, A.
name: Zaki, T.
name: Meneveau, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two common definitions of the spatially local rate of kinetic energy cascade at some scale $\ell$ in turbulent flows are (i) the cubic velocity difference term appearing in the generalized Kolmogorov-Hill equation (GKHE) (structure function approach), and (ii) the subfilter-scale energy flux term in the transport equation for subgrid-scale kinetic energy (filtering approach). We perform a comparative study of both quantities based on direct numerical simulation data of isotropic turbulence at Taylor-scale Reynolds number of 1250. While observations of negative subfilter-scale energy flux (backscatter) have in the past led to debates regarding interpretation and relevance of such observations, we argue that the interpretation of the local structure function-based cascade rate definition is unambiguous since it arises from a divergence term in scale space. Conditional averaging is used to explore the relationship between the local cascade rate and the local filtered viscous dissipation rate as well as filtered velocity gradient tensor properties such as its invariants. We find statistically robust evidence of inverse cascade when both the large-scale rotation rate is strong and the large-scale strain rate is weak. Even stronger net inverse cascading is observed in the ``vortex compression'' $R>0$, $Q>0$ quadrant where $R$ and $Q$ are velocity gradient invariants. Qualitatively similar, but quantitatively much weaker trends are observed for the conditionally averaged subfilter scale energy flux. Flow visualizations show consistent trends, namely that spatially the inverse cascade events appear to be located within large-scale vortices, specifically in subregions when $R$ is large.
Aberrant cognitive empathy in individuals with elevated social anxiety and regulation with emotional working memory training
Creators: name: Kade, Saif A.
name: du Toit, Simone A.
name: Danielson, Craig T.
name: Schweizer, Susanne
name: Morrison, Amanda S.
name: Ong, Desmond C.
name: Prasad, Ashni
name: Holder, Lauren J.
name: Han, Jin
name: Torok, Michelle
name: Wong, Quincy J. J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Social anxiety may disrupt the empathic process, and well-regulated empathy is critical for navigating the social world. Two studies aimed to further understand empathy in the context of social anxiety. Study 1 compared individuals with elevated or normative social anxiety on a measure assessing cognitive and affective empathy for positive and negative emotions conveyed by other people (“targets”), completed under social threat. Relative to individuals with normative social anxiety, individuals with elevated social anxiety had greater cognitive empathy and no differences in affective empathy, regardless of emotion type. As greater cognitive empathy can be maladaptive, Study 2 tested whether this could be down-regulated. Individuals with elevated social anxiety underwent emotional working memory training (eWMT) for negative emotional information, or control training (CT). Effects on an empathy measure completed under social threat were assessed. Cognitive empathy for negative emotions decreased following eWMT but not CT, and this was only evident for those with higher pre-training working memory capacity. Cognitive empathy for positive emotions and affective empathy were not affected. Overall, social anxiety is associated with aberrant elevated cognitive empathy for negative and positive emotions, and the deviation in cognitive empathy for negative emotions can be regulated with eWMT for certain individuals. Trial registration:Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry identifier: ACTRN12618001196235..
Correcting matrix products over the ring of integers
Creators: name: Wu, Yu-Lun
name: Wang, Hung-Lung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Let $A$, $B$, and $C$ be three $n\times n$ matrices. We investigate the problem of verifying whether $AB=C$ over the ring of integers and finding the correct product $AB$. Given that $C$ is different from $AB$ by at most $k$ entries, we propose an algorithm that uses $O(\sqrt{k}n^2+k^2n)$ operations.
 Let $α$ be the largest absolute value of an entry in $A$, $B$, and $C$. The integers involved in the computation are of $O(n^3α^2)$.
description: 10 pages
Code conversion with the quantum Golay code for a universal transversal gate set
Creators: name: Sullivan, Matthew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The $[[7,1,3]]$ Steane code and $[[23,1,7]]$ quantum Golay code have been identified as good candidates for fault-tolerant quantum computing via code concatenation. These two codes have transversal implementations of all Clifford gates, but require some other scheme for fault-tolerant $T$ gates. Using magic states, Clifford operations, and measurements is one common scheme, but magic state distillation can have a large overhead. Code conversion is one avenue for implementing a universal gate set fault-tolerantly without the use of magic state distillation. Analogously to how the $[[7,1,3]]$ Steane code can be fault-tolerantly converted to and from the $[[15,1,3]]$ Reed-Muller code which has a transversal $T$ gate, the $[[23,1,7]]$ Golay code can be converted to a $[[95,1,7]]$ triorthogonal code with a transversal $T$ gate. A crucial ingredient to this procedure is the $[[49,1,5]]$ triorthogonal code, which can itself be seen as related to the self-dual $[[17,1,5]]$ 2D color code. Additionally, a method for code conversion based on a transversal CNOT between the codes, rather than stabilizer measurements, is described.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures, equivalent to published version
Quantum simulation of Pauli channels and dynamical maps: algorithm and implementation
Creators: name: Basile, Tomas
name: Pineda, Carlos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Pauli channels are fundamental in the context of quantum computing as they model the simplest kind of noise in quantum devices. We propose a quantum algorithm for simulating Pauli channels and extend it to encompass Pauli dynamical maps (parametrized Pauli channels). A parametrized quantum circuit is employed to accommodate for dynamical maps. We also establish the mathematical conditions for an N-qubit transformation to be achievable using a parametrized circuit where only one single-qubit operation depends on the parameter. The implementation of the proposed circuit is demonstrated using IBM's quantum computers for the case of one qubit, and the fidelity of this implementation is reported.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures
Brom Bones Meets the Count de Buffon: Race, Biopower, and Natural History in ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’
Creators: name: Campbell, Theo Joy
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: In Washington Irving’s short story ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’, animals are everywhere and almost seem interchangeable with humans. Nevertheless, the story’s pervasive animal imagery has received scant critical attention. In this paper, I consider the blurring human/animal binary in the story as a proxy for blurred lines between different ‘races’ of humans coexisting in Early America. Washington Irving uses his satirical Dutch narrator Dietrich Knickerbocker’s engagement with the Count de Buffon’s Natural History to question categorization based on the interrelated concepts of species and race, which were becoming important in an increasingly biopolitical early United States. I place Irving’s engagement with natural history in context before considering the ‘racial’ tension between the Dutch and the Yankees that Knickerbocker constructs in ‘Sleepy Hollow’. Irving marks this tension as satire in part through Knickerbocker’s deployment of bears and lions, two animal metaphors with special significance in Buffonian natural history. Close attention to the implications of these metaphors complicates our understanding of Brom Bones, a central but understudied character. I also discuss how this satirical use of race could deepen our understanding of ‘Sleepy Hollow’s’ actual racialized characters. Focusing on the animals in ‘Sleepy Hollow’ reveals Irving’s critique of using science to categorize humans into distinct racial groupings for political convenience and complicates our understanding of how early Americans grappled with the interplay between shifting scientific and political paradigms.