cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Nutrition Bites Flyer - Takeaway Foods
Creators: name: Blair, Merran
name: Cheung, Ann
name: Choong, Jamie
name: Volders, Evelyn
name: McCaffrey, Tracy
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 111199 Nutrition and Dietetics not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111712 Health Promotion
subject: 111101 Clinical and Sports Nutrition

description: Nutrition bites flyer titled 'Takeaway foods'. Created by Monash University's Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food in collaboration with Monash Sport.
This flyer is also published in a video format. A link to it is found below (Blair et al, 2019, DOI 10.26180/5dcb7d9de3d63).
Non-Local Purchases of Agricultural Land for Hunting Purposes
Creators: name: Shultz, Steven
name: Shultz, Steven
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Agribusiness
Land Economics/Use

description: Agricultural land purchases by non-local buyers for hunting purposes (106 sales) were compared to nearby (comparable) land purchases of local agricultural producers (318 sales) in the Southwest and Prairie Pothole Regions (PPR) of North Dakota from 2000 to 2004. In the PPR (dominated by waterfowl hunting), it was demonstrated that non-locals do not pay a premium for agricultural land that they purchase for hunting purposes. In the Southwest Region (dominated by pheasant hunting), it was found that nonlocals pay between 23 and 24 percent more for agricultural land based on mean differences, but that if median differences are evaluated, these premiums range from 19 (nearby sale comparisons) to -4 percent (county-wide comparisons). These discrepancies in mean and median price premiums are shown to result from the existence of several statistical outlier sales. These results imply that recent surges in agricultural land prices across the entire state of North Dakota cannot be attributed solely to non-local hunting purchases. It was also noted that most non-local purchasers of hunting land do restrict public hunting access and that they also usually lease their land to local producers
Valuation of Bare Forestland and Premerchantable Timber Stands in Forestry Appraisal
Creators: name: Straka, Thomas
name: Straka, Thomas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Land Economics/Use

description: Rural appraisers often use Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) analysis to value timber and timberland. Land expectation value (LEV) is a standard DCF analysis technique that is applied to many timberland situations. LEV is used to calculate the value of bare land in perpetual timber production and is often used in the valuation of even-aged pine plantations. However, it can also be useful in the valuation of premerchantable timber stands and uneven-aged timber stands cut periodically. The analytical techniques appropriate to these applications are illustrated. These models have wide applicability in timberland appraisal situations.
Beyond the Standard Models with Cosmic Strings
Creators: name: Gouttenoire, Yann
name: Servant, Géraldine
name: Simakachorn, Peera
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine which information on the early cosmological history can be extracted from the potential measurement by third-generation gravitational-wave observatories of a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) produced by cosmic strings. We consider a variety of cosmological scenarios breaking the scale-invariant properties of the spectrum, such as early long matter or kination eras, short intermediate matter and inflation periods inside a radiation era, and their specific signatures on the SGWB. This requires to go beyond the usually-assumed scaling regime, to take into account the transient effects during the change of equation of state of the universe. We compute the time evolution of the string network parameters and thus the loop-production efficiency during the transient regime, and derive the corresponding shift in the turning-point frequency. We consider the impact of particle production on the gravitational-wave emission by loops. We estimate the reach of future interferometers LISA, BBO, DECIGO, ET and CE and radio telescope SKA to probe the new physics energy scale at which the universe has experienced changes in its expansion history. We find that a given interferometer may be sensitive to very different energy scales, depending on the nature and duration of the non-standard era, and the value of the string tension. It is fascinating that by exploiting the data from different GW observatories associated with distinct frequency bands, we may be able to reconstruct the full spectrum and therefore extract the values of fundamental physics parameters.
description: v2: 96 pages, 34 figures. Results and conclusions unchanged but version considerably extended. New Section 9 illustrates the variety of possible peaked GW spectra. New sub-appendices A.1, A.4, B.5 and B.6. New Appendix F on GW spectrum from global strings. New Appendix G on the impact of the cosmology on the loop size at formation. Version published in JCAP
An Alternative Method to Deduce Bubble Dynamics in Single Bubble Sonoluminescence Experiments
Creators: name: Simon, G.
name: Levinsen, M. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we present an experimental approach that allows to deduce the important dynamical parameters of single sonoluminescing bubbles (pressure amplitude, ambient radius, radius-time curve) The technique is based on a few previously confirmed theoretical assumptions and requires the knowledge of quantities such as the amplitude of the electric excitation and the phase of the flashes in the acoustic period. These quantities are easily measurable by a digital oscilloscope, avoiding the cost of expensive lasers, or ultrafast cameras of previous methods. We show the technique on a particular example and compare the results with conventional Mie scattering. We find that within the experimental uncertainties these two techniques provide similar results.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. E
Voltage Gated Calcium Channel Activation by Backpropagating Action Potentials Downregulates NMDAR Function
Creators: name: Theis, Anne-Kathrin
name: Rózsa, Balázs
name: Katona, Gergely
name: Schmitz, Dietmar
name: Johenning, Friedrich W.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: dendritic spines
subject: two-photon microscopy
subject: calcium
subject: synaptic transmission
subject: voltage gated Ca2+ channels (VGCCs)
subject: metaplasticity
subject: homeostatic synaptic plasticity
subject: NMDAR
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: The majority of excitatory synapses are located on dendritic spines of cortical glutamatergic neurons. In spines, compartmentalized Ca2+ signals transduce electrical activity into specific long-term biochemical and structural changes. Action potentials (APs) propagate back into the dendritic tree and activate voltage gated Ca2+ channels (VGCCs). For spines, this global mode of spine Ca2+ signaling is a direct biochemical feedback of suprathreshold neuronal activity. We previously demonstrated that backpropagating action potentials (bAPs) result in long-term enhancement of spine VGCCs. This activity-dependent VGCC plasticity results in a large interspine variability of VGCC Ca2+ influx. Here, we investigate how spine VGCCs affect glutamatergic synaptic transmission. We combined electrophysiology, two-photon Ca2+ imaging and two-photon glutamate uncaging in acute brain slices from rats. T-and R-type VGCCs were the dominant depolarization-associated Ca2+ C conductances in dendritic spines of excitatory layer 2 neurons and do not affect synaptic excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs) measured at the soma. Using two-photon glutamate uncaging, we compared the properties of glutamatergic synapses of single spines that express different levels of VGCCs. While VGCCs contributed to EPSP mediated Ca2+ influx, the amount of EPSP mediated Ca2+ influx is not determined by spine VGCC expression. On a longer timescale, the activation of VGCCs by bAP bursts results in downregulation of spine NMDAR function.
Nutrition Bites Flyer - Sports Supplements
Creators: name: Blair, Merran
name: Cheung, Ann
name: Choong, Jamie
name: Volders, Evelyn
name: McCaffrey, Tracy
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 111199 Nutrition and Dietetics not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111712 Health Promotion
subject: 111101 Clinical and Sports Nutrition

description: Nutrition bites flyer titled 'Sports supplements'. Created by Monash University's Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food in collaboration with Monash Sport.
This flyer is also published in a video format. A link to it is found below (Blair et al, 2019, DOI 10.26180/5dcb810a6c2bd).
Financial and Economic Analysis of Producing Commercial Tomatoes for Fresh Market in the Georgia
Creators: name: Fonsah, Esendugue
name: Hudgins, Joel
name: Fonsah, Esendugue
name: Hudgins, Joel
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Financial Economics

description: This study examines the financial and economic viability of producing commercial tomatoes for the fresh market in Georgia. Historical data on yields, prices received by growers, and actual production input prices were collected and used to develop an enterprise budget. Specifically, the study was aimed at analyzing profit margins and break-even conditions, and presents various operating scenarios under a risk-rated return framework. Analysis of enterprise cost and return estimates indicated that commercial tomato production is a lucrative business enterprise worth investing.The result will be useful to Georgia and the neighboring southeast and deep-south states that adopt similar agricultural production practices.
Neotituria Kato 1932
Creators: name: Jones, Joshua R.
name: Deitz, Lewis L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Neotituria

description: Genus Neotituria Kato
(Pl. 2J, 14D, 18K)
 Neotituria Kato, 1932: 220.
 Type species. Ledropsis kongasana Matsumura 1915: 173, by original designation.
 Synonymy. None.
 Description. Kato (1931): “Closely allied to Tituria Stål, but differs from it by the posterior lateral angles obtusely angulated.”
 Species. [1]: kongosana (Matsumura).
 Range. China (Chi Kiang: Hangchow, Mokansan; Guizhou; Kwangtung; Szechwan: Yachow; Tianjin); Japan; Korea (Posaksa Keumsan); Russia (Maritime Territory); Taiwan (Hualien: Tayuling; Kaohsiung; Nantou: Meifeng, Sungkang; Tsuifeng).
 Host plants. Leguminaceae.
 Material examined. N. kongasana: 1 male, China, CAS, JRJ _Led1_105, 1 female, Russia, AMNH, JRJ _Led1_106, 1 female, China, NCSU, JRJ _Led1_110, 2 males, 2 females, Taiwan, TARI, JRJ _Led1_107– 109, 111.
 Remarks. Neotituria is monobasic; however, many species recently described in Tituria (Cai and Li 1995; Ge, 1992: 247–249, 305–306) probably belong to it. Neotituria appears to be an exclusively Oriental lineage distinct from Tituria in general body form, and should be redescribed when more species can be properly associated with kongasana. Among the numerous Neotituria- like specimens made available for this study from various collections (many identified as N. kongasana), many subtle variations were seen in body size and color (some have beautiful, two-toned, green and brown wings). Examinations of male genitalia seems critical for making proper identification, and probably many new species remain to be described.
description: Published as part of Jones, Joshua R. & Deitz, Lewis L., 2009, Phylogeny and systematics of the leafhopper subfamily Ledrinae (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) 2186, pp. 1-120 in Zootaxa 2186 (1) on page 50, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2186.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5311592
Viscous cosmological models and accelerated Universes
Creators: name: Kremer, G. M.
name: Devecchi, F. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that a present acceleration with a past deceleration is a possible solution of the Friedmann equation by considering the Universe as a mixture of a scalar with a matter field and by including a non-equilibrium pressure term in the energy-momentum tensor. The dark energy density decays more slowly with respect to the time than the matter energy density does. The inclusion of the non-equilibrium pressure leads to a less pronounced decay of the matter field with a shorter period of past deceleration.
description: 7 pages, latex file, 1 figure. To appear in PRD
Nutrition Bites Flyer - Dietary Fats
Creators: name: Blair, Merran
name: Cheung, Ann
name: Choong, Jamie
name: Volders, Evelyn
name: McCaffrey, Tracy
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 111199 Nutrition and Dietetics not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111712 Health Promotion
subject: 111101 Clinical and Sports Nutrition

description: Nutrition bites flyer titled 'Dietary fats'. Created by Monash University's Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food in collaboration with Monash Sport.
This flyer is also published in a video format. A link to it is found below (Blair et al, 2019, DOI 10.26180/5dcb7b36da5e3).
Fingolimod therapy is not effective in a mouse model of spontaneous autoimmune peripheral polyneuropathy
Creators: name: Huehnchen, Petra
name: Boehmerle, Wolfgang
name: Endres, Matthias
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy
subject: regulatory T-cells
subject: cerebrospinal-fluid
subject: expression
subject: responses
subject: neuritis
subject: FTY720
subject: blood
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) is an autoimmune disorder, which causes progressive sensory and motor deficits and often results in severe disability. Knockout of the costimulatory protein CD86 in mice of the non-obese diabetic background (NoD. 129S4-Cd86(tm1Shr)/JbsJ) results in the development of a spontaneous autoimmune peripheral polyneuropathy (SAPP). We used this previously described transgenic model to study the effects of the sphingosine-1-phosphate receptor agonist fingolimod on SAPP symptoms, functional and electrophysiological characteristics. Compared to two control strains, knockout of CD86 in NOD mice (CD86(-/-) NOD) resulted in progressive paralysis with distinct locomotor deficits due to a severe sensory-motor axonal-demyelinating polyneuropathy as assessed by electrophysiological measurements. We started fingolimod treatment when CD86(-/-) NOD mice showed signs of unilateral hind limb weakness and continued at a dose of 1 mg/kg/day for eight weeks. We did not observe any beneficial effects of fingolimod regarding disease progression. In addition, fingolimod did not influence the functional outcome of CD86(-/-) NOD mice compared to vehicle treatment nor any of the electrophysiological characteristics. In summary, we show that fingolimod treatment has no beneficial effects in autoimmune polyneuropathy, which is in line with recent clinical data obtained in CIDP patients.
Characterisation of the Particle-Induced Background of XMM-Newton EPIC-pn: Short and Long Term Variability
Creators: name: Bulbul, Esra
name: Kraft, Ralph
name: Nulsen, Paul
name: Freyberg, Michael
name: Miller, Eric D.
name: Grant, Catherine
name: Bautz, Mark W.
name: Burrows, David N.
name: Allen, Steven
name: Eraerds, Tanja
name: Fioretti, Valentina
name: Gasteldello, Fabio
name: Ghirardini, Vittorio
name: Hall, David
name: Meidinger, Norbert
name: Molendi, Silvano
name: Rau, Arne
name: Wilkins, Dan
name: Wilms, Joern
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The particle-induced background of X-ray observatories is produced by Galactic Cosmic Ray (GCR) primary protons, electrons, and He ions. Events due to direct interaction with the detector are usually removed by on board processing. The interactions of these primary particles with the detector environment produce secondary particles that mimic X-ray events from celestial sources and are much more difficult to identify. The filter wheel closed data from the XMM-Newton EPIC-pn camera in small window mode (SWM) contains both the X-ray-like background events and the events due to direct interactions with the primary particles. From this data we demonstrate that X-ray-like background events are spatially correlated with the primary particle interaction. This result can be used to further characterise and reduce the non-X-ray background in silicon-based X-ray detectors in current and future missions. We also show that spectrum and pattern fractions of secondary particle events are different from those produced by cosmic X-rays.
description: 18 pages, 10 figures, 5 tables. Accepted for publication in ApJ
Immunoglobulin E-Mediated Autoimmunity
Creators: name: Maurer, Marcus
name: Altrichter, Sabine
name: Schmetzer, Oliver
name: Scheffel, Jörg
name: Church, Martin K.
name: Metz, Martin
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: immunoglobulin E-mediated autoimmunity
subject: autoallergy
subject: urticaria
subject: bullous pemphigoid
subject: immunoglobulin E-mechanisms
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: The study of autoimmunity mediated by immunoglobulin E (IgE) autoantibodies, which may be termed autoallergy, is in its infancy. It is now recognized that systemic lupus erythematosus, bullous pemphigoid (BP), and chronic urticaria, both spontaneous and inducible, are most likely to be mediated, at least in part, by IgE autoantibodies. The situation in other conditions, such as autoimmune uveitis, rheumatoid arthritis, hyperthyroid Graves' disease, autoimmune pancreatitis, and even asthma, is far less clear but evidence for autoallergy is accumulating. To be certain of an autoallergic mechanism, it is necessary to identify both IgE autoantibodies and their targets as has been done with the transmembrane protein BP180 and the intracellular protein BP230 in BP and IL-24 in chronic spontaneous urticaria. Also, IgE-targeted therapies, such as anti-IgE, must have been shown to be of benefit to patients as has been done with both of these conditions. This comprehensive review of the literature on IgE-mediated autoallergy focuses on three related questions. What do we know about the prevalence of IgE autoantibodies and their targets in different diseases? What do we know about the relevance of IgE autoantibodies in different diseases? What do we know about the cellular and molecular effects of IgE autoantibodies? In addition to providing answers to these questions, based on a broad review of the literature, we outline the current gaps of knowledge in our understanding of IgE autoantibodies and describe approaches to address them.
Additional file 1 of Transcriptomic analysis of flower induction for long-day pitaya by supplementary lighting in short-day winter season
Creators: name: Xiong, Rui
name: Liu, Chengli
name: Xu, Min
name: Wei, Shuang-shuang
name: Huang, Jia-quan
name: Tang, Hua
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1: Supplemental Figure S1. Clean reads of all samples.
Multistability in lossy power grids and oscillator networks
Creators: name: Balestra, Chiara
name: Kaiser, Franz
name: Manik, Debsankha
name: Witthaut, Dirk
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The stable operation of the electric power grid relies on a precisely synchronized state of all generators and machines. All machines rotate at exactly the same frequency with fixed phase differences, leading to steady power flows throughout the grid. Whether such a steady state exists for a given network is of eminent practical importance. The loss of a steady state typically leads to power outages up to a complete blackout. But also the existence of multiple steady states is undesirable, as it can lead to sudden transitions, circulating flows and eventually also to power outages. Steady states are typically calculated numerically, but this approach gives only limited insight into the existence and (non-)uniqueness of steady states. Analytic results are available only for special network configuration, in particular for grids with negligible Ohmic losses or radial networks without any loops. In this article, we introduce a method to systematically construct the solutions of the real power load-flow equations in the presence of Ohmic losses. We calculate the steady states explicitly for elementary networks demonstrating different mechanisms leading to multistability. Our results also apply to models of coupled oscillators which are widely used in theoretical physics and mathematical biology.
description: This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and AIP Publishing. The following article appeared in Chaos 29, 123119 (2019) and may be found at https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5122739
Nutrition Bites Flyer - Breakfast
Creators: name: Blair, Merran
name: Cheung, Ann
name: Choong, Jamie
name: Volders, Evelyn
name: McCaffrey, Tracy
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 111199 Nutrition and Dietetics not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111101 Clinical and Sports Nutrition
subject: 111712 Health Promotion

description: Nutrition bites flyer titled 'Breakfast'. Created by Monash University's Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food in collaboration with Monash Sport.
This flyer is also published in a video format. A link to it is found below (Blair et al, 2019, DOI 10.26180/5dcb765401493).
Friedmann equation and Cardy formula correspondence in brane universes
Creators: name: Wang, Bin
name: Abdalla, Elcio
name: Su, Ru-Keng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the brane with arbitrary tension $σ$ on the edge of various black holes with AdS asymptotics. We investigate Friedmann equations governing the motion of the brane universes and match the Friedmann equation to Cardy entropy formula.
description: latex file, 11 pages
The origin of the KLT relations and nonlinear relations for Yang-Mills amplitudes
Creators: name: Barreiro, Luiz Antonio
name: Medina, Ricardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By means of a kinematic analysis of tree level graviton amplitudes we find, at least through six points, that the reason of their decompositon as a sum over products of Yang-Mills amplitudes is on-shell gauge invariance and unitarity. As a by-product of our analysis we find nonlinear relations obeyed by Yang-Mills amplitudes. All our results are valid for arbitrary spacetime dimensions.
description: Some corrections done. Accepted for publication in PLB
Paraconfucius Cai 1992
Creators: name: Jones, Joshua R.
name: Deitz, Lewis L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Paraconfucius

description: Genus Paraconfucius Cai
 Paraconfucius Cai, 1992: 266.
 Type species. P. pallidus Cai 1992: 266, 268, figs. 1–9, by original designation.
 Synonymy. None.
 Description. Cai (1992): “This genus is closely allied to Confucius Distant, from which it may be separated by the following characters 1) crown broad and short, median length less than one-half transocular width of head; 2) pronotum no[t] strongly foveate on each side behind anterior margin; 3) metathoracic tibiae slightly laminately widened; 4) style with a process near apex; 5) aedeagus slender, pipe-like, no larger apical process.”
 Species. [1]: pallidus Cai.
 Range. China (Anhui: Yungusi of Mt. Huangshan).
 Host plants. Unknown.
 Material examined. None.
 Remarks. Paraconfucius is monobasic. The type specimen of P. pallidus is deposited at Anhui Agricultural University, and was unavailable for this study. From Cai’s description of the genus and drawings of P. pallidus, Paraconfucius appears to be more closely related to Ledropsis than Confucius, and may even be a synonym of Ledropsis. Examination of the type specimen of P. pallidus is necessary to be certain.
description: Published as part of Jones, Joshua R. & Deitz, Lewis L., 2009, Phylogeny and systematics of the leafhopper subfamily Ledrinae (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) 2186, pp. 1-120 in Zootaxa 2186 (1) on page 50, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2186.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5311592
Formation probabilities and statistics of observables as defect problems in the free fermions and the quantum spin chains
Creators: name: Najafi, M. N.
name: Rajabpour, M. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the computation of formation probabilities (FP) in the configuration basis and the full counting statistics (FCS) of observables in the quadratic fermionic Hamiltonians are equivalent to the calculation of emptiness formation probability (EFP) in the Hamiltonian with a defect. In particular, we first show that the FP of finding a particular configuration in the ground state is equivalent to the EFP of the ground state of the quadratic Hamiltonian with a defect. Then, we show that the probability of finding a particular value for any quadratic observable is equivalent to a FP problem and ultimately leads to the calculation of EFP in the ground state of a Hamiltonian with a defect. We provide new exact determinant formulas for the FP in the generic quadratic fermionic Hamiltonians. As applications of our formalism we study the statistics of the number of particles and kinks. Our conclusions can be extended also to the quantum spin chains that can be mapped to the free fermions via Jordan-Wigner (J-W) transformation. In particular, we provide an exact solution to the problem of the transverse field XY chain with a staggered line defect. We also study the distribution of magnetization and kinks in the transverse field XY chain and show how the dual nature of these quantities manifest itself in the distributions.
description: v3: published version 23 pages 4 Figures
Photochemical degradation of trypan blue
Creators: name: Brockman, Tobias
name: Blanchard, Véronique
name: Heretsch, Philipp
name: Brockmann, Claudia
name: Bertelmann, Eckart
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: photochemical degradation
subject: trypan blue
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Purpose To investigate the photochemical degradation of trypan blue (TB) and to identify decomposition products. Methods Defined solution samples of TB and a mixture with lutein/zeaxanthin were exposed to blue light. Thermal degradation processes were ruled out using controls not subjected to irradiation. All samples were analyzed using optical microscopy, UVNis spectroscopy, matrix assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight (MALDI-TOF) mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometry. Degradation kinetics were determined based on changes in absorbance; intermediates were identified by analyzing mass differences of characteristic fragment ion peaks within the fragmentation patterns, and assignments were verified by NMR. Results TB demonstrated a photochemical degradation, which can be triggered by lutein/zeaxanthin. Intermediates vary depending on the presence of lutein/zeaxanthin. The self-sensitized photodegradation of TB occurs under generation of dimethyl sulfate and presumed formation of phenol. In contrast, within the presence of lutein/zeaxanthin the decomposition of TB indicates the formation of methoxyamine and sulfonyl arin. Thermal degradation processes were not observed. Conclusions TB demonstrated a photodegradation that may be triggered by lutein/zeaxanthin and results in the formation of cytotoxic decomposition products. Our findings contribute to understand degradation mechanisms of TB and may elucidate previous clinical and experimental observations of cellular toxicity after TB application.
BitterSweetForest: A Random Forest Based Binary Classifier to Predict Bitterness and Sweetness of Chemical Compounds
Creators: name: Banerjee, Priyanka
name: Preissner, Robert
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Random Forest
subject: bitter prediction
subject: sweetness prediction
subject: fingerprints
subject: KNIME workflow
subject: taste prediction
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Taste of a chemical compound present in food stimulates us to take in nutrients and avoid poisons. However, the perception of taste greatly depends on the genetic as well as evolutionary perspectives. The aim of this work was the development and validation of a machine learning model based on molecular fingerprints to discriminate between sweet and bitter taste of molecules. BitterSweetForest is the first open access model based on KNIME workflow that provides platform for prediction of bitter and sweet taste of chemical compounds using molecular fingerprints and Random Forest based classifier. The constructed model yielded an accuracy of 95% and an AUC of 0.98 in cross-validation. In independent test set, BitterSweetForest achieved an accuracy of 96% and an AUC of 0.98 for bitter and sweet taste prediction. The constructed model was further applied to predict the bitter and sweet taste of natural compounds, approved drugs as well as on an acute toxicity compound data set. BitterSweetForest suggests 70% of the natural product space, as bitter and 10% of the natural product space as sweet with confidence score of 0.60 and above. 77% of the approved drug set was predicted as bitter and 2% as sweet with a confidence score of 0.75 and above. Similarly, 75% of the total compounds from acute oral toxicity class were predicted only as bitter with a minimum confidence score of 0.75, revealing toxic compounds are mostly bitter. Furthermore, we applied a Bayesian based feature analysis method to discriminate the most occurring chemical features between sweet and bitter compounds using the feature space of a circular fingerprint.
GADD45A and CDKN1A are involved in apoptosis and cell cycle modulatory effects of viscumTT with further inactivation of the STAT3 pathway
Creators: name: Kleinsimon, Susann
name: Longmuss, Enya
name: Rolff, Jana
name: Jäger, Sebastian
name: Eggert, Angelika
name: Delebinski, Catharina
name: Seifert, Georg
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: viscumTT
subject: GADD45A
subject: CDKN1A
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: ViscumTT, a whole mistletoe preparation, has shown synergistic induction of apoptosis in several pediatric tumor entities. High therapeutic potential has previously been observed in Ewing's sarcoma, rhabdomyosarcoma, ALL and AML. In this study, we analyzed modulatory effects on the cell cycle by viscumTT in three osteosarcoma cell lines with various TP53 statuses. ViscumTT treatment induced G1 arrest in TP53 wild-type and null-mutant cells, but S arrest in TP53 mutant cells. Blockage of G1/S transition was accompanied by down-regulation of the key regulators CDK4, CCND1, CDK2, CCNE, CCNA. However, investigations on the transcriptional level revealed secondary TP53 participation. Cell cycle arrest was predominantly mediated by transcriptionally increased expression of GADD45A and CDKN1A and decreased SKP2 levels. Enhanced CDKN1A and GADD45A expression further played a role in viscumTT-induced apoptosis with involvement of stress-induced MAPK8 and inactivation of MAPK1/3. Furthermore, viscumTT inhibited the pro-survival pathway STAT3 by dephosphorylation of the two sites, Tyr705 and Ser727, by down-regulation of total STAT3 and its direct downstream targets BIRC5 and C-MYC. Moreover, tests of the efficacy of viscumTT in vivo showing reduction of tumor volume confirmed the high therapeutic potential as an anti-tumoral agent for osteosarcoma.
Parapetalocephala Kato 1931
Creators: name: Jones, Joshua R.
name: Deitz, Lewis L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Parapetalocephala

description: Genus Parapetalocephala Kato
(Pl. 2K, 18L)
 Parapetalocephala Kato, 1931: 435.
 Type species. P. montana Kato 1931: 435, fig. 2, by original designation.
 Synonymy. None.
 Description. Kato (1931): “Head shorter than breadth between eyes, centrally longitudinally convexly ridged, ocelli prominent, placed on disk and slightly nearer to each other than to eyes, subconically narrowed anteriorly, with the lateral margins in a line with the outer margin of the eyes, in front of each ocellus slightly hollowed; pronotum convex, with a very short longitudinal carination anteriorly, each side of which largely hollowed; scutellum distinctly shorter than pronotum, middle largely hollowed; tegmina narrow, veins prominent; frons and gena much prominent.”
 Species. [3]: dimorpha Kwon & Lee; montana Kato; testacea Cai & Kuoh.
 Range. Taiwan (Chiayi Hsien: Alishan; Mt. Niitaka; Nantou Hsien: Tungpu; Taichung: Anmanshan; Tainan); Korea
 Host plants. Unknown.
 Material examined. P. testacea: 1 male, 1 female, Taiwan, TARI, JRJ _Led1_272–273; Parapetalocephala sp.: 1 female, Taiwan, TARI, JRJ _Led1_467.
 Remarks. Two specimens of Parapetalocephala testacea were identified from material obtained from TARI, and were used in this analysis. A third unidentified specimen of Parapetalocephala from TARI was also briefly examined. The cells of the forewing appear to vary in their degree of depression between the two species examined, with P. testacea having more deeply depressed cells.
description: Published as part of Jones, Joshua R. & Deitz, Lewis L., 2009, Phylogeny and systematics of the leafhopper subfamily Ledrinae (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) 2186, pp. 1-120 in Zootaxa 2186 (1) on page 51, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2186.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5311592
Novel Aspects of Renal Magnesium Homeostasis
Creators: name: Giménez-Mascarell, Paula
name: Schirrmacher, Carlotta Else
name: Martínez-Cruz, Luis Alfonso
name: Müller, Dominik
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: magnesium
subject: crystallography
subject: CNNM2
subject: kidney
subject: genetics
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Magnesium (Mg2+) is indispensable for several vital functions, such as neurotransmission, cardiac conductance, blood glucose, blood pressure regulation, and proper function of more than 300 enzymes. Thus, Mg2+ homeostasis is subject to tight regulation. Besides the fast and immediate regulation of plasma Mg2+, a major part of Mg2+ homeostasis is realized by a concerted action of epithelial molecular structures that tightly control intestinal uptake and renal absorption. This mechanism is provided by a combination of para-and transcellular pathways. Whereas the first pathway provides the organism with a maximal amount of vital substances by a minimal energy expenditure, the latter enables controlling and fine- tuning by means of local and regional regulatory systems and also, hormonal control. The paracellular pathway is driven by an electrochemical gradient and realized in principal by the tight junction (TJ), a supramolecular organization of membrane- bound proteins and their adaptor and scaffolding proteins. TJ determinants are claudins (CLDN), a family of membrane spanning proteins that generate a barrier or a pore between two adjacent epithelial cells. Many insights into molecular mechanisms of Mg2+ handling have been achieved by the identification of alterations and mutations in human genes which cause disorders of paracellular Mg2+ pathways (CLDN10, CLDN14, CLDN16, CLDN19). Also, in the distal convoluted tubule, a basolateral protein, CNNM2, causes if mutated, familial dominant and also recessive renal Mg2+ wasting, albeit its true function has not been clarified yet, but is assumed to play a key role in the transcellular pathway. Moreover, mutations in human genes that are involved in regulating these proteins directly or indirectly cause, if mutated human diseases, mostly in combination with comorbidities as diabetes, cystic renal disease, or metabolic abnormalities. Generation and characterization of animal models harboring the corresponding mutations have further contributed to the elucidation of physiology and pathophysiology of Mg2+ disorders. Finally, high- end crystallization techniques allow understanding of Mg2+ handling in more detail. As this field is rapidly growing, we describe here the principles of physiology and pathophysiology of epithelial transport of renal Mg2+ homeostasis with emphasis on recently identified mechanisms involved.
Effects of Imports on Shrimp Prices in the Gulf & South Atlantic
Creators: name: Soley, Graham
name: Hu, Wuyang
name: Soley, Graham
name: Hu, Wuyang
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Seafood Trade/Marketing
subject: Price Analysis

description: Seafood remains a heavily imported product of the U.S., with shrimp being the first in terms of value and volume. When considering the importance of the fishery industry to the South Atlantic and Gulf Coast area economies, shrimping remains a vital enterprise for coastal residents in the United States. Many argue that decreases in the number of registered shrimp vessels could be the result of many factors, one of the strongest influences being foreign competition. With little previous research, this presentations attempts to analyze if empirical evidence exists to claim that increased volumes and values of imported shrimp products have any significant impacts on prices of domestic landings. Data derived from NOAA’S NMFS website are utilized for the following states: Alabama, Texas, Mississippi, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia. We computed the weighted average price per pound for domestic landings and import shrimp products from 1990 to 2012 by month. A series of panel model specifications reveal that although the quantity of imported products did not appear to have significant impact on domestic prices, the unit price of imported products moved positively with domestic products.
Hamiltonian approach to the torsional anomalies and its dimensional ladder
Creators: name: Huang, Ze-Min
name: Han, Bo
name: Stone, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Torsion can cause various anomalies in various dimensions, including the $\left(3+1\right)$-dimensional $[(3+1)D]$ Nieh-Yan anomaly, the $\left(2+1\right)$D Hughes-Leigh-Fradkin (HLF) parity anomaly, and the $\left(3+1\right)$D, $\left(1+1\right)$D chiral energy-momentum anomaly. We study these anomalies from the Hamiltonian approach. We derive the $\left(1+1\right)$D chiral energy-momentum anomaly from the single-body Hamiltonian. We then show how other torsional anomalies can be related to the $\left(1+1\right)$D chiral energy-momentum anomaly in a straightforward way. Finally, the Nieh-Yan anomaly and the $\left(3+1\right)$D chiral energy-momentum anomaly are obtained from the parity anomaly and the HLF effective action, respectively. Hence, we have constructed the dimensional ladder for the torsional anomalies from the single-body Hamiltonian picture.
description: 10 pages, 1 figure. Typos are corrected
Beyond benchmarks: DEA study of Kansas Farm Productivity.
Creators: name: Quintana-Ashwell, Nicolas E.
name: Featherstone, Allen M.
name: Quintana-Ashwell, Nicolas E.
name: Featherstone, Allen M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Productivity
subject: Malmquist index
subject: Data Envelopment Analysis
subject: Technical change
subject: Scale efficiency

description: This paper investigates productivity growth as measured by the Malmquist productivity index (MPI) among a sample of 331 Kansas farms between the years 1993 and 2011. The MPI index is decomposed to explore the main sources of productivity growth. Technical change (TC) is found to be the main driver of productivity growth. Previous literature cites relative prices as influential factors affecting technical change and efficiency. Two-way fixed effect regressions of efficiency and productivity measures on relative prices and lagged productivity are conducted. It is shown that past performance is a significant determinant in productivity, while statistical significance of different input and output prices vary. It is suggested that the direction of influence may be the opposite as cited in previous literature, so that past productivity improvements, and associated farm profitability, results in increased input prices.
Benchmark Calculation of the Three-Nucleon Photodisintegration
Creators: name: Golak, J.
name: Skibinski, R.
name: Gloeckle, W.
name: Kamada, H.
name: Nogga, A.
name: Witala, H.
name: Efros, V. D.
name: Leidemann, W.
name: Orlandini, G.
name: Tomusiak, E. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A benchmark is set on the three-nucleon photodisintegration calculating the total cross section with modern realistic two- and three-nucleon forces (AV18, UrbIX) using both the Faddeev equations and the Lorentz Integral Transform method. This test shows that the precision of three-body calculations involving continuum states is considerably higher than experimental uncertainties. Effects due to retardations, higher multipoles, meson exchange currents and Coulomb force are studied.
description: LaTeX, 10 pages, 7 ps figures
Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes as a Potential Veto Array for Neutrino Astronomy
Creators: name: Rysewyk, D.
name: Lennarz, D.
name: DeYoung, T.
name: Auffenberg, J.
name: Schaufel, M.
name: Bretz, T.
name: Wiebusch, C.
name: Nisa, M. U.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has revealed the existence of sources of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos. However, identification of the sources is challenging because astrophysical neutrinos are difficult to separate from the background of atmospheric neutrinos produced in cosmic-ray-induced particle cascades in the atmosphere. The efficient detection of air showers in coincidence with detected neutrinos can greatly reduce those backgrounds and increase the sensitivity of neutrino telescopes. Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) are sensitive to gamma-ray-induced (and cosmic-ray-induced) air showers in the 50 GeV to 50 TeV range, and can therefore be used as background-identifiers for neutrino observatories. This paper describes the feasibility of an array of small scale, wide field-of-view, cost-effective IACTs as an air shower veto for neutrino astronomy. A surface array of 250 to 750 telescopes would significantly improve the performance of a cubic kilometer-scale detector like IceCube, at a cost of a few percent of the original investment. The number of telescopes in the array can be optimized based on astronomical and geometrical considerations.
description: 33 pages, 10 figures. Published by Astropart. Phys
Wide-field, high-resolution lensless on-chip microscopy via near-field blind ptychographic modulation
Creators: name: Jiang, Shaowei
name: Zhu, Jiakai
name: Song, Pengming
name: Guo, Chengfei
name: Bian, Zichao
name: Wang, Ruihai
name: Huang, Yikun
name: Wang, Shiyao
name: Zhang, He
name: Zheng, Guoan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a novel lensless on-chip microscopy platform based on near-field blind ptychographic modulation. In this platform, we place a thin diffuser in between the object and the image sensor for light wave modulation. By blindly scanning the unknown diffuser to different x-y positions, we acquire a sequence of modulated intensity images for quantitative object recovery. Different from previous ptychographic implementations, we employ a unit magnification configuration with a Fresnel number of ~50,000, which is orders of magnitude higher than previous ptychographic setups. The unit magnification configuration allows us to have the entire sensor area, 6.4 mm by 4.6 mm, as the imaging field of view. The ultra-high Fresnel number enables us to directly recover the positional shift of the diffuser in the phase retrieval process, addressing the positioning accuracy issue plagued in regular ptychographic experiments. In our implementation, we use a low-cost, DIY scanning stage to perform blind diffuser modulation. Precise mechanical scanning that is critical in conventional ptychography experiments is no longer needed in our setup. We further employ an up-sampling phase retrieval scheme to bypass the resolution limit set by the imager pixel size and demonstrate a half-pitch resolution of 0.78 micron. We validate the imaging performance via in vitro cell cultures, transparent and stained tissue sections, and a thick biological sample. We show that the recovered quantitative phase map can be used to perform effective cell segmentation of the dense yeast culture. We also demonstrate 3D digital refocusing of the thick biological sample based on the recovered wavefront. The reported platform provides a cost-effective and turnkey solution for large field-of-view, high-resolution, and quantitative on-chip microscopy.