cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
(Baeosphecodes) Engel 2013
Creators: name: Engel, Michael S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia

description: Key to species of Baeosphecodes
(Females only)
1. Mesosoma entirely or at least partially black to darkly infuscate...................... 2
 ―. Mesosoma entirely orange-testaceous (Jamaica)................ M. xaymacensis Engel
2(1). Mesoscutum, mesoscutellum, metanotum, and propodeum concolorous, black............................................................................................................................. 3
―. Mesonotal sclerites of contrasting coloration......................................................... 4
 3(2). Pronotum and mesosternum testaceous, remainder of mesosoma black (St. Vincent)................................................................................ M. solitarius (Ashmead)
 ―. Mesosomal dorsum black, pleura infuscated, venter testaceous (Dominica)....................................................................................................... M. dominicanus (Stage)
 4(2). Mesoscutellum and metanotum pitch black; propodeum yellow (St. Kitts)................................................................................................................ M. kittensis Engel
 ―. Mesoscutellum and metanotum orange-testaceous, sometimes infuscated; propodeum darkly infuscate (St. Vincent)....................... M. thoracicus (Ashmead)
description: Published as part of Engel, Michael S., 2013, A new species of Microsphecodes from Peru, with notes on the classification of the genus (Hymenoptera: Halictidae), pp. 1-9 in Journal of Melittology 2013 (24) on page 8, DOI: 10.17161/jom.v0i24.4642, http://zenodo.org/record/13736899
Optimal Multiple Stopping with Negative Discount Rate and Random Refraction Times under Levy Models
Creators: name: Leung, Tim
name: Yamazaki, Kazutoshi
name: Zhang, Hongzhong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Finance (q-fin.MF)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60G40, 60J75

description: This paper studies a class of optimal multiple stopping problems driven by Lévy processes. Our model allows for a negative effective discount rate, which arises in a number of financial applications, including stock loans and real options, where the strike price can potentially grow at a higher rate than the original discount factor. Moreover, successive exercise opportunities are separated by i.i.d. random refraction times. Under a wide class of two-sided Lévy models with a general random refraction time, we rigorously show that the optimal strategy to exercise successive call options is uniquely characterized by a sequence of up-crossing times. The corresponding optimal thresholds are determined explicitly in the single stopping case and recursively in the multiple stopping case.
description: 25 pages, 1 figure
SOME NONLOCAL OPERATORS AND EFFECTS DUE TO NONLOCALITY
Creators: name: BUCUR, CLAUDIA DALIA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2017

description: In this thesis, we deal with problems related to nonlocal operators, in particular to the fractional Laplacian and some other types of fractional derivatives. We make an extensive introduction to the fractional Laplacian and to some related contemporary research themes. We add to this some original material: the potential theory of this operator and a proof of Schauder estimates with the potential theory approach, the study of a fractional elliptic problem in $mathbb{R}^n$ with convex nonlinearities and critical growth, and a stickiness property of $s$-minimal surfaces as $s$ gets small. Also, focusing our attention on some particular traits of the fractional Laplacian, we prove that other fractional operators have a similar behavior: Caputo stationary functions satisfy a particular density property in the space of smooth functions; an extension operator can be build for Marchaud-stationary functions.
Optimal design for problems involving flow and transport phenomena in saturated subsurface systems
Creators: name: Kelley, C.T.
name: Mayer, Alex
name: Miller, Cass
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2002

description: Abstract Estimation problems arise routinely in subsurface hydrology for applications that range from water resources management to water quality protection to subsurface restoration. Interest in optimal design of such systems has increased over the last two decades and this area is considered an important and active area of research. In this work, we review the state of the art, assess important challenges that must be resolved to reach a mature level of understanding, and summarize some promising approaches that might help meet some of the challenges. While much has been accomplished to date, we conclude that more work remains before comprehensive, efficient, and robust solution methods exist to solve the most challenging applications in subsurface science. We suggest that future directions of research include the application of direct search solution methods, and developments in stochastic and multi-objective optimization. We present a set of comprehensive test problems for use in the research community as a means for benchmarking and comparing optimization approaches.
Additional file 2 of PhoPQ two-component regulatory system plays a global regulatory role in antibiotic susceptibility, physiology, stress adaptation, and virulence in Stenotrophomonas maltophilia
Creators: name: Hsu-Feng Lu
name: Bo-Kuan Wu
name: Huang, Yi-Wei
name: Lee, Ming-Zhe
name: Li, Ming-Fang
name: Hsu-Jung Ho
name: Hung-Chi Yang
name: Tsuey-Ching Yang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 2: Figure. S1. SDS-PAGE and Western blotting of total bacterial proteins of S. maltophilia KJ, its derived mutants, and complementary strains. Overnight culture of bacterial cells was inoculated into fresh LB with an initial OD450nm of 0.15. Cells were grown aerobically for 5 h. Whole bacterial cell lysates were denatured and separated by 14% SDS-PAGE. (A) The gel was stained with 0.1% Coomassie Blue R250 in 10% acetic acid, 50% methanol, and 40% H2O for 30 min, and then destained with 10% acetic acid, 50% methanol, and 40% H2O until the background was clear. (B) The proteins in the gel were transferred onto polyvinylidene difluoride (PVDF) membranes. The blot was reacted with anti-PhoP antibodies and secondary mouse anti-rabbit IgG immunoglobulin conjugated to horseradish peroxidase (Sigma Chemical Co., St. Louis, MO). M, protein markers; lane 1, E. coli (pETPhoP); lane 2, KJ; lane 3, KJΔPhoP; lane 4, KJΔPhoP (pPhoP); lane 5, KJΔPhoP (pPhoPQ); lane 6, KJΔPhoPQ; lane 7, KJΔPhoPQ (pPhoP); lane 8, KJΔPhoPQ (pPhoQ); lane 9, KJΔPhoPQ (pPhoPQ). The cropped image presented in Fig. 2b is marked by a black rectangle.
When Is Holography Consistent?
Creators: name: McInnes, Brett
name: Ong, Yen Chin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Holographic duality relates two radically different kinds of theory: one with gravity, one without. The very existence of such an equivalence imposes strong consistency conditions which are, in the nature of the case, hard to satisfy. Recently a particularly deep condition of this kind, relating the minimum of a probe brane action to a gravitational bulk action (in a Euclidean formulation), has been recognised; and the question arises as to the circumstances under which it, and its Lorentzian counterpart, are satisfied. We discuss the fact that there are physically interesting situations in which one or both versions might, in principle, \emph{not} be satisfied. These arise in two distinct circumstances: first, when the bulk is not an Einstein manifold, and, second, in the presence of angular momentum. Focusing on the application of holography to the quark-gluon plasma (of the various forms arising in the early Universe and in heavy-ion collisions), we find that these potential violations never actually occur. This suggests that the consistency condition is a "law of physics" expressing a particular aspect of holography.
description: 26 pages, two diagrams
Convergence of iterative split-operator approaches for approximating nonlinear reactive transport problems
Creators: name: Miller, Cass
name: Kenney, Joseph F.
name: Kelley, C.T.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2003

description: Abstract Numerical solutions to nonlinear reactive solute transport problems (NRTPs) are often computed using split-operator (SO) approaches, which separate the transport and reaction processes. This uncoupling introduces an additional source of numerical error, known as the splitting error. The iterative split-operator (ISO) algorithm removes the splitting error through iteration. Although the ISO algorithm is often used, there has been very little analysis of its convergence behavior. This work uses theoretical analysis and numerical experiments to investigate the convergence rate of the ISO approach for solving NRTPs. We show that under certain assumptions regarding smoothness, the convergence rate of the ISO algorithm applied NRTPs is O(Δ ). We demonstrate that the theoretical convergence rate can be achieved in practice if the numerical solution of the transport and reaction steps are carried out with sufficient accuracy. We also show that accurate estimation of the lagged operator in each step is crucial to obtaining the theoretical convergence rate.
Düşük Mineralli Suyun Sağlık Üzerindeki Etkileri: Kalsiyum ve Magnezyum Eksikliğinin Rolü
Creators: name: Arduç, Galip
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: galip arduç

description: Düşük mineralli suyun, özellikle kalsiyum ve magnezyum eksikliklerine bağlı olarak insan sağlığı üzerinde olumsuz etkileri olduğu çeşitli araştırmalarla kanıtlanmıştır. Kalsiyum, kemik ve diş sağlığı ile kas kasılmaları gibi vücut fonksiyonları için hayati öneme sahipken; magnezyum ise enerji metabolizmasında, sinir ve kas fonksiyonlarında kritik roller oynar. İçme suyunda bulunan kalsiyum ve magnezyum miktarı, bu minerallerin diyetle alınan miktarlarını tamamlayıcı nitelikte olabilir. Düşük mineralli su tüketimi, özellikle kalp ve damar hastalıkları, kemik kırıkları, nörolojik bozukluklar, erken doğum, düşük doğum ağırlığı ve bazı kanser türleri riskini artırmaktadır. Ayrıca, toksik metallerin çözünmesi ve bakteri üremesi riskleri de düşük mineralli su tüketimi ile artabilir. Bu nedenle, içme suyunun asgari mineral içeriğine sahip olması sağlık açısından önemlidir.
Thermodynamically constrained averaging theory approach for modeling flow and transport phenomena in porous medium systems: 3. Single-fluid-phase flow
Creators: name: Gray, William G.
name: Miller, Cass
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006

description: Abstract This work is the third in a series of papers on the thermodynamically constrained averaging theory (TCAT) approach to modeling flow and transport phenomena in multiscale porous medium systems. Building upon the general TCAT framework and the mathematical foundation presented in previous works in this series, we demonstrate the TCAT approach for the case of single-fluid-phase flow. The formulated model is based upon conservation equations for mass, momentum, and energy and a general entropy inequality constraint, which is developed to guide model closure. A specific example of a closed model is derived under limiting assumptions using a linearization approach and these results are compared and contrasted with the traditional single-phase-flow model. Potential extensions to this work are discussed. Specific advancements in this work beyond previous averaging theory approaches to single-phase flow include use of macroscale thermodynamics that is averaged from the microscale, the use of derived equilibrium conditions to guide a flux–force pair approach to simplification, use of a general Lagrange multiplier approach to connect conservation equation constraints to the entropy inequality, and a focus on producing complete, closed models that are solvable.
(3639) Charles Eric Griffith Goodall
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Cross thermoelectric coupling in normal-superconductor quantum dots
Creators: name: Hwang, Sun-Yong
name: Lopez, Rosa
name: Sanchez, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the nonlinear current of an interacting quantum dot coupled to normal and superconducting reservoirs with applied voltage and temperature differences. Due to the particle-hole symmetry introduced by the superconducting lead, the pure (subgap) thermoelectric response vanishes. However, we show that the Andreev bound states shift as the thermal gradient increases. As a consequence, the $I$--$V$ characteristic can be tuned with a temperature bias if the system is simultaneously voltage biased. This is a cross effect that occurs beyond linear response only. Furthermore, we emphasize the role of quasiparticle tunneling processes in the generation of high thermopower sensitivities.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
(3640) Arthur West
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Additional file 5 of PhoPQ two-component regulatory system plays a global regulatory role in antibiotic susceptibility, physiology, stress adaptation, and virulence in Stenotrophomonas maltophilia
Creators: name: Hsu-Feng Lu
name: Bo-Kuan Wu
name: Huang, Yi-Wei
name: Lee, Ming-Zhe
name: Li, Ming-Fang
name: Hsu-Jung Ho
name: Hung-Chi Yang
name: Tsuey-Ching Yang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 5: Figure S4. The expression of oxidative stress alleviation-associated genes of S. maltophilia KJ in response to MD challenge. Overnight culture of KJ cells was inoculated into fresh LB broth without or with MD (16 μg/ml) at an initial OD450nm of 0.15. Cells were grown aerobically for 5 h before measuring the indicated transcripts using qRT-PCR. All values were normalized to the transcript of MD-non-treated KJ cells. Bars represent the average values from three independent experiments. Error bars represent the standard error of the mean. *, P
Scalar dissipation rate measurements in a starting jet
Creators: name: Soulopoulos, N.
name: Hardalupas, Y.
name: Taylor, A. M. K. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Measurements of the scalar dissipation rate are performed in an impulsively started gas jet, using planar laser induced fluorescence. The measurements are well resolved spatially. The deteriorating effect of experimental noise on this experiment is treated with a Wiener filter, which is shown to be applicable to this large-scale inhomogeneous flow. The accuracy of the scalar dissipation rate is within $20\%$, as determined from an explicit calculation of the filtering errors. The residual fields that remain after the filtering are analysed in detail and their statistical properties show that these resemble white noise to a good approximation. The level of corrections is minimal for the scalar field but it is of the order of $40\%$ for the scalar dissipation rate. An examination of the filtering operation using modeled spectra and the measured spatial resolution shows that the Wiener filter produces errors in the estimate of the scalar dissipation rate $\sim30\%$, for Taylor-scale Reynolds number up to 1000. The implications of this modelling are discussed with respect to common experimental situations and point out the relative merits of improving the spatial resolution as compared to improvements in the signal to noise ratio.
Geo-Temporal Distribution of Tag Terms for Event-Related Image Retrieval
Creators: name: Ruocco, Massimiliano
name: Ramampiaro, Heri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Media sharing applications, such as Flickr and Panoramio, contain a large amount of pictures related to real life events. For this reason, the development of effective methods to retrieve these pictures is important, but still a challenging task. Recognizing this importance, and to improve the retrieval effectiveness of tag-based event retrieval systems, we propose a new method to extract a set of geographical tag features from raw geo-spatial profiles of user tags. The main idea is to use these features to select the best expansion terms in a machine learning-based query expansion approach. Specifically, we apply rigorous statistical exploratory analysis of spatial point patterns to extract the geo-spatial features. We use the features both to summarize the spatial characteristics of the spatial distribution of a single term, and to determine the similarity between the spatial profiles of two terms -- i.e., term-to-term spatial similarity. To further improve our approach, we investigate the effect of combining our geo-spatial features with temporal features on choosing the expansion terms. To evaluate our method, we perform several experiments, including well-known feature analyses. Such analyses show how much our proposed geo-spatial features contribute to improve the overall retrieval performance. The results from our experiments demonstrate the effectiveness and viability of our method.
Water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions to improve health among people living with HIV/AIDS: a systematic review
Creators: name: Mahin, Thomas
name: Bartram, Jamie
name: Harris, Mamie
name: Cohen, Myron
name: Peletz, Rachel
name: Chan, Ka Seen
name: Elliott, Mark
name: Clasen, Thomas
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: DESIGN: People living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) are at increased risk of diarrhoeal disease and enteric infection. This review assesses the effectiveness of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) interventions to prevent disease among PLHIV.  METHODS: We searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, Global Health, The Cochrane Library, Web of Science, LILACS, Africa-wide, IMEMR, IMSEAR, WPRIM, CNKI, and WanFang. We also hand searched conference proceedings, contacted researchers and organizations, and checked references from identified studies. Eligible studies were those involving WASH interventions among PLHIV that reported on health outcomes and employed a controlled study design. We extracted data, explored heterogeneity, sub-grouped based on outcomes, calculated pooled effects on diarrhoeal disease using meta-analysis, and assessed studies for methodological quality.  RESULTS: Ten studies met the eligibility criteria and are included in the review, of which nine involved water quality interventions and one involved promotion of handwashing. Among eight studies that reported on diarrhoea, water quality interventions (seven studies, pooled RR = 0.57, 95% CI: 0.38-0.86) and the handwashing intervention (one study, RR = 0.42, 95% CI: 0.33-0.54) were protective against diarrhoea. One study reported that household water treatment combined with insecticide treated bednets slowed the progression of HIV/AIDS. The validity of most studies is potentially compromised by methodological shortcomings.  CONCLUSION: No studies assessed the impact of improved water supply or sanitation, the most fundamental of WASH interventions. Despite some evidence that water quality interventions and handwashing are protective against diarrhoea, substantial heterogeneity and the potential for bias raise questions about the actual level of protection.
(3641) Thomas Edward Harrison
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Delineating Boundaries for Imprecise Regions
Creators: name: Snoeyink, Jack
name: van Kreveld, Marc
name: Reinbacher, Iris
name: Mitchell, Joseph
name: Benkert, Marc
name: Wolff, Alexander
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: . In geographic information retrieval, queries often name geographic regions that do not have a well-defined boundary, such as Southern France. We provide two algorithmic approaches to the problem of computing reasonable boundaries of such regions based on data points that have evidence indicating that they lie either inside or outside the region. Our problem formulation leads to a number of subproblems related to red-blue point separation and minimum-perimeter polygons, many of which we solve algorithmically. We give experimental results from our implementation and a comparison of the two approaches.
CONDITIONAL REGRESSION MODELS FOR TRANSIENT STATE SURVIVAL ANALYSIS
Creators: name: ABBOTT, ROBERT
name: CARROLL, RAYMOND
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1986

description: Survival models are important tools for the analysis of data when a disease event occurs in time and subjects are lost to follow-up. Many models, however, can also be adapted for use when an event is characterized by transitions through Intermediate states of disease with increasing severity. In this presentation, such adaptations will be demonstrated for a class of conditional regression models for the analysis of transient state events occurring among grouped event times. The type of conditioning that will be described is useful in providing comparisons of specific disease states and an assessment of transition-dependent risk factor effects. An example will be given based on the Framingham Heart Study.
Local smoothing for the Schrödinger equation with a prescribed loss
Creators: name: Wunsch, Jared
name: Christianson, Hans
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Abstract: We consider a family of surfaces of revolution, each with a single periodic geodesic which is degenerately unstable. We prove a local smoothing estimate for solutions to the linear Schrödinger equation with a loss that depends on the degeneracy, and we construct explicit examples to show our estimate is saturated on a weak semiclassical time scale. As a byproduct of our proof, we obtain a cutoff resolvent estimate with a sharp polynomial loss.
Large N limit of supersymmetric Chern-Simons-matter model: breakdown of superconformal symmetry
Creators: name: Queiruga, J. M.
name: da Silva, A. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we study some properties of the three dimensional $U(N)$ SUSY Chern-Simons coupled to a scalar field in the fundamental representation in the large $N$ limit. For large $N$ we show that the theory has two phases, one which is conformally invariant, and other where the superconformal symmetry is broken and masses for the matter fields are generated.
description: 18 pages. 5 figures, published version
Aortopathy in the 7q11.23 microduplication syndrome
Creators: name: Shikany, Amy
name: James, Jeanne
name: Lalani, Seema
name: Ware, Stephanie
name: Goldenberg, Paula
name: Parrott, Ashley
name: Ferns, Sunita
name: Hinton, Robert
name: Miller, Erin
name: Kaiser-Rogers, Kathleen
name: Aylsworth, Arthur
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: The 7q11.23 microduplication syndrome, caused by the reciprocal duplication of the Williams-Beuren syndrome deletion region, is a genomic disorder with an emerging clinical phenotype. Dysmorphic features, congenital anomalies, hypotonia, developmental delay highlighted by variable speech delay, and autistic features are characteristic findings. Congenital heart defects, most commonly patent ductus arteriosus, have been reported in a minority of cases. Included in the duplicated region is elastin (), implicated as the cause of supravalvar aortic stenosis in patients with Williams–Beuren syndrome. Here we present a series of eight pediatric patients and one adult with 7q11.23 microduplication syndrome, all of whom had aortic dilation, the opposite vascular phenotype of the typical supravalvar aortic stenosis found in Williams–Beuren syndrome. The ascending aorta was most commonly involved, while dilation was less frequently identified at the aortic root and sinotubular junction. The findings in these patients support a recommendation for cardiovascular surveillance in patients with 7q11.23 microduplication syndrome. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
(3642) J. H. Arnold
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
DON'T LOOK BACK IN ANGER. FREEDOM, FATALISM AND THE FUTURE.
Creators: name: ANDREOLETTI, GIACOMO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2017

description: This dissertation is a defence of what I labeled reasonable fatalism. According to this view, even though people never have the power to do otherwise than what they actually do, and are thus unfree in this sense, we can make sense of deliberation, moral responsibility, and agency. In the first chapter, I gave an overview of the literature regarding fatalism. In the second one, I gave my own original argument in favor of reasonable fatalism. In the third one, I showed how reasonable fatalism can solve some puzzles which arose in the debate on time travel and free will. In the fourth one, I discussed and criticized a recent paper according to which the past may change by means of an episode of time travel. In the last one, I discussed and provided an argument in favor of mutable futurism, i.e. the idea that the future might literally change.
Additional file 4 of PhoPQ two-component regulatory system plays a global regulatory role in antibiotic susceptibility, physiology, stress adaptation, and virulence in Stenotrophomonas maltophilia
Creators: name: Hsu-Feng Lu
name: Bo-Kuan Wu
name: Huang, Yi-Wei
name: Lee, Ming-Zhe
name: Li, Ming-Fang
name: Hsu-Jung Ho
name: Hung-Chi Yang
name: Tsuey-Ching Yang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 4: Figure S3. The secreted protease activity of wild-type KJ, phoP mutant (KJΔPhoP), phoPQ mutant (KJΔPhoPQ), and complementation strain (KJΔPhoPQ (pPhoPQ)). The logarithmic-phase of bacterial culture was adjusted to OD450nm of 1.0 and 40 μl bacterial aliquot were inoculated into the skim milk agar plate. The proteolytic activity of bacteria was assessed by measuring the transparent zones around the bacteria after incubation for 72 h at 37 °C.
Baryon squishing in synthetic dimensions by effective $SU(M)$ gauge fields
Creators: name: Ghosh, Sudeep Kumar
name: Yadav, Umesh K.
name: Shenoy, Vijay B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate few body physics in a cold atomic system with synthetic dimensions (Celi et al., PRL 112, 043001 (2014)) which realizes a Hofstadter model with long-ranged interactions along the synthetic dimension. We show that the problem can be mapped to a system of particles (with $SU(M)$ symmetric interactions) which experience an $SU(M)$ Zeeman field at each lattice site {\em and} a non-Abelian $SU(M)$ gauge potential that affects their hopping from one site to another. This mapping brings out the possibility of generating {\em non-local} interactions (interaction between particles at different physical sites). It also shows that the non-Abelian gauge field, which induces a flavor-orbital coupling, mitigates the "baryon breaking" effects of the Zeeman field. For $M$ particles, the $SU(M)$ singlet baryon which is site localized, is "deformed" to be a nonlocal object ("squished" baryon) by the combination of the Zeeman and the non-Abelian gauge potential, an effect that we conclusively demonstrate by analytical arguments and exact (numerical) diagonalization studies. These results not only promise a rich phase diagram in the many body setting, but also suggests possibility of using cold atom systems to address problems that are inconceivable in traditional condensed matter systems. As an example, we show that the system can be adapted to realize Hamiltonians akin to the $SU(M)$ random flux model.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures
Risk of uterine rupture among women attempting vaginal birth after cesarean with an unknown uterine scar
Creators: name: Stringer, Elizabeth
name: Smith, Dana
name: Vladutiu, Catherine
name: Strauss, Robert
name: Zink, Ashley Hickman
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to estimate the association of uterine rupture and previous incision type, either unknown or low transverse, among women who attempt a trial of labor after 1 previous cesarean delivery.  STUDY DESIGN: We conducted a secondary analysis of a prospective multicenter observational study of 15,519 women with term singletons who attempted a trial of labor after 1 previous cesarean delivery. Odds ratios for the association between uterine incision location, either unknown or low transverse, and uterine rupture were estimated with the use of multivariable logistic regression.  RESULTS: Between 1999 and 2002, 99 of the 15,519 women (0.64%) who attempted a trial of labor after 1 previous cesarean delivery experienced a uterine rupture. Pregnant women with an unknown scar had lower odds of uterine rupture (adjusted odds ratio, 0.71; 95% confidence interval, 0.37-1.37) compared with women with a known low transverse scar. Other adverse maternal outcomes did not differ between the 2 groups of women.  CONCLUSION: Among this cohort, women with an unknown uterine incision who attempted a trial of labor were not at increased risk of uterine rupture compared with women with a known low transverse incision.
IL CONTRATTO DI RETE
Creators: name: BERETTA, ALBERTO MAURIZIO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2015

description: The paper aims to analyze the enterprise network contract, ?contratto di rete?, which was introduced with Italian Law April 9, 2009 n. 33 and subsequent amendments. In particular, the author considers the changes recently introduced, with Laws 134/2012 and 221/2012, which have introduced a system of "optional subjectivity? for enterprise networks, clarifying some doubts on the legal regulation of network contracts. However, these changes have lead to a fragmentation within the laws. With these regulatory changes, the paper aims to study the enterprise network contract legislation in the perspective of institutions and civil groups, in order to reconstruct a complete and consistent picture of the applicable regulations of the various types of business networks.
Genetic admixture and gallbladder disease in Mexican Americans
Creators: name: Everhart, James
name: Knowler, William
name: Maurer, Kurt
name: Williams, Robert
name: Schanfield, Moses
name: Tseng, Marilyn
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1998

description: Gallbladder disease is a common source of morbidity in the Mexican American population. Genetic heritage has been proposed as a possible contributor, but evidence for this is limited. Because gallbladder disease has been associated with Native American heritage, genetic admixture may serve as a useful proxy for genetic susceptibility to the disease in epidemiologic studies. The objective of our study was to examine the possibility that gallbladder disease is associated with greater Native American admixture in Mexican Americans. This study used data from the Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and was based on 1,145 Mexican Americans who underwent gallbladder ultrasonography and provided usable phenotypic information. We used the GM and KM immunoglobulin antigen system to generate estimates of admixture proportions and compared these for individuals with and without gallbladder disease. Overall, the proportionate genetic contributions from European, Native American, and African ancestries in our sample were 0.575, 0.390, and 0.035, respectively. Admixture proportions did not differ between cases and noncases: Estimates of Native American admixture for the two groups were 0.359 and 0.396, respectively, but confidence intervals for estimates overlapped. This study found no evidence for the hypothesis that greater Native American admixture proportion is associated with higher prevalence of gallbladder disease in Mexican Americans. Reasons for the finding that Native American admixture proportions did not differ between cases and noncases are discussed. Improving our understanding of the measurement, use, and limitations of genetic admixture may increase its usefulness as an epidemiologic tool as well as its potential for contributing to our understanding of disease distributions across populations.
Structure and Dynamics of the Instantaneous Water/Vapor Interface Revisited by Path-Integral and Ab-Initio Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Creators: name: Kessler, Jan
name: Elgabarty, Hossam
name: Spura, Thomas
name: Karhan, Kristof
name: Partovi-Azar, Pouya
name: Hassanali, Ali A.
name: Kühne, Thomas D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The structure and dynamics of the water/vapor interface is revisited by means of path-integral and second-generation Car-Parrinello ab-initio molecular dynamics simulations in conjunction with an instantaneous surface definition [A. P. Willard and D. Chandler, J. Phys. Chem. B 114, 1954 (2010)]. In agreement with previous studies, we find that one of the OH bonds of the water molecules in the topmost layer is pointing out of the water into the vapor phase, while the orientation of the underlying layer is reversed. Therebetween, an additional water layer is detected, where the molecules are aligned parallel to the instantaneous water surface.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures
(3635) Thomas Brown
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
First-order aggregation models with alignment
Creators: name: Fetecau, Razvan C.
name: Sun, Weiran
name: Tan, Changhui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We include alignment interactions in a well-studied first-order attractive-repulsive macroscopic model for aggregation. The distinctive feature of the extended model is that the equation that specifies the velocity in terms of the population density, becomes {\em implicit}, and can have non-unique solutions. We investigate the well-posedness of the model and show rigorously how it can be obtained as a macroscopic limit of a second-order kinetic equation. We work within the space of probability measures with compact support and use mass transportation ideas and the characteristic method as essential tools in the analysis. A discretization procedure that parallels the analysis is formulated and implemented numerically in one and two dimensions.
Rate equations for nitrogen molecules in ultrashort and intense x-ray pulses
Creators: name: Liu, Ji-Cai
name: Berrah, Nora
name: Cederbaum, Lorenz S.
name: Cryan, James P.
name: Glownia, James M.
name: Schafer, Kenneth J.
name: Buth, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study theoretically the quantum dynamics of nitrogen molecules (N$_2$) exposed to intense and ultrafast x-rays at a wavelength of 1.1 nm (1100 eV photon energy) from the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) free electron laser. Molecular rate equations are derived to describe the intertwined photoionization, decay, and dissociation processes occurring for N$_2$. This model complements our earlier phenomenological approaches, the single-atom, symmetric-sharing, and fragmentation-matrix models of J. Chem. Phys. $\mathbf{136}$, 214310 (2012). Our rate-equations are used to obtain the effective pulse energy at the sample and the time scale for the dissociation of the metastable dication N$_2^{2+}$. This leads to a very good agreement between the theoretically and experimentally obtained ion yields and, consequently, the average charge states. The effective pulse energy is found to decrease with shortening pulse duration. This variation together with a change in the molecular fragmentation pattern and frustrated absorption---an effect that reduces absorption of x-rays due to (double) core hole formation---are the causes for the drop of the average charge state with shortening LCLS pulse duration discovered previously.
description: 23 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, LaTeX
Guida dello studente per la Facoltà di Ingegneria. Anno accademico 1981-1982
Creators: name: Università Degli Studi Di Bologna,
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 1981

description: La Guida delinea il complesso dell’offerta formativa della Facoltà di Ingegneria, in diversi anni accademici, indicando le modalità di accesso ai Corsi di studio, i piani didattici e i programmi degli insegnamenti.
Additional file 1 of PhoPQ two-component regulatory system plays a global regulatory role in antibiotic susceptibility, physiology, stress adaptation, and virulence in Stenotrophomonas maltophilia
Creators: name: Hsu-Feng Lu
name: Bo-Kuan Wu
name: Huang, Yi-Wei
name: Lee, Ming-Zhe
name: Li, Ming-Fang
name: Hsu-Jung Ho
name: Hung-Chi Yang
name: Tsuey-Ching Yang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Bacterial strains, plasmids, and primers used in this study.
Guida dello studente per la Facoltà di Ingegneria. Anno accademico 1982-1983
Creators: name: Università Degli Studi Di Bologna,
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 1982

description: La Guida delinea il complesso dell’offerta formativa della Facoltà di Ingegneria, in diversi anni accademici, indicando le modalità di accesso ai Corsi di studio, i piani didattici e i programmi degli insegnamenti.
Identification of the SPLUNC1 ENaC-inhibitory domain yields novel strategies to treat sodium hyperabsorption in cystic fibrosis airway epithelial cultures
Creators: name: Kesimer, Mehmet
name: Redinbo, Matthew
name: Henderson, Ashley
name: Bencharit, Sompop
name: Tan, Chong Da
name: Walton, William
name: Alijevic, Omar
name: Kellenberger, Stephan
name: Blanchard, Maxime
name: Hobbs, Carey
name: Cao, Rui
name: Tarran, Robert
name: Stutts, M. Jackson
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: The epithelial sodium channel (ENaC) is responsible for Na+ and fluid absorption across colon, kidney, and airway epithelia. Short palate lung and nasal epithelial clone 1 (SPLUNC1) is a secreted, innate defense protein and an autocrine inhibitor of ENaC that is highly expressed in airway epithelia. While SPLUNC1 has a bactericidal permeability-increasing protein (BPI)-type structure, its NH2-terminal region lacks structure. Here we found that an 18 amino acid peptide, S18, which corresponded to residues G22-A39 of the SPLUNC1 NH2 terminus inhibited ENaC activity to a similar degree as full-length SPLUNC1 (∼2.5 fold), while SPLUNC1 protein lacking this region was without effect. S18 did not inhibit the structurally related acid-sensing ion channels, indicating specificity for ENaC. However, S18 preferentially bound to the βENaC subunit in a glycosylation-dependent manner. ENaC hyperactivity is contributory to cystic fibrosis (CF) lung disease. Unlike control, CF human bronchial epithelial cultures (HBECs) where airway surface liquid (ASL) height was abnormally low (4.2 ± 0.6 μm), addition of S18 prevented ENaC-led ASL hyperabsorption and maintained CF ASL height at 7.9 ± 0.6 μm, even in the presence of neutrophil elastase, which is comparable to heights seen in normal HBECs. Our data also indicate that the ENaC inhibitory domain of SPLUNC1 may be cleaved away from the main molecule by neutrophil elastase, suggesting that it may still be active during inflammation or neutrophilia. Furthermore, the robust inhibition of ENaC by the S18 peptide suggests that this peptide may be suitable for treating CF lung disease.
Guida dello studente per la Facoltà di Ingegneria. Anno accademico 1983-1984
Creators: name: Università Degli Studi Di Bologna,
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 1983

description: La Guida delinea il complesso dell’offerta formativa della Facoltà di Ingegneria, in diversi anni accademici, indicando le modalità di accesso ai Corsi di studio, i piani didattici e i programmi degli insegnamenti.
Guida dello studente per la Facoltà di Ingegneria. Anno accademico 1984-1985
Creators: name: Università Degli Studi Di Bologna,
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 1984

description: La Guida delinea il complesso dell’offerta formativa della Facoltà di Ingegneria, in diversi anni accademici, indicando le modalità di accesso ai Corsi di studio, i piani didattici e i programmi degli insegnamenti.
A Theory of Jurisdictional Assignments in Bureaucracies
Creators: name: Ting, Michael M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2002

description: What determines the allocation of tasks among government agencies? This article develops a formal model of task allocation that argues that jurisdictions are strategically designed to achieve legislative goals. In the model, agencies choose unobservable policies, and political outcomes are a noisy indicator of these choices. The legislature therefore faces a compliance issue when the agencies' policy preferences are different from its own. The legislature exerts control by defining agency jurisdictions, setting ex ante budgets and choosing ex post contractual inducements. The principal result is that tasks will be consolidated under a single roof when that agency prefers lower levels of policy than the legislature. In other cases, separating tasks prevents resources from being allocated in a manner undesirable for the legislature.
Guida dello studente per la Facoltà di Ingegneria. Anno accademico 1985-1986
Creators: name: Università Degli Studi Di Bologna,
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 1985

description: La Guida delinea il complesso dell’offerta formativa della Facoltà di Ingegneria, in diversi anni accademici, indicando le modalità di accesso ai Corsi di studio, i piani didattici e i programmi degli insegnamenti.
Guida dello studente per la Facoltà di Ingegneria. Anno accademico 1986-1987
Creators: name: Università Degli Studi Di Bologna,
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 1986

description: La Guida delinea il complesso dell’offerta formativa della Facoltà di Ingegneria, in diversi anni accademici, indicando le modalità di accesso ai Corsi di studio, i piani didattici e i programmi degli insegnamenti.