cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Influence of anisotropic thermal conductivity in the apparatus insulation for sublimation growth of SiC: Numerical investigation of heat transfer
Creators: name: Geiser, Jürgen
name: Klein, Olaf
name: Philip, Peter
Publisher: name: Weierstrass Institute
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Numerical simulation
subject: SiC single crystal
subject: Physical vapor transport
subject: Heat transfer
subject: Anisotropic diffusion
subject: Anisotropic thermal conductivity
subject: Nonlinear elliptic PDE's
subject: 80A20
subject: 80M25
subject: 74S10
subject: 76R50
subject: 74E10
subject: 35J60
subject: 35J65
subject: 65Z05
subject: 02.60.Cb
subject: 81.10.Bk
subject: 44.05.+e
subject: 47.27.Te

description: Using a mathematical heat transfer model including anisotropic heat conduction, radiation, and RF heating, we use our software WIAS-HiTNIHS to perform numerical computations of the temperature field in axisymmetric growth apparatus during sublimation growth of silicon carbide (SiC) bulk single crystals by physical vapor transport (PVT) (modified Lely method). As it is not unusual for the thermal insulation of PVT growth apparatus to possess an anisotropic thermal conductivity, we numerically study the influence that this anisotropic thermal conductivity has on the temperature field in the growth chamber. Moreover, we also study the influence of the thickness of the insulation. Our results show that, depending on the insulation's orientation, even a moderate anisotropy in the insulation can result in temperature variations of more than 100 K at the growing crystal's surface, which should be taken into account when designing PVT growth apparatus.
Constraining Hot Jupiter Atmospheric Structure and Dynamics through Doppler Shifted Emission Spectra
Creators: name: Zhang, Jisheng
name: Kempton, Eliza
name: Rauscher, Emily
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 97M50

description: We present a coupled 3-D atmospheric dynamics and radiative transfer model to predict the disk-integrated thermal emission spectra of transiting exoplanets in edge-on orbits. We calculate spectra at high resolution to examine the extent to which high-resolution emission spectra are influenced by 3-D atmospheric dynamics and planetary rotation, and to determine whether and how we can constrain thermal structures and atmospheric dynamics through high-resolution spectroscopy. This study represents the first time that the line-of-sight geometry and resulting Doppler shifts from winds and rotation have been treated self-consistently in an emission spectrum radiative transfer model, which allow us to assess the impact of the velocity field on thermal emission spectra. We apply our model to predict emission spectra as a function of orbital phase for three hot Jupiters, HD 209458b, WASP-43b and HD 189733b. We find net Doppler shifts in modeled spectra due to a combination of winds and rotation at a level of 1-3 km/s. These Doppler signatures vary in a quasi-sinusoidal pattern over the course of the planets' orbits as the hot spots approach and recede from the observer's viewpoint. We predict that WASP-43b produces the largest Doppler shift due to its fast rotation rate. We find that the net Doppler shift in an exoplanet's disk-integrated thermal emission spectrum results from a complex combination of winds, rotation, and thermal structure. However, we offer a simple method that estimates the magnitude of equatorial wind speeds in hot Jupiters through measurements of net Doppler shifts and lower resolution thermal phase curves.
description: 18 pages, 1 table, 7 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
A Scalable Approach to Probabilistic Latent Space Inference of Large-Scale Networks
Creators: name: Junming  Yin
name: Qirong  Ho
name: Xing, Eric P
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: 170203 Knowledge Representation and Machine Learning
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: We propose a scalable approach for making inference about latent spaces of large networks. With a succinct representation of networks as a bag of triangular motifs, a parsimonious statistical model, and an efficient stochastic variational inference algorithm, we are able to analyze real networks with over a million vertices and hundreds of latent roles on a single machine in a matter of hours, a setting that is out of reach for many existing methods. When compared to the state-of-the-art probabilistic approaches, our method is several orders of magnitude faster, with competitive or improved accuracy for latent space recovery and link prediction.
A nonparametric mixture model for topic modeling over time
Creators: name: Avinava  Dubey
name: Hefny, Ahmed
name: Sinead  Williamson
name: Xing, Eric P
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: 170203 Knowledge Representation and Machine Learning
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: A single, stationary topic model such as latent Dirichlet allocation is inappropriate for modeling corpora that span long time periods, as the popularity of topics is likely to change over time. A number of models that incorporate time have been proposed, but in general they either exhibit limited forms of temporal variation, or require computationally expensive inference methods. In this paper we propose nonparametric Topics over Time (npTOT), a model for time-varying topics that allows an unbounded number of topics and flexible distribution over the temporal variations in those topics’ popularity. We develop a collapsed Gibbs sampler for the proposed model and compare against existing models on synthetic and real document sets.
On non-uniform smeared black branes
Creators: name: Kudoh, Hideaki
name: Miyamoto, Umpei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate charged dilatonic black $p$-branes smeared on a transverse circle. The system can be reduced to neutral vacuum black branes, and we perform static perturbations for the reduced system to construct non-uniform solutions. At each order a single master equation is derived, and the Gregory-Laflamme critical wavelength is determined. Based on the non-uniform solutions, we discuss thermodynamic properties of this system and argue that in a microcanonical ensemble the non-uniform smeared branes are entropically disfavored even near the extremality, if the spacetime dimension is $D \le 13 +p$, which is the critical dimension for the vacuum case. However, the critical dimension is not universal. In a canonical ensemble the vacuum non-uniform black branes are thermodynamically favorable at $D > 12+p$, whereas the non-uniform smeared branes are favorable at $D > 14+p$ near the extremality.
description: 24 pages, 2 figures; v2: typos corrected, submitted to Class.Quant.Grav
Multiple electromagnetic electron positron pair production in relativistic heavy ion collisions
Creators: name: Alscher, Adrian
name: Hencken, Kai
name: Trautmann, Dirk
name: Baur, Gerhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the cross sections for the production of one and more electron-positron pairs due to the strong electromagnetic fields in relativistic heavy ion collisions. Using the generating functional of fermions in an external field we derive the N-pair amplitude. Neglecting the antisymmetrisation in the final state we find that the total probability to produce N pairs is a Poisson distribution. We calculate total cross sections for the production of one pair in lowest order and also include higher-order corrections from the Poisson distribution up to third order. Furthermore we calculate cross sections for the production of up to five pairs including corrections from the Poisson distribution.
description: 13 pages REVTeX, 4 Postscript figures, This and related papers may also be obtained from http://www.phys.washington.edu/~hencken/
Real-Time Illegal Parking Detection System Based on Deep Learning
Creators: name: Xie, Xuemei
name: Wang, Chenye
name: Chen, Shu
name: Shi, Guangming
name: Zhao, Zhifu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The increasing illegal parking has become more and more serious. Nowadays the methods of detecting illegally parked vehicles are based on background segmentation. However, this method is weakly robust and sensitive to environment. Benefitting from deep learning, this paper proposes a novel illegal vehicle parking detection system. Illegal vehicles captured by camera are firstly located and classified by the famous Single Shot MultiBox Detector (SSD) algorithm. To improve the performance, we propose to optimize SSD by adjusting the aspect ratio of default box to accommodate with our dataset better. After that, a tracking and analysis of movement is adopted to judge the illegal vehicles in the region of interest (ROI). Experiments show that the system can achieve a 99% accuracy and real-time (25FPS) detection with strong robustness in complex environments.
description: 5pages,6figures
Supplementary document for Simulating the Unruh Effect through Leaky Radiation of Tapered Fiber - 5204271.pdf
Creators: name: Hui, Ge
name: Sheng, Chong
name: Zhu, Shining
name: Liu, Hui
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Theoretical calculation and experimental measurement
Scaling analyses of the spectral dimension in 3-dimensional causal dynamical triangulations
Creators: name: Cooperman, Joshua H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spectral dimension measures the dimensionality of a space as witnessed by a diffusing random walker. Within the causal dynamical triangulations approach to the quantization of gravity, the spectral dimension exhibits novel scale-dependent dynamics: reducing towards a value near 2 on sufficiently small scales, matching closely the topological dimension on intermediate scales, and decaying in the presence of positive curvature on sufficiently large scales. I report the first comprehensive scaling analysis of the small-to-intermediate scale spectral dimension for the test case of the causal dynamical triangulations of 3-dimensional Einstein gravity. I find that the spectral dimension scales trivially with the diffusion constant. I find that the spectral dimension is completely finite in the infinite volume limit, and I argue that its maximal value is exactly consistent with the topological dimension of 3 in this limit. I find that the spectral dimension reduces further towards a value near 2 as this case's bare coupling approaches its phase transition, and I present evidence against the conjecture that the bare coupling simply sets the overall scale of the quantum geometry. On the basis of these findings, I advance a tentative physical explanation for the dynamical reduction of the spectral dimension observed within causal dynamical triangulations: branched polymeric quantum geometry on sufficiently small scales. My analyses should facilitate attempts to employ the spectral dimension as a physical observable with which to delineate renormalization group trajectories in the hope of taking a continuum limit of causal dynamical triangulations at a nontrivial ultraviolet fixed point.
description: 16+3 pages, 19 figures
Asteroids in the Inner Solar System I - Existence
Creators: name: Tabachnik, S. A.
name: Evans, N. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ensembles of in-plane and inclined orbits in the vicinity of the Lagrange points of the terrestrial planets are integrated for up to 100 million years. The integrations incorporate the gravitational effects of Sun and the eight planets (Pluto is neglected). Mercury is the least likely planet, as it is unable to retain tadpole orbits over 100 million year timescales. Both Venus and the Earth are much more promising, as they possess rich families of stable tadpole and horseshoe orbits. Our survey of Trojans in the orbital plane of Venus is undertaken for 25 million years. Some 40% of the survivors are on tadpole orbits. For the Earth, the integrations are pursued for 50 million years. The stable zones in the orbital plane are larger for the Earth than for Venus, but fewer of the survivors are tadpoles. Both Venus and the Earth also have regions in which inclined test particles can endure near the Lagrange points. For Venus, only test particles close to the orbital plane are stable. For the Earth, there are two bands of stability, one at low inclinations (i < 16 degrees) and one at moderate inclinations (between 24 degrees and 34 degrees). The inclined test particles that evade close encounters are primarily moving on tadpole orbits. Our survey of in-plane test particles near the Martian Lagrange points shows no survivors after 60 million years. Low inclination test particles do not persist, as their inclinations are quickly increased until the effects of a secular resonance with Jupiter cause de-stabilisation. Numerical integrations of inclined test particles for timespans of 25 million years show stable zones for inclinations between 14 and 40 degrees.
description: 20 pages, 21 figures, Monthly Notices (in press)
A Latent Variable Model for Geographic Lexical Variation
Creators: name: Eisenstein, Jacob
name: O'Connor, Brendan
name: Smith, Noah A.
name: Xing, Eric P.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: 170203 Knowledge Representation and Machine Learning
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: The rapid growth of geotagged social media raises new computational possibilities for investigating geographic linguistic variation. In this paper, we present a multi-level generative model that reasons jointly about latent topics and geographical regions. High-level topics such as “sports” or “entertainment” are rendered differently in each geographic region, revealing topic-specific regional distinctions. Applied to a new dataset of geotagged microblogs, our model recovers coherent topics and their regional variants, while identifying geographic areas of linguistic consistency. The model also enables prediction of an author’s geographic location from raw text, outperforming both text regression and supervised topic models.
Quantum gases in trimerized kagomé lattices
Creators: name: Damski, B.
name: Fehrmann, H.
name: Everts, H. -U.
name: Baranov, M.
name: Santos, L.
name: Lewenstein, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study low temperature properties of atomic gases in trimerized optical kagomé lattices. The laser arrangements that can be used to create these lattices are briefly described. We also present explicit results for the coupling constants of the generalized Hubbard models that can be realized in such lattices. In the case of a single component Bose gas the existence of a Mott insulator phase with fractional numbers of particles per trimer is verified in a mean field approach. The main emphasis of the paper is on an atomic spinless interacting Fermi gas in the trimerized kagomé lattice with two fermions per site. This system is shown to be described by a quantum spin 1/2 model on the triangular lattice with couplings that depend on the bond directions. We investigate this model by means of exact diagonalization. Our key finding is that the system exhibits non-standard properties of a quantum spin-liquid crystal: it combines planar antiferromagnetic order in the ground state with an exceptionally large number of low energy excitations. The possibilities of experimental verification of our theoretical results are critically discussed.
description: 19 pages/14 figures, version to appear in Phys. Rev. A., numerous minor corrections with respect to former lanl submission
The strong coupling effect and auxiliary fields in the DGP-model
Creators: name: Smolyakov, Mikhail N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The DGP-model with additional terms in the action is considered. These terms have a special form and include auxiliary scalar fields without kinetic terms, which are non-minimally coupled to gravity. The use of these fields allows one to exclude the mode, which corresponds to the strong coupling effect, from the theory. Effective four-dimensional theory on the brane appears to be the same, as in the original DGP-model.
description: 9 pages, LaTeX
Perturbation of Embedded Eigenvalue by a Near-Lying Resonance
Creators: name: Belyaev, V. B.
name: Motovilov, A. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The case of quantum-mechanical system (including electronic molecules) is considered where Hamiltonian allows a separation, in particular by the Faddeev method, of a weakly coupled channel. Width (i.e. the imaginary part) of the resonance generated by a discrete spectrum eigenvalue of the separated channel is studied in the case where main part of the Hamiltonian gives itself another resonance. It is shown that if real parts of these resonances coincide and, at the same time, a coupling between the separated and main channels is sufficiently small then the width of the resonance generated by the separated (molecular) channel is inversely proportional to the width of the main (nuclear) channel resonance. This phenomenon being a kind of universal law, may play an important role increasing the ``cold fusion'' probability in electronic molecules whose nuclear constituents have narrow pre-threshold resonances.
description: 24 pages, 80 kB, REVTEX; Submitted to Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika; Acknowledgments were corrected
On the relationship between the plateau modulus and the threshold frequency in peptide gels
Creators: name: Rizzi, L. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Relations between static and dynamic viscoelastic responses in gels can be very elucidating and may provide useful tools to study the behavior of bio-materials such as protein hydrogels. An important example comes from the viscoelasticity of semisolid gel-like materials, which is characterized by two regimes: a low-frequency regime where the storage modulus $G^{\prime}(ω)$ displays a constant value $G_{\text{eq}}$, and a high-frequency power-law stiffening regime, where $G^{\prime}(ω) \sim ω^{n}$. Recently, by considering Monte Carlo simulations to study the formation of peptides networks, we found an intriguing and somewhat related power-law relationship between the plateau modulus and the threshold frequency, i.e. $G_{\text{eq}} \sim ( ω^{*} )^Δ$ with $Δ= 2/3$. Here we present a simple theoretical approach to describe that relationship and test its validity by using experimental data from a $β$-lactoglobulin gel. We show that our approach can be used even in the coarsening regime where the fractal model fails. Remarkably, the very same exponent $Δ$ is found to describe the experimental data.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures
A First Look at Creating Mock Catalogs with Machine Learning Techniques
Creators: name: Xiaoying  Xu
name: Ho, Shirley
name: Trac, Hy
name: Schneider, Jeff
name: Poczos, Barnabas
name: Ntampaka, Michelle
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: 170203 Knowledge Representation and Machine Learning
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: We investigate machine learning (ML) techniques for predicting the number of galaxies (N gal) that occupy a halo, given the halo's properties. These types of mappings are crucial for constructing the mock galaxy catalogs necessary for analyses of large-scale structure. The ML techniques proposed here distinguish themselves from traditional halo occupation distribution (HOD) modeling as they do not assume a prescribed relationship between halo properties and N gal. In addition, our ML approaches are only dependent on parent halo properties (like HOD methods), which are advantageous over subhalo-based approaches as identifying subhalos correctly is difficult. We test two algorithms: support vector machines (SVM) and k-nearest-neighbor (kNN) regression. We take galaxies and halos from the Millennium simulation and predict N gal by training our algorithms on the following six halo properties: number of particles, M 200, σ v , v max, half-mass radius, and spin. For Millennium, our predicted N gal values have a mean-squared error (MSE) of ~0.16 for both SVM and kNN. Our predictions match the overall distribution of halos reasonably well and the galaxy correlation function at large scales to ~5%-10%. In addition, we demonstrate a feature selection algorithm to isolate the halo parameters that are most predictive, a useful technique for understanding the mapping between halo properties and N gal. Lastly, we investigate these ML-based approaches in making mock catalogs for different galaxy subpopulations (e.g., blue, red, high M star, low M star). Given its non-parametric nature as well as its powerful predictive and feature selection capabilities, ML offers an interesting alternative for creating mock catalogs.
title: Molecular ecological characterization of a honey bee ectoparasitic mite, Tropilaelaps mercedesae.
Creators: name: Dong, Xiaofeng
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2016

description: Tropilaelaps mercedesae (small mite) is one of two major honey bee ectoparasitic mite species responsible for the colony losses of Apis mellifera in Asia. Although T. mercedesae mites are still restricted in Asia (except Japan), they may diffuse all over the world due to the ever-increasing global trade of live honey bees (ex. Varroa destructor). Understanding the ecological characteristics of T. mercedesae at molecular level could potentially result in improving the management and control programs. However, molecular and genomic characterization of T. mercedesae remains poorly studied, and even no genes have been deposited in Genbank to date. Therefore, I conducted T. mercedesae genome and transcriptome sequencing. By comparing T. mercedesae genome with other arthropods, I have gained new insights into evolution of Parasitiformes and the evolutionary changes associated with specific habitats and life history of honey bee ectoparasitic mite that could potentially improve the control programs of T. mercedesae. Finally, characterization of T. mercedesae transient receptor potential channel, subfamily A, member 1 (TmTRPA1) would also help us to develop a novel control method for T. mercedesae.
A Bayesian Matrix Factorization Model for Relational Data
Creators: name: Singh, Ajit P.
name: Gordon, Geoffrey J.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: 170203 Knowledge Representation and Machine Learning
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Relational learning can be used to augment one data source with other correlated sources of information, to improve predictive accuracy. We frame a large class of relational learning problems as matrix factorization problems, and propose a hierarchical Bayesian model. Training our Bayesian model using random-walk Metropolis-Hastings is impractically slow, and so we develop a block MetropolisHastings sampler which uses the gradient and Hessian of the likelihood to dynamically tune the proposal. We demonstrate that a predictive model of brain response to stimuli can be improved by augmenting it with side information about the stimuli.
Impurity-induced bound states inside the superconducting gap of FeSe
Creators: name: Jiao, Lin
name: Rößler, Sahana
name: Koz, Cevriye
name: Schwarz, Ulrich
name: Kasinathan, Deepa
name: Rößler, Ulrich K.
name: Wirth, Steffen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the local density of states in the vicinity of a native dumbbell defect arising from an Fe vacancy in FeSe single crystals. The tunneling spectra close to the impurity display two bound states inside the superconducting gap, equally spaced with respect to zero energy but asymmetric in amplitude. Using spin-polarized density functional theory (DFT) calculations on realistic slab models with Fe vacancy, we show that such a defect does not induce a local magnetic moment. Therefore, the dumbbell defect is considered as non-magnetic. Thus, the in-gap bound states emerging from a non-magnetic defect-induced pair-breaking suggest a sign changing pairing state in this material.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures
No welfare magnets – free movement and cross-border welfare in Germany and Denmark compared
Creators: name: Martinsen, Dorte Sindbjerg
name: Werner, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine

description: A ‘dually open’ free movement system has evolved in the European Union (EU), granting EU citizens the right to free movement within the Union as well as cross-border welfare rights. Some scholarly literature and public debates have characterised the system as corrosive to the nationally organised welfare state, which will become a ‘magnet’ for the European poor. This paper examines how the German and Danish welfare states have responded to the ‘dual open’ system and its outcomes in terms of EU citizens’ take-up rate of non-contributory benefits between 2007 and 2015. We show that the domestic responses were mostly restrictive and that outcomes remained rather stable. Our findings do not support the welfare magnet thesis but instead identify a tendency to a bifurcated social protection system for EU citizens in Germany.
90K/LGALS3BP expression is upregulated in COVID-19 but may not restrict SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Creators: name: de Jarcy, Laure Bosquillon
name: Akbil, Bengisu
name: Mhlekude, Baxolele
name: Leyens, Johanna
name: Postmus, Dylan
name: Harnisch, Greta
name: Jansen, Jenny
name: Schmidt, Marie L
name: Aigner, Annette
name: Pott, Fabian
name: Chua, Robert Lorenz
name: Krist, Lilian
name: Gentile, Roberta
name: Mühlemann, Barbara
name: Jones, Terence C
name: Niemeyer, Daniela
name: Fricke, Julia
name: Keil, Thomas
name: Pischon, Tobias
name: Janke, Jürgen
name: Conrad, Christian
name: Iacobelli, Stefano
name: Drosten, Christian
name: Corman, Victor M
name: Ralser, Markus
name: Eils, Roland
name: Kurth, Florian
name: Sander, Leif
name: Goffinet, Christine
Publisher: name: The Francis Crick Institute
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: Chemical Biology & High Throughput
subject: Chemical Biology & High Throughput
classificationCode: Ecology,Evolution & Ethology
subject: Ecology,Evolution & Ethology
classificationCode: Metabolism
subject: Metabolism
classificationCode: Computational & Systems Biology
subject: Computational & Systems Biology
classificationCode: Synthetic Biology
subject: Synthetic Biology

description: Glycoprotein 90K, encoded by the interferon-stimulated gene LGALS3BP, displays broad antiviral activity. It reduces HIV-1 infectivity by interfering with Env maturation and virion incorporation, and increases survival of Influenza A virus-infected mice via antiviral innate immune signaling. Its antiviral potential in SARS-CoV-2 infection remains largely unknown. Here, we analyzed the expression of 90K/LGALS3BP in 44 hospitalized COVID-19 patients at multiple levels. We quantified 90K protein concentrations in serum and PBMCs as well as LGALS3BP mRNA levels. Complementary, we analyzed two single cell RNA-sequencing datasets for expression of LGALS3BP in respiratory specimens and PBMCs from COVID-19 patients. Finally, we analyzed the potential of 90K to interfere with SARS-CoV-2 infection of HEK293T/ACE2, Calu-3 and Caco-2 cells using authentic virus. 90K protein serum concentrations were significantly elevated in COVID-19 patients compared to uninfected sex- and age-matched controls. Furthermore, PBMC-associated concentrations of 90K protein were overall reduced by SARS-CoV-2 infection in vivo, suggesting enhanced secretion into the extracellular space. Mining of published PBMC scRNA-seq datasets uncovered monocyte-specific induction of LGALS3BP mRNA expression in COVID-19 patients. In functional assays, neither 90K overexpression in susceptible cell lines nor exogenous addition of purified 90K consistently inhibited SARS-CoV-2 infection. Our data suggests that 90K/LGALS3BP contributes to the global type I IFN response during SARS-CoV-2 infection in vivo without displaying detectable antiviral properties in vitro.
Aspidiotus flavus Hartig 1839
Creators: name: Brunet, Bryan M. T.
name: Raupach, Michael J.
name: Rehage, Heinz-Otto
name: Havill, Nathan P.
name: Foottit, Robert G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Diaspididae
Aspidiotus
Aspidiotus flavus

description: Aspidiotus flavus Hartig, 1839
 Aspidiotus flavus Hartig, 1839: 642, ♁. SYNTYPE: 1 (895 [1.09]), Pinus.
 Coccus (Aspidiotus) flavus (Hartig, 1839) (change of combination— Ratzeburg, 1844: 195).
 Diaspide flavus (Hartig, 1839) (change of combination— Signoret, 1868: 853).
 Dynaspidiotus abietis (Schrank, 1776) (senior synonym— Fernald, 1903: 251, “ Aspidiotus abietis (Schr.) ”). Valid
 Aspidiotus pini Hartig, 1839: 642, ♀ (junior synonym— Danzig & Kerzhner, 1984: 102). SYNTYPES: 8 (893 [1.07]; 894 [1.08]; 379 [1.10]), Pinus.
 Specimens. One pointed on pin 893 and three on two points on pin 894 following the “ Aspidiotus pini m. ” labels. A single pointed adult male on pin 895 and four of unknown sex on a single point on pin 379, following the “ flavus m. ” label. Specimens 893-895 were collected from pine needles on June 15, 1836 in Hasenheide, Berlin, Germany. Specimen 379 was collected on May 15, 1836 in Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany.
 Remarks. We suspect that specimen 379 has been incorrectly placed within the collection as it is in clear conflict with the description for A. flavus (see under Aspidiotus pini Hartig, 1839).
description: Published as part of Brunet, Bryan M. T., Raupach, Michael J., Rehage, Heinz-Otto, Havill, Nathan P. & Foottit, Robert G., 2023, Discovery of the primary aphid (Hemiptera: Aphidomorpha) and scale insect (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha) type specimens from the collection of Theodor Hartig (1805 - 1880), pp. 89-116 in Zootaxa 5369 (1) on page 96, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5369.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/10144745
title: Contextualising the Gosuini de Expugnatione Salaciae Carmen : The development of Crusading Ideology in the Portuguese Reconquista
Creators: name: Wilson, Charles
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2016

description: The Gosuini de Expugnatione Salaciae Carmen (the Carmen) is a Latin text whose unique exemplar is found in a codex dating to the latter half of the thirteenth century belonging to the library of the Portuguese Cistercian monastery of Alcobaça. A versified work in elegiac couplets, the Carmen recounts the Portuguese conquest, in combination with Northern European crusaders en route by sea to the Holy Land, of a strategically vital Muslim fortress during the formative years of the autonomous kingdom of Portugal; namely the capture of Alcácer do Sal in 1217. In contemplating the circumstances of production of this important text, this dissertation undertakes an examination of the interface between the Crusades and the Portuguese Reconquista and in so doing considers similar events highlighted in the historiography, the conquests of Lisbon in 1147 and of Silves in 1189. Since it is argued herein that the hitherto unknown author of the Carmen is Goswin de Bossut, a monk of the Cistercian house of Villers in Brabant who flourished as cantor of that eminent abbey in the 1230s, and since evidence for the involvement of the Cistercians in the Portuguese Reconquista is otherwise strong, there is an exploration of the origins of the Order in Portugal along with a reassessment of the possible involvement of Bernard of Clairvaux in the planning of Afonso I Henriques’ Lisbon campaign. The likely commissioner of the Carmen was Bishop of Lisbon, Soeiro Viegas, one of the leaders of the Alcácer enterprise. Accordingly there is due exposition of the career and possible motivations of Bishop Soeiro along with an investigation into the plausibility of his protagonism in a wider policy, underway after 1147, to attract Northern European crusaders to the fight on the Portuguese-Andalusi frontier. In examining the person of Goswin of Bossut, the postulated author, evidence gleaned from his known works, namely three vitae and one musical office, is combined with a consideration of those individuals, some more well-known than others, likely to have come within his circle of colleagues and acquaintances. From a nexus of connection mingling Cistercian ideology with a sometimes convoluted network of religious operating in the Southern Low Countries and in Portugal, emerges the proposition that Goswin’s literary canon should now be extended not only to include the Carmen but also a small number of other important works whose authorship has until now remained a mystery. Finally the Appendix contains a full edition of the text of the Carmen along with, for the first time, an English translation of the work.
title: Mindfulness and psychological flexibility in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS): an exploration of associations and relationships
Creators: name: Cross, Jennifer
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2016

description: This thesis aims to examine the concepts of mindfulness and psychological flexibility in people with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), how they present, and how these may contribute to the alleviation of physical and / or mental distress caused by the condition. The thesis consists of two major sections: a systematic review and an empirical study. This introductory chapter presents a brief description of each section, how the sections are linked, and an overview of the thesis as a whole.
title: Stoichiometric manipulation of inorganic compounds to function as near infrared absorbers
Creators: name: Coulter, Rachel
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2016

description: The synthesis, characterisation and testing of compounds to function as near-infrared (NIR) absorbers in a patented laser imaging process is presented. Working in conjunction with industrial partner Datalase Ltd, the project has focussed on finding materials which absorb NIR radiation for use in inks. The material is required to absorb NIR radiation from a laser and transfer it to a colour-changing pigment as heat in order to form images. The application of this process is primarily to create labels on packaging. Initially four commercial samples were analysed to provide a starting point for selecting NIR absorber candidates. Preliminary samples were synthesised and a testing procedure was established. A range of compounds were identified as potential NIR absorbers, synthesised, characterised and tested. The family of alkali metal tungsten bronzes MxWO3 was explored with various types of M and different values of x. The effect on laser imaging performance of factors such as solid state vs solvothermal synthesis routes and particle shape were investigated. As a family they were found to generally perform well. Sub-stoichiometric tungsten trioxides WO3-x were also investigated but show inferior performance as NIR absorbers compared to the tungsten bronzes. Molybdenum bronzes MxMoO3 were a natural follow-on family from the tungsten bronzes for investigation. The proved relatively difficult to synthesise in phase pure form and did not show the same level of performance as their tungsten counterparts. A phosphate tungsten bronze sample P4W12O32 had the same issues as the molybdenum bronzes – intermediate performance and difficult synthesis which is particularly undesirable for industrial applications. A number of copper phosphates and transparent conducting oxides were also studied. These samples generally had a lower level of NIR absorbance compared to the bronze samples which led to poor imaging. Throughout the project the main characterisation techniques used were powder X-ray diffraction, UV-vis-NIR spectrometry and scanning electron microscopy.
title: Therapeutics development against the Apicomplexa Parasites Plasmodium falciparum and Toxoplasma gondii
Creators: name: Capper, Michael
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2016

description: Apicomplexa parasites are the cause of two of the world’s most widespread diseases; malaria and toxoplasmosis. Malaria affects two billion people worldwide in some of the poorest regions of the world. Over a million people a year die from malaria, the majority of which are pregnant women or children under the age of 5. Plasmodium falciparum is by far the most lethal cause of malaria and is endemic to many regions of sub-Saharan Africa. Toxoplasma gondii is the most common parasitic infection of human brain and eyes and is suspected to affect one third of the world’s population. Rising drug resistance and the inadequacies of current treatments have spurred a global effort for the development of new therapies targeting these parasites Cytochrome bc1 (cyt. bc1) is a proven drug target for both treatment and prophylaxis of P. falciparum and T. gondii. Atovaquone, a potent broad- spectrum anti-parasitic drug, targets the Qo site, one of two active sites within cytochrome, b collapsing the mitochondrial membrane potential and killing the parasites. Single mutations within the Qo site render atovaquone ineffective and incidences of resistance are rising. Previous work has focussed on overcoming resistance through the design/redesign of compounds targeting the well understood Qo site. Here we show the binding modes of GSK’s next-generation antimalarial 4(1H)-pyridones and a novel 4(1H)-quinolone to the Qi site of cyt. bc1. These structures reveal the mechanism by which the compounds are able to overcome resistance and point in a new direction for antimalarial drug development. This work reaffirms the importance of structural observation in drug development. Merozoite surface protein 1–19 (MSP119) is an important target in vaccine development against malaria. Recent work has shown that cupredoxins bind MSP119 of P. falciparum and result in death for the parasite. Rusticyanin, the most potent of these, has been extensively studied and various mutants have been produced a range of redox potentials and acid stability properties. Here, initial studies of the complex between P. falciparum MSP119 and rusticyanin are carried out and analysed.
title: Being consciousness: a phenomeno-analytical investigation into the relationship between consciousness and selfhood
Creators: name: Winfield, Tom
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2016

description: The notion that we are essentially conscious beings has a good deal of intuitive appeal, but also gives rise to a number of philosophical problems. As a result of its appeal, and in conjunction with a growing dissatisfaction with reductive accounts of consciousness, a number of experiential accounts of personal identity have been introduced into the relatively recent literature. These accounts offer various analyses of the relationship between consciousness and selfhood in an attempt to overcome the problems faced by adopting such a position. I argue that a correct appreciation of the nature of inner awareness, and experience more generally, entails that the experiential approach is indeed justifiable. Specifically, I argue that the relationship between an experience and its subject necessitates the view that selves are constituted by episodes of consciousness. I then evaluate a number of theories of temporal consciousness and argue that the most promising kind of account has implications concerning our persistence conditions. Subsequently, I argue for a radical account of our nature by defending the resulting ontological claim: selves are streams of consciousness.
Coccus strobus Hartig 1839
Creators: name: Brunet, Bryan M. T.
name: Raupach, Michael J.
name: Rehage, Heinz-Otto
name: Havill, Nathan P.
name: Foottit, Robert G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Coccidae
Coccus
Coccus strobus

description: Coccus strobus Hartig, 1839
 Coccus strobus Hartig, 1839: 643. SYNTYPES: 3 (field no. missing [2.04]; 87 [2.05]).
 Chermes strobi (Hartig, 1839) (change of combination and senior synonym with respect to Chermes corticalis Kaltenbach, 1843: 197 — Ratzeburg, 1844: 203).
 Coccus strobi (Hartig, 1839) (alternate spelling— Hartig, 1851: 85).
 Chermes corticalis Kaltenbach, 1843 (misapplied junior synonym— Buckton, 1883: 23, “ Chermes strobi, Hartig (?)”).
 Pineus strobi (Hartig, 1839) (change of combination— Börner, 1908: 415). Valid
 Specimens. Two covered in wax and mounted on a rectangular card without a label. A third (87) covered in wax and mounted in situ on plant tissue. Hartig’s notes indicate that it was collected between May 1–20, 1834 from oak in Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany.
 Remarks. Hartig (1839) identified the North American white pine, Pinus strobus, as the host plant and source of species etymology for Coccus strobus Hartig,1839 so specimen 87 may be mislabelled or oak was accidentally identified as the host in his notes. Hartig (1839) was in doubt about the generic placement of C. strobus and other related pine and spruce feeding species. Indeed, general confusion about where to place species of Coccus Linnaeus, 1758, Chermes Linnaeus, 1758, and Kermes Linnaeus, 1740 extended well into the next century (Burdon 1907). We cannot be completely certain of the identity of these specimens without slide mounting them, but the individual in situ on pine bark and the description by Hartig (1839) of this species covering the trunks of Pinus strobus in white wool “as if covered with snow,” leave little doubt that these specimens are Pineus strobi (Hartig, 1839), the only adelgid species that exhibits this trait.
description: Published as part of Brunet, Bryan M. T., Raupach, Michael J., Rehage, Heinz-Otto, Havill, Nathan P. & Foottit, Robert G., 2023, Discovery of the primary aphid (Hemiptera: Aphidomorpha) and scale insect (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha) type specimens from the collection of Theodor Hartig (1805 - 1880), pp. 89-116 in Zootaxa 5369 (1) on page 96, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5369.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/10144745
$Z_2$ Topological Order and the Quantum Spin Hall Effect
Creators: name: Kane, C. L.
name: Mele, E. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The quantum spin Hall (QSH) phase is a time reversal invariant electronic state with a bulk electronic band gap that supports the transport of charge and spin in gapless edge states. We show that this phase is associated with a novel $Z_2$ topological invariant, which distinguishes it from an ordinary insulator. The $Z_2$ classification, which is defined for time reversal invariant Hamiltonians, is analogous to the Chern number classification of the quantum Hall effect. We establish the $Z_2$ order of the QSH phase in the two band model of graphene and propose a generalization of the formalism applicable to multi band and interacting systems.
description: 4 pages RevTeX. Added reference, minor corrections
An Algorithm to Compress Line-transition Data for Radiative-transfer Calculations
Creators: name: Cubillos, Patricio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Molecular line-transition lists are an essential ingredient for radiative-transfer calculations. With recent databases now surpassing the billion-lines mark, handling them has become computationally prohibitive, due to both the required processing power and memory. Here I present a temperature-dependent algorithm to separate strong from weak line transitions, reformatting the large majority of the weaker lines into a cross-section data file, and retaining the detailed line-by-line information of the fewer strong lines. For any given molecule over the 0.3--30 {\micron} range, this algorithm reduces the number of lines to a few million, enabling faster radiative-transfer computations without a significant loss of information. The final compression rate depends on how densely populated is the spectrum. I validate this algorithm by comparing Exomol's HCN extinction-coefficient spectra between the complete (65 million line transitions) and compressed (7.7 million) line lists. Over the 0.6--33 {\micron} range, the average difference between extinction-coefficient values is less than 1\%. A Python/C implementation of this algorithm is open-source and available at https://github.com/pcubillos/repack . So far, this code handles the Exomol and HITRAN line-transition format.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ
Advancing Organic Semiconductor Applications through Acceptor Polymer Development
Creators: name: ERHARDT, ANDREAS WERNER
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 401609
subject: Polymers and plastics
classificationCode: 401802
subject: Molecular and organic electronics
classificationCode: 511003
subject: Synchrotrons

description: This thesis aims to deepen the understanding of acceptor polymers within the context of organic electronics, centering on the development and characterization of new materials. A key theme throughout this research is the exploration of how structural attributes of polymers influence their optoelectronic behaviors, which are critical for rational material design and, subsequently, the efficient application in electronic devices.
The research includes the design and synthesis of semiconducting polymers with an emphasis on high electron deficiency and tailored compatibility. Complimented by advanced characterization techniques, such as GIWAXS and NEXAFS, profound insights into the synthesized materials are gained.
Mesons and Flavor on the Conifold
Creators: name: Levi, Thomas S.
name: Ouyang, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the addition of fundamental matter to the Klebanov-Witten field theory. We add probe D7-branes to the ${\cal N}=1$ theory obtained from placing D3-branes at the tip of the conifold and compute the meson spectrum for the scalar mesons. In the UV limit of massless quarks we find the exact dimensions of the associated operators, which exhibit a simple scaling in the large-charge limit. For the case of massive quarks we compute the spectrum of scalar mesons numerically.
description: 19 pages, 3 figures, v2: typos fixed