cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
θ_{13} and Proton Decay in a Minimal SO(10) x S_4 model of Flavor
Creators: name: Dev, P. S. Bhupal
name: Dutta, Bhaskar
name: Mohapatra, R. N.
name: Severson, Matthew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a recent paper, a minimal supersymmetric (SUSY) SO(10)xS_4 based unified model of flavor for quarks and leptons was proposed with two 10 and one 126 contributing to fermion masses. An important aspect of this model is that Yukawa couplings emerge dynamically from minimization of the flavon potential, thereby reducing the number of parameters considerably. We make a detailed numerical analysis of this model for fermion mixings including SUSY threshold effects at the TeV scale and type-I corrections to a type-II dominant seesaw for neutrino masses. This is a single-step breaking model with SUSY SO(10) broken at the Grand Unified Theory (GUT)-scale of 2x10^16 GeV to the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM). The minimal model has only 11 parameters, and therefore, the charged fermion fits predict the masses (up to an overall scale) and mixings in the neutrino sector. We present correlations for the different predictions in the neutrino mixing parameters. The recent experimental "large" θ_{13} value of \sim 9 degrees can be obtained by a simple extension of the minimal model. We also find that proton decay mode p -> K^+\barν_μhas a partial lifetime of \sim10^34 yrs, which is within reach of the next round of planned proton decay searches. The successful fit for fermion masses requires the Higgs mass to be below 129 GeV in this model. If the Higgs mass lies between 120-128 GeV, as suggested by the recent LHC data, we find a lower limit on the light stop mass of 755 (211) GeV for μ>0 (<0).
description: 25 pages, 7 figures, 6 tables; version accepted for publication in PRD
title: DEPRECATED: FEATURE BINDING IN VISUO-SPATIAL WORKING MEMORY
Creators: name: ELSLEY, JANE VICTORIA
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2007

description: Four series of experiments using a paradigm adapted from Prabhakaran at al. (2000) are presented exploring the characteristics of bound visuo-spatial representations in memory. This thesis was guided by the following theoretical questions: (1) Can location binding be demonstrated in a recognition paradigm? (2) What are the temporal dynamics of location binding? (3) Is location binding automatic, or rather, does it require attentional resources? (4) What are the products of location binding: Whole new objects or links between features that contribute in an asymmetrical manner? Series 1 addressed the first question through the demonstration of binding effects across two experiments. Series 1 was additionally informative with respect to the second question in demonstrating that binding emerged relatively early (within 250ms post stimulus offset) and could be maintained for at least four seconds. With regard to the automaticity with which visual and spatial features are integrated, and the characteristics of the resulting bound representations, three lines of evidence are reported. Firstly, by manipulating feature relevance, Series 2 demonstrated that binding may occur automatically when shapes are attended, but not when locations are attended. This finding is not easily compatible with the idea that location binding results in the creation of an entirely new construct in memory which would predict binding effects when either shapes or locations are attended. Secondly, it was demonstrated that increasing the amount of attention necessary for encoding the shape features enhanced the binding which took place when shapes only were attended (Experiment 3B) but had minimal effect on performance when locations only were attended (Experiment 3C). This suggests that while binding to location may occur automatically when shapes are the attended feature, the amount of attention allocated to those shapes may increase the size of the binding effect which ensues. Thirdly, it was demonstrated that the binding effect following attendance to both features was significantly reduced, but not eradicated under attentional load conditions (Experiment 4) suggesting that while binding to location may in part emerge automatically, bound representations may benefit from available attentional resources. The results are discussed in terms of a hierarchical structure to encoding in memory (e.g., Jiang et al., 2000) which suggests that the encoding of the spatial layout of the scene must occur prior to the encoding of what occupies those locations (see also Navon, 1977). We speculate that location binding in memory may be characterised by links formed between features in memory, while the feature information is itself stored in parallel (e.g., Wheeler & Treisman, 2002). In addition, the links may be unequally weighted, an aspect of binding which may arise as a result of the order of encoding visual and spatial features.
Rare region effects in the contact process on networks
Creators: name: Juhász, Róbert
name: Ódor, Géza
name: Castellano, Claudio
name: Muñoz, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Networks and dynamical processes occurring on them have become a paradigmatic representation of complex systems. Studying the role of quenched disorder, both intrinsic to nodes and topological, is a key challenge. With this in mind, here we analyse the contact process, i.e. the simplest model for propagation phenomena, with node-dependent infection rates (i.e. intrinsic quenched disorder) on complex networks. We find Griffiths phases and other rare region effects, leading rather generically to anomalously slow (algebraic, logarithmic, etc.) relaxation, on Erdős-Rényi networks. We predict similar effects to exist for other topologies as long as a non-vanishing percolation threshold exists. More strikingly, we find that Griffiths phases can also emerge --even with constant epidemic rates-- as a consequence of mere topological heterogeneity. In particular, we find Griffiths phases in finite dimensional networks as, for instance, a family of generalized small-world networks. These results have a broad spectrum of implications for propagation phenomena and other dynamical processes on networks, and are relevant for the analysis of both models and empirical data.
description: 14 pages, 15 figures, polished, accepted version to appear in PRE
Lorentz breaking Effective Field Theory and observational tests
Creators: name: Liberati, Stefano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Analogue models of gravity have provided an experimentally realizable test field for our ideas on quantum field theory in curved spacetimes but they have also inspired the investigation of possible departures from exact Lorentz invariance at microscopic scales. In this role they have joined, and sometime anticipated, several quantum gravity models characterized by Lorentz breaking phenomenology. A crucial difference between these speculations and other ones associated to quantum gravity scenarios, is the possibility to carry out observational and experimental tests which have nowadays led to a broad range of constraints on departures from Lorentz invariance. We shall review here the effective field theory approach to Lorentz breaking in the matter sector, present the constraints provided by the available observations and finally discuss the implications of the persisting uncertainty on the composition of the ultra high energy cosmic rays for the constraints on the higher order, analogue gravity inspired, Lorentz violations.
description: 47 pages, 4 figures. Lecture Notes for the IX SIGRAV School on "Analogue Gravity", Como (Italy), May 2011. V.3. Typo corrected, references added
Compressed Sensing of EEG for Wireless Telemonitoring with Low Energy Consumption and Inexpensive Hardware
Creators: name: Zhang, Zhilin
name: Jung, Tzyy-Ping
name: Makeig, Scott
name: Rao, Bhaskar D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Telemonitoring of electroencephalogram (EEG) through wireless body-area networks is an evolving direction in personalized medicine. Among various constraints in designing such a system, three important constraints are energy consumption, data compression, and device cost. Conventional data compression methodologies, although effective in data compression, consumes significant energy and cannot reduce device cost. Compressed sensing (CS), as an emerging data compression methodology, is promising in catering to these constraints. However, EEG is non-sparse in the time domain and also non-sparse in transformed domains (such as the wavelet domain). Therefore, it is extremely difficult for current CS algorithms to recover EEG with the quality that satisfies the requirements of clinical diagnosis and engineering applications. Recently, Block Sparse Bayesian Learning (BSBL) was proposed as a new method to the CS problem. This study introduces the technique to the telemonitoring of EEG. Experimental results show that its recovery quality is better than state-of-the-art CS algorithms, and sufficient for practical use. These results suggest that BSBL is very promising for telemonitoring of EEG and other non-sparse physiological signals.
description: Matlab codes can be downloaded at: http://dsp.ucsd.edu/~zhilin/BSBL.html, or http://sites.google.com/site/researchbyzhang/bsbl
Nonlinear XFEM modeling of delamination in fiber reinforced composites considering uncertain fracture properties and effect of fiber bridging
Creators: name: Motamedi, Damoon
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Initiation and propagation of a crack in composite materials can affect their global mechanical properties severely. From a numerical modeling perspective, most conventional macro-level methods reported for composite laminates are based on the assumption that a Representative Volume Element (RVE) of the material is periodically repeated over the entire sample. However, a considerable amount of spatial non-uniformity in material and geometrical parameters can exist in both unidirectional (UD) and woven fabric composites. The scattered distribution of fibers, fibers penetration between composite layers, voids within the matrix, human errors during sample preparation, and imperfect thickness distribution can be among the most common sources of such non-uniformity. In turn, these non-uniformities can make the numerical simulation of composites under the assumption of a periodic RVE unreliable, and thereby, the stochastic modeling of effective material properties becomes essential for a more precise assessment of composites’ mechanical behaviour. In the present work, a new three-dimensional (3D) stochastic extended finite element method (XFEM) is proposed and implemented to model the delamination surface in composite samples by integrating the capabilities of the finite element method (FEM) commercial software (ABAQUS) into a user-defined FORTRAN code and MATLAB package. XFEM is known to offer significant advantages over conventional FEM by enabling optimal convergence rates in the presence of pronounced discontinuities/singularities such as cracks. The effect of nonlinear modeling parameters such as cohesive zone length, penalty stiffness factor and large deformation are also considered in the proposed approach to add to the accuracy of simulations. The XFEM model is first tested and validated against previously reported data in the literature. Next, a statistical distribution is sought from data non-repeatability during a set of double cantilever beam (DCB) and end-notched flexure (ENF) tests conducted on Poly (phenylene Sulfide) PPS/Glass thermoplastic composite samples. Results from the experiments and XFEM are compared and demonstrate the capability of the new numerical approach in capturing non-repeatable material response, often seen during the fracture testing of UD composites to characterize their mode I and mode II fracture properties.
title: DEPRECATED: A Generic Network and System Management Framework
Creators: name: Knahl, Martin Hans
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2002

description: Networks and distributed systems have formed the basis of an ongoing communications revolution that has led to the genesis of a wide variety of services. The constantly increasing size and complexity of these systems does not come without problems. In some organisations, the deployment of Information Technology has reached a state where the benefits from downsizing and rightsizing by adding new services are undermined by the effort required to keep the system running. Management of networks and distributed systems in general has a straightforward goal: to provide a productive environment in which work can be performed effectively. The work required for management should be a small fraction of the total effort. Most IT systems are still managed in an ad hoc style without any carefully elaborated plan. In such an environment the success of management decisions depends totally on the qualification and knowledge of the administrator. The thesis provides an analysis of the state of the art in the area of Network and System Management and identifies the key requirements that must be addressed for the provisioning of Integrated Management Services. These include the integration of the different management related aspects (i.e. integration of heterogeneous Network, System and Service Management). The thesis then proposes a new framework, INSMware, for the provision of Management Services. It provides a fundamental basis for the realisation of a new approach to Network and System Management. It is argued that Management Systems can be derived from a set of pre-fabricated and reusable Building Blocks that break up the required functionality into a number of separate entities rather than being developed from scratch. It proposes a high-level logical model in order to accommodate the range of requirements and environments applicable to Integrated Network and System Management that can be used as a reference model. A development methodology is introduced that reflects principles of the proposed approach, and provides guidelines to structure the analysis, design and implementation phases of a management system. The INSMware approach can further be combined with the componentware paradigm for the implementation of the management system. Based on these principles, a prototype for the management of SNMP systems has been implemented using industry standard middleware technologies. It is argued that development of a management system based on Componentware principles can offer a number of benefits. INSMware Components may be re-used and system solutions will become more modular and thereby easier to construct and maintain.
Quantum Enhanced Magnetometer with Low-Frequency Squeezing
Creators: name: Horrom, Travis
name: Singh, Robinjeet
name: Dowling, Jonathan P.
name: Mikhailov, Eugeniy E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the demonstration of a magnetometer with noise-floor reduction below the shot-noise level. This magnetometer, based on a nonlinear magneto-optical rotation effect, is enhanced by the injection of a squeezed vacuum state into its input. The noise spectrum shows squeezed noise reduction of about 2 dB spanning from close to 100 Hz to several megahertz. We also report on the observation of two different regimes of operation of such a magnetometer: one in which the detection noise is limited by the quantum noise of the light probe only, and one in which we see additional noise originating from laser noise which is rotated into the vacuum polarization.
Genome-wide identification and expression analysis of the citrus calcium-dependent protein kinase (CDPK) genes in response to arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi colonization and drought
Creators: name: Shu, Bo
name: Jue, Dengwei
name: Zhang, Fei
name: Zhang, Dejian
name: Liu, Chunyan
name: Wu, Qiangsheng
name: Luo, Chun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: The calcium-dependent protein kinases (CDPKs, also termed CPKs) are a large, diverse protein family that play significant roles in biotic and abiotic stress responses in plants. However, CDPKs in citrus are relatively unknown, as are their responses to drought stress (abiotic stress) and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) colonization. In this study, the citrus CDPKs were characterized by analyzing the presence of EF-hand and Pkinase domains and searching the citrus genome. Twenty-nine Citrus sinensis CDPKs (CsCDPKs) were identified on at least nine chromosomes in the citrus genome. Three clusters were found on chromosome 4 with three or two CsCDPKs, and 17 CsCDPKs showed syntenic relationships with Arabidopsis thaliana CPKs (AtCPKs). Twenty-nine CsCDPKs were expressed in the roots, and the regulation of the CsCDPKs was not always consistent with the cis-elements in their promoters. CsCDPK1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 17, 18, 19, 21, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 29 were upregulated by AMF colonization, and CsCDPK3, 7 and 28 were downregulated. Drought-repressed expression of CsCDPK10, 11, 12, 15 and 16 induced CsCDPK20 and 22. Furthermore, AMF colonization and drought stress exerted synergistic effects; the expression levels of CsCDPK20 and CsCDPK22 were repressed in W_AMF treatment (well-watered with AMF) but induced in D_AMF treatment (drought stress with AMF). Together, these results provide a basis for further functional studies of the CsCDPK proteins and their responses to AMF and drought stress.
Cardiovascular, metabolic, endocrine and behavioral aspects of development in postnatal lambs in relation to age, sex, lamb number and acute fluoxetine administration
Creators: name: Nguyen, Tuan-Anh Thi
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Human newborns exposed in utero to maternally administered SSRIs such as fluoxetine (FX) have an increased risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes including poor neonatal adaptation. This comprises respiratory difficulty, jitteriness, cyanosis when feeding and persists for several days after birth. Several potential mechanisms underlying these symptoms have been proposed: 1) acute toxicity to the drugs (i.e. serotonin syndrome), 2) withdrawal syndrome due to the sudden discontinuation of maternal-fetal placental drug transfer at birth or 3) an SSRIs-elicited alteration in fetal brain development. However, the actual mechanism has not been elucidated. In addition, the safety of SSRIs for the treatment of depression in children and adolescents is uncertain. Thus, we conducted experiments in which acute i.v FX (1mg/kg) and sterile water were given to FX and control groups in the lambs at ~ 3,10 days, 1,3,6 and 12 months of age. In another cohort, daily 50mg FX was given i.v to 5 pregnant ewes via implanted catheters during late gestation (131-132d, term = 147d) for 2 weeks. Plasma FX concentrations in the newborn acute FX group were within the range measured in human infants at the same age. There was a lack of significant acute FX effects on cardiovascular-respiratory, behavioral and endocrine functions in ~ 4 day old lambs. In the lambs exposed to FX prenatally, plasma FX at birth and postnatal day (PND) 2 were low and undetectable on PND 5,10,14. However, prenatal FX-exposed lambs were hyperactive during PND 4 to 14 and their heart rate variability (HRV) was significantly lower than control lambs on PND 2. Results suggested that SSRI toxicity and withdrawal are unlikely to be the mechanism underlying poor neonatal adaptation in human exposed to FX in utero. However, acute FX effects were seen in some, but not all, age groups. No acute FX effects were observed in the young lambs (10d and 3 months of age). However, hypoactivity, transient hypoxemia, hypertension and increased HRV occurred after acute FX administration in the older lambs (1,6 and 12 months of age). Hypoxemia and hypertension effects were more profound in males. No changes in HPA axis function were observed
title: DEPRECATED: Introducing integrated performance measurement into small and medium sized enterprises
Creators: name: Hudson, Melanie
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2001
Subjects: SMEs; PM Management Management

description: This is a digitised version of a thesis that was deposited in the University Library. If you are the author and you have a query about this item please contact PEARL Admin (pearladmin@plymouth.ac.uk)
description: Metadata merged with duplicate record (http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/875) on 20.12.2016 by CS (TIS).
description: The thesis extends current knowledge and understanding of integrated performance measurement (PM) development into the context of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The research builds on existing knowledge of integrated PM development approaches and identifies the context-specific factors which affect its introduction into SMEs. These are used to design, develop and validate a new, continuous improvement based approach for the development of integrated PM systems, which is specifically designed for use in SMEs. First, a conceptual model of criteria for integrated PM development is synthesised from the literature and the characteristics of SMEs are established. An evaluation of current approaches for the development of integrated PM is undertaken and an approach which conforms to the conceptual model is selected for an empirical study in a SME. Along with a set of interviews examining the state of PM in SMEs, this study identifies several factors which affect integrated PM introduction in this environment. These factors enhance the conceptual model and indicate the need for a more effective development approach for SMEs. Design theory is used to inform and structure the design of the new approach, which is developed and refined for practical use through a SME case study. Two further cases are carried out to validate the new approach, in which cross-case comparisons are made. The results indicate the validity of both the new approach and the enhanced conceptual model. The formulation of an enhanced conceptual model of integrated PM development, detailing the context specific criteria for effective in use in SMEs, together with the validation of a new, continuous improvement based, approach for integrated PM system development in SMEs that conforms to the conceptual model, represents a significant contribution to both theory and practice from this research.
Additional file 1 of Phenotypic and immune functional profiling of patients with suspected Mendelian Susceptibility to Mycobacterial Disease in South Africa
Creators: name: van Coller, Ansia
name: Glanzmann, Brigitte
name: Cornelissen, Helena
name: Möller, Marlo
name: Kinnear, Craig
name: Esser, Monika
name: Glashoff, Richard
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary data file.
Additional file 1 of National multi-stakeholder meetings: a tool to support development of integrated policies and practices for testing and prevention of HIV, viral hepatitis, TB and STIs
Creators: name: Simões, Daniel
name: Matulionyté, Raimonda
name: Stoniene, Loreta
name: Wysocki, Piotr
name: Kowalska, Justyna
name: Gasbarrini, Nadia
name: Cosmaro, Lella
name: Blažić, Tatjana Nemeth
name: Dišković, Arian
name: Dominković, Zoran
name: Jovovic, Iva
name: Razmiene, Ilona
name: Maffeo, Manuel
name: Jakobsen, Stine F.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Additional file 1. Annex 1: Country Situational Analysis Template.
Additional file 2 of National multi-stakeholder meetings: a tool to support development of integrated policies and practices for testing and prevention of HIV, viral hepatitis, TB and STIs
Creators: name: Simões, Daniel
name: Matulionyté, Raimonda
name: Stoniene, Loreta
name: Wysocki, Piotr
name: Kowalska, Justyna
name: Gasbarrini, Nadia
name: Cosmaro, Lella
name: Blažić, Tatjana Nemeth
name: Dišković, Arian
name: Dominković, Zoran
name: Jovovic, Iva
name: Razmiene, Ilona
name: Maffeo, Manuel
name: Jakobsen, Stine F.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Additional file 2. Annex 2: Meeting Evaluation Form.
On the Ω-Model: Vibrational and Spectral Predictions for Molecular Systems
Creators: name: Brent Jarvis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Physics
subject: Physics
subject: Physics/methods
subject: Nuclear physics
subject: Particle physics
subject: Atomic physics
subject: Nuclear physics
subject: Quantum physics
subject: Plasma physics
subject: Theoretical physics

description: The Ω-Model is a unified theoretical framework that combines geometrical spacetime curvature and torsional dynamics to model molecular behavior. This paper explores the application of the Ω-Model to predict vibrational energies and spectral lines for several molecules. By refining key parameters like the scaling factor λvib using empirical data, we show that the Ω-Model can provide accurate predictions for vibrational energies, overtone transitions, and rotational-vibrational spectra.
Additional file 1 of Isolation of bioactive compounds from medicinal plants used in traditional medicine: Rautandiol B, a potential lead compound against Plasmodium falciparum
Creators: name: Dawurung, Christiana J.
name: Nguyen, Minh T. H.
name: Pengon, Jutharat
name: Dokladda, Kanchana
name: Bunyong, Ratchanu
name: Rattanajak, Roonglawan
name: Kamchonwongpaisan, Sumalee
name: Nguyen, Phuong T. M.
name: Pyne, Stephen G.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Constructing and applying semantic models of clinical phenotypes to support web-embedded clinical research
Creators: name: Samadian, Soroush
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: The adoption of the Semantic Web by life sciences provides exciting opportunities for exploring novel ways to conduct biomedical research. Particularly, the approval of the Web Ontology Language (OWL) by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has provided a global standard for shared representation of biomedical knowledge in the form of ontologies. However, though there are numerous examples of bio-ontologies being used to describe “what is” (i.e., a universal view of reality), there is a dearth of examples where ontologies are used to describe “what might be” (i.e., a hypothetical view of reality). This thesis proposes that, to achieve scientific rigor, it is important to consider approaches for explicitly representing subjective knowledge in a particular domain - in particular, we examine phenotypic classifications in the clinical domain. We provide supporting evidence, that the OWL is suitable for formally representing these subjective perspectives. Envisioning ontologies as hypothetical, contextual and subjective is a notable departure from the commonly-held view in the life-sciences, where ontologies (ostensibly) represent some "universal truth". We support these arguments with both empirical and quantitative studies. We demonstrate that, when expressed in OWL, many phenotypic classification systems can be accurately modeled in silico. We then demonstrate that these knowledge-models can be "personalized", and show that such models can enable the automated analysis of data in a transparent manner. This results in more rigorous clinical research, while simultaneously allowing the clinicians to maintain their role as the final arbiters of decisions. Finally, we investigate methodologies that might facilitate the encoding and sharing of personalized expert-knowledge by non-knowledge-engineers - a necessary step in making these ideas useful to the clinical community. The knowledge-acquisition bottleneck is the primary barrier to the widespread use of ontologies in life sciences. Thus, we investigate data-driven methodologies to automatically extract knowledge from existing data-systems, and show that it is possible to "boot-strap" the construction of knowledge models through various data-mining algorithms. Taken together, these studies begin to reveal a path toward Web-embedded, in silico clinical research, where knowledge is explicit, transparent, personalized, modular, globally-shared, re-used, and dynamically applied to the interpretation and analysis of clinical datasets.
title: DEPRECATED: Wheat hardness by near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy: New insights
Creators: name: Manley, Marena
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 1995

description: The determination of wheat hardness by the evaluation of whole wheat grain would be of considerable value to the UK Milling Industry. Until now, accurate whole wheat grain hardness predictions by NIR spectroscopy have only been reported for North American wheats. By the evaluation of selected samples of UK and North American wheats this study showed that the prediction of whole wheat grain hardness by NTR spectroscopy depends only on the scattering properties of the sample and that there is no direct relationship with chemical composition. The scattering effect, in case of whole wheat grain reflectance and transmittance spectra, was found not to be multiplicative as in the case of ground wheat grain spectra. Empirical NIR spectroscopy calibrations are often performed without knowing what is measured or understanding the basis of the measurement. In other words the NIR spectrophotometer is often used as a "black box". Empirical calibrations were performed using three different software packages i.e. lnfrasoft International (ISI) Software, NIRSystems Spectral Analysis Software (NSAS) and UNSCRAMBLER. Successful NIR spectroscopy hardness measurements on ground wheat are based on light scattering. Separating the scattering effect from whole wheat grain spectra mathematically allowed predictions not significantly different to empirical calibrations, with the benefit of a theoretical explanation and fewer terms used. Although hardness predictions for whole wheat grain were not as accurate as in the case of ground wheat grain, it did prove to predict hardness with an acceptable accuracy with practical use as screening methods for grain trading. This study did not completely solve the problem of predicting whole wheat grain hardness by NIR spectroscopy, but new insights were provided which would hopefully encourage further work in this area and lead to a more complete fundamental understanding of the properties of whole wheat grain hardness using NIR spectroscopy.
Beyond Absence: A Gradient-Based Model of Dark Matter and Dark Energy as Coherence Fields in Informational Space
Creators: name: Patrone, Luca
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Dark matter
subject: dark energy
subject: informational field
subject: Physics
subject: Physical cosmology
subject: cosmology
subject: general relativity
subject: Gravity
subject: Gravity, Altered
subject: Theoretical physics
subject: Space travel
subject: Space (interplanetary)
subject: Specific Gravity
subject: Gravity Sensing
subject: Energy
subject: Energy process
subject: Sense of Coherence

description: This paper introduces a novel theoretical framework that reinterprets dark matter and dark energy not as physical substances, but as emergent phenomena arising from coherence gradients in a curved informational field.

A scalar field \( \Phi(x^\mu) \) is proposed to represent the density of informational alignment across spacetime. Through a modified wave equation coupled with geometric and informational parameters, the model produces effective gravitational and expansive dynamics consistent with cosmological observations—without requiring undetected mass or exotic particles.

Key contributions:

A reinterpretation of dark matter as localized coherence-induced gravitational lensing

A dynamic formulation of dark energy as tension within a global informational field

Compatibility with Einstein’s field equations via a modified energy-momentum tensor

A fully classical mathematical structure, testable through current cosmological data

This model does not attempt to invalidate existing physics, but rather extends it—inviting further exploration of the interface between structure, coherence, and the evolving nature of reality.

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Analysis of gamma-ray production in neutral-current neutrino-oxygen interactions at energies above 200 MeV
Creators: name: Ankowski, Artur M.
name: Benhar, Omar
name: Mori, Takaaki
name: Yamaguchi, Ryuta
name: Sakuda, Makoto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has long been recognized that observation of gamma rays originating from nuclear deexcitation can be exploited to identify neutral-current neutrino-nucleus interactions in water-Cherenkov detectors. We report the results of a calculation of the neutrino- and antineutrino-induced gamma-ray production cross section for oxygen target. Our analysis is focused on the kinematical region of neutrino energy larger than ~200 MeV, in which single-nucleon knockout is known to be the dominant reaction mechanism. The numerical results have been obtained using for the first time a realistic model of the target spectral function, extensively tested against electron-nucleus scattering data. We find that at neutrino energy 600 MeV the fraction of neutral-current interactions leading to emission of gamma-rays of energy larger than 6 MeV is ~41%, and that the contribution of the p_3/2 state is overwhelming.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Quantum limiting behaviors of a vortex core in an anisotropic gap superconductor
Creators: name: Kaneko, S.
name: Matsuba, K.
name: Hafiz, M.
name: Yamasaki, K.
name: Kakizaki, E.
name: Nishida, N.
name: Takeya, H.
name: Hirata, K.
name: Kawakami, T.
name: Mizushima, T.
name: Machida, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantized bound states at a vortex core are discretized in YNi$_2$B$_2$C. By using scanning tunneling spectroscopy with an unprecedented 0.1 nm spatial resolution, we find and identify the localized spectral structure, where in addition to the first main peak with a positive low energy, a second subpeak coming from the fourfold symmetric gap structure is seen inside the energy gap. Those spectral features are understood by solving the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equation for a fully three-dimensional gap structure. A particle-hole asymmetric spectrum at the core site and quantum oscillation in the spectra are clearly observed.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Additional file 1 of Modular reconstruction and optimization of the trans-4-hydroxy-L-proline synthesis pathway in Escherichia coli
Creators: name: Zhang, Zhenyu
name: Su, Weike
name: Bao, Yunyun
name: Huang, Qianqian
name: Ye, Kai
name: Liu, Pengfu
name: Chu, Xiaohe
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Primers and their sequences used for PCR in this study. Table S2. Mobile phase gradient for separation of proline and trans-4-hydroxy-L-proline via HPLC.
A hereditarily indecomposable Banach space with rich spreading model structure
Creators: name: Argyros, Spiros A.
name: Motakis, Pavlos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46B03, 46B06, 46B25, 46B45

description: We present a reflexive Banach space $\mathfrak{X}_{_{^\text{usm}}}$ which is Hereditarily Indecomposable and satisfies the following properties. In every subspace $Y$ of $\mathfrak{X}_{_{^\text{usm}}}$ there exists a weakly null normalized sequence $\{y_n\}_n$, such that every subsymmetric sequence $\{z_n\}_n$ is isomorphically generated as a spreading model of a subsequence of $\{y_n\}_n$. Also, in every block subspace $Y$ of $\mathfrak{X}_{_{^\text{usm}}}$ there exists a seminormalized block sequence $\{z_n\}$ and $T:\mathfrak{X}_{_{^\text{usm}}}\rightarrow\mathfrak{X}_{_{^\text{usm}}}$ an isomorphism such that for every $n\in\mathbb{N}$ $T(z_{2n-1}) = z_{2n}$. Thus the space is an example of an HI space which is not tight by range in a strong sense.
description: 39 pages, one figure
title: Two Unique Cases of Ponderosa Pine Needle-Induced Abortions
Creators: name: Welch, Kevin D.
name: Dietz, Megan A
name: Edmonds, Steven E
name: Gardener, Dale R
name: Cook, Daniel
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2025

description: Ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) needles can induce abortions in cows when consumed during the last trimester of pregnancy. Traditionally pine needle-induced abortions occur in areas where cattle are forced into a stand of ponderosa pine trees to seek shelter and feed during a winter storm that is either very cold, has heavy snow or high winds. However, here we report two incidences of pine needle-induced abortions in cattle that were unique. In one case, there was no weather-related event that forced the cattle into the stand of pine trees, rather the cattle went into the pine trees seeking the new growth of grasses near the pine trees. In the second incident, the abortions occurred in an area with no previous history of pine needle-induced abortions, which may be due to the low concentration of abortifacient compounds in the needles from that area. However, in both cases, the resultant abortions, as well as the effects on the cows and calves, were consistent with pine needle-induced abortions. All of the cattle that aborted had retained placentas and all of the calves that were tested had high concentrations of tetrahydroagathic acid, a metabolite of isocupressic acid, the abortifacient compound in ponderosa pine needles. These two cases highlight the fact that when cows are allowed to graze in areas with ponderosa pine needles during the last trimester of gestation there is always a risk for the cattle to consume enough pine needles for abortions to occur.
EXTRACTION AND PURIFICATION OF PAPAIN ENZYME FROM PAPAYA LEAF AND THE PHYTOCHEMICAL COMPONENTS   OF THE LEAF
Creators: name: M. Tigist 1, B. Getnet 2 *, K. Beza 3 , M. Endalamaw  , M. Lulit   , D.Tamirat  , M.Tinsae
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2016

description: No abstract available for this resource
Rigid curves on $\bar M_{0,n}$ and arithmetic breaks
Creators: name: Castravet, Ana-Maria
name: Tevelev, Jenia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A result of Keel and McKernan states that a hypothetical counterexample to the F-conjecture must come from rigid curves on $\bar {M}_{0,n}$ that intersect the interior. We exhibit several ways of constructing rigid curves. In all our examples, a reduction mod p argument shows that the classes of the rigid curves that we construct can be decomposed as sums of F-curves.
description: 46 pages; final version
Additional file 1 of Psychometric properties and comparison of four health utility approaches among myopia patients in China
Creators: name: Dou, Lei
name: Xu, Yanjiao
name: Chen, Gang
name: Li, Shunping
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. Participants’ HRQoL scores by each characteristic.
Development of digital microfluidic device for dielectrophoretic manipulation of particles
Creators: name: Chowdhury, Ovee Zaman
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: This thesis presents the development of a parallel plate lab-on-a-chip (LOC) device for manipulating biological/surrogate particles in droplet based digital microfluidic (DMF) platforms. A fundamental principle, known as dielectrophoresis (DEP), is used to manipulate the particles in a non-uniform electric field based on their polarizability. DEP can be observed as positive (pDEP) and negative (nDEP), moving particles toward the high and low intensity electric fields, respectively. Binary separation of two particles (Polystyrene beads and E.coli) has been shown on DMF platform by combining pDEP and nDEP. Polystyrene beads are trapped along the edge due to pDEP whereas cultured E.coli is repelled away from the edges due to nDEP. Although capturing the particles using pDEP is easier, for most biological applications requiring a high conductivity buffer medium, nDEP traps must be used to preserve the physiological characteristics of the particle. This thesis also contains the study of developing nDEP traps on DMF devices. The relation between the nDEP traps and the particle size has been demonstrated based on experimental results. Characterization of these traps of two different shapes (circular and squared) results in defining lifting and trapping zones. This study also yields in optimizing the trap size for single particle immobilization which is important for cell printing and growth applications. The ratio of trapping zone to the total area has been presented with a limiting factor K, which is proposed as a parameter to define the maximum trapping zone. Design of experiment has been used as an additional tool to show the relationship between the trapping zone and the total trap.
Coupling and Strong Feller for Jump Processes on Banach Spaces
Creators: name: Wang, Feng-Yu
name: Wang, Jian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: By using lower bound conditions of the Lévy measure w.r.t. a nice reference measure, the coupling and strong Feller properties are investigated for the Markov semigroup associated with a class of linear SDEs driven by (non-cylindrical) Lévy processes on a Banach space. Unlike in the finite-dimensional case where these properties have also been confirmed for Lévy processes without drift, in the infinite-dimensional setting the appearance of a drift term is essential to ensure the quasi-invariance of the process by shifting the initial data. Gradient estimates and exponential convergence are also investigated. The main results are illustrated by specific models on the Wiener space and separable Hilbert spaces.
description: 31 pages
Magneto-optical signatures of a cascade of transitions in La$_2-x$Ba$_x$CuO$_4$
Creators: name: Karapetyan, Hovnatan
name: Hucker, M.
name: Gu, G. D.
name: Tranquada, J. M.
name: Fejer, M. M.
name: Xia, Jing
name: Kapitulnik, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent experiments in the original cuprate high temperature superconductor, La$_2-x$Ba$_x$CuO$_4$, have revealed a remarkable sequence of transitions [1]. Here we investigate such crystals with Kerr effect which is sensitive to time-reversal-symmetry breaking (TRSB). Concurrent birefringence measurements accurately locate the structural phase transitions from high-temperature tetragonal to low temperature orthorhombic, and then to lower temperature tetragonal, at which temperature a strong Kerr signal onsets. Hysteretic behavior of the Kerr signal suggests that TRSB occurs well above room temperature, an effect that was previously observed in high quality YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{6+x} crystals [2].
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
title: DEPRECATED: The thermal properties of cob buildings of Devon
Creators: name: Goodhew, Steven Michael Rhyder
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2000

description: Little has been published concerning the thermal properties of existing unbaked earth walls. In order to model the thermal behaviour of a building constructed using traditional cob walls, the thermal conductivity and thermal diffusivity need to be established. The Centre for Earthen Architecture (CEA), based at the University of Plymouth's School of Architecture has carried out research into various aspects of cob architecture typical to the Devon area. This study supplements other work concerning the moisture content, structure and pathology of cob as a building material. This research concentrates upon the development of a time dependent probe technique for the measurement of the thermal conductivity and thermal diffusivity of cob. The literature concerning the technique is reviewed. Methods of obtaining thermal data from the results are discussed. Particular emphasis is placed upon the measurement of the probe's thermal contact conductance with the test material. A series of laboratory tests and results from specific test materials are described. From this work, a link between the improvement of the thermal contact between the probe and the specimen and the accuracy of the thermal diffusivity values is established. The development of field test apparatus is described and the results from three field tests are examined. Values for thermal conductivity, diffusivity and the probe thermal contact conductance are established. These results are used in a thermal simulation of a cob dwelling. The output from the simulation is compared with results from a modern timberframe house of identical dimensions and use. The thermal response of the modern timber-frame house was found to be similar to that of the cob dwelling. However, generally, the range of internal air temperature was found to be higher in the interior spaces of the timber framed dwelling than the cob dwelling.
Additional file 1 of HLA-B52 allele in giant cell arteritis may indicate diffuse large-vessel vasculitis formation: a retrospective study
Creators: name: Kushimoto, Kazuo
name: Ayano, Masahiro
name: Nishimura, Keisuke
name: Nakano, Miki
name: Kimoto, Yasutaka
name: Mitoma, Hiroki
name: Ono, Nobuyuki
name: Arinobu, Yojiro
name: Akashi, Koichi
name: Horiuchi, Takahiko
name: Niiro, Hiroaki
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1.
IN Vitro ANTIBACTERIAL EFFECTS OF CHLOROFORM, METHANOL AND WATER EXTRACTS OF CROTON Macrostachyus Stem BARK AGAINST Escherichia Coli AND  Staphylococcus Aureus Standard AND CLINICAL STRAINS
Creators: name: Tigist Minyamer  Getnet Belay
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2018

description: No abstract available for this resource