cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Charge/quadrupole fluctuations and gap anisotropy in BiS$_2$-based superconductors
Creators: name: Suzuki, Katsuhiro
name: Usui, Hidetomo
name: Kuroki, Kazuhiko
name: Ikeda, Hiroaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent angle-resolved spectroscopy in BiS$_2$-based superconductors has indicated that the superconducting gap amplitude possesses remarkable anisotropy and/or a sign change on a small Fermi pocket around $X$ point. It implies a possibility of an unconventional pairing state. Here we study the gap anisotropy in superconductivity mediated by inherent charge/quadrupole fluctuations in an extended Hubbard model, which includes inter-site interaction between Bi and S atoms. The first-principles downfolded band structure is composed of Bi $6p_x/p_y$ and S $3p_x/p_y$ orbitals on a BiS$_2$ single layer. Evaluating the linearized gap equation, we find that the ferroic charge/quadrupole fluctuation driven by the inter-site interaction leads to a fully-gapped $d_{x^2-y^2}$-wave pairing state, in which the gap amplitude has sizable anisotropy on the Fermi surface.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
Dancing the mosh pit style with fresh ideas
Creators: name: Torres, Javier Carranza
Publisher: name: OpenCon 2017 LatAm
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Presentada por Javier Carranza Torres como parte de las presentaciones cortas de participantes el día 12 de octubre de 2017 en OpenCon LatAm.
Additional file 1 of Dynamic transcriptome and histomorphology analysis of developmental traits of hindlimb thigh muscle from Odorrana tormota and its adaptability to different life history stages
Creators: name: Shu, Yilin
name: He, Jun
name: Zhang, Huijuan
name: Liu, Guangxuan
name: Li, Shikun
name: Deng, Shuaitao
name: Wu, Hailong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. Transverse section of hindlimb thigh muscles in tadpole stages
title: ADCO, Cart. 186 (11 H 71), f. 0079r
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CBMA/CG21/F.PETOT/2012
name: Petot, Frédéric
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: cartulaire
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge

description: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, t. II (XVe siècle), tome II, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, C
art. 186 (11 H 71). Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, t. II (XVe siècle), tome II, Archives départementales de la
 Côte-d'Or, Cart. 186 (11 H 71), f. 0079r, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https://manuscrits.cbma-
project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
Sedimentological, geochemical, and geochronological constraints on the origin of the Neoproterozoic Luoquan Formation at the Southern Margin of the North China Craton
Creators: name: Zhang, Biyun
name: Zheng, Deshun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: 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: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: During Neoproterozoic global climate changed drastically and associated glacial deposits have been found worldwide. However, there are few such records at the southern margin of the North China Craton (NCC), limiting the comparison of the glacial deposits with other parts of the world. In this study, five sections of the Neoproterozoic Luoquan Formation were investigated in a systematic field survey using traditional sedimentology, geochemistry, and geochronology methods to reveal genesis, paleoclimate, paleoenvironment, and provenance of the Luoquan Formation. The results reveal depositional evidence for glaciation, such as sedimentary characteristics of massive diamictites, bedded and weakly bedded diamictites, sandstone lenses, lonestone-bearing siltstone, glacial relics, and striated pavements. All geochemical indicators show positive trends, such as in the values of Fe/Mn, Mg/Ga, Sr/Ba, ΣREE, and Cu/Zn. The zircon U–Pb data of the stable sandstone strata in the Luoquan Formation show a main peak at 2494 million years (Ma) and secondary peaks at 1656, 2100, and 2233 Ma. Sedimentary characteristics, glacial relics, changes in geochemical values, and the provenance age of detrital zircons suggest that the Luoquan Formation represents glacial meltwater deposits that eroded the nearby strata in a gradually warming environment. The direction of glacier migration, from north to south, revealed that the NCC deposition process occurred in the late Neoproterozoic.
Genomic-based identification of host and environmental Listeria monocytogenes strains associated with an abortion outbreak in beef heifers
Creators: name: Whitman, K. J.
name: Bono, J. L.
name: Clawson, M. L.
name: Bosilevac, J.
name: Arthur, T.
name: Ondrak, J. D.
name: Loy, J. D.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2015

description: Listeria monocytogenes (LM) is a bacterial pathogen that causes late-term abortions in cattle, and definitive diagnosis and point-source determination may be challenging. In 2014, a diagnostic work-up of listerial abortions was initiated by a novel sample collection protocol. To determine the source(s) of the outbreak, LM strains isolated from cases and their environment were subjected to whole-genome sequencing and compared.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2015
The Lyman Continuum escape fraction of emission line-selected $z\sim2.5$ galaxies is less than 15%
Creators: name: Rutkowski, Michael J.
name: Scarlata, Claudia
name: Henry, Alaina
name: Hayes, Matthew
name: Mehta, Vihang
name: Hathi, Nimish
name: Cohen, Seth
name: Windhorst, Rogier
name: Koekemoer, Anton M.
name: Teplitz, Harry I.
name: Haardt, Francesco
name: Siana, Brian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent work suggests that strong emission line, star-forming galaxies may be significant Lyman Continuum leakers. We combine archival HST broadband ultraviolet and optical imaging (F275W and F606W, respectively) with emission line catalogs derived from WFC3 IR G141 grism spectroscopy to search for escaping Lyman Continuum (LyC) emission from homogeneously selected $z\simeq$2.5 SFGs. We detect no escaping Lyman Continuum from SFGs selected on [OII] nebular emission (N=208) and, within a narrow redshift range, on [OIII]/[OII]. We measure 1$σ$ upper limits to the LyC escape fraction relative to the non-ionizing UV continuum from [OII] emitters, $f_{esc}$5 ELGs, $f_{esc}$6, such galaxies may be insufficient for reionization. Deeper survey data in the rest-frame ionizing UV will be necessary to determine whether strong line ratios could be useful for pre-selecting LyC leakers at high redshift.
description: accepted to ApJ Letters
Assessment and comparison of the barriers to interspecies transmission of bovine spongiform encephalopathy and chronic wasting disease prions
Creators: name: Davenport, K. A.
name: Henderson, D. M.
name: Mathiason, C. K.
name: Hoover, E. A.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2015

description: Prion diseases are transmissible, neurodegenerative diseases caused by templated conversion of the normal cellular prion protein to a misfolded, neurotoxic form. After conversion, the misfolded protein aggregates into characteristic protease-resistant amyloid plaques, which are hallmarks of prion disease. Species barriers among prion diseases have been observed epidemiologically and experimentally, but the mechanism(s) mediating this phenomenon remains unknown, making it impossible to predict the risk of transmission to new species, including humans, and to formulate therapies and prophylactics... Functional demonstration of the mechanism(s) resulting in the species barriers is the principal question addressed in this research.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2015
Supplementary Material for: Suppressed Adiponectin Levels and Increased Adiponectin Response to Oral Glucose Load in Lean Women with Severe Acne Normalizes after Isotretinoin Treatment
Creators: name: Aydin, K.
name: Çetinözman, F.
name: Elcin, G.
name: Aksoy, D.Y.
name: Ucar, F.
name: Yildiz, B.O.
Publisher: name: Karger Publishers
Year: 2017
Subjects: Medicine

description: Background/Aim: Isotretinoin, the drug of choice for severe acne, might be associated with a decrease in insulin sensitivity. Adiponectin is an adipose tissue-derived protein that increases insulin sensitivity. In this study, we aimed to investigate adiponectin levels in postadolescent severe acne and the effect of isotretinoin on adiponectin levels. Methods: Participants included 18 female patients with severe acne and 18 healthy women matched for age and body mass index (BMI). Acne patients completed a 6-month isotretinoin treatment. Anthropometric measurements, serum adiponectin, lipids, fasting glucose, fasting insulin, and homeostatic model assessment for insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) were determined, and a standard 2-h oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) was performed in healthy women once and in patients with acne before and after treatment. Results: At baseline, patients with acne had significantly lower serum adiponectin levels than controls. Isotretinoin treatment resulted in a significant increase in weight, BMI, and triglyceride and adiponectin levels. Glucose metabolism markers in patients with acne and controls were similar at baseline and did not change after treatment. Baseline OGTT in acne patients revealed an increased adiponectin response at 2 h, which was not present in healthy controls. Remarkably, this OGTT-induced adiponectin increment in acne patients was diminished after isotretinoin treatment. Conclusion: Adiponectin levels are differently regulated in women with severe acne and healthy controls in that circulating basal levels in patients are suppressed and show an increase in response to oral glucose load. Suppression of baseline adiponectin ameliorates after 6 months of isotretinoin treatment, reaching levels similar to those of healthy controls.
Serum neutralizing antibody concentrations against viral bovine respiratory pathogens in nursing beef calves
Creators: name: Scruggs, L. M.
name: Smith, D. R.
name: Woolums, A. R.
name: Grotelueschen, D. M.
name: Doster, A. R.
name: Brodersen, B. W.
name: Loy, J. D.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2015

description: Nursing calf bovine respiratory disease (BRD) is a problem for some herds, and the timing of maternal antibody decline may be related to risk for calves to develop BRD. Limited information is available on the distribution of serum maternal antibody titers among calves within and between cow-calf herds. Understanding how maternal antibody concentrations vary within and between herds may help us understand what puts nursing (preweaned) calves at risk for BRD. The objective of this study was to test the effect of calf age and farm on the magnitude of serum neutralizing antibody (SNA) titers against viral causes of BRD in nursing calves among herds in a similar geographic location.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2015
Transitioning Between Audience and Performer: Co-Designing Interactive Music Performances with Children
Creators: name: Striner, Alina
name: McNally, Brenna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Live interactions have the potential to meaningfully engage audiences during musical performances, and modern technologies promise unique ways to facilitate these interactions. This work presents findings from three co-design sessions with children that investigated how audiences might want to interact with live music performances, including design considerations and opportunities. Findings from these sessions also formed a Spectrum of Audience Interactivity in live musical performances, outlining ways to encourage interactivity in music performances from the child perspective.
The end of the eternal snows: Integrative mapping of 100 years of glacier retreat in the Venezuelan Andes
Creators: name: Ramírez, Nerio
name: Melfo, Alejandra
name: Resler, Lynn M.
name: Llambí, Luis D.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
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: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 20199 Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Venezuela will soon become the first Andean country to lose all of its glaciers, as the “eternal snows” of the Sierra Nevada de Mérida (SNM) disappear. Although documentation of glacier retreat in Venezuela commenced over a century ago, an updated reconstruction at sufficient spatial resolution is warranted. Our objectives were to (a) produce detailed multitemporal maps of glacier cover in the SNM since 1952 and revise historical estimates for 1910 and (b) document changes in cover and rates of glacier retreat of the last Venezuelan glacier at Humboldt Peak. We integrated multiple information sources, including topographic/geomorphic evidence, high-resolution aerial photographs, satellite images, historical maps, panoramic photos, and field observations. We present 1:5,000 maps of glacier cover between 1952 and 2019 and revise the maps of 1910. In Venezuela, glacial area has decreased 98 percent between 1952 and 2019 (from 2.317 km2 to 0.046 km2). Glacier retreat rates increased after 1998, with a maximum of −16.9 percent year−1 between 2016 and 2019. These new maps should provide an essential tool for biophysical, ecological, and historical studies and a key reference for promoting awareness on climate change in the tropical Andes, where glaciers are intimately linked with cultural identity.
Evaluation of a cow-side calcium test for determination of subclinical hypocalcemia in early postpartum cows
Creators: name: Spronk, E.
name: Stampfl, B.
name: Cramer, G.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2015

description: Clinical hypocalcemia is an important and prevalent metabolic disease of dairy cows. Subclinical hypocalcemia (SCH) has been defined as animals that do not have clinical signs, but serum concentrations of either total calcium <2.2 mmol/L or ionized calcium (iCa) <1 mmol/L. Recent work has shown that SCH in the first week of lactation is associated with reduced milk production and increased risk of displaced abomasum. Currently, various calcium products are marketed to maintain blood calcium levels. A rapid cow-side iCa test would allow targeted treatment of cows with SCH. The primary objective was to evaluate the performance of a new cow-side blood calcium meter for test characteristics and usability in the field. Additionally, we aimed to describe the relationship of SCH at different time points with postpartum diseases, including hoof lesions.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2015
Validation of a prototype cow-side instrument for the measurement of blood ionized calcium concentrations in dairy cattle
Creators: name: Neves, R. C.
name: Stokol, T.
name: Curler, M. D.
name: Thomas, M. J.
name: McArt, J. A. A.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2015

description: There is currently no efficient and inexpensive method for field measurement of blood calcium concentrations. Ionized calcium (iCa) is the homeostatic form of the mineral and is thought to have greater biological relevance over that of total calcium. The objective of this study was to evaluate the linearity and precision of a prototype cow-side instrument (Horiba, Japan) for measuring blood iCa concentrations.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2015
From treeline to species line: Thermal patterns and growth relationships across the krummholz zone of whitebark pine, Sierra Nevada, California, USA
Creators: name: Millar, Constance I.
name: Delany, Diane L.
name: Westfall, Robert D.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: A multiyear study of forest-to-alpine ecotones across extensive krummholz zones in whitebark pine (WBP; Pinus albicaulis), Sierra Nevada, California, resolved mean treeline growing season temperature (GST) of 9.3°C, 2.6°C warmer than global thresholds previously described, and mean growing season length of 143 days. Temperatures declined with increasing elevation; GST at the upper krummholz line (8.9°C), however, was 2.2°C warmer than the mean global treeline threshold, suggesting that by thermal criteria these environments should support tree growth. Possible explanations for the warm conditions and persistence of krummholz rather than treeline advance include a role for moisture limitations, disequilibrium with Little Ice Age temperatures, and the influence of krummholz as a buffer to treeline dynamics. Radial growth in treeline WBP trees was negatively correlated with maximum annual temperature and positively correlated to water year precipitation. Krummholz stems had low correlations to one another, to treeline trees, and to climate, suggesting nonclimatic controls on growth. These findings underscore the variable nature of treeline response to climate change, suggest that krummholz ecotones behave differently from diffuse treelines, and add to examples of mountain conifers that may be exhibiting lag effects and have not shifted with contemporary warming.
Association of rumination time with non-esterified fatty acid, β-hydroxybutyrate, and serum calcium concentrations in transition dairy cows
Creators: name: Paudyal, S.
name: Maunsell, F.
name: Smith, J.
name: Donovan, G. A.
name: DeVries, A.
name: Pinedo, P.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2015

description: Monitoring of health status is crucial during the transition period of dairy cows. Rumination behavior has been suggested as a parameter for assessing cow health. The objective of the current study was to explore the association between changes in rumination and blood concentrations of non-esterified fatty acids (NEFA), β-hydroxybutyrate (BHBA), and calcium (CA) in transition dairy cows.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2015
Some results on Sobolev spaces with respect to a measure and applications to a new transport problem
Creators: name: Louet, Jean
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We recall some known and present several new results about Sobolev spaces defined with respect to a measure, in particular a precise pointwise description of the tangent space to this measure in dimension 1. This allows to obtain an interesting, original compactness result which stays open in R^d, d \textgreater{} 1, and can be applied to a new transport problem, with gradient penalization.
Recognition of proximally phosphorylated tyrosine residues and continuous analysis of phosphatase activity using a stable europium complex
Creators: name: Hewitt, Sarah H.
name: Liu, Roanna
name: Butler, Stephen J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer

description: The recognition of proteins and their post-translational modifications using synthetic molecules is an active area of research. A common post-translational modification is the phosphorylation of serine, threonine or tyrosine residues. The phosphorylation of proximal tyrosine residues occurs in over 1000 proteins in the human proteome, including in disease-related proteins, so the recognition of this motif is of particular interest. We have developed a luminescent europium(III) complex, [Eu.1] +, capable of the discrimination of proximally phosphorylated tyrosine residues, from analogous mono- and non-phosphorylated tyrosine residues, more distantly-related phosphotyrosine residues and over proximally phosphorylated serine and threonine residues. [Eu.1] + was used to continuously monitor the phosphatase catalysed dephosphorylation of a peptide containing proximally phosphorylated tyrosine residues.
Distance and academic performance in higher education
Creators: name: Vieira, Carlos
name: Vieira, Isabel
name: Raposo, Luis
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: This paper examines whether one of the determinants of academic performance in higher education is the geographical distance separating the place of study and the place of family residence. Twelve years of data on students from a public university are utilized to estimate a model of relative academic performance, with an instrumental variables two-stage least squares estimator to account for possible endogeneity bias. The results indicate that distance is a negative determinant of academic performance and provide a new factor to take into account in reflexions over the impact of the spatial organization of higher education institutions.
Fetuin-A dynamics in transition cows' plasma
Creators: name: Strieder-Barboza, C.
name: Contreras, G. A.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2015

description: Around parturition and during early lactation, cows enter a state of negative energy balance (NEB) driven by the onset of lactation and a reduced dry matter intake. The major metabolic adaptation to NEB is adipose tissue lipolysis that releases nonesterified fatty acids (NEFA) into systemic circulation. High plasma NEFA predisposes cows to metabolic and inflammatory based diseases that negatively impact animal welfare and increase economic losses to dairy producers. However, not all cows with increased plasma NEFA concentrations develop a disease, thus underscoring the need for novel lipid mobilization-related biomarkers that could improve accuracy of disease prediction. In humans, high fetuin-A concentrations have been identified as an independent marker of insulin resistance and a predictor of type 2 diabetes and non-alcoholic fatty liver. Furthermore, elevated human fetuin-A concentrations are strongly associated with dyslipidemias. Fetuin-A is an abundant carrier of NEFA in plasma and is mainly expressed in hepatocytes, monocytes/macrophages, and adipocytes. Fetuin-A inhibits insulin receptor signaling and therefore increases lipolysis and NEFA efflux from adipose tissues. Despite its strong link with lipolytic processes, fetuin-A expression in plasma and its relationship with metabolic markers in transition cows remains poorly understood. The objective of this study was to evaluate the dynamics of serum fetuin-A and its association with NEFA during the transition period.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2015
Time- and spatially-resolved magnetization dynamics driven by spin-orbit torques
Creators: name: Baumgartner, Manuel
name: Garello, Kevin
name: Mendil, Johannes
name: Avci, Can Onur
name: Grimaldi, Eva
name: Murer, Christoph
name: Feng, Junxiao
name: Gabureac, Mihai
name: Stamm, Christian
name: Acremann, Yves
name: Finizio, Simone
name: Wintz, Sebastian
name: Raabe, Jörg
name: Gambardella, Pietro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Current-induced spin-orbit torques (SOTs) represent one of the most effective ways to manipulate the magnetization in spintronic devices. The orthogonal torque-magnetization geometry, the strong damping, and the large domain wall velocities inherent to materials with strong spin-orbit coupling make SOTs especially appealing for fast switching applications in nonvolatile memory and logic units. So far, however, the timescale and evolution of the magnetization during the switching process have remained undetected. Here, we report the direct observation of SOT-driven magnetization dynamics in Pt/Co/AlO$_x$ dots during current pulse injection. Time-resolved x-ray images with 25 nm spatial and 100 ps temporal resolution reveal that switching is achieved within the duration of a sub-ns current pulse by the fast nucleation of an inverted domain at the edge of the dot and propagation of a tilted domain wall across the dot. The nucleation point is deterministic and alternates between the four dot quadrants depending on the sign of the magnetization, current, and external field. Our measurements reveal how the magnetic symmetry is broken by the concerted action of both damping-like and field-like SOT and show that reproducible switching events can be obtained for over $10^{12}$ reversal cycles.
Non-holonomic tomography I: The Born rule as a connection between experiments
Creators: name: Jackson, Christopher
name: van Enk, Steven
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the context of quantum tomography, we recently introduced a quantity called a partial determinant \cite{jackson2015detecting}. PDs (partial determinants) are explicit functions of the collected data which are sensitive to the presence of state-preparation-and-measurment (SPAM) correlated errors. As such, PDs bypass the need to estimate state-preparation or measurement parameters individually. In the present work, we suggest a theoretical perspective for the PD. We show that the PD is a holonomy and that the notions of state, measurement, and tomography can be generalized to non-holonomic constraints. To illustrate and clarify these abstract concepts, direct analogies are made to parallel transport, thermodynamics, and gauge field theory. This paper is the first of a two part series where the second paper [2] is about scalable applications of the PD to multiqudit systems.
description: 13 pages, 13 figures; This paper is 1 of 2 papers which are an updated version of a single paper, arXiv:1608.08067, that has been withdrawn
Environmental potential of recycling of plastic wastes in Australia based on life cycle assessment
Creators: name: Soenmez, Can
name: Venkatachalam, Venkateshwaran
name: Spierling, Sebastian
name: Endres, Hans-Josef
name: Barner, Leonie
Publisher: name: Tokyo [u.a.] : Springer
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Australia
subject: Circular economy
subject: End-of-Life
subject: Life cycle assessment
subject: Plastics
subject: Recycling
subject: Waste management
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::690 | Hausbau, Bauhandwerk

description: Plastic consumption in Australia is steadily increasing and is estimated to reach 8.8 million tonnes by 2050. Alongside plastic consumption, plastic waste management (PWM) faces rising environmental challenges in Australia as most of them are currently landfilled. Therefore, the Australian government has published a policy to transition to a circular economy as well as a new strategy for PWM with higher recycling rates. To understand the implications of the policy changes and the environmental impacts of End-of-Life (EoL) options, life cycle thinking is necessary. This study evaluates and compares the environmental impacts of the Australian PWM for 2018–2019 to the policy envisaged for 2030 that includes higher recycling rates and waste export bans from a life cycle assessment (LCA) perspective. From the results, it can be seen that the current PWM is majorly linear (take, make, use and dispose) as most of the wastes gets landfilled and exported to other countries but the future PWM strategy for 2030 results in higher resource recovery and significant reduction in the environmental impacts. There is a reduction in Global Warming Potential (GWP) by a factor of almost 10, if the recycling rates increase from 13 to 70%. The state and the federal governments along with other stakeholders need to implement stringent measures to recover plastic wastes if a transition to a circular economy is to happen by 2030.
Micellar solubilization of poorly water-soluble drugs: effect of surfactant and solubilizate molecular structure
Creators: name: Vinarov, Zahari
name: V. Katev
name: D. Radeva
name: S. Tcholakova
name: N. D. Denkov
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Objective: This study aims to clarify the role of surfactant and drug molecular structures on drug solubility in micellar surfactant solutions. Significance: (1) Rationale for surfactant selection is provided; (2) the large data set can be used for validation of the drug solubility parameters used in oral absorption models. Methods: Equilibrium solubility of two hydrophobic drugs and one model hydrophobic steroid in micellar solutions of 19 surfactants was measured by HPLC. The drug solubilization locus in the micelles was assessed by UV spectrometry. Results: Danazol is solubilized much more efficiently than fenofibrate by ionic surfactants due to ion–dipole interactions between the charged surfactant head groups and the polar steroid backbone. Drug solubilization increases linearly with the increase of hydrophobic chain length for all studied surfactant types. Addition of 1–3 ethylene oxide (EO) units in the head group of dodecyl sulfate surfactants reduces significantly the solubilization of both studied drugs and decreases linearly the solubilization locus polarity of fenofibrate. The locus of fenofibrate solubilization is in the hydrophobic core of nonionic surfactant micelles and in the palisade layer of ionic surfactant micelles. Conclusions: Highest drug solubility can be obtained by using surfactants molecules with long chain length coupled with hydrophilic head group that provides additional drug–surfactant interactions (i.e. ion–dipole) in the micelles.
Soil microbial abundance and activity across forefield glacier chronosequence in the Northern Patagonian Ice Field, Chile
Creators: name: Alfaro, Fernando D.
name: Salazar-Burrows, Alejandro
name: Bañales-Seguel, Camila
name: García, Juan-Luis
name: Manzano, Marlene
name: Marquet, Pablo A.
name: Ruz, Kriss
name: Gaxiola, Aurora
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: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: In recently deglaciated soils, microbial organisms drive soil transformations by increasing carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) pools while depleting available phosphorous (P), thus improving plant colonization and soil development. However, the rate of soil development can vary in response to local environmental conditions that affect microbial abundance and activity. In this contribution we use observational and experimental approaches to evaluate the interplay between soil biogeochemical features and microbial abundance and function after approximately seventy years of soil development in the forefield of the Exploradores Glacier that is located at the northernmost end of the Northern Patagonian Ice Field. Our findings suggest that after approximately seventy years of soil development, microbial abundance and soil C and N accumulation increase with soil age, soil bulk density and pH decreased, and microbial activity measured as soil chlorophyll a and nifH gene abundance increased. In turn, decomposition increased with fungal abundance, showing higher values in the late stages of soil development where the soil C:N ratio was higher and soil pH was lower. Overall, biogeochemical changes along this chronosequence followed the predicted pattern, with gradual increases in soil nutrients and microbial abundance, in addition to decomposition processes.
Unprecedented Quality Factors at Accelerating Gradients up to 45 MV/m in Niobium Superconducting Resonators via Low Temperature Nitrogen Infusion
Creators: name: Grassellino, A.
name: Romanenko, A.
name: Trenikhina, Y.
name: Checchin, M.
name: Martinello, M.
name: Melnychuk, O. S.
name: Chandrasekaran, S.
name: Sergatskov, D. A.
name: Posen, S.
name: Crawford, A. C.
name: Aderhold, S.
name: Bice, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the finding of new surface treatments that permit to manipulate the niobium resonator nitrogen content in the first few nanometers in a controlled way, and the resonator fundamental Mattis-Bardeen surface resistance and residual resistance accordingly. In particular, we find surface infusion conditions that systematically a) increase the quality factor of these 1.3 GHz superconducting radio frequency (SRF) bulk niobium resonators, up to very high gradients; b) increase the achievable accelerating gradient of the cavity compared to its own baseline with state-of-the-art surface processing. Cavities subject to the new surface process have larger than two times the state of the art Q at 2K for accelerating fields > 35 MV/m. Moreover, very high accelerating gradients ~ 45 MV/m are repeatedly reached, which correspond to peak magnetic surface fields of 190 mT, among the highest measured for bulk niobium cavities. These findings open the opportunity to tailor the surface impurity content distribution to maximize performance in Q and gradients, and have therefore very important implications on future performance and cost of SRF based accelerators. They also help deepen the understanding of the physics of the RF niobium cavity surface.
Modification of the Lifshitz-Kosevich formula for anomalous quantum oscillations in inverted insulators
Creators: name: Grubinskas, Simonas
name: Fritz, Lars
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is generally believed that quantum oscillations are a hallmark of a Fermi surface and the oscillations constitute the ringing of it. Recently, it was understood that in order to have well defined quantum oscillations you do not only not need well defined quasiparticles, but also the presence of a Fermi surface is unnecessary. In this paper we investigate such a situation for an inverted insulator from a analytical point of view. Even in the insulating phase clear signatures of quantum oscillations are observable and we give a fully analytical formula for the strongly modified Lifshitz-Kosevich amplitude which applies in the clean as well as the disordered case at finite temperatures.
description: 8 figures
The relationship between concentrations of non-esterified fatty acids and β-hydroxybutyric acid in transition dairy cows
Creators: name: Mann, S.
name: McCarthy, M. M.
name: Nydam, D. V.
name: Overton, T. R.
name: McArt, J. A. A.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2015

description: Both non-esterified fatty acids (NEFA) and β-hydroxybutyric acid (BHBA) concentrations have been used as cow and herd-level markers of negative energy balance during the transition period of dairy cows to monitor disease risk and reproductive and milking performance. Prior evidence based on cross-sectional data suggests that the NEFA and BHBA are not well correlated. The objective of this study was to describe the correlation between NEFA and BHBA concentrations of dairy cows in the peripartum period. We hypothesized that accounting for possible lag times between elevation of NEFA and BHBA by using longitudinal data could improve their relationship.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2015
Optimum tuned mass damper inerter under near-fault pulse-like ground motions of buildings including soil-structure interaction
Creators: name: Elias, Said
name: Djerouni, Salah
Publisher: name: Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Building
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: Earthquake
subject: Multi-degree of freedom (MDOF)
subject: Optimization methods
subject: Seismic resilience
subject: Soil structure interaction (SSI)
subject: Tuned mass damper inerter (TMDI)
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::510 | Mathematik

description: This study investigates the effectiveness of the tuned mass damper inerter (TMDI) in mitigating building response, considering the soil structure interaction (SSI). Three types of models are examined: single degree of freedom (SDOF), low-rise multi-degree of freedom (MDOF), and high-rise MDOF. Additionally, the natural period of the SDOF model is varied to explore the TMDI's efficacy across different ranges. Frequency and time domain analysis are conducted under pulse-like ground motions. The H2 and genetic algorithm (GA) are used to optimize the parameters of the TMDI. In this optimization method the transfer function for displacement response is minimized. In time domain analysis we used Newmark's integration method to solve the equation of motion for all the cases considered. It is found that the optimized TMDI proves highly effective in mitigating the displacement response of the buildings, accounting for SSI. Notably, its efficiency is more pronounced when pulse period aligns closely with the buildings' natural period. In addition, a notable pattern emerges, wherein the TMDI excels in mitigating response for buildings experiencing large motion, thereby enhancing safety under severe conditions. These findings offer valuable insights into the application and optimization of the TMDI to enhance seismic performance in various buildings, while considering complex interaction with the soil.
Can we change $c$ in four-dimensional CFTs by exactly marginal deformations?
Creators: name: Nakayama, Yu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There is no known obstructions, but we have not been aware of any concrete examples, either. The Wess-Zumino consistency condition for the conformal anomaly says that $a$ cannot change but does not say anything about $c$. In supersymmetric models, both $a$ and $c$ are determined from the triangle t'Hooft anomalies and the unitarity demands that both must be fixed, so the unitary supersymmetric conformal field theories do not admit such a possibility. Given this field theory situation, we construct an effective AdS/CFT model without supersymmetry in which $c$ changes under exactly marginal deformations. So, yes, we can.
description: 18 pages, v2: minor corrections, appendix added
Oceanic swarms of Antarctic krill perform satiation sinking Supplementary Information
Creators: name: Tarling, Geraint A.
name: Thorpe, Sally E.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Environmental Science
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Antarctic krill form some of the highest concentrations of animal biomass observed in the world's ocean potentially due to their prolific ability to swarm. Determining the movement of Antarctic krill within swarms is important to identify drivers of their behaviour and their biogeochemical impact on their environment. We examined vertical velocity within approximately 2000 krill swarms through the combined use of a shipborne echosounder and an acoustic Doppler current profiler. We revealed a pronounced downward anomaly in vertical velocity within swarms of −0.6 cm s−1 compared with vertical motion outside the swarm. The anomaly changed over the diel cycle, with smaller downward anomalies occurring at night. Swarms in regions of high phytoplankton concentrations (a proxy for food availability) also exhibited significantly smaller downward anomalies. We propose that the anomaly is the result of downward velocities generated by the action of krill beating their swimming appendages. During the night and in high phytoplankton availability, when krill are more likely to feed to the point of satiation, swimming activity is lowered and the anomaly is reduced. Our findings are consistent with laboratory work where krill ceased swimming and adopted a parachute posture when sated. Satiation sinking behaviour can substantially increase the efficiency of carbon transport to depth through depositing faecal pellets at the bottom of swarms, avoiding the reingestion and breakup of pellets by other swarm members.
Accelerated retreat of coastal glaciers in the Western Prince William Sound, Alaska
Creators: name: Maraldo, Dean R.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 20199 Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Analyzing historical maps and Landsat imagery indicates that coastal glaciers in the western Prince William Sound (PWS) have retreated since the end of the Little Ice Age, exhibiting accelerated retreat after the mid-2000s. A multitemporal inventory of 43 glaciers was developed using historical field observations, topographic maps, and Landsat imagery. Area and length measurements are derived from digitized outlines, and center lines are derived from a semi-automatic, geographic information systems (GIS)-based algorithm. Land-based glaciers retreated at a peak rate of 48 m a−1 from the mid-2000s to 2018, more than doubling the average rate of retreat (22 m a−1) for the preceding fifty-year period. From ~1950 to 2018, the total area of land-based glaciers decreased by 228 km2, with 36 percent of the glacier loss occurring after the mid-2000s. Simple upscaling of area and volume changes to unmeasured glaciers across the entire PWS resulted in an estimated aggregate glacier mass loss of 379 Gt, equivalent to a 1.047 mm rise in sea level from the 1950s to 2018. Tidewater glaciers respond asynchronously with differing periods of peak area and length loss and lower average rate of retreat compared to land-based glaciers. Glacier retreat correlates with increased summer and winter temperatures and decreased winter precipitation.
A comparative evaluation of 2 cow-side meters and a milk test for the diagnosis of subclinical ketosis
Creators: name: Klehr, K.
name: Scherping, M.
name: Stoddard, G.
name: Cramer, G.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2015

description: Subclinical ketosis (SCK) is a metabolic disease of dairy cows that has significant economic effects on dairy farms due to its effect on reproductive performance, milk production, and future risk of disease. Subclinical ketosis has been defined as being present when serum β-hydroxybutyrate (βHB) concentrations are >1.2 mmol/L. Currently there are 2 electronic hand- held meters marketed for cow-side determination of βHB levels. One meter, the Nova Vet Blood Ketone and Glucose Monitoring System, is a new veterinary specific entrant to the market, and no performance data on it exists. The other, Precision Xtra, is a human meter validated for use in cows. The objective of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic test performance of 2 different cow-side handheld meters and a milk βHB test to a reference laboratory testing method.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2015