cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Potential role for protein kinases in regulation of bidirectional endoplasmic reticulum-to-Golgi transport revealed by protein kinase inhibitor H89.
Creators: name: Lee, Christina
name: Linstedt, Adam
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Recent evidence suggests a regulatory connection between cell volume, endoplasmic reticulum (ER) export, and stimulated Golgi-to-ER transport. To investigate the potential role of protein kinases we tested a panel of protein kinase inhibitors for their effect on these steps. One inhibitor, H89, an isoquinolinesulfonamide that is commonly used as a selective protein kinase A inhibitor, blocked both ER export and hypo-osmotic-, brefeldin A-, or nocodazole-induced Golgi-to-ER transport. In contrast, H89 did not block the constitutive ER Golgi-intermediate compartment (ERGIC)-to-ER and Golgi-to-ER traffic that underlies redistribution of ERGIC and Golgi proteins into the ER after ER export arrest. Surprisingly, other protein kinase A inhibitors, KT5720 and H8, as well as a set of protein kinase C inhibitors, had no effect on these transport processes. To test whether H89 might act at the level of either the coatomer protein (COP)I or the COPII coat protein complex we examined the localization of betaCOP and Sec13 in H89-treated cells. H89 treatment led to a rapid loss of Sec13-labeled ER export sites but betaCOP localization to the Golgi was unaffected. To further investigate the effect of H89 on COPII we developed a COPII recruitment assay with permeabilized cells and found that H89 potently inhibited binding of exogenous Sec13 to ER export sites. This block occurred in the presence of guanosine-5'-O-(3-thio)triphosphate, suggesting that Sec13 recruitment is inhibited at a step independent of the activation of the GTPase Sar1. These results identify a requirement for an H89-sensitive factor(s), potentially a novel protein kinase, in recruitment of COPII to ER export sites, as well as in stimulated but not constitutive Golgi-to-ER transport.
title: Αποτύπωση Ιερού Ναού Χριστού Παντοκράτορα στις Στέρνες Χανίων με χρήση φωτογραμμετρικών και γεωδαιτικών μεθόδων

title: Schematic depiction of Holy Temple of Christ Pantocrator, located at Sternes of Chania, using photogrammetric and geodetic methods
Creators: name: Μαρατος Κωνσταντινος
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2022

description: Στην παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία, πραγματοποιείται μια λεπτομερής τρισδιάστατη αποτύπωση των όψεων και της στέγης του ναού με την χρήση φωτογραμμετρικών μεθόδων και συμβατικών γεωδαιτικών μεθόδων. Για την αποτύπωση, έγινε χρήση UAV (drone), και φωτογραφικής μηχανικής (mirrorless) για την λήψη εναέριων και επίγειων φωτογραφιών αντίστοιχα, ώστε να γίνει ανακατασκευή τρισδιάστατου μοντέλου και δημιουργία ορθομωσαικού της περιοχής. Επίσης, εξαιτίας της μικρής επιφάνειας της εκκλησίας έγινε αποτύπωση του εσωτερικου με την χρήση γεωδαιτικού σταθμου καθώς η φωτογραμμετρική μέθοδος θα ήταν χρονοβόρα διαδικασία, τόσο στις εργασίες του πεδίο όσο και στην ανακατασκευή του μοντέλου από το λογισμικό.
description: In the South-East of Akrotiri Chania and at a distance of 15 km from the city of Chania, at an altitude of 170m. on a plateau with an excellent view towards the gulf of Souda, for centuries the village named Sternes has been built. What is striking today in the above village is the large number of churches. The number is twenty-four (20) by the most modest calculations, because in a place that the American Base owns today there are more churches that are accessible only dur-ing holidays.
One of the churches is the Holy Temple of Christ Pantocrator which is located in the center of the village. As the architectural design of the church suggests, it is estimated to have been built during the period of the Venetian rule, that is, be-fore 1637 AD. (according to the census of the year).
In this thesis, a detailed 3D mapping of the facades and roof of the church is carried out using photogrammetric methods and conventional geodetic methods. For the mapping, a UAV (drone) and photographic camera (mirrorless) were used to shot aerial and ground photographs respectively, in order to reconstruct a 3D model and create an orthomosaic of the area. Also, due to the small area of the church, the interior was mapped using a Total Station as the photogrammetric method would be a time-consuming process, both in the field work and in the re-construction of the model by the software.
The principle of operation of the instruments used is defined, while the meth-odology followed is also described and also the operating process with which the data were processed  by the software. Lastly, the final plans and orthophotos are presented.
title: English in Tourism Management
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Ай Пи Ар Медиа
Year: 2023

description: Учебное пособие состоит из трех разделов (Unit), каждый из которых включает в себя четыре урока (Lessons). Каждый урок содержит лексический и грамматический материалы, соответствующие изучаемым темам. В пособии представлены как практические материалы, так и справочные, а также задания на формирование и закрепление основных умений и навыков: чтение, письмо, аудирование и говорение на английском языке. Подбор практических заданий позволяет развить умение осуществлять профессиональную коммуникацию на английском языке, а также закрепить грамматический и лексический материал. Подготовлено в соответствии с требованиями Федерального государственного образовательного стандарта высшего образования, предъявляемыми к изучению дисциплины «Иностранный язык (английский)». Учебное пособие предназначено для студентов, обучающихся по укрупненной группе направлений подготовки высшего образования «Сервис и туризм».
title: Reflections on lifespace intervention in social work
Creators: name: Grant, Kathy
Publisher: name: Strathprints - University of Strathclyde
Year: 2021

description: This article is a reflective piece about my own personal experience of frontline social work practice during this surreal time that we continue to live through. The response to the pandemic has brought challenge but has also created positive opportunities for reflection, change, motivation and for me personally, created a re-energising for the parts of the 'job' I had forgotten just how much I missed. By 'job' I mean not my job as a social worker or residential child care worker, but the job of building relationships and connecting with people by just spending time with them.
Reagents to measure and manipulate cell functions.
Creators: name: Giuliano, Kenneth A.
name: D. Lansing  Taylor
name: Waggoner, Alan
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Reagents that are used as part of a discovery platform for the measurement and manipulation of cell functions are at the heart of single and multiplexed high content screening assays. Measurement reagents include physiological indicators, immunoreagents, fluorescent analogs of macromolecules, positional biosensors, and fluorescent protein biosensors. Recent developments in reagents that manipulate specific cell functions including small inhibitory RNAs, caged peptides, proteins, and RNAs, and gene switches complement measurement reagents, especially when both classes of reagents are used in the same living cells. The use measurement and manipulation reagents in multiplexed high content screening assays promises to enable a systems cell biology approach to drug discovery and biomedical research.
Bicycle and urban design. A lesson from Covid-19
Creators: name: Fenu, Nicolò
Publisher: name: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment
Year: 2021

description: The central role of the car in city mobility has led to a decreased capacity for people to choose another alternative form of mobility. In recent decades, some cities have set policies where cycling has become increasingly important. Urban mobility policies in response to Covid-19 have reinforced this perspective. Throughout the analysis of urban bicycle studies, the paper investigates the role of mobility for society and the design of our cities? What the role of sustainable mobility, in particular how the bicycle is addressing the Covid-19 emergency. During and after this emergency, the use of the bicycle addresses urban quality and liveability for spaces. The research studies the urban policies of 5 cities: Barcelona, Bogota, Brussels, Milan and Paris and analyses the measures implemented during the first lock down, since February 2020 to May 2020. In all cities studied, the bicycle modal shares and the bicycle infrastructure has increased. Covid-19 allowed the bicycle to prove it is the safest, most efficient urban mode of transport. The action carried out, in the cities studied, affected not only on the hard aspects reshaping the cities with permanent and temporary solutions but also on soft aspects acting on people's perception and use and choosing how to move. Transport studies and policies involving bicycles are not just ‘about cycling’, but about sustainable, productive, and prosperous cities.
description: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, Vol 14 No 1 (2021): The city challenges and external agents. Methods, tools and best practices
Modeling State-Conditional Observation Distribution using Weighted Stereo Samples for Factorial Speech Processing Models
Creators: name: Khademian, Mahdi
name: Homayounpour, Mohammad Mehdi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper investigates the effectiveness of factorial speech processing models in noise-robust automatic speech recognition tasks. For this purpose, the paper proposes an idealistic approach for modeling state-conditional observation distribution of factorial models based on weighted stereo samples. This approach is an extension to previous single pass retraining for ideal model compensation which is extended here to support multiple audio sources. Non-stationary noises can be considered as one of these audio sources with multiple states. Experiments of this paper over the set A of the Aurora 2 dataset show that recognition performance can be improved by this consideration. The improvement is significant in low signal to noise energy conditions, up to 4% absolute word recognition accuracy. In addition to the power of the proposed method in accurate representation of state-conditional observation distribution, it has an important advantage over previous methods by providing the opportunity to independently select feature spaces for both source and corrupted features. This opens a new window for seeking better feature spaces appropriate for noisy speech, independent from clean speech features.
description: Updated version of the first submission. Several clarifications are added to previous version. One experiment is added to the experiments, Circuits Syst Signal Process, Apr. 2016
PI3KC3-C1-Beclin 1-C137-S-palmitoylation.pdb
Creators: name: Xu, Daichao
name: Guo, Rui
name: Liu, Jianping
name: Min, Xia
name: Zeng, Wen
name: Shan, Bing
name: Zhang, Mengmeng
name: He, Zhuohao
name: Zhang, Yaoyang
name: He, Kaiwen
name: Yuan, Junying
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 310102
subject: Cell development, proliferation and death

description: In the cryo-EM structure of PI3KC3-C1(EMDB ID:EMD-6785), the sidechain of C137 in Beclin 1 points to a proximal hydrophobic groove mainly formed by F64, Y66, and I76 residues of ATG14L, and W591 residue of VPS15. The covalent docking of PI3KC3-C1 with palmitic acid displays palmitic acid has formed a suitable steric complementarity with the binding site of PI3KC3-C1. Beclin 1 S-palmitoylation promotes the formation of ATG14L-containing PI3KC3-C1 complex by promoting the hydrophobic interactions of Beclin 1 and adaptor proteins ATG14L and VPS15.
Reconstruction of Composite Regulator-target Splicing Networks from High-Throughput Transcriptome Data.
Creators: name: Papasaikas, Panagiotis
name: Rao, Arvind
name: Huggins, Peter
name: Valcarcel, Juan
name: Lopez, Javier A
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We present a computational framework tailored for the modeling of the complex, dynamic relationships that are encountered in splicing regulation. The starting point is whole-genome transcriptomic data from high-throughput array or sequencing methods that are used to quantify gene expression and alternative splicing across multiple contexts. This information is used as input for state of the art methods for Graphical Model Selection in order to recover the structure of a composite network that simultaneously models exon co-regulation and their cognate regulators. Community structure detection and social network analysis methods are used to identify distinct modules and key actors within the network. As a proof of concept for our framework we studied the splicing regulatory network for Drosophila development using the publicly available modENCODE data. The final model offers a comprehensive view of the splicing circuitry that underlies fly development. Identified modules are associated with major developmental hallmarks including maternally loaded RNAs, onset of zygotic gene expression, transitions between life stages and sex differentiation. Within-module key actors include well-known developmental-specific splicing regulators from the literature while additional factors previously unassociated with developmental-specific splicing are also highlighted. Finally we analyze an extensive battery of Splicing Factor knock-down transcriptome data and demonstrate that our approach captures true regulatory relationships.
k=0 magnetic structure and absence of ferroelectricity in SmFeO3
Creators: name: Kuo, C. -Y.
name: Drees, Y.
name: Fernández-Díaz, M. T.
name: Zhao, L.
name: Vasylechko, L.
name: Sheptyakov, D.
name: Bell, A. M. T.
name: Pi, T. W.
name: Lin, H. -J.
name: Wu, M. -K.
name: Pellegrin, E.
name: Valvidares, S. M.
name: Li, Z. W.
name: Adler, P.
name: Todorova, A.
name: Küchler, R.
name: Steppke, A.
name: Tjeng, L. H.
name: Hu, Z.
name: Komarek, A. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: SmFeO3 has attracted considerable attention very recently due to the reported multiferroic properties above room-temperature. We have performed powder and single crystal neutron diffraction as well as complementary polarization dependent soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy measurements on floating-zone grown SmFeO3 single crystals in order to determine its magnetic structure. We found a k=0 G-type collinear antiferromagnetic structure that is not compatible with inverse Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction driven ferroelectricity. While the structural data reveals a clear sign for magneto-elastic coupling at the Néel-temperature of ~675 K, the dielectric measurements remain silent as far as ferroelectricity is concerned.
Project suggestions for post-earthquake interventions in Italy
Creators: name: Bedini, Maria Angela
name: Marinelli, Giovanni
Publisher: name: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment
Year: 2021

description: Over the past 30 years, post-earthquake emergency event management in Italy has far too often focused on the provision of temporary wooden housing modules to accommodate displaced residents transferred from their areas of origin to other places. This has led to losing sight of the central objective of resettlement in the areas of origin of the displaced population. Despite significant financial contributions allocated by the Central Government, unacceptable delays in reconstruction have almost always occurred. This study is aimed at providing a set of practical suggestions, to make it possible for the population to lead an acceptable “coexistence” with the seismic risk in the high hilly and mountainous areas. This paper also highlights some contents of the recent implementation urban plans (SUM Minimum Urban Structures), which are meant to serve as a dynamic tool for the revival of fragile areas. A few operational recommendations concern the criteria for the choice of the areas where temporary wooden housing modules are to be established in the transitional phase, near the city centre. Finally, the operational suggestions delivered by the study may provide an opportunity to raise the risk protection level and enhance the most important available resource: human capital.
description: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, Vol 14 No 1 (2021): The city challenges and external agents. Methods, tools and best practices
Gravitational Waves and Scalar Perturbations from Spectator Fields
Creators: name: Biagetti, Matteo
name: Dimastrogiovanni, Emanuela
name: Fasiello, Matteo
name: Peloso, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The most conventional mechanism for gravitational waves (gw) production during inflation is the amplification of vacuum metric fluctuations. In this case the gw production can be uniquely related to the inflationary expansion rate $H$. For example, a gw detection close to the present experimental limit (tensor-to-scalar ratio $r \sim 0.1$) would indicate an inflationary expansion rate close to $10^{14} \, {\rm GeV}$. This conclusion, however, would be invalid if the observed gw originated from a different source. We construct and study one of the possible covariant formulations of the mechanism suggested in [43], where a spectator field $σ$ with a sound speed $c_{s} \ll 1$ acts as a source for gw during inflation. In our formulation $σ$ is described by a so-called $P(X)$ Lagrangian and a non-minimal coupling to gravity. This field interacts only gravitationally with the inflaton, which has a standard action. We compute the amount of scalar and tensor density fluctuations produced by $σ$ and find that, in our realization, $r$ is not enhanced with respect to the standard result but it is strongly sensitive to $c_s$, thus breaking the direct $r \leftrightarrow H$ connection.
description: 22 pages
Rhythmic regulation of membrane potential and potassium current persists in SCN neurons in the absence of environmental input.
Creators: name: Kuhlman, Sandra
name: McMahon, Douglas G.
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Neurons of the mammalian suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) generate self-sustained rhythms of action potential frequency having a period of approximately 24 h. It is generally believed that cell autonomous circadian oscillation of a network of biological clock genes drives the circadian rhythm in neuronal firing rate through as yet unspecified effects on the neuronal membrane. While it is clear that cyclic gene expression continues in constant darkness, previous studies have not examined which specific membrane properties of SCN neurons continue to oscillate in constant conditions. Here, we demonstrate that SCN neurons exhibit robust rhythms in resting membrane potential and input resistance in constant darkness. Furthermore, application of the K+ channel blocker tetraethylammonium revealed a rhythm in K+ current amplitude that persists in constant darkness and underlies the rhythm in membrane potential.
Hadron Wavefunctions as a Probe of a Two Color Baryonic Medium
Creators: name: Amato, Alessandro
name: Giudice, Pietro
name: Hands, Simon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The properties of the ground state of two-color QCD at non-zero baryon chemical potential $μ$ present an interesting problem in strongly-interacting gauge theory; in particular the nature of the physically-relevant degrees of freedom in the superfluid phase in the post-onset regime $μ>m_π/2$ still needs clarification. In this study we present evidence for in-medium effects at high $μ$ by studying the wavefunctions of mesonic and diquark states using orthodox lattice simulation techniques, made possible by the absence of a Sign Problem for the model with $N_f=2$. Our results show that beyond onset the spatial extent of hadrons decreases as $μ$ grows, and that the wavefunction profiles are consistent with the existence of a dynamically-gapped Fermi surface in this regime.
description: 22 pages, 9 figures
Congestion toll pricing and commercial land-use: clients' and vendors' perspective
Creators: name: Saffarzadeh, Mahmoud
name: Mirzahossein, Hamid
name: Amiri, Ebrahim
Publisher: name: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment
Year: 2021

description: This study outlines the effects of congestion toll pricing on commercial land-uses (CLUs) through studying the temporary and permanent impacts of client behavior on the CLUs. In the case study of Tehran metropolis, Iran's capital, which has experienced congestion pricing for more than four decades, both clients and vendors' viewpoints were modeled using discrete choice models. Two types of questionnaires were provided to evaluate clients' and vendors' behavior in response to the traffic congestion zone charges. The clients of three businesses, including garments, electronics, and home appliances, were more sensitive to toll price changes. A 20-percent increase in toll prices led to a substantial client loss in the above businesses in the long run due to accessibility decrease in their utility function. Consequently, the vendors preferred to change their approach and sell different goods; then, they gradually tended to migrate outside of the congestion zone.
description: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, Vol 14 No 1 (2021): The city challenges and external agents. Methods, tools and best practices
title: A personal reflection : in for the long haul
Creators: name: Ainsworth, Frank
Publisher: name: Strathprints - University of Strathclyde
Year: 2021

description: In the early 1970s Frank Ainsworth was appointed to a lectureship in social work at the University of Dundee. Shortly after, he met Leon Fulcher, an American, at a conference in Aberdeen. Fulcher was at that time a lecturer in social work at the University of Stirling. Their mutual interest was residential care for children and youth, and this is what they were hired to teach. This article documents their scholarship that commenced in Scotland. In some measure it also documents the relationship and careers of Ainsworth and Fulcher that have both coincided and diverged across the years. They met at a time when the education of residential workers was moving away from specialist courses and was being merged with mainstream social work education, the responsibility of the former Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work. For some this was seen as less than successful as far as the professionalisation of residential services for children and youth was concerned, at least in England. Ainsworth and Fulcher made important moves in career and country of residence in the mid-1980s: Fulcher to New Zealand as Professor of Social Work at the Victoria University of Wellington; Ainsworth to Australia as Head of School of Social Work at the Philip Institute of Technology in Melbourne. Both have retained an active scholarly role, together or with others, in relation to residential services for children and youth. Even after 40 years this continues. This article is a personal reflection on Ainsworth's and Fulcher's personal and professional journeys.
Detection of spatial correlations of fundamental plane residuals, and cosmological implications
Creators: name: Joachimi, Benjamin
name: Singh, Sukhdeep
name: Mandelbaum, Rachel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The fundamental plane (FP) is a widely used tool to investigate the properties of early-type galaxies, and the tight relation between its parameters has spawned several cosmological applications, including its use as a distance indicator for peculiar velocity surveys and as a means to suppress intrinsic noise in cosmic size magnification measurements. Systematic trends with the large-scale structure across the FP could cause serious biases for these cosmological probes, but may also yield new insights into the early-type population. Here we report the first detection of spatial correlations among offsets in galaxy size from an FP that explicitly accounts for redshift trends, using a sample of about $95,000$ elliptical galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We show that these offsets correlate with the density field out to at least $10h^{-1}$Mpc at $4σ$ significance in a way that cannot be explained by systematic errors in galaxy size estimates. We propose a physical explanation for the correlations by dividing the sample into central, satellite, and field galaxies, identifying trends for each galaxy type separately. Central (satellite) galaxies lie on average above (below) the FP, which we argue could be due to a higher (lower) than average mass-to-light ratio. We fit a simple model to the correlations of FP residuals and use it to predict the impact on peculiar velocity power spectra, finding a contamination larger than $10\,\%$ for $k>0.04\,h/$Mpc. Moreover, cosmic magnification measurements based on an FP could be severely contaminated over a wide range of scales by the intrinsic FP correlations.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures; minor changes to match published version
Sentinel lymph node imaging using quantum dots in mouse tumor models.
Creators: name: Ballou, Byron
name: Ernst, Lauren A.
name: Andreko, Susan
name: Harper, Theresa
name: Fitzpatrick, James
name: Waggoner, Alan
name: Bruchez, Marcel
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We demonstrate that quantum dots injected into two model tumors rapidly migrate to sentinel lymph nodes. PEG-coated quantum dots having terminal carboxyl, amino, or methoxyl groups all migrated from the tumor to surrounding lymph nodes similarly. Passage from the tumor through lymphatics to adjacent nodes could be visualized dynamically through the skin; at least two nodes could usually be defined. Imaging during necropsy confirmed confinement of the quantum dots to the lymphatic system and demonstrated easy tagging of sentinel lymph nodes for pathology. Examination of the sentinel nodes identified by quantum dot localization showed that at least some contained metastatic tumor foci.
Recycled aggregates in constructions. A case of circular economy in Sardinia (Italy)
Creators: name: Balletto, Ginevra
name: Borruso, Giuseppe
name: Mei, Giovanni
name: Milesi, Alessandra
Publisher: name: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment
Year: 2021

description: The paper is the result of an ongoing research, considering the use of raw and recycled materials in the construction sector. In particular, the idea is considering such use within a Circular Economy framework, analysing its potentials in the case of the closed market of Sardinia Island (Italy), identifying potential clusters and their ‘optimal’ shape. In the paper, we highlight a theoretical framework for circular economy, adapting a classical model of industrial location to the construction sector. We build a georeferenced database of activities related to the extraction, processing and disposal of materials related to construction, as a result of the MEISAR Project - https://meisar.org/en/. Such a result is presented in a tool named MEISAR_Map; we then propose a method, based on spatial analytical techniques, namely point pattern analysis, for delimiting spatial clusters. The closed market of Sardinia is analyzed and, in particular, the case study of the new football stadium in Cagliari, which involves the demolition of the existing stadium and the use of "secondary" raw materials for the construction of the new Cagliari stadium.
description: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, Vol 14 No 1 (2021): The city challenges and external agents. Methods, tools and best practices
Direct Observation and Quantitative Measurement of OH Radical Desorption During the Ultraviolet Photolysis of Liquid Nonanoic Acid
Creators: name: Numadate, Naoki
name: Saito, Shota
name: Nojima, Yuki
name: Ishibashi, Taka-aki
name: Enami, Shinichi
name: Hama, Tetsuya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ultraviolet (UV) photolysis of fatty acid surfactants which cover the surfaces of atmospheric liquid aerosols and are found in the oceans such as nonanoic acid (NA) has recently been suggested as a source of hydroxyl (OH) radicals in the troposphere. We used laser-induced fluorescence to directly observe OH radicals desorbed from the surface of neat liquid NA as a primary photoproduct following 213 nm irradiation. The upper limit of photoreaction cross section for the OH radical desorption was estimated to be 9.0(4.1) $\times$ 10$^{-22}$ cm$^2$, which is only 1.2$\pm$0.8% of the photoreaction cross section established for the photolysis of gas-phase acetic acid monomers. Vibrational sum-frequency generation spectroscopy for liquid NA revealed the hydrogen-bonded, cyclic, dimer structure of the NA molecules at the liquid surface. This dimerization can inhibit the formation of OH radicals and lead the present low photochemical reactivity of liquid NA.
Singular behavior of fluctuations in a relaxation process
Creators: name: Corberi, Federico
name: Gonnella, Giuseppe
name: Piscitelli, Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Carrying out explicitly the computation in a paradigmatic model of non-interacting systems, the Gaussian Model, we show the existence of a singular point in the probability distribution $P(M)$ of an extensive variable $M$. Interpreting $P(M)$ as a thermodynamic potential of a dual system obtained from the original one by applying a constraint, we discuss how the non-analytical point of $P(M)$ is the counterpart of a phase-transition in the companion system. We show the generality of such mechanism by considering both the system in equilibrium or in the non-equilibrium state following a temperature quench.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1404.3975
A Tale of HodgeRank and Spectral Method: Target Attack Against Rank Aggregation Is the Fixed Point of Adversarial Game
Creators: name: Ma, Ke
name: Xu, Qianqian
name: Zeng, Jinshan
name: Li, Guorong
name: Cao, Xiaochun
name: Huang, Qingming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Rank aggregation with pairwise comparisons has shown promising results in elections, sports competitions, recommendations, and information retrieval. However, little attention has been paid to the security issue of such algorithms, in contrast to numerous research work on the computational and statistical characteristics. Driven by huge profits, the potential adversary has strong motivation and incentives to manipulate the ranking list. Meanwhile, the intrinsic vulnerability of the rank aggregation methods is not well studied in the literature. To fully understand the possible risks, we focus on the purposeful adversary who desires to designate the aggregated results by modifying the pairwise data in this paper. From the perspective of the dynamical system, the attack behavior with a target ranking list is a fixed point belonging to the composition of the adversary and the victim. To perform the targeted attack, we formulate the interaction between the adversary and the victim as a game-theoretic framework consisting of two continuous operators while Nash equilibrium is established. Then two procedures against HodgeRank and RankCentrality are constructed to produce the modification of the original data. Furthermore, we prove that the victims will produce the target ranking list once the adversary masters the complete information. It is noteworthy that the proposed methods allow the adversary only to hold incomplete information or imperfect feedback and perform the purposeful attack. The effectiveness of the suggested target attack strategies is demonstrated by a series of toy simulations and several real-world data experiments. These experimental results show that the proposed methods could achieve the attacker's goal in the sense that the leading candidate of the perturbed ranking list is the designated one by the adversary.
description: 33 pages, https://github.com/alphaprime/Target_Attack_Rank_Aggregation
Neutron stars and supernova explosions in the framework of Landau's theory
Creators: name: Zheng, H.
name: Sahagun, J.
name: Bonasera, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A general formula of the symmetry energy for many-body interaction is proposed and the commonly used two-body interaction symmetry energy is recovered. Within Landau's theory (Lt), we generalize two equations of state (EoS) CCS$δ$3 and CCS$δ$5 to asymmetric nuclear matter. We assume that the density and density difference between protons and neutrons divided by their sum are order parameters. We use different EoS to study neutron stars by solving the TOV equations. We demonstrate that different EoS give different mass and radius relation for neutron stars even when they have exactly the same ground state (gs) properties ($E/A$, $ρ_0$, $K$, $S$, $L$ and $K_{sym}$). Furthermore, for one EoS we change $K_{sym}$ and fix all the other gs parameters. We find that for some $K_{sym}$ the EoS becomes unstable at high density even for neutron matter. This suggests that a neutron star (NS) can exist below and above the instability region but in different states: a quark gluon plasma (QGP) at high density and baryonic matter at low density. If the star's central density is in the instability region, then we associate these conditions to the occurrence of Supernovae (SN).
description: 24 pages, 9 figures
NATURAL COARSE AGGREGATE MODIFIED BY WASTE STEEL SLAG AND ITS APPLICATION IN THE SUBBASE OF HIGHWAY IN OMAN
Creators: name: OSAMA RAGAB IBRAHIM
name: EBRAHIM SAEED EBRAHIM SAEED
name: MOHAMMED MAHMOUD AL HAWAWSHEH
name: HAMDI SALEH ABDULLAH ISSA
name: HAMZA ALNOH MOUBARK
name: SALMA AL MAGHAWRI
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Flexible Pavement; Sustainable Pavements; Subbase; Steel Slag

description: Abstract
The world is moving towards sustainability to conserve natural resources. Many environmentally harmful materials produced by different industries that cannot be recycled can be exploited as a substitute for natural resources. The presence of steel slag in millions of tons around the world has become a negative impact on the environment. In the effects of climate change, there is a need to move towards sustainability. The use of steel slag which is produced by the steel factories located in the country will reduce the depletion of natural resources, at the same time, a place can be found to dispose of them and reduce environmental damage and burial costs. The main objective of this research is to specify the optimum mix of natural coarse aggregate and coarse steel slag in the subbase layer. California Bearing Ratio and Aggregate Impact Value experiments are the main parameters that will be used to evaluate each mix. As a result, it turns out that the use of 19% of steel slag will meet the required efficiency for the paving subbase layer.
Fostering the climate-energy transition with an integrated approach
Creators: name: Codemo, Anna
name: Favargiotti, Sara
name: Albatici, Rossano
Publisher: name: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment
Year: 2021

description: Cities have a key role in tackling the challenges related to climate change and they constitute an ideal framework to engage with low carbon and green agendas, and to transform the built environment with resilient and inclusive measures. In this paper, the relationship between adaptation and mitigation strategies has been investigated, to evaluate the possibility of combining them in planning policies and design practices. To this end, recent studies and European policies are reviewed to examine the interrelation between adaptation and mitigation strategies, and to explore to which extent a more integrated approach is foreseen towards urban transitions. The review allows an assessment of synergies, trade-offs and conflicts between adaptation and mitigation in urban practices and highlights several win-win solutions, such as Green Urban Infrastructure and climate sensitive design. However, the analysis indicates a lack of guidance and coordination, leading to the tendency to consider separately adaptation and mitigation, both in policy and in practice. The study intends to provide an overview of the interrelations and to present the gaps in current processes, with the aim of fostering a more integrated approach at the local level and of implementing more efficiently low carbon and adaptive solutions.
description: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, Vol 14 No 1 (2021): The city challenges and external agents. Methods, tools and best practices
title: Voices of young women leaving care : 'I did not have anywhere to go…so I went with a man'
Creators: name: Roberts, Petra
Publisher: name: Strathprints - University of Strathclyde
Year: 2021

description: Transitioning into adulthood can be difficult for many young people but transitioning from residential care comes with challenges to those who have grown up away from parents and family. This paper will present the voices of young women in Trinidad and Tobago and the challenges they faced transitioning from residential care. Their voices highlight the need to think in more gendered terms when contemplating effective strategies for facilitating transitions from out of home care.
Single-Cell Genetic Analysis Reveals Insights into Clonal Development of Prostate Cancers and Indicates Loss of PTEN as a Marker of Poor Prognosis.
Creators: name: Heselmeyer-Haddad, Kerstin M.
name: Garcia, Lissa Y. Berroa
name: Bradley, Amanda
name: Leanora  Hernandez
name: Hu, Yue
name: Habermann, Jens K.
name: Dumke, Christoph
name: Thorns, Christoph
name: Perner, Sven
name: Pestova, Ekaterina
name: Burke, Catherine
name: Chowdhury, Salim A.
name: Schwartz, Russell
name: Schäffer, Alejandro H.
name: Paris, Pamela L.
name: Ried, Thomas
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Gauging the risk of developing progressive disease is a major challenge in prostate cancer patient management. We used genetic markers to understand genomic alteration dynamics during disease progression. By using a novel, advanced, multicolor fluorescence in situ hybridization approach, we enumerated copy numbers of six genes previously identified by array comparative genomic hybridization to be involved in aggressive prostate cancer [TBL1XR1, CTTNBP2, MYC (alias c-myc), PTEN, MEN1, and PDGFB] in six nonrecurrent and seven recurrent radical prostatectomy cases. An ERG break-apart probe to detect TMPRSS2-ERG fusions was included. Subsequent hybridization of probe panels and cell relocation resulted in signal counts for all probes in each individual cell analyzed. Differences in the degree of chromosomal and genomic instability (ie, tumor heterogeneity) or the percentage of cells with TMPRSS2-ERG fusion between samples with or without progression were not observed. Tumors from patients that progressed had more chromosomal gains and losses, and showed a higher degree of selection for a predominant clonal pattern. PTEN loss was the most frequent aberration in progressers (57%), followed by TBL1XR1 gain (29%). MYC gain was observed in one progresser, which was the only lesion with an ERG gain, but no TMPRSS2-ERG fusion. According to our results, a probe set consisting of PTEN, MYC, and TBL1XR1 would detect progressers with 86% sensitivity and 100% specificity. This will be evaluated further in larger studies.
Entrepreneurship in the city: sustainability and green entrepreneurs
Creators: name: Franco, Stefano
Publisher: name: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment
Year: 2020

description: Starting from the relationship between urban planning and mobility management, TeMA has gradually expanded the view of the covered topics, always following a rigorous scientific in-depth analysis. This section of the Journal, Review Notes, is the expression of a continuous updating of emerging topics concerning relationships among urban planning, mobility and environment, through a collection of short scientific papers. The Review Notes are made of four parts. Each section examines a specific aspect of the broader information storage within the main interests of TeMA Journal. In particular, the Economy, business and land use section aims at presenting recent advancements on relevant topics that underlie socio-economic relationships between firms and territories. The present note underlines the benefits that entrepreneurship exerts on the city, with a specific focus on sustainability and green entrepreneurs. These ones are individuals who start business ventures without just seeking their profit maximization as a unique goal, but rather contribute to the sustainable development of the communities in which they are embedded. However, in order for them to have positive and long-lasting impacts, they need to cooperate with networks that embed several stakeholders and mainly local governments.
description: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, Vol 13 No 3 (2020): The city challenges and external agents. Methods, Tools and Best Practices
Multiple periods in the variability of the supermassive black hole binary candidate quasar PG1302-102?
Creators: name: Charisi, Maria
name: Bartos, Imre
name: Haiman, Zoltán
name: Price-Whelan, Adrian M.
name: Márka, Szabolcs
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Graham et al. (2015) discovered a supermassive black hole binary (SMBHB) candidate and identified the detected 5.2 yr period of the optical variability as the orbital period of the binary. Hydrodynamical simulations predict multiple periodic components for the variability of SMBHBs, thus raising the possibility that the true period of the binary is different from 5.2 yr. We analyse the periodogram of PG1302 and find no compelling evidence for additional peaks. We derive upper limits on any additional periodic modulations in the available data, by modeling the light-curve as the sum of red noise and the known 5.2 yr periodic component, and injecting additional sinusoidal signals. We find that, with the current data, we would be able to detect with high significance (false alarm probability <1%) secondary periodic terms with periods in the range predicted by the simulations, if the amplitude of the variability was at least ~0.07 mag (compared to 0.14 mag for the main peak). A three-year follow-up monitoring campaign with weekly observations can increase the sensitivity for detecting secondary peaks ~50%, and would allow a more robust test of predictions from hydrodynamical simulations.
description: Submitted in MNRAS Letters 6 pages, 5 figures
Stochastic dynamics of uncoupled neural oscillators: Fokker-Planck studies with the finite element method.
Creators: name: Galán, Roberto F.
name: G Bard  Ermentrout
name: Urban, Nathan
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We have investigated the effect of the phase response curve on the dynamics of oscillators driven by noise in two limit cases that are especially relevant for neuroscience. Using the finite element method to solve the Fokker-Planck equation we have studied (i) the impact of noise on the regularity of the oscillations quantified as the coefficient of variation, (ii) stochastic synchronization of two uncoupled phase oscillators driven by correlated noise, and (iii) their cross-correlation function. We show that, in general, the limit of type II oscillators is more robust to noise and more efficient at synchronizing by correlated noise than type I.
Toward greener and pandemic-proof cities: EU cities policy responses to Covid-19 outbreak
Creators: name: Angiello, Gennaro
Publisher: name: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment
Year: 2020

description: Starting from the relationship between urban planning and mobility management, TeMA has gradually expanded the view of the covered topics, always following a rigorous scientific in-depth analysis. This section of the Journal, Review Notes, is the expression of a continuous updating of emerging topics concerning relationships among urban planning, mobility and environment, through a collection of short scientific papers. The Review Notes are made of four parts. Each section examines a specific aspect of the broader information storage within the main interests of TeMA Journal. In particular, the Urban practices section aims at presenting recent advancements on relevant topics that underlie the challenges that the cities have to face. The present note provides an overview of the policies and initiatives undertaken in three European cities in response to the Covid-19 outbreak: Milan, Paris and Brussels. A cross-city analysis is used to derive a taxonomy of urban policy measures. The contribution discusses the effectiveness of each measures in providing answers to epidemic threats in urban areas while, at the same time, improving the sustainability and resilience of urban communities.
description: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, Vol 13 No 3 (2020): The city challenges and external agents. Methods, Tools and Best Practices
Non-reciprocity of Vortex-limited Critical Current in Conventional Superconducting Micro-bridges
Creators: name: Suri, Dhavala
name: Kamra, Akashdeep
name: Meier, Thomas N. G.
name: Kronseder, Matthias
name: Belzing, Wolfgang
name: Back, Christian H.
name: Strunk, Christoph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Non-reciprocity in the critical current has been observed in a variety of superconducting systems and has been called the superconducting diode effect. The origin underlying the effect depends on the symmetry breaking mechanisms at play. We investigate superconducting micro bridges of NbN and also NbN/magnetic insulator (MI) hybrids. We observe a large diode efficiency of $\approx$~30\% when an out-of-plane magnetic field as small as 25~mT is applied. In both NbN and NbN/MI hybrid, we find that the diode effect vanishes when the magnetic field is parallel to the sample plane. Our observations are consistent with the critical current being determined by the vortex surface barrier. Unequal barriers on the two edges of the superconductor strip result in the diode effect. Furthermore, the rectification is observed up to a temperature $\sim$10~K, which makes the device potential for diode based applications over larger temperature range than before.