cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Anti-inflammatory decurrencyclics A-B, two undescribed nor-dammarane triterpenes from triangular sea bell Turbinaria decurrens
Creators: name: Thambi, Anjaly
name: Chakraborty, Kajal
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: Intertidal triangular sea bell Turbinaria decurrens (Bory de Saint-Vincent) (family Sargassaceae) belongs to one of the largely abundant genus of marine brown alga. Bioactivity-directed chromatographic purification of the organic extract of T. decurrens afforded two new nor-dammarane triterpenoids named as decurrencyclic A-B. Decurrencyclic B showed superior attenuation properties against cyclooxygenase-2 (IC50 13.98 μM) and 5-lipoxygenase (IC50 3.02 μM) in contrast with decurrencyclic A. Decurrencyclic B showed higher inhibition potential against COX-2 than that revealed by the anti-inflammatory agent, ibuprofen (IC50 70.44 μM). The higher selectivity index of decurrencyclics (1.39–1.57) acknowledged their selective attenuation property against inducible cyclooxygenase-2. In-silico molecular modeling analysis of decurrencyclic B with the inflammatory enzymes showed least binding energy of −14.55 kcal mol−1. These reports have proven that decurrencyclic B could be a potential therapeutic lead for use against inflammatory pathogenesis.
Additional file 1 of Evaluation of a cluster-randomized controlled trial: Communities for Healthy Living, family-centered obesity prevention program for Head Start parents and children
Creators: name: Gago, Cristina
name: Aftosmes-Tobio, Alyssa
name: Beckerman-Hsu, Jacob P.
name: Oddleifson, Carly
name: Garcia, Evelin A.
name: Lansburg, Kindra
name: Figueroa, Roger
name: Yu, Xinting
name: Kitos, Nicole
name: Torrico, Merieka
name: Leonard, Jessie
name: Jurkowski, Janine K.
name: Mattei, Josiemer
name: Kenney, Erica L.
name: Haneuse, Sebastien
name: Davison, Kirsten K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
Optical Signatures of Non-Markovian Behaviour in Open Quantum Systems
Creators: name: McCutcheon, Dara P. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive an extension to the quantum regression theorem which facilitates the calculation of two-time correlation functions and emission spectra for systems undergoing non-Markovian evolution. The derivation exploits projection operator techniques, with which we obtain explicit equations of motion for the correlation functions, making only a second order expansion in the system--environment coupling strength, and invoking the Born approximation at a fixed initial time. The results are used to investigate a driven semiconductor quantum dot coupled to an acoustic phonon bath, where we find the non-Markovian nature of the dynamics has observable signatures in the form of phonon sidebands in the resonance fluorescence emission spectrum. Furthermore, we use recently developed non-Markovianity measures to demonstrate an associated flow of information from the phonon bath back into the quantum dot exciton system.
description: Comments welcome
title: Repellent Activity of Clove Essential Oil Volatiles and Development of Nanofiber-Based Dispensers against Pear Psyllids (Hemiptera: Psyllidae)
Creators: name: Czarnobai De Jorge, Bruna
name: Hummel, Hans E.
name: Gross, Jürgen
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2022

description: Pear psyllids are the main vectors of the pathogen ‘Candidatus Phytoplasma pyri’ causing pear decline. Based on earlier reports, we tested the behavioral activity of the major synthetic compounds of clove essential oil (eugenol, eugenyl acetate, and β-caryophyllene) against Cacopsylla pyri and C. pyricola. Of six mixtures tested in olfactometer assays, a formulation consisting of three specific compounds (M6 mixture) demonstrated a repellent effect on both psyllid species. In addition, this formulation masked the odor of the host Pyrus communis cv. Williams Christ, disturbing the host finding ability of C. pyri. Electrospun fibers were produced with biocompatible polymers poly(ε-caprolactone), cellulose acetate, and solvents formic acid and acetic acid, loaded with the repellent mixture to test their efficacy as dispensers of repellents in laboratory and field. The fibers produced were repellent to C. pyri and effectively masked the odors of pear plants in olfactometer tests. In a pear orchard, we compared the captures of pear psyllids in green-colored attractive traps treated with nanofibers loaded with M6 mixture or unloaded nanofibers (blank). The result showed no differences in the captures of C. pyri between treatments. The release rates of volatiles from the fibers were evaluated weekly over 56 days. The fibers were able to entrap the major compound of the M6 mixture, eugenol, but the release rates were significantly reduced after 21 days. Our results suggest that biodegradable dispensers could be produced with electrospinning, but further improvements are necessary to use repellents as a management tool for pear psyllids in the field.
Robust Mission Execution for Autonomous Urban Driving
Creators: name: Baker, Christopher R.
name: Ferguson, David I.
name: Dolan, John M.
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We describe a multi-modal software system for executing navigation
missions in an urban environment, focusing on the robust treatment of anomalous
situations such as blocked roads, stalled vehicles and tight maneuvering. Various
recovery mechanisms are described relative to the nominal mode of operation, and
results are discussed from the system’s deployment in the DARPA Urban Challenge.
The $\barΛCDM$ cosmology: from inflation to dark energy through running $Λ$
Creators: name: Sola, Joan
name: Gomez-Valent, Adria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Perhaps the deepest mystery of our accelerating Universe in expansion is the existence of a tiny and rigid cosmological constant, $Λ$. Its size is many orders of magnitude below the expected one in the standard model of particle physics. However, an expanding Universe is not expected to have a static vacuum energy density. We should rather observe a mildly dynamical behavior $δΛ(t)\sim R\sim H^2(t)$ with the expansion rate $H$. At the same time, it is natural to think that the huge value of the primeval vacuum energy (presumably connected to some grand unified theory) was responsible for the initial inflationary phase. In the traditional inflaton models such phase is inserted by hand in the early epoch of the cosmic evolution, and it is assumed to match the concordance $Λ$CDM regime during the radiation epoch. Here, instead, we consider a class of dynamical vacuum models which incorporate into a single vacuum structure $\barΛ(H)$ the rapid stage of inflation, followed by the radiation and cold matter epochs, until achieving our dark energy Universe. The early behavior of the model bares resemblance with Starobinsky's inflation and ptovides a solution to the large entropy problem. It is compatible with the latest cosmological data on Hubble expansion and structure formation, and presents distinctive observational features that can be tested in the near future.
description: Accepted for publication in Int. J. of Mod. Phys. D
Bio-guided isolation of androsta-1,4-dien-3,16-dione as a vasodilator active principle from the inflorescence of Ravenala madagascariensis Sonn. (Strelitziaceae)
Creators: name: Rakotondramanana, Dina Andriamahavola
name: Razafindrakoto, Zoarilala Rinah
name: Donno, Dario
name: Tombozara, Nantenaina
name: Nalimanana, Nina Robertina
name: Andrianajara, Charles
name: Beccaro, Gabriele Loris
name: Ramanitrahasimbola, David
name: Nicoletti, Marcello
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Androsta-1,4-dien-3,16-dione was isolated for the first time from the plant kingdom of the ethanolic extract of the Ravenala madagascariensis’ inflorescence by the bio-guided method. Its structure was elucidated by NMR and MS spectroscopic data analysis. The vascular effects of ethanol extracts, fractions and androsta-1,4-dien-3,16-dione were assessed on the phenylephrine pre-contracted isolated rat aorta. The isolated compound exerted the most potent vaso-relaxing effect (EC50 = 109.32 ± 15.82 µM) than the ethanol extract and fractions. The pharmacological mechanism of its vaso-relaxing action was analysed on isolated rat aorta using free-endothelial vascular tissue, specific contracting reagents (CaCl2 and KCl), antagonist (propranolol), enzyme inhibitors (L-NAME, methylene blue) and channel blocker (glibenclamide). Its vaso-relaxing activity could be due, at least partly, to the non-specific inhibition of the calcic influx.
Searching Alternate Spaces to Solve Oversubscribed Scheduling Problems
Creators: name: Kramer, Laurence A.
name: Barbulescu, Laura
name: Smith, Stephen F.
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Oversubscribed scheduling problems have been approached using both direct representations of the solution space and indirect, permutation-based representations(coupled with a schedule builder to produce the corresponding schedule). In some problem contexts, permutation-based search methods have been shown to outperform schedule-space search methods, while in others the opposite has been shown to be the case. We consider two techniques for which this behavior has been observed: TaskSwap (TS), a schedule-space repair search procedure, and Squeaky Wheel Optimization (SWO), a permutation-space scheduling procedure. We analyze the circumstances under which one can be expected to dominate the other. Starting from a real-world scheduling problem where SWO has been shown to outperform TS, we construct a series of problem instances that increasingly incorporate characteristics of a second real-world scheduling problem, where TS has been found to outperform SWO. Experimental results provide insights into when schedule-space methods and permutation-based methods may be most appropriate. Finally, we consider opportunities for improving performance by integrating the two approaches into a hybrid approach that exploits both search spaces.
Additional file 2 of Evaluation of a cluster-randomized controlled trial: Communities for Healthy Living, family-centered obesity prevention program for Head Start parents and children
Creators: name: Gago, Cristina
name: Aftosmes-Tobio, Alyssa
name: Beckerman-Hsu, Jacob P.
name: Oddleifson, Carly
name: Garcia, Evelin A.
name: Lansburg, Kindra
name: Figueroa, Roger
name: Yu, Xinting
name: Kitos, Nicole
name: Torrico, Merieka
name: Leonard, Jessie
name: Jurkowski, Janine K.
name: Mattei, Josiemer
name: Kenney, Erica L.
name: Haneuse, Sebastien
name: Davison, Kirsten K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2.
Antifungal activity of a shortened analogue of the natural peptide LyeTx I isolated from the venom of the spider Lycosa erythrognatha
Creators: name: Cardoso, Bárbara Gatti
name: de Lima, William Gustavo
name: Fernandes, Simone Odília Antunes
name: de Lima, Maria Elena
name: Cardoso, Valbert Nascimento
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The increase in the incidence of fungal infections associated with the limited therapeutic arsenal available and the increasing rate of resistance of pathogenic fungi reinforce the need for research of new antifungal agents. Thus, this study aims to evaluate the antifungal activity of the peptide LyeTx I mnΔK, a shortened analogue of the natural peptide LyeTx I derived from spider venom, against Candida species. LyeTx I mnΔK showed potent activity against Candida spp. with minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) and minimum fungicide concentration (MFC) between 4 and 32 µM. The peptide also completely inhibited the yeast-to-hypha transition (at 2 µM) and broke mature biofilms (67% reduction at 32 µM) of C. albicans. In addition, LyeTx I mnΔK did not induce resistance in C. albicans during 21 days of exposure. Therefore, the LyeTx I mnΔK is a promising prototype for the development of new antifungal agents.
Semantic Component Analysis
Creators: name: Murdock, Calvin
name: Torre, Fernando De La
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Unsupervised and weakly-supervised visual learning in large image collections are critical in order to avoid the time-consuming and error-prone process of manual labeling. Standard approaches rely on methods like multiple-instance learning or graphical models, which can be computationally intensive and sensitive to initialization. On the other hand, simpler component analysis or clustering methods usually cannot achieve meaningful invariances or semantic interpretability. To address the issues of previous work, we present a simple but effective method called Semantic Component Analysis (SCA), which provides a decomposition of images into semantic components. Unsupervised SCA decomposes additive image representations into spatially-meaningful visual components that naturally correspond to object categories. Using an overcomplete representation that allows for rich instance-level constraints and spatial priors, SCA gives improved results and more interpretable components in comparison to traditional matrix factorization techniques. If weakly-supervised information is available in the form of image-level tags, SCA factorizes a set of images into semantic groups of superpixels. We also provide qualitative connections to traditional methods for component analysis (e.g. Grassmann averages, PCA, and NMF). The effectiveness of our approach is validated through synthetic data and on the MSRC2 and Sift Flow datasets, demonstrating competitive results in unsupervised and weakly-supervisedsemantic segmentation.
Dimension of the Lisbon voting rules in the EU Council: a challenge and new world record
Creators: name: Kurz, Sascha
name: Napel, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: G.1.6; G.2.3
subject: G.1.6, G.2.3

description: The new voting system of the Council of the European Union cannot be represented as the intersection of six or fewer weighted games, i.e., its dimension is at least 7. This sets a new record for real-world voting bodies. A heuristic combination of different discrete optimization methods yields a representation as the intersection of 13368 weighted games. Determination of the exact dimension is posed as a challenge to the community. The system's Boolean dimension is proven to be 3.
description: 8 pages, 1 figure; Incorrect losing coalitions were reported in the published version: S. Kurz and S. Napel (2016). Dimension of the Lisbon voting rules in the EU Council: a challenge and new world record. Optimization Letters, 10(6), 1245-1256, doi:10.1007/s11590-015-0917-0, due to a labeling inconsistency. The authors thank J\"org Aldag and Werner Kirsch for pointing out this error
Skill Acquisition and Use for a Dynamically-Balancing Soccer Robot
Creators: name: Browning, Brett
name: Xu, Ling
name: Veloso, Manuela M.
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Dynamically-balancing robots have recently been made
available by Segway LLC, in the form of the Segway
RMP (Robot Mobility Platform). We have addressed
the challenge of using these RMP robots to play soccer,
building up upon our extensive previous work in
this multi-robot research domain. In this paper, we
make three contributions. First, we present a new domain,
called Segway Soccer, for investigating the coordination
of dynamically formed, mixed human-robot
teams within the realm of a team task that requires realtime
decision making and response. Segway Soccer is
a game of soccer between two teams consisting of both
Segway riding humans and Segway RMPs. We believe
Segway Soccer is the first game involving both humans
and robots in cooperative roles and with similar capabilities.
In conjunction with this new domain, we present
our work towards developing a soccer playing robot using
the RMP platform with vision as its primary sensor.
Our third contribution is that of skill acquisition from
a human teacher, where the learned skill is then used
seamlessly during robot execution as part of its control
hierarchy. Skill acquisition and use addresses the
challenge of rapidly developing the low-level actions
that are environment dependent and are not transferable
across robots.
Additional file 3 of Evaluation of a cluster-randomized controlled trial: Communities for Healthy Living, family-centered obesity prevention program for Head Start parents and children
Creators: name: Gago, Cristina
name: Aftosmes-Tobio, Alyssa
name: Beckerman-Hsu, Jacob P.
name: Oddleifson, Carly
name: Garcia, Evelin A.
name: Lansburg, Kindra
name: Figueroa, Roger
name: Yu, Xinting
name: Kitos, Nicole
name: Torrico, Merieka
name: Leonard, Jessie
name: Jurkowski, Janine K.
name: Mattei, Josiemer
name: Kenney, Erica L.
name: Haneuse, Sebastien
name: Davison, Kirsten K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3.
Additional file 1 of Individual brain regulation as learned via neurofeedback is related to affective changes in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder
Creators: name: Klöbl, Manfred
name: Prillinger, Karin
name: Diehm, Robert
name: Doganay, Kamer
name: Lanzenberger, Rupert
name: Poustka, Luise
name: Plener, Paul
name: Konicar, Lilian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biochemistry
Space Science
Medicine
Cell Biology
Molecular Biology
Neuroscience
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. False-positive rates of three multiplicity correction approaches. Table S2. Overview of the psychometric and behavioral data. Table S3. Results of the whole-brain resting-state analysis and brain regulation task with and without control for movement on group level and Sidak correction. Figure S1. Correlation between resting-state models and SLOMOCO total displacement.
Covariant density functional analysis of shape evolution in $N =40$ isotones
Creators: name: Wang, Z. H.
name: Xiang, J.
name: Long, W. H.
name: Li, Z. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The structure of low-lying excitation states of even-even $N=40$ isotones is studied using a five-dimensional collective Hamiltonian with the collective parameters determined from the relativistic mean-field plus BCS method with the PC-PK1 functional in the particle-hole channel and a separable paring force in the particle-particle channel. The theoretical calculations can reproduce not only the systematics of the low-lying states along the isotonic chain but also the detailed structure of the spectroscopy in a single nucleus. We find a picture of spherical-oblate-prolate shape transition along the isotonic chain of $N=40$ by analyzing the potential energy surfaces. The coexistence of low-lying excited $0^+$ states has also been shown to be a common feature in neutron-deficient $N=40$ isotones.
description: 13 pages, 11 figures
Stereo Driving and Position Estimation for Autonomous Planetary Rovers
Creators: name: Krotkov, Eric
name: Hebert, Martial
name: M.  Buffa
name: Cozman, Fabio
name: Robert, Luc
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper we present two new approaches to planetary
rover perception. One approach concerns stereo driving
without 3-D reconstruction. This approach begins
with weakly calibrated stereo images, and evaluates the
traversability of terrain using shape indicators such as relative
slope and relative elevation. The approach then evaluates
candidate paths based on the traversability analysis
and generates the best path.

The second approach involves estimating vehicle position
by observing the Sun. At a given time, a measurement of
the Sun's altitude constrains the observer to lie on a circle
on the terrestrial surface called the circle of equal altitude.
We determine the position of the observer by intersecting
circles of equal altitude identified at different times.

We are validating experimentally both approaches in
unstructured, outdoor environments with several wheeled
rovers, Future efforts will transfer the developed technology
into Lunar Rover demonstration and flight programs.
Additional file 1 of Review: mountain lakes as freshwater resources at risk from chemical pollution
Creators: name: Machate, Oliver
name: Schmeller, Dirk S.
name: Schulze, Tobias
name: Brack, Werner
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1: Comparison of freely dissolved equilibrium water concentrations, predicted based on sediment concentrations, towards water concentrations measured in other monitoring studies of mountain lakes. Table S1: Sediment core data for mountain lakes from different mountain ranges of the world containing concentration information on sums of polyaromatic hydrocarbons (∑PAHs), polychlorinated biphenyls (∑PCBs) and DDTs (∑DDTs). Where certain compounds were not measured, they are marked as not assessed (NA). Table S2: Reference values for mountain lake sediment cores derived from Van Metre et al (2004) in ng/g d.w. derived by investigating 38 U.S. lakes and reservoirs. Values displayed are means of values stated for the respective lakes and reservoirs. Urban = In densely populated region; Light Urban = In less densely populated regions; Remote = In scarcely populated regions.
The First Segway Soccer Experience: Towards Peer-to-Peer Human-Robot Teams
Creators: name: Argall, Brenna
name: Gu, Yang
name: Browning, Brett
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we focus on human-robot interaction in a
team task where we identify the need for peer-to-peer (P2P)
teamwork, with no fixed hierarchy for decision making be-
tween robots and humans. Instead, all team members are
equal participants and decision making is truly distributed.
We have fully developed a P2P team within Segway Soccer,
a research domain, built upon Robocup robot soccer, that
we have introduced to explore the challenge of P2P coor-
dination in human-robot teams with dynamic, adversarial
tasks. We recently participated in the first Segway Soccer
games between two competing teams at the 2005 RoboCup
US Open. We believe these games are the first ever between
two human-robot P2P teams. Based on the competition, we
realized two different approaches to P2P teams. We present
our robot-centric approach to P2P team coordination and
contrast it to the human-centric approach of the opponent
team.
Sesquiterpenes from Artemisia princeps regulate inflammatory responses in RAW 264.7 macrophages
Creators: name: Kim, Na Yeon
name: Kim, Sooji
name: Lee, Hwa Jin
name: Ryu, Jae-Ha
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Four sesquiterpenoids were isolated from an ethyl acetate-soluble fraction of A. princeps ethanolic extract: seco-tanapartholide B (5-epi-seco-tanapartholide A) (1), 4-epi-seco-tanapartholide A (2), 11,13-dehydrodesacetylmatricarin (3) and desacetylmatricarin (4). Compounds 1 − 3 dose-dependently inhibited nitric oxide (NO) production in lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-activated macrophages. These compounds also decreased mRNA and protein expression levels of inducible NO synthase and cyclooxygenase-2 as well as mRNA levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines (interleukin-1β and tumour necrosis factor-α) in LPS-stimulated RAW 264.7 macrophages. Moreover, compound 3 effectively enhanced the expression of heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) in macrophages in the presence or absence of LPS. Additionally, the exocyclic methylene of α-methylene-γ-lactone moiety of compound 3 was found to be essential for the activation of the NF erythroid 2-related factor 2 (Nrf2)/HO-1 pathway. Here, we firstly report the isolation of compounds 3 and 4 from A. princeps and the anti-inflammatory activity of compound 3 by up-regulation of Nrf2/HO-1 pathway.
Snapshots of the retarded interaction of charge carriers with ultrafast fluctuations in cuprates
Creators: name: Conte, S. Dal
name: Vidmar, L.
name: Golež, D.
name: Mierzejewski, M.
name: Soavi, G.
name: Peli, S.
name: Banfi, F.
name: Ferrini, G.
name: Comin, R.
name: Ludbrook, B. M.
name: Chauviere, L.
name: Zhigadlo, N. D.
name: Eisaki, H.
name: Greven, M.
name: Lupi, S.
name: Damascelli, A.
name: Brida, D.
name: Capone, M.
name: Bonča, J.
name: Cerullo, G.
name: Giannetti, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the pivotal questions in the physics of high-temperature superconductors is whether the low-energy dynamics of the charge carriers is mediated by bosons with a characteristic timescale. This issue has remained elusive since electronic correlations are expected to dramatically speed up the electron-boson scattering processes, confining them to the very femtosecond timescale that is hard to access even with state-of-the-art ultrafast techniques. Here we simultaneously push the time resolution and the frequency range of transient reflectivity measurements up to an unprecedented level that enables us to directly observe the 16 fs build-up of the effective electron-boson interaction in hole-doped copper oxides. This extremely fast timescale is in agreement with numerical calculations based on the t-J model and the repulsive Hubbard model, in which the relaxation of the photo-excited charges is achieved via inelastic scattering with short-range antiferromagnetic excitations.
description: to appear in Nature Physics
Additional file 1 of Novel delivery system with a dual–trigger release of savory essential oil by mesoporous silica nanospheres and its possible targets in leukemia cancer cells: in vitro study
Creators: name: AbouAitah, Khaled
name: Hassan, Heba A.
name: Ammar, Naglaa M.
name: Abou Baker, Doha H.
name: Higazy, Imane M.
name: Shaker, Olfat G.
name: Elsayed, Ahmed A. A.
name: Hassan, Abeer M. E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. The solubility properties of SA oil under different media. Table S2. In vitro release kinetics of nanoformulations in PBS of different pH values. Table S3. In vitro release kinetics of nanoformulations in 10mM GSH/PBS of different pH values along 15 days. Table S4. In vitro release of nanoformulations in 20mM GSH/PBS of different pH values along 15 days.
Probabilistic Mass-Radius Relationship for Sub-Neptune-Sized Planets
Creators: name: Wolfgang, Angie
name: Rogers, Leslie A.
name: Ford, Eric B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Kepler Mission has discovered thousands of planets with radii $<4\ R_\oplus$, paving the way for the first statistical studies of the dynamics, formation, and evolution of these sub-Neptunes and super-Earths. Planetary masses are an important physical property for these studies, and yet the vast majority of Kepler planet candidates do not have theirs measured. A key concern is therefore how to map the measured radii to mass estimates in this Earth-to-Neptune size range where there are no Solar System analogs. Previous works have derived deterministic, one-to-one relationships between radius and mass. However, if these planets span a range of compositions as expected, then an intrinsic scatter about this relationship must exist in the population. Here we present the first probabilistic mass-radius relationship (M-R relation) evaluated within a Bayesian framework, which both quantifies this intrinsic dispersion and the uncertainties on the M-R relation parameters. We analyze how the results depend on the radius range of the sample, and on how the masses were measured. Assuming that the M-R relation can be described as a power law with a dispersion that is constant and normally distributed, we find that $M/M_\oplus=2.7(R/R_\oplus)^{1.3}$, a scatter in mass of $1.9\ M_\oplus$, and a mass constraint to physically plausible densities, is the "best-fit" probabilistic M-R relation for the sample of RV-measured transiting sub-Neptunes ($R_{pl}<4\ R_\oplus$). More broadly, this work provides a framework for further analyses of the M-R relation and its probable dependencies on period and stellar properties.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables. Accepted to the Astrophysical Journal on April 28, 2016. Select posterior samples and code to use them to compute the posterior predictive mass distribution are available at https://github.com/dawolfgang/MRrelation
title: Book review : Jo Dixon & Mike Stein (2005). Leaving Care: Throughcare and Aftercare in Scotland. London: Jessica Kingsley
Creators: name: Smart, Maxwell
Publisher: name: Strathprints - University of Strathclyde
Year: 2005

description: It is good to come across a book about leaving care written in a Scottish context. Dixon and Stein's Leaving Care gives a 'warts and all' look at the experiences of young people leaving public care in three differing authorities in Scotland, referred to in the research as City, County and Shire. These authorities were markedly different in regards to demographics, social, economic, and geographical situations, and therefore reflect Scottish life more broadly, not just the circumstances for young people in the central belt of Scotland.
Baseband Modulation Instability as the Origin of Rogue Waves
Creators: name: Baronio, Fabio
name: Chen, Shihua
name: Grelu, Philippe
name: Wabnitz, Stefan
name: Conforti, Matteo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the existence and properties of rogue wave solutions in different nonlinear wave evolution models that are commonly used in optics and hydrodynamics. In particular, we consider Fokas-Lenells equation, the defocusing vector nolinear Schrödinger equation, and the long-wave-short-wave resonance equation. We show that rogue wave solutions in all of these models exist in the subset of parameters where modulation instability is present, if and only if the unstable sideband spectrum also contains cw or zero-frequency perturbations as a limiting case (baseband instability). We numerically confirm that rogue waves may only be excited from a weakly perturbed cw whenever the baseband instability is present. Conversely, modulation instability leads to nonlinear periodic oscillations.
Deautonomisation by singularity confinement: an algebro-geometric justification
Creators: name: Mase, Takafumi
name: Willox, Ralph
name: Grammaticos, Basil
name: Ramani, Alfred
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The `deautonomisation' of an integrable mapping of the plane consists in treating the free parameters in the mapping as functions of the independent variable, the precise expressions of which are to be determined with the help of a suitable criterion for integrability. Standard practice is to use the singularity confinement criterion and to require that singularities be confined at the very first opportunity. An algebro-geometrical analysis will show that confinement at a later stage invariably leads to a nonintegrable deautonomized system, thus justifying the standard singularity confinement approach. In particular, it will be shown on some selected examples of discrete Painleve equations, how their regularisation through blow-up yields exactly the same conditions on the parameters in the mapping as the singularity confinement criterion. Moreover, for all these examples, it will be shown that the conditions on the parameters are in fact equivalent to a linear transformation on part of the Picard group, obtained from the blow-up.
description: 19 pages, 10 figures
Per una fenomenologia politeista della guerra. Recensione di: James Hillman, Un terribile amore per la guerra, Milano 2005
Creators: name: Centanni, Monica; Daniela, Sacco
Publisher: name: La Rivista di Engramma
Year: 2006
Subjects: Un terribile amore per la guerra
Hillman
Adelphi

description: Review of the book “Un terribile amore per la guerra“ writtn by James Hillman and published by Adelphi.
James Hillman shows us how "poetic polytheism" can also be extended to the tonality of theoretical reflection, and therefore involve not only the aesthetic experience but also the ethical inclination: this is reiterated, perhaps more eloquently than in more recent writings , the important contribution that Hillman's thought can offer to the consciousness of our time.
Simultaneous Localization, Mapping and Moving Object Tracking
Creators: name: Chieh-Chih  Wang
name: Thorpe, Charles
name: Hebert, Martial
name: Thrun, Sebastian
name: Durrant-Whyte, Hugh
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Simultaneous localization, mapping and moving object tracking (SLAMMOT)
involves both simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) in dynamic en-
vironments and detecting and tracking these dynamic objects. In this paper,
we establish a mathematical framework to integrate SLAM and moving ob-
ject tracking. We describe two solutions: SLAM with generalized objects, and
SLAM with detection and tracking of moving objects (DATMO). SLAM with
generalized objects calculates a joint posterior over all generalized objects and
the robot. Such an approach is similar to existing SLAM algorithms, but with
additional structure to allow for motion modeling of generalized objects. Un-
fortunately, it is computationally demanding and generally infeasible. SLAM with DATMO decomposes the estimation problem into two separate estimators. By maintaining separate posteriors for stationary objects and moving objects, the resulting estimation problems are much lower dimensional then SLAM with generalized objects. Both SLAM and moving object tracking
from a moving vehicle in crowded urban areas are daunting tasks. Based on the SLAM with DATMO framework, we propose practical algorithms which
deal with issues of perception modeling, data association, and moving object detection. The implementation of SLAM with DATMO was demonstrated us-
ing data collected from the CMU Navlab11 vehicle at high speeds in crowded urban environments. Ample experimental results shows the feasibility of the proposed theory and algorithms.
title: Energy and Exergy Analysis for Single Slope Passive Solar Still with Different Water Depth Located in Baghdad Center
Creators: name: Khafaji, Hayder Q. A.
name: Abdul Wahhab, Hasanain Adnan
name: Al-Maliki, Wisam Abed Kattea
name: Alobaid, Falah
name: Epple, Bernd
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2022

description: In the present experimental work, the energy and exergy for single slope passive solar still with different basin water depths are experimentally investigated under the Baghdad climate condition. The analysis is performed using the governing equations formulated according to the first and second laws of thermodynamics. Compared to solar still with 1 cm water depth, the obtained results indicated that raising the water depth to 2 and 3 cm caused an appreciable drop in water basin temperature, and high levels of water basin reduction were about 4% and 9%, respectively, from 8:00 a.m. to 14:00 p.m., which significantly affects heat and mass transfer and ultimately hinders further water productivity. The maximum evaporation and convection heat transfer coefficients are found (32 W/m²·k) and (2.62 W/m²·k), respectively, while the maximum productivity of solar still is found to be 1468.84 mL/m² with 1 cm water depth. Conversely, stills with 2 and 3 cm water depth, exhibit an increment of the daily exergy efficiency after 14:00 p.m., this increment was the most for the still with 3 cm water depth. Therefore, we have concluded that the still with 1 cm of water depth attained the highest water productivity, while the still with 3 cm of water depth attained the best exergy efficiency with no additional costs.
Subspace Procrustes Analysis
Creators: name: Perez-Giminez, Xavier
name: Torre, Fernando De La
name: Igual, Laura
name: Escalera, Sergio
name: Angulo, Cecilio
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Procrustes Analysis (PA) has been a popular technique to align and build 2-D statistical models of shapes. Given a set of 2-D shapes PA is applied to remove rigid transformations. Then, a non-rigid 2-D model is computed by modeling (e.g., PCA) the residual. Although PA has been widely used, it has several limitations for modeling 2-D shapes: occluded landmarks and missing data can result in local minima solutions, and there is no guarantee that the 2-D shapes provide a uniform sampling of the 3-D space of rotations for the object. To address previous issues, this paper proposes Subspace PA (SPA). Given several instances of a 3-D object, SPA computes the mean and a 2-D subspace that can simultaneously model all rigid and non-rigid deformations of the 3-D object. We propose a discrete (DSPA) and continuous (CSPA) formulation for SPA, assuming that 3-D samples of an object are provided. DSPA extends the traditional PA, and produces unbiased 2-D models by uniformly sampling different views of the 3-D object. CSPA provides a continuous approach to uniformly sample the space of 3-D rotations, being more efficient in space and time. Experiments using SPA to learn 2-D models of bodies from motion capture data illustrate the benefits of our approach.
GARROTXA Cosmological Simulations of Milky Way-sized Galaxies: General Properties, Hot Gas Distribution, and Missing Baryons
Creators: name: Roca-Fàbrega, Santi
name: Valenzuela, Octavio
name: Colín, Pedro
name: Figueras, Francesca
name: Krongold, Yair
name: Velázquez, Héctor
name: Avila-Reese, Vladimir
name: Ibarra-Medel, Hector
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a new set of simulations of Milky Way-sized galaxies using the AMR code ART + hydrodynamics in a $Λ$CDM cosmogony. The simulation series is named GARROTXA and follow the formation of a halo/galaxy from z~$=$~60 to z~$=$~0. The final virial mass of the system is $\sim$7.4$\times$10$^{11}$M$_{\odot}$. Our results are as follows: (a) contrary to many previous studies, the circular velocity curve shows no central peak and overall agrees with recent MW observations. (b) Other quantities, such as M$\_{*}$(6$\times$10$^{10}$M$_\odot$) and R$_d$ (2.56 kpc), fall well inside the observational MW range. (c) We measure the disk-to-total ratio kinematically and find that D/T=0.42. (d) The cold gas fraction and star formation rate (SFR) at z=0, on the other hand, fall short from the values estimated for the Milky Way. As a first scientific exploitation of the simulation series, we study the spatial distribution of the hot X-ray luminous gas. We have found that most of this X-ray emitting gas is in a halo-like distribution accounting for an important fraction but not all of the missing baryons. An important amount of hot gas is also present in filaments. In all our models there is not a massive disk-like hot gas distribution dominating the column density. Our analysis of hot gas mock observations reveals that the homogeneity assumption leads to an overestimation of the total mass by factors 3 to 5 or to an underestimation by factors $0.7-0.1$, depending on the used observational method. Finally, we confirm a clear correlation between the total hot gas mass and the dark matter halo mass of galactic systems.
description: Accepted for publication, ApJ, April 2016
title: The value of resilience as a concept for practice in residential settings
Creators: name: Daniel, Brigid
Publisher: name: Strathprints - University of Strathclyde
Year: 2003

description: Resilience is a concept that is increasingly gaining currency as a basis for practice with children and young people. The concept, however, is not easy to define and the term is often used loosely or uncritically so that the implications for practice are unclear. This paper will give a brief overview of the concept, describe some of the pitfalls of its uncritical use and set out a framework for practice. Resilience will be described both as a concept that can help assess a child’s potential strengths and as a framework for practice. Much of what is indicated for practice is what practitioners and carers already do; however, the concept of resilience helps to set a conceptual framework around that work and provides a theoretical basis for what, in many cases, seems like common sense (Daniel, Wassell and Gilligan, 1999).
Additional file 1 of A draft Diabrotica virgifera virgifera genome: insights into control and host plant adaption by a major maize pest insect
Creators: name: Coates, Brad S.
name: Walden, Kimberly K. O.
name: Lata, Dimpal
name: Vellichirammal, Neetha Nanoth
name: Mitchell, Robert F.
name: Andersson, Martin N.
name: McKay, Rachel
name: Lorenzen, Marcé D.
name: Grubbs, Nathaniel
name: Wang, Yu-Hui
name: Han, Jinlong
name: Xuan, Jing Li
name: Willadsen, Peter
name: Wang, Huichun
name: French, B. Wade
name: Bansal, Raman
name: Sedky, Sammy
name: Souza, Dariane
name: Bunn, Dakota
name: Meinke, Lance J.
name: Miller, Nicholas J.
name: Siegfried, Blair D.
name: Sappington, Thomas W.
name: Robertson, Hugh M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table S1. Genomic libraries and sequencing reads used in Diabrotica virgifera virifera genome assembly of samples from inbred strain Ped12 (BioProject PRJNA432972; BioSample SAMN08631342). Count in millions of paired end (PE) reads.
Bahima, Matilde, La condiclin jurídica del laico en la doctrina canónica del s. XIX; Ledesma, Ana, La condición juridica del laico del CIC al Vaticano II; Gomez Carrasco, Mercedes, La condición jurídica del laico en el Concilio Vaticano II.
Creators: name: Marques, José António
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 1973

description: Theologica, v. 8 n. 3 (1973)
Free radical scavenging synergism of fucoxanthin with lipophilic plant products
Creators: name: Nurcahyanti, Agustina Dwi Retno
name: Satriawan, Natasha
name: Sharopov, Farukh
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Fucoxanthin demonstrates potential bioactivity, gaining greater interest with many prospective applications. The fundamental activity of fucoxanthin is antioxidant. However, some findings also report the pro-oxidant potential of carotenoids in particular concentrations and environments. In many applications, fucoxanthin requires additional materials to improve bioavailability and stability, such as lipophilic plant products (LPP). Despite much-growing evidence, little is known how fucoxanthin interacts with LPP, which is susceptible to an oxidative reaction. We hypothesised that lower concentration of fucoxanthin exerts a synergistic effect in combination with LPP. The low molecular weight of LPP may exhibit greater activity than long-chain LPP, and so it does with the concentration of unsaturated moieties. We performed free radical-scavenging assay of fucoxanthin combined with some essential oils and edible oils. Chou-Talalay theorem was employed to depict the combination effect. The current study demonstrates a staple finding and constitutes theoretical viewpoints before further fucoxanthin’s utilization with LPP.