cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Macrocycles as novel antibiotic adjuvants for the treatment of Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections
Creators: name: Langendonk, R Frèdi
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2028

description: Antimicrobial resistance of bacterial pathogens is a global health crisis. The development of novel antimicrobials has remained stagnant over the last decades due to lack of economic incentives, difficulty in developing such therapeutics, and concerns about resistance arising from selective pressure from bacteriostatic or bactericidal agents. An attractive solution, to mitigate the gap between the demand for novel antimicrobials and the diminishing supply pipeline, is the use of antibiotic adjuvants, which have the potential to extend the shelf-life of traditional antimicrobials. This study aimed to identify and characterize macrocycle molecules as novel antibiotic adjuvants for the WHO priority 1, and primary cystic fibrosis (CF) lung pathogen, Pseudomonas aeruginosa. From screening of a synthetic macrocycle compound library, several molecules were identified as antibiotic adjuvants, and four were shortlisted for further development. These four macrocycles functioned as adjuvants with two distinct classes of antibiotics and displayed activity against P. aeruginosa isolates from both chronic and acute infection. In addition, macrocycles displayed promising activity against common multidrug resistant nosocomial ESKAPE pathogens in vitro. Drug suitability and DMPK assessment in vitro and in silico revealed no major DMPK concerns, but several minor concerns were determined. One macrocycle was investigated in relevant physiological environments, and this macrocycle displayed promising activity in an ex vivo model of CF sputum, and an in vivo infection model of the wax moth larvae, Galleria mellonella. This lead compound was additionally tested in a murine P. aeruginosa sepsis model pilot study, but results were inconclusive. Exploration into target deconvolution and mechanism of action of the four macrocycles identified a putative P. aeruginosa protein target for one macrocycle. This was the DHDPS enzyme DapA, involved in the DAP-pathway for meso-DAP and lysine biosynthesis. This enzyme has previously been highlighted as a potential target for novel antimicrobials. In conclusion, this study identified four structurally unrelated macrocycles with favourable drug-like properties, and promising antibiotic adjuvant activity against P. aeruginosa, in vitro and in in vivo. Future priorities include extensively evaluating these macrocycles in relevant in vivo models for their efficacy and pharmacokinetics in mammalian systems.
Erasing the which-path information of photons
Creators: name: Guo, Jinxian
name: Yuan, Qizhang
name: Wu, Yuan
name: Zhang, Weiping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Which-path information of a quantum particle in interferometers is the key to infer the past of quantum particle. It arises many extensive discussions including quantum complementarity and path-visibility relation. The basic of these discussions are the description, detection and control of which-path information. In this article, we focus on the investigation of multidimensional which-path information in nested Mach-Zehnder interferometer. A general expression of which-path information is given and can be partially extracted by different detection method. Further analysis shows that the which-path information can be controlled by the phase differences and beam splitting ratios between the arms of nested Mach-Zehnder interferometer. Moreover, a new which-path information elimination phenomenon has been predicted and demonstrated experimentally. Our work can help to understand the physics of quantum particles, potentially apply to quantum information process and quantum metrology.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures, 1 table
The unique and interactive effects of parent and school bonds on adolescent delinquency
Creators: name: Lippold, Melissa
name: Sabatine, Elaina
name: Kainz, Kirsten
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Parent and school bonds are protective against delinquency. This study used longitudinal data and multilevel Poisson regression models (MLM) to examine unique and interactive associations of parent and school bonds on youth delinquency in a sample of rural adolescents (n = 945; 84% White). We investigated whether youth sex or transitioning to a new middle school moderated the linkages between parent and school bonds and later delinquency. Results indicated reduced delinquency was associated with positive parent and school relationships. Parent and school bonds interacted such that linkages between parent bonding and youth delinquency were stronger when youth also had high school bonding – suggesting an additive effect. However, interactive effects were only found when youth remained in the same school and became nonsignificant if they transitioned to a new school. Findings support prior evidence that parent and school bonds – and their interaction – play a unique role in reducing delinquency.
Tailored cluster states with high threshold under biased noise
Creators: name: Claes, Jahan
name: Bourassa, J. Eli
name: Puri, Shruti
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fault-tolerant cluster states form the basis for scalable measurement-based quantum computation. Recently, new stabilizer codes for scalable circuit-based quantum computation have been introduced that have very high thresholds under biased noise where the qubit predominantly suffers from one type of error, e.g. dephasing. However, extending these advances in stabilizer codes to generate high-threshold cluster states for biased noise has been a challenge, as the standard method for foliating stabilizer codes to generate fault-tolerant cluster states does not preserve the noise bias. In this work, we overcome this barrier by introducing a generalization of the cluster state that allows us to foliate stabilizer codes in a bias-preserving way. As an example of our approach, we construct a foliated version of the XZZX code which we call the XZZX cluster state. We demonstrate that under a circuit-level noise model, our XZZX cluster state has a threshold more than double the usual cluster state when dephasing errors are more likely than errors which cause bit flips by a factor of $O(100)$ or more.
description: Main text: 12 pages, 7 figures. Supplement: 5 pages, 5, figures
Crystal gravity
Creators: name: Zaanen, Jan
name: Balm, Floris
name: Beekman, Aron J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We address a subject that could have been analyzed century ago: how does the universe of general relativity look like when it would have been filled with solid matter? Solids break spontaneously the translations and rotations of space itself. Only rather recently it was realized in various context that the order parameter of the solid has a relation to Einsteins dynamical space time which is similar to the role of a Higgs field in a Yang-Mills gauge theory. Such a "crystal gravity" is therefore like the Higgs phase of gravity. The usual Higgs phases are characterized by a special phenomenology. A case in point is superconductivity exhibiting phenomena like the Type II phase, characterized by the emergence of an Abrikosov lattice of quantized magnetic fluxes absorbing the external magnetic field. What to expect in the gravitational setting? The theory of elasticity is the universal effective field theory associated with the breaking of space translations and rotations having a similar status as the phase action describing a neutral superfluid. A geometrical formulation appeared in its long history, similar in structure to general relativity, which greatly facilitates the marriage of both theories. With as main limitation that we focus entirely on stationary circumstances -- the dynamical theory is greatly complicated by the lack of Lorentz invariance -- we will present a first exploration of a remarkably rich and often simple physics of "Higgsed gravity".
description: 64 pages, 22 figures. The introduction has been revised compared to the first version
Addition-deletion results for the minimal degree of a Jacobian syzygy of a union of two curves
Creators: name: Dimca, A.
name: Ilardi, G.
name: Sticlaru, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $C:f=0$ be a reduced curve in the complex projective plane. The minimal degree $mdr(f)$ of a Jacobian syzygy for $f$, which is the same as the minimal degree of a derivation killing $f$, is an important invariant of the curve $C$, for instance it can be used to determined whether $C$ is free or nearly free. In this note we study the relations of this invariant $mdr(f)$ with a decomposition of $C$ as a union of two curves $C_1$ and $C_2$, without common irreducible components. When all the singularities that occur are quasihomogeneous, a result by Schenck, Terao and Yoshinaga yields finer information on this invariant in this setting. Using this, we give some geometrical criteria, the first ones of this type in the existing literature as far as we know, for a line to be a jumping line for the rank 2 vector bundle of logarithmic vector fields along a reduced curve $C$.
description: v4. Proposition 5.5 modified, one reference updated, the rest unchanged
Simplified scheme for entanglement preparation with Rydberg pumping via dissipation
Creators: name: Su, Shi-Lei
name: Guo, Qi
name: Wang, Hong-Fu
name: Zhang, Shou
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Inspired by recent work [A. W. Carr and M. Saffman, Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 033607 (2013)], we propose a simplified scheme to prepare the two-atom maximally entangled states via dissipative Rydberg pumping. Compared with the former scheme, the simplified one involves less classical laser fields and Rydberg interactions, and the asymmetric Rydberg interactions are avoided. Master equation simulations demonstrate that the fidelity and the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt correlation of the maximally entangled state could reach up to 0.999 and 2.821, respectively, under certain conditions. Furthermore, we extend the physical thoughts to prepare the three-dimensional entangled state, the numerical simulations show that, in theory, both the fidelity and the Negativity of the desired entanglement could be very close to unity under certain conditions.
description: 9 pages,9 figures. V2: polished presentation, added one figure, and accepted by PRA
title: Cryptoasset Ownership and Use in Canada: An Update for 2022
Creators: name: Balutel, Daniela
name: Henry, Chris
name: Rusu, Doina
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2023

description: This paper provides an update on cryptoasset ownership in Canada using data from two Bank of Canada surveys conducted in 2022. We find that Bitcoin ownership declined from 13% in 2021 to 10% in 2022, and ownership of other cryptoassets also fell. These drops occurred against a background of steep price declines and an increasingly tight regulatory atmosphere for cryptoassets.
description: Cette étude présente des données à jour sur la possession de crypto-actifs au Canada tirées de deux enquêtes menées par la Banque du Canada en 2022. Elles font ressortir une baisse de la proportion de Canadiens détenant des bitcoins, qui a passé de 13 % en 2021 à 10 % en 2022. Une réduction analogue a concerné la détention d’autres crypto-actifs. Ces reculs sont survenus dans le contexte d’une chute abrupte des prix et d’un durcissement croissant de la réglementation des crypto-actifs.
The Kraus representation for the dynamics of open quantum systems
Creators: name: Maziero, Jonas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The necessity and utility of considering the interaction of a quantum system with its environment when describing its time evolution have been recognized in several branches of physics and of other sciences. The Kraus' representation is a general and succinct approach to describe such open system dynamics in a wide range of relevant physical scenarios. In this article, by abdicating from the generality of the formalism of quantum operations and with this avoiding its associated complications, we show in a simple manner how we can obtain the Kraus' representation using basically the closed system (system plus environment) unitary dynamics and the partial trace function. The example of a two-level atom interacting with the vacuum of the electromagnetic field is regarded for the sake of instantiating this formalism, which is then applied to study the time evolution of the atom's quantum coherence.
description: Didactic text, in Portuguese
Building an iterative heuristic solver for a quantum annealer
Creators: name: Rosenberg, Gili
name: Vazifeh, Mohammad
name: Woods, Brad
name: Haber, Eldad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A quantum annealer heuristically minimizes quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) problems, but is limited by the physical hardware in the size and density of the problems it can handle. We have developed a meta-heuristic solver that utilizes D-Wave Systems' quantum annealer (or any other QUBO problem optimizer) to solve larger or denser problems, by iteratively solving subproblems, while keeping the rest of the variables fixed. We present our algorithm, several variants, and the results for the optimization of standard QUBO problem instances from OR-Library of sizes 500 and 2500 as well as the Palubeckis instances of sizes 3000 to 7000. For practical use of the solver, we show the dependence of the time to best solution on the desired gap to the best known solution. In addition, we study the dependence of the gap and the time to best solution on the size of the problems solved by the underlying optimizer.
description: 21 pages, 4 figures; minor edits
Shuffle Algebras and Non-Commutative Probability for Pairs of Faces
Creators: name: Diehl, Joscha
name: Gerhold, Malte
name: Gilliers, Nicolas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46L53, 46L54, 18M60

description: One can build an operatorial model for freeness by considering either the right-handed or the left-handed representation of algebras of operators acting on the free product of the underlying pointed Hilbert spaces. Considering both at the same time, that is, computing distributions of operators in the algebra generated by the left- and right-handed representations, led Voiculescu in 2013 to define and study bifreeness and, in the sequel, triggered the development of an extension of noncommutative probability now frequently referred to as multi-faced (two-faced in the example given above). Many examples of two-faced independences emerged these past years. Of great interest to us are biBoolean, bifree and type I bimonotone independences. In this paper, we extend the preLie calculus pertaining to free, Boolean, and monotone moment-cumulant relations initiated by K. Ebrahimi-Fard and F. Patras to their above-mentioned two-faced equivalents.
Floquet Majorana Fermions in superconducting quantum dots
Creators: name: Benito, Mónica
name: Platero, Gloria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider different configurations of ac driven quantum dots coupled to superconductor leads where Majorana fermions can exist as collective quasiparticles. The main goal is to tune the existence, localization and properties of these zero energy quasiparticles by means of periodically driven external gates. In particular, we analyze the relevance of the system and driving symmetry. We predict the existence of different sweet spots with Floquet Majorana fermions in configurations where they are not present in the undriven system.
description: Contribution to the Physica E special issue on "Frontiers in quantum electronic transport" - in memory of Markus B\"uttiker
Gladiolus dubius Guss., Fl. Sicul. Prodr.
Creators: name: Peruzzi, Lorenzo
name: Galasso, Gabriele
name: Domina, Gianniantonio
name: Bartolucci, Fabrizio
name: Santangelo, Annalisa
name: Alessandrini, Alessandro
name: Astuti, Giovanni
name: D'Antraccoli, Marco
name: Roma-Marzio, Francesco
name: Ardenghi, Nicola M. G.
name: Barberis, Giuseppina
name: Conti, Fabio
name: Bernardo, Liliana
name: Peccenini, Simonetta
name: Stinca, Adriano
name: Wagensommer, Robert P.
name: Bonari, Gianmaria
name: Iamonico, Duilio
name: Iberite, Mauro
name: Viciani, Daniele
name: Guacchio, Emanuele Del
name: Galdo, Gianpietro Giusso Del
name: Lastrucci, Lorenzo
name: Villani, Mariacristina
name: Brunu, Antonello
name: Magrini, Sara
name: Pistarino, Annalaura
name: Brullo, Salvatore
name: Salmeri, Cristina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Asparagales
Iridaceae
Gladiolus
Gladiolus dubius

description: Gladiolus dubius Guss., Fl. Sicul. Prodr. suppl. 1: 8. 1832. [November 1832]
 Ind. Loc.:—“In collibus et campis aridis calcareis”. [SIC]
 Type (lectotype designated by Tison & Girod 2014: 71):— ITALY. In collibus et campis aridis calcareis, s.d., Gussone s.n. (NAP).
 Compiled by:— A. Santangelo
description: Published as part of Peruzzi, Lorenzo, Galasso, Gabriele, Domina, Gianniantonio, Bartolucci, Fabrizio, Santangelo, Annalisa, Alessandrini, Alessandro, Astuti, Giovanni, D'Antraccoli, Marco, Roma-Marzio, Francesco, Ardenghi, Nicola M. G., Barberis, Giuseppina, Conti, Fabio, Bernardo, Liliana, Peccenini, Simonetta, Stinca, Adriano, Wagensommer, Robert P., Bonari, Gianmaria, Iamonico, Duilio, Iberite, Mauro, Viciani, Daniele, Guacchio, Emanuele Del, Galdo, Gianpietro Giusso Del, Lastrucci, Lorenzo, Villani, Mariacristina, Brunu, Antonello, Magrini, Sara, Pistarino, Annalaura, Brullo, Salvatore & Salmeri, Cristina, 2019, An inventory of the names of native, non-endemic vascular plants described from Italy, their loci classici and types, pp. 1-215 in Phytotaxa 410 (1) on page 79, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.410.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13716045
Effect of irradiation on Akt signaling in atrophying skeletal muscle
Creators: name: Fix, Dennis K.
name: Hardee, Justin P.
name: Carson, James A.
name: Bateman, Ted A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Muscle irradiation (IRR) exposure can accompany unloading during spaceflight or cancer treatment, and this has been shown to be sufficient by itself to induce skeletal muscle signaling associated with a remodeling response. Although protein kinase B/Akt has an established role in the regulation of muscle growth and metabolism, there is a limited understanding of how Akt signaling in unloaded skeletal muscle is affected by IRR. Therefore, we examined the combined effects of acute IRR and short-term unloading on muscle Akt signaling. Female C57BL/6 mice were subjected to load bearing or hindlimb suspension (HS) for 5 days (n = 6/group). A single, unilateral hindlimb IRR dose (0.5 Gy X-ray) was administered on day 3. Gastrocnemius muscle protein expression was examined. HS resulted in decreased AktT308 phosphorylation, whereas HS+IRR resulted in increased AktT308 phosphorylation above baseline. HS resulted in reduced AktS473 phosphorylation, which was rescued by HS+IRR. Interestingly, IRR alone resulted in increased phosphorylation of AktS473, but not that of AktT308. HS resulted in decreased mTORC1 signaling, and this suppression was not altered by IRR. Both IRR and HS resulted in increased MuRF-1 expression, whereas atrogin-1 expression was not affected by either condition. These results demonstrate that either IRR alone or when combined with HS can differentially affect Akt phosphorylation, but IRR did not disrupt suppressed mTORC1 signaling by HS. Collectively, these findings highlight that a single IRR dose is sufficient to disrupt the regulation of Akt signaling in atrophying skeletal muscle.
Adolescent, caregiver, and friend preferences for integrating social support and communication features into an asthma self-management app
Creators: name: Tate, Deborah F.
name: Sage, Adam J.
name: Roberts, Courtney A.
name: Sleath, Betsy L.
name: Carpenter, Delesha M.
name: Geryk, Lorie L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: This study examines: 1) adolescent preferences for using asthma self-management mobile applications (apps) to interact with their friends, caregivers, medical providers, and other adolescents with asthma and 2) how caregivers and friends would use mobile apps to communicate with the adolescent and serve as sources of support for asthma management.
Helianthemum jonium Lacaita & Grosser, Nuovo Giorn. Bot. Ital.
Creators: name: Peruzzi, Lorenzo
name: Galasso, Gabriele
name: Domina, Gianniantonio
name: Bartolucci, Fabrizio
name: Santangelo, Annalisa
name: Alessandrini, Alessandro
name: Astuti, Giovanni
name: D'Antraccoli, Marco
name: Roma-Marzio, Francesco
name: Ardenghi, Nicola M. G.
name: Barberis, Giuseppina
name: Conti, Fabio
name: Bernardo, Liliana
name: Peccenini, Simonetta
name: Stinca, Adriano
name: Wagensommer, Robert P.
name: Bonari, Gianmaria
name: Iamonico, Duilio
name: Iberite, Mauro
name: Viciani, Daniele
name: Guacchio, Emanuele Del
name: Galdo, Gianpietro Giusso Del
name: Lastrucci, Lorenzo
name: Villani, Mariacristina
name: Brunu, Antonello
name: Magrini, Sara
name: Pistarino, Annalaura
name: Brullo, Salvatore
name: Salmeri, Cristina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Malvales
Cistaceae
Helianthemum
Helianthemum jonium

description: Helianthemum jonium Lacaita & Grosser, Nuovo Giorn. Bot. Ital. n.s., 17(4): 609(–610). 1910. [October 1910]
 Ind. Loc.:—“Prov. di Lecce: Taranto, in silvaticis maritimis (macchia mediterranea), loco dicto Pineta del Pantano”. PUG
 Type:—Not designated.
 Compiled by:— N. G. Passalacqua
description: Published as part of Peruzzi, Lorenzo, Galasso, Gabriele, Domina, Gianniantonio, Bartolucci, Fabrizio, Santangelo, Annalisa, Alessandrini, Alessandro, Astuti, Giovanni, D'Antraccoli, Marco, Roma-Marzio, Francesco, Ardenghi, Nicola M. G., Barberis, Giuseppina, Conti, Fabio, Bernardo, Liliana, Peccenini, Simonetta, Stinca, Adriano, Wagensommer, Robert P., Bonari, Gianmaria, Iamonico, Duilio, Iberite, Mauro, Viciani, Daniele, Guacchio, Emanuele Del, Galdo, Gianpietro Giusso Del, Lastrucci, Lorenzo, Villani, Mariacristina, Brunu, Antonello, Magrini, Sara, Pistarino, Annalaura, Brullo, Salvatore & Salmeri, Cristina, 2019, An inventory of the names of native, non-endemic vascular plants described from Italy, their loci classici and types, pp. 1-215 in Phytotaxa 410 (1) on page 80, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.410.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13716045
Heracleum orsinii Guss., Pl. Rar.
Creators: name: Peruzzi, Lorenzo
name: Galasso, Gabriele
name: Domina, Gianniantonio
name: Bartolucci, Fabrizio
name: Santangelo, Annalisa
name: Alessandrini, Alessandro
name: Astuti, Giovanni
name: D'Antraccoli, Marco
name: Roma-Marzio, Francesco
name: Ardenghi, Nicola M. G.
name: Barberis, Giuseppina
name: Conti, Fabio
name: Bernardo, Liliana
name: Peccenini, Simonetta
name: Stinca, Adriano
name: Wagensommer, Robert P.
name: Bonari, Gianmaria
name: Iamonico, Duilio
name: Iberite, Mauro
name: Viciani, Daniele
name: Guacchio, Emanuele Del
name: Galdo, Gianpietro Giusso Del
name: Lastrucci, Lorenzo
name: Villani, Mariacristina
name: Brunu, Antonello
name: Magrini, Sara
name: Pistarino, Annalaura
name: Brullo, Salvatore
name: Salmeri, Cristina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Apiales
Apiaceae
Heracleum
Heracleum orsinii

description: Heracleum orsinii Guss., Pl. Rar. text: 133(–134; plates: 7, pl. 27). 1826. [after 4 June 1826]
 Ind. Loc.:—“In glareosis elatioribus montium Aprutii, Monte Costone al canale delle Capezze, Monte Corno a Campo aprico, ubi jam invenerat amicissimus Orsini”. ABR
 Type:—Not designated.
 Note:—According to Arts. 60.8 & 60.9 of the ICN, the spelling of the specific epithet originally published as “ Orsini ” is to be corrected in “ orsinii ”.
 Compiled by:— A. Santangelo
description: Published as part of Peruzzi, Lorenzo, Galasso, Gabriele, Domina, Gianniantonio, Bartolucci, Fabrizio, Santangelo, Annalisa, Alessandrini, Alessandro, Astuti, Giovanni, D'Antraccoli, Marco, Roma-Marzio, Francesco, Ardenghi, Nicola M. G., Barberis, Giuseppina, Conti, Fabio, Bernardo, Liliana, Peccenini, Simonetta, Stinca, Adriano, Wagensommer, Robert P., Bonari, Gianmaria, Iamonico, Duilio, Iberite, Mauro, Viciani, Daniele, Guacchio, Emanuele Del, Galdo, Gianpietro Giusso Del, Lastrucci, Lorenzo, Villani, Mariacristina, Brunu, Antonello, Magrini, Sara, Pistarino, Annalaura, Brullo, Salvatore & Salmeri, Cristina, 2019, An inventory of the names of native, non-endemic vascular plants described from Italy, their loci classici and types, pp. 1-215 in Phytotaxa 410 (1) on page 83, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.410.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13716045
Toward Fully Automated Robotic Platform for Remote Auscultation
Creators: name: Tsumura, Ryosuke
name: Koseki, Yoshihiko
name: Nitta, Naotaka
name: Yoshinaka, Kiyoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Since most developed countries are facing an increase in the number of patients per healthcare worker due to a declining birth rate and an aging population, relatively simple and safe diagnosis tasks may need to be performed using robotics and automation technologies, without specialists and hospitals. This study presents an automated robotic platform for remote auscultation, which is a highly cost-effective screening tool for detecting abnormal clinical signs. The developed robotic platform is composed of a 6-degree-of-freedom cooperative robotic arm, light detection and ranging (LiDAR) camera, and a spring-based mechanism holding an electric stethoscope. The platform enables autonomous stethoscope positioning based on external body information acquired using the LiDAR camera-based multi-way registration; the platform also ensures safe and flexible contact, maintaining the contact force within a certain range through the passive mechanism. Our preliminary results confirm that the robotic platform enables estimation of the landing positions required for cardiac examinations based on the depth and landmark information of the body surface. It also handles the stethoscope while maintaining the contact force without relying on the push-in displacement by the robotic arm.
description: 8 pages, 11 figures
MAKTABGACHA KATTA YOSHDAGI BOLALARDA MUSIQIY ASARLAGA QIZIQISHNI OSHIRISHNING OMMALASHGAN USULLARI
Creators: name: Nurmatova, Iroda
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Ushbu maqolada maktabgacha katta yoshdagi bolalarda musiqiy asarlarga bo‘lgan qiziqishni oshirishga xizmat qiluvchi zamonaviy va samarali usullar yoritiladi. Jumladan, o‘yinli faoliyat orqali musiqaga bo‘lgan muhabbatni shakllantirish, interaktiv texnologiyalardan foydalanish, bolalarning estetik didini rivojlantirishga qaratilgan pedagogik yondashuvlar tahlil qilinadi. Shuningdek, musiqiy mashg‘ulotlar jarayonida qo‘llaniladigan ijodiy metodlar, musiqa o‘qituvchisining roli va oilaning hamkorligi haqida ham fikr yuritiladi.
Dynamical evolution modeling of the Collinder 135 & UBC 7 binary star cluster
Creators: name: Ishchenko, Marina
name: Berczik, Peter
name: Kharchenko, Nina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The purpose of the present work is a detailed investigation of the dynamical evolutionof Collinder 135 and UBC 7 star clusters. We present a set of dynamical numerical simulationsusing realistic star clusterN-body modeling technique with the forward integration of thestar-by-star cluster models to the present day, based on best-available 3D coordinates and velocitiesobtained from the latest Gaia EDR3 data release. We have established that Collinder 135 and UBC 7 are probably a binary star cluster and have common origin. We carried out a full star-by-star N-body simulation of the stellar population of both clusters using the new algorithm of Single Stellar Evolution and performed a comparison of the results obtained in the observational data (like cumulative number counts), which showed a fairly good agreement.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables
Do Gradient Inversion Attacks Make Federated Learning Unsafe?
Creators: name: Hatamizadeh, Ali
name: Yin, Hongxu
name: Molchanov, Pavlo
name: Myronenko, Andriy
name: Li, Wenqi
name: Dogra, Prerna
name: Feng, Andrew
name: Flores, Mona G.
name: Kautz, Jan
name: Xu, Daguang
name: Roth, Holger R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Federated learning (FL) allows the collaborative training of AI models without needing to share raw data. This capability makes it especially interesting for healthcare applications where patient and data privacy is of utmost concern. However, recent works on the inversion of deep neural networks from model gradients raised concerns about the security of FL in preventing the leakage of training data. In this work, we show that these attacks presented in the literature are impractical in FL use-cases where the clients' training involves updating the Batch Normalization (BN) statistics and provide a new baseline attack that works for such scenarios. Furthermore, we present new ways to measure and visualize potential data leakage in FL. Our work is a step towards establishing reproducible methods of measuring data leakage in FL and could help determine the optimal tradeoffs between privacy-preserving techniques, such as differential privacy, and model accuracy based on quantifiable metrics. Code is available at https://nvidia.github.io/NVFlare/research/quantifying-data-leakage.
description: Revised version; Accepted to IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging; Improved and reformatted version of https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-1147182/v2; Added NVFlare reference
Fundamental Speed Limits to the Generation of Quantumness
Creators: name: Jing, Jun
name: Wu, Lian-Ao
name: del Campo, Adolfo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum physics dictates fundamental speed limits during time evolution. We present a quantum speed limit governing the generation of nonclassicality and the mutual incompatibility of two states connected by time evolution. This result is used to characterize the timescale required to generate a given amount of quantumness under an arbitrary physical process. The bound is shown to be tight under pure dephasing dynamics. More generally, our analysis reveals the dependence on the initial state and non-Markovian effects.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures
Robust Dirac lines against Ge vacancy and possible spin-orbit Dirac points in nonsymmorphic HfGe0.92Te
Creators: name: Chen, L.
name: Zhou, L. Q.
name: Zhou, Y.
name: Liu, C.
name: Guo, Z. N.
name: Gao, S. Y.
name: Fan, W. H.
name: Xu, J. F.
name: Guo, Y. X.
name: K
name: Liao
name: Wang, J. O.
name: Weng, H. M.
name: Wang, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Looking for new materials with Dirac points has been a fascinating subject of research. Here we report the growth, crystal structure, and band structure of HfGe0.92Te single crystals, featuring three different types of Dirac points. HfGe0.92Te crystalizes in a nonsymmorphic tetragonal space group P4/nmm (No. 129), having square Ge-atom plane with vacancies about 8%. Despite the vacancies on Ge site, the Dirac nodal line composed of conventional Dirac points vulnerable to spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is observed using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, accompanied with the robust Dirac line protected by the nonsymmorphic symmetry against both SOC and vacancies. Specially, spin-orbit Dirac points (SDPs) originated from the surface formed under SOC are hinted to exist according to our experiments and calculations. Quasi-two-dimensional (quasi-2D) characters are observed and further confirmed by angular-resolved magnetoresistance. HfGe0.92Te is a good candidate to explore exotic topological phases or topological properties with three different types of Dirac points and a promising candidate to realize 2D SDPs.
description: 16 pages, 9 figures
Are children with asthma overconfident that they are using their inhalers correctly?
Creators: name: Dewalt, Darren A.
name: Geryk, Lorie
name: Carpenter, Delesha M.
name: Alexander, Dayna S.
name: Arrindell, Courtney
name: Sleath, Betsy
name: Weaver, Mark A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: The objectives of this study were to quantify the extent to which children with asthma are overconfident that they are using their inhalers correctly and determine whether demographic and clinical characteristics are associated with children being overconfident.
Roadway Design Matters: Variation in Bicyclists' Psycho-Physiological Responses in Different Urban Roadway Designs
Creators: name: Guo, Xiang
name: Tavakoli, Arash
name: Robartes, Erin
name: Angulo, Austin
name: Chen, T. Donna
name: Heydarian, Arsalan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: J.4

description: As a healthier and more sustainable way of mobility, cycling has been advocated by literature and policy. However, current trends in bicyclist crash fatalities suggest deficiencies in current roadway design in protecting these vulnerable road users. The lack of cycling data is a common challenge for studying bicyclists' safety, behavior, and comfort levels under different design contexts. To understand bicyclists' behavioral and physiological responses in an efficient and safe way, this study uses a bicycle simulator within an immersive virtual environment (IVE). Off-the-shelf sensors are utilized to evaluate bicyclists' cycling performance (speed and lane position) and physiological responses (eye tracking and heart rate (HR)). Participants bike in a simulated virtual environment modeled to scale from a real-world street with a shared bike lane (sharrow) to evaluate how introduction of a bike lane and a protected bike lane with pylons may impact perceptions of safety, as well as behavioral and psycho-physiological responses. Results from 50 participants show that the protected bike lane design received the highest perceived safety rating and exhibited the lowest average cycling speed. Furthermore, both the bike lane and the protected bike lane scenarios show a less dispersed gaze distribution than the as-built sharrow scenario, reflecting a higher gaze focus among bicyclists on the biking task in the bike lane and protected bike lane scenarios, compared to when bicyclists share right of way with vehicles. Additionally, heart rate change point results from the study suggest that creating dedicated zones for bicyclists (bike lanes or protected bike lanes) has the potential to reduce bicyclists' stress levels.
Charge glass in an extended dimer Hubbard model
Creators: name: Deglint, Meldon B.
name: Akella, Krishant
name: Kennett, Malcolm P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The charge degrees of freedom in several different organic charge transfer salts display slow or glassy dynamics. In order to gain insight into this behaviour, we obtain the low energy theory for an extended dimer Hubbard model, taking into account the occupations of sites on neighbouring dimers. We take a classical limit of the resulting effective model of coupled spins and dimers and study it using classical Monte Carlo simulations. We find that frustration induced by intra- and inter-dimer interactions leads to glassiness in the charge degress of freedom in the absence of ordering of the spin degrees of freedom. Our results may have relevance to experimental observations of relaxor ferroelectric behaviour in the dynamics of organic charge transfer salts.
description: 20 pages, 13 figures
Large deviations of a tracer position in the dense and the dilute limits of a single-file diffusion
Creators: name: Rana, Jagannath
name: Sadhu, Tridib
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply the macroscopic fluctuation theory to analyze the long-time statistics of the position of a tracer in the dense and the dilute limits of diffusive single-file systems. Our explicit results are about the corresponding large deviation functions for an initial step density profile with the fluctuating (annealed) and the fixed (quenched) initial conditions. These hydrodynamic results are applicable for a general single-file system and they confirm recent exact results obtained by microscopic solutions for specific model systems.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, additional 7 pages of supplementary materials
Exploring youth and caregiver preferences for asthma education video content
Creators: name: Arrindell, Courtney C.
name: Blalock, Susan J.
name: Sage, Adam J.
name: Sleath, Betsy L.
name: Reuland, Daniel S.
name: Coyne-Beasley, Tamera
name: Geryk, Lorie L.
name: Lee, Charles
name: Carpenter, Delesha M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: This study examines: 1) whether youth and their caregivers have different preferences for asthma education video topics and 2) if education topic preferences vary by youth and caregiver sociodemographic characteristics.
New developments in SETI Long baseline Interferometry
Creators: name: Garrett, Michael
name: Wandia, Kevin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Interferometry offers some significant advantages for SETI research that single dishes and beam-formed arrays do not. We have been developing a SETI capability using the EVN, building on short observations of radio sources in the Kepler field made at 21cm. Several scans were correlated at JIVE (expt RSG12) with very high spectral resolution (16k channels over a 8 MHz band). One of these scans includes J1926+4441 - this VLBA calibrator is located close to the exoplanet Kepler-111b. We detected a highly unusual feature in the data that is observed in both the autocorrelation and (very surprisingly) also the cross-correlation data. The feature is also seen in low spectral resolution data but is much less obvious and would probably be disregarded in a conventional data analysis. We believe this feature is not real but is an artifact in the data that is associated with HI filling the beam of the EVN antennas and raising their system temperatures. We have confirmed this by observing sources within and outwith the galactic plane (RSW02). At the time of our observations, we detect no transmitters associated with Kepler 111b with an Equivalent Isotropically Radiated Power (EIRP) > 3.75E15 Watt. This work represents an important step forward in using the EVN (and VLBI in general) for SETI follow-up observations.
Dynamic Modeling Of Spherical Variable-Shape Wave Energy Converters
Creators: name: Shabara, Mohamed A.
name: Abdelkhalik, Ossama
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In the recently introduced Variable-Shape heaving wave energy converters, the buoy changes its shape in response to changing incident waves actively. In this study, the dynamic model for a spherical Variable-Shape Wave Energy Converter is developed using the Lagrangian approach. The classical bending theory is used to write the stress-strain equations for the flexible body using Love's first approximation. The elastic spherical shell is assumed to have an axisymmetric vibration behavior. The Rayleigh-Ritz discretization method is adopted to find an approximate solution for the vibration model of the spherical shell. One-way Fluid-Structure Interaction simulations are performed using MATLAB to validate the developed dynamic model and to study the effect of using a flexible buoy in the wave energy converter on its trajectory and power production.
description: 24 pages, 8 figures, and 2 tables, the paper is currently under review (journal)
Age Differences in Recovery After Sport-Related Concussion: A Comparison of High School and Collegiate Athletes
Creators: name: Barr, William B.
name: Wang, Yanzhi
name: Nelson, Lindsay D.
name: Randolph, Christopher
name: Guskiewicz, Kevin M.
name: Ahn, Kwang Woo
name: Hammeke, Thomas A.
name: McCrea, Michael A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Younger age has been hypothesized to be a risk factor for prolonged recovery after sport-related concussion, yet few studies have directly evaluated age differences in acute recovery.
On the Insensitivity of Bit Density to Read Noise in One-bit Quanta Image Sensors
Creators: name: Chan, Stanley H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: The one-bit quanta image sensor is a photon-counting device that produces binary measurements where each bit represents the presence or absence of a photon. In the presence of read noise, the sensor quantizes the analog voltage into the binary bits using a threshold value $q$. The average number of ones in the bitstream is known as the bit-density and is often the sufficient statistics for signal estimation. An intriguing phenomenon is observed when the quanta exposure is at the unity and the threshold is $q = 0.5$. The bit-density demonstrates a complete insensitivity as long as the read noise level does not exceeds a certain limit. In other words, the bit density stays at a constant independent of the amount of read noise. This paper provides a mathematical explanation of the phenomenon by deriving conditions under which the phenomenon happens. It was found that the insensitivity holds when some forms of the symmetry of the underlying Poisson-Gaussian distribution holds.
Hieracium argothrix Nageli & Peter, Hierac. Mitt.
Creators: name: Peruzzi, Lorenzo
name: Galasso, Gabriele
name: Domina, Gianniantonio
name: Bartolucci, Fabrizio
name: Santangelo, Annalisa
name: Alessandrini, Alessandro
name: Astuti, Giovanni
name: D'Antraccoli, Marco
name: Roma-Marzio, Francesco
name: Ardenghi, Nicola M. G.
name: Barberis, Giuseppina
name: Conti, Fabio
name: Bernardo, Liliana
name: Peccenini, Simonetta
name: Stinca, Adriano
name: Wagensommer, Robert P.
name: Bonari, Gianmaria
name: Iamonico, Duilio
name: Iberite, Mauro
name: Viciani, Daniele
name: Guacchio, Emanuele Del
name: Galdo, Gianpietro Giusso Del
name: Lastrucci, Lorenzo
name: Villani, Mariacristina
name: Brunu, Antonello
name: Magrini, Sara
name: Pistarino, Annalaura
name: Brullo, Salvatore
name: Salmeri, Cristina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Asterales
Asteraceae
Hieracium
Hieracium argothrix

description: Hieracium argothrix Nägeli & Peter, Hierac. Mitt. -Eur. 2(3): 303(–306). 1889. [August 1889]
 Ind. Loc.:—“ Piemont: Berg nordöstlich über Limone 1500 bis 2000 m ”. PIE
 Type:—Not designated.
 Compiled by:— A. Pistarino
description: Published as part of Peruzzi, Lorenzo, Galasso, Gabriele, Domina, Gianniantonio, Bartolucci, Fabrizio, Santangelo, Annalisa, Alessandrini, Alessandro, Astuti, Giovanni, D'Antraccoli, Marco, Roma-Marzio, Francesco, Ardenghi, Nicola M. G., Barberis, Giuseppina, Conti, Fabio, Bernardo, Liliana, Peccenini, Simonetta, Stinca, Adriano, Wagensommer, Robert P., Bonari, Gianmaria, Iamonico, Duilio, Iberite, Mauro, Viciani, Daniele, Guacchio, Emanuele Del, Galdo, Gianpietro Giusso Del, Lastrucci, Lorenzo, Villani, Mariacristina, Brunu, Antonello, Magrini, Sara, Pistarino, Annalaura, Brullo, Salvatore & Salmeri, Cristina, 2019, An inventory of the names of native, non-endemic vascular plants described from Italy, their loci classici and types, pp. 1-215 in Phytotaxa 410 (1) on page 84, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.410.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13716045
Optimisation of electrically-driven multi-donor quantum dot qubits
Creators: name: Sarkar, Abhikbrata
name: Hochstetter, Joel
name: Kha, Allen
name: Hu, Xuedong
name: Simmons, Michelle Y.
name: Rahman, Rajib
name: Culcer, Dimitrie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Multi-donor quantum dots have been at the forefront of recent progress in Si-based quantum computation. Among them, $2P:1P$ qubits have a built-in dipole moment, enabling all-electrical spin operation via hyperfine mediated electron dipole spin resonance (EDSR). The development of all-electrical multi-donor dot qubits requires a full understanding of their EDSR and coherence properties, incorporating multi-valley nature of their ground state. Here, by introducing a variational effective mass wave-function, we examine the impact of qubit geometry and nearby charge defects on the electrical operation and coherence of $2P:1P$ qubits. We report four outcomes: (i) The difference in the hyperfine interaction between the $2P$ and $1P$ sites enables fast EDSR, with $T_π\sim 10-50$ ns and a Rabi ratio $ (T_1/T_π) \sim 10^6$. We analyse qubits with the $2P:1P$ axis aligned along the [100], [110] and [111] crystal axes, finding that the fastest EDSR time $T_π$ occurs when the $2P:1P$ axis is $\parallel$[111], while the best Rabi ratio occurs when it is $\parallel$ [100]. This difference is attributed to the difference in the wave function overlap between $2P$ and $1P$ for different geometries. In contrast, the choice of $2P$ axis has no visible impact on qubit operation. (ii) Sensitivity to random telegraph noise due to nearby charge defects depends strongly on the location of the nearby defects with respect to the qubit. For certain orientations of defects random telegraph noise has an appreciable effect both on detuning and $2P-1P$ tunneling, with the latter inducing gate errors. (iii) The qubit is robust against $1/f$ noise provided it is operated away from the charge anticrossing. (iv) Entanglement via exchange is several orders of magnitude faster than dipole-dipole coupling. These findings pave the way towards fast, low-power, coherent and scalable donor dot-based quantum computing.
description: 23 pages, 6 figures