cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
New general relativistic contributions to Mercury's orbital elements and their measurability
Creators: name: Iorio, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We numerically and analytically work out the first-order post-Newtonian (1pN) orbital effects induced on the semimajor axis $a$, the eccentricity $e$, the inclination $I$, the longitude of the ascending node $Ω$, the longitude of perihelion $\varpi$, and the mean longitude at epoch $ε$ of a test particle orbiting its primary, assumed static and spherically symmetric, by a distant massive third body X. For Mercury, the rates of change of the linear trends found are $\dot I_\mathrm{1pN}^\mathrm{X} = -4.3\,\mathrm{microarcseconds\,per\,century}\,\left(μ\mathrm{as\,cty}^{-1}\right)$, $\dotΩ_\mathrm{1pN}^\mathrm{X} = 18.2\,μ\mathrm{as\,cty}^{-1}$, $\dot\varpi_\mathrm{1pN}^\mathrm{X} = 30.4\,μ\mathrm{as\,cty}^{-1}$, $\dotε_\mathrm{1pN}^\mathrm{X} = 271.4\,μ\mathrm{as\,cty}^{-1}$, respectively. Such values, which are due to the added actions of the other planets from Venus to Saturn, are essentially at the same level of, or larger by one order of magnitude than, the latest formal errors in the Hermean orbital precessions calculated with the EPM2017 ephemerides. The perihelion precession $\dot\varpi_\mathrm{1pN}^\mathrm{X}$ turns out to be smaller than some values recently appeared in the literature in view of a possible measurement with the ongoing BepiColombo mission. Linear combinations of the supplementary advances of the Keplerian orbital elements for several planets, if determined experimentally by the astronomers, could be set up in order to disentangle the 1pN $N$-body effects of interest from the competing larger precessions like those due to the Sun's quadrupole moment $J_2$ and angular momentum $\boldsymbol{S}$.
description: LaTex2e, 14 pages, 1 figure, no tables. Accepted for publication in The European Physical Journal C
Menu Labeling Imparts New Information About the Calorie Content of Restaurant Foods
Creators: name: Stewart, Hayden
name: Hyman, Jeffrey
name: Dong, Diansheng
name: Stewart, Hayden
name: Hyman, Jeffrey
name: Dong, Diansheng
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Menu labeling
subject: restaurant menu
subject: calorie
subject: food choices
subject: obesity
subject: nutrition information
subject: menu board
subject: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

description: Restaurant foods are typically higher in calories than meals consumed at home. Menu labeling regulations by the U.S. Food and Drug and Administration aim to inform consumers about the calorie content of menu items. However, some consumers may already be making at least partially informed decisions. For example, as a rule of thumb, a consumer may be aware that deep-fried foods are higher in calories. He or she may also know to avoid side dishes like French fries and onion rings. Indeed, it has been argued that some consumers can already identify which foods best satisfy their needs and wants and gain little new information from menu labeling. In this study, following research in marketing science and behavioral economics, we assume that a representative consumer employs rules-of-thumb nutrition knowledge to judge the calorie content of restaurant foods when explicit information is unavailable. We then investigate whether rules of thumb accurately predict the calorie content of 361 meals sold by 2 major fast-food restaurants and 5,752 meals sold by 5 major full-service restaurants. Results show that some simple rules of thumb are fairly reliable predictors of actual calorie content. They and other information available at the point of sale also explain about half of the total variation in calories in restaurant foods. Nonetheless, we find that menu labeling still imparts substantial new information. In particular, it is likely that many Americans are already able to make crude choices between high- and low-calorie foods, based on their pre-existing understandings of nutrition. Menu labeling allows them to make finer adjustments in their food choices and behavior, if they wish to.
Number-Theoretic Characterizations of Some Restricted Clifford+T Circuits
Creators: name: Amy, Matthew
name: Glaudell, Andrew N.
name: Ross, Neil J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Kliuchnikov, Maslov, and Mosca proved in 2012 that a $2\times 2$ unitary matrix $V$ can be exactly represented by a single-qubit Clifford+$T$ circuit if and only if the entries of $V$ belong to the ring $\mathbb{Z}[1/\sqrt{2},i]$. Later that year, Giles and Selinger showed that the same restriction applies to matrices that can be exactly represented by a multi-qubit Clifford+$T$ circuit. These number-theoretic characterizations shed new light upon the structure of Clifford+$T$ circuits and led to remarkable developments in the field of quantum compiling. In the present paper, we provide number-theoretic characterizations for certain restricted Clifford+$T$ circuits by considering unitary matrices over subrings of $\mathbb{Z}[1/\sqrt{2},i]$. We focus on the subrings $\mathbb{Z}[1/2]$, $\mathbb{Z}[1/\sqrt{2}]$, $\mathbb{Z}[1/i\sqrt{2}]$, and $\mathbb{Z}[1/2,i]$, and we prove that unitary matrices with entries in these rings correspond to circuits over well-known universal gate sets. In each case, the desired gate set is obtained by extending the set of classical reversible gates $\{X, CX, CCX\}$ with an analogue of the Hadamard gate and an optional phase gate.
Test of unreported ratios from THE CEREBELLUM CONVERTS INPUT DATA INTO A HYPER LOW-RESOLUTION GRANULE CELL CODE WITH SPATIAL DIMENSIONS: A HYPOTHESIS
Creators: name: Gilbert, Mike
name: Rasmussen, Anders
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 320999
subject: Neurosciences not elsewhere classified

description: We explored the effect of varying model parameters for which physiological data are unreported. That was done to confirm that the results are not dependent on hypothesis-favourable estimates.
Bildung, the Beautiful Soul, and the German Enlightenment Salon
Creators: name: Kolata, Justine
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Beautiful Soul
Bildung
die schöne Seele
Salons
Salon Culture
Salonnière
Enlightenment

description: My dissertation explores two critical German philosophical concepts: Bildung (self-cultivation) and die schöne Seele (the Beautiful Soul) in the context of Berlin salon culture around 1800. It is the first systematic examination of the relationship between this philosophy and the institution of the salon. My principal goal is to demonstrate that during the period between the Ancien Régime and the Vormärz, the Berlin salons became the space in which this philosophy was performed and put into practice. Although I draw on the broader literature on this topic to elucidate this relationship, I focus on the theoretical formulations of the two most celebrated philosophers of the Beautiful Soul, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) and Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805), and how their ideas informed the activities of the two most widely recognized salons in post-revolutionary Berlin, those of Henriette Herz (1764-1847) and Rahel Varnhagen (1771-1833). My topic is significant for two related reasons: it lies at the intersection of aesthetic and moral philosophy which represents the core of the German philosophical tradition; and it explores the extent to which the tenets of this philosophy were vigorously debated and practiced in the salon, one of the most vibrant cultural institutions in Germany at the turn of the nineteenth century. No single treatise by the proponents of Bildung and die schöne Seele provides a comprehensive explanation of the theory. Since we lack a single, standardized text to analyze, I have chosen to construct a comprehensive account assembled from the fragments that identifies the commonalities amongst them, and, I believe, most accurately captures the ethos of the philosophy. Beyond examining the theory of Bildung and die schöne Seele, my contributions to the existing scholarship are threefold. First, by exploring the practical enactments of the Beautiful Soul and self-cultivation in the salon space, I will show that these concepts had far greater social and cultural significance than has been argued to date. Second, I articulate an aesthetic theory of the German salon that transforms the way we understand institutions for communication and deliberative democracy. Third, I demonstrate that there was a specific ideological underpinning to the activities of the Berlin salonnières. My dissertation reads the Berlin salons as projects of a radically political nature whose manifesto, as it were, was Bildung.
description: Tiarks German Scholarship Fund
Additional file 1 of Minimal residual disease detection by multicolor flow cytometry in cryopreserved ovarian tissue from leukemia patients
Creators: name: Zver, Tristan
name: Frontczak, Sophie
name: Poirot, Catherine
name: Rives-Feraille, Aurélie
name: Leroy-Martin, Brigitte
name: Koscinski, Isabelle
name: Arbez-Gindre, Francine
name: Garnache-Ottou, Francine
name: Roux, Christophe
name: Amiot, Clotilde
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 20199 Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1: CED and DIE calculation, marker selection for MRD detection by MFC in ovarian tissue
Ptomaphagus (Ptomaphagus) clavalis Reitter 1885
Creators: name: Casale, Achille
name: Grafitti, Giuseppe
name: Latella, Leonardo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Ptomaphagus
Ptomaphagus clavalis

description: Ptomaphagus (Ptomaphagus) clavalis Reitter, 1885
Literature records. Sardinia (Luigioni 1929, Jeannel 1936, Porta 1949, Perreau 2008). Cagliari prov.: Giara di Gesturi (Zoia & Latella 2006); Iglesias, Campo Pisano, Miniera di Campo Pisano (Grafitti 2005; Zoia & Latella 2006); Sarroch (Zoia & Latella 2006).
Unpublished data: Sassari prov.: Cossoine, Monte Castanza, Grotta Sa Ucca de Su Peltusu (1572 Sa/SS), 13.XI.1977, GG & MM leg., 2 ex, on the wall of the principal branch, P.M. Giachino det. (GGC, PGC).
Distribution. Sardinia, Sicily (Italy), Balearic Islands (Spain).
Chorotype. W-Mediterranean.
Remarks. Known in Sardinia from artificial and natural caves and outside.
description: Published as part of Casale, Achille, Grafitti, Giuseppe & Latella, Leonardo, 2009, The Cholevidae (Coleoptera) of Sardinia *, pp. 290-316 in Zootaxa 2318 on pages 293-294
Chiral properties of domain wall fermions with improved gauge actions
Creators: name: Orginos, Konstantinos
name: Collaboration, RBC
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the chiral properties of quenched domain wall fermions with several gauge actions. We demonstrate that the nearly translationally invariant modes in the fifth dimension that dominate the residual mass for Wilson gauge action can be substantially suppressed using improved gauge actions. In particular, we study the Symanzik action, the Iwasaki action, the DBW2 action and compare them to the Wilson action.
description: Lattice2001(chiral), 3 pages, 2 figures
Do labor standards benefit workers in horticultural export chains in Peru?
Creators: name: Schuster, Monica
name: Maertens, Miet
name: Schuster, Monica
name: Maertens, Miet
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: global food supply chains
subject: labor standards
subject: private standards
subject: employment conditions
subject: horticultural exports
subject: Peru

description: Private standards are spreading rapidly in international food production and trade, and are moving beyond food quality and safety aspect to address environmental and ethical concerns. We examine how effective private standards are in improving employment conditions in global food supply chains. Using panel data from company and workers surveys and different econometric techniques, we analyze how the adoption of a variety of private standards, that differ with respect to their focus on labor standards, influences employment conditions in production, processing and exporting companies in the horticultural export chain in Peru. We find that workers employed in companies adopting private labor standards are more likely to be paid a minimum wage, to have a contract and to receive training but there is no effect of private standards on the level of the wage and on the employment period. We conclude that private labor standards contribute to the enforcement of national labor laws but have no beneficial effect beyond legal employment entitlements; and that despite the enactment of labor regulations at the national level and the wide spread of private labor standards, ethical labor concerns remain an issue in the Peruvian horticultural export sector.
description: Please see formal publication: Schuster, M., Maertens, M. (2016). Do private standards benefit workers in horticultural export chains in Peru?, Journal of Cleaner Production, 112 (4), 2392-2406
Additional file 1 of 3rd generation MICA with the “K-wires-first technique” - a step-by-step instruction and preliminary results
Creators: name: Toepfer, Andreas
name: Strässle, Michael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table 1. Pearls and pifalls of the “K-wires-first” modification of 3rd generation MICA.
The equivalence theorem and the Bethe-Salpeter equation
Creators: name: Kondratyuk, S.
name: Lahiff, A. D.
name: Fearing, H. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We solve the Bethe-Salpeter equation for two-particle scattering in a field-theoretical model using two lagrangians related by a field transformation. The kernel of the equation consists of the sum of all tree-level diagrams for each lagrangian. The solutions differ even if all four external particles are put on the mass shell, which implies that observables calculated by solving the Bethe-Salpeter equation depend on the representation of the theory. We point out that this violation of the equivalence theorem has a simple explanation and should be expected for any Bethe-Salpeter equation with a tree-level kernel. Implications for dynamical models of hadronic interactions are discussed.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures, using REVTeX. Fig. 2 corrected, results unchanged, to be published in Phys. Lett. B
MOESM6 of Assessing the implementation of a patient navigation intervention for colonoscopy screening
Creators: name: DeGroff, Amy
name: Gressard, Lindsay
name: Glover-Kudon, Rebecca
name: Ketra Rice
name: Tharpe, Felicia
name: Escoffery, Cam
name: Gersten, Joanne
name: Butterly, Lynn
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 6. Interview guides used with partner organization staff involved in the NHCRCSP.
BUYUK MUTAFAKKIRLARIMIZ MILLIY QADRIYATLAR, TARIXIY, TA'LIMIY VA AXLOQIY QARASHLARDA BOSHLANG'ICH TA'LIMGA OID TARIXIY MEROSINI O'RGANISH
Creators: name: Xolmirzayeva, Yulduz Mamatqulovna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Ushbu maqola Mirzo Ulug’bek asarlarida milliy qadriyatlar,  tarixiy, ta’limiy va axloqiy qarashlarda kreativlikni rivojlantirish va shakllantirishninng o‘ziga xos jihatlari, boshlang‘ich sinfdanoq  o‘quvchilar ongida shakillantirish xususida fikr muloxazalar bildirilgan. Xususan, boshlang‘ich sinflarda tashkil etish yo‘llari tushunchalarni o‘quvchilar ongila shakillantirishga e’tibor qaratilgan va shu kabilar yuzasidan fikr muloxazalar keltirilgan.
Additional file 6 of Risk factors for mortality in critically ill patients with COVID-19: a multicenter retrospective case-control study
Creators: name: Gao, Jinghua
name: Zhong, Li
name: Wu, Ming
name: Ji, Jingjing
name: Liu, Zheying
name: Wang, Conglin
name: Xie, Qifeng
name: Liu, Zhifeng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 6: Supplementary figure 6. Survival curves of 60-day mortality in all patients with CRP>52 vs CRP≤52.
The 'Political Economy' of Agricultural Biotechnology for the Developing World
Creators: name: Leisinger, Klaus M.
name: Leisinger, Klaus M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: At the beginning of the new millennium, the 150-year-old conceptual skeleton of 'political economy' is rattling loudly in the closet. Early in his work Marx (1859) argued that there is a close and circular relationship between the social conditions of a nation and its conditions of production, the latter determining its level of economic development. In this context institutional structures and social values, as well as ways of thinking and attitudes of members of civil society, are very important. In the current discussion of agricultural biotechnology for developing countries this part of Marxian analysis is highly relevant, particularly for urban impoverished groups as well as resource-poor farmers and their families. This paper looks at the impact current politicized discussion in Europe is having on public research for the developing world and proposes a way of building a bridge over the troubled waters currently dividing proponents and opponents of agricultural biotechnology.
Solar neutrino oscillations and bounds on neutrino magnetic moment and solar magnetic field
Creators: name: Akhmedov, E. Kh.
name: Pulido, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: If the observed deficit of solar neutrinos is due to neutrino oscillations, neutrino conversions caused by the interaction of their transition magnetic moments with the solar magnetic field (spin-flavour precession) can still be present at a subdominant level. In that case, the combined action of neutrino oscillations and spin-flavour precession can lead to a small but observable flux of electron antineutrinos coming from the sun. Non-observation of these nuebar's could set limits on neutrino transition moment μand the strength and coordinate dependence of the solar magnetic field B_\perp. The sensitivity of the nuebar flux to the product μB_\perp is strongest in the case of the vacuum oscillation (VO) solution of the solar neutrino problem; in the case of the LOW solution, it is weaker, and it is the weakest for the LMA solution. For different solutions, different characteristics of the solar magnetic field B_\perp(r) are probed: for the VO solution, the nuebar flux is determined by the integral of B_\perp(r) over the solar convective zone, for LMA it is determined by the magnitude of B_\perp in the neutrino production region, and for LOW it depends on the competition between this magnitude and the derivative of B_\perp(r) at the surface of the sun.
description: LaTeX, 16 pages, 2 eps figures. References added; discussion of the LOW case modified
Anisotropic particles in two-dimensional convective turbulence
Creators: name: Calzavarini, Enrico
name: Jiang, Linfeng
name: Sun, Chao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The orientational dynamics of inertialess anisotropic particles transported by two-dimensional convective turbulent flows display a coexistence of regular and chaotic features. We numerically demonstrate that very elongated particles (rods) align preferentially with the direction of the fluid flow, i.e., horizontally close to the isothermal walls and dominantly vertically in the bulk. This behaviour is due to the the presence of a persistent large scale circulation flow structure, which induces strong shear at wall boundaries and in up/down-welling regions. The near-wall horizontal alignment of rods persists at increasing the Rayleigh number, while the vertical orientation in the bulk is progressively weakened by the corresponding increase of turbulence intensity. Furthermore, we show that very elongated particles are nearly orthogonal to the orientation of the temperature gradient, an alignment independent of the system dimensionality and which becomes exact only in the limit of infinite Prandtl number. Tumbling rates are extremely vigorous adjacent to the walls, where particles roughly perform Jeffery orbits. This implies that the root-mean-square near-wall tumbling rates for spheres are much stronger than for rods, up to $\mathcal{O}(10)$ times at $Ra\simeq 10^9$. In the turbulent bulk the situation reverses and rods tumble slightly faster than isotropic particles, in agreement with earlier observations in two-dimensional turbulence.
description: manuscript + additional materials
Noise Resilience of Variational Quantum Compiling
Creators: name: Sharma, Kunal
name: Khatri, Sumeet
name: Cerezo, M.
name: Coles, Patrick J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Variational hybrid quantum-classical algorithms (VHQCAs) are near-term algorithms that leverage classical optimization to minimize a cost function, which is efficiently evaluated on a quantum computer. Recently VHQCAs have been proposed for quantum compiling, where a target unitary $U$ is compiled into a short-depth gate sequence $V$. In this work, we report on a surprising form of noise resilience for these algorithms. Namely, we find one often learns the correct gate sequence $V$ (i.e., the correct variational parameters) despite various sources of incoherent noise acting during the cost-evaluation circuit. Our main results are rigorous theorems stating that the optimal variational parameters are unaffected by a broad class of noise models, such as measurement noise, gate noise, and Pauli channel noise. Furthermore, our numerical implementations on IBM's noisy simulator demonstrate resilience when compiling the quantum Fourier transform, Toffoli gate, and W-state preparation. Hence, variational quantum compiling, due to its robustness, could be practically useful for noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices. Finally, we speculate that this noise resilience may be a general phenomenon that applies to other VHQCAs such as the variational quantum eigensolver.
description: 16 + 15 pages, 8 figures
Tomorrow's Agriculture
Creators: name: Prante, Gerhard
name: Prante, Gerhard
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: Farm Management
Land Economics/Use

description: Agriculture may never have faced as many challenges as it does at the beginning of the 21st century. Food and feed production needs to approximately double until 2025 owing to (a) population growth, with 73 million being expected to be added to the world population annually, which is an increase of about 32 per cent between 1995 and 2020 to give a total of 7.5 billion, (b) increased food calories consumed and (c) higher-quality food being demanded, particularly as regards meat. Secondly, in the developing countries urbanization is gaining momentum, bringing additional food demand. By 2020, more than half of the population in developing countries will live in urban areas. The global village is becoming a global city. Thirdly, the land area available for food and feed production cannot be increased substantially: most fertile land is in use. Finally, water will increasingly become a scarce resource.
Supplementary information from Applicability of spatial early warning signals to complex network dynamics
Creators: name: MacLaren, Neil G.
name: Aihara, Kazuyuki
name: Masuda, Naoki
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 310908
subject: Animal physiology - biophysics
classificationCode: 320802
subject: Human biophysics

description: Additional methodological details
Cultures of Forecasting: Volatile and Vulnerable Nature, Knowledge, and the Future of Uncertainty
Creators: name: Bobbette, Adam
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2018
Subjects: Indonesia
Anticipation
Futures
Forecasting
Mt Merapi
Culture
Infrastructure
Sultan
Shaman
Volcano science

description: Adam Bobbette Cultures of Forecasting: Volatile and Vulnerable Nature, Knowledge, and the Future of Uncertainty Summary This dissertation is a cultural history and ethnography of volatile nature forecasting. It looks at the ways that the future of nature is known in highly unpredictable contexts through a broad history of modernist nature forecasting and an ethnography of state scientists, shamans, and a sultans retinue on the active volcano, Mount Merapi, Indonesia. The project aims to understand how practices of forecasting generate futures, mobilize, and organise anticipation, how time is known, and populations governed. It looks at the way that publics emerge through forecasting technologies, and how futures and nature-culture relations are contested. It follows the practices of scientists in volcano and tsunami observatories, in planes tracking tropical storms, and bunkers dug into active volcanoes; at how instruments and technologies such as seismographs, windows, globes, speakers, and electrical tomography, mediate and transform relations with nature, the future, and governance. It considers too, the role of architecture, shamanism, and the state in appropriating and governing uncertainty. By following the fieldwork of geophysicists and volcanologists in observatories and the edge of the caldera of Mount Merapi, as well as spirit possession practices, and the ritual offerings of a sultan, I demonstrate how practices of forecasting are making contested futures lived in the present, and forging infrastructures and tools for their longevity. Forecasting, I demonstrate, is a cultural technique that negotiates the porous borders between the human, nature, and the future.
description: Support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Canada, Cambridge Trust, Department of Geography.
The Doubly Stochastic Single Eigenvalue Problem: A Computational Approach
Creators: name: Harlev, Amit
name: Johnson, Charles R.
name: Lim, Derek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 15-04, 15A18, 15A29, 15B51

description: The problem of determining $DS_n$, the complex numbers that occur as an eigenvalue of an $n$-by-$n$ doubly stochastic matrix, has been a target of study for some time. The Perfect-Mirsky region, $PM_n$, is contained in $DS_n$, and is known to be exactly $DS_n$ for $n \leq 4$, but strictly contained within $DS_n$ for $n = 5$. Here, we present a Boundary Conjecture that asserts that the boundary of $DS_n$ is achieved by eigenvalues of convex combinations of pairs of (or single) permutation matrices. We present a method to efficiently compute a portion of $DS_n$, and obtain computational results that support the Boundary Conjecture. We also give evidence that $DS_n$ is equal to $PM_n$ for certain $n > 5$.
Additional file 2 of 3rd generation MICA with the “K-wires-first technique” - a step-by-step instruction and preliminary results
Creators: name: Toepfer, Andreas
name: Strässle, Michael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2: Table 2. Advantages and disadvantages of the “K-wires-first” modification of 3rd generation MICA.
Additional file 3 of Risk factors for mortality in critically ill patients with COVID-19: a multicenter retrospective case-control study
Creators: name: Gao, Jinghua
name: Zhong, Li
name: Wu, Ming
name: Ji, Jingjing
name: Liu, Zheying
name: Wang, Conglin
name: Xie, Qifeng
name: Liu, Zhifeng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 3: Supplementary figure 3. Survival curves of 60-day mortality in all patients with APACHEII>7.0 vs APACHEII≤7.0.
MOESM1 of Synthetic surfactant with a recombinant surfactant protein C analogue improves lung function and attenuates inflammation in a model of acute respiratory distress syndrome in adult rabbits
Creators: name: J. Zebialowicz AhlstrĂśm
name: F. Massaro
name: P. Mikolka
name: R. Feinstein
name: G. Perchiazzi
name: O. Basabe-Burgos
name: T. Curstedt
name: A. Larsson
name: J. Johansson
name: A. Rising
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. One-way ANOVA with Tukey post-hoc test to test the differences between the groups in the parameters with dynamic changes for fixed timepoint. Timepoints: before (basal value, BV) and after induced ARDS and within 3â h after administration of the therapy. Variables: Static lung-thorax compliance (Cstat), dynamic lung-thorax compliance (Cdyn), the ratio of arterial oxygen partial pressure to fraction of inspired oxygen (P/F), oxygenation index (OI), airway pressure (Paw), alveolar-arterial gradient (AaG), ventilation efficiency index (VEI), partial pressure of oxygen (PaO2), partial pressure of carbon dioxide (PaCO2), oxygen saturation (SaO2), and arterial pH. CI denotes a 95% confidence interval for the difference of the population means.
The Classical Barbarian in the Íslendingasögur
Creators: name: Norman, William Hereward
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2018
Subjects: Íslendingasögur
Medieval Iceland
Skotland
Írland
Vínland
Barbarians
Icelandic worldview
Classical reception
Other Theory
Sallust
Roman worldview
Family sagas
Old Norse-Icelandic
Latin

description: The Íslendingasögur, written in Iceland in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, primarily describe the lives of Icelanders during the tenth and eleventh centuries. Many of these lives involve encounters with foreign peoples, both abroad and in Iceland, who are portrayed according to stereotypes which vary depending on the origins of those people. Notably, inhabitants of the places identified in the sagas as Írland, Skotland and Vínland are portrayed as being less civilized than the Icelanders themselves. This thesis explores the ways in which the Íslendingasögur emphasize this relative barbarity through descriptions of diet, material culture, style of warfare, and character. These characteristics are discussed in relation to parallel descriptions of Icelandic characters and lifestyle within the Íslendingasögur, and also in the context of a tradition in contemporary European literature which portrayed the Icelanders themselves as barbaric. Innovatively, comparisons are made with descriptions of barbarians in classical Roman texts, primarily Sallust, but also Caesar and Tacitus. Taking into account the availability and significance of classical learning in medieval Iceland, the comparison with Roman texts yields striking similarities between Roman and Icelandic ideas about barbarians. It is argued that the depiction of foreigners in the Íslendingasögur is almost identical to that of ancient Roman authors, and that the medieval Icelanders had both means and motive to use Roman ideas for inspiration in their own portrayal of the world. Ultimately it is argued that when the medieval Icelanders contemplated the peoples their Viking Age ancestors encountered around the world, they drew on classical ideas of the barbarian to complement the mix of oral tradition, literary inspiration and contemporary circumstance that otherwise form the Íslendingasögur.
Phase-field approach to heterogeneous nucleation
Creators: name: Castro, Mario
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the problem of heterogeneous nucleation and growth. The system is described by a phase field model in which the temperature is included through thermal noise. We show that this phase field approach is suitable to describe homogeneous as well as heterogeneous nucleation starting from several general hypotheses. Thus we can investigate the influence of grain boundaries, localized impurities, or any general kind of imperfections in a systematic way. We also put forward the applicability of our model to study other physical situations such as island formation, amorphous crystallization, or recrystallization.
description: 8 pages including 7 figures. Accepted for publication in Physical Review B
Renormalization Group Flows, the $a$-Theorem and Conformal Bootstrap
Creators: name: Kundu, Sandipan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Every renormalization group flow in $d$ spacetime dimensions can be equivalently described as spectral deformations of a generalized free CFT in $(d-1)$ spacetime dimensions. This can be achieved by studying the effective action of the Nambu-Goldstone boson of broken conformal symmetry in anti-de Sitter space and then taking the flat space limit. This approach is particularly useful in even spacetime dimension where the change in the Euler anomaly $ a_{UV}-a_{IR}$ can be related to anomalous dimensions of lowest twist multi-trace operators in the dual CFT. As an application, we provide a simple proof of the 4d $a$-theorem using the dual description. Furthermore, we reinterpret the statement of the $a$-theorem in 6d as a conformal bootstrap problem in 5d.
description: 39 pages + appendices, multiple figures; Minor corrections
title: Interfacial Nanoengineering of Hydrogel Surfaces via Block Copolymer Self-Assembly
Creators: name: Cosimi, Andrea
name: Stöbener, Daniel D.
name: Nickl, Philip
name: Schusterbauer, Robert
name: Donskyi, Ievgen S.
name: Weinhart, Marie
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: brushing-up
subject: benzophenone
subject: LCST-type polymer
subject: poly(glycidyl ether) (PGE)
subject: fibroblast adhesion
classificationCode: 540
subject: Chemie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften

description: Synthetic polymer hydrogels are valuable matrices for biotransformations, drug delivery, and soft implants. While the bulk properties of hydrogels depend on chemical composition and network structure, the critical role of interfacial features is often underestimated. This work presents a nanoscale modification of the gel–water interface using polymer brushes via a straightforward “grafting-to” strategy, offering an alternative to more cumbersome “grafting-from” approaches. Functional block copolymers with photoreactive anchor blocks are successfully self-assembled and UV-immobilized on hydrogel substrates despite their low solid content (<30 wt %). This versatile technique works on both bulk- and surface-immobilized hydrogels, demonstrated on poly­(hydroxypropyl acrylate), poly­( N -isopropylacrylamide), and alginate gels, allowing precise control over grafting density. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry revealed a homogeneous bilayered architecture. By “brushing-up”, the hydrogels’ interface can be tailored to enhance protein adsorption, improve cell adhesion, or impair the diffusive uptake of small molecules into the bulk gels. This effective interfacial nanoengineering method is broadly applicable for enhancing hydrogel performance across a wide range of applications.
Additional file 3 of 3rd generation MICA with the “K-wires-first technique” - a step-by-step instruction and preliminary results
Creators: name: Toepfer, Andreas
name: Strässle, Michael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3: Table 3. Demographics and radiological outcome of all 50 cases. To protect anonymity, the individual patient’s age was changed to age-ranges.
Additional file 1 of Molecular characterization of Trypanosoma evansi, T. vivax and T. congolense in camels (Camelus dromedarius) of KSA
Creators: name: Al Malki, Jamila S.
name: Hussien, Nahed Ahmed
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1.
Towards data-congruent models of the term structure of interest rates
Creators: name: Favero, Carlo A.
name: Fernández-Fuertes, Rubén
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: Bond yields can be decomposed into two unobservable components: the expected sequence of short-term rates and term premia. The identification of these two components is crucial to understand bond pricing and the effect of monetary policy on the term structure of interest rates. This article illustrates how Pesaran’s prescription of congruency between the salient features of the data and the reduced form, explicitly derived from stochastic dynamic optimization, effectively facilitates the relevant decomposition. By examining the historical evolution of term structure models, we demonstrate that the chosen specifications have not consistently aligned with the data, presenting a missed opportunity. In fact, a data-congruent specification helps in improving forecasts of the dynamics of US short-term rates and generates stationary dynamics for the term premia.
Differential replication, pathology, and immune response of clade IIb mpox virus in C57BL/6 and BALB/c mice
Creators: name: Duan, Meimei
name: Zhang, Xiangmei
name: Tang, Xian
name: Li, Zhuohuan
name: Huang, Wenqi
name: Chen, Qi
name: Zhang, Mingxia
name: Cheng, Lin
name: Zhang, Zheng
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: We have previously established a clade Ⅱb mpox virus (MPXV) pathogenic BALB/c mouse model for developing mpox countermeasures. Here, we comprehensively investigated the susceptibility of BALB/c and C57BL/6 mice to MPXV and found that Clade IIb MPXV was capable of rapid replication in the lungs of both mouse strains, thus triggering similar dynamic pathological changes and antibody responses. However, C57BL/6 mice, compared to BALB/c mice, seem less susceptible to MPXV, evidenced by no significant weight loss, lower viral load, faster viral clearance, and earlier pathological improvement, as well as weaker antibody response. Interestingly, C57BL/6 stat1-/- mice intranasally infected with MPXV displayed a significant body weight loss, indicating the crucial role of innate immunity in the susceptibility to MPXV. The C57BL/6 model mimics clinical characteristics of asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic patients with mild mpox, which will be beneficial for exploring MPXV infection, transmission, pathogenesis, and immune responses.
Examining the weak cosmic censorship conjecture of RN-AdS black holes via the new version of the gedanken experiment
Creators: name: Wang, Xin-Yang
name: Jiang, Jie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on the new version of the gedanken experiment proposed by Sorce and Wald, we investigate the weak cosmic censorship conjecture (WCCC) for a Reissner-Nordström-Anti-de Sitter (RN-AdS) black hole under the perturbation of extra matter fields. Firstly, we propose that the cosmological constant can be effectively derived from the matter fields and its value varies with the matter fields perturbing the black hole. Meanwhile, we assume that the perturbation satisfies the stability condition. This condition means that after a long time of the perturbation, the black hole solution also belongs to the family of the RN-AdS solution. After that, based on both the stability condition and the null energy condition, while using the off-shell variation method, the first-order and the second-order perturbation inequalities are derived respectively when the cosmological constant is considered as a dynamic variable. It is the first time to extend the two perturbation inequalities to contain the term of the press and volume of thermodynamics. Finally, we perform the two perturbation inequalities into testing the WCCC for the RN-AdS black hole under the second-order approximation of the perturbation. It is shown that if the variation of the cosmological constant is caused by the matter fields, while the stability condition and the null energy condition are all satisfied, the black hole cannot be destroyed after the perturbation. In other words, the WCCC for the RN-AdS black hole is valid under the second-order approximation of the perturbation.
description: 11 pages, 2 figures, and some discussion have been added
Effects of Variety and Fertilizers on Number of Grains/Cob of Maize in Asaba Area of Delta State
Creators: name: Enujeke, E.C.
name: Enujeke, E.C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Organic manure
subject: Inorganic fertilizer
subject: Number of grains/cob
subject: Asaba
subject: Delta State

description: This study carried out in the Teaching and Research Farm of Delta state University, Asaba Campus from March 2008 to June, 2010 to evaluate the effects of variety, organic manure and inorganic fertilizer on number of grain/cob of maize. The experiment was carried out in a Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) replicated three times in a factorial layout. Four different rates of poultry manure, cattle dung and NPK 20:10:10 fertilizer were applied to three different maize varieties sown at 75cm x 15 cm and evaluated for number of grains/cob. The result obtained indicated that hybrid variety, 9022-13, which had 5090, was superior. Also, plants that received inorganic fertilizer were outstanding in number of grains/cob with values of 441.5 in 2008 and 506.0 in 2009 followed by the plants received poultry manure (444.0 in 2008 and 468.0 in 2009). Based on the rates of application of manure/inorganic fertilizer, plants that received 450kgha-1 of NPK 20:10:10 fertilizer were outstanding in numbers of grains/cob of maize with values of 532.8 in 2008 and 570.8 in 2009. The results of interaction showed that variety, manure type and rates of application were significantly (p<0.05) different. Based on the findings of this study, it is recommended that (i) Hybrid variety 9022-13 should be grown in Asaba area. (ii) NPK 20: 10:10 mineral fertilizers should be applied at the rate of 450kgha-1 to enhance maize yield.
MOESM2 of Fast quantitative urinary proteomic profiling workflow for biomarker discovery in kidney cancer
Creators: name: Lin, Lin
name: Yu, Quan
name: Zheng, Jiaxin
name: Cai, Zonglong
name: Tian, Ruijun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. A summary of the vDIA method.