cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Functional annotation of isoforms and processed chains in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot
Creators: name: Poux, Sylvain
name: Gehant, Sebastien
name: Redaschi, Nicole
name: Bridge, Alan
name: UniProt Consortium
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2021

description: The UniProt Knowledgebase (UniProtKB, https://www.uniprot.org) is a comprehensive, high quality and freely accessible resource of protein sequences and functional information. UniProtKB is composed of an expert curated section, UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot, and its automatically annotated complement UniProtKB/TrEMBL. A UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot record provides expert curated protein sequences for all transcripts expressed by one gene. Sometimes the functions of such isoform sequences may be as different from each other as the functions of the products of distinct genes.

 Here we describe recent developments that allow UniProt curators to capture the distinct functions and features of individual protein isoforms and mature chains in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot. These “isoform/chain-specific annotations” will provide better support for functional interpretation of transcriptomics and proteomics data, particularly from single cells, and for machine learning approaches that attempt to relate sequence features to any aspect of protein biology – be it protein function, interactions, distribution, or roles in disease. This work forms part of a wider strategy that aims to improve the machine readability of curated knowledge in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot more generally, which also encompasses the standardization of small molecule interactions using Rhea and the functional and clinical significance of human variation data (both of which will also be presented at this meeting).

 UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot currently provides functional annotations for specific isoforms and/or chains for more than 5,000 proteins, including more than 1,000 of human origin.
Euler-Lagrangian dynamics to the physical interpretation with granular constraints for MD simulations
Creators: name: Lee, Kyoung O.
name: Gardner, Robin P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article, Euler-Lagrangian dynamics explain that the two particle interaction has non-conservative forces about the frame of the center of mass. This interpretation clarifies the underlying interaction and the system descriptions become advantages for MD simulations.
A Novel Generator with Auxiliary Branch for Improving GAN Performance
Creators: name: Park, Seung
name: Shin, Yong-Goo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The generator in the generative adversarial network (GAN) learns image generation in a coarse-to-fine manner in which earlier layers learn the overall structure of the image and the latter ones refine the details. To propagate the coarse information well, recent works usually build their generators by stacking up multiple residual blocks. Although the residual block can produce a high-quality image as well as be trained stably, it often impedes the information flow in the network. To alleviate this problem, this brief introduces a novel generator architecture that produces the image by combining features obtained through two different branches: the main and auxiliary branches. The goal of the main branch is to produce the image by passing through the multiple residual blocks, whereas the auxiliary branch is to convey the coarse information in the earlier layer to the later one. To combine the features in the main and auxiliary branches successfully, we also propose a gated feature fusion module that controls the information flow in those branches. To prove the superiority of the proposed method, this brief provides extensive experiments using various standard datasets including CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, LSUN, CelebA-HQ, AFHQ, and tiny-ImageNet. Furthermore, we conducted various ablation studies to demonstrate the generalization ability of the proposed method. Quantitative evaluations prove that the proposed method exhibits impressive GAN performance in terms of Inception score (IS) and Frechet inception distance (FID). For instance, the proposed method boosts the FID and IS scores on the tiny-ImageNet dataset from 35.13 to 25.00 and 20.23 to 25.57, respectively.
Stem cell therapy in diabetic polyneuropathy : recent advancements and future directions
Creators: name: Akter, Shamima
name: Choubey, Mayank
name: Mohib, Mohammad Mohabbulla
name: Arbee, Shahida
name: Sagor, Abu Taher
name: Sarif Mohiuddin, Mohammad
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 615

description: Diabetic polyneuropathy (DPN) is the most frequent, although neglected, complication of long-term diabetes. Nearly 30% of hospitalized and 20% of community-dwelling patients with diabetes suffer from DPN; the incidence rate is approximately 2% annually. To date, there has been no curable therapy for DPN. Under these circumstances, cell therapy may be a vital candidate for the treatment of DPN. The epidemiology, classification, and treatment options for DPN are disclosed in the current review. Cell-based therapies using bone marrow-derived cells, embryonic stem cells, pluripotent stem cells, endothelial progenitor cells, mesenchymal stem cells, or dental pulp stem cells are our primary concern, which may be a useful treatment option to ease or to stop the progression of DPN. The importance of cryotherapies for treating DPN has been observed in several studies. These findings may help for the future researchers to establish more focused, accurate, effective, alternative, and safe therapy to reduce DPN. Cell-based therapy might be a permanent solution in the treatment and management of diabetes-induced neuropathy.
Exact anomalous current fluctuations in a deterministic interacting model
Creators: name: Krajnik, Žiga
name: Schmidt, Johannes
name: Pasquier, Vincent
name: Ilievski, Enej
name: Prosen, Tomaž
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analytically compute the full counting statistics of charge transfer in a classical automaton of interacting charged particles. Deriving a closed-form expression for the moment generating function with respect to a stationary equilibrium state, we employ asymptotic analysis to infer the structure of charge current fluctuations for a continuous range of timescales. The solution exhibits several unorthodox features. Most prominently, on the timescale of typical fluctuations the probability distribution of the integrated charge current in a stationary ensemble without bias is distinctly non-Gaussian despite diffusive behavior of dynamical charge susceptibility. While inducing a charge imbalance is enough to recover Gaussian fluctuations, we find that higher cumulants grow indefinitely in time with different exponents, implying singular scaled cumulants. We associate this phenomenon with the lack of a regularity condition on moment generating functions and the onset of a dynamical critical point. In effect, the scaled cumulant generating function does not, irrespectively of charge bias, represent a faithful generating function of the scaled cumulants, yet the associated Legendre dual yields the correct large-deviation rate function. Our findings hint at novel types of dynamical universality classes in deterministic many-body systems.
description: v2: 4.5 + 22 pages, minor corrections and fixed typos, new section on phase transition in SM; v3: slightly updated notation
D6.1 Data Management Plan and IPR Guidelines
Creators: name: Qirui Li
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: data management plan
IPR guidelines
deliverable

description: Managing and sharing data during a research project has clear advantages. It allows one to quickly find and understand the data when one needs to use it. It also gives continuity if project staff leave or new researchers join, and it avoids unnecessary duplication. A Data Management Plan (DMP) helps to save time and effort and makes the research and data-sharing process easier. By considering in advance what data will be created and how one can organize the necessary support concerning personal data and compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) legislations and protection of individual Intellectual Property Rights (IPR).
On vanishing coefficients of algebraic power series over fields of positive characteristic
Creators: name: Adamczewski, Boris
name: Bell, Jason P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $K$ be a field of characteristic $p>0$ and let $f(t_1,...,t_d)$ be a power series in $d$ variables with coefficients in $K$ that is algebraic over the field of multivariate rational functions $K(t_1,...,t_d)$. We prove a generalization of both Derksen's recent analogue of the Skolem-Mahler-Lech theorem in positive characteristic and a classical theorem of Christol, by showing that the set of indices $(n_1,...,n_d)\in \mathbb{N}^d$ for which the coefficient of $t_1^{n_1}...t_d^{n_d}$ in $f(t_1,...,t_d)$ is zero is a $p$-automatic set. Applying this result to multivariate rational functions leads to interesting effective results concerning some Diophantine equations related to $S$-unit equations and more generally to the Mordell--Lang Theorem over fields of positive characteristic.
Einfluss von Konservierungsmitteln in Topika auf die kutane Mikrobiota
Creators: name: Richter, Kathrin
name: Wohlrab, Johannes
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 610

description: Konservierungsmittel dienen der Haltbarmachung topischer Präparate und schützen dadurch den Anwender vor dem Einfluss pathogener Mikroben. Mit der Applikation des Topikums durchläuft die Matrix eine Metamorphose, in deren Folge es, durch anteilige Volatilisierung der hydrophilen Phase, zur Anreicherung des Konservierungsmittels auf der Hautoberfläche kommen kann. Es wird angenommen, dass dies zu antiseptischen Effekten und der Beeinflussung der Diversität der kutanen Mikrobiota führt. Wegen der Komplexität der Regulation des kutanen Mikrobioms und der damit verbundenen Einflussfaktoren resultiert ein hoher Grad der Individualisierung, sodass Untersuchungen zum Einfluss von definierten Interventionen methodisch schwierig sind. In der vorliegenden „Proof-of-concept“-Studie wurden mögliche antiseptische Effekte von Konservierungsmitteln in einer Kombination von In-vitro- und In-vivo-Methoden mittels mikrobiologischer Kulturversuche untersucht. Darüber hinaus dienten die Untersuchungen der Erarbeitung eines klinischen Studiendesigns für weiterführende Fragestellungen und erweitertem Methodenspektrum. Die Ergebnisse stützen die Hypothese einer antiseptischen Wirkung der getesteten Konservierungsmittel (Methyl-4-hydroxybenzoat und Propyl-4-hydroxybenzoat, Sorbinsäure/Kaliumsorbat und Propylenglykol) auf prominente Referenzbakterien und konnten auch im klinischen Setting beobachtet werden.
Cooperative excitation and many-body interactions in a cold Rydberg gas
Creators: name: Viteau, Matthieu
name: Huillery, Paul
name: Bason, Mark G.
name: Malossi, Nicola
name: Ciampini, Donatella
name: Morsch, Oliver
name: Arimondo, Ennio
name: Comparat, Daniel
name: Pillet, Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dipole blockade of Rydberg excitations is a hallmark of the strong interactions between atoms in these high-lying quantum states. One of the consequences of the dipole blockade is the suppression of fluctuations in the counting statistics of Rydberg excitations, of which some evidence has been found in previous experiments. Here we present experimental results on the dynamics and the counting statistics of Rydberg excitations of ultra-cold Rubidium atoms both on and off resonance, which exhibit sub- and super-Poissonian counting statistics, respectively. We compare our results with numerical simulations using a novel theoretical model based on Dicke states of Rydberg atoms including dipole-dipole interactions, finding good agreement between experiment and theory.
description: accepted for publication in PRL; 10 pages, 4 figures (including Supplemental Material)
Filter convergence in $βω$
Creators: name: Verner, Jonathan L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Topology (math.GN)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 54A20 (Primary) 54H05 (Primary)

description: We give a necessary combinatorial condition on a filter F to admit an injective F-convergent sequence in $βω$. We also show that no analytic filter F admits an injective F-convergent sequence in $βω$. This answers a question of T. Banakh, V. Mychaylyuk and L. Zdomskyy.
Frugal Innovation in Scholarly and Social Discourse: An Assessment of Trends and Potential Societal Implications
Creators: name: Tiwari, Rajnish
name: Fischer, Luise
name: Kalogerakis, Katharina
Publisher: name: TUHH Universitätsbibliothek
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Frugal Innovation; Frugality; Thrift; Responsible Innovation; Sustainable Growth;
classificationCode: 600
subject: Technik

description: The topic of frugal innovation is increasingly gaining relevance in social as well as scholarly discourse. Frugal innovations have been perceived by many to be a phenomenon generally confined to emerging economies where there are large groups of unserved consumers with unmet needs. But there is increasing evidence that this phenomenon is getting relevant also in the industrialized nations potentially affecting the long-term competitiveness of domestic firms not only overseas but also at home. This paper has a three-fold objective: (a) It seeks to establish the theoretical antecedents of frugal innovation by examining the scholarly discourse; (b) It attempts to generate hypotheses about its long-term relevance by examining historical trends of frugality and their disappearance; (c) It seeks to comprehend the social perception of frugal innovation in the specific German context by assessing the relevant social discourse. Based upon an extensive literature review and some preliminary primary data we propose a new working definition for frugal innovation and hypothesize that frugality was a key social value with positive associations before the era of unprecedented prosperity in the industrialized world, which led to saturated markets and inter alia to feature-driven competition and over-consumption of resources. New ground realities, e.g., economic downturn in the industrialized world and the rapidly rising consumption in the economically developing world, are expected to turn frugality, once again, into an important societal value and frugal innovation into a critical success factor in mid-term future.
Strong-field effects in Rabi oscillations between a single state and a superposition of states
Creators: name: Zhdanovich, S.
name: Hepburn, J. W.
name: Milner, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Rabi oscillations of quantum population are known to occur in two-level systems driven by spectrally narrow laser fields. In this work we study Rabi oscillations induced by shaped broadband femtosecond laser pulses. Due to the broad spectral width of the driving field, the oscillations are initiated between a ground state and a coherent superposition of excited states, or a "wavepacket", rather than a single excited state. Our experiments reveal an intricate dependence of the wavepacket phase on the intensity of laser field. We confirm numerically that the effect is associated with the strong-field nature of the interaction, and provide a qualitative picture by invoking a simple theoretical model.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures
Histological characteristics of the vastus lateralis muscle in patients undergoing hip surgery
Creators: name: Payne, Amelia Patterson
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: In aging populations, musculoskeletal changes cause a decline in the ability to perform activities of daily living, to exercise or to maintain an active lifestyle. Musculoskeletal changes may include the loss of muscle mass (sarcopenia), joint changes (osteoarthritis), or bone deterioration (osteoporosis). These types of musculoskeletal changes can also result in the need for hip surgery, a common procedure in older adults, often resulting from a hip fracture due to a non-traumatic event, or a hip replacement due to osteoarthritis. The primary risk factor for hip surgeries is the underlying musculoskeletal condition: osteoporosis (OP) or osteoarthritis (OA). Each of these conditions can lead to serious disability. In OP, bone density is low and bony microarchitecture is disrupted; in OA, the bones become hard, and develop outgrowths. Skeletal muscle plays an active role in bone density and strength, making it reasonable to assume that the structure and characteristics of skeletal muscle tissue will also affect bones and joints. The purpose of this study is to describe morphological and histological differences in muscle fibre characteristics of an important lower extremity muscle, the vastus lateralis (VL). These characteristics were compared between persons undergoing hip surgery and a control group of comparably-aged older adults. This comparison occurred by quantifying the percentage of normal and abnormal muscle fibres, as well as the percentage of adipocytes. Using an ANCOVA to examine between group differences, this study found a difference (p<O.05) between groups in percentage of abnormal fibres and inflamed/ necrotic fibres. This shows that in some histological characteristics, the muscle tissue of older adults who experience hip surgery is different from those who do not. This study also found low to moderate, positive correlations of abnormal fibres, inflamed/necrotic fibres, and internally nucleated fibres with age. There are few reports of muscle structure in persons prior to undergoing hip surgery. Therefore, this knowledge will contribute to information on degenerative changes that may be present in the VL in older individuals prior to hip fracture.
Szenarien zu energieautonomer Mobilität am Beispiel der Bodenseeregion
Creators: name: Neumann, Hans-Martin
Publisher: name: TUHH Universitätsbibliothek
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Energieautonomie
subject: Erneuerbare Energien
subject: Verkehrsplanung
subject: Regionalentwicklung
subject: Szenarioanalyse
classificationCode: 600
subject: Technik
classificationCode: 620
subject: Ingenieurwissenschaften
classificationCode: 710
subject: Landschaftsgestaltung, Raumplanung

description: In der Arbeit wird am Beispiel der Bodenseeregion diskutiert, ob und unter welchen Voraussetzungen sich der Verkehrsenergiebedarf einer Region vollständig aus heimischen, erneuerbaren Quellen decken lässt. Hierfür werden mehrere Szenarien entwickelt. Es kann gezeigt werden, dass eine vollständige Dekarbonisierung des Verkehrssystems möglich ist, wenn in den nächsten 5 bis spätestens 10 Jahren die dafür notwen-digen Rahmenbedingungen geschaffen werden. Auch eine Deckung des Verkehrsenergiebedarfs mit erneuerbaren Energieträgern aus der Region erscheint unter sehr günstigen Rahmenbedingungen möglich.
description: Using the example of the Lake Constance region, the thesis discusses whether and under what conditions the transport energy demand of a region can be completely covered by domestic, renewable sources. Several scenarios are being developed for this. It can be shown that a complete decarbonization of the transport system is possible if the necessary framework conditions are created in the next 5 to 10 years at the latest. Covering the transport energy demand with renewable energy sources from the region also appears possible under very favorable framework conditions.
Solving the TTC 2011 Model Migration Case with Edapt
Creators: name: Herrmannsdoerfer, Markus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper gives an overview of the Edapt solution to the GMF model migration case of the Transformation Tool Contest 2011.
description: In Proceedings TTC 2011, arXiv:1111.4407
Measurement of the gamma angle from tree decays at the LHCb experiment
Creators: name: Sánchez, Alexandra Martín
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An overview of plans for the measurement of gamma at the LHCb experiment will be shown. The gamma angle is the least accurately known parameter of the CKM unitary triangle. The LHCb experiment at the CERN LHC aims to perform precision heavy flavour and CP violation measurements, including improving the knowledge of gamma. Focus will be put on methods using B meson decays at the tree level, within the Standard Model framework. The early data recorded by the experiment, from pp collisions at sqrt{s} = 7 TeV, allowed observations of the first signals of the B decay modes that will be used to perform this measurement.
description: Presented at the 2011 Hadron Collider Physics symposium (HCP-2011), Paris, France, November 14-18 2011, 3 pages, 9 figures
I. Georg-Weinblum-Gedächtnis-Vorlesung
Creators: name: Wehausen, John V.
Publisher: name: TUHH Universitätsbibliothek
Year: 1979
Subjects: classificationCode: 52.00
subject: Maschinenbau, Energietechnik, Fertigungstechnik: Allgemeines

description: I. Georg-Weinblum-Gedächtnis-Vorlesung
title: Autonome Maschinen als „Normadressaten“?: Eine Erinnerung an die Bedeutung von Autonomie als Selbstgesetzgebung für das Rechtsverständnis
Creators: name: Rösinger, Luna
Publisher: name: MyCoRe Community
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Künstliche Intelligenz
subject: Autonomiebegriff
subject: Rechtspersonalität
subject: Verhaltenssteuerung
subject: Rechtsbegriff
subject: Freiheit
subject: Selbstgesetzgebung
subject: Rechtssubjektivität
subject: Rechtsverständnis
subject: Rechtsnorm
subject: 000
subject: 004
subject: 300

description: Die Auseinandersetzung mit der Problematik, ob Roboter oder andere Maschinen, insbesondere die mit „Künstlicher Intelligenz“ ausgestatteten, wegen ihrer „Autonomie“ Adressaten von Rechtsnormen sein können, fordert den Rechtsbegriff in verschiedenen Hinsichten heraus. Der Beitrag geht der Frage nach, welches Rechtsverständnis einer solchen Annahme zugrunde liegen könnte, und hinterfragt dieses kritisch. Es zeigt sich, dass die Zuschreibung von Autonomie und Rechtspersonalität letztlich wenig dazu beiträgt, den künftigen Umgang mit KI zu regeln; sie bietet aber Anlass, die Bedeutung von Autonomie als Selbstgesetzgebung für das Rechtsverständnis in Erinnerung zu rufen.
description: Can robots or other machines, especially those equipped with “Artificial Intelligence”, be addressees of legal norms because of their “autonomy”? The discussion of this problem challenges the concept of Law in various respects. The article examines the question of which understanding of Law might underlie such an assumption, and critically calls it into question. It turns out that the attribution of autonomy and legal personhood ultimately does little to regulate the future treatment of AI; it does, however, provide an occasion to recall the significance of autonomy as self-legislation for the understanding of Law.
description: Künstliche Intelligenz: Perspektiven auf epistemische, praktische und historiographische Herausforderungen, p. 167
Renormalization Group Flows for Track Function Moments
Creators: name: Jaarsma, Max
name: Li, Yibei
name: Moult, Ian
name: Waalewijn, Wouter
name: Zhu, Hua Xing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Track functions describe the collective effect of the fragmentation of quarks and gluons into charged hadrons, making them a key ingredient for jet substructure measurements at hadron colliders, where track-based measurements offer superior angular resolution. The first moment of the track function, describing the average energy deposited in charged particles, is a simple and well-studied object. However, measurements of higher-point correlations of energy flow necessitate a characterization of fluctuations in the hadronization process, described theoretically by higher moments of the track function. In this paper we derive the structure of the renormalization group (RG) evolution equations for track function moments. We show that energy conservation gives rise to a shift symmetry that allows the evolution equations to be written in terms of cumulants, $κ(N)$, and the difference between the first moment of quark and gluon track functions, $Δ$. The uniqueness of the first three cumulants then fixes their all-order evolution to be DGLAP, up to corrections involving powers of $Δ$, that are numerically suppressed by an effective order in the perturbative expansion for phenomenological track functions. However, at the fourth cumulant and beyond there is non-trivial RG mixing into products of cumulants such as $κ(4)$ into $κ(2)^2$. We analytically compute the evolution equations up to the sixth moment at $\mathcal{O}(α_s^2)$, and study the associated RG flows. These results allow for the study of up to six-point correlations in energy flow using tracks, paving the way for precision jet substructure at the LHC.
description: 45 pages, 4 figures, 1 Mathematica Notebook, v2: journal version
Vector-based model of elastic bonds for DEM simulation of solids
Creators: name: Kuzkin, Vitaly A.
name: Asonov, Igor E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new model for computer simulation of solids, composed of bonded rigid body particles, is proposed. Vectors rigidly connected with particles are used for description of deformation of a single bond. The expression for potential energy of the bond and corresponding expressions for forces and moments are proposed. Formulas, connecting parameters of the model with longitudinal, shear, bending and torsional stiffnesses of the bond, are derived. It is shown that the model allows to describe any values of the bond stiffnesses exactly. Two different calibration procedures depending on bond length/thickness ratio are proposed. It is shown that parameters of model can be chosen so that under small deformations the bond is equivalent to either Bernoulli-Euler rod or Timoshenko rod or short cylinder connecting particles. Simple expressions, connecting parameters of V-model with geometrical and mechanical characteristics of the bond, are derived. Computer simulation of dynamical buckling of the straight discrete rod and half-spherical shell is carried out.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures
A study of B --> ccBAR γK in the BABAR experiment
Creators: name: Fulsom, Bryan Gregory
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The BABAR Collaboration is a high energy physics experiment located at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. The primary goal of the experiment is to study charge and parity violation in the B-meson sector, however the copious production of B mesons decaying to other final states allows for a wide-ranging physics program. In particular, one can access the charmonium system via colour-suppressed b —> c decays of the type B —> ccBAR K. This thesis presents a study of B —> ccBAR γK decays where ccBAR includes J/ψ and ψ(2S), and K includes K±, K°s and K*(892). The particular emphasis is on a search for the radiative decays X(3872) —> J/ψγ and X(3872) —> ψ(2S)γ. The X(3872) state is a recently-discovered resonance of undetermined quark composition, speculatively a conventional charmonium state or exotic four-quark di-meson molecule. This research is also sensitive to the well-known radiative charmonium decays B —> Xcl,2K, which are used as verification for the analysis technique. This dissertation sets the best B —> Ｘc1K branching fraction measurements to date, and sees the first evidence for factorization-suppressed B⁰ —> Xc2K*⁰ decay at a level of 3,6σ. It also provides evidence for X(3872) J/ψγ and X(3872) —> ψ(2S)γ with 3.6σ and 3.3σ significance, respectively. The product of branching fractions B(B± X(3872)K± . B(X(3872) —> J/ψγ = (2.8 ± O.8(stat.) ± O.2(syst.)) x 10⁻⁶ and B(B± —> X(3872)K). B(X(3872) —> ψ(2S)γ )=(9.5±2.7(stat.)±0.9(syst.)) x 10⁻⁶ are measured. These results improve upon previous X(3872) —> J/ψγ measurements, and represent the first evidence for X(3872) —> ψ(2S)γ.
The use of arbuscular mycorrhizal inoculum in viticulture is not always positive: a systematic review
Creators: name: Baraza, Elena
name: Hmida, Islem
name: Ribas, Miquel A. J.
name: Moreno-Díaz, Ruben
name: Bota, Josefina
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2023

description: For more than 70 years, the scientific literature has demonstrated that arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) have positive effects on plant growth and stress tolerance. However, AMF have only been widely implemented in agricultural systems in the last decade. Recent reviews indicate AMF are key to the sustainability of viticulture. To explore the universality of the positive effects of AMF inoculation on grapevines, we created a database of the results from 30 publications that performed 169 experiments comparing the development of grapevine plants inoculated with AMF against control vines. We calculated inoculation dependence, as ID = ((mean of inoculated treatment – mean of control)/mean of inoculated treatment) * 100), to compare the effects of AM inoculation on the growth of grapevine plants between different experiments. In most studies, the experimental conditions differed significantly from commercial conditions, since 75% of the studies were conducted under greenhouse conditions and 71.8% of studies compared the growth of inoculated plants with plants growing in a sterilized substrate. High variability was observed in the ID of different response variables, be-tween the various rootstocks tested, and between different species compositions of AMF inoculum, demonstrating that the effects of mycorrhizal inoculation in vineyard growth are highly context dependent. This study demonstrates further research is required to characterize the effects of AMF under field conditions. Moreover, this work indicates that specific trials are needed to determine the effect of particular mycorrhizal strains on individual rootstocks under specific growing conditions before the use of AMF can be recommended to vine-growers.
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 62 No. 4 (2023): Vitis
The discovery of geomagnetically trapped cosmic ray antiprotons
Creators: name: Adriani, O.
name: Barbarino, G. C.
name: Bazilevskaya, G. A.
name: Bellotti, R.
name: Boezio, M.
name: Bogomolov, E. A.
name: Bongi, M.
name: Bonvicini, V.
name: Borisov, S.
name: Bottai, S.
name: Bruno, A.
name: Cafagna, F.
name: Campana, D.
name: Carbone, R.
name: Carlson, P.
name: Casolino, M.
name: Castellini, G.
name: Consiglio, L.
name: De Pascale, M. P.
name: De Santis, C.
name: De Simone, N.
name: Di Felice, V.
name: Galper, A. M.
name: Gillard, W.
name: Grishantseva, L.
name: Jerse, G.
name: Karelin, A. V.
name: Kheymits, M. D.
name: Koldashov, S. V.
name: Krutkov, S. Y.
name: Kvashnin, A. N.
name: Leonov, A.
name: Malakhov, V.
name: Marcelli, L.
name: Mayorov, A. G.
name: Menn, W.
name: Mikhailov, V. V.
name: Mocchiutti, E.
name: Monaco, A.
name: Mori, N.
name: Nikonov, N.
name: Osteria, G.
name: Palma, F.
name: Papini, P.
name: Pearce, M.
name: Picozza, P.
name: Pizzolotto, C.
name: Ricci, M.
name: Ricciarini, S. B.
name: Rossetto, L.
name: Sarkar, R.
name: Simon, M.
name: Sparvoli, R.
name: Spillantini, P.
name: Stozhkov, Y. I.
name: Vacchi, A.
name: Vannuccini, E.
name: Vasilyev, G.
name: Voronov, S. A.
name: Yurkin, Y. T.
name: Wu, J.
name: Zampa, G.
name: Zampa, N.
name: Zverev, V. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The existence of a significant flux of antiprotons confined to Earth's magnetosphere has been considered in several theoretical works. These antiparticles are produced in nuclear interactions of energetic cosmic rays with the terrestrial atmosphere and accumulate in the geomagnetic field at altitudes of several hundred kilometers. A contribution from the decay of albedo antineutrons has been hypothesized in analogy to proton production by neutron decay, which constitutes the main source of trapped protons at energies above some tens of MeV. This Letter reports the discovery of an antiproton radiation belt around the Earth. The trapped antiproton energy spectrum in the South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA) region has been measured by the PAMELA experiment for the kinetic energy range 60--750 MeV. A measurement of the atmospheric sub-cutoff antiproton spectrum outside the radiation belts is also reported. PAMELA data show that the magnetospheric antiproton flux in the SAA exceeds the cosmic-ray antiproton flux by three orders of magnitude at the present solar minimum, and exceeds the sub-cutoff antiproton flux outside radiation belts by four orders of magnitude, constituting the most abundant source of antiprotons near the Earth.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJL
Pivotality, twisted centres and the anti-double of a Hopf monad
Creators: name: Halbig, Sebastian
name: Zorman, Tony
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: primary:18M15, secondary: 16T05, 18C20, 18M30

description: Finite-dimensional Hopf algebras admit a correspondence between so-called pairs in involution, one-dimensional anti-Yetter--Drinfeld modules and algebra isomorphisms between the Drinfeld and anti-Drinfeld double. We extend it to general rigid monoidal categories and provide a monadic interpretation under the assumption that certain coends exist. Hereto we construct and study the anti-Drinfeld double of a Hopf monad. As an application the connection with the pivotality of Drinfeld centres and their underlying categories is discussed.
description: 64 pages, 65 figures; section 5 of v1 was split off into a separate article
The application of basin analysis to the triassic succession, Alberta basin: an investigation of burial and thermal history and evolution of hydrocarbons in triassic rocks
Creators: name: Ness, Shona M.
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: AC1 .T484 2001 N47
subject: Hydrocarbons - Alberta
subject: Formations - Geology - Alberta - Peace River Arch Region
subject: Formations - Geology - British Columbia - Peace River Arch Region
subject: Petroleum - Geology - Alberta - Peace River Arch Region
subject: Petroleum - Geology - British Columbia - Peach River Arch Region

description: Bibliography: pp. 141-153.
Schiffbauliche Biegeträger mit großen Ausschnitten
Creators: name: Höft, Horst Günter
Publisher: name: TUHH Universitätsbibliothek
Year: 1989
Subjects: classificationCode: 52.00
subject: Maschinenbau, Energietechnik, Fertigungstechnik: Allgemeines

description: Schiffbauliche Biegeträger mit großen Ausschnitten
title: DEMO: Secure Bootstrapping of Smart Speakers Using Acoustic Communication
Creators: name: Scheck, Markus
name: Putz, Florentin
name: Hessel, Frank
name: Leinweber, Hermann
name: Crystall, Jonatan
name: Hollick, Matthias
Publisher: name: UNSPECIFIED
Year: 2023

description: Smart speakers are highly privacy-sensitive devices: They are located in our homes and provide an Internet-enabled microphone, making them a prime target for attackers. The pairing between a client device and the speaker must be protected to prohibit adversaries from accessing the device. Most commercial protocols are vulnerable to nearby adversaries as they do not probe for human presence at the speaker or proximity between both devices. In addition to security, the protocol must provide a user-friendly way for initial bootstrapping of the speaker. We design an open pairing protocol for the establishment of a shared secret between both devices using acoustic messaging to guarantee proximity, and release our implementation for the smart speaker as well as Android and Linux clients as open-source software on GitHub.
Dynamics of a suspended nanowire driven by an ac Josephson current in an inhomogeneous magnetic field
Creators: name: Peña-Aza, Milton E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a voltage-biased nanoelectromechanical Josephson junction, where a suspended nanowire forms a superconducting weak-link, in an inhomogeneous magnetic field. We show that a nonlinear coupling between the Josephson current and the magnetic field generates a Laplace force that induces a whirling motion of the nanowire. By performing an analytical and a numerical analysis, we demonstrate that at resonance, the amplitude-phase dynamics of the whirling movement present different regimes depending on the degree of inhomogeneity of the magnetic field: time independent, periodic and chaotic. Transitions between these regimes are also discussed.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures
Solving the TTC 2011 Model Migration Case with UML-RSDS
Creators: name: Lano, K.
name: Kolahdouz-Rahimi, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper we apply the UML-RSDS notation and tools to the GMF model migration case study and explain how to use the UML-RSDS tools.
description: In Proceedings TTC 2011, arXiv:1111.4407
Modelle des Innovationsprozesses
Creators: name: Verworn, Birgit
name: Herstatt, Cornelius
Publisher: name: TUHH Universitätsbibliothek
Year: 2000
Subjects: classificationCode: 85.15
subject: Forschung und Entwicklung
subject: Prozessmodell
subject: Innovationsmanagement
subject: Innovationsprozess

description: Sowohl in der Forschung als auch in der Praxis sind Prozessmodelle ein wichtiger Bestandteil des Innovationsmanagements. Hierbei erfüllen Prozessmodelle die unterschiedlichsten Aufgaben. In der Praxis werden beispielsweise Prozessmodelle als Managementtool eingesetzt, um real ablaufende Prozesse zu standardisieren. In der Forschung werden Innovationsprozesse empirisch erfasst und in Prozessmodellen möglichst realistisch wiedergegeben. So vielfältig wie die Einsatzmöglichkeiten von Prozessmodellen sind die Ausgestaltungen der Modelle, die von der jeweiligen Zielsetzung des Unternehmens oder des Forschers abhängen. Somit gibt es nicht „das“ richtige Prozessmodell. Ziel dieses Arbeitspapieres ist es, einen Überblick über die verschiedenen Einsatzmöglichkeiten und Ausgestaltungen von Prozessmodellen zu geben. Es wird eine Auswahl von Prozessmodellen aus dem englischsprachigen und deutschsprachigen Raum präsentiert und Besonderheiten herausgearbeitet.
description: In research as well as in practice, process models are an important component of innovation management. In this context, process models fulfil different tasks. In practice, for instance, process models are used as a management tool to standardize development activities. Researchers observe innovation processes in practice and describe activities in the form of process models. The design of the different process models is as manifold as the use. It depends on the intention of the practitioner or researcher. There exists no single approach. Partially, one researcher uses different process models for different research designs. The aim of this paper is to give practitioners and management scholars an overview of different use and design of process models of the innovation process. A selection of process models from Anglo-Saxon and German authors is presented and differences are highlighted.
Spin--flip Limited Exciton Dephasing in CdSe/ZnS Colloidal Quantum Dots
Creators: name: Masia, Francesco
name: Accanto, Nicolò
name: Langbein, Wolfgang
name: Borri, Paola
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dephasing time of the lowest bright exciton in CdSe/ZnS wurtzite quantum dots is measured from 5 K to 170 K and compared with density dynamics within the exciton fine structure using a sensitive three-beam four-wave-mixing technique unaffected by spectral diffusion. Pure dephasing via acoustic phonons dominates the initial dynamics, followed by an exponential zero-phonon line dephasing of 109 ps at 5 K, much faster than the ~10 ns exciton radiative lifetime. The zero-phonon line dephasing is explained by phonon-assisted spin-flip from the lowest bright state to dark exciton states. This is confirmed by the temperature dependence of the exciton lifetime and by direct measurements of the bright-dark exciton relaxation. Our results give an unambiguous evidence of the physical origin of the exciton dephasing in these nanocrystals.
title: «Training the soul in excellence»: musical theory and practice in Plato's dialogues, between ethics and aesthetics
Creators: name: Lynch, Tosca
Publisher: name: University of St Andrews
Year: 2013

description: This thesis offers a technically informed examination of Plato’s pervasive, though not innocent, use of musical theory, practice and musical concepts more generally within the ambitious ethical project outlined in many of his dialogues: fostering the ‘excellence’ of the soul. Starting from Republic 3, Chapter 1 will focus specifically on music stricto sensu in order to assess Plato’s interpretation of the basic ‘building blocks’ of musical performances, creating a core repertoire of musical concepts that will prepare the way to analyse Plato’s use of musical terms or categories in areas that, at first sight, do not appear to be immediately connected to this art, such as politics, ethics and psychology. Chapter 2 examines a selection of passages from Laws 2 concerning the concept of musical beauty and its role in ethical education, demonstrating how Plato’s definition is far from being moralistic and, instead, pays close attention to the technical performative aspects of dramatic musical representations. Chapter 3 looks first at the harmonic characterisation of the two central virtues of the ideal city, sophrosyne and dikaiosyne, showing how their musical depictions are not purely metaphoric: on the contrary, Plato exploited their cultural implications to emphasise the characteristics and the functions of these virtues in the ideal constitution. The second half of Chapter 3 analyses the Platonic portrayal of musical παρανομία, studying both its educational and psychological repercussions in the dialogue and in relations to contemporary Athenian musical practices. Chapter 4 looks at how different types of music may be used to create an inner harmonic order of passions in the soul in different contexts: the musical-mimetic education outlined in the Republic, the musical enhancement of the psychological energies in the members of the Chorus of Dionysus in the Laws, and finally the role of the aulos in the Symposium.
Parallel self-testing of EPR pairs under computational assumptions
Creators: name: Fu, Honghao
name: Wang, Daochen
name: Zhao, Qi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Self-testing is a fundamental feature of quantum mechanics that allows a classical verifier to force untrusted quantum devices to prepare certain states and perform certain measurements on them. The standard approach assumes at least two spatially separated devices. Recently, Metger and Vidick [Quantum, 2021] showed that a single EPR pair of a single quantum device can be self-tested under computational assumptions. In this work, we generalize their results to give the first parallel self-test of $N$ EPR pairs and measurements on them in the single-device setting under the same computational assumptions. We show that our protocol can be passed with probability negligibly close to $1$ by an honest quantum device using poly$(N)$ resources. Moreover, we show that any quantum device that fails our protocol with probability at most $ε$ must be poly$(N,ε)$-close to being honest in the appropriate sense. In particular, our protocol can test any distribution over tensor products of computational or Hadamard basis measurements, making it suitable for applications such as device-independent quantum key distribution under computational assumptions. Moreover, a simplified version of our protocol is the first that can efficiently certify an arbitrary number of qubits of a single cloud quantum computer using only classical communication.
description: 63 pages; v2: expanded the set of measurements that can be tested, added application to device-independent quantum key distribution, and improved overall presentation; v3: further improved overall presentation, in particular, improved the introduction to Section 4
Electro-osmotic flows under nanoconfinement: a self-consistent approach
Creators: name: Melchionna, Simone
name: Marconi, Umberto Marini Bettolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a theoretical and numerical method to investigate the properties of electro-osmotic flows under conditions of extreme confinement. The present approach, aiming to provide a simple modeling of electrolyte solutions described as ternary mixtures, which comprises two ionic species and a third uncharged component, is an extension of our recent work on binary neutral mixtures. The approach, which combines elements of kinetic theory, density functional theory with Lattice-Boltzmann algorithms, is microscopic and self-consistent and does not require the us e of constitutive equations to determine the fluxes. Numerical solutions are obtained by solving the resulting coupled equations for the one-particle phase-space distributions of the species by means of a Lattice Boltzmann discretization procedure. Results are given for the microscopic density and velocity profiles and for the volumetric and charge flow.
description: 5 pages and 3 figures; Europhysics Letters 2011
Calibration systems of the ANTARES neutrino telescope
Creators: name: Gómez-González, J. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ANTARES detector is the largest deep sea underwater neutrino telescope in operation. The apparatus comprises a matrix of 885 photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) which detect the Cherenkov light emitted by the charged leptons produced in the charged current interactions of high energy neutrinos with the matter inside or near the detector. Reconstruction of the muon track and energy can be achieved using the time, position and charge information of the hits arriving to the PMTs. A good calibration of the detector is necessary in order to ensure its optimal performance. This contribution reviews the different calibration systems and methods developed by the ANTARES Collaboration.
description: Contribution to VLvNT 2011, to be published in NIM A, 4 pages, 7 figures
Kräfte durch überkommendes Wasser. Ein Beitrag zur Bemessung des Freibords
Creators: name: Blume, Peter
name: Keil, Harald
name: Hattendorff, Hans-Günther
name: Krappinger, Odo
Publisher: name: TUHH Universitätsbibliothek
Year: 1976
Subjects: classificationCode: 52.00
subject: Maschinenbau, Energietechnik, Fertigungstechnik: Allgemeines

description: Kräfte durch überkommendes Wasser. Ein Beitrag zur Bemessung des Freibords