cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Radiative Transitions in Charmonium from Lattice QCD
Creators: name: Delaney, James
name: Thomas, Christopher E.
name: Ryan, Sinéad M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The coupling of various charmonium mesons to a photon is studied using lattice QCD, giving access to radiative form factors and transitions, and probing the mesons' structure. Methods are developed which allow the robust determination of amplitudes, including those involving an excited state as well as multiple form factors, for a range of kinematics. These are applied in dynamical lattice QCD calculations using the distillation technique to compute the underlying three-point correlation functions. Form factors and amplitudes involving the low-lying charmonia, $η_c$, $J/ψ$, $χ_{c0}$ and $η_c'$, are calculated, demonstrating the methods and providing the first dynamical lattice QCD results for some quantities.
description: 39 pages, 15 figures, small changes to match published version
Transition metal-free tandem pyridinyl–allyl–allyl cross-coupling reaction
Creators: name: Zhang, Lili
name: Chen, Zhengkai
name: Li, Hongli
name: Yin, Wenguang
name: Xu, Jianfeng
name: Miao, Maozhong
name: Ren, Hongjun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: A transition metal-free, direct one-pot domino allylation reaction of 2-pyridinyl Grignard reagents with polysubstituted allyl chlorides for the regioselective synthesis of pyridinyl-substituted 1,5-diene derivatives has been disclosed. The reaction presumably proceeded through the coupling of polysubstituted allyl chloride to 2-PyMgX, which was in situ generated from 2-bromopyridine with i-PrMgCl·LiCl.
Transition-metal-free tandem pyridinyl-allyl-allyl cross-coupling reaction
Creators: name: Zhang, Lili
name: Chen, Zhengkai
name: Li, Hongli
name: Yin, Wenguang
name: Xu, Jianfeng
name: Miao, Maozhong
name: Ren, Hongjun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: A transition-metal-free, direct one-pot domino allylation reaction of 2-pyridinyl Grignard reagents with polysubstituted allyl chlorides for the regioselective synthesis of pyridinyl substituted 1,5-diene derivatives has been disclosed. The reaction presumably proceeded through the coupling of polysubstituted allyl chloride to 2-PyMgX, which was in-situ generated from 2-bromopyridine with i-PrMgCl•LiCl.
Diagnostic monitoring of high-dimensional networked systems via a LASSO-BN formulation
Creators: name: Jin, Yan
name: Huang, Shuai
name: Wang, Guan
name: Deng, Houtao
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Quality control of multivariate processes has been extensively studied in the past decades; however, fundamental challenges still remain due to the complexity and the decision-making challenges that require not only sensitive fault detection but also identification of the truly out-of-control variables. In existing approaches, fault detection and diagnosis are considered as two separate tasks. Recent developments have revealed that selective monitoring of the potentially out-of-control variables, identified by a variable selection procedure combined with the process monitoring method, could lead to promising performances. Following this line, we propose the diagnostic monitoring that takes an additional step on from the selective monitoring idea and directs the monitoring effort on the potentially out-of-control variables. The identification of the truly out-of-control variables can be achieved by integrating the process monitoring formulation with process cascade knowledge represented by a Bayesian Network. Computationally efficient algorithms are developed for solving the optimization formulation with connection to the Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (LASSO) problem being identified. Both theoretical analysis and extensive experiments on a simulated data set and real-world applications are conducted that show the superior performance.
Signatures of two- and three-dimensional semimetals from circular dichroism
Creators: name: Mandal, Ipsita
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Topological invariants are crucial quantities for classifying materials with topological phases. Hence, their connections with experimentally measurable quantities are extremely important. In this context, circular dichroism (CD) provides a protocol to detect the Chern number $\mathcal{C}_0$ of the lowest energy Bloch band (LBB) of a semimetal. This hinges on the unequal depletion rates of the Bloch electrons from a filled LBB, under the action of a time-periodic circular drive, depending on the chirality of the polarization. According to the dimensionality of the system (i.e., whether it is two- or three-dimensional), the integrated differential rate for depletion has to be formulated a bit differently in order to relate it to $\mathcal{C}_0$. Our aim is to capture the nature of the CD response for semimetals with anisotropic band dispersions. We show that while the quantization of the CD response for the three-dimensional cases is strongly sensitive to anisotropy, the two-dimensional counterparts show a perfectly quantized response.
description: journal version
The switch of the binding behaviours between Xe and π system induced by the change of oxidation state of Cu ion
Creators: name: Miao, Junjian
name: Gao, Yi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health

description: The interaction between a xenon atom and aromatic π electron system is generally of van der Waals force with a specifically weak strength. In this work, we suggest the introduction of Cu ion will highly affect the binding behaviour between the xenon and π systems. Once Cu2+ ion locates above the benzene ring, the binding is surprisingly strengthened to 11.98 kcal mol−1 at CCSD(T)/CBS level, which is significantly stronger than average strength of the H-bonds in Watson-Crick guanine-cytosine base pair. If the Cu2+ is reduced to Cu+, the interaction of interest returns to the weak van der Waals interaction again. This phenomenon indicates the oxidation state shift of Cu ion could regulate the binding strength of Xe with π systems, which would be important for their potential biological functions. This study may provide a plausible understanding of the recent experimental observations of xenon anaesthesia.
Cytotoxic withanolides from Physalis angulata
Creators: name: Gao, Caiyun
name: Li, Ruijun
name: Zhou, Miaomiao
name: Yang, Yanwei
name: Kong, Lingyi
name: Luo, Jun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: A new withanolide (1), physagulide P, together with five known withanolides (2–6), was isolated from the aerial parts of Physalis angulata L. The structure of new compound was elucidated on the basis of extensive spectroscopic techniques, including 1D, 2D NMR and HRESIMS. The activity screening indicated that compound 1 showed significant cytotoxicities against the human osteosarcoma cell line MG-63, HepG-2 hepatoma cells and breast cancer cells MDA-MB-231 with the IC50 value of 3.50, 4.22 and 15.74 μM.
A new cinnamic acid glycoside from roots of Heracleum dissectum
Creators: name: Wang, Zhi-Gang
name: Mi, Jie
name: Wang, Xin-Rui
name: Huo, Ya-Yu
name: Peng, Ya-Jie
name: Zhang, Hai-Min
name: Gao, Yang
name: Zhang, Hai-Long
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology

description: From the roots of Heracleum dissectum Lebb., one new cinnamic acid glycoside derivative named dissectumoside (1), together with eight known compounds including three phenolics, three phenolic glycosides and two phenylpropanoic glycoside were isolated using various chromatographic methods. Among them compound 2–9 was isolated from the plant for the first time. Their structures were elucidated and identified on the basis of their physicochemical properties and by extensive analyses of NMR spectroscopy and high-resolution mass spectrometry. The results of triglyceride accumulation screening in 3T3-L1 cells showed that compounds 1, 5 and 9 exhibited significantly accelerating activities of adipogenesis in adipocytes.
List of references included in Table 1 from Colour, vision and co-evolution in avian brood parasitism
Creators: name: Stoddard, Mary Caswell
name: Hauber, Mark E.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 170299 Cognitive Science not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: The coevolutionary interactions between avian brood parasites and their hosts provide a powerful system for investigating the diversity of animal coloration. Specifically, reciprocal selection pressure applied by hosts and brood parasites can give rise to novel forms and functions of animal coloration, which largely differ from those that arise when selection is imposed by predators or mates. In the study of animal colours, avian brood parasite–host dynamics therefore invites special consideration. Rapid advances across disciplines have paved the way for an integrative study of colour and vision in brood parasite–host systems. We now know that visually driven host defences and host life history have selected for a suite of phenotypic adaptations in parasites, including mimicry, crypsis and supernormal stimuli. This sometimes leads to vision-based host counter-adaptations and increased parasite trickery. Here, we review vision-based adaptations that arise throughout host–parasite breeding cycles, emphasizing that these adaptations can be visual/cognitive or phenotypic in nature. We highlight recent breakthroughs in biochemistry, genomics, neuroscience and computer vision, and we conclude by identifying important future directions. Moving forward, it will be essential to identify the genetic and neural bases of adaptation and to compare vision-based adaptations to those arising in other sensory modalities.This article is part of the themed issue ‘Animal colouration: production, perception, function and application’.
Stickstoffdüngung zu Winterraps und Winterweizen
Creators: name: Kage, Hennig
name: Räbiger, Thomas
name: Sieling, Klaus
Publisher: name: Berichte über Landwirtschaft - Zeitschrift für Agrarpolitik und Landwirtschaft
Year: 2022

description: Die Höhe der Stickstoffdüngung bestimmt maßgeblich Leistungsparameter und Umweltwirkungen im Ackerbau. Durch die Novellierungen der Düngeverordnung in 2017 und 2020 sind bundeseinheitlich verbindliche Regelungen zur Stickstoffdüngung in Kraft getreten. In der vorliegenden Studie wird eine systematische Evaluierung der Effekte der Düngeverordnung auf Leistungsparameter und die Stickstoffbilanz vorgestellt. Grundlage ist eine umfangreiche Datensammlung von bundesweit durchgeführten Stickstoffsteigerungsversuchen zu Winterraps und Winterweizen. Hierbei wurden auch methodische Aspekte der Auswertung, wie z. B. die Wahl der Ertragsfunktionsform sowie die ex ante und ex post Bestimmung des Düngungsoptimums analysiert. Weiterhin wurde der Zusammenhang zwischen Stickstoffdüngungshöhe und Stickstoffauswaschung analysiert. Von drei geprüften Funktionsformen erwies sich sowohl bei Winterraps als auch bei Winterweizen die quadratisch-Plateau-Funktion gegenüber der linear-Plateau und der quadratischen Funktion im Hinblick auf die Abbildungsgüte als überlegen. Sowohl bei Winterraps als auch bei Winterweizen (Ausnahme Eliteweizen) lagen bei dem unterstellten Preisszenario die Düngevorgaben der Düngeverordnung deutlich (ca. 18-20 %) unterhalb des ökonomischen Optimums. Hiervon gingen jedoch bei Winterweizen nur geringe und bei Winterraps nur moderate Effekte auf die ökonomische Leistung bei gleichzeitig deutlicher Minderung der Stickstoffbilanzüberschüsse aus. Die in den sogenannten roten Gebieten vorgeschriebene, weitere Absenkung des Düngeniveaus um 20 % minderte die Stickstoffkosten freien Leistung (NKFL) gegenüber dem ökonomischen Optimum merklich und führte bei Winterweizen durchweg zu negativen N-Bilanzsalden. Weiterhin war in vielen Fällen die Proteinkonzentration in Backweizen bei Düngung nach DüV – 20 % niedriger als die jetzigen Handelsstandards für Winterweizen. Eine Analyse der Einflussfaktoren auf die ex post ermittelten Stickstoffdüngungsoptima zeigte teilweise recht deutliche Abweichungen zu den Annahmen der Düngeverordnung. Insbesondere im Hochertragsbereich folgten hieraus deutlich niedrigere Düngungswerte nach DüV als ökonomisch optimal wäre. Bei Winterraps konnte die in der DüV unterstellte Abhängigkeit des Düngungsoptimums vom mittleren Ertrag des Standortes nicht bestätigt werden. Eine die Analyse zum Zusammenhang zwischen Stickstoffdünungshöhe und Stickstoffauswaschung legt den Schluss nahe, dass eine Minderung der Stickstoffdüngung unterhalb des Niveaus der DüV für Winterweizen und Winterraps nur einen sehr geringen Beitrag zur Verringerung der Stickstoffauswaschung leistet.
description: Berichte über Landwirtschaft - Zeitschrift für Agrarpolitik und Landwirtschaft, Aktuelle Beiträge
Appendix S1 from Chance long-distance or human-mediated dispersal? How Acacia s.l. farnesiana attained its pan-tropical distribution
Creators: name: Bell, Karen L.
name: Haripriya Rangan
name: Fernandes, Manuel M.
name: Kull, Christian A.
name: Murphy, Daniel J.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Collection details of Acacia farnesiana samples used in this study and associated voucher specimens.
Chemical constituents from Bletilla striata and their NO production suppression in RAW 264.7 macrophage cells
Creators: name: Zhao, Yang
name: Niu, Jun-Jie
name: Cheng, Xiao-Chen
name: Lu, Yu-Xin
name: Jun, Xiao-Feng
name: Zhao, Xi-Rong
name: Zhang, Qing-Lin
name: Wu, Chu-Tse
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Hematology

description: A novel glucoside bletilloside A (1) was isolated from the tubers of Bletilla striata, together with seven known compounds (2–8). Their structures were determined on the basis of extensive spectroscopic analyses. All compounds were evaluated for the inhibition on NO production effects in RAW 264.7 macrophage cells, while militarine (4) and dactylorhin A (5) exhibited moderate inhibitory effects.
Quantum Public-Key Encryption with Tamper-Resilient Public Keys from One-Way Functions
Creators: name: Kitagawa, Fuyuki
name: Morimae, Tomoyuki
name: Nishimaki, Ryo
name: Yamakawa, Takashi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We construct quantum public-key encryption from one-way functions. In our construction, public keys are quantum, but ciphertexts are classical. Quantum public-key encryption from one-way functions (or weaker primitives such as pseudorandom function-like states) are also proposed in some recent works [Morimae-Yamakawa, eprint:2022/1336; Coladangelo, eprint:2023/282; Barooti-Grilo-Malavolta-Sattath-Vu-Walter, eprint:2023/877]. However, they have a huge drawback: they are secure only when quantum public keys can be transmitted to the sender (who runs the encryption algorithm) without being tampered with by the adversary, which seems to require unsatisfactory physical setup assumptions such as secure quantum channels. Our construction is free from such a drawback: it guarantees the secrecy of the encrypted messages even if we assume only unauthenticated quantum channels. Thus, the encryption is done with adversarially tampered quantum public keys. Our construction is the first quantum public-key encryption that achieves the goal of classical public-key encryption, namely, to establish secure communication over insecure channels, based only on one-way functions. Moreover, we show a generic compiler to upgrade security against chosen plaintext attacks (CPA security) into security against chosen ciphertext attacks (CCA security) only using one-way functions. As a result, we obtain CCA secure quantum public-key encryption based only on one-way functions.
description: 47pages
Toxic effects of copper (II) ions on bovine hemoglobin
Creators: name: Li, Sha
name: Shang, Hongyuan
name: Liu, Fasheng
name: Ma, Min
name: Zhang, Aiping
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: In this paper, the toxic influence of copper ions (II) on bovine hemoglobin was investigated by the combination of ultraviolet-visible absorption, fluorescence, time-resolved fluorescence, synchronous fluorescence, and circular dichroism spectra. Driven by hydrophobic and electrostatic forces, copper ions (II) could interact with bovine hemoglobin to form bovine hemoglobin-copper ions (II) complex with one binding site. The binding constant (K) was 1.57 × 104, 1.89 × 104 and 2.11 × 104 L/mol at 298, 304, and 310 K, respectively. The binding distance (r) was 4.24 nm. Fluorescence and time-resolved fluorescence spectra showed that bovine hemoglobin quenched by copper ions (II) was a static quenching process. Results of synchronous fluorescence spectra revealed that the microenvironment and the conformation of bovine hemoglobin were changed during the binding reaction. Data of circular dichroism spectra suggested that with the increasing concentration of copper ions (II), the secondary structure of bovine hemoglobin underwent a decrease in α-helix and alteration in backbone microenvironment. Copper ions (II) was thus evidenced to have a certain toxic effect on physical bodies.
Information about thresholds Uploaded as ‘Supplementary material - thresholds.doc’; details breakdown of item thresholds by gender (as part of gender invariance analysis) from Social Reward Questionnaire–Adolescent Version and its association with callous–unemotional traits
Creators: name: Foulkes, Lucy
name: Neumann, Craig S.
name: Roberts, Ruth
name: McCrory, Eamon
name: Viding, Essi
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 179999 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: During adolescence, social interactions are a potent source of reward. However, no measure of social reward value exists for this age group. In this study, we adapted the adult Social Reward Questionnaire, which we had previously developed and validated, for use with adolescents. Participants aged 11–16 (n = 568; 50% male) completed the Social Reward Questionnaire—Adolescent version (SRQ-A), alongside measures of personality traits—five-factor model (FFM) and callous–unemotional (CU) traits—for construct validity purposes. A confirmatory factor analysis of the SRQ-A supported a five-factor structure (Comparative Fit Index = 0.90; Root Mean Square Error of Approximation = 0.07), equating to five questionnaire subscales: enjoyment of Admiration, Negative Social Potency, Passivity, Prosocial Interactions and Sociability. Associations with FFM and CU traits were in line with what is seen for adult samples, providing support for the meaning of SRQ-A subscales in adolescents. In particular, adolescents with high levels of CU traits showed an ‘inverted’ pattern of social reward, in which being cruel is enjoyable and being kind is not. Gender invariance was also assessed and was partially supported. The SRQ-A is a valid, reliable measure of individual differences in social reward in adolescents.
Forschungsdatenmanagement an der WWU
Creators: name: Hinkel, Sascha
name: Korth, Martin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Forschungsdatenmanagement; WWU

description: Sowohl aus geistes- als auch aus naturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive wird dargestellt, wie mit dem Thema Forschungsdatenmanagement an der WWU umgegangen wird.
Supplementary Figure S1 and Table S1. from The ‘male escape hypothesis’: sex-biased metamorphosis in response to climatic drivers in a facultatively paedomorphic amphibian
Creators: name: Mathiron, Anthony G. E.
name: Lena, Jean-Paul
name: Baouch, Sarah
name: Denoël, Mathieu
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology

description: Figure S1: Robust regression of the habitat shift timing (i.e. water to land) on metamorphosis timing / Table S1: Results of ANOVA-2 tests showing the homogeneous distribution of paedomorphic palmate newts in the two treatments
Robustness of travelling states in generic non-reciprocal mixtures
Creators: name: Mandal, Rituparno
name: Jaramillo, Santiago Salazar
name: Sollich, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Emergent non-reciprocal interactions violating Newton's third law are widespread in out-of-equilibrium systems. Phase separating mixtures with such interactions exhibit travelling states with no equilibrium counterpart. Using extensive Brownian dynamics simulations, we investigate the existence and stability of such travelling states in a generic non-reciprocal particle system. By varying a broad range of parameters including aggregate state of mixture components, diffusivity, degree of non-reciprocity, effective spatial dimension and density, we determine that travelling states do exist below the predator-prey regime, but nonetheless are only found in a narrow region of the parameter space. Our work also sheds light on the physical mechanisms for the disappearance of travelling states when relevant parameters are being varied, and has implications for a range of non-equilibrium systems including non-reciprocal phase separating mixtures, non-equilibrium pattern formation and predator-prey models.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
Toxic Effects of Copper (II) Ions on Bovine Hemoglobin: A Spectroscopic Investigation
Creators: name: Li, Sha
name: Shang, Hongyuan
name: Liu, Fasheng
name: Ma, Min
name: Zhang, Aiping
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: In this paper, the toxic influence of copper ions (II) on bovine hemoglobin was investigated by the combination of ultraviolet-visible absorption, fluorescence, time-resolved fluorescence, synchronous fluorescence, and circular dichroism spectra. Driven by hydrophobic and electrostatic forces, copper ions (II) could interact with bovine hemoglobin to form bovine hemoglobin-copper ions (II) complex with one binding site. The binding constant (K) was 1.57 × 104, 1.89 × 104 and 2.11 × 104 L/mol at 298, 304 and 310 K, respectively. The binding distance (r) was 4.24 nm. Fluorescence and time-resolved fluorescence spectra showed that bovine hemoglobin quenched by copper ions (II) was a static quenching process. Results of synchronous fluorescence spectra revealed that the microenvironment and the conformation of bovine hemoglobin were changed during the binding reaction. Data of circular dichroism spectra suggested that with the increasing concentration of copper ions (II), the secondary structure of bovine hemoglobin underwent a decrease in α-helix and alteration in backbone microenvironment. Copper ions (II) was thus evidenced to have a certain toxic effect on physical bodies.
SuppMat.doc from Long-term fitness consequences of early environment in a long-lived ungulate
Creators: name: Pigeon, Gabriel
name: Festa-Bianchet, Marco
name: Pelletier, Fanie
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary figures and tables
Empirical Analysis of Crash Injury Severity on Mountainous and Nonmountainous Interstate Highways
Creators: name: Ma, Xiaoxiang
name: Chen, Feng
name: Chen, Suren
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: Molecular Biology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Objective: Mountainous (MT) highways usually exhibit complex geometry features such as steep gradients or sharp curves, which can cause considerably different driver behavior and vehicle performance compared to nonmountainous (NM) ones. In addition, MT highways experience adverse weather conditions more often than NM counterparts. We examine different characteristics of crash injury severity from an MT highway and an NM highway. Methods: One major interstate highway with typical MT terrain and another one with NM terrain in Colorado were selected for this study. A comparative investigation about the impact on injury severity from MT and NM highways is conducted. Separate mixed logit models are estimated for both highways with 4-year detailed crash data. Results: Incorporating 2 major interstate highways from the same region into the comparative study offers some unique strength on investigating the impacts from different causes. As a result, the study provides better insights about contributing factors and associated mechanism for injury severity on MT highways. Substantial differences in the magnitude and direction of the influence of some contributing factors between MT and NM models are observed. Some new findings about injury severity on MT highways are made possible for the first time. Conclusion: The findings in this study provide scientific guidance to potentially improve the current highway design and traffic management policy on thousands of miles of MT highways in the country.
Theoretical guidance and experimental confirmation on catalytic tendency of M-CeO2 (M = Zr, Mn, Ru or Cu) for NH3-SCR of NO
Creators: name: Maitarad, Phornphimon
name: Han, Jin
name: Namuangruk, Supawadee
name: Shi, Liyi
name: Chitpakdee, Chirawat
name: Meeprasert, Jittima
name: Junkaew, Anchalee
name: Kungwan, Nawee
name: Zhang, Dengsong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biochemistry
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Herein, we demonstrate that the degrees of catalytic performance of M-CeO2-based catalysts (M=Mn, Cu, Ru or Zr) for an ammonia selective catalytic reduction (NH3-SCR) of nitric-oxide (NO) can be estimated using three theoretical terms; (i) an oxygen vacancy formation energy of a catalyst, (ii) an adsorption energy of NO and (iii) an adsorption energy of NH3. Those terms predict the trend of the catalytic performance as the order; Mn–CeO2 > Cu–CeO2 > Ru–CeO2 > Zr–CeO2 > CeO2. To verify the theoretical prediction, the catalysts were synthesized and tested their performances on the NH3-SCR of NO reaction. The normalized NO conversion rates at low temperatures (100–200 °C) were measured for Mn–CeO2, Cu–CeO2, Ru–CeO2, Zr–CeO2 and CeO2 as 2.61–7.46, 1.30–6.82, 0.73–3.02, 0.81–3.31 and 1.55–2.33 mol s−1 m−2, respectively. In addition, a concept of a structure-activity relationship analysis shows a strong relationship between theoretical and experimental results. Consequently, an application of predicting the catalytic performance of catalysts from theoretical calculations prior the catalyst synthesis is useful in catalyst design and screening that can reduce time and cost.
Number of workers in each threshold class and raw data of the experiment 2 from Response threshold variance as a basis of collective rationality
Creators: name: Yamamoto, Tatsuhiro
name: Hasegawa, Eisuke
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Table S1 and S2 show number of workers in each threshold class through 3 measurements, and Table S3 and S4 show raw data of the experiment 2.
Energetic calcium(II) complexes of 3,6-bis(1H-1,2,3,4-tetrazol-5-yl-amino)1,2,4,5-tetrazine: synthesis, crystal structure, and thermal properties
Creators: name: Liu, Qing
name: Yang, Bin
name: Yang, Jin
name: Ren, Yinghui
name: Zhang, Xianbo
name: Ma, Haixia
name: Xu, Kangzhen
name: Zhao, Fengqi
name: Hu, Rongzu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: We synthesized two calcium salts of 3,6-bis(1H-1,2,3,4-tetrazol-5-yl-amino)-1,2,4,5-tetrazine (BTATz): [Ca2(BTATz)2(H2O)8·6H2O] (1) and Ca(BTATz)(phen)(H2O)5·4H2O (2). Complexes 1 and 2 were characterized by elemental analysis, Fourier transform infrared spectrometry, and single-crystal X-ray diffraction. Structural analysis revealed that Ca(II) was present in different coordination structures in the two complexes. Complex 1 exhibited a symmetric octahedral coordination that included three nitrogens and five water molecules. Complex 2 formed an asymmetric seven-coordinate structure with calcium connected to nitrogen in BTATz and to oxygens. The thermal behaviors of 1 and 2 were characterized via differential scanning calorimetry and thermogravimetry–differential thermal gravimetry. The peak thermal decomposition temperatures of 1 and 2 was 557.39 and 573.86 K, respectively. The kinetic equations of the main exothermic decomposition reaction were also derived. Moreover, the thermal safety of the complexes was evaluated by calculating some important thermodynamic parameters, such as self-accelerated decomposition temperature, thermal ignition temperature, and critical temperature of thermal explosion. Results indicated that both complexes exhibit good potential as a propellant component.
Energetic calcium(II) complexes of 3,6-bis(1H-1,2,3,4-tetrazol-5-yl-amino)-1,2,4,5-tetrazine: Synthesis, crystal structure, and thermal properties
Creators: name: Liu, Qing
name: Yang, Bin
name: Yang, Jin
name: Ren, Yinghui
name: Zhang, Xianbo
name: Ma, Haixia
name: Xu, Kangzhen
name: Zhao, Fengqi
name: Hu, Rongzu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: We synthesized two calcium salts of 3,6-bis(1H-1,2,3,4-tetrazol-5-yl-amino)-1,2,4,5-tetrazine (BTATz): [Ca2(BTATz)2(H2O)8·6H2O] (1) and Ca(BTATz)(phen)(H2O)5·4H2O (2). Complexes 1 and 2 were characterized by elemental analysis, Fourier transform infrared spectrometry, and single crystal X-ray diffraction. Structural analysis revealed that Ca(II) was present in different coordination structures in the two complexes. Complex 1 exhibited a symmetric octahedral coordination that included three nitrogens and five water molecules. Complex 2 formed an asymmetric seven-coordinate structure with calcium connected to nitrogen in BTATz and to oxygens. The thermal behaviors of 1 and 2 were characterized via differential scanning calorimetry and thermogravimetry–differential thermal gravimetry. The peak thermal decomposition temperatures of 1 and 2 were 557.39 and 573.86 K, respectively. The kinetic equations of the main exothermic decomposition reaction were also derived. Moreover, the thermal safety of the complexes was evaluated by calculating some important thermodynamic parameters, such as self-accelerated decomposition temperature, thermal ignition temperature, and critical temperature of thermal explosion. Results indicated that both complexes exhibit good potential as a propellant component.
Information about thresholds Uploaded as ‘Supplementary material - thresholds.doc’; details breakdown of item thresholds by gender (as part of gender invariance analysis) from Social reward questionnaire: adolescent version and its association with callous–unemotional traits
Creators: name: Foulkes, Lucy
name: Neumann, Craig S.
name: Roberts, Ruth
name: McCrory, Eamon
name: Viding, Essi
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 179999 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: During adolescence, social interactions are a potent source of reward. However, no measure of social reward value exists for this age group. In this study, we adapted the adult Social Reward Questionnaire, which we had previously developed and validated, for use with adolescents. Participants aged 11–16 (n = 568; 50% male) completed the Social Reward Questionnaire—Adolescent version (SRQ-A), alongside measures of personality traits—five-factor model (FFM) and callous–unemotional (CU) traits—for construct validity purposes. A confirmatory factor analysis of the SRQ-A supported a five-factor structure (Comparative Fit Index = 0.90; Root Mean Square Error of Approximation = 0.07), equating to five questionnaire subscales: enjoyment of Admiration, Negative Social Potency, Passivity, Prosocial Interactions and Sociability. Associations with FFM and CU traits were in line with what is seen for adult samples, providing support for the meaning of SRQ-A subscales in adolescents. In particular, adolescents with high levels of CU traits showed an ‘inverted’ pattern of social reward, in which being cruel is enjoyable and being kind is not. Gender invariance was also assessed and was partially supported. The SRQ-A is a valid, reliable measure of individual differences in social reward in adolescents.
On star-convex bodies with rotationally invariant sections
Creators: name: Zawalski, Bartłomiej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 53A07, Secondary 12D10, 53A15

description: We will prove that an origin-symmetric star-convex body $K$ with sufficiently smooth boundary and such that every hyperplane section of $K$ passing through the origin is a body of affine revolution, is itself a body of affine revolution. This will give a positive answer to the recent question asked by G. Bor, L. Hernández-Lamoneda, V. Jiménez de Santiago, and L. Montejano-Peimbert, though with slightly different prerequisites.
description: Beitr\"age zur Algebra und Geometrie (2023)
Supplementary material from "Noise affects resource assessment in an invertebrate"
Creators: name: Walsh, Erin P.
name: Arnott, Gareth
name: Hansjoerg P. Kunc
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Background information and methods
Faulting original McEliece's implementations is possible: How to mitigate this risk?
Creators: name: Giraud, Vincent
name: Bouffard, Guillaume
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Private and public actors increasingly encounter use cases where they need to implement sensitive operations on mass-market peripherals for which they have little or no control. They are sometimes inclined to attempt this without using hardware-assisted equipment, such as secure elements. In this case, the white-box attack model is particularly relevant and includes access to every asset, retro-engineering, and binary instrumentation by attackers. At the same time, quantum attacks are becoming more and more of a threat and challenge traditional asymmetrical ciphers, which are treasured by private and public actors.
 The McEliece cryptosystem is a code-based public key algorithm introduced in 1978 that is not subject to well-known quantum attacks and that could be implemented in an uncontrolled environment. During the NIST post-quantum cryptography standardization process, a derived candidate commonly refer to as classic McEliece was selected. This algorithm is however vulnerable to some fault injection attacks while a priori, this does not apply to the original McEliece. In this article, we thus focus on the original McEliece cryptosystem and we study its resilience against fault injection attacks on an ARM reference implementation. We disclose the first fault injection based attack and we discuss on how to modify the original McEliece cryptosystem to make it resilient to fault injection attacks.
Biocontrol efficacy of Trichoderma asperellum MSST against tomato wilting by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici
Creators: name: Stuti Patel
name: Saraf, Meenu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Tomato is a popular vegetable widely grown in the tropics, which is mainly attacked by fusarium wilt incited by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici (FOL). In the present scenario, an ecofriendly alternative strategy such as use of fungi from rhizosphere is being explored to combat the phytopathogen invasion. This study was carried out to evaluate the efficacy of Trichoderma asperellum MSST to promote the growth and yield parameters of tomato S-22, a susceptible variety. This study was also undertaken to manage fusarium wilt disease under in vitro and in vivo conditions. Significant increase in vegetative parameters like root length, shoot length, plant weight and chlorophyll content 60 days after sowing (DAS) was observed. There was reduction in the incidence of fusarium wilt in tomato up to 85%. Increase in the level of total phenol, peroxidase, polyphenoloxidase and phenylalanine ammonium lyase activity at 10th day of pathogen inoculation showed enhancement of plant defence mechanism by T. asperellum MSST against FOL. Overall study revealed that isolate MSST was proven to be potential biocontrol agent showing induced resistance against FOL.
Computation of entanglement entropy in inhomogeneous free fermions chains by algebraic Bethe ansatz
Creators: name: Bernard, Pierre-Antoine
name: Carcone, Gauvain
name: Crampe, Nicolas
name: Vinet, Luc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The computation of the entanglement entropy for inhomogeneous free fermions chains based on q-Racah polynomials is considered. The eigenvalues of the truncated correlation matrix are obtained from the diagonalization of the associated Heun operator via the algebraic Bethe ansatz. In the special case of chains based on dual q-Hahn polynomials, the eigenvectors and eigenvalues are expressed in terms of symmetric polynomials evaluated on the Bethe roots.
description: 16 pages
Quantitative biokinetics of titanium dioxide nanoparticles after intratracheal instillation in rats: Part 3
Creators: name: Kreyling, Wolfgang G.
name: Holzwarth, Uwe
name: Haberl, Nadine
name: Kozempel, Ján
name: Wenk, Alexander
name: Hirn, Stephanie
name: Schleh, Carsten
name: Schäffler, Martin
name: Lipka, Jens
name: Semmler-Behnke, Manuela
name: Gibson, Neil
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: The biokinetics of a size-selected fraction (70 nm median size) of commercially available and 48V-radiolabeled [48V]TiO2 nanoparticles has been investigated in healthy adult female Wistar-Kyoto rats at retention time-points of 1 h, 4 h, 24 h, 7 d and 28 d after intratracheal instillation of a single dose of an aqueous [48V]TiO2-nanoparticle suspension. A completely balanced quantitative biodistribution in all organs and tissues was obtained by applying typical [48V]TiO2-nanoparticle doses in the range of 40–240 μg·kg−1 bodyweight and making use of the high sensitivity of the radiotracer technique. The [48V]TiO2-nanoparticle content was corrected for residual blood retained in organs and tissues after exsanguination and for 48V-ions not bound to TiO2-nanoparticles. About 4% of the initial peripheral lung dose passed through the air-blood-barrier after 1 h and were retained mainly in the carcass (4%); 0.3% after 28 d. Highest organ fractions of [48V]TiO2-nanoparticles present in liver and kidneys remained constant (0.03%). [48V]TiO2-nanoparticles which entered across the gut epithelium following fast and long-term clearance from the lungs via larynx increased from 5 to 20% of all translocated/absorbed [48V]TiO2-nanoparticles. This contribution may account for 1/5 of the nanoparticle retention in some organs. After normalizing the fractions of retained [48V]TiO2-nanoparticles to the fraction that reached systemic circulation, the biodistribution was compared with the biodistributions determined after IV-injection (Part 1) and gavage (GAV) (Part 2). The biokinetics patterns after IT-instillation and GAV were similar but both were distinctly different from the pattern after intravenous injection disproving the latter to be a suitable surrogate of the former applications. Considering that chronic occupational inhalation of relatively biopersistent TiO2-particles (including nanoparticles) and accumulation in secondary organs may pose long-term health risks, this issue should be scrutinized more comprehensively.
Rente Pétrolière et Croissance Economique au Tchad : une analyse par le modèle à retard échelonné
Creators: name: DJAL-GADOM, Gadom
name: MALLAYE, Douzounet
name: DJIRABI, Mahamat Mouta
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Rente pétrolière ; gouvernance ; croissance économique ; modèle à retard échelonné ; Tchad

description: Ce papier a pour objectif d’analyser les effets des ressources pétrolières sur la croissance économique au Tchad, en lien avec la qualité de la gouvernance. A l’aide des données issues de l’Institut National de la Statistique des Statistiques et des Etudes Démographiques (INSEED), du World Development Indicators (WDI) et du Ministère de l’Energie et du Pétrole (MEP), un modèle à retard échelonné (ARDL) est appliqué pour capter les effets de court et de long terme des ressources pétrolières). Les résultats suggèrent que le pétrole a changé la structure de l’économie tchadienne. Les revenus du pétrole ont un effet positif sur la croissance économique à long terme mais cet effet est compromis par la qualité de la gouvernance. Ce résultat évoque que le Tchad n’a pas échappé à la malédiction des ressources. A la lumière de ces évidences empiriques, le gouvernement gagnerait mieux s’il améliorait la qualité de la gouvernance en mettant l'accent sur les instruments de lutte contre la corruption.
Quantitative biokinetics of titanium dioxide nanoparticles after oral application in rats: Part 2
Creators: name: Kreyling, Wolfgang G.
name: Holzwarth, Uwe
name: Schleh, Carsten
name: Kozempel, Ján
name: Wenk, Alexander
name: Haberl, Nadine
name: Hirn, Stephanie
name: Schäffler, Martin
name: Lipka, Jens
name: Semmler-Behnke, Manuela
name: Gibson, Neil
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: The biokinetics of a size-selected fraction (70 nm median size) of commercially available and 48V-radiolabeled [48V]TiO2 nanoparticles has been investigated in female Wistar-Kyoto rats at retention timepoints 1 h, 4 h, 24 h and 7 days after oral application of a single dose of an aqueous [48V]TiO2-nanoparticle suspension by intra-esophageal instillation. A completely balanced quantitative body clearance and biokinetics in all organs and tissues was obtained by applying typical [48V]TiO2-nanoparticle doses in the range of 30–80 μg•kg−1 bodyweight, making use of the high sensitivity of the radiotracer technique. The [48V]TiO2-nanoparticle content was corrected for nanoparticles in the residual blood retained in organs and tissue after exsanguination and for 48V-ions not bound to TiO2-nanoparticles. Beyond predominant fecal excretion about 0.6% of the administered dose passed the gastro-intestinal-barrier after one hour and about 0.05% were still distributed in the body after 7 days, with quantifiable [48V]TiO2-nanoparticle organ concentrations present in liver (0.09 ng•g−1), lungs (0.10 ng•g−1), kidneys (0.29 ng•g−1), brain (0.36 ng•g−1), spleen (0.45 ng•g−1), uterus (0.55 ng•g−1) and skeleton (0.98 ng•g−1). Since chronic, oral uptake of TiO2 particles (including a nano-fraction) by consumers has continuously increased in the past decades, the possibility of chronic accumulation of such biopersistent nanoparticles in secondary organs and the skeleton raises questions about the responsiveness of their defense capacities, and whether these could be leading to adverse health effects in the population at large. After normalizing the fractions of retained [48V]TiO2-nanoparticles to the fraction that passed the gastro-intestinal-barrier and reached systemic circulation, the biokinetics was compared to the biokinetics determined after IV-injection (Part 1). Since the biokinetics patterns differ largely, IV-injection is not an adequate surrogate for assessing the biokinetics after oral exposure to TiO2 nanoparticles.