cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Prevalence of Anti-Desmoglein-3 Antibodies in Endemic Regions of Fogo Selvagem in Brazil
Creators: name: Rivitti, Evandro
name: Hilario-Vargas, Julio
name: Li, Ning
name: Diaz, Luis
name: Aoki, Valeria
name: Dasher, David
name: dos Santos, Vandir
name: Hans-Filho, Gunter
name: Qaqish, Bahjat
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006

description: Fogo selvagem (FS), the endemic form of pemphigus foliaceus (PF), is an autoimmune blistering disease characterized by autoantibodies against desmoglein 1. The Terena reservation of Limao Verde in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, is a previously identified focus of disease. Autoantibodies against desmoglein 3 (Dsg3) have also been detected in sera from patients with FS. In an effort to further characterize the serological, geographical, and clinical epidemiology of the disease, we sought to determine the prevalence of anti-Dsg3 autoantibodies in sera from normal subjects living outside of and in an endemic area using an ELISA. Anti-Dsg3 antibodies were detected in 53 of 146 normal subjects from Limao Verde (36%), and in eight of 140 normal subjects from surrounding areas (6%). A significant trend was observed in the proportion of positive tests relative to distance from the endemic area (P
Swift J201424.9+152930: discovery of a new deeply eclipsing binary with 491 s and 3.4 h modulations
Creators: name: Esposito, P.
name: Israel, G. L.
name: de Martino, D.
name: D'Avanzo, P.
name: Testa, V.
name: Sidoli, L.
name: Di Stefano, R.
name: Belfiore, A.
name: Mapelli, M.
name: Piranomonte, S.
name: Castillo, G. A. Rodríguez
name: Moretti, A.
name: D'Elia, V.
name: Verrecchia, F.
name: Campana, S.
name: Rea, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the discovery of a new X-ray pulsator, Swift J201424.9+152930 (Sw J2014). Owing to its X-ray modulation at 491 s, it was discovered in a systematic search for coherent signals in the archival data of the Swift X-ray Telescope. To investigate the nature of Sw J2014, we performed multi-wavelength follow-up observations with space-borne (Swift and XMM-Newton) and ground-based (the 1.5-m Loiano Telescope and the 3.6-m Telescopio Nazionale Galileo) instruments. The X-ray spectrum of Sw J2014 can be described by a hard and highly absorbed power law. The optical observations made it possible to single out the optical counterpart to this source, which displays several variable emission lines and total eclipses lasting ~20 min. Total eclipses of similar length were observed also in X-rays. The study of the eclipses, allowed us to infer a second periodicity of 3.44 h, which we interpret as the orbital period of a close binary system. We also found that the period has not significantly changed over a ~7 yr timespan. Based on the timing signatures of Sw J2014, and its optical and X-ray spectral properties, we suggest that it is a close binary hosting an accreting magnetic white dwarf. The system is therefore a cataclysmic variable of the intermediate polar type and one of the very few showing deep eclipses.
description: 12 pages, 8 figures, 5 tables; minor changes to match the final MNRAS version
The Annual Cycle in Scintillation Timescale of PMN J1726+0639
Creators: name: Bignall, Hayley E.
name: Tuntsov, Artem V.
name: Stevens, Jamie
name: Bannister, Keith
name: Walker, Mark A.
name: Reynolds, Cormac
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discovered rapid intra-day variability in radio source PMN J1726+0639 at GHz frequencies, during a survey to search for such variability with the Australia Telescope Compact Array. Follow-up observations were conducted over two years and revealed a clear, repeating annual cycle in the rate, or characteristic timescale, of variability, showing that the observed variations can be attributed to scintillations from interstellar plasma inhomogeneities. The strong annual cycle includes an apparent "standstill" in April and another in September. We fit kinematic models to the data, allowing for finite anisotropy in the scintillation pattern. The cycle implies a very high degree of anisotropy, with an axial ratio of at least 13:1, and the fit is consistent with a purely one-dimensional scintillation pattern. The position angle of the anisotropy, and the transverse velocity component are tightly constrained. The parameters are inconsistent with expectations from a previously proposed model of scattering associated with plasma filaments radially oriented around hot stars. We note that evidence for a foreground interstellar cloud causing anomalous Ca II absorption towards the nearby star Rasalhague ($α$ Oph) has been previously reported, and we speculate that the interstellar scintillation of PMN 1726+0639 might be associated with this nearby cloud.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
(100155) Thomas Evans
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.
Complex angular momentum theory of state-to state integral cross sections: resonance effects in the F+HD->HF(v'=3)+D reaction
Creators: name: Sokolovski, D.
name: Akhmatskaya, E.
name: Echeverra-Arrondo, C.
name: De Fazio, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: State-to-state reactive integral cross sections (ICS) are often affected by quantum mechanical resonances, especially at relatively low energies. An ICS is usually obtained by summing partial waves at a given value of energy. For this reason, the knowledge of pole positions and residues in the complex energy plane is not sufficient for a quantitative description of the patterns produced by a resonance. Such description is available in terms of the poles of an S-matrix element in the complex plane of the total angular momentum. The approach was recently implemented in a computer code ICS_Regge, available in the public domain [Comp. Phys. Comm. 185 (2014) 2127]. In this paper, we employ the ICS Regge package to analyse in detail, for the first time, the resonance patterns predicted for the integral cross sections (ICS) of the benchmark F+HD->HF(v'=3)+D reaction. The v = 0, j = 0, Omega = 0 -> v' = 3, j'= 0,1,2, and Omega' = 0,1,2 transitions are studied for collision energies from 58.54 to 197.54 meV. For these energies, we find several resonances, whose contributions to the ICS vary from symmetric and asymmetric Fano shapes to smooth sinusoidal Regge oscillations. Complex energies of metastable states and Regge pole positions and residues are found by Pad /'e reconstruction of the scattering matrix elements. Accuracy of the ICS Regge code, relation between complex energies and Regge poles, various types of Regge trajectories, and the origin of the J-shifting approximation are also discussed.
description: 32 pages, 10 figures
Transitional justice and displacement: lessons from Liberia and Afghanistan
Creators: name: Parry, Jacqueline Margarethe
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Transitional justice
Liberia
Afghanistan
displacement
refugee

description: Forced displacement of people is one of the most complex humanitarian problems facing the international community. Long-term forced displacement generates a range of political, security and humanitarian concerns including regional instability, transnational crime and a regression in the quality of life for both refugees and their host communities. Grappling with this issue, scholars and practitioners have turned to the field of transitional justice as a possible source of solutions. Transitional justice refers to the set of mechanisms societies use to respond to a history of atrocities, including criminal trials, truth commissions and reparation programs. Scholars describe the potential for these mechanisms to respond to the justice needs of refugees, thereby improving prospects for their repatriation, and contributing to the success of their reintegration after return. To date, the interaction between transitional justice and refugees has had three main features. The first is an almost exclusive use of a legal framework of human rights to structure the interaction between refugees and transitional justice. This means that the law determines the understanding of the harm refugees suffer, as well as the methods by which that harm might be repaired. Second, the existing approach focuses on state-led mechanisms of transitional justice, with limited engagement with local or customary approaches to achieving justice for refugees, and little acknowledgment of refugee voices. And finally, scholars and practitioners describe the ultimate goal of the interaction between transitional justice and refugees as refugee return. There is little empirical work examining the standard approach to the interaction between transitional justice and refugees. My thesis addresses this gap, offering two case studies: Liberia and Afghanistan. Through these case studies, I scrutinise the claims of the existing scholarship, and compare those claims with the lived experience of refugees. Overall, my findings suggest that transitional justice as conventionally understood is often ill-equipped to support the justice outcomes that refugees seek. In particular, I demonstrate how the dominance of law and the influence of the transitional state restricted the ways that Liberian and Afghan refugees were able to engage with transitional justice processes. Based on refugee perspectives of harm, accountability and reparations, I propose an alternate understanding of the objective of refugee engagement in transitional justice: that of rebuilding the state-citizen relationship. This understanding more closely aligns with the justice outcomes refugees in Liberia and Afghanistan hoped to achieve, and suggests that repair of displacement may take place in the absence of physical return, and in forums other than those of legal, institutionalised transitional justice.
CDKN2A Germline Mutations in Individuals with Cutaneous Malignant Melanoma
Creators: name: Canchola, Rebecca
name: Gruber, Stephen
name: Clas, Brian
name: Dwyer, Terence
name: Kanetsky, Peter
name: Zanetti, Roberto
name: Mujumdar, Urvi
name: Roy, Pampa
name: Orlow, Irene
name: Berwick, Marianne
name: Busam, Klaus
name: Begg, Colin
name: Cotignola, Javier
name: Millikan, Robert
name: Hummer, Amanda
name: Anton-Culver, Hoda
name: Rebbeck, Timothy
name: From, Lynn
name: Armstrong, Bruce
name: Wilcox, Homer
name: Marrett, Loraine
name: GEM Study Group
name: Kricker, Anne
name: Gallagher, Richard
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: Cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor type 2A (CDKN2A) has been identified as a major melanoma susceptibility gene based on the presence of germline mutations in high-risk melanoma families. In this study, we sought to identify and characterize the spectrum of CDKN2A mutations affecting p16 inhibitor of cyclin-dependent kinase type 4 (INK4a) in individuals with melanoma using a population-based study design. DNA samples from 1189 individuals with incident multiple primary melanoma (MPM) and 2424 with incident single primary melanoma unselected for family history of melanoma were available for screening of CDKN2A (p16INK4a) mutations. Variants were classified for functional impact based on intragenic position, existing functional data, sequence, and structural analysis. The impact of individual mutations and functional groupings was assessed by comparing frequencies in cases of MPM versus cases with a single first primary melanoma, and by comparing the reported incidence rates in first-degree relatives. Our results show that mutations occur infrequently in these high-risk groups, and that they occur mainly in exons 1alpha and 2. Rare coding variants with putative functional impact are observed to increase substantially the risk of melanoma. With the exception of the variant in position -34 of CDKN2A of known functional consequence, the remaining rare variants in the non-coding region have no apparent impact on risk.
White dwarf masses in cataclysmic variables
Creators: name: Wijnen, T. P. G.
name: Zorotovic, M.
name: Schreiber, M. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The white dwarf (WD) mass distribution of cataclysmic variables (CVs) has recently been found to dramatically disagree with the predictions of the standard CV formation model. The high mean WD mass among CVs is not imprinted in the currently observed sample of CV progenitors and cannot be attributed to selection effects. Two possibilities have been put forward: either the WD grows in mass during CV evolution, or in a significant fraction of cases, CV formation is preceded by a (short) phase of thermal time-scale mass transfer (TTMT) in which the WD gains a sufficient amount of mass. We investigate if either of these two scenarios can bring theoretical predictions and observations into agreement. We employed binary population synthesis models to simulate the present intrinsic CV population. We incorporated aspects specific to CV evolution such as an appropriate mass-radius relation of the donor star and a more detailed prescription for the critical mass ratio for dynamically unstable mass transfer. We also implemented a previously suggested wind from the surface of the WD during TTMT and tested the idea of WD mass growth during the CV phase by arbitrarily changing the accretion efficiency. We compare the model predictions with the characteristics of CVs derived from observed samples. We find that mass growth of the WDs in CVs fails to reproduce the observed WD mass distribution. In the case of TTMT, we are able to produce a large number of massive WDs if we assume significant mass loss from the surface of the WD during the TTMT phase. However, the model still produces too many CVs with helium WDs. Moreover, the donor stars are evolved in many of these post-TTMT CVs, which contradicts the observations. We conclude that in our current framework of CV evolution neither TTMT nor WD mass growth can fully explain either the observed WD mass or the period distribution in CVs.
description: 15 pages, 7 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in A&A. Replaced and added a reference, corrected typos
title: Image-based feature extraction for inline quality assurance and wear classification in high-speed blanking processes
Creators: name: Kubik, Christian
name: Molitor, Dirk Alexander
name: Varchmin, Sven
name: Leininger, Dominik Sebastian
name: Ohrenberg, Joost
name: Groche, Peter
Publisher: name: Springer
Year: 2025

description: Wear is one of the key factors that determine the efficiency of multi-stage processes that include blanking operations. Since wear in these processes not only causes unplanned downtime but also directly affects product quality, inline detection of wear and its effect on product quality is of major importance. However, current quality assurance (QA) methods are limited to manual offline inspection by operators at predefined intervals, so that 100% inspection of the product and description of the state of wear is not found in industrial practice. The aim of this work is therefore to develop an optical system that enables in-line acquisition of product images and the associated control of blanking-specific quality features up to stroke rates of 300 strokes per minute (spm). In order to make the system attractive to small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME), the system is designed to minimize integration and investment costs using commercially available components. By combining the system with a methodology for extracting blanking-specific features, so-called key performance parameters (KPPs), the condition of the blanked surface as a relevant quality parameter is derived directly from the workpiece image. To demonstrate the transferability of the methodology to industrial applications, two use cases are investigated. In the first case, the KPPs are used directly to determine the quality of the blanked workpiece and are compared with reference measurements. Here, the KPPs are quantified with a mean absolute error of 18 μm compared to a ground truth. In the second case, the KPPs are used to build a machine learning (ML) model to estimate the wear of the blanking tool. Here, an accuracy of 92% is achieved in classifying the actual wear state.
Wide-angle protostellar outflows driven by narrow jets in stratified cores
Creators: name: Rabenanahary, M.
name: Cabrit, S.
name: Meliani, Z.
name: Forêts, G. Pineau des
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Most simulations of outflow feedback on star formation are based on the assumption that outflows are driven by a wide angle "X-wind," rather than a narrow jet. However, the arguments initially raised against pure jet-driven flows were based on steady ejection in a uniform medium, a notion that is no longer supported based on recent observations. We aim to determine whether a pulsed narrow jet launched in a density-stratified, self-gravitating core could reproduce typical molecular outflow properties, without the help of a wide-angle wind component. We performed axisymmetric hydrodynamic simulations using the MPI-AMRVAC code with optically thin radiative cooling on timescales up to 10000 yrs. Then we computed and compared the predicted properties with observational data. First, the jet-driven shell expands faster and wider through a core with steeply decreasing density than through an uniform core. Second, when blown into the same singular flattened core, a jet-driven shell has a similar width as a wide-angle wind-driven shell in the first few hundred years, but a decelerating expansion on long timescales. The flow adopts a conical shape and a base opening angle reaching up to $90\unicode{xb0}$. Third, after $\sim$ 10000 yrs, a pulsed jet-driven shell shows fitting features and a qualitative resemblance with recent observations of protostellar outflows with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), such as HH46-47 and CARMA-7. In particular, similarities are seen in the shell widths, opening angles, position-velocity diagrams, and mass-velocity distribution, with some showing a closer resemblance than in simulations based on a wide-angle "X-wind" model. Therefore, a realistic ambient density stratification in addition to millenia-long integration times are equally essential to reliably predict the properties of outflows driven by a pulsed jet and to confront them with the observations.
description: 20 pages, 13 figures, accepted for publication in A&A, Reproduced with permission from Astronomy & Astrophysics, \copyright ESO
String fine tuning
Creators: name: Savvidy, G.
name: Savvidy, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop further a new geometrical model of a discretized string, proposed in [1] and establish its basic physical properties. The model can be considered as the natural extention of the usual Feynman amplitude of the random walks to random surfaces. Both amplitudes coinside in the case, when the surface degenarates into a single particle world line. We extend the model to open surfaces as well. The boundary contribution is proportional to the full length of the boundary and the coefficient of proportionality can be treated as a hopping parameter of the quarks. In the limit, when this parameter tends to infinity, the theory is essentialy simlplified. We prove that the contribution of a given triangulation to the partition function is finite and have found the explicit form for the upper bound. The question of the convergence of the full partition function remains open. In this model the string tension may vanish at the critical point, if the last one exists, and possess a nontrivial scaling limit. The model contains hidden fermionic variables and can be considered as an independent model of hadrons.
description: 14 pages, missing two figures added
(100156) David Evans
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.
(100152) John Evans
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.
Everyday stranger harassment
Creators: name: Fairchild, Kimberly M.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2007

description: Three studies demonstrate that stranger harassment (i.e., experiencing unwanted sexual attention from strangers in public) is a frequent experience for young adult women, and that it has negative implications for their well-being. Study 1, a laboratory survey, suggests that stranger harassment may increase self-objectification and thus, fear of rape and restriction in movement. Study 2, an online survey, shows a direct link from stranger harassment to fear of rape, but a surprisingly weak relationship with self-objectification.Finally, Study 3, using daily diaries, suggests that particularly young women may not view stranger harassment as a completely negative experience. In concert, the findings suggest that stranger harassment may have both direct and indirect negative effects on women's lives, but that its construal may sometimes be positive, and that it is a complex phenomenon worthy of future research.
The Effect of Aspect Changes on Near-Earth Asteroid Phase Curves
Creators: name: Jackson, Samuel L.
name: Rozitis, Benjamin
name: Dover, Lord R.
name: Green, Simon F.
name: Kolb, Ulrich C.
name: Andrews, Allison E.
name: Lowry, Stephen C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Phase curves of asteroids are typically considered to depend solely on the scattering properties of airless particulate surfaces and the size of the object being studied. In this study, we demonstrate the additional dependence of phase curves on object shape, rotation pole orientation, and viewing geometry over an apparition. Variations in the phase curve of near-Earth asteroid (159402) 1999 AP10 over its apparition from July 2020 - January 2021 are verified to be due to aspect changes over the apparition. This is achieved through shape modelling of the asteroid and simulation of the phase curve over the apparition. We present simulations of asteroid phase curves over a range of geometries to understand the potential magnitude of this aspect effect, and under which circumstances it can begin to dominate in the phase curves. This dependence on aspect may introduce significant additional uncertainty in the properties derived from phase curve data. We provide and demonstrate software code to estimate the aspect-related uncertainty in near-Earth asteroid phase curves through simulation and model fitting of a randomly generated sample of ellipsoidal asteroid models over the observed viewing geometry. We demonstrate how ignoring this effect may lead to misleading interpretations of the data and underestimation of uncertainties in further studies, such as those in the infrared that use phase curve derived parameters when fitting physical properties of an asteroid.
description: Accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 14 pages, 11 figures, 5 tables
(100153) Thomas Evans
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.
Wound Healing in the α2β1 Integrin-Deficient Mouse: Altered Keratinocyte Biology and Dysregulated Matrix Metalloproteinase Expression
Creators: name: Wells, Laura
name: Zhang, Zhonghua
name: Davidson, Jeffrey
name: Zutter, Mary
name: Santoro, Samuel
name: Grenache, David
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: The alpha2beta1 integrin, a collagen/laminin receptor, is expressed at high level in the basal cell layer of the epidermis. To define the role of the alpha2beta1 integrin in wound healing, wound repair was extensively evaluated in wild-type and alpha2-null mice in vivo. In addition, the impact of alpha2beta1 integrin-deficiency on the function of primary murine keratinocytes in vitro was analyzed. Our in vivo findings demonstrate that genetic deletion of the alpha2beta1 integrin does not significantly alter the rate of re-epithelialization, collagen deposition, or tensile strength during wound closure in mice. In marked contrast to the observed similarities in wound healing, deletion of the alpha2beta1 integrin resulted in a dramatic increase in neoangiogenesis in the wound microenvironment. In contrast to in vivo studies, primary keratinocytes from alpha2-null mice adhered poorly and displayed impaired migration on type I collagen in vitro. We demonstrate that alpha2beta1 integrin-ligation negatively regulates expression of genes including matrix metalloproteinases both in vivo and in vitro. Furthermore, the changes in gene expression could potentially account for relatively normal wound healing in the alpha2-deficient mouse and our recent observation that suggests an antiangiogenic role for the alpha2beta1 integrin in vivo.
SOBREVIDA Y PRINCIPALES CAUSAS DE MORBILIDAD Y MORTALIDAD EN PREMATUROS EN ECUADOR
Creators: name: Ortega, Nathaly
name: Vasco-Morales, Santiago
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Neonatology

description: Prematurity is one of the main causes of morbidity and mortality in newborns in Ecuador and the world; in the last 20 years there has been an increase in its incidence with the consequent complications and associated risks.
(100154) Elizabeth Evans
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.
Ternary eutectic dendrites: Pattern formation and scaling properties
Creators: name: Rátkai, László
name: Szállás, Attila
name: Pusztai, Tamás
name: Mohri, Tetsuo
name: Gránásy, László
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Extending previous work [T. Pusztai, L. Rátkai, A. Szállás, and L. Gránásy, Phys. Rev. E {\bf 87}, 032402 (2013)], we have studied the formation of eutectic dendrites in a model ternary system within the framework of the phase-field theory. We have mapped out the domain in which two-phase dendritic structures grow. With increasing pulling velocity, the following sequence of growth morphologies is observed: flat front lamellae $\rightarrow$ eutectic colonies $\rightarrow$ eutectic dendrites $\rightarrow$ dendrites with target pattern $\rightarrow$ partitionless dendrites $\rightarrow$ partitionless flat front. We confirm that the two-phase and one-phase dendrites have similar forms, and display a similar scaling of the dendrite tip radius with the interface free energy. It is also found that the possible eutectic patterns include the target pattern, and single- and multiarm spirals, of which the thermal fluctuations choose. The most probable number of spiral arms increases with increasing tip radius and with decreasing kinetic anisotropy. Our numerical simulations confirm that in agreement with the assumptions of a recent analysis of two-phase dendrites [S. Akamatsu, S. Bottin-Rousseau, G. Faivre, and E. A. Brener, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 112}, 105502 (2014)], the Jackson-Hunt scaling of the eutectic wavelength with pulling velocity is obeyed in the parameter domain explored, and that the natural eutectic wavelength is proportional to the tip radius of the two-phase dendrites. Finally, we find that it is very difficult/virtually impossible to form spiraling two-phase dendrites without anisotropy, an observation that seems to contradict the expectations of Akamatsu {\it et al.}. Yet, it cannot be excluded, that in isotropic systems two-phase dendrites are rare events difficult to observe in simulations.
description: For more informations and videos, please visit our website: http://phasefield.hu/spiral_eutectic_dendrites Previous paper: arXiv:1302.4884
(100149) Jane Edwards
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.
Semantic keypoint-based pose estimation from single RGB frames
Creators: name: Schmeckpeper, Karl
name: Osteen, Philip R.
name: Wang, Yufu
name: Pavlakos, Georgios
name: Chaney, Kenneth
name: Jordan, Wyatt
name: Zhou, Xiaowei
name: Derpanis, Konstantinos G.
name: Daniilidis, Kostas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents an approach to estimating the continuous 6-DoF pose of an object from a single RGB image. The approach combines semantic keypoints predicted by a convolutional network (convnet) with a deformable shape model. Unlike prior investigators, we are agnostic to whether the object is textured or textureless, as the convnet learns the optimal representation from the available training-image data. Furthermore, the approach can be applied to instance- and class-based pose recovery. Additionally, we accompany our main pipeline with a technique for semi-automatic data generation from unlabeled videos. This procedure allows us to train the learnable components of our method with minimal manual intervention in the labeling process. Empirically, we show that our approach can accurately recover the 6-DoF object pose for both instance- and class-based scenarios even against a cluttered background. We apply our approach both to several, existing, large-scale datasets - including PASCAL3D+, LineMOD-Occluded, YCB-Video, and TUD-Light - and, using our labeling pipeline, to a new dataset with novel object classes that we introduce here. Extensive empirical evaluations show that our approach is able to provide pose estimation results comparable to the state of the art.
description: https://sites.google.com/view/rcta-object-keypoints-dataset/home. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1703.04670
Non-perturbative Models for the Simulation of Hadronic Collisions at the LHC
Creators: name: Kirchgaeßer, Patrick
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2020
Subjects: QCD
non-perturbative QCD
Monte Carlo simulation
particle physics

description: Nicht-störungstheoretische Modelle sind ein wesentlicher Bestandteil der Simulation von hadronischen Hochenergie-Kollisionen. In dieser Arbeit untersuchen, implementieren und verbessern wir mehrere nicht-störungstheoretische Modelle des Monte-Carlo-Ereignisgenerators Herwig 7. Wir entwickeln zunächst ein neues Modell für die Farbwiederverbindung, welches die Bildung von baryonischen Clustern ermöglicht und die Beschreibung von Daten mit minimalen Detektionskriterien, insbesondere in Regionen hoher Teilchenvielzahl und in Bezug auf die beobachtbare Teilchenart verbessert. Anschließend untersuchen wir die Struktur der Farbwiederverbindung unter störungstheoretischen Gesichtspunkten indem wir den Austausch weicher Gluonen studieren. Wir entwickeln ein Monte-Carlo Programm, welches uns erlaubt die Farbstruktur von Systemen, die aus bis zu fünf Clustern bestehen, zu entwickeln und die resultierenden Farbstrukturen numerisch zu untersuchen. Als nächstes studieren wir den Produktionsmechanismus seltsamer Quarks des Hadronisierungsmodells von Herwig 7. Um den Prozess dynamischer und kollektiver zu gestalten, führen wir an verschiedenen Stellen der Hadronisierung einen neuartigen Mechanismus für die Produktion seltsamer Quarks ein, der von der unmittelbaren Umgebung abhängig ist. Abschließend verbessern wir das Mehrteilcheninteraktionsmodell von Herwig 7. Wir bestimmen die freien Parameter des Modells anhand verfügbarer Daten aus Messungen mit minimalen Detektionskriterien und Messungen der hintergrundartigen Ereignisse, welche eine Massenschwerpunktsenergie von 200 GeV bis 13 TeV umfassen und stellen fest, dass es uns möglich ist alle betrachteten Observablen mit nur einem Satz von Parametern zu beschreiben.
Tracing Milky Way substructure with an RR Lyrae hierarchical clustering forest
Creators: name: Cook, Brian T.
name: Woods, Deborah F.
name: Ruprecht, Jessica D.
name: Varey, Jacob
name: Mastandrea, Radha
name: de Soto, Kaylee
name: Harburg, Jacob F.
name: Rebbapragada, Umaa
name: Mahabal, Ashish A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: RR Lyrae variable stars have long been reliable standard candles used to discern structure in the Local Group. With this in mind, we present a routine to identify groupings containing a statistically significant number of RR Lyrae variables in the Milky Way environment. RR Lyrae variable groupings, or substructures, with potential Galactic archaeology applications are found using a forest of agglomerative, hierarchical clustering trees, whose leaves are Milky Way RR Lyrae variables. Each grouping is validated by ensuring that the internal RR Lyrae variable proper motions are sufficiently correlated. Photometric information was collected from the Gaia second data release and proper motions from the (early) third data release. After applying this routine to the catalogue of 91234 variables, we are able to report sixteen unique RR Lyrae substructures with physical sizes of less than 1 kpc. Five of these substructures are in close proximity to Milky Way globular clusters with previously known tidal tails and/or a potential connection to Galactic merger events. One candidate substructure is in the neighbourhood of the Large Magellanic Cloud but is more distant (and older) than known satellites of the dwarf galaxy. Our study ends with a discussion of ways in which future surveys could be applied to the discovery of Milky Way stellar streams.
description: 15 pages, 7 figures, 3 tables (including appendices). Accepted for publication in MNRAS
The IgM Anti-Desmoglein 1 Response Distinguishes Brazilian Pemphigus Foliaceus (Fogo Selvagem) from Other Forms of Pemphigus
Creators: name: Qaqish, Bahjat
name: Rivitti, Evandro
name: Prisayanh, Phillip
name: Li, Ning
name: Hans-Filho, Gunter
name: Evangelista, Flor
name: Dasher, David
name: Diaz, Luis
name: dos Santos, Vandir
name: Aoki, Valeria
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: Fogo selvagem (FS) and pemphigus foliaceus (PF) possess pathogenic IgG anti-desmoglein 1-(Dsg1) autoantibodies. Although PF occurs sporadically, FS is endemic in Limao Verde (LV), Brazil (3.4% prevalence). IgM anti-Dsg1 were detected in 58% FS LV patients (n=31), 19% of FS patients from Hospital-Campo Grande (n=57), 19% from Hospital-Goiania (n=42), 12% from Hospital-Sao Paulo (n=56), 10% of PF patients from United States (n=20), and 0% of PF patients from Japan (n=20). Pemphigus vulgaris (n=40, USA and Japan), bullous pemphigoid (n=40, USA), and healthy donors (n=55, USA) showed negligible percentages of positive sera. High percentages of positive IgM anti-Dsg1 were found in healthy donors from four rural Amerindian populations (42% of 243) as compared with urban donors (14% of 81; P<0.001). More than 50% of healthy donors from LV (n = 99, age 5-20 years) possess IgM anti-Dsg1 across ages, whereas IgG-anti-Dsg1 was detected in 2.9% (age 5-10 years), 7.3% (age 11-15 years), and 29% of donors above age 16. IgM anti-Dsg1 epitopes are Ca2+and carbohydrate-independent. We propose that IgM anti-Dsg1 are common in FS patients in their native environment and uncommon in other pemphigus phenotypes and in FS patients who migrate to urban hospitals. Recurrent environmental antigenic exposure may lead to IgM and IgG responses that trigger FS.
Assembly development for the Simons Observatory focal plane readout module
Creators: name: Healy, Erin
name: Ali, Aamir M.
name: Arnold, Kam
name: Austermann, Jason E.
name: Beall, James A.
name: Bruno, Sarah Marie
name: Choi, Steve K.
name: Connors, Jake
name: Cothar, Nicholas F.
name: Dober, Bradley
name: Duff, Shannon M.
name: Galitzki, Nicholas
name: Hilton, Gene
name: Ho, Shuay-Pwu Patty
name: Hubmayr, Johannes
name: Johnson, Bradley R.
name: Li, Yaqiong
name: Link, Michael J.
name: Lucas, Tammy J.
name: McCarrick, Heather
name: Niemack, Michael D.
name: Silva-Feaver, Maximiliano
name: Sonka, Rita F.
name: Staggs, Suzanne
name: Vavagiakis, Eve M.
name: Vissers, Michael R.
name: Wang, Yuhan
name: Westbrook, Benjamin
name: Wollack, Edward J.
name: Xu, Zhilei
name: Zheng, Kaiwen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Simons Observatory (SO) is a suite of instruments sensitive to temperature and polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) to be located at Cerro Toco in the Atacama Desert in Chile. Five telescopes, one large aperture telescope and four small aperture telescopes, will host roughly 70,000 highly multiplexed transition edge sensor (TES) detectors operated at 100 mK. Each SO focal plane module (UFM) couples 1,764 TESes to microwave resonators in a microwave multiplexing (uMux) readout circuit. Before detector integration, the 100 mK uMux components are packaged into multiplexing modules (UMMs), which are independently validated to ensure they meet SO performance specifications. Here we present the assembly developments of these UMM readout packages for mid frequency (90/150 GHz) and ultra high frequency (220/280 GHz) UFMs.
From Epidemiology and Genetics to Diagnostics, Outcome Measures, and Novel Treatments in Autoimmune Bullous Diseases
Creators: name: Ludwig, Ralf
name: Stanley, John
name: Woodley, David
name: Diaz, Luis
name: Borradori, Luca
name: Hertl, Michael
name: Murrell, Dédée
name: Kitajima, Yasuo
name: Jonkman, Marcel
name: Hashimoto, Takashi
name: Zillikens, Detlef
name: Schmidt, Enno
name: Ibrahim, Saleh
name: Shimizu, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: The International Pre IID 2013 Satellite Meeting on Autoimmune Bullous Diseases (AIBDs) was held in Luebeck, Germany, from 6th to 7th May 2013, preceding the International Investigative Dermatology (IID) meeting in Edinburgh, UK. This Satellite Meeting followed the tradition of the IID-associated symposia on AIBDs in Kyoto (1993), Salzburg (1998), and Otsu (2008). In total, 180 international researchers and clinicians attended the meeting.
(100151) Arthur Perkins James
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.
title: Media Representations of Euthanasia
Creators: name: Hausman, Elke
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2003

description: For some time now there has been a divergence between public support for euthanasia and its illegal status within British law as well as its rejection by the medical profession. There have been a number of studies of public opinion, and there already exists a wealth of expert literature on the topic, by lawyers, health professionals and philosophers. This thesis argues that the newspaper coverage of euthanasia can be seen as a site where these expert discourses and lay discourses meet. The supporting data consists of a complete enumeration of articles containing the word 'euthanasia' which appeared in British newspapers over a 12-month period from November 1998 to October 1999. These documents were analysed using various forms of narrative analysis and discourse analysis. It was found that whilst both expert discussions and newspaper articles use similar concepts and categories to represent the meaning and practice of euthanasia, there are subtle but significant differences between these discussions. Newspapers also apply these categories in more grounded but less qualified ways. In particular, the 'voluntary euthanasia discourse', which is fundamental for experts, is less important in newspaper articles, where it is secondary to what I call a 'terminal illness discourse'. In that discourse, terminal illness becomes the marker that justifies euthanasia, over and above the concerns of experts. Both the 'voluntary euthanasia discourse' and the 'terminal illness discourse' address issues of agency and responsibility, but they approach these concerns from different assumptions. A striking feature of newspaper articles is that their discussion of euthanasia in terms of moral universals is grounded in the rhetoric of a world divided into nations.
Automorphism groups of endomorphism semigroups of free periodic groups
Creators: name: Atabekyan, Varujan S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20F50, 20F28, 20E36, 20B27, 20M15

description: In this paper we describe the automorphism groups of the endomorphism semigroups of free Burnside groups $B(m,n)$ for odd exponents $n\ge1003$. We prove, that the groups $Aut(End(B(m,n)))$ and $Aut(B(m,n))$ are isomorphic. In particular, if the groups $Aut(End(B(m,n)))$ and $Aut(End(B(k,n)))$ are isomorphic, then $m=k$.
Temperature Dependence of Thermodynamic, Dynamical and Dielectric Properties of Water Models
Creators: name: Morozova, Tatiana I.
name: Garcia, Nicolas A.
name: Barrat, Jean-Louis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the temperature dependence of thermodynamic (density, isobaric heat capacity), dynamical (self-diffusion coefficient, shear viscosity), and dielectric properties of several water models, the commonly employed TIP3P water model, well-established 4-point water model TIP4P-2005, and recently developed 4-point water model TIP4P-D. We focus on the temperature range of interest for the field of computational biophysics and soft matter (280-350 K). The 4-point water models lead to a spectacularly improved agreement with experimental data, strongly suggesting that the use of more modern parametrizations should be favored compared to the more traditional TIP3P for modeling temperature-dependent phenomena in biomolecular systems.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures