cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Singlet oxygen luminescence detection
Creators: name: Tsimvrakidis, Konstantinos
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: singlet oxygen, luminescence, single photon, SNSPD, SPAD, optics, fiber-optics, TCSPC, laser, photonics'

description: The detection of a single photon at 1270 nm wavelength allows the direct monitoring of Singlet Oxygen (1O2), making Singlet Oxygen Luminescence Detection (SOLD) a powerful dosimetry technique for photodynamic therapy in the treatment of cancer. However, the direct detection of 1O2 emission at 1270 nm wavelength is extremely challenging as the 1O2 → 3O2 transition in biological media has very low probability and short lifetime due to the high reactivity of singlet oxygen with biomolecules. Recent advances in single photon detection providing high detection efficiency, low noise single-photon detectors are an important innovation in the development of a practical SOLD system for eventual clinical use. In this thesis I present a compact fibre coupled SOLD system, using a supercontinuum pump source to precisely target exact photosensitizer absorption peak wavelengths and single-photon detectors for near-infrared detection by benchmarking a superconducting and a semiconductor photon counting detector. Both pump laser and detector are intrinsically fibre-coupled making them ideally suited for the development of practical singlet oxygen sensor head. The SOLD system was used to carry out a series of singlet oxygen time-resolved measurements in solution and in live cells. These measurements offer information on the photosensitized generation and deactivation of singlet oxygen generated by different photosensitizers and microenvironments at the 1270 nm wavelength and a first investigation of the 1590 nm singlet oxygen luminescence signal is presented.
Squeezars: Tidally powered stars orbiting a massive black hole
Creators: name: Alexander, Tal
name: Morris, Mark
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose that there exists a class of transient sources, "squeezars", which are stars caught in highly eccentric orbits around a massive (m<10^8 Mo) black hole (MBH), whose atypically high luminosity (up to a significant fraction of their Eddington luminosity) is powered by tidal interactions with the MBH. Their existence follows from the presence of a mass sink, the MBH, in the galactic center, which drives a flow of stars into nearly radial orbits to replace those it has destroyed. We consider two limits for the stellar response to tidal heating: surface heating with radiative cooling ("hot squeezars") and bulk heating with adiabatic expansion ("cold squeezars"), and calculate the evolution of the squeezar orbit, size, luminosity and effective temperature. The squeezar formation rate is only ~0.05 that of tidal disruption flares, but squeezar lifetimes are many orders of magnitude longer, and so future observations of squeezars in nearby galaxies can probe the tidal process that feeds MBHs and the effects of extreme tides on stars. The mean number of squeezars orbiting the Galactic MBH is estimated at 0.1-1.
description: ApJ Lett. accepted. 4 pp. 1 fig
Magic continuum in twisted bilayer WSe2
Creators: name: Wang, Lei
name: Shih, En-Min
name: Ghiotto, Augusto
name: Xian, Lede
name: Rhodes, Daniel A.
name: Tan, Cheng
name: Claassen, Martin
name: Kennes, Dante M.
name: Bai, Yusong
name: Kim, Bumho
name: Watanabe, Kenji
name: Taniguchi, Takashi
name: Zhu, Xiaoyang
name: Hone, James
name: Rubio, Angel
name: Pasupathy, Abhay
name: Dean, Cory R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Emergent quantum phases driven by electronic interactions can manifest in materials with narrowly dispersing, i.e. "flat", energy bands. Recently, flat bands have been realized in a variety of graphene-based heterostructures using the tuning parameters of twist angle, layer stacking and pressure, and resulting in correlated insulator and superconducting states. Here we report the experimental observation of similar correlated phenomena in twisted bilayer tungsten diselenide (tWSe2), a semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD). Unlike twisted bilayer graphene where the flat band appears only within a narrow range around a "magic angle", we observe correlated states over a continuum of angles, spanning 4 degree to 5.1 degree. A Mott-like insulator appears at half band filling that can be sensitively tuned with displacement field. Hall measurements supported by ab initio calculations suggest that the strength of the insulator is driven by the density of states at half filling, consistent with a 2D Hubbard model in a regime of moderate interactions. At 5.1 degree twist, we observe evidence of superconductivity upon doping away from half filling, reaching zero resistivity around 3 K. Our results establish twisted bilayer TMDs as a model system to study interaction-driven phenomena in flat bands with dynamically tunable interactions.
Novel Photon-Counting Detector for 0.1-100 keV X-ray Imaging Possessing High Spatial Resolution
Creators: name: Miyata, E.
name: Tamura, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on a new photon-counting detector possessing unprecedented spatial resolution, moderate spectral resolution and high background-rejection capability for 0.1-100 keV X-rays. It consists of an X-ray charge-coupled device (CCD) and scintillator. The scintillator is directly deposited on the back surface of the X-ray CCD. Low-energy X-rays below 10 keV can be directly detected in the CCD. The majority of hard X-rays above 10 keV pass through the CCD but can be detected in the scintillator, generating optical photons there. Since CCDs have a moderate detection efficiency for optical photons, they can again be absorbed by the CCD. We demonstrate the high spatial resolution of 10 micron order for 17.4 keV X-rays with our prototype device.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication of Japanese Journal of Applied Physics Letter
Orbital inspiral into a massive black hole in a galactic center
Creators: name: Alexander, Tal
name: Hopman, Clovis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A massive black hole (MBH) in a galactic center drives a flow of stars into nearly radial orbits to replace those it destroyed. Stars whose orbits cross the event horizon r_s or the tidal disruption radius r_t are promptly destroyed in an orbital period P. Stars with orbital periapse r_p slightly larger than the sink radius q=max(r_s,r_t) may slowly spiral in due to dissipative interactions with the MBH, e.g. gravitational wave emission, tidal heating or accretion disk drag, with observable consequences and implications for the MBH growth rate. Unlike prompt destruction, the inspiral time is typically >>P. This time is limited by the same scattering process that initially deflected the star into its eccentric orbit, since it can deflect it again to a wider orbit where dissipation is inefficient. The ratio between slow and prompt event rates is therefore much smaller than that implied by the ratio of cross-sections, ~r_p/q, and so only prompt disruption contributes significantly to the mass of the MBH. Conversely, most stars that scatter off the MBH survive the extreme tidal interaction ("tidal scattering"). We derive general expressions for the inspiral event rate and the mean number of inspiraling stars, and show that the survival probability of tidally scattered stars is ~1, and that the number of tidally heated stars ("squeezars") and gravity wave emitting stars in the Galactic Center is ~0.1-1.
description: ApJ Lett. accepted. 4 pp
Figures 1 - 5 from Planning for climate change through additions to a national protected area network: implications for cost and configuration
Creators: name: Lawler, Joshua J.
name: D. Scott Rinnan
name: Michalak, Julia L.
name: Withey, John C.
name: Randels, Christopher R.
name: Possingham, Hugh P.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Expanding the network of protected areas is a core strategy for conserving biodiversity in the face of climate change. Here, we explore the impacts on reserve network cost and configuration associated with planning for climate change in the USA using networks that prioritize areas projected to be climatically suitable for 1460 species both today and into the future, climatic refugia and areas likely to facilitate climate-driven species movements. For 14% of the species, networks of sites selected solely to protect areas currently climatically suitable failed to provide climatically suitable habitat in the future. Protecting sites climatically suitable for species today and in the future significantly changed the distribution of priority sites across the USA—increasing relative protection in the northeast, northwest and central USA. Protecting areas projected to retain their climatic suitability for species cost 59% more than solely protecting currently suitable areas. Including all climatic refugia and 20% of areas that facilitate climate-driven movements increased the cost by another 18%. Our results indicate that protecting some types of climatic refugia may be a relatively inexpensive adaptation strategy. Moreover, although addressing climate change in conservation plans will have significant implications for the configuration of networks, the increased cost of doing so may be relatively modest.This article is part of the theme issue ‘Climate change and ecosystems: threats, opportunities and solutions’.
Culicoides (Monoculicoides) sonorensis Wirth and Jones
Creators: name: Huerta
name: Rodríguez, Ana M.
name: William L. Grogan, Jr.
name: Ibáñez-Bernal, Sergio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Ceratopogonidae
Culicoides
Culicoides sonorensis

description: Culicoides (Monoculicoides) sonorensis Wirth and Jones
 Culicoides variipennis sonorensis Wirth and Jones, 1957: 18 (Arizona, USA).
 Culicoides occidentalis sonorensis: Downes 1978: 63 (change in status).
 Culicoides sonorensis: Holbrook et al. 2000: 70 (species status; genetic analysis of variipennis complex; distribution).
 Culicoides (Monoculicoides) sonorensis: Borkent and Spinelli 2000: 36 (in catalog of the Americas south of the USA; distribution); Borkent and Grogan 2009: 15 (in Nearctic catalog; distribution).
 Culicoides variipennis australis Wirth and Jones, 1957: 15 (Louisiana, USA).
 Culicoides variipennis albertensis Wirth and Jones, 1957: 17 (Alberta, Canada).
 Culicoides occidentalis albertensis: Downes 1978: 63.
 Discussion. This wide ranging primarily western Nearctic species occurs in British Columbia and Alberta, Canada and in the USA in Washington, Montana, and South Dakota, south to California, Kansas and Texas and in scattered localities east of the Mississippi River in Illinois, Ohio, Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Louisiana, Alabama and Florida, south to Mexico (Borkent and Grogan 2009). Wirth and Jones (1957) listed specimens in Mexico from the states of Guerrero, Distrito Federal, México, Nuevo Léon, Puebla and Sonora. We provide the first records from Coahuila, Durango, Nayarit and San Luis Potosí, as well as additional records from Distrito Federal and Nuevo Léon.
 New records. Coahuila, San Lorena (= San Lorenzo), 29 June 1966, R. E. Woodruff, 5 females (FSCA). Distrito Federal, Cabello Trailer Park, 14 May 1964, R. E. Woodruff, 10 females, 7 males (FSCA). Durango, 42 km S Caballos, 3 July 1967, R. E. Woodruff, 1 female (FSCA). Nayarit, Tepic, 3000', 21 August 1964, F. S. Blanton, 2 females, 3 males (FSCA). Nuevo León, Monterrey, 7 May 1964, F. S. Blanton, 1 female (FSCA). San Luis Potosí, El Salto Falls, April 1965, H. V. Weems, 1 female (FSCA).
description: Published as part of Huerta, Rodríguez, Ana M., William L. Grogan, Jr. & Ibáñez-Bernal, Sergio, 2012, New records of biting midges of the genus Culicoides Latreille from Mexico (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), pp. 1-20 in Insecta Mundi 2012 (211) on page 13, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5174160
Data used for this manuscript from When do older birds better resist stress? A study of the corticosterone stress response in snow petrels
Creators: name: Angelier, Frédéric
name: Chastel, Olivier
name: Lendvai, Adam Z.
name: Parenteau, Charline
name: Weimerskirch, Henri
name: Wingfield, John C.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Life-history theory predicts that, to optimize their fitness, individuals should increase their reproductive effort as their residual reproductive value decreases. Accordingly, several studies have shown that individuals downregulate their glucocorticoid stress response (a proxy of reproductive investment in vertebrates) as they age, and as the subsequent reproductive value decreases. However, and surprisingly, results appear inconsistent, suggesting that the environmental context or the individual state may affect the relationship between age and reproductive effort. Here, we tested for the first time this hypothesis, and more specifically, whether this attenuation of the corticosterone stress response with advancing age depends on the energetic status of individuals. We compared the influence of age on the corticosterone stress response between fasting and non-fasting breeding snow petrels (Pagodroma nivea), an extremely long-lived bird. As expected, we found that the corticosterone stress response was attenuated in old petrels, but only when they were not fasting. Interestingly, this pattern was not apparent in fasting petrels, suggesting that old birds downregulate their corticosterone stress response and increase their parental investment only when they are in good body condition. At the ultimate level, old individuals may maintain a strong corticosterone stress response when fasting because the survival costs of increased stress resistance and parental effort might then outweigh their reproductive benefits.
Holomorphic family of strongly pseudoconvex domains in a Kähler manifold
Creators: name: Choi, Young-Jun
name: Yoo, Sungmin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $p:X\rightarrow Y$ be a surjective holomorphic mapping between Kähler manifolds. Let $D$ be a bounded smooth domain in $X$ such that every generic fiber $D_y:=D\cap p^{-1}(y)$ for $y\in Y$ is a strongly pseudoconvex domain in $X_y:=p^{-1}(y)$, which admits the complete Kähler-Einstein metric. This family of Kähler-Einstein metrics induces a smooth $(1,1)$-form $ρ$ on $D$. In this paper, we prove that $ρ$ is positive-definite on $D$ if $D$ is strongly pseudoconvex. We also discuss the extensioin of $ρ$ as a positive current across singular fibers.
Erratum: "Oscillations in Arcturus from WIRE photometry" (ApJ, 591, L151 [2003])
Creators: name: Retter, Alon
name: Bedding, Timothy R.
name: Buzasi, Derek L.
name: Kjeldsen, Hans
name: Kiss, László L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The value of the mode lifetime given in the first paragraph of the Discussion should be divided by 2pi and is therefore 2.0 days rather than 13 days.
description: 2 pages, 1 Latex file, ApJL, accepted
Particle and light motion in a space-time of a five-dimensional rotating black hole
Creators: name: Frolov, Valeri
name: Stojkovic, Dejan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study motion of particles and light in a space-time of a 5-dimensional rotating black hole. We demonstrate that the Myers-Perry metric describing such a black hole in addition to three Killing vectors possesses also a Killing tensor. As a result, the Hamilton-Jacobi equations of motion allow a separation of variables. Using first integrals we present the equations of motion in the first-order form. We describe different types of motion of particles and light and study some interesting special cases. We proved that there are no stable circular orbits in equatorial planes in the background of this metric.
description: Added discussion about (non)existence of stable circular orbits. Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D
ELIOT: A Hardware Focused Experiment Builder
Creators: name: Hilgers, Tom
name: Schweiger, Leander
name: Müller, Steffen
name: Heim, Hans-Peter
Publisher: name: RWTH Aachen University
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Experiment
subject: Hardware
subject: Hardware integration
subject: JSON
subject: JavaScript
subject: Open-source
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Software

description: 24 Seiten (2024). doi:10.31234/osf.io/xnzkt
Clinical and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Outcome Predictors in Pediatric Anti–N‐Methyl‐D‐Aspartate Receptor Encephalitis
Creators: name: Bartels, Frederik
name: Krohn, Stephan
name: Nikolaus, Marc
name: Johannsen, Jessika
name: Wickström, Ronny
name: Schimmel, Mareike
name: Häusler, Martin
name: Berger, Andrea
name: Breu, Markus
name: Blankenburg, Markus
name: Stoffels, Johannes
name: Hendricks, Oliver
name: Bernert, Günther
name: Kurlemann, Gerd
name: Knierim, Ellen
name: Kaindl, Angela
name: Rostásy, Kevin
name: Finke, Carsten
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Anti-N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptor Encephalitis
subject: Child
subject: Magnetic Resonance Imaging
subject: Brain
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Objective: To evaluate disease symptoms, and clinical and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings and to perform longitudinal volumetric MRI analyses in a European multicenter cohort of pediatric anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor encephalitis (NMDARE) patients. Methods: We studied 38 children with NMDARE (median age = 12.9 years, range =1-18) and a total of 82 MRI scans for volumetric MRI analyses compared to matched healthy controls. Mixed-effect models and brain volume z scores were applied to estimate longitudinal brain volume development. Ordinal logistic regression and ordinal mixed models were used to predict disease outcome and severity. Results: Initial MRI scans showed abnormal findings in 15 of 38 (39.5%) patients, mostly white matter T2/fluid-attenuated inversion recovery hyperintensities. Volumetric MRI analyses revealed reductions of whole brain and gray matter as well as hippocampal and basal ganglia volumes in NMDARE children. Longitudinal mixed-effect models and z score transformation showed failure of age-expected brain growth in patients. Importantly, patients with abnormal MRI findings at onset were more likely to have poor outcome (Pediatric Cerebral Performance Category score > 1, incidence rate ratio = 3.50, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.31-9.31, p = 0.012) compared to patients with normal MRI. Ordinal logistic regression models corrected for time from onset confirmed abnormal MRI at onset (odds ratio [OR] = 9.90, 95% CI = 2.51-17.28, p = 0.009), a presentation with sensorimotor deficits (OR = 13.71, 95% CI = 2.68-24.73, p = 0.015), and a treatment delay > 4 weeks (OR = 5.15, 95% CI = 0.47-9.82, p = 0.031) as independent predictors of poor clinical outcome. Interpretation: Children with NMDARE exhibit significant brain volume loss and failure of age-expected brain growth. Abnormal MRI findings, a clinical presentation with sensorimotor deficits, and a treatment delay > 4 weeks are associated with worse clinical outcome. These characteristics represent promising prognostic biomarkers in pediatric NMDARE. ANN NEUROL 2020
New group of stable icosahedral quasicrystals: structural properties and formation conditions
Creators: name: Ishimasa, Tsutomu
name: Kaneko, Yasushi
name: Kaneko, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Structural studies on the icosahedral quasicrystals in Zn-Mg-Sc, Cu-Ga-Mg-Sc, and Zn-Mg-Ti alloys as well as their corresponding 1/1 cubic approximants, have revealed that these quasicrystals belong to a new structural group similar to Cd-based quasicrystals. This group is characterized by a triple-shell icosahedral cluster different from both Mackay- and Bergman-types. The presence of the atomic cluster has been deduced from the structure model of the approximant crystal, Zn17Sc3, in which the clusters are embedded in a periodic network of so-called "glue atoms". Density measurement suggested the presence of at least 2.7 Zn atoms in the first shell of the cluster in this approximant. The substitutional relationship in these three quasicrystals indicates the important role of Hume-Rothery rule for the formation of this type of quasicrystal. The occurrence of a P-type icosahedral quasicrystal in Zn-Mg-Yb alloy is also reported.
description: 11 pages, 1 table, 6 figures
On the moments of a polynomial in one variable
Creators: name: Müger, Michael
name: Tuset, Lars
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 30E05

description: Let $f$ be a non-zero polynomial with complex coefficients and define $M_n(f)=\int_0^1f(x)^n\,dx$. We use ideas of Duistermaat and van der Kallen to prove $\limsup_{n\rightarrow\infty}|M_n(f)|^{1/n}>0$. In particular, $M_n(f)\ne 0$ for infinitely many $n\in{\mathbb N}$.
description: 4 pages, no figures
Structure, placement and modelling
Creators: name: Segal, Richard
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1981
Subjects: Computer Science

description: The nature of hierarchical design tools for VLSI implementation is explored in
terms of the "Caltech Structured Design Philosophy" as interpreted by Rowson in his
doctoral thesis [Rowson]. One obvious implication of this thesis is the desirability
of tools for leaf and composition cell design. This thesis describes one such tool
targeted at the composition cell design problem. It is intended to be used in the
architectual phases of a design and allows structural (interface specification),
physical (floor planing), and behavioral (simulation modelling) descriptions to be
written down, integrated, and tested. One biproduct of this process is the
generation or a comprehensive design document from which workbooks can be
generated automatically.

The later sections describe a hierarchical simulator and how it fits into the
step-wise refinement process of design. The most important considerations in the
design of this simulator were ease of expression and the provision of enough
generality to allow the specification of any VLSI structure. Simulation takes place
in a time axis/delay environment and uses a system in which nodes may take one of
four values or states. This allows a high level simulation in which physical devices
are replaced by register transfer type operations. Data is altered and moved around
using flow control mechanisms, logical and mathematical operations, and various
means of specifying delay. Though not necessary or typical it is possible to model
actual devices as ideal switches using these techniques. It is a multi-model
simulation because simulation can occur at any level or design abstraction. Several
examples are given including the modelling or the GR2 stack data microprocessor
which was recently fabricated in NMOS.
Ellipsoidal shapes in general relativity: general definitions and an application
Creators: name: Zsigrai, Jozsef
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A generalization of the notion of ellipsoids to curved Riemannian spaces is given and the possibility to use it in describing the shapes of rotating bodies in general relativity is examined. As an illustrative example, stationary, axisymmetric perfect-fluid spacetimes with a so-called confocal inside ellipsoidal symmetry are investigated in detail under the assumption that the 4-velocity of the fluid is parallel to a time-like Killing vector field. A class of perfect-fluid metrics representing interior NUT-spacetimes is obtained along with a vacuum solution with a non-zero cosmological constant.
description: Latex, 22 pages, Revised version accepted in Class. Quantum. Grav., references added
Culicoides (Monoculicoides) variipennis
Creators: name: Huerta
name: Rodríguez, Ana M.
name: William L. Grogan, Jr.
name: Ibáñez-Bernal, Sergio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Ceratopogonidae
Culicoides
Culicoides variipennis

description: Culicoides (Monoculicoides) variipennis (Coquillett)
 Ceratopogon variipennis Coquillett, 1901: 602 (Virginia, New Jersey, Mexico).
 Culicoides variipennis: Kieffer 1906: 55 (combination); Holbrook et al. 2000: 68 (genetic analysis and revision of complex; distribution).
 Culicoides variipennis variipennis: Wirth and Jones 1957: 12 (Virginia syntype designated lectotype; revision of variipennis complex).
 Culicoides (Monoculicoides) variipennis: Khalaf 1954: 40; Borkent and Spinelli 2000: 36 (in catalog of the Americas south of the USA; distribution); Borkent and Grogan 2009: 15 (in Nearctic catalog; distribution).
 Discussion. This species primarily inhabits the eastern forest of North America east of the 100 th Meridian from Nova Scotia, southern Ontario and Quebec, south to Texas and Florida, with outlying populations in southern British Columbia, Washington and Montana, and Mexico (Borkent and Grogan 2009; Holbrook et al. 2000; Wirth and Jones 1957). This species is known only in México from Distrito Federal and the nearby state of México (Holbrook et al. 2000); we relist these two earlier records and provide additional new records from Distrito Federal and the state of México.
 Previous records. Distrito Federal, O. W. Barrett, 1 female (syntype, in USNM); México, Ixtapan de la Sal, 5,500´Mex., Mex. 9 VIII 1954, J. G. Chillcott, 1 female (in Canadian National Collection, Ottawa; listed in Holbrook et al. 2000).
 New records. Distrito Federal, San Jacinto, 1931-1932, A. Dampf, light trap, 3 females. M\éxico, Otumba, Coyotepec, 24 May 14-June 2007, Z. D. Hdez, Malaise trap, 1 female.
description: Published as part of Huerta, Rodríguez, Ana M., William L. Grogan, Jr. & Ibáñez-Bernal, Sergio, 2012, New records of biting midges of the genus Culicoides Latreille from Mexico (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), pp. 1-20 in Insecta Mundi 2012 (211) on pages 13-14, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5174160
Lithiation-delithiation cycles of amorphous Si nanowires investigated by molecular dynamics simulations
Creators: name: Godet, Julien
name: Bunjaku, Teute
name: Luisier, Mathieu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The atomistic mechanisms during lithiation and delithiation of amorphous Si nanowires ($a$-SiNW) have been investigated over cycles by molecular dynamics simulations. First, the Modified Embedded Atom Method (MEAM) potential from Cui et al. [J. Power Sources. 2012, (207) 150] has been further optimized on static (Li$_x$Si alloy phases and point defect energies) and on dynamic properties (Li diffusion) to reproduce the lithiation of small crystalline Si nanowires calculated at the {\it ab initio} level. The lithiation of $a$-SiNW reveals a two-phase process of lithiation with a larger diffusion interface compared to crystalline Si lithiation. Compressive axial stresses are observed in the amorphous Si$_x$Li alloy outer shell. They are easily released thanks to the soft glassy behavior of the amorphous alloy. Conversely, in crystalline SiNW, the larger stress in the narrow crystalline lithiated interface is hardly released and requires a phase transformation to amorphous to operate, which delays the lithiation. The history of the charge-discharge cycles as well as the temperature appear as driving forces for phase transformation from amorphous Li$_x$Si alloy to the more stable crystalline phase counterpart. Our work suggest that a full delithiation could heal the SiNWs to improve the life cycles of Li-ion batteries with Si anode.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures,
Modeling the dynamical evolution of the M87 globular cluster system
Creators: name: Vesperini, E.
name: Zepf, S. E.
name: Kundu, A.
name: Ashman, K. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the dynamical evolution of the M87 globular cluster system (GCS) with a number of numerical simulations. We explore a range of different initial conditions for the GCS mass function (GCMF), for the GCS spatial distribution and for the GCS velocity distribution. We confirm that an initial power-law GCMF like that observed in young cluster systems can be readily transformed through dynamical processes into a bell-shaped GCMF. However,only models with initial velocity distributions characterized by a strong radial anisotropy increasing with the galactocentric distance are able to reproduce the observed constancy of the GCMF at all radii.We show that such strongly radial orbital distributions are inconsistent with the observed kinematics of the M87 GCS. The evolution of models with a bell-shaped GCMF with a turnover similar to that currently observed in old GCS is also investigated. We show that models with this initial GCMF can satisfy all the observational constraints currently available on the GCS spatial distribution,the GCS velocity distribution and on the GCMF properties.In particular these models successfully reproduce both the lack of a radial gradient of the GCS mean mass recently found in an analysis of HST images of M87 at multiple locations, and the observed kinematics of the M87 GCS.Our simulations also show that evolutionary processes significantly affect the initial GCS properties by leading to the disruption of many clusters and changing the masses of those which survive.The preferential disruption of inner clusters flattens the initial GCS number density profile and it can explain the rising specific frequency with radius; we show that the inner flattening observed in the M87 GCS spatial distribution can be the result of the effects of dynamical evolution on an initially steep density profile. (abridged)
description: 15 pages,14 figures;accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal
Inferring the strategy space from market outcomes
Creators: name: Menezes, Flavio
name: Quiggin, John
name: Menezes, Flavio
name: Quiggin, John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Industrial Organization
subject: competition
subject: supply schedules
subject: equilibrium locus

description: In this paper we show that, if demand varies stochastically, and firms compete after the realization of demand shocks, the strategy space may be inferred from market evidence. The key idea is that, in equilibrium, each firm acts as a monopolist, choosing the optimal price-quantity combination from a residual demand curve determined by a given observation of market demand and the (equilibrium) strategies of the other firms.
Supplementary Material: Supplementary tables and figures from Increased summer food supply decreases non-breeding movement in black-legged kittiwakes
Creators: name: Whelan, Shannon
name: Hatch, Scott A.
name: Irons, David B.
name: McKnight, Alyson
name: Elliott, Kyle H.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Table with details on GLS deployment/retrieval success. Figure showing nonbreeding tracks of 10 kittiwakes followed for >1 year.
The value of information and the value of awareness
Creators: name: Quiggin, John
name: Quiggin, John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Industrial Organization
subject: value of information
subject: awareness

description: Recent literature has examined the problem facing decisionmakers with bounded awareness, who may be unaware of some states of nature. A question that naturally arises here is whether a value of awareness (VOA), analogous to VOI, can be attributed to changes in awareness. In this note it is shown, in a sense that will be made precise, that the sum VOA+VOI is constant and independent of the choice set. It follows that, the greater is VOA, the less is VOI. This point is illustrated for a simple two-state case, then proved for general classes of choice sets. The analysis is then extended to cover alternative concepts of choice under unawareness.
Cosmological Singularities in Conformal Weyl Gravity
Creators: name: Heydarzade, Yaghoub
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we study the issue of the past and future cosmological singularities in the context of the fourth-order conformal Weyl gravity. In particular, we investigate the emergent universe scenario proposed by Ellis {\it et al}, and find the stability conditions of the corresponding Einstein static state using the fixed point approach. We show that depending on the values of the parameters of the conformal Weyl gravity theory, there are possibilities for having initially stable emergent states for an FRW universe with both the positive and negative spatial curvatures. This represents that the conformal Weyl gravity can be free of the initial singularity problem. Then, following Barrow {\it et al}, we address the possible types of the finite-time future cosmological singularities. We discuss how these singularities also can be avoided in the context of this theory.
description: 15 pages, 6 figures
Impact of Changing Seasonal Rainfall Patterns on Rainy-Season Crop Production in the Guinea Savannah of West Africa
Creators: name: Müller, Marc
name: Sanfo, Safietou
name: Laube, Wolfram
name: Müller, Marc
name: Sanfo, Safietou
name: Laube, Wolfram
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: International Development
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Climate change
subject: West Africa
subject: agricultural production
subject: stochastic production frontier
subject: highest posterior density estimation

description: Rainy-season farming is a major source of income for the rural population in the Guinea Savannah zone of West Africa. Farming systems in the region are dominated by rain-fed production of cereals, but include also leguminous crops and oilseeds. A recent World Bank study has identified high potentials for competitive agricultural production and agriculture-led growth in the Guinea Savannah zones of Sub-Saharan Africa. This optimistic outlook is conditional on appropriate investment strategies, policy reforms, and institutional changes. Furthermore, the World Bank warns that global climate change could pose a potential constraint for agricultural growth due to likely reductions in rainfall levels and significant increases in rainfall variability. This could lead to serious dry spells and a drop of crop yields. The study regions are the département Atakora in Benin, the région Sud-Ouest in Burkina Faso, and the Upper East Region in Ghana. Climate projections and trend estimates for these regions show very heterogeneous results for level and variability of monthly rainfall patterns. Therefore, we want to investigate which potential future developments pose the greater threat for agricultural production in the study regions. We develop a set of regional agricultural supply models, each representing 10-12 cropping activities and roughly 150.000 ha of agricultural area. We distinguish two stages of crop production: The planting stage from April to June and the yield formation stage between June and November. Preliminary results suggest that drought events during the planting stage have a more severe impact on the output of individual crops than drought events during the second stage. In contrast, the impact on total farm revenues appears to be more prominent during the second stage, when farmers have a limited capability to adjust their production plan. A clear if not surprising result is the larger vulnerability of crops with growth cycles ranging from the very beginning to the very end of the rainy season. The observed diversity of cropping activities serves the purpose to reduce the vulnerability to adverse rainfall events within a certain range. However, some extreme events are associated with very poor harvests of specific cash crops, thus severely affecting the income of the farming sector. A comprehensive picture will be obtained once the climate change scenarios are completed and the model results are tested and validated for various settings.
Additional file 2 of Artificial intelligence for the diagnosis of clinically significant prostate cancer based on multimodal data: a multicenter study
Creators: name: Zhang, Huiyong
name: Ji, Jin
name: Liu, Zhe
name: Lu, Huiru
name: Qian, Chong
name: Wei, Chunmeng
name: Chen, Shaohua
name: Lu, Wenhao
name: Wang, Chengbang
name: Xu, Huan
name: Xu, Yalong
name: Chen, Xi
name: He, Xing
name: Wang, Zuheng
name: Zhao, Xiaodong
name: Cheng, Wen
name: Chen, Xingfa
name: Pang, Guijian
name: Yu, Guopeng
name: Gu, Yue
name: Jiang, Kangxian
name: Xu, Bin
name: Chen, Junyi
name: Wei, Xuedong
name: Chen, Ming
name: Chen, Rui
name: Cheng, Jiwen
name: Wang, Fubo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Space Science
Medicine
Cell Biology
Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Demographics andclinical characteristics of participants.
A Verified Integration of Imperative Parallel Programming Paradigms in an Object-Oriented Language
Creators: name: Sivilotti, Paul
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1993
Subjects: Computer Science

description: CC++ is a parallel object-oriented programming language that uses parallel composition, atomic functions, and single-assignment variables to express concurrency. We show that this programming paradigm is equivalent to several traditional imperative communication and synchronization models, namely: semaphores, monitors, and asynchronous channels. A collection of libraries which integrates these traditional models with CC++ is specified, implemented, and formally verified.
Mammalian circadian systems: Organization and modern life challenges
Creators: name: Finger, Anna‐Marie
name: Kramer, Achim
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: circadian disruption
subject: circadian misalignment
subject: circadian morbidities
subject: mammalian circadian clocks
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Humans and other mammalian species possess an endogenous circadian clock system that has evolved in adaptation to periodically reoccurring environmental changes and drives rhythmic biological functions, as well as behavioural outputs with an approximately 24-hour period. In mammals, body clocks are hierarchically organized, encompassing a so-called pacemaker clock in the hypothalamic suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), non-SCN brain and peripheral clocks, as well as cell-autonomous oscillators within virtually every cell type. A functional clock machinery on the molecular level, alignment among body clocks, as well as synchronization between endogenous circadian and exogenous environmental cycles has been shown to be crucial for our health and well-being. Yet, modern life constantly poses widespread challenges to our internal clocks,for exampleartificial lighting, shift work and trans-meridian travel, potentially leading to circadian disruption or misalignment and the emergence of associated diseases. For instance many of us experience a mismatch between sleep timing on work and free days (social jetlag) in our everyday lives without being aware of health consequences that may arise from such chronic circadian misalignment, Hence, this review provides an overview of the organization and molecular built-up of the mammalian circadian system, its interactions with the outside world, as well as pathologies arising from circadian disruption and misalignment.
Evidence for rigid triaxial deformation in $^{76}$Ge from a model-independent analysis
Creators: name: Ayangeakaa, A. D.
name: Janssens, R. V. F.
name: Zhu, S.
name: Little, D.
name: Henderson, J.
name: Wu, C. Y.
name: Hartley, D. J.
name: Albers, M.
name: Auranen, K.
name: Bucher, B.
name: Carpenter, M. P.
name: Chowdhury, P.
name: Cline, D.
name: Crawford, H. L.
name: Fallon, P.
name: Forney, A. M.
name: Gade, A.
name: Hayes, A. B.
name: Kondev, F. G.
name: Krishichayan
name: Lauritsen, T.
name: Li, J.
name: Macchiavelli, A. O.
name: Rhodes, D.
name: Seweryniak, D.
name: Stolze, S. M.
name: Walters, W. B.
name: Wu, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An extensive, model-independent analysis of the nature of triaxial deformation in $^{76}$Ge, a candidate for neutrinoless double-beta ($0νββ$) decay, was carried out following multi-step Coulomb excitation. Shape parameters deduced on the basis of a rotational-invariant sum-rule analysis provided considerable insight into the underlying collectivity of the ground-state and $γ$ bands. Both sequences were determined to be characterized by the same $β$ and $γ$ deformation parameter values. In addition, compelling evidence for low-spin, rigid triaxial deformation in $^{76}$Ge was obtained for the first time from the analysis of the statistical fluctuations of the quadrupole asymmetry deduced from the measured $E2$ matrix elements. These newly determined shape parameters are important input and constraints for calculations aimed at providing, with suitable accuracy, the nuclear matrix elements relevant to $0νββ$.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
Additional file 3 of Artificial intelligence for the diagnosis of clinically significant prostate cancer based on multimodal data: a multicenter study
Creators: name: Zhang, Huiyong
name: Ji, Jin
name: Liu, Zhe
name: Lu, Huiru
name: Qian, Chong
name: Wei, Chunmeng
name: Chen, Shaohua
name: Lu, Wenhao
name: Wang, Chengbang
name: Xu, Huan
name: Xu, Yalong
name: Chen, Xi
name: He, Xing
name: Wang, Zuheng
name: Zhao, Xiaodong
name: Cheng, Wen
name: Chen, Xingfa
name: Pang, Guijian
name: Yu, Guopeng
name: Gu, Yue
name: Jiang, Kangxian
name: Xu, Bin
name: Chen, Junyi
name: Wei, Xuedong
name: Chen, Ming
name: Chen, Rui
name: Cheng, Jiwen
name: Wang, Fubo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Space Science
Medicine
Cell Biology
Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Additional file 3: Table S3. Clinical researchcenters involved in this study.
Analyse flüchtiger organischer Substanzen in der Ausatemluft von Kindern mit Typ 1 Diabetes mellitus und gesunden Kontrollen
Creators: name: Lehbrink, Ruth Elisabeth
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences Medicine

description: Untersuchung flüchtiger volatiler Bestandteile in der Atemluft von Kindern mit Diabetes und gesunden Kontrollen im Rahmen einer Querschnittsstudie. Fokus auf 7 häufige VOC (Aceton, Dimethylsulfid, Ethanol, Isopren, Isopropanol, Limonen, Pentanal), von diesen werden bis auf Limonen höhere Konzentrationen in der Ausatemluft von Kindern mit Diabetes gefunden.
Gigantic spin-noise gain enables magnetic resonance spectroscopy of impurity crystals
Creators: name: Kamenskii, A. N.
name: Greilich, A.
name: Ryzhov, I. I.
name: Kozlov, G. G.
name: Bayer, M.
name: Zapasskii, V. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spin noise spectroscopy is a method of magnetic resonance widely used, nowadays, in atomic and semiconductor research. Classical objects of the EPR spectroscopy - dielectrics with paramagnetic impurities - seemed to be unsuitable for this technique because of large widths of allowed optical transitions and, therefore, low specific Faraday rotation (FR). We show, however, that the FR noise detected at the wavelength of a weak optical transition (with low regular FR) may increase by many orders of magnitude as its homogeneous width decreases. This spin-noise gain effect, numerically described by the ratio of the inhomogeneous linewidth to homogeneous, relates primarily to forbidden intraconfigurational transitions of impurity ions with unfilled inner electronic shells. Specifically, for the f-f transitions of rare-earth ions in crystals, this factor may reach 10$^8$. In this paper, we report on the first successful application of spin noise spectroscopy for detecting magnetic resonance of rare-earth ions in crystals.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Economic Rise and Decline in Indonesia – As Seen from Space
Creators: name: Olivia, Susan
name: Gibson, John
name: Olivia, Susan
name: Gibson, John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Financial Economics
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Production Economics
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Economic Growth
subject: Luminosity
subject: Measurement Error
subject: Indonesia

description: Satellite-detected luminosity is sometimes used to proxy for economic activity although only recently within the mainstream economics literature (Henderson et al., 2012). If this method works it holds great promise for developing countries with weak statistical systems that face difficulties in consistently measuring long-term economic change. Regardless of how chaotic are statistical efforts on the ground, viewed from space it may be possible to detect economic change, with high frequency and for small areas. But doubts remain about how much trust can be put in night lights data as a proxy for economic growth since previous validation attempts just compare with other error-ridden measures (Henderson et al., 2012; Chen and Nordhaus, 2011; Kulkarni et al., 2011). This paper uses gold standard data on electrification and economic growth for 5000 sub-districts in Indonesia from 1992 to 2008 to evaluate the reliability of night-light based measures of local economic change. Our results also contribute to debate in the literature about the severity of the shock to Indonesia from the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997 and the subsequent rate of rebound in economic activity.