cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A systematic literature review on counterexample explanation
Creators: name: Kaleeswaran, Arut Prakash
name: Nordmann, Arne
name: Vogel, Thomas
name: Grunske, Lars
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Context: Safety is of paramount importance for cyber-physical systems in domains such as automotive, robotics, and avionics. Formal methods such as model checking are one way to ensure the safety of cyber-physical systems. However, adoption of formal methods in industry is hindered by usability issues, particularly the difficulty of understanding model checking results. Objective: We want to provide an overview of the state of the art for counterexample explanation by investigating the contexts, techniques, and evaluation of research approaches in this field. This overview shall provide an understanding of current and guide future research. Method: To provide this overview, we conducted a systematic literature review. The survey comprises 116 publications that address counterexample explanations for model checking. Results: Most primary studies provide counterexample explanations graphically or as traces, minimize counterexamples to reduce complexity, localize errors in the models expressed in the input formats of model checkers, support linear temporal logic or computation tree logic specifications, and use model checkers of the Symbolic Model Verifier family. Several studies evaluate their approaches in safety-critical domains with industrial applications. Conclusion: We notably see a lack of research on counterexample explanation that targets probabilistic and real-time systems, leverages the explanations to domain-specific models, and evaluates approaches in user studies. We conclude by discussing the adequacy of different types of explanations for users with varying domain and formal methods expertise, showing the need to support laypersons in understanding model checking results to increase adoption of formal methods in industry.
description: Accepted Manuscript. Information and Software Technology
High--$T_c$ RF SQUIDs with Large Inductance of Quantization Loop
Creators: name: Sermyagin, A. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Experimental data on signal and noise characteristics of high--$T_c$ RF SQUIDs with large inductance of quantization loop are presented. The SQUIDs were produced by a thick--film HTS--technique of painting on the Y$_2$BaCuO$_5$ substrate. For the first time, a steady quantum interference was observed in RF SQUID with the inductance as large as $L_S=6.6$ nH, that is, 60 times higher than the fluctuation inductance $L_F\simeq10^{-10}H$ at the liquid nitrogen temperature T=77 K. A new method is offered to evaluate the sensitivity of RF SQUID with optimum inductance of the quantization loop.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures, 1 table
Nanophotonic supercontinuum based mid-infrared dual-comb spectroscopy
Creators: name: Guo, Hairun
name: Weng, Wenle
name: Liu, Junqiu
name: Yang, Fan
name: Hansel, Wolfgang
name: Bres, Camille Sophie
name: Thevenaz, Luc
name: Holzwarth, Ronald
name: Kippenberg, Tobias J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High resolution and fast detection of molecular vibrational absorption is important for organic synthesis, pharmaceutical process and environmental monitoring, and is enabled by mid-infrared (mid-IR) laser frequency combs via dual-comb spectroscopy. Here, we demonstrate a novel and highly simplified approach to broadband mid-IR dual-comb spectroscopy via supercontinuum generation, achieved using unprecedented nanophotonic dispersion engineering that allows for flat-envelope, ultra-broadband mid-IR comb spectra. The mid-IR dual-comb has an instantaneous bandwidth covering the functional group region from 2800-3600 1/cm, comprising more than 100,000 comb lines, enabling parallel gas-phase detection with a high sensitivity, spectral resolution, and speed. In addition to the traditional functional groups, their isotopologues are also resolved in the supercontinuum based dual-comb spectroscopy. Our approach combines well established fiber laser combs, digital coherent data averaging, and integrated nonlinear photonics, each in itself a state-of-the-art technology, signalling the emergence of mid-IR dual-comb spectroscopy for use outside of the protected laboratory environment.
Cacopsylla zetterstedti
Creators: name: Ouvrard, David
name: Burckhardt, Daniel
name: Cocquempot, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Psyllidae
Cacopsylla
Cacopsylla zetterstedti

description: Cacopsylla zetterstedti (Thomson, 1877)
 Chermes zetterstedti Thomson, 1877: 832.
 MATERIAL EXAMINED. — France. Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Fours, Bayasse, 1790 m, 44°18’39.366”N- 6°44’23.0022”E, 11.VII.2011, on Hippophae rhamnoides L. [= Elaeagnus rhamnoides (L.) A. Nelson], C. Cocquempot (CBGP), 53 adults.
DISTRIBUTION. — Fauna Europaea: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands; INPN: no data; additional data from Psyl’list: Caucasus, Georgia, Russia.
COMMENTS
 Description in Hodkinson & White (1979a) and Ossiannilsson (1992). Biology in Conci et al. (1993) and Lauterer (1999). Host-plant: Elaeagnus rhamnoides (L.) A. Nelson.
description: Published as part of Ouvrard, David, Burckhardt, Daniel & Cocquempot, Christian, 2015, An annotated checklist of the jumping plant-lice (Insecta: Hemiptera: Psylloidea) from the Mercantour National Park, with seven new records for France and one new synonymy, pp. 251-271 in Zoosystema 37 (1) on page 262, DOI: 10.5252/z2015n1a13, http://zenodo.org/record/5155473
The High-Energy Polarization-Limiting Radius of Neutron Star Magnetospheres I -- Slowly Rotating Neutron Stars
Creators: name: Heyl, Jeremy S.
name: Shaviv, Nir J.
name: Lloyd, Don
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the presence of strong magnetic fields, the vacuum becomes a birefringent medium. We show that this QED effect decouples the polarization modes of photons leaving the NS surface. Both the total intensity and the intensity in each of the two modes is preserved along a ray's path through the neutron-star magnetosphere. We analyze the consequences that this effect has on aligning the observed polarization vectors across the image of the stellar surface to generate large net polarizations. Counter to previous predictions, we show that the thermal radiation of NSs should be highly polarized even in the optical. When detected, this polarization will be the first demonstration of vacuum birefringence. It could be used as a tool to prove the high magnetic field nature of AXPs and it could also be used to constrain physical NS parameters, such as $R/M$, to which the net polarization is sensitive.
description: 23 pages, 9 figures
3. Feed and Livestock Sectors, Economic Growth, Key in Baseline Projections
Creators: name: Dohlman, Erik
name: Miller, Matthew
name: Dohlman, Erik
name: Miller, Matthew
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: Agribusiness
Agricultural Finance
Crop Production/Industries
Demand and Price Analysis
International Relations/Trade
Livestock Production/Industries
Production Economics
Productivity Analysis

description: Each year, USDA updates and publishes the 10-year supply and demand projections for major crop and livestock commodities in its Agricultural Projections report. The projections—popularly known as the “Baseline”—account for the economic relationships that drive the outlook for U.S. and global supply, demand, and trade for major meats (beef, pork, poultry) and livestock feeds (corn, soybeans), which are key commodities to the performance of the U.S. farm sector. The projections are based on expert judgment and models that draw from a range of domestic and international data on supply and demand variables that ultimately affect the U.S. feed-livestock sector.
Antiferromagnetic and Electric Polarized States in Two-Dimensional Janus Semiconductor Fe2Cl3I3
Creators: name: Zhang, Zhen
name: You, Jing-Yang
name: Gu, Bo
name: Su, Gang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two-dimensional (2D) Janus semiconductors with mirror asymmetry can introduce novel properties, such as large spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and normal piezoelectric polarization, which have attracted a great interest for their potential applications. Inspired by the recently fabricated 2D ferromagnetic (FM) semiconductor CrI3, a stable 2D (in x-y plane) antiferromagnetic (AFM) Janus semiconductor Fe2Cl3I3 with normal sublattice magnetization (m//z) is obtained by density functional theory calculations. By applying a tensile strain, the four magnetic states sequentially occur: AFM with m//z of sublattice, AFM with m//xy of sublattice, FM with m//xy, and FM with m//z. Such novel magnetic phase diagram driven by strain can be well understood by the spin-spin interactions including the third nearest-neighbor hoppings with the single-ion anisotropy, in which the SOC of I atoms is found to play an essential role. In addition, the electric polarization of Fe2Cl3I3 preserves with strain due to the broken inversion symmetry. Our results predict the rare Janus material Fe2Cl3I3 as an example of 2D semiconductors with both spin and charge polarizations, and reveal the highly sensitive strain-controlled magnetic states and magnetization direction, which highlights the 2D magnetic Janus semiconductor as a new platform to design spintronic materials.
description: 8 figures
Enhancement of Curie temperature in Ga(1-x)Mn(x)As/Ga(1-y)Al(y)As ferromagnetic heterostructures by Be modulation doping
Creators: name: Wojtowicz, T.
name: Lim, W. L.
name: Liu, X.
name: Dobrowolska, M.
name: Furdyna, J. K.
name: Yu, K. M.
name: Walukiewicz, W.
name: Vurgaftman, I.
name: Meyer, J. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effect of modulation doping by Be on the ferromagnetic properties of Ga(1-x)Mn(x)As is investigated in Ga(1-x)Mn(x)As/Ga(1-y)Al(y)As heterojunctions and quantum wells. Introducing Be acceptors into the Ga(1-y)Al(y)As barriers leads to an increase of the Curie temperature T_C of Ga(1-x)Mn(x)As, from 70 K in undoped structures to over 100 K with the modulation doping. This increase is qualitatively consistent with a multi-band mean field theory simulation of carrier-mediated ferromagnetism. An important feature is that the increase of T_C occurs only in those structures where the modulation doping is introduced after the deposition of the magnetic layer, but not when the Be-doped layer is grown first. This behavior is expected from the strong sensitivity of Mn interstitial formation to the value of the Fermi energy during growth.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures
Assortative model for social networks
Creators: name: Catanzaro, Michele
name: Caldarelli, Guido
name: Pietronero, Luciano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we present a new version of a network growth model, generalized in order to describe the behavior of social networks. The case of study considered is the preprint archive at cul.arxiv.org. Each node corresponds to a scientist, and a link is present whenever two authors wrote a paper together. This graph is a nice example of degree-assortative network, that is to say a network where sites with similar degree are connected each other. The model presented is one of the few able to reproduce such behavior, giving some insight on the microscopic dynamics at the basis of the graph structure.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures one table
Dark CO2 fixation into phospholipid-derived fatty acids by the cold-water coral associated sponge Hymedesmia (Stylopus) coriacea (Tisler Reef, NE Skagerrak)
Creators: name: Duyl, Fleur C. Van
name: Lengger, Sabine K.
name: Schouten, Stefan
name: Lundälv, Tomas
name: Oevelen, Dick Van
name: Müller, Christina E.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
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: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Plant Biology

description: Many cold-water sponges harbour microorganisms of which the role in the sponge host remains enigmatic. Here, we show a transfer of fixed inorganic carbon by sponge-associated microbes to its host, the cold-water coral encrusting sponge Hymedesmia (Stylopus) coriacea. Sponge were collected at approx. 100 m depth and incubated for 1.5–2.5 days with 13C labelled dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) as tracer. Total DIC fixation rates ranged from 0.03–0.11 mmol C × mmol Csponge × d−1. 13C-tracer was recovered in bacterial-specific (i.e. short and branched) and sponge-specific (very long-chained) phospholipid-derived fatty acids (PLFA's), but was not incorporated into archaeal lipids. 13C-incorporation in biomarkers such as C16:1w7c and C18:1w7c indicated that nitrifying and/or sulphur-oxidizing bacteria (chemoautotrophs) were likely active in the sponge. Trophic transfer of microbially-fixed carbon to the sponge host was confirmed by recovery of label in very long chain fatty acids (VLCFA's) including C26:2 and C26:3. Tracer accumulation into several VLCFA's continued after removal of 13C-DIC, while tracer in most bacteria-specific PLFA's declined, indicating a transfer and elongation of bacterial-specific PLFA's to sponge-specific PLFA's. This implies that PLFA precursors released from chemo- as well as heterotrophic microbes in sponges contributed to the synthesis of VLCFA's, identifying sponge-associated bacteria as symbionts of the sponge.
Psylla alpina Foerster 1848
Creators: name: Ouvrard, David
name: Burckhardt, Daniel
name: Cocquempot, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Psyllidae
Psylla
Psylla alpina

description: Psylla alpina Foerster, 1848
 Psylla alpina Foerster, 1848: 81.
 MATERIAL EXAMINED. — France. Alpes-Maritimes, La Brigue, French-Italian border between Mt Grai (2013 m) and Cime de Marte (2135 m), 21.VIII.1996, 15♂, 6♀, I. Malenovský (MMBC).
DISTRIBUTION. — Fauna Europaea: Austria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Romania, Switzerland, Ukraine; INPN: no data; additional data from Psyl’list: Bulgaria, Slovenia.
COMMENTS
 Description in Dobreanu & Manolache (1962). Biology in Lauterer (1979) and Conci et al. (1993). Host-plant: Alnus viridis (Chaix) DC. (Betulaceae).
description: Published as part of Ouvrard, David, Burckhardt, Daniel & Cocquempot, Christian, 2015, An annotated checklist of the jumping plant-lice (Insecta: Hemiptera: Psylloidea) from the Mercantour National Park, with seven new records for France and one new synonymy, pp. 251-271 in Zoosystema 37 (1) on page 263, DOI: 10.5252/z2015n1a13, http://zenodo.org/record/5155473
Superconducting transition temperatures of the elements related to elastic constants
Creators: name: Angilella, G. G. N.
name: March, N. H.
name: Pucci, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For a given crystal structure, say body-centred-cubic, the many-body Hamiltonian in which nuclear and electron motions are to be treated from the outset on the same footing, has parameters, for the elements, which can be classified as (i) atomic mass M, (ii) atomic number Z, characterizing the external potential in which electrons move, and (iii) bcc lattice spacing, or equivalently one can utilize atomic volume, Omega. Since the thermodynamic quantities can be determined from H, we conclude that Tc, the superconducting transition temperature, when it is non-zero, may be formally expressed as Tc = Tc^(M) (Z, Omega). One piece of evidence in support is that, in an atomic number vs atomic volume graph, the superconducting elements lie in a well defined region. Two other relevant points are that (a) Tc is related by BCS theory, though not simply, to the Debye temperature, which in turn is calculable from the elastic constants C_{11}, C_{12}, and C_{44}, the atomic weight and the atomic volume, and (b) Tc for five bcc transition metals is linear in the Cauchy deviation C* = (C_{12} - C_{44})/(C_{12} + C_{44}). Finally, via elastic constants, mass density and atomic volume, a correlation between C* and the Debye temperature is established for the five bcc transition elements.
description: EPJB, accepted
Context-dependent models comparisons: Swiss and German SP, RP data sets
Creators: name: Belgiawan, Prawira F.
name: Dubernet, Ilka
name: Schmid, Basil
name: Axhausen, Kay W.
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2017

description: When facing alternatives, people are often assumed to choose the alternative which maximizes their utilities. This concept is widely known as random utility maximization (RUM). In transportation research, one of the most famous modeling techniques based on this idea, e.g. for modeling mode choice, is the multinomial logit (MNL) approach. Recently there is a growing interest in an alternative modeling approach, random regret minimization (RRM). In RRM, an individual, when choosing between alternatives, is assumed to minimize anticipated regret as opposed to maximize his/her utility. There are three variants of RRM, the classical CRRM, the -RRM, and the P-RRM. There is also a further approach called relative advantage maximization (RAM) turning the idea around and focusing on the gains. We compare MNL with the four mentioned alternatives. The data used are stated choice data sets collected by the IVT, ETH Zurich which comprise of mode choice, location choice, parking choice, carpooling, car-sharing, etc experiments. We compare the performance of those five models by their model fit (Final LL, hit rate, and prediction). We also present a comparison of their VTTS, travel time and cost elasticities.
A matching-adjusted indirect comparison of the efficacy of elranatamab versus physician’s choice of treatment in patients with triple-class exposed/refractory multiple myeloma
Creators: name: Mol, Isha
name: Hu, Yannan
name: LeBlanc, Thomas W.
name: Cappelleri, Joseph C.
name: Chu, Haitao
name: Nador, Guido
name: Aydin, Didem
name: Schepart, Alex
name: Hlavacek, Patrick
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: For patients with triple-class exposed/refractory multiple myeloma (TCE/R MM), prognosis is poor and effective treatment options are limited. Elranatamab is a novel B-cell maturation antigen (BCMA)- and CD3-directed bispecific antibody which was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in August 2023 and demonstrated safety and efficacy in patients with TCE/R MM in the phase 2, single-arm MagnetisMM-3 trial (NCT04649359). To compare the effectiveness of elranatamab vs physician’s choice of treatment (PCT) in the absence of head-to-head comparative data, a matching-adjusted indirect comparison (MAIC) was conducted. Individual patient data from MagnetisMM-3 (Cohort A [BCMA-naïve] N = 123, 14.7 months of follow-up) were reweighted to match published summary data from two real-world studies of PCT in patients with TCE/R MM (LocoMMotion and MAMMOTH) using a propensity score-type logistic regression. Unanchored MAIC analyses were conducted according to National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Decision Support Unit (DSU) 18 guidance. Compared with PCT in LocoMMotion, elranatamab was associated with a significantly higher objective response rate (ORR rate difference: 37.52; 95% CI 26.20–48.83; odds ratio: 4.85; 95% CI 2.85–8.23) and complete or stringent complete response rate (≥CR rate difference: 42.29; 95% CI 31.84–52.74; odds ratio: 184.01; 95% CI 24.66–1372.86), longer progression-free survival (PFS HR 0.32; 95% CI 0.20–0.49), and overall survival (OS HR 0.62; 95% CI 0.40–0.94). Compared with PCT in MAMMOTH, elranatamab was associated with significantly higher ORR (rate difference: 28.14; 95% CI 16.77–39.52; odds ratio: 3.24; 95% CI 1.98–5.32) and ≥ CR (rate difference: 26.22; 95% CI 16.40–36.05; odds ratio: 5.48; 95% CI 2.88–10.44), as well as longer PFS (HR 0.25; 95% CI 0.17–0.37) and OS (HR 0.49; 95% CI 0.33–0.71). Sensitivity analysis results were consistent with the base case. In the MAIC, elranatamab was consistently associated with improved rates and depth of response and significantly longer PFS and OS versus PCT in LocoMMotion and MAMMOTH.
How U.S. Research Institutions are Responding to the Single Institutional Review Board Mandate
Creators: name: B. Resnik, David
name: Smith, Elise M.
name: Shi, Min
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: One of the most significant changes to the Common Rule is the requirement that institutions use a single Institutional Review Board (IRB) for cooperative research in the United States, unless more than one IRB is required by state, local, or tribal law, or a signatory federal agency decides an exception is warranted. We surveyed Human Research Protection Program (HRPP) officials at the top U.S. research institutions to understand their knowledge and opinion of the mandate, what steps their institutions are taking, and difficulties their institutions are facing. One-hundred seven institutions (56.9%) responded to the survey. While support for the single-IRB mandate was positive overall, most respondents acknowledged that their institution is likely to face some difficulties complying with it. Regulatory agencies can help institutions to comply with the mandate by providing guidance concerning such issues as exceptions to the mandate, local context review, oversight, and implementation of reliance agreements, and development of policies, procedures, and best practices.
Charge fluctuations from molecular simulations in the constant-potential ensemble
Creators: name: Scalfi, Laura
name: Limmer, David T.
name: Coretti, Alessandro
name: Bonella, Sara
name: Madden, Paul A.
name: Salanne, Mathieu
name: Rotenberg, Benjamin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit the statistical mechanics of charge fluctuations in capacitors. In constant-potential classical molecular simulations, the atomic charge of electrode atoms are treated as additional degrees of freedom which evolve in time so as to satisfy the constraint of fixed electrostatic potential for each configuration of the electrolyte. The present work clarifies the role of the overall electroneutrality constraint, as well as the link between the averages computed within the Born-Oppenheimer approximation and that of the full constant-potential ensemble. This allows us in particular to derive a complete fluctuation-dissipation relation for the differential capacitance, that includes a contribution from the charge fluctuations (around the charges satisfying the constant-potential and electroneutrality constraints) also present in the absence of an electrolyte. We provide a simple expression for this contribution from the elements of the inverse of the matrix defining the quadratic form of the fluctuating charges in the energy. We then illustrate numerically the validity of our results, and recover the expected result for an empty capacitor with structureless electrodes at large inter-electrode distances. By considering a variety of liquids between graphite electrodes, we confirm that this contribution to the total differential capacitance is small compared to that induced by the thermal fluctuations of the electrolyte.
Commensal priming of zebrafish embryos impacts their offspring mucosal immunity and disease resistance
Creators: name: Galindo-Villegas, Jorge
name: Mulero, Victoriano
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Zebrafish, inflammation, epigenetic, histone modification, osmolarity, host-microbe, offspring

description: The rearing medium tonicity and the commensal microorganisms that reside in mucosal surfaces in vertebrates have emerged as a critical source of environmentally-derived stimuli that can impact health and disease. Despite the underlying cellular and molecular mechanisms related to these changes are just beginning to be defined, the long-term effects and the possible heritability of these early microbes-host interactions have not been well studied. This study sought to investigate whether a lack of bacterial priming in newly hatched embryos affects development, survival, life span, and immune competence. To address this hypothesis, we raised wild-type zebrafish (ZF) in either germ-free (GF) or conventional (CONR) conditions until 7 days post fertilization (dpf). After that, GF and CONR larvae were housed in our general ZF facility and reared indefinitely in similar diets and environmental conditions. Starting from 10 dpf, growth, survival, and histological changes in the gut were analyzed and recorded for several months. Surprisingly, morphometric measurements revealed that ex-GF animals present a greater size and show reduced natural mortality than their CONR siblings. Moreover, gut morphology observations through histochemical preparations of 90 dpf ZF revealed a significantly reduced number of goblet cells, suggesting a reduced mucus hydrogel layer in ex-GF ZF. Strikingly, the offspring of ex-GF animals were more susceptible to a bacterial challenge. Studies are in progress to reveal the mechanisms involved in commensal priming at the early developmental stages in immunity, including the analysis of gene expression profiles and the epigenetic changes taking place on such genes.
Trichochermes walkeri
Creators: name: Ouvrard, David
name: Burckhardt, Daniel
name: Cocquempot, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Triozidae
Trichochermes
Trichochermes walkeri

description: Trichochermes walkeri (Foerster, 1848)
 Trioza walkeri Foerster, 1848: 88.
 MATERIAL EXAMINED. — France. Alpes-Maritimes, Saint-Dalmasle-Selvage, M09-SES1400-T8-M2, 1♀ (MNHN).
DISTRIBUTION. — Fauna Europaea: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Luxembourg, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine; INPN: no data; additional data from Psyl’list: Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Slovenia.
COMMENTS
 Description in Hodkinson & White (1979a) and Ossiannilsson (1992). Biology in Ossiannilsson (1992) and Conci et al. (1996). Host-plants: several species of Rhamnus (Rhamnaceae).
description: Published as part of Ouvrard, David, Burckhardt, Daniel & Cocquempot, Christian, 2015, An annotated checklist of the jumping plant-lice (Insecta: Hemiptera: Psylloidea) from the Mercantour National Park, with seven new records for France and one new synonymy, pp. 251-271 in Zoosystema 37 (1) on page 265, DOI: 10.5252/z2015n1a13, http://zenodo.org/record/5155473
Path Integral Estimates of the Quantum Fluctuations of the Relative Soliton-Soliton Velocity in a Gross-Pitevskii Breather
Creators: name: Datta, Sumita
name: Dunjko, Vanja
name: Olshanii, Maxim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, the quantum fluctuations of the relative velocity of constituent solitons in a Gross-Pitaevskii breather are studied. The breather is confined in a weak harmonic trap. These fluctuations are monitored,indirectly, using a two-body correlation function measured at a quarter of the harmonic period after the breather creation. The results of an ab initio quantum Monte Carlo calculations, based on the Feynman-Kac path integration method, are compared with the analytical predictions using the recently suggested approach within the Bogoliubov approximation, and a good agreement is obtained.
description: 9 pages
A matching-adjusted indirect comparison of the efficacy of elranatamab versus physician’s choice of treatment in patients with triple-class exposed/refractory multiple myeloma
Creators: name: Mol, Isha
name: Hu, Yannan
name: LeBlanc, Thomas W.
name: Cappelleri, Joseph C
name: Chu, Haitao
name: Nador, Guido
name: Aydin, Didem
name: Schepart, Alex
name: Hlavacek, Patrick
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: For patients with triple-class exposed/refractory multiple myeloma (TCE/R MM), prognosis is poor and effective treatment options are limited. Elranatamab is a novel B-cell maturation antigen (BCMA)- and CD3-directed bispecific antibody which was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in August 2023 and demonstrated safety and efficacy in patients with TCE/R MM in the phase 2, single-arm MagnetisMM-3 trial (NCT04649359). To compare the effectiveness of elranatamab vs physician’s choice of treatment (PCT) in the absence of head-to-head comparative data, a matching-adjusted indirect comparison (MAIC) was conducted. Individual patient data from MagnetisMM-3 (Cohort A [BCMA-naïve] N = 123, 14.7 months of follow-up) were reweighted to match published summary data from two real-world studies of PCT in patients with TCE/R MM (LocoMMotion and MAMMOTH) using a propensity score-type logistic regression. Unanchored MAIC analyses were conducted according to National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Decision Support Unit (DSU) 18 guidance. Compared with PCT in LocoMMotion, elranatamab was associated with a significantly higher objective response rate (ORR rate difference: 37.52; 95% CI 26.20–48.83; odds ratio: 4.85; 95% CI 2.85–8.23) and complete or stringent complete response rate (≥CR rate difference: 42.29; 95% CI 31.84–52.74; odds ratio: 184.01; 95% CI 24.66–1372.86), longer progression-free survival (PFS HR 0.32; 95% CI 0.20–0.49), and overall survival (OS HR 0.62; 95% CI 0.40–0.94). Compared with PCT in MAMMOTH, elranatamab was associated with significantly higher ORR (rate difference: 28.14; 95% CI 16.77–39.52; odds ratio: 3.24; 95% CI 1.98–5.32) and ≥ CR (rate difference: 26.22; 95% CI 16.40–36.05; odds ratio: 5.48; 95% CI 2.88–10.44), as well as longer PFS (HR 0.25; 95% CI 0.17–0.37) and OS (HR 0.49; 95% CI 0.33–0.71) (Table 2). Sensitivity analysis results were consistent with the base case. Response outcomes for elranatamab versus PCT (naïve, base case adjusted, and sensitivity analysis results) a One patient out of 248 achieved CR in LocoMMotion Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; ≥CR, complete response or stringent complete response; ESS, effective sample size; OR, odds ratio; ORR, objective response rate; PCT, physician’s choice of treatment In the MAIC, elranatamab was consistently associated with improved rates and depth of response and significantly longer PFS and OS versus PCT in LocoMMotion and MAMMOTH.
Saturation of Turbulent Drag Reduction in Dilute Polymer Solutions
Creators: name: Benzi, Roberto
name: L'vov, Victor S.
name: Procaccia, Itamar
name: Tiberkevich, Vasil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Drag reduction by polymers in turbulent wall-bounded flows exhibits universal and non-universal aspects. The universal maximal mean velocity profile was explained in a recent theory. The saturation of this profile and the crossover back to the Newtonian plug are non-universal, depending on Reynolds number Re, concentration of polymer $c_p$ and the degree of polymerization $N_p$. We explain the mechanism of saturation stemming from the finiteness of extensibility of the polymers, predict its dependence on $c_p$ and $N$ in the limit of small $c_p$ and large Re, and present the excellent comparison of our predictions to experiments on drag reduction by DNA.
description: 4 pages, 4 figs., included, PRL, submitted
A Literature Review on the Role of RFID in Reverse Logistics-For Electronic Products.
Creators: name: Awais Hanif Qurashi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 150309 Logistics and Supply Chain Management
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Nowadays, companies are more concerned about the customer satisfaction and by providing extraordinary customer services they win the customer trust and loyalty. On the other hand, both customers and companies are worried about environmental perspectives as well. In order to maintain a worthy reputation of the business, environmental sustainability, good value added services and aftersales services are the major priorities of most of the organizations. These services include quality related customer returns (permanent returns) and repair or service related returns (temporary returns) as well as returns due to environmental sustainability like returns for recycling or disposal of obsolete products. This paper suggests the idea of implementing Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology in expensive electronic product for optimizing their Reverse Logistics (RL) process as well as enhancing sorting and inspection of returned products, also helps in making disassembly process easier etc. RFID equipped RL system assists in deciding about whether the return products have to go for disposal / recycling / remanufacturing / recovery / refurbishment / repair depending on the reason or type of return. RL which is actually a difficult activity to pre plan because returns cannot be forecasted exactly, also the product identification process is difficult to carryout due to lack of product information available specially in RL. But this paper highlights such issues and suggests solutions while implementing RFID technology in RL chain.
Supersymmetry on a Euclidean Spacetime Lattice I: A Target Theory with Four Supercharges
Creators: name: Cohen, Andrew G.
name: Kaplan, David B.
name: Katz, Emanuel
name: Unsal, Mithat
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We formulate a Euclidean spacetime lattice whose continuum limit is (2,2) supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in two dimensions, a theory which possesses four supercharges and an anomalous global chiral symmetry. The lattice action respects one exact supersymmetry, which allows the target theory to emerge in the continuum limit without fine-tuning. Our method exploits an orbifold construction described previously for spatial lattices in Minkowski space, and can be generalized to more complicated theories with additional supersymmetry and more spacetime dimensions.
Economic Feasibility of Sustainable High Oilseed-Based Biofuel Production: The Case for Biodiesel in North Carolina
Creators: name: Yeboah, Anthony K.
name: Naanwaab, Cephas B.
name: Yeboah, Osei-Agyeman
name: Owens, John Paul
name: Bynum, Jarvetta S.
name: Yeboah, Anthony K.
name: Naanwaab, Cephas B.
name: Yeboah, Osei-Agyeman
name: Owens, John Paul
name: Bynum, Jarvetta S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Financial Economics
subject: biodiesel
subject: economic feasibility
subject: Monte Carlo Simulations
subject: risk analysis
subject: Sensitivity Analysis.

description: We assess the economic feasibility of a 10 million gallon per year biodiesel plant that uses canola seeds as feedstock. A Monte Carlo Cash Flow model is programmed using @Risk simulation software. The model is programmed with three output variables: stream of revenues, profits/loss, and the resulting net present value (NPV) over ten year forecast period. The study finds that the likelihood of the NPV greater than zero is 63% on average. This indicates that the plant may be economically feasible, subject to model assumptions. Sensitivity and scenario analyses show that the NPVs were most affected by fluctuations in biodiesel price, canola seed price, and the price of seed meal. Indeed, over the long-term, feedstock price and biodiesel subsidies remain the major determining factors of profitability in biodiesel production. Historically, feedstock prices have been characterized by high volatility. The profitability of the biodiesel plant hinges to a large extent on the assumption that feedstock prices remain low and regular gasoline prices, especially petroleum diesel, remain stable over the forecast horizon. Moreover, the analysis assumes that the current biodiesel subsidy at $1.00/ gallon remains in effect over the period of the study. Thus, removal of the subsidy would also render biodiesel production unprofitable given current feedstock prices.
description: The IFAMR is the flagship journal in Agribusiness published quarterly by IFAMA. More information can be found at: www.ifama.org
Perturbing the ground state of Dirac stars
Creators: name: Daka, Emanuel
name: Phan, Nhon N.
name: Kain, Ben
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dirac stars are self-gravitating configurations of spin-1/2 fermions in which the fermions are described by the Dirac equation. After a detailed review of the derivation of the equations and their static solutions, we present an in-depth dynamical stability analysis of the ground state similar to previous studies for boson stars. We confirm that there exist both stable and unstable branches of static solutions and show that weakly perturbed Dirac stars from the unstable branch migrate to the stable branch. We also show that strongly perturbed Dirac stars from the stable branch migrate to the stable branch if their mass is below a critical value. If their mass is above the critical value they can migrate to the stable branch or collapse and form a black hole. For strongly perturbed Dirac stars from the unstable branch we show that the addition of even a small amount of mass leads to collapse, while if we decrease their mass they migrate to the stable branch.
description: 17 pages, 8 figures
The complete chloroplast genome of Elsholtzia fruticosa (D. Don) Rehd. (Labiatae), an ornamental plant with high medicinal value
Creators: name: Yu, Xiao
name: Song, Yu-Ru
name: Zhao, Zhen-Ning
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology

description: Elsholtzia fruticosa is an ornamental plant with high medicinal value. In this study, we sequenced and analyzed the complete chloroplast (cp) genome of the species. The complete cp sequence is 151,550 bp, including the large single-copy (LSC) region of 82,778 bp, the small single-copy (SSC) region of 17,492 bp, and a pair of invert repeats (IRs) regions of 25,640 bp. It encodes 132 unique genes in total, including 87 protein-coding genes, 37 transfer RNA genes (tRNAs), and eight ribosomal RNA genes (rRNAs). The comparative analysis of complete cp genomes showed that the genomic structure and gene order of E. fruticosa cps were conserved. The sequences of rps15, rps19, ycf1, ycf3, ycf15, psbL, psaI, trnG-UCC, trnS-GCU, trnR-UCU, trnL-UAG, trnP-UG, and trnL-UAA serve as hotspots for developing the DNA barcoding of Elsholtzia species. There are 49 SSR loci in the cp genome of E. fruticosa, among which the repeat numbers of mononucleotide, dinucleotide, trinucleotide, tetranucleotide, and pentanucleotides SSR are 37, 9, 3, 0, and 0, respectively. A total of 50 repeats were detected, including 15 forward repeats, seven reverse repeats, 26 palindromic repeats, and two complementary repeats. Phylogenetic analysis based on the complete cp genome and protein-coding DNA sequences of 26 plants indicates that E. fruticosa has a dose relationship with E. splendens and E. byeonsanensis.
Additional file 9 of Transcriptomic profiling and discovery of key genes involved in adventitious root formation from green cuttings of highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum L.)
Creators: name: An, Haishan
name: Zhang, Jiaying
name: Xu, Fangjie
name: Jiang, Shuang
name: Zhang, Xueying
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 9: Table S1 Regression equation of the calibration curves for IAA, ABA, GA3 and zeatin.
WMAP confirming the ellipticity in BOOMERanG and COBE CMB maps
Creators: name: Gurzadyan, V. G.
name: Ade, P. A. R.
name: de Bernardis, P.
name: Bianco, C. L.
name: Bock, J. J.
name: Boscaleri, A.
name: Crill, B. P.
name: De Troia, G.
name: Hivon, E.
name: Hristov, V. V.
name: Kashin, A. L.
name: Kuloghlian, H.
name: Lange, A. E.
name: Masi, S.
name: Mauskopf, P. D.
name: Montroy, T.
name: Natoli, P.
name: Netterfield, C. B.
name: Pascale, E.
name: Piacentini, F.
name: Polenta, G.
name: Ruhl, J.
name: Yegorian, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recent study of BOOMERanG 150 GHz Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation maps have detected ellipticity of the temperature anisotropy spots independent on the temperature threshold. The effect has been found for spots up to several degrees in size, where the biases of the ellipticity estimator and of the noise are small. To check the effect, now we have studied, with the same algorithm and in the same sky region, the WMAP maps. We find ellipticity of the same average value also in WMAP maps, despite of the different sensitivity of the two experiments to low multipoles. Large spot elongations had been detected also for the COBE-DMR maps. If this effect is due to geodesic mixing and hence due to non precisely zero curvature of the hyperbolic Universe, it can be linked to the origin of WMAP low multipoles anomaly.
description: More explanations and two references added
title: Multi-Dimensional Numerical Integration on Parallel Architectures
Creators: name: Sakiotis, Ioannis
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: Multi-dimensional numerical integration is a challenging computational problem that is encountered in many scientific computing applications. Despite extensive research and the development of efficient techniques such as adaptive and Monte Carlo methods, many complex high-dimensional integrands can be too computationally intense even for state-of-the-art numerical libraries such as CUBA, QUADPACK, NAG, and MSL. However, adaptive integration has few dependencies and is very well suited for parallel architectures where processors can operate on different partitions of the integration-space. While existing parallel methods exist, most are simple extensions of their sequential versions. This results in moderate speedup and in many cases failure to significantly surpass the precision capabilities of the sequential methods. We propose a new algorithm for adaptive multi-dimensional integration of challenging integrands for execution on highly parallel architectures. We avoid the common sequential scheme of adaptive-methods in favor of a high-throughput approach better suited for parallel architectures. Experimental results show orders of magnitude speedup over sequential methods and improved performance in terms of maximum attainable precision.
Consumer Willingness to Pay a Premium for Organic Fruit and Vegetable in Ghana
Creators: name: Owusu, Victor
name: Owusu Anifori, Michael
name: Owusu, Victor
name: Owusu Anifori, Michael
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: International Development
subject: Africa
subject: consumer perceptions
subject: Ghana
subject: organic foods
subject: willingness-to-pay

description: This paper analyzes the willingness of consumers to pay a premium for organic watermelon and lettuce using contingent valuation data from urban Kumasi in Ghana. The effects of the determinants of consumer willingness to pay a premium are estimated with a bivariate Tobit model. The empirical findings indicate that in addition to socioeconomic characteristics, product freshness and cleanness tend to have positive effects on consumer willingness to pay a premium for organic watermelon compared to conventional watermelon. Whereas product size has a negative influence on consumer willingness to pay premium for organic lettuce, less insect damage to vegetables tends to have a positive effect. The study estimates the willingness to pay a premium for organic watermelon/lettuce compared to conventional watermelon/lettuce. The estimated mean consumer willingness to pay premium for 1 kilogram of organic w
description: The IFAMR is the flagship journal in Agribusiness published quarterly by IFAMA. More information can be found at: www.ifama.org
Tunnel Determinants
Creators: name: Wipf, Andreas W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Methods for computing the regularized determinants of fluctuation operators are being developed. The results follow from the fact that these determinants can be expressed by eigenmodes of the fluctuation operator. As an application the tunnel determinants of some one- and higher-dimensional models are computed. It is shown that every fluctuation operator defines a supersymmetric quantum mechanical system.
description: Uploaded to arXiv to help researchers with limited library facilities 23 pages, 6 figures