cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Plant survival and keystone pollinator species in stochastic coextinction models: role of intrinsic dependence on animal-pollination
Creators: name: Traveset, A
name: Tur, C
name: Eguíluz, VM
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Coextinction models are useful to understand community robustness to species loss and resilience to disturbances. We simulated pollinator extinctions in pollination networks by using a hybrid model that combined a recently developed stochastic coextinction model (SCM) for plant extinctions and a topological model (TCM) for animal extinctions. Our model accounted for variation in interaction strengths and included empirical estimates of plant dependence on pollinators to set seeds. The stochastic nature of such model allowed us determining plant survival to single (and multiple) extinction events, and identifying which pollinators (keystone species) were more likely to trigger secondary extinctions. Consistently across three different pollinator removal sequences, plant robustness was lower than in a pure TCM, and plant survival was more determined by dependence on the mutualism than by interaction strength. As expected, highly connected and dependent plants were the most sensitive to pollinator loss and collapsed faster in extinction cascades. We predict that the relationship between dependence and plant connectivity is crucial to determine network robustness to interaction loss. Finally, we showed that honeybees and several beetles were keystone species in our communities. This information is of great value to foresee consequences of pollinator losses facing current global change and to identify target species for effective conservation.
description: (37 pages, 9 figures, including supplementary information)
Classical solutions of drift-diffusion equations for semiconductor devices: The 2D case
Creators: name: Kaiser, Hans-Christoph
name: Neidhardt, Hagen
name: Rehberg, Joachim
Publisher: name: Weierstrass Institute
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Initial boundary value problem
subject: reaction-diffusion processes
subject: quasi-linear prarbolic systems
subject: 35K45
subject: 35K50
subject: 35K55
subject: 35K57
subject: 78A35

description: We regard drift-diffusion equations for semiconductor devices in Lebesgue spaces. To that end we reformulate the (generalized) van Roosbroeck system as an evolution equation for the potentials to the driving forces of the currents of electrons and holes. This evolution equation falls into a class of quasi-linear parabolic systems which allow unique, local in time solution in certain Lebesgue spaces. In particular, it turns out that the divergence of the electron and hole current is an integrable function. Hence, Gauss' theorem applies, and gives the foundation for space discretization of the equations by means of finite volume schemes. Moreover, the strong differentiability of the electron and hole density in time is constitutive for the implicit time discretization scheme. Finite volume discretization of space, and implicit time discretization are accepted custom in engineering and scientific computing. ---This investigation puts special emphasis on non-smooth spatial domains, mixed boundary conditions, and heterogeneous material compositions, as required in electronic device simulation.
Additional file 2 of A phenomics approach for antiviral drug discovery
Creators: name: Rietdijk, Jonne
name: Tampere, Marianna
name: Pettke, Aleksandra
name: Georgiev, Polina
name: Lapins, Maris
name: Warpman-Berglund, Ulrika
name: Spjuth, Ola
name: Puumalainen, Marjo-Riitta
name: Carreras-Puigvert, Jordi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Table S1. PCA loadings of the first Principal component indicating feature importance (Fig. 1d). The top 20 positively correlated, as well as 20 most negatively correlated features including their loadings on the first principal component.
Redemption in the Presence of Widespread Criminal Background Checks
Creators: name: Nakamura, Kiminori
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 160510 Public Policy
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Recent advances in information technology and growing concerns about employer liability have combined to increase the demand for criminal background checks. Also, since over 14 million arrests are made each year, many individuals will have criminal history records. As a result, many individuals who have redeemed by avoiding involvement in crime and are seeking employment will be haunted by the record of a crime committed a long time ago, a record that may well indicate a low probability of future crime risk. It is known that the probability of recidivism declines with time "clean" since a last arrest, so that there is some T* such that someone with no arrest for T* years is of no greater risk than any demographically similar counterpart. The problem is that we have very little information on the appropriate value of T*, and how that value varies with the crime type of the earlier event (C1) and the offender’s age at that event (A1). This paper estimates the degree to which a past criminal record loses its relevance in terms of its ability to predict future offending. Data obtained from a state criminal-history repository allow us to estimate the hazard of rearrest. This paper looks for its intersection with the demographically appropriate age-crime curve, representing the risk of arrest for the general population. The findings of this research can contribute to the development of relevancy guidelines for the users of background-checking services and for policy makers interested in enhancing employment opportunities in developing regulations regarding the dissemination of such records.
Time step truncation in direct simulation Monte Carlo for semiconductors
Creators: name: Muscato, Orazio
name: Wagner, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Weierstrass Institute
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Boltzmann-Poisson equations
subject: electronic devices
subject: Monte Carlo simulations
subject: 82D37
subject: 65C05

description: A homogeneous (bulk) silicon semiconductor is studied by using the Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC). Two DSMC algorithms are considered, the self scattering technique (SST) and the constant time technique (CTT). First, the results obtained by CTT are shown to converge (with vanishing time step) to the results obtained by SST. The truncation error of CTT turns out to be of first order with respect to the time step. Second, the efficiency of both algorithms is compared. It is found that SST is more efficient if a high precision (relative error less then three percent) of the results is needed.
Additional file 2 of Effect of intestinal microecology on postnatal weight gain in very preterm infants in intensive care units
Creators: name: Ding, Ying-Xue
name: Wang, Shou-Ni
name: Cui, Hong
name: Jiang, Li-Na
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology

description: Additional file 2: Table S1. Comparison of communities at different levels at 2 weeks after birth (over 9%). Table S2. Comparison of communities at different levels at 4 weeks after birth (over 9%). Table S3. OTUs of the two groups at two weeks after birth. Table S4. OTUs of the two groups at four weeks after birth.
Formulae for Growth Factors In Expanding Universes Containing Matter and a Cosmological Constant
Creators: name: Hamilton, A. J. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Formulae are presented for the linear growth factor D/a and its logarithmic derivative dlnD/dlna in expanding Friedmann-Robertson-Walker Universes with arbitrary matter and vacuum densities. The formulae permit rapid and stable numerical evaluation. A fortran program is available at http://casa.colorado.edu/~ajsh/growl/ .
description: 7 pages, including 3 embedded PostScript figures. Minor changes to agree with version accepted for publication in MNRAS. Fortran package growl.tar.gz available at http://casa.colorado.edu/~ajsh/growl/
Uniqueness results for an inverse periodic transmission problem
Creators: name: Elschner, Johannes
name: Yamamoto, Masahiro
Publisher: name: Weierstrass Institute
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Diffraction grating
subject: periodic Helmholtz equation
subject: inverse transmission problem
subject: 78A46
subject: 35R30

description: The paper is devoted to the inverse problem of recovering a 2D periodic structure from scattered waves measured above and below the structure. We show that measurements corresponding to a finite number of refractive indices above or below the grating profile, uniquely determine the periodic interface in the inverse TE transmission problem. If a priori information on the height of the diffraction grating is available, then we also obtain upper bounds of the required number of wavenumbers by using the Courant-Weyl min-max principle for a fourth-order elliptic problem. This extends uniqueness results by Hettlich and Kirsch [11] to the inverse transmission problem.
Velocity- and pointing-error measurements of a 300 000 r/min self-bearing permanent-magnet motor for optical applications
Creators: name: Breitkopf, Sven
name: Lilienfein, Nikolai
name: Achtnich, Timon
name: Zwyssig, Christof
name: Tünnermann, Andreas
name: Pupeza, Ioachim
name: Limpert, Jens
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Compact, ultra-high-speed self-bearing permanent-magnet motors enable a wide scope of applications including an increasing number of optical ones. For implementation in an optical setup the rotors have to satisfy high demands regarding their velocity and pointing errors. Only a restricted number of measurements of these parameters exist and only at relatively low velocities. This manuscript presents the measurement of the velocity and pointing errors at rotation frequencies up to 5 kHz. The acquired data allows to identify the rotor drive as the main source of velocity variations with fast fluctuations of up to 3.4 ns (RMS) and slow drifts of 23 ns (RMS) over ~120 revolutions at 5 kHz in vacuum. At the same rotation frequency the pointing fluctuated by 12 $μ$rad (RMS) and 33 $μ$rad (peak-to-peak) over ~10000 roundtrips. To our best knowledge this states the first measurement of velocity and pointing errors at multi-kHz rotation frequencies and will allow potential adopters to evaluate the feasibility of such rotor drives for their application.
A general asymptotic model for Lipschitzian curved rods
Creators: name: Tiba, Dan
name: Vodák, Rostislav
Publisher: name: Weierstrass Institute
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: curved rods
subject: low geometrical regularity
subject: 1D-asymptotic model
subject: 74K10
subject: 74B99

description: In this paper we show that the asymptotic methods provide an advantageous approach to obtain models of thin elastic bodies under minimal regularity assumptions on the geometry. Our investigation is devoted to clamped curved rods with a nonsmooth line of centroids and the obtained model is a generalization of results already available in the literature.
Interacting Fermi Gases in Disordered One-Dimensional Lattices
Creators: name: Xianlong, Gao
name: Polini, M.
name: Tanatar, B.
name: Tosi, M. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Interacting two-component Fermi gases loaded in a one-dimensional (1D) lattice and subject to harmonic trapping exhibit intriguing compound phases in which fluid regions coexist with local Mott-insulator and/or band-insulator regions. Motivated by experiments on cold atoms inside disordered optical lattices, we present a theoretical study of the effects of a random potential on these ground-state phases. Within a density-functional scheme we show that disorder has two main effects: (i) it destroys the local insulating regions if it is sufficiently strong compared with the on-site atom-atom repulsion, and (ii) it induces an anomaly in the compressibility at low density from quenching of percolation.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures, submitted
A reduction approximation method for curved rods
Creators: name: Arnautu, Viorel
name: Sprekels, Jürgen
name: Tiba, Dan
Publisher: name: Weierstrass Institute
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Finite element approximation
subject: locking problem
subject: uniform convergence
subject: 65L20
subject: 74K10

description: We study the numerical approximation of a general linear model for three-dimensional clamped curved rods. We introduce a modified system and we show that the convergence of the numerical discretization is independent of the small parameters entering the coefficients of the differential equations.
Precessing Jet and Large Dust Grains in the V380 Ori NE Star-forming Region
Creators: name: Choi, Minho
name: Kang, Miju
name: Lee, Jeong-Eun
name: Tatematsu, Ken'ichi
name: Kang, Sung-Ju
name: Sayers, Jack
name: Evans, Neal J.
name: Cho, Jungyeon
name: Kwon, Jungmi
name: Park, Geumsook
name: Ohashi, Satoshi
name: Yoo, Hyunju
name: Lee, Youngung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The V380 Ori NE bipolar outflow was imaged in the SiO and CO J = 1 - 0 lines, and dense cores in L1641 were observed in the 2.0-0.89 mm continuum. The highly collimated SiO jet shows point-symmetric oscillation patterns in both position and velocity, which suggests that the jet axis is precessing and the driving source may belong to a non-coplanar binary system. By considering the position and velocity variabilities together, accurate jet parameters were derived. The protostellar system is viewed nearly edge-on, and the jet has a flow speed of 35 km/s and a precession period of 1600 years. The CO outflow length gives a dynamical timescale of 6300 years, and the protostar must be extremely young. The inferred binary separation of 6-70 au implies that this protobinary system may have been formed through the disk instability process. The continuum spectra of L1641 dense cores indicate that the emission comes from dust, and the fits with modified blackbody functions give emissivity power indices of beta = 0.3-2.2. The emissivity index shows a positive correlation with the molecular line width, but no strong correlation with bolometric luminosity or temperature. V380 Ori NE has a particularly low value of beta = 0.3, which tentatively suggests the presence of millimeter-sized dust grains. Because the dust growth takes millions of years, much longer than the protostellar age, this core may have produced large grains in the starless core stage. HH 34 MMS and HH 147 MMS also have low emissivity indices.
description: To appear in the Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
Race, Trust and Social Capital
Creators: name: Gardner, John
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 160510 Public Policy
subject: FOS: Political science

description: In a recent paper, Robert Putnam presents findings that racial and ethnic diversity erodes trust among neighbors. Given trends in global immigration, coupled with the centrality of trust to social capital, these findings are par ticularly disturbing. However, there may be reason to believe that Putnamfis new findings are a false alarm; that individuals and families base their choice of residence in part on the racial and ethnic composition of cities and neigh borhoods. If this is the case, then many agents will naturally prefer to live near members of their own race - a group with which they are likely to have a high level of trust. While such endogenous sorting into racially homogeneous neighborhoods may affect the formation of social capital, it does not imply that the objectives of diversity and social capital are mutually exclusive. This paper presents evidence that this type of sorting does indeed oc cur, creating the appearance of a negative effect of diversity on trust between neighbors. Before presenting this evidence, this paper gives a brief overview of the the oretical impacts of social capital formation, discuss the mutual relationships between diversity, racial attitudes and social capital, and present an anal ysis of the relationship between social capital, diversity and the residential location decisions of families and individuals.
Chelyophora borneana Rondani 1875
Creators: name: Sforzi, Alessandra
name: Sommaggio, Daniele
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tephritidae
Chelyophora
Chelyophora borneana

description: Chelyophora borneana Rondani, 1875
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1875c: 434.
 TYPE LOCALITY: “ Insula Bonae Fortunae (Borneo), Provincia Sarawak [Bona Fortuna Island, Sarawak Province, Borneo]” (Rondani 1875c: 421).
 TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♀, holotype (MSNG): Borneo, Sarawak, 1865/1866, Coll. Doria / Typus / Chelyophora borneana Rond. / Chelyophora borneana n° 26.
 CURRENT STATUS: valid species (Hardy 1977: 92, Norrbom et al. 1999: 123).
 REMARKS: Rondani (1875c: 434) described Chelyophora borneana from just the female sex, without specifying the exact number of specimens, but giving a single measurement of length, from material collected by G. Doria and O. Beccari. Guiglia (1957: 194) and Raineri & Rey (1996: 57) reported the holotype (♀) in the MSNG.
description: Published as part of Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, pp. 1-438 in Zootaxa 4989 (1) on page 370, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4980621
R&D, Knowledge Spillovers, and Competition among Firms with Asymmetric Technological Capabilities
Creators: name: Ceccagnoli, Marco
name: Arora, Ashish
name: Cohen, Wesley M
name: Vogt, William
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 160510 Public Policy
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Heinz College paper
Large N, Supersymmetry ... and QCD
Creators: name: Veneziano, G.
name: Wosiek, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper consists of two (still only vaguely) related parts: in the first, we briefly review work done in the past three years on the ``planar equivalence" between a class of non-supersymmetric theories (including limiting cases of QCD) and their corresponding supersymmetric "parents"; in the second, we present details of a new formulation of planar quantum mechanics and illustrate its effectiveness in an intriguing supersymmetric example.
description: A contribution to the A. Di Giacomo Festschrift: Physics and Beauty, 21 pages, 8 figures
Additional file 1 of Quantifying human mixing patterns in Chinese provinces outside Hubei after the 2020 lockdown was lifted
Creators: name: Zhao, Yining
name: O’Dell, Samantha
name: Yang, Xiaohan
name: Liao, Jingyi
name: Yang, Kexin
name: Fumanelli, Laura
name: Zhou, Tao
name: Lv, Jiancheng
name: Ajelli, Marco
name: Liu, Quan-Hui
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Model parameters and sensitivity analysis results.
Simulation of microwave and semiconductor laser structures including PML: Computation of the eigenmode problem, the boundary value problem, and the scattering matrix
Creators: name: Hebermehl, Georg
name: Schefter, Jürgen
name: Schlundt, Rainer
name: Tischler, Thorsten
name: Zscheile, Horst
name: Heinrich, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Weierstrass Institute
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Microwave device
subject: Semiconductor laser
subject: Simulation
subject: Maxwell's equations
subject: Scattering matrix
subject: Boundary value problem
subject: PML boundary condition
subject: Eigenvalue problem
subject: Linear algebraic equations
subject: Rectangular grids
subject: Tetrahedral nets
subject: 35Q60
subject: 65N22
subject: 65F15
subject: 65F10
subject: 78M25

description: The properties of microwave circuits and optical structures can be described in terms of their scattering matrix which is extracted from the orthogonal decomposition of the electric field. We discretize the Maxwell's equations with orthogonal grids using the Finite Integration Technique (FIT). Maxwellian grid equations are formulated for staggered nonequidistant rectangular grids and for tetrahedral nets with corresponding dual Voronoi cells. The surface of the computation domain is assumed to be an electric or a magnetic wall, open-region problems require uniaxial Perfectly Matched Layer (PML) absorbing boundary conditions. Calculating the excitations at the ports, one obtains eigenvalue problems and then systems of linear algebraic equations.
Additional file 1 of On the usefulness of CDA-based score reporting: implications for self-regulated learning
Creators: name: Yi, Yeon-Sook
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Appendices
VLT-ISAAC near-IR Spectroscopy of ISO selected Hubble Deep Field South Galaxies
Creators: name: Rigopoulou, D.
name: Franceschini, A.
name: Aussel, H.
name: Genzel, R.
name: van der Werf, P.
name: Cesarsky, C. J.
name: Dennefeld, M.
name: Oliver, S.
name: Rowan-Robinson, M.
name: Mann, R. G.
name: Perez-Fournon, I.
name: Rocca-Volmerange, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the results of near-infrared VLT-ISAAC spectroscopy of a sample of 12 galaxies at z = 0.4-1.4, drawn from the ISOCAM survey of the Hubble Deep Field South. We find that the rest frame R-band spectra of the ISOCAM galaxies resemble those of powerful dust-enshrouded starbursts. Halpha emission is detected in 11 out of 12 objects down to a flux limit of 7x10^(-17) erg/cm^2/s, corresponding to a luminosity limit of 10^41 erg/s at z = 0.6, (for an Ho = 50 and Omega = 0.3 cosmology). From the Halpha luminosities in these galaxies we derive estimates of the star formation rate in the range 2--50 Mo/yr for stellar masses 1--100 Mo. The raw Halpha-based star formation rates are an order of magnitude or more lower than SFR(FIR) estimates based on ISOCAM LW3 fluxes. If the Halpha emission is corrected for extinction the median offset is reduced to a factor of 3. The sample galaxies are part of a new population of optically faint but infrared--luminous active starburst galaxies, which are characterized by an extremely high rate of evolution with redshift up to z~1.5 and expected to contribute significantly to the cosmic far-IR extragalactic background.
description: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, 16 pages, 2 figures
Quantifying Passive Use Values From "Faint" Behavioral Trails: Television News Viewing and the Exxon Valdez
Creators: name: Farrow, Scott
name: Larson, Douglas M.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 160510 Public Policy
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Observable actions in response to decreases in environmental quality are identified for passive users, those who will never use a damaged resource directly. The welfare implication of changes in the probability and value of time devoted to viewing news of the Valdez oil spill is estimated using a household production approach and assuming weak substitutability between news consumption and environmental protection. The implied change in welfare from viewing the news, expected to be a large component of passive use value, ranges from $12 to 17 million 1989 dollars. The approach also provides a basis for a conditioning element in the study of other observable behavior and for more general application to the observable costs of major news events.
Twisted Supersymmetric Gauge Theories and Orbifold Lattices
Creators: name: Unsal, Mithat
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the relation between twisted versions of the extended supersymmetric gauge theories and supersymmetric orbifold lattices. In particular, for the $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM in $d=4$, we show that the continuum limit of orbifold lattice reproduces the twist introduced by Marcus, and the examples at lower dimensions are usually Blau-Thompson type. The orbifold lattice point group symmetry is a subgroup of the twisted Lorentz group, and the exact supersymmetry of the lattice is indeed the nilpotent scalar supersymmetry of the twisted versions. We also introduce twisting in terms of spin groups of finite point subgroups of $R$-symmetry and spacetime symmetry.
description: 32 pages
Experimental and mathematical study of the influence of growth factors and the kinetics of adult human articular chondrocytes
Creators: name: Barbero, Andrea
name: Palumberi, Viviana
name: Wagner, Barbara
name: Sader, Robert
name: Grote, Markus J.
name: Martin, Ivan
Publisher: name: Weierstrass Institute
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: chondrocytes
subject: cell expansion
subject: growth kinetics
subject: delay model
subject: 92D25
subject: 92C37

description: This study aimed at determining how kinetic parameters of adult human articular chondrocytes (AHAC) growth are modulated by the growth factor combination underline TGF$beta$1, underline FGF-2, and underline PDGF BB (TFP), recently shown to stimulate AHAC proliferation. AHAC, isolated from cartilage biopsies of three individuals, were cultured in medium without (CTR) or with TFP. For growth curves, AHAC were seeded at 1000 cells/cm$^2$ and cultured for 12 days, with cell numbers measured fluorimetrically in the same wells every 12 hours. For microcolony tests, AHAC were seeded at 2.5 cells/cm$^2$ and cultured for 6 days, with cell numbers determined for each microcolony by phase contrast microscopy every 8 hours. A mathematical model combining delay and logistic equations was developed to capture the growth kinetic parameters and to enable the description of the complete growth process of the cell culture. As compared to CTR medium, the presence of TFP increased the number of cells/well starting from the fifth day of culture, and a 4-fold larger cell number was reached at confluency. For single microcolonies, TFP reduced the time for the first cell division by 26.6%, the time for subsequent cell divisions (generation time) by 16.8%, and the percentage of quiescent cells by 42.5%. The mathematical model fitted well the experimental data of the growth kinetic. Finally, using both microcolony tests and the mathematical model, we determined that prolonged cell expansion induces an enrichment of AHAC with shorter first division time, but not of those with shorter generation time.
Ultra-long distance interaction between spin qubits
Creators: name: Burkard, Guido
name: Imamoglu, Atac
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a method for implementing deterministic quantum gates between two spin qubits separated by centimeters. Qubits defined by the singlet and triplet states of two exchange coupled quantum dots have recently been shown to possess long coherence times. When the effective nuclear fields in the two asymmetric quantum dots are different, total spin will no longer be a good quantum number and there will be a large electric dipole coupling between the two qubit states. We show that when such a double-quantum-dot qubit is embedded in a superconducting microstrip cavity, the strong coupling regime of cavity quantum electrodynamics lies within reach. Virtual photons in a common cavity mode could mediate coherent interactions between two distant qubits embedded in the same structure; the range of this two-qubit interaction is determined by the wavelength of the microwave transition.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures; final version v2 (minor changes)
Quality Certification and the Economics of Contract Software Development: A Study of the Indian Software Industry
Creators: name: Arora, Ashish
name: Asundi, Jai
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 160510 Public Policy
subject: FOS: Political science

description: A significant amount of software development is being outsourced to countries such as India. Many Indian software firms have applied for and received quality certifications like the ISO9001, and the number of quality certified software firms has steadily increased. Despite its growing popularity among Indian software developers, there is very little systematic evidence on the relationship of ISO certification to organizational performance. Using data on 95 Indian software firms and drawing upon site visits and interviews with Indian software firms and their US clients, we develop a stylized model of a firm that develops software for others to articulate the different ways in which ISO certification can affect firm profits. We conclude that ISO certification enhances firm growth. The results provide partial support for the proposition that ISO certification also enhances revenue for a given size, suggesting that firms are receiving a higher price per unit of output. In turn, this is consistent with the notion that ISO certification also enhances the quality of output. Our field studies confirm that although most firms see ISO certification as a marketing ploy, some of them do proceed to institute more systematic and better-defined processes for software development.
Additional file 1 of Pharmacist involvement in the inhaler choice improves lung function in patients with COPD: a prospective single-arm study
Creators: name: Shiwaku, Eiji
name: Dote, Satoshi
name: Kaneko, Shinobu
name: Hei, Chisato
name: Aikawa, Masaki
name: Sakai, Yuki
name: Kawai, Takahiro
name: Iwatsubo, Shigeaki
name: Hashimoto, Michinobu
name: Tsuneishi, Teppei
name: Nishimura, Tomoko
name: Iwata, Toshiyuki
name: Hira, Daiki
name: Terada, Tomohiro
name: Nishimura, Takashi
name: Kobayashi, Yuka
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1 Fig. S1. Patient flow diagram. Table S1. The pharmacist’s choice of inhaler for each patient and the factors contributing to the choice. Table S2. Choice of inhaler at baseline. Table S3. Sub analysis of the changes in FEV1 from baseline to the end of the study period for each COPD stage.
Prospects for Personalization on the Internet
Creators: name: Montgomery, Alan
name: Smith, Michael
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 160510 Public Policy
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Personalization is a key component of an interactive marketing strategy. Its purpose is to adapt a standardized product or service to an individual customer's needs. The goal is to create profit for the producer and increased value for the consumer. This goal fits nicely into traditional notions of segmentation. Applications of personalization have advanced greatly in conjunction with the Internet, since it provides an environment that is information rich and well suited to interactivity. This article reviews past research on personalization and considers some examples of personalization in practice. We discuss what we believe are key problems and directions for personalization in the future.
A Comptonization Model for Phase Lag Variability in GRS 1915+105
Creators: name: Nobili, L.
name: Turolla, R.
name: Zampieri, L.
name: Belloni, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this Letter we propose a simple thermal comptonization model to account for the observed properties of the phase lags associated to the ``plateau'' intervals of GRS 1915+105. By invoking a temperature stratification in a corona and assuming that the optical depth of the comptonizing region increases as the disk inner radius moves inward, we are able to reproduce both the observed colors and time lags in the continuum.
description: 6 pages Latex with 2 ps figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
Gigamachine: incremental machine learning on desktop computers
Creators: name: Özkural, Eray
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present a concrete design for Solomonoff's incremental machine learning system suitable for desktop computers. We use R5RS Scheme and its standard library with a few omissions as the reference machine. We introduce a Levin Search variant based on a stochastic Context Free Grammar together with new update algorithms that use the same grammar as a guiding probability distribution for incremental machine learning. The updates include adjusting production probabilities, re-using previous solutions, learning programming idioms and discovery of frequent subprograms. The issues of extending the a priori probability distribution and bootstrapping are discussed. We have implemented a good portion of the proposed algorithms. Experiments with toy problems show that the update algorithms work as expected.
description: This is the original submission for my AGI-2010 paper titled Stochastic Grammar Based Incremental Machine Learning Using Scheme which may be found on http://agi-conf.org/2010/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/paper_24.pdf and presented a partial but general solution to the transfer learning problem in AI. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1103.1003
Oxyna corticina Rondani 1870
Creators: name: Sforzi, Alessandra
name: Sommaggio, Daniele
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tephritidae
Oxyna
Oxyna corticina

description: Oxyna corticina Rondani, 1870
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1870c: 122 (key), 127 (description).
 TYPE LOCALITY: “ in colle sub-appennino [sub-Apennine hill (Italy)]”.
 TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, syntype (missing right wing and left hind-leg) (MZUF: Box 31): Oxyna Desv. / corticina Rnd., Parma / 1648 / 1648 Oxyna ? nebulosa (Wied.), det. I.M. White, 1986 [label pinned near the specimen].
 CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Oxyna nebulosa (Wiedemann, 1817) (Foote 1984: 109, Norrbom et al. 1999: 179).
 REMARKS: Rondani (1870c: 127) described Oxyna corticina from just the male sex, without specifying either the number or the length of the specimens: “ Semel marem legi [Once I collected the male]”. We found one syntype in this study. The MZUF also contains a (non-type) female.
description: Published as part of Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, pp. 1-438 in Zootaxa 4989 (1) on pages 370-371, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4980621
De Sitter Vacua from Matter Superpotentials
Creators: name: Lebedev, Oleg
name: Nilles, Hans Peter
name: Ratz, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Consistent uplifting of AdS vacua in string theory often requires extra light degrees of freedom in addition to those of a (Kaehler) modulus. Here we consider the possibility that de Sitter and Minkowski vacua arise due to hidden sector matter interactions. We find that, in this scheme, the hierarchically small supersymmetry breaking scale can be explained by the scale of gaugino condensation and that interesting patterns of the soft terms arise. In particular, a matter-dominated supersymmetry breaking scenario and a version of the mirage mediation scheme appear in the framework of spontaneously broken supergravity.
description: 12 pages, 2 figures
Additional file 1 of Texture analysis of T2-weighted cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging to discriminate between cardiac amyloidosis and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Creators: name: Huang, Shan
name: Shi, Ke
name: Zhang, Yi
name: Yan, Wei-Feng
name: Guo, Ying-Kun
name: Li, Yuan
name: Yang, Zhi-Gang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Additional information about the feature selection process.
Gas-Phase Spectra of MgO Molecules: A Possible Connection from Gas-Phase Molecules to Planet Formation
Creators: name: Kloska, Katherine A.
name: Fortenberry, Ryan C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A more fine-tuned method for probing planet-forming regions, such as protoplanetary discs, could be rovibrational molecular spectroscopy observation of particular premineral molecules instead of more common but ultimately less related volatile organic compounds. Planets are created when grains aggregate, but how molecules form grains is an ongoing topic of discussion in astrophysics and planetary science. Using the spectroscopic data of molecules specifically involved in mineral formation could help to map regions where planet formation is believed to be occurring in order to examine the interplay between gas and dust. Four atoms are frequently associated with planetary formation: Fe, Si, Mg, and O. Magnesium, in particular, has been shown to be in higher relative abundance in planet-hosting stars. Magnesium oxide crystals comprise the mineral periclase making it the chemically simplest magnesium-bearing mineral and a natural choice for analysis. The monomer, dimer, and trimer forms of (MgO)_n with n = 1 - 3 are analyzed in this work using high-level quantum chemical computations known to produce accurate results. Strong vibrational transitions at 12.5 μm, 15.0 μm, and 16.5 μm are indicative of magnesium oxide monomer, dimer, and trimer making these wavelengths of particular interest for the observation of protoplanetary discs and even potentially planet-forming regions around stars. If such transitions are observed in emission from the accretion discs or absorptions from stellar spectra, the beginning stages of mineral and, subsequently, rocky body formation could be indicated.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures, 6 tables, Accepted in MNRAS
Property Rights, Firm Boundaries, and R&D Inputs
Creators: name: Arora, Ashish
name: Merges, Robert
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 160510 Public Policy
subject: FOS: Political science

description: This paper provides an explanation of the role of intellectual property rights (IPRs) in information-intensive vertical supply relationships. Specifically, we explore the connection between stronger property rights and the enhanced viability of specialized (versus vertically integrated) input suppliers under incomplete contracts and information spillovers. Information spillovers arise due to the supplier’s effort to customize its generalized technology to the specific needs of the buyer. We start by modeling a tradeoff between incentives and two types of information spillovers: "synergies," in which joint efforts reveal new applications of existing technology; and "leakage," or disclosure of existing information. Whereas incentives for customization are higher under specialization, integration internalizes spillovers and prevents rent dissipation. IPRs favor specialization by reducing buyer opportunism, and ceteris paribus, leakage favors integration relative to synergies. We extend our basic results to analysis of buyouts and spinoffs, and assay an extensive body of empirical evidence that provides broad support for our approach.
Effects of state dependent correlations on nucleon density and momentum distributions
Creators: name: de Saavedra, F. Arias
name: Co', G.
name: Renis, M. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The proton momentum and density distributions of closed shell nuclei are calculated within a model treating short--range correlations up to first order in the cluster expansion. The validity of the model is verified by comparing the results obtained with purely scalar correlations with those produced by finite nuclei Fermi Hypernetted Chain calculations. State dependent correlations are used to calculate momentum and density distributions of 12C, 16O, 40Ca, and 48Ca, and the effects of their tensor components are studied.
description: 16 pages, latex, 8 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. C
ALSUntangled #75: Portable neuromodulation stimulator therapy
Creators: name: Wicks, Paul
name: Brown, Andrew
name: Levinson, Danelle
name: Benatar, Michael
name: Mushannen, Tasnim
name: Ratner, Dylan
name: Bedlack, Richard
name: Linares, Alexandra
name: Patel, Ronak
name: Carbunar, Olimpia Mihaela
name: Denson, Keelie
name: Barkhaus, Paul
name: Officer, Laurel
name: Li, Xiaoyan
name: Cadavid, Javier Mascias
name: Jhooty, Sartaj
name: Bertorini, Tulio
name: Heiman-Patterson, Terry
name: Feldman, Eva
name: Carter, Gregory T.
name: Fullam, Timothy
name: Armon, Carmel
name: Mcdermott, Christopher
name: Mallon, Elise
name: Sun, Yuyao
name: Sladky, John
name: Ostrow, Lyle
name: Beauchamp, Morgan
name: Bowser, Robert
name: Jackson, Carlayne
name: Pattee, Gary
name: Crayle, Jesse
name: Bromberg, Mark
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024

description: Spurred by patient interest, ALSUntangled herein examines the potential of the Portable Neuromodulation Stimulator (PoNS™) in treating amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The PoNS™ device, FDA-approved for the treatment of gait deficits in adult patients with multiple sclerosis, utilizes translingual neurostimulation to stimulate trigeminal and facial nerves via the tongue, aiming to induce neuroplastic changes. While there are early, promising data for PoNS treatment to improve gait and balance in multiple sclerosis, stroke, and traumatic brain injury, no pre-clinical or clinical studies have been performed in ALS. Although reasonably safe, high costs and prescription requirements will limit PoNS accessibility. At this time, due to the lack of ALS-relevant data, we cannot endorse the use of PoNS as an ALS treatment.
Oxyna cribrina Rondani 1870
Creators: name: Sforzi, Alessandra
name: Sommaggio, Daniele
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tephritidae
Oxyna
Oxyna cribrina

description: Oxyna cribrina Rondani, 1870
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1870c: 122 (key), 128 (description).
 TYPE LOCALITY: “ in colle ditionis parmensis [Parmese hill (Italy)]”.
 TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, syntype (specimen damaged by the pin), 1 ♀, syntype (dirty, specimen damaged by the pin) (MZUF: Box 31): Oxyna Desv. / cribrina Rnd., Parma / 1641 / 1641 Oxyna nebulosa (Wied.), det. I.M. White, 1986 [this label is pinned near the specimen].
 CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Oxyna nebulosa (Wiedemann, 1817) (Foote 1984: 109, Norrbom et al. 1999: 179).
 REMARKS: Rondani (1870c: 128) described both sexes of Oxyna cribrina without specifying either the number or the length of the specimens: “ Uterque sexus a me semel inventus [Once both sexes found by me]”. We found two syntypes in this study.
description: Published as part of Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, pp. 1-438 in Zootaxa 4989 (1) on page 371, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4980621
Forward and reverse representations for Markov chains
Creators: name: Milstein, Grigori N.
name: Schoenmakers, John G. M.
name: Spokoiny, Vladimir
Publisher: name: Weierstrass Institute
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: estimation of risk
subject: transition density estimation
subject: forward and reverse Markov chains
subject: Monte Carlo simulation
subject: 60J05
subject: 60H10
subject: 62G07
subject: 65C05

description: In this paper we carry over the concept of reverse probabilistic representations developed in Milstein, Schoenmakers, Spokoiny (2004) for diffusion processes, to discrete time Markov chains. We outline the construction of reverse chains in several situations and apply this to processes which are connected with jump-diffusion models and finite state Markov chains. By combining forward and reverse representations we then construct transition density estimators for chains which have root-N accuracy in any dimension and consider some applications.
Profiting from licensing: The role of patent protection and commercialization capabilities
Creators: name: Arora, Ashish
name: Ceccagnoli, Marco
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 160510 Public Policy
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Technology transactions, such as licensing and R&D based alliances, have been growing rapidly in recent years. Even as technology licensing has grown, so has patenting. Both trends foreshadow possibly profound changes in firms’ strategy. In this paper, we develop a simple structural model in which both patenting and licensing are jointly determined by factors such as patent effectiveness, the presence and strength of commercialization capabilities and their complementarity with R&D activity, and industry and technology characteristics, such as the nature of knowledge and the degree of technological competition. We estimate the model using the 1994 Carnegie Mellon survey on industrial R&D, which provides detailed information on the patenting and licensing activities of manufacturing firms in the U.S. A key feature of the model is that it naturally implies that the impact of patent effectiveness on licensing behavior will be conditioned by commercialization capabilities. We find that increases in patent effectiveness increase both patenting and licensing propensity. Conditional on patenting, increases in patent effectiveness decreases licensing propensity. However, higher patent effectiveness elicits much larger increases in licensing from firms lacking commercialization capability or characterized by a lower degree of complementarities between the R&D and marketing or production functions.