cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Optically detected Electron Paramagnetic Resonance of Metalloproteins
Creators: name: Börger-Enkisch, Birgit
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Elektronenspinresonanz
subject: Kohärente Ramanstreuung
subject: Azurin
subject: Rubredoxin
subject: magnetischer Zirkulardichroismus
subject: electron paramagnetc resonance
subject: Azurin, Rubredoxin
subject: magnetic circular dichroism
subject: coherent Raman scattering
subject: metalloproteins
subject: EPR
subject: 530

description: Metalloproteins, that is proteins containing metal ions, play a key role in biochemical processess. This thesis presents a novel spectroscopic technique, optically detected electron paramagnetic resonance (ODEPR) spectroscopy, which can be applied to the study of metalloproteins. In this work experimental results from different biological samples are presented, where we focus on the copper protein azurin and the iron-sulfurprotein rubredoxin. In addition, the ODEPR spectra are interpreted by means of a theoretical model, which leads to the determination of key parameters such as the optical polarisation of the involved transitions. This thesis demonstrates that ODEPR spectroscopy can serve to improve our understanding of the electronic structure of metalloproteins, and to complement standard spectroscopy methods.
gasAcu1-4.chrom.sizes
Creators: name: Chen, Heidi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Genomics

description: A file for the gasAcu1-4 Threespine Stickleback genome assembly hub Related publications: Roberts Kingman, Garrett A., Deven N. Vyas, Felicity C. Jones, Shannon D. Brady, Heidi I. Chen, Kerry Reid, Mark Milhaven, et al. “Predicting Future from Past: The Genomic Basis of Recurrent and Rapid Stickleback Evolution.” Science Advances 7, no. 25 (June 18, 2021): eabg5285. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abg5285. Roberts Kingman, Garrett, Heidi Chen, David Kingsley, Deven Vyas, Krishna Veeramah, Felicity Jones, and Mike Bell. “Resources for GasAcu1-4, a New Stickleback Reference Genome.” Dryad, 2020. https://doi.org/10.5061/DRYAD.547D7WM6T.
Isoperimetric inequalities for finite perimeter sets under lower Ricci curvature bounds
Creators: name: Cavalletti, Fabio
name: Mondino, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove that the results regarding the Isoperimetric inequality and Cheeger constant formulated in terms of the Minkowski content, obtained by the authors in previous papers in the framework of essentially non-branching metric measure spaces verifying the local curvature dimension condition, also hold in the stronger formulation in terms of the perimeter.
description: 13 pages, final version to appear in Rend. Lincei Mat. Appl. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1505.02061
Design and synthesis of small organic molecules as blockers of neuronal calcium ion channels relevant to neuropathic pain
Creators: name: Sairaman, Anjali
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 30499 Medicinal and Biomolecular Chemistry not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Over the last decade, there has been extensive research into the identification of drug leads to treat chronic pain, which are presented in Chapter 1. Of relevance to this work are the peptides ω-Conotoxins, isolated from the marine cone snail that belongs to the genus Conus. ω-Conotoxin GVIA binds essentially irreversibly and selectively to the Cav2.2 channel, a validated target for the treatment of neuropathic pain and is thus considered as a potential lead for drug development. ω-Conotoxin GVIA has a number of key amino acid residues that are crucial for its biological activity. Small molecule peptidomimetics of ω-Conotoxin GVIA that possess a benzothiazole core scaffold structure and appropriate side-chain mimics have been previously reported by our group.In the hope of improving the Cav2.2 channel inhibition, a comprehensive structureactivity relationship study of the previously reported benzothiazole mimetic was undertaken.
Twenty seven compounds were synthesized and all were tested for Cav2.2 and Cav3.2 channel inhibition using FLIPR assay. Our synthetic approach to these compounds, their
biological activity and pharmacokinetic properties are discussed in Chapter 2. Chapter 3 discusses the effect of conformational restriction on binding to neuronal calcium ion
channels, which was studied using three different scaffolds with in-built structural rigidity. Eleven compounds were synthesized, and a couple of them exhibited good Cav2.2 inhibition. Chapter 4 details the development of lower molecular weight analogues which involved substituted phenoxyanilides and pyrimidine based compounds. Commendable Cav2.2 and Cav3.2 inhibition activity were observed in both the scaffold series. Finally, Chapter 5 contains the overall summary and conclusions drawn from this thesis. Our efforts to address the need to treat neuropathic pain accomplished a series of compounds with different scaffolds with moderate Cav2.2 and Cav3.2 channel inhibition.
MOB PSYCHOLOGY IMPLIED IN PAKISTAN STOCK MARKET VIA SPORTING EVENTS
Creators: name: Faheem Aslam, Hyoung-Goo Kang
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2019
Subjects: Sporting Events
Cricket
Mob Psychology
Pakistan Stock Exchange
Stock market prices
Mood Swing
Ordinary Least Squares (OLS)
Macroeconomic variable
Event Study.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 10, 17, 10A17N: 1-16
Constraints on Scalar-Pseudoscalar and Tensorial Non-Standard Interaction and Tensorial Unparticle Couplings from Neutrino-Electron Scattering
Creators: name: Deniz, M.
name: Sevda, B.
name: Kerman, S.
name: Ajjaq, A.
name: Singh, L.
name: Wong, H. T.
name: Zeyrek, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Neutrino-electron scattering is a purely leptonic fundamental interaction and therefore provides an important channel to test the Standard Model, especially at the low energy-momentum transfer regime. We derived constraints on neutrino nonstardard interaction couplings depending on model-independent approaches which are described by a four-Fermi pointlike interaction and unparticle physics model with tensorial components. Data on $\barν_{e}-e$ and $ν_{e}-e$ scattering from the TEXONO and LSND experiments, respectively, are used. The upper limits and the allowed regions of scalar, pseudoscalar, and tensorial nonstandard interaction couplings of neutrinos are derived at 90\% confidence level in both one-parameter and two-parameter analysis. New upper limits for tensorial unparticle physics coupling constants and mass parameters are also placed.
description: 9 pages, 10 figures
(200469) Alfred Hayter Chase
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Preparation and Characterization of Pectin-based Polymers
Creators: name: SIEW YIN CHAN
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 90408 Rheology
subject: FOS: Chemical engineering
subject: 30301 Chemical Characterisation of Materials
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 30302 Nanochemistry and Supramolecular Chemistry
subject: 30304 Physical Chemistry of Materials
subject: 30305 Polymerisation Mechanisms
subject: 90301 Biomaterials
subject: FOS: Medical engineering

description: Pectin is a natural, renewable and sustainable biopolymer. However, the insolubility of pectin in organic solvents and inability to form stable hydrogels limit its applications. This thesis reported various chemical modifications of pectin in order to overcome the limitations of pectin. Through these chemical modifications, new functionalities were bestowed on hybrid pectin-based materials, enhancing their utilities in a wide array of applications.
Additive invariants for knots, links and graphs in 3-manifolds
Creators: name: Taylor, Scott A.
name: Tomova, Maggy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M25, 57M27, 57M50

description: We define two new families of invariants for (3-manifold, graph) pairs which detect the unknot and are additive under connected sum of pairs and (-1/2)-additive under trivalent vertex sum of pairs. The first of these families is closely related to both bridge number and tunnel number. The second of these families is a variation and generalization of Gabai's width for knots in the 3-sphere. We give applications to the tunnel number and higher genus bridge number of connected sums of knots.
description: Accepted by G&T. Newest version includes some simplifications and an additional application to higher genus bridge number
Supplementary document for Impact of Pump Beam Spot Size on Semiconductor Carrier Dynamics in Optical-Pump-THz-Probe Spectroscopy - 6489715.pdf
Creators: name: Staechelin, Yannic
name: Kroh, Tobias
name: Kaertner, Franz
name: Lange, Holger
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Information
Elaboración de un plan estratégico para la institución educativa Miguel De Cervantes
Creators: name: García More, Jairo Andrés
name: Martinez Hoyos, Jairo De La Cruz
Publisher: name: Universidad de Cartagena
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Planeación estratégica
subject: Planeación empresarial
subject: Institución educativa Miguel de Cervantes - Planeación estratégica

description: El presente estudio tiene por objeto elaborar un Plan estratégico para la Institución educativa Miguel de Cervantes, que contribuya al mejoramiento de su competitividad. laborar un Plan estratégico para la Institución educativa Miguel de Cervantes, que contribuya al mejoramiento de su competitividad.
Genome Engineering of Mammalian Cells using Phage N15 Protelomerase
Creators: name: PEI SHENG LIEW
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology

description: TelN protelomerase is a multi-functional microbial enzyme that functions only on telomere-occupancy-site (tos) in constructing linear DNA. While TelN-tos-based linear DNA is stably maintained in bacteria, its stability in the mammalian cell remains unclear. The thesis examines TelN’s stable functionalities in human and mouse cells to process and maintain DNA-bearing tos. It was found that TelN’s cut, rejoin and replicating activities are significantly retained in tested cells and impact on linear DNA formation. Overall, the study describes useful methodologies and approaches to investigate the stable native functions of the microbial genetic system to form linear DNA in animal cell environment.
Deep Coarse-grained Potentials via Relative Entropy Minimization
Creators: name: Thaler, Stephan
name: Stupp, Maximilian
name: Zavadlav, Julija
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: I.2.6; I.6.5; J.2

description: Neural network (NN) potentials are a natural choice for coarse-grained (CG) models. Their many-body capacity allows highly accurate approximations of the potential of mean force, promising CG simulations at unprecedented accuracy. CG NN potentials trained bottom-up via force matching (FM), however, suffer from finite data effects: They rely on prior potentials for physically sound predictions outside the training data domain and the corresponding free energy surface is sensitive to errors in transition regions. The standard alternative to FM for classical potentials is relative entropy (RE) minimization, which has not yet been applied to NN potentials. In this work, we demonstrate for benchmark problems of liquid water and alanine dipeptide that RE training is more data efficient due to accessing the CG distribution during training, resulting in improved free energy surfaces and reduced sensitivity to prior potentials. In addition, RE learns to correct time integration errors, allowing larger time steps in CG molecular dynamics simulation while maintaining accuracy. Thus, our findings support the use of training objectives beyond FM as a promising direction for improving CG NN potential accuracy and reliability.
description: This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in The Journal of Chemical Physics
The evolution of glycerol droplet with elapsed time at various heating temperature from Observation of viscous liquid flow in tobacco substrate during heating using optical coherence tomography
Creators: name: Pratiwi, Tiara N.
name: Iwai, Toshiaki
name: Nakaya, Iori
name: Lenggoro, I. Wuled
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: Optical Physics not elsewhere classified
Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS)
Physical Chemistry not elsewhere classified

description: The present study used optical coherence tomography (OCT) to monitor the dynamics of a highly viscous liquid in a porous tobacco substrate during heating. The OCT technique was integrated with a specially designed heating chamber and an air pump for measuring. Two transitional points in the liquid behaviours at different temperatures were estimated using OCT and statistical analysis of the attenuation coefficient. The first point, ‘A’, shows the time approximation at which the penetration-dominant zone transitions into the evaporation-dominant zone. The second point, ‘B’, indicates the time approximation at which rapid evaporation of free liquid transitions into slow evaporation of trapped and bound liquid. This analytical system is an alternative for tracking liquid transport in porous biomass during heating.
Cinclidotus riparius Arn.
Creators: name: Kiebacher, Thomas
name: Lüth, Michael
name: Lüth, Volker
name: Kučera, Jan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Pottiales
Cinclidotaceae
Cinclidotus
Cinclidotus riparius

description: Cinclidotus riparius (Host ex Brid.) Arn.
 In Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Paris 7: 247 (1827). — Gymnostomum riparium Host ex Brid., Journal für die Botanik 1800 (1): 274 (1801).
 Cinclidotus confertus Lüth, Cryptogamie, Bryologie 23: 11-16 (2002), syn. nov.
description: Published as part of Kiebacher, Thomas, Lüth, Michael, Lüth, Volker & Kučera, Jan, 2019, Morphological and molecular evidence for synonymy of Cinclidotus confertus Lüth with C. riparius (Host ex Brid.) Arn., pp. 259-269 in Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (20) on page 263, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2019v40a20, http://zenodo.org/record/7999944
Microencapsulation of catechin with cyclodextrin for functional food development
Creators: name: SIYIN HO
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 90899 Food Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies

description: The antioxidant catechin is astringent in taste, sparingly soluble in water and sensitive to oxygen, light and pH. These properties can restrict its application in food products. A finishing formulation that is capable of protecting catechin is needed to deliver this antioxidant to its physiological targets with minimal loss of bioactivity. The present study has investigated environmental and physiological parameters related to the stability of encapsulated catechin within β-cyclodextrin in common food matrices, with a view to developing new functional foods and health supplements.
Efficient Self-Supervision using Patch-based Contrastive Learning for Histopathology Image Segmentation
Creators: name: Boserup, Nicklas
name: Selvan, Raghavendra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Learning discriminative representations of unlabelled data is a challenging task. Contrastive self-supervised learning provides a framework to learn meaningful representations using learned notions of similarity measures from simple pretext tasks. In this work, we propose a simple and efficient framework for self-supervised image segmentation using contrastive learning on image patches, without using explicit pretext tasks or any further labeled fine-tuning. A fully convolutional neural network (FCNN) is trained in a self-supervised manner to discern features in the input images and obtain confidence maps which capture the network's belief about the objects belonging to the same class. Positive- and negative- patches are sampled based on the average entropy in the confidence maps for contrastive learning. Convergence is assumed when the information separation between the positive patches is small, and the positive-negative pairs is large. The proposed model only consists of a simple FCNN with 10.8k parameters and requires about 5 minutes to converge on the high resolution microscopy datasets, which is orders of magnitude smaller than the relevant self-supervised methods to attain similar performance. We evaluate the proposed method for the task of segmenting nuclei from two histopathology datasets, and show comparable performance with relevant self-supervised and supervised methods.
description: Version of this article (without Appendices) is accepted for an oral presentation at the 6th Northern Lights Deep Learning Conference, 2023, Troms{\o}, Norway. 15 pages, 8 figures. Source code at https://github.com/nickeopti/bach-contrastive-segmentation
Understanding the Palaeovolcanological and Palaeoenvironmental setting of Archaean VMS Deposit: Stratigraphic Architecture and Volcanology of the Archaean VMS host rock succession of the Teutonic Bore, Jaguar and Bentley Mine corridor, Eastern Goldfields Province, Western Australia
Creators: name: RITIPURNA DAS
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Geochemistry
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 40311 Stratigraphy (incl. Biostratigraphy and Sequence Stratigraphy)
subject: 40314 Volcanology
subject: Geology

description: The thesis focuses on understanding of the volcanological processes and stratigraphic architecture of the volcanic and sedimentary host rock succession to the Archean Teutonic Bore Volcanic hosted massive sulphide complex in the Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia. The Teutonic Bore VMS complex consists of the Teutonic Bore, Jaguar and Bentley VMS deposits, located in the Gindalbie domain of Eastern Goldfields in Western Australia. The research also involves the geochemical characterisation of the host rock facies and assesses the paleoenvironmental and tectonic setting of the area.
Supplementary document for Photon-pair production at the nanoscale with hybrid nonlinear/plasmonic antennas - 6444377.pdf
Creators: name: Laurent, Guillaume
name: Mathew, Sandy
name: Chauvet, Nicolas
name: Nogues, Gilles
name: Drezet, Aurelien
name: Bachelier, Guillaume
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary - 1
Physiologische Charakterisierung und Expression von humanen Tyrosylprotein Sulfotransferasen
Creators: name: Göttsch, Sandra
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Sulfatierung
subject: Tyrosylprotein Sulfotransferase
subject: Expression
subject: Lokalisation
subject: 540

description: Die Sulfatierung von Tyrosyl-Resten in Proteinen ist die häufigste posttranslationale Modifikation dieser Aminosäure und ihr physiologischer Einfluss ist bisher erst in wenigen Fällen geklärt. Es zeigte sich, dass die sulfatierten Tyrosyl-Reste z. B. bei der effektiven Abwehr von Pathogenen, der Blutgerinnung, der Entzündungshemmung und dem Verdau von Nahrung eine Rolle spielen. Über die Enzyme, die den Sulfuryl-Transfer auf Tyrosyl-Reste von Proteinen katalysieren, ist bisher wenig bekannt. Im ersten Teil der Arbeit wurden deshalb die Tyrosylprotein Sulfotransferasen physiologisch charakterisiert. Die Lokalisation von hTPST1-GFP-Fusionsproteinen in COS-7-Zellen erfolgte im Golgi-Apparat. Weiterhin konnte nachgewiesen werden, dass es sich bei der Schubspannung, die aufgrund des Blutflusses auf die gefäßabschließenden Endothelzellen (HUVEC) einwirkt, um einen Regulator für die Expression beider TPST-Isoformen in diesen Zellen handelt. Bei geringer Schubspannung (entsprechend einem kapillären, venösen oder leicht arteriellen Blutfluss) liegt in HUVECs hauptsächlich TPST1 vor. Bei höherer Schubspannung (entsprechend dem venösen und arteriellen Blutfluss) wechselt die Isoform, es wird TPST2 verstärkt exprimiert. Dieser Wechsel der Isoformen induziert durch die Schubspannung ist zusätzlich zeitabhängig. Die Verringerung der TPST1-Expression erfolgt erst nach längerer Applikation des Stimulus. Die Expression von TPST2 in HUVECs wird bereits nach wenigen Stunden erhöht. Es konnte auch gezeigt werden, dass die Regulation der Expression über verschiedene Signalkaskaden innerhalb der Endothelzelle verläuft. So wird die Verringerung der TPST1-Expression durch einen Inhibitor von Tyrosyl Kinasen verhindert. Die Steigerung der Expression von TPST2 bei höheren Schubspannungswerten wird vollständig durch die Zugabe eines Protein Kinase C-Inhibitors unterdrückt. Dieser Isoform-Wechsel der TPSTs in Abhängigkeit vom Blutfluss könnte einen entscheidenden Einfluss auf die posttranslationale Modifikation ihrer Substrate haben, was sich danach wiederum auf die lebensnotwendigen physiologischen Prozesse, in denen diese Substrate involviert sind, auswirkt. Im zweiten Teil der Arbeit sollten beide Isoformen löslich, also ohne Transmembrandomäne, exprimiert werden. In den Hefezellen P. pastoris X-33 wurden beide Isoformen in löslicher Form exprimiert. Es gelang die Anreicherung der Proteine mittels Immobilisierter Metallionen-Affinitätschromatografie (IMAC). In dem in der Literatur beschriebenen Aktivitätsassay für TPSTs zeigten beide Enzyme eine Bindung an PAPS, die auf die native Faltung der Proteine schließen lässt. Zusätzlich konnte nachgewiesen werden, dass die Übertragung des Sulfuryl-Restes vom Donor PAPS auf das Akzeptor-Molekül Hirudin erfolgt. Damit standen am Ende der Arbeit beide hTPSTs löslich und aktiv zur Verfügung.
(200473) George Richardson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Development and characterization of encapsulated alpha-mangostin for improved aqueous solubility and bioaccessibility using xanthone as a model study
Creators: name: LI YOKE HO
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 90899 Food Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies

description: Xanthones, particularly α-mangostin contains antioxidant and pharmacological properties. However, its poor aqueous-solubility limits its application. This study aimed to use xanthone as a model to improve aqueous solubility of α-mangostin using natural polymers. Microencapsulation techniques such as oil-in-water emulsion and complex coacervation were used, compared and optimized. The current characterization study confirmed successful xanthones encapsulation, maintained chemical stability and free-flowing powder. Results show that α-mangostin improved in aqueous solubility and bioaccesibility, thus increasing their potential use as a functional food ingredient and in pharmaceutical applications. The solubilizing effect of oil and wall material and decreased crystallinity were responsible for enhancing the aqueous solubility of xanthones.
Open Connect Everywhere: A Glimpse at the Internet Ecosystem through the Lens of the Netflix CDN
Creators: name: Böttger, Timm
name: Cuadrado, Felix
name: Tyson, Gareth
name: Castro, Ignacio
name: Uhlig, Steve
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The importance of IXPs to interconnect different networks and exchange traffic locally has been well studied over the last few years. However, far less is known about the role IXPs play as a platform to enable large-scale content delivery and to reach a world-wide customer base. In this paper, we study the infrastructure deployment of a content hypergiant, Netflix, and show that the combined worldwide IXP substrate is the major corner stone of its Content Delivery Network. To meet its worldwide demand for high-quality video delivery, Netflix has built a dedicated CDN. Its scale allows us to study a major part of the Internet ecosystem, by observing how Netflix takes advantage of the combined capabilities of IXPs and ISPs present in different regions. We find wide disparities in the regional Netflix deployment and traffic levels at IXPs and ISPs across various local ecosystems. This highlights the complexity of large-scale content delivery as well as differences in the capabilities of IXPs in specific regions. On a global scale we find that the footprint provided by IXPs allows Netflix to deliver most of its traffic directly from them. This highlights the additional role that IXPs play in the Internet ecosystem, not just in terms of interconnection, but also allowing players such as Netflix to deliver significant amounts of traffic.
Battery cycler to generate open li-ion cell aging data and models
Creators: name: Luh, Matthias
name: Blank, Thomas
Publisher: name: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Year: 2022
Subjects: Batteries
Lifetime
Power cycling
Battery impedance measurement
Gallium Nitride (GaN)

description: Battery degradation is relevant for the lifetime, cost, and life cycle analysis of electric vehicles and stationary storages. Publicly available, reusable battery aging data is scarce and aging experiments are time-consuming and expensive. This paper starts with an overview of existing battery aging data and models. We then present our battery cycler hardware, which we intend to use to generate open battery degradation data and models. After analyzing the switching behavior, efficiency, and control behavior of the hardware, this paper gives an overview of the generated data and the user interface of the battery cycler. Finally, we provide an outlook on the further development of the project.
(200475) Mary Richardson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Structure-activity studies of nitrogen and alkyl substituted ecdysteroid analogues
Creators: name: Kelly, Barry Allan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Insects unlike vertebrates do no possess an expandable skin but instead a tough cuticle which is incapable of growth or change. For insect development to occur therefore, the cuticle must be discarded and replaced with new cuticular tissue to accommodate the new insect form. The process by which insects renew their cuticle is known as moulting or ecdysis. [...]
Possible charmed-strange molecular dibaryons
Creators: name: Kong, Shu-Yi
name: Zhu, Jun-Tao
name: He, Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we systematically investigate the dibaryons with charm number $C$=1 and strangeness number $S$=$\pm$ 1 from the interactions of a charmed baryon and a strange baryon $Λ_cΛ$, $Λ_cΣ^{(*)}$, $Σ_c^{(*)}Λ$, and $Σ^{(*)}_cΣ^{(*)}$, and corresponding interactions of a charmed baryon and an antistrange baryon $Λ_c\barΛ$, $Λ_c\barΣ^{(*)}$, $Σ^{(*)}_c\barΛ$, and $Σ^{(*)}_c\barΣ^{(*)}$. With the help of the effective Lagrangians with $SU(3)$, heavy quark, and chiral symmetries, the potentials of the interactions considered are constructed by light meson exchanges. To search for the possible molecules, the quasipotential Bethe-Salpeter equation with the interaction potential kernel is solved to find poles from scattering amplitude. The results suggest that attractions widely exist in charmed-strange system with $C$=1 and $S$=$-1$. The $S$-wave bound states can be produced from most of the channels. Few bound states are also produced from the charmed-antistrange interactions. Couple-channel effect are considered in the current work to discuss the couplings of the molecular states to the channels considered. More experimental research for these charmed-strange dibaryons are suggested.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures
EFFECTS OF RIPARIAN BUFFERS ON STREAM ECOSYSTEMS IN OIL PALM PLANTATIONS IN BORNEO: A STUDY OF ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING AND BIODIVERSITY
Creators: name: DARSHANAA A/P CHELLAIAH
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 60204 Freshwater Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 120504 Land Use and Environmental Planning
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography
subject: Ecology

description: This thesis evaluated the impacts of converting tropical forests into oil palm plantations on stream ecosystem functioning and to assess the efficacy of riparian vegetation quality to mitigate impacts on i) stream physical and chemical properties ii) functional measure – rates of leaf litter decomposition, iii) structural measures - bacterial decomposer and macroinvertebrate communities.
Field Patterns: A New Mathematical Object
Creators: name: Milton, Graeme W.
name: Mattei, Ornella
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Field patterns occur in space-time microstructures such that a disturbance propagating along a characteristic line does not evolve into a cascade of disturbances, but rather concentrates on a pattern of characteristic lines. This pattern is the field pattern. In one spatial direction plus time, the field patterns occur when the slope of the characteristics is, in a sense, commensurate with the space-time microstructure. Field patterns with different spatial shifts do not generally interact, but rather evolve as if they live in separate dimensions, as many dimensions as the number of field patterns. Alternatively one can view a collection as a multicomponent potential, with as many components as the number of field patterns. Presumably if one added a tiny nonlinear term to the wave equation one would then see interactions between these field patterns in the multidimensional space that one can consider them to live, or between the different field components of the multicomponent potential if one views them that way. As a result of PT-symmetry many of the complex eigenvalues of an appropriately defined transfer matrix have unit norm and hence the corresponding eigenvectors correspond to propagating modes. There are also modes that blow up exponentially with time.
description: 31 pages, 19 figures
Evaluation of comparative efficacy of Navak Guggulu as against Vachaharidradi Gana Vati in the management of Sthaulya (Overweight) in children: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Creators: name: Dr. Kavita K. Fadnavis
name: Dr. Renu B. Rathi
name: Dr. Karuna S. Ratnaparkhi
name: Dr. Bharat Rathi
name: Dr. Paresh R. Deshmukh
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Childhood obesity
Atisthula
Sthaulya
Vachaharidrdi gana
vati
Navak Guggulu
Suryanamaskara
overweight

description: Background - Urbanization & industrialization is contributing to the change in the lifestyle and food preferences especially in children. Childhood obesity is mainly a lifestyle-oriented disorder. It is a rising global burden with its lifelong implications. If not treated in childhood period, it may land up in adulthood with serious complications. In Ayurveda Classics, Sthaulya is the condition which can be referred to obesity. Being over-obese is termed as Atisthula and is counted under eight censurable physiques. So, present study is selected as Randomised controlled trial to treat overweight children in order to avoid future complications and growth arrest. Aim & Objectives: Evaluation of the Efficacy of Navak Guggulu as a standard control against Vachaharidradi gana vati in overweight children lying in age group 10-16 yrs.: -A Randomised Controlled Clinical Trial Methodology- After doing drug analysis, a total of 86 overweight children fitting into inclusion criteria from 10 to 16 years of the age group will be randomly divided into 2 groups. One group will be trial group and other group will be control group. Control group will be given Navak Guggulu and trial group will be given Vachahardiradi gana vati tablet. The medicines will be provided to subjects in double blinding manner. Both the groups will receive medicines for 180 days along with diet restriction and Suryanamaskara (S) and they will be followed up every 15 days and their assessment during each visit will be recorded in the case record form. Result – Results will be drawn statistically from the assessment criteria observed on the case record form with the help of subjective and objective parameters. Discussion – At the end of the study, discussion will be done for each criteria depending on statistical calculations and overall improvement.
Supplementary document for Photon-pair production at the nanoscale with hybrid nonlinear/plasmonic antennas - 6444377.pdf
Creators: name: Laurent, Guillaume
name: Mathew, Sandy
name: Chauvet, Nicolas
name: Nogues, Gilles
name: Drezet, Aurelien
name: Bachelier, Guillaume
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental document.
Full counting statistics in the many-body Hatano-Nelson model
Creators: name: Dóra, B.
name: Moca, C. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study non-hermitian many-body physics in the interacting Hatano-Nelson model with open boundary condition. The violation of reciprocity, resulting from an imaginary vector potential, induces the non-hermitian skin-effect and causes exponential localization for all single particle eigenfunctions in the non-interacting limit. Nevertheless, the density profile of the interacting system becomes only slightly tilted relative to the average filling. The Friedel oscillations exhibit a beating pattern due to the modification of the Fermi wavenumber. The probability distribution of particles over any finite interval is the normal distribution, whose mean scales with the imaginary vector potential and the variance is symmetric to the center of the chain. This is confirmed by several numerically exact methods even for relatively small systems. These features are expected to be generic not only for fermions, which naturally repel each other due to Pauli's exclusion principle, but for interacting bosons as well. Our findings indicate that many-body effects can significantly alter and conceal the single particle properties and the skin effect in non-hermitian systems.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Direct collapse of exceptionally heavy black holes in the merger-driven scenario
Creators: name: Zwick, Lorenz
name: Mayer, Lucio
name: Haemmerlé, Lionel
name: Klessen, Ralf S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit the conditions present in supermassive discs (SMDs) formed by the merger of gas-rich, metal-enriched galaxies at red-shift $z\sim 10$. We find that SMDs naturally form hydrostatic cores which go through a rapidly accreting supermassive star phase, before directly collapsing into massive black holes via the general relativistic instability. The growth and collapse of the cores occurs within $\sim 5\times 10^5$ yr from the formation of the SMD, producing bright electromagnetic, neutrino and gravitational wave transients with a typical duration of a few minutes and, respectively, a typical flux and a typical strain amplitude at Earth of $\sim 10^{-8}$ erg s$^{-1}$ cm$^{-2}$ and $\sim4\times 10^{-21}$. We provide a simple fitting formula for the the resulting black hole masses, which range from a few $10^6$ M$_{\odot}$ to $10^8$ M$_{\odot}$ depending on the initial SMD configuration. Crucially, our analysis does not require any specific assumption on the thermal properties of the gas, nor on the angular momentum loss mechanisms within the SMD. Led by these findings, we argue that the merger-driven scenario provides a robust pathway for the rapid formation of supermassive black holes at $z > 6$. It provides an explanation for the origin of the brightest and oldest quasars without the need of a sustained growth phase from a much smaller seed. Its smoking gun signatures can be tested directly via multi-messenger observations.
description: Published by MNRAS. Comments welcome!!
Antimicrobial and Anti-biofilm Activities of Betacyanin Fractions from Red Pitahaya (Hylocereus polyrhizus) and Red Spinach (Amaranthus dubius)
Creators: name: YI YI YONG
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 90899 Food Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies

description: This thesis examines the ability of betacyanin, a natural red-violet pigment from red pitahaya (Hylocereus polyrhizus) and red spinach (Amaranthus dubius)in inhibiting the growth of bacteria that cause diseases and bacteria attached to surfaces such as glass, polystyrene, polyvinyl chloride, polyethylene, polypropylene, and silicone rubber. Extraction was optimized to produce a betacyanin fraction and various assays were carried out to identify the best betacyanin formulation against a polymicrobial biofilm.
Kink Collision in the Noncanonical $φ^{6}$ Model: A Model with Localized Inner Structures
Creators: name: Takyi, I.
name: Gyampoh, S.
name: Barnes, B.
name: Ackora-Prah, J.
name: Okyere, G. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study collisions of kinks in the one-space and one-time dimensional noncanonical nonintegrable scalar $ϕ^{6}$ model. We examine the energy density of the kink, and we find that, as a function of the parameters that control the curvature of the potential, a localized inner structure of the energy density emerges. We also examine the kink excitation spectrum and the dynamics of the kink collisions for a wide range of initial velocities. We find that apart from the resonance windows, the production of two to three oscillons occurs for some values of the principal parameters of the model.
description: 9pages, 19figures
Aloina rigida Limpr.
Creators: name: Kiebacher, Thomas
name: Lüth, Michael
name: Lüth, Volker
name: Kučera, Jan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Pottiales
Pottiaceae
Aloina
Aloina rigida

description: Aloina rigida (Hedw.) Limpr.
 SPECIMEN. — Czech Republic. Břeclav District: Pavlov, s.d., Košnar (CBFS[CBFS 15124]; JX679952, JX679976).
description: Published as part of Kiebacher, Thomas, Lüth, Michael, Lüth, Volker & Kučera, Jan, 2019, Morphological and molecular evidence for synonymy of Cinclidotus confertus Lüth with C. riparius (Host ex Brid.) Arn., pp. 259-269 in Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (20) on page 269, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2019v40a20, http://zenodo.org/record/7999944
Bioactivity Investigation of extracts from porcupine dates
Creators: name: PENG NIAN YEW
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 110499 Complementary and Alternative Medicine not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 30502 Natural Products Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cell Biology

description: This thesis examines the medicinal effects of porcupine dates, a traditional medicine used by Asian Chinese to treat against various diseases including cancer. It provides an overview on the possible medicinal values of porcupine dates in treating cancers and inflammatory related diseases using laboratory models. Tannin compounds were identified as the active compound in porcupine date, which have good activity especially against colon cancer cell lines. Further studies can help to exploit their medicinal usage in treatment of colon cancer.
Anisotropic Spin-Orbit Scattering of Hot-Electron Spins Injected into Ferromagnetic Thin-Films
Creators: name: Jansen, R.
name: Kim, S. D.
name: Lodder, J. C.
name: Van't Erve, O. M. J.
name: Vlutters, R.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Anomalous Conductance of a strongly interacting Fermi Gas through a Quantum Point Contact
Creators: name: Liu, Boyang
name: Zhai, Hui
name: Zhang, Shizhong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we study the particle conductance of a strongly interacting Fermi gas through a quantum point contact. With an atom-molecule two-channel model, we compute the contribution to particle conductance by both the fermionic atoms and the bosonic molecules using the Keldysh formalism. Focusing on the regime above the Fermi superfluid transition temperature, we find that the fermionic contribution to the conductance is reduced by interaction compared with the quantized value for the non-interacting case; while the bosonic contribution to the conductance exhibits a plateau with non-universal values that is larger than the quantized conductance. This feature is particularly profound at temperature close to the superfluid transition. We emphasize that the enhanced conductance arises because of the bosonic nature of closed channel molecules and the low-dimensionality of the quantum point contact.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures
The Propagation of Coherent Waves Across Multiple Solar Magnetic Pores
Creators: name: Grant, S. D. T.
name: Jess, D. B.
name: Stangalini, M.
name: Jafarzadeh, S.
name: Fedun, V.
name: Verth, G.
name: Keys, P. H.
name: Rajaguru, S. P.
name: Uitenbroek, H.
name: Macbride, C. D.
name: Bate, W.
name: Gilchrist-Millar, C. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Solar pores are efficient magnetic conduits for propagating magnetohydrodynamic wave energy into the outer regions of the solar atmosphere. Pore observations often contain isolated and/or unconnected structures, preventing the statistical examination of wave activity as a function of atmospheric height. Here, using high resolution observations acquired by the Dunn Solar Telescope, we examine photospheric and chromospheric wave signatures from a unique collection of magnetic pores originating from the same decaying sunspot. Wavelet analysis of high cadence photospheric imaging reveals the ubiquitous presence of slow sausage mode oscillations, coherent across all photospheric pores through comparisons of intensity and area fluctuations, producing statistically significant in-phase relationships. The universal nature of these waves allowed an investigation of whether the wave activity remained coherent as they propagate. Utilizing bi-sector Doppler velocity analysis of the Ca II 8542 Å line, alongside comparisons of the modeled spectral response function, we find fine-scale 5 mHz power amplification as the waves propagate into the chromosphere. Phase angles approaching zero degrees between co-spatial bi-sectors spanning different line depths indicate standing sausage modes following reflection against the transition region boundary. Fourier analysis of chromospheric velocities between neighboring pores reveals the annihilation of the wave coherency observed in the photosphere, with examination of the intensity and velocity signals from individual pores indicating they behave as fractured wave guides, rather than monolithic structures. Importantly, this work highlights that wave morphology with atmospheric height is highly complex, with vast differences observed at chromospheric layers, despite equivalent wave modes being introduced into similar pores in the photosphere.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ
Optimal Strategies in Markov Games
Creators: name: Shu, Jing
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis intends to explore the optimal strategies in Markov chain games and their relevance to applications. For this, the present study not only analyses the classic optimal bold strategies that gamblers bet everything they can afford, but also takes into account the strategies for capital portfolios and certain criteria that outperform traditional bold strategies. In addition, this thesis builds a P-adic number version by modifying the original model and proposes its associated algorithms. Speci?cally, it presents a case of the 2-adic version after listing all the algorithms for the 64 strategies, and proves that the bold strategies are optimal in this case(with three strategies exceptionally optimal and still bold). While applying Probability Generating Function (PGF) approach enables us to successfully solve the gambler's ruin process, the solution of the process involving investment is not immediately obvious. Furthermore, this study introduces various Markov mouse models and ?nds that the survival probability is generally larger under the horizontal splitting context. To develop a general version of an in?nite two- and three-dimensional Markov mouse model, we have ?rst processed the versions of the mouse in both vertical and horizontal models, during the former of which the optimality depends on the probability of being caught, whereas the latter case always outperforms when the number of grids increases. We have also applied the lumped Markov process and the perturbation theory to explore the transition matrix of the in?nite three-dimensional game, and ?nally,have developed a continuous version of the Markov mouse model that can produce the same results with the discrete version in terms of the absorption probability.