cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Salvianolic acid B attenuates membranous nephropathy by activating renal autophagy via microRNA-145-5p/phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase/AKT pathway
Creators: name: Chen, Junqi
name: Hu, Qinghong
name: Luo, Yini
name: Luo, Lina
name: Lin, Hua
name: Chen, Dandan
name: Xu, Yuan
name: Liu, Bihao
name: He, Yu
name: Liang, Chunling
name: Liu, Yaoyu
name: Zhou, Jiuyao
name: Wu, Junbiao
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: The abnormal proliferation and inflammatory response of the mesangial cells play a crucial role in the progression of membranous nephropathy (MN). Herein, this study aimed to investigate the therapeutic effect of Salvianolic acid B (SalB) on MN-induced mesangial abnormalities and its underlying mechanisms. MN models were established in cationic bovine serum albumin-induced Sprague-Dawley rats and lipopolysaccharide-induced human mesangial cells (HMCs). Following SalB and microRNA-145-5p antagomir treatment, kidney function was investigated by 24-hours urine protein, serum creatinine, and blood urea nitrogen. Pathological changes of kidney were investigated by Periodic acid Schiff staining. CD68 and IgG were detected by immunofluorescence in glomerulus. Mesangial autophagosomes were observed by transmission electron microscope. MicroRNA-145-5p inhibitor, mimic, LY294002, and SalB were used to treat with HMCs. In kidney and HMCs, IL-1 β, IL-2, IL-6, TNF-α and microRNA-145-5p was detected by quantitative real-time PCR. Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K), phosphorylated AKT, AKT, beclin1, and microtubule-associated protein light chain 3 (LC3) levels were detected by Western blot. HMCs proliferation and cycle were detected by Cell Counting Kit-8 and flow cytometry. LC3 were detected by LC3-dual-fluorescent adenovirus in HMCs. Our results showed that SalB significantly ameliorated kidney function and pathological changes. Furthermore, it significantly alleviated proliferation, inflammation and activated autophagy in mesangial cells. Moreover, microRNA-145-5p antagomir accentuated MN while microRNA-145-5p inhibitor and LY294002 encouraged proliferation and inflammation through PI3K/AKT pathway in HMCs. Collectively, our study demonstrated that SalB activated renal autophagy to reduce cell proliferation and inflammation of MN, which was mediated by microRNA-145-5p to inhibit PI3K/AKT pathway, and ultimately attenuated MN.
DeepPoint3D: Learning Discriminative Local Descriptors using Deep Metric Learning on 3D Point Clouds
Creators: name: Srivastava, Siddharth
name: Lall, Brejesh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Learning local descriptors is an important problem in computer vision. While there are many techniques for learning local patch descriptors for 2D images, recently efforts have been made for learning local descriptors for 3D points. The recent progress towards solving this problem in 3D leverages the strong feature representation capability of image based convolutional neural networks by utilizing RGB-D or multi-view representations. However, in this paper, we propose to learn 3D local descriptors by directly processing unstructured 3D point clouds without needing any intermediate representation. The method constitutes a deep network for learning permutation invariant representation of 3D points. To learn the local descriptors, we use a multi-margin contrastive loss which discriminates between similar and dissimilar points on a surface while also leveraging the extent of dissimilarity among the negative samples at the time of training. With comprehensive evaluation against strong baselines, we show that the proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art methods for matching points in 3D point clouds. Further, we demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method on various applications achieving state-of-the-art results.
Deciphering Master Gene Regulators and Associated Networks of Human Mesenchymal Stromal Cells
Creators: name: Sánchez-Luis
name: Joaquín-García
name: Campos-Laborie
name: Sánchez-Guijo
name: Rivas
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: mesenchymal stromal cells
transcription factor
regulons
master regulators
gene networks
transcriptomics
bioinformatic
meta-analysis

description: Mesenchymal Stromal Cells (MSC) are multipotent cells characterized by self-renewal, multilineage differentiation, and immunomodulatory properties. To obtain a gene regulatory profile of human MSCs, we generated a compendium of more than two hundred cell samples with genome-wide expression data, including a homogeneous set of 93 samples of five related primary cell types: bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BM-MSC), hematopoietic stem cells (HSC), lymphocytes (LYM), fibroblasts (FIB), and osteoblasts (OSTB). All these samples were integrated to generate a regulatory gene network using the algorithm ARACNe (Algorithm for the Reconstruction of Accurate Cellular Networks; based on mutual information), that finds regulons (groups of target genes regulated by transcription factors) and regulators (i.e., transcription factors, TFs). Furtherly, the algorithm VIPER (Algorithm for Virtual Inference of Protein-activity by Enriched Regulon analysis) was used to inference protein activity and to identify the most significant TF regulators, which control the expression profile of the studied cells. Applying these algorithms, a footprint of candidate master regulators of BM-MSCs was defined, including the genes EPAS1, NFE2L1, SNAI2, STAB2, TEAD1, and TULP3, that presented consistent upregulation and hypomethylation in BM-MSCs. These TFs regulate the activation of the genes in the bone marrow MSC lineage and are involved in development, morphogenesis, cell differentiation, regulation of cell adhesion, and cell structure.
Neocamacopalpus Klimaszewski 1982
Creators: name: Hlaváč, Peter
name: Newton, Alfred F.
name: Maruyama, Munetoshi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Neocamacopalpus

description: Neocamacopalpus Klimaszewski
 Neocamacopalpus Klimaszewski, 1982: 426. Type species. Camacopalpus fulvus Motschulsky, by original designation fulvus Motschulsky, 1858: 231 (Camacopalpus, TL: Indes Orientales) Distribution: East Indes
description: Published as part of Hlaváč, Peter, Newton, Alfred F. & Maruyama, Munetoshi, 2011, World catalogue of the species of the tribe Lomechusini (Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae) 3075, pp. 1-151 in Zootaxa 3075 on page 57
Determination of alpha_s from scaling violations of truncated moments of structure functions
Creators: name: Forte, Stefano
name: Latorre, Jose I.
name: Magnea, Lorenzo
name: Piccione, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We determine the strong coupling alpha_s(M_Z) from scaling violations of truncated moments of the nonsinglet deep inelastic structure function F_2. Truncated moments are determined from BCDMS and NMC data using a neural network parametrization which retains the full experimental information on errors and correlations. Our method minimizes all sources of theoretical uncertainty and bias which characterize extractions of alpha_s from scaling violations. We obtain alpha_s(M_Z) = 0.124 +0.004-0.007 (exp.) + 0.003- 0.004 (th.).
description: 24 pages, 4 figures, latex with epsfig; neural network parametrization available from http://sophia.ecm.ub.es/f2neural
The Efficacy of Sunitinib Treatment of Renal Cancer Cells Is Associated with the Protein PHAX In Vitro
Creators: name: Al-Lamki, Rafia S.
name: Hudson, Nicholas J.
name: Bradley, John R.
name: Warren, Anne Y.
name: Eisen, Tim
name: Welsh, Sarah J.
name: Riddick, Antony C. P.
name: O’Mahony, Fiach C.
name: Turnbull, Arran
name: Powles, Thomas
name: SCOTRRCC Collaborative, SCOTRRCC Collaborative
name: Reverter, Antonio
name: Harrison, David J.
name: Stewart, Grant D.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: renal cancer
kidney cancer
sunitinib
PHAX
organ culture

description: Anti-angiogenic agents, such as the multi-tyrosine kinase inhibitor sunitinib, are key first line therapies for metastatic clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC), but their mechanism of action is not fully understood. Here, we take steps towards validating a computational prediction based on differential transcriptome network analysis that phosphorylated adapter RNA export protein (PHAX) is associated with sunitinib drug treatment. The regulatory impact factor differential network algorithm run on patient tissue samples suggests PHAX is likely an important regulator through changes in genome-wide network connectivity. Immunofluorescence staining of patient tumours showed strong localisation of PHAX to the microvasculature consistent with the anti-angiogenic effect of sunitinib. In normal kidney tissue, PHAX protein abundance was low but increased with tumour grade (G1 vs. G3/4; p 0.01), consistent with a possible role in cancer progression. In organ culture, ccRCC cells had higher levels of PHAX protein expression than normal kidney cells, and sunitinib increased PHAX protein expression in a dose dependent manner (untreated vs. 100 µM; p 0.05). PHAX knockdown in a ccRCC organ culture model impacted the ability of sunitinib to cause cancer cell death (p 0.0001 untreated vs. treated), suggesting a role for PHAX in mediating the efficacy of sunitinib.
Entropy Driven Winds: Outflows and Fountains Lifted Gently by Buoyancy
Creators: name: Keller, B. W.
name: Kruijssen, J. M. Diederik
name: Wadsley, J. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new theoretical framework for using entropy to understand how outflows driven by supernovae are launched from disc galaxies: via continuous, buoyant acceleration through the circumgalactic medium (CGM). When young star clusters detonate supernovae in the interstellar medium (ISM) of a galaxy, they generate hot, diffuse bubbles that push on the surrounding ISM and evaporate that ISM into their interiors. As these bubbles reach the scale height of the ISM, they break out of the disc, rising into the CGM. Once these bubbles break out, if they have sufficiently high entropy, they will feel an upward acceleration, owing to a local buoyant force. This upward force will accelerate these bubbles, driving them to high galactocentric radii, keeping them in the CGM for $>\Gyr$, even if their initial velocity is much lower than the local escape velocity. We derive an equation of motion for these entropy-driven winds that connects the ISM properties, halo mass, and CGM profile of galaxies to the ultimate evolution of feedback-driven winds. We explore the parameter space of these equations, and show how this novel framework can explain both self-consistent simulations of star formation and galactic outflows as well as the new wealth of observations of CGM kinematics. We show that these entropy-driven winds can produce long wind recycling times, while still carrying a significant amount of mass. Comparisons to simulations and observations show entropy-driven winds convincingly explain the kinematics of galactic outflows.
description: Replaced with final accepted MNRAS version
Electric Polarization in ErCrO3 Induced by Restricted Polar Domains
Creators: name: Sanina, V. A.
name: Khannanov, B. Kh.
name: Golovenchits, E. I.
name: Shcheglov, M. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electric polarization in ErCrO3 single crystals has been investigated in the temperature range of 5_370 K. Ferroelectric ordering has not been found in any of the directions. However, electric polarization induced by restricted polar domains of structural origin has been observed. These domains are formed in the crystal matrix near impurity Bi^{3+} ions partially substituting Er^{3+} ions during the growth of single crystals by the method of spontaneous crystallization using solvent Bi_2O_3. The restricted polar domains form the superparaelectric state. Hysteresis loops with remanent polarization, both along the c axis and in the [110] directions, have been observed below some temperatures T_fr (in the frozen superparaelectric state). The polarization exists up to certain temperatures, which depend on the applied electric field orientation with respect to the crystal axes and exceed significantly temperature T_N of magnetic ordering.
description: 15 pages, 6 figures
Neowroughtonilla Kistner 1989
Creators: name: Hlaváč, Peter
name: Newton, Alfred F.
name: Maruyama, Munetoshi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Neowroughtonilla

description: Neowroughtonilla Kistner
 Neowroughtonilla Kistner, 1989: 313, Type species: Neowroughtonilla steghausae Kistner, by original designation steghausae Kistner, 1989: 317 (Neowroughtonilla; TL: Malaysia, Selangor, Ulu Gombak Field Studies Centre; HA: Leptogenys diminuta) Distribution: Malaysia (Peninsula)
description: Published as part of Hlaváč, Peter, Newton, Alfred F. & Maruyama, Munetoshi, 2011, World catalogue of the species of the tribe Lomechusini (Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae) 3075, pp. 1-151 in Zootaxa 3075 on page 57
The effects of New Brazilian Forest Act in agribusiness chain structures
Creators: name: Velazco-Bedoya, Daniel M.
name: Juliao, Leticia
name: Siqueira, Tiago T.S.
name: Velazco-Bedoya, Daniel M.
name: Juliao, Leticia
name: Siqueira, Tiago T.S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: Agribusiness
Agricultural and Food Policy
Environmental Economics and Policy
Production Economics

description: The Brazilian agribusiness is an important activity to Brazilian economy. This sector represents 22.54 % of 2013 Brazilian GDP and is composed of different actors in each production agribusiness chains. This sector is growing year by year in terms of production thanks to technology adoption and production strategies. Environmental respect concerns (e.g. deforestation) are crucial to maintain sustainable growing of agricultural production. In 2012, the Brazilian Forest Act was update to deal with production and environmental preservation. Therefore, changes in institutional level affect agribusiness chain arrangements and actor’s behavior. The aim of the work is to explore the changes in the agribusiness chain support structures and trade-off mechanisms emerging after the Brazilian Forest Act implementation. In order to dress this question, we use an internet survey to investigate Brazilian agribusiness actors’ perceptions in different Federal States. The respondent reported mainly major changes in agribusiness identity support structures. They emphasize the emerging and needs of trade-off mechanisms in resources management and production proceedings to deal with Brazilian Forest Act. The sample also reported that the Brazilian New Forest Act leads to major changes at a farm level.
THE INFLUENCE OF INTERVENTION PROGRAMS WITH PEER MENTORS ON STUDENT AGENCY
Creators: name: Rainwater, Matt
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: agency development
intervention
peer monitoring
secondary school
self-efficacy

description: Many students who are at risk of dropping out of high school will struggle with low grades in core subjects, low attendance rates, being held back, and disengaging from classwork. This societal issue is often predicated on the fear of failure, lack of motivation, and low self-efficacy which may be leading to underdeveloped agency and human capital in secondary students. This qualitative case study researched a suburban secondary school located in Southern California to see if participation in peer mentoring developed agency in the peer mentees. Eight alumni participants, three educators, and one parent were interviewed as part of this study. From this process, three major themes were identified: (a) improved academic performance, (b) the importance of relationships, and (c) agency development and self-efficacy. Most alumni participants credited significant growth in these areas as a result of their participation in the peer mentoring program at the case study school.
Grain emergency reserve cooperation – A theoretical analysis of benefits from a common emergency reserve
Creators: name: Brockhaus, Jan
name: Kalkuhl, Matthias
name: Brockhaus, Jan
name: Kalkuhl, Matthias
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
International Relations/Trade

description: This paper presents a two country model with private stockholders and producers featuring rational expectations which is used to evaluate emergency reserve, private storage and trade related policies to stabilize grain prices. Contrary to existing works, this paper looks at extreme events besides price volatility, both representing political concerns. Findings illustrate the benefits from trade and that private storage, even if subsidized, hardly manages to avoid extreme price spikes although it is very efficient in reducing price volatility. In contrast, a (common) public emergency reserve allows compensating large supply shortages at a reasonable level of fiscal costs while leaving the lower quantiles of the price distribution largely unaffected. A private storage subsidy significantly impacts trade whereas a reserve hardly does. Policy makers looking for stabilization mechanisms may consider either option or a combination thereof. Free trade is beneficial if stocking policies match while otherwise a free-rider problem is created.
The effects of violating detailed balance on critical dynamics
Creators: name: Tauber, Uwe C.
name: Akkineni, Vamsi K.
name: Santos, Jaime E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an overview of the effects of detailed-balance violating perturbations on the universal static and dynamic scaling behavior near a critical point. It is demonstrated that the standard critical dynamics universality classes are generally quite robust: In systems with non-conserved order parameter, detailed balance is effectively restored at criticality. This also holds for models with conserved order parameter, and isotropic non-equilibrium perturbations. Genuinely novel features are found only for models with conserved order parameter and spatially anisotropic noise correlations.
description: 4 pages, revtex, no figures
Platyastilbus Scheerpeltz 1965
Creators: name: Hlaváč, Peter
name: Newton, Alfred F.
name: Maruyama, Munetoshi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Platyastilbus

description: Platyastilbus Scheerpeltz
 Platyastilbus Scheerpeltz, 1965: 337. Type species: Platyastilbus tuberculicollis Scheerpeltz, by original designation tuberculicollis Scheerpeltz, 1965: 339 (Platyastilbus, TL: S. Shan-States, Road, 40 km E of Taunggyi) Distribution: Myanmar
description: Published as part of Hlaváč, Peter, Newton, Alfred F. & Maruyama, Munetoshi, 2011, World catalogue of the species of the tribe Lomechusini (Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae) 3075, pp. 1-151 in Zootaxa 3075 on page 72
Supplementary tables 1–8. Recognition and significance of ~800Ma upper amphibolite to granulite-facies metamorphism in meta-sedimentary rocks from the NW margin of Yangtze Block
Creators: name: Haozheng, Wang
name: Oscar, Laurent
name: Huafeng, Zhang
name: Hong, Zhang
name: Xi, Chen
name: Zhai Mingguo
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Supplementary tables 1–8
C-S-H Pore Size Characterization Via a Combined Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)–Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) Surface Relaxivity Calibration
Creators: name: Naber, Christoph
name: Kleiner, Florian
name: Becker, Franz
name: Nguyen-Tuan, Long
name: Rößler, Christiane
name: Etzold, Merlin A.
name: Neubauer, Jürgen
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)
scanning electron microscopy (SEM)
pore size distribution
calcium silicate hydrate
tricalcium silicate

description: A new method for the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) surface relaxivity calibration in hydrated cement samples is proposed. This method relies on a combined analysis of 28-d hydrated tricalcium silicate samples by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) image analysis and 1H-time-domain (TD)-NMR relaxometry. Pore surface and volume data for interhydrate pores are obtained from high resolution SEM images on surfaces obtained by argon broad ion beam sectioning. These data are combined with T2 relaxation times from 1H-TD-NMR to calculate the systems surface relaxivity according to the fast exchange model of relaxation. This new method is compared to an alternative method that employs sequential drying to calibrate the systems surface relaxivity.
Geometric phases for neutral and charged particles in a time-dependent magnetic field
Creators: name: Lin, Qiong-gui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is well known that any cyclic solution of a spin 1/2 neutral particle moving in an arbitrary magnetic field has a nonadiabatic geometric phase proportional to the solid angle subtended by the trace of the spin. For neutral particles with higher spin, this is true for cyclic solutions with special initial conditions. For more general cyclic solutions, however, this does not hold. As an example, we consider the most general solutions of such particles moving in a rotating magnetic field. If the parameters of the system are appropriately chosen, all solutions are cyclic. The nonadiabatic geometric phase and the solid angle are both calculated explicitly. It turns out that the nonadiabatic geometric phase contains an extra term in addition to the one proportional to the solid angle. The extra term vanishes automatically for spin 1/2. For higher spin, however, it depends on the initial condition. We also consider the valence electron of an alkaline atom. For cyclic solutions with special initial conditions in an arbitrary strong magnetic field, we prove that the nonadiabatic geometric phase is a linear combination of the two solid angles subtended by the traces of the orbit and spin angular momenta. For more general cyclic solutions in a strong rotating magnetic field, the nonadiabatic geometric phase also contains extra terms in addition to the linear combination.
description: revtex, 18 pages, no figure
The global Cauchy problem for the NLS with higher order anisotropic dispersion
Creators: name: Chaichenets, Leonid
name: Pattakos, Nikolaos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We use a method developed by Strauss to obtain global wellposedness results in the mild sense for the small data Cauchy problem in modulation spaces $M_{p,q}^s(\mathbb{R}^d)$, where $q=1$ and $s\geq0$ or $q\in(1,\infty]$ and $s>\frac{d}{q'}$ for a nonlinear Schrödinger equation with higher order anisotropic dispersion and algebraic nonlinearities.
description: 8 pages
New Brazilian forest code: changes and prospects
Creators: name: Covre, Julyana
name: Clemente, Felippe
name: Lirio, Viviani S.
name: Covre, Julyana
name: Clemente, Felippe
name: Lirio, Viviani S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Environmental Economics and Policy

description: Brazil is a continental country, with more than 8 million square kilometers and many biomes, which have permanent preservation areas and legal reserves protected by the Forest Code. On the other hand, Brazil is an agricultural country, that increasingly needs of agricultural land. In 2012 after much controversy approved the new Brazilian Forest Code. The article, then, is to evaluate the changes brought by the new Forest Code and the future impact of the same on small and medium farms and the environment. We conclude that the new forest code can have serious consequences for the environment and human life.
Human–Nature Relationships in East Asian Animated Films
Creators: name: Pan, Yuan
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: environmental films
conservation narratives
Hayao Miyazaki
human-nature relationships
Studio Ghibli

description: Our relationship with nature is complex and exploring this extends beyond academia. Animated films with powerful narratives can connect humans with nature in ways that science cannot. Narratives can be transformative and shape our opinions. Nevertheless, there is little research into non-Western films with strong conservation themes. Hayao Miyazaki is a Japanese filmmaker that is acknowledged as one of the greatest animated filmmakers and master storytellers globally. The themes of environmentalism, feminism and pacifism resonate throughout his films. His underlying message is that humans must strive to live in harmony with nature, whilst presenting us with the socio-cultural complexities of human−nature relationships. I review five of Miyazaki’s films that explore human−nature relationships. One film was released with a special recommendation from the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) and the other won an Oscar. I explore the lessons that we can learn from these films regarding human−nature relationships, and how to create powerful narratives that resonate with audiences and transcend cultural barriers.
Platyusa Casey 1885
Creators: name: Hlaváč, Peter
name: Newton, Alfred F.
name: Maruyama, Munetoshi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Platyusa

description: Platyusa Casey
 Platyusa Casey, 1885: 305. Type species: Platyusa sonomae Casey, by monotypy sonomae Casey, 1885: 305 (Platyusa, TL: Santa Rosa, Sonoma Co.) Distribution: USA (Arizona, California, Ohio); elevated from Zyras (Platyusa), Klimaszewski et al. 2005
description: Published as part of Hlaváč, Peter, Newton, Alfred F. & Maruyama, Munetoshi, 2011, World catalogue of the species of the tribe Lomechusini (Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae) 3075, pp. 1-151 in Zootaxa 3075 on page 72
The exclusive rare decays B -> K l(bar) l and B_c -> D(D*) l(bar) l in a relativistic quark model
Creators: name: Faessler, Amand
name: Gutsche, Th.
name: Ivanov, M. A.
name: Korner, J. G.
name: Lyubovitskij, V. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the exclusive rare decay B -> K l(bar) l. We calculate the relevant form factors within a relativistic constituent quark model, for the first time without employing the impulse approximation. The calculated form factors are used to evaluate differential decay rates and polarization observables. We present results on the q2-dependence of a set of observables with and without long-distance contributions. A similar analysis is done for the exclusive rare decays B_c -> D (D*) l(bar) l with special emphasis on the cascade decay B_c -> D* (-> D pi) l(bar) l. We derive a four-fold angular decay distribution for this process in terms of helicity amplitudes including lepton mass effects. The four-fold angular decay distribution allows to define a number of physical observables which are amenable to measurement. We compare our results with the results of other studies.
description: 28 pages, 12 figures
Laser source for dimensional metrology: investigation of an iodine stabilized system based on narrow linewidth 633 nm DBR diode
Creators: name: Rerucha, Simon
name: Yacoot, Andrew
name: Pham, Tuan M
name: Cizek, Martin
name: Hucl, Vaclav
name: Lazar, Josef
name: Cip, Ondrej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrated that an iodine stabilized Distributed Bragg Reflector (DBR) diode based laser system lasing at a wavelength in close proximity to $λ= 633\,$nm could be used as an alternative laser source to the He-Ne lasers in both scientific and industrial metrology. This yields additional advantages besides the optical frequency stability and coherence: inherent traceability, wider optical frequency tuning range, higher output power and high frequency modulation capability. We experimentally investigated the characteristics of the laser source in two major steps: first using a wavelength meter referenced to a frequency comb controlled with a hydrogen maser and then on a interferometric optical bench testbed where we compared the performance of the laser system with that of a traditional frequency stabilized He-Ne laser. The results indicate that DBR diode laser system provides a good laser source for applications in dimensional (nano)metrology, especially in conjunction with novel interferometric detection methods exploiting high frequency modulation or multiaxis measurement systems.
description: Published 16 February 2017 copyright 2017 IOP Publishing Ltd
Additional file 1 of A novel strategy for efficient disaccharides synthesis from glucose by β-glucosidase
Creators: name: Niu, Kangle
name: Liu, Zhengyao
name: Feng, Yuhui
name: Gao, Tianlong
name: Wang, Zhenzhen
name: Zhang, Piaopiao
name: Du, Zhiqiang
name: Gao, Daming
name: Fang, Xu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. The phylogenetic tree of TrCel1b and other GH1 family β-glucosidases. Fig. S2. The 3-D model of TrCel1b predicted by SWISS-MODEL (A) and I-TASSER (B) using β-glucosidase 6KHT as template. Fig. S3. Analysis of the disaccharides with HPLC. Fig. S4. The disaccharides synthesis of β-glucosidase and its variants under different concentrations of glucose. Fig. S5. SDS-PAGE analysis of purification of TrCel1b and its variants. Fig. S6. Effects of pH value on disaccharides synthesis. Fig. S7. The interaction profiles between TrCel1b (A), TrCel1bI177SI174SW173H (B) or TrCel1bN240I (C) and cellobiose analyzed by Discovery Studio 4.5, respectively. Table S1. The comparison of the production of laminaribiose and sophorose synthesized by β-glucosidase from different species. Table S2. Primers used in this study.
Analytical Methods. Recognition and significance of ~800Ma upper amphibolite to granulite-facies metamorphism in meta-sedimentary rocks from the NW margin of Yangtze Block
Creators: name: Haozheng, Wang
name: Oscar, Laurent
name: Huafeng, Zhang
name: Hong, Zhang
name: Xi, Chen
name: Zhai Mingguo
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Analytical Methods
TAX ASYMMETRIES AND CAPITAL STRUCTURE CHOICES IN CLOSELY HELD FIRMS
Creators: name: Innes, Robert
name: Innes, Robert
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1988
Subjects: Financial Economics

description: This paper presents a tax-based model of an entrepreneurial firm's capital structure choice problem, exposing the relevance of non-transferable tax deductions, "at risk" loss limitation, and related asymmetries in entrepreneurs' and investors' ability to exploit tax shields. While naive application of tax-based corporate capital structure theories implies all-equity financing of a closely-held enterprise, this analysis finds circumstances under which debt financing can be optimal.
Excitonic effects in solids described by time-dependent density functional theory
Creators: name: Reining, Lucia
name: Olevano, Valerio
name: Rubio, Angel
name: Onida, Giovanni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Starting from the many-body Bethe-Salpeter equation we derive an exchange-correlation kernel $f_{xc}$ that reproduces excitonic effects in bulk materials within time-dependent density functional theory. The resulting $f_{xc}$ accounts for both self-energy corrections and the electron-hole interaction. It is {\em static}, {\em non-local} and has a long-range Coulomb tail. Taking the example of bulk silicon, we show that the $- α/ q^2$ divergency is crucial and can, in the case of continuum excitons, even be sufficient for reproducing the excitonic effects and yielding excellent agreement between the calculated and the experimental absorption spectrum.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure
Plesiadda Pace 1986
Creators: name: Hlaváč, Peter
name: Newton, Alfred F.
name: Maruyama, Munetoshi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Plesiadda

description: Plesiadda Pace
 Plesiadda Pace, 1986b: 105. Type species: Plesiadda tanzaniensis Pace, by original designation tanzaniensis Pace, 1986b: 106 (Plesiadda; TL: Tanganyka, Nata) Distribution: Tanzania
description: Published as part of Hlaváč, Peter, Newton, Alfred F. & Maruyama, Munetoshi, 2011, World catalogue of the species of the tribe Lomechusini (Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae) 3075, pp. 1-151 in Zootaxa 3075 on page 72
An intricate quantum statistical effect and the foundation of quantum mechanics
Creators: name: Bopp, Fritz W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An intricate quantum statistical effect guides us to a deterministic, non-causal quantum universe with given fixed initial and final state density matrix. A concept is developed on how and where something like macroscopic physics can emerge. The concept does not allow to incorporate philosophically indispensable free will decisions. If the quantum world and its conjugate evolve independently one can replace both fixed final states by a matching common one. This allows for external manipulations done in the quantum world and its conjugate which do not otherwise alter the basic structure. In a big bang / big crunch universe the expanding part can be attributed to the quantum world and the contracting part to the conjugate one. The obtained bi-linear picture has a number of beautiful and exciting consequences.
description: 20 pages, 12 figures
Adhesion enhancement for nickel layer deposited on carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) composites by pretreatment processes for lightning strike
Creators: name: Wu, Wangping
name: Xie, Dingkai
name: Huang, Jiaqi
name: Wang, Qinqin
name: Chen, Qing
name: Huang, Junjun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Hematology

description: Carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) is an engineering composites with excellent performance. The adhesion strength of nickel layer on CFRP composite was enhanced by pretreatment processes, including sandblasting and activation. The surface roughness, wettability, phase and microstructure of the CRFP and the layer were determined by surface profile-meter, goniometer, X-ray diffraction and scanning electronic microscopy, respectively. The adhesion force of nickel layer on CFRP composite was estimated by 3 M tape and pull-out test. The results showed that electroless nickel layer was composed of crystalline phase with small grain size, which belonged to medium-phosphorus deposits. The sandblasting improved the surface roughness and wettability of CFRP surface and rendered hydrophobic surface hydrophilic. The surface roughness of CFRP composites after sandblasting was enhanced by about 60.2%, at the same time the adhesion strength of the layer metalized CFRP composites after sandblasting was improved by 131%. After 3 M tape test, the adhesion state of nickel-CFRP composites with and without sandblasting could be qualitatively classified as grade 5B and 1B, respectively. The good adhesion of nickel layer on CFRP composite was generated from the increase in the surface roughness of CFRP composites after sandblasting and chemical activation, resulting in hydrogen bonds and covalent bonds. The lightning strike test showed that electroless nickel layer did not provide sufficient protection for the sandblasted CFRP composite when subjected to an big impulse current of up to 40 kA current peak and 8–20 μs duration due to the high electrical resistivity.
The Implementation of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model in FeynArts and FormCalc
Creators: name: Hahn, T.
name: Schappacher, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe the implementation of the MSSM in the diagram generator FeynArts and the calculational tool FormCalc. This extension allows to perform loop calculations of MSSM processes almost fully automatically. The actual implementation has two aspects: The MSSM Feynman rules are specified in a new model file for FeynArts. The computation of the parameters in the MSSM Lagrangian from the input parameters is realized as a Fortran subroutine in the framework of FormCalc. The model file does not depend on the latter, however, and can be used even if one does not want to continue the calculation with FormCalc. The Feynman rules have been entered in a very generic way to allow e.g. scenarios with complex parameters, and have been tested extensively by reproducing known results for several non-trivial scattering processes.
description: LaTeX, 14 pages
Exploring Resilient Observability in Traffic-Monitoring Sensor Networks: A Study of Spatial–Temporal Vehicle Patterns
Creators: name: Tang, Junqing
name: Wan, Li
name: Nochta, Timea
name: Schooling, Jennifer
name: Yang, Tianren
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: vehicle mobility
resilience
spatial–temporal analysis
traffic-monitoring sensors
sensor networks

description: Vehicle mobility generates dynamic and complex patterns that are associated with our day-to-day activities in cities. To reveal the spatial−temporal complexity of such patterns, digital techniques, such as traffic-monitoring sensors, provide promising data-driven tools for city managers and urban planners. Although a large number of studies have been dedicated to investigating the sensing power of the traffic-monitoring sensors, there is still a lack of exploration of the resilient performance of sensor networks when multiple sensor failures occur. In this paper, we reveal the dynamic patterns of vehicle mobility in Cambridge, UK, and subsequently, explore the resilience of the sensor networks. The observability is adopted as the overall performance indicator to depict the maximum number of vehicles captured by the deployed sensors in the study area. By aggregating the sensor networks according to weekday and weekend and simulating random sensor failures with different recovery strategies, we found that (1) the day-to-day vehicle mobility pattern in this case study is highly dynamic and decomposed journey durations follow a power-law distribution on the tail section; (2) such temporal variation significantly affects the observability of the sensor network, causing its overall resilience to vary with different recovery strategies. The simulation results further suggest that a corresponding prioritization for recovering the sensors from massive failures is required, rather than a static sequence determined by the first-fail−first-repair principle. For stakeholders and decision-makers, this study provides insightful implications for understanding city-scale vehicle mobility and the resilience of traffic-monitoring sensor networks.
Pairwise entanglement in the XX model with a magnetic impurity
Creators: name: Fu, Hongchen
name: Solomon, Allan I
name: Wang, Xiaoguang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For a 3-qubit Heisenberg model in a uniform magnetic field, the pairwise thermal entanglement of any two sites is identical due to the exchange symmetry of sites. In this paper we consider the effect of a non-uniform magnetic field on the Heisenberg model, modeling a magnetic impurity on one site. Since pairwise entanglement is calculated by tracing out one of the three sites, the entanglement clearly depends on which site the impurity is located. When the impurity is located on the site which is traced out, that is, when it acts as an external field of the pair, the entanglement can be enhanced to the maximal value 1; while when the field acts on a site of the pair the corresponding concurrence can only be increased from 1/3 to 2/3.
description: 9 Pages, 4 EPS figures, LaTeX 2e
A Diamine-PEGylated Oleanolic Acid Derivative Induced Efficient Apoptosis through a Death Receptor and Mitochondrial Apoptotic Pathway in HepG2 Human Hepatoma Cells
Creators: name: Jannus, Fatin
name: Medina-O’Donnell, Marta
name: Rivas, Francisco
name: Díaz-Ruiz, Luis
name: Rufino-Palomares, Eva E.
name: Lupiáñez, José A.
name: Parra, Andrés
name: Reyes-Zurita, Fernando J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Cancer
Cell Biology
Molecular Biology

description: Our recent works have demonstrated that the diamine-(PEG)ylated oleanolic acid (OADP) has an efficient anti-tumor effects in HCCs. In this study, we studied the anti-cancer mechanisms of OADP in the HepG2 HCC cell line. OADP induced cell cycle arrest in the G0/G1 phase and the loss of the mitochondrial membrane potential (MMP). Western blot analysis was done to studied the expression levels of proteins associated with the molecular mechanism. The results demonstrated an important increase of caspase-8, caspase-9, caspase-3, Bak, p21, and p53, accompanied by a decrease of Bcl-2. Drugs such as OADP, which induce the activation of extrinsic and intrinsic apoptotic pathways, may considered an efficient HCC cancer therapies.
A Mediterranean Diet Is Positively Associated with Bone and Muscle Health in a Non-Mediterranean Region in 25,450 Men and Women from EPIC-Norfolk
Creators: name: Jennings, Amy
name: Mulligan, Angela A.
name: Khaw, Kay-Tee
name: Luben, Robert N.
name: Welch, Ailsa A.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Mediterranean diet
fracture
muscle

description: Research on Mediterranean diet (MD) adherence and musculoskeletal health is limited. The current study determined if adherence to the alternative MD score (aMED) and MD score (MDS), quantified from 7-d food diaries, was associated with fracture incidence, bone density (calcaneal broadband ultrasound attenuation (BUA)) and fat free mass (expressed over BMI (FFMBMI) using bioelectrical impedance) in 25,450 men and women recruited to the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer study in Norfolk, UK. During 17.4 years of follow up (443,178 total person years) 2195 incident fractures occurred. Higher aMED adherence was associated with 23% reduced total (Q5−Q1 HR 0.77; 95% CI 0.67, 0.88; p-trend 0.01) and 21% reduced hip (Q5−Q1 HR 0.79; 95% CI 0.65, 0.96; p-trend = 0.01) fracture incidence, and significantly higher BUA (Q5−Q1 1.0 dB/MHz 95% CI 0.2, 1.9; p-trend 0.01) and FFMBMI (Q5−Q1 0.05 kg/(kg/m2) 95% CI 0.04, 0.06; p-trend 0.01), comparing extreme adherence quintiles. Higher MDS was also associated with reduced total fractures (Q5−Q1 HR 0.83; 95% CI 0.71, 0.96; p-trend = 0.03) and significantly higher BUA (Q5−Q1 1.4 dB/MHz 95% CI 0.5, 2.3; p-trend 0.01) and FFMBMI (Q5−Q1 0.03 kg/(kg/m2) 95% CI 0.01, 0.04; p-trend 0.01). This evidence supports the need to develop interventions to enhance MD adherence, particularly in women, where evidence for associations was stronger.
Benchmarking the nonperturbative functional renormalization group approach on the random elastic manifold model in and out of equilibrium
Creators: name: Balog, Ivan
name: Tarjus, Gilles
name: Tissier, Matthieu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Criticality in the class of disordered systems comprising the random-field Ising model (RFIM) and elastic manifolds in a random environment is controlled by zero-temperature fixed points that must be treated through a functional renormalization group. We apply the nonperturbative functional renormalization group approach that we have previously used to describe the RFIM in and out of equilibrium [Balog-Tarjus-Tissier, Phys. Rev. B 97, 094204 (2018)] to the simpler and by now well-studied case of the random elastic manifold model. We recover the main known properties, critical exponents and scaling functions, of both the pinned phase of the manifold at equilibrium and the depinning threshold in the athermally and quasi-statically driven case for any dimension $0
description: 38 pages, 6 figures
Pseudothamiaraea Cameron 1923
Creators: name: Hlaváč, Peter
name: Newton, Alfred F.
name: Maruyama, Munetoshi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Pseudothamiaraea

description: Pseudothamiaraea Cameron
 Pseudothamiaraea Cameron, 1923: 363. Type species: Pseudothamiaraea brunnea Cameron, by original designation brunnea Cameron, 1923: 364 (Pseudothamiaraea, TL: Haiti) Distribution: Haiti
description: Published as part of Hlaváč, Peter, Newton, Alfred F. & Maruyama, Munetoshi, 2011, World catalogue of the species of the tribe Lomechusini (Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae) 3075, pp. 1-151 in Zootaxa 3075 on page 75
Topology, geometry and mechanics of strongly stretched and twisted filaments
Creators: name: Charles, Nicholas
name: Gazzola, Mattia
name: Mahadevan, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Soft elastic filaments that can be stretched, bent and twisted exhibit a range of topologically and geometrically complex morphologies that include plectonemes, solenoids, knot-like and braid-like structures. We combine numerical simulations of soft elastic filaments that account for geometric nonlinearities and self-contact to map out these structures in a phase diagram that is a function of extension and twist density, consistent with previous experimental observations. By using ideas from computational topology, we also track the interconversion of link, twist and writhe in these geometrically complex physical structures. This allows us to explain recent experiments on fiber-based artificial muscles that use the conversion of writhe to extension or contraction, exposing the connection between topology, geometry and mechanics in an everyday practical setting.