cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
RMove: Recommending Move Method Refactoring Opportunities using Structural and Semantic Representations of Code
Creators: name: Cui, Di
name: Wang, Siqi
name: Luo, Yong
name: Li, Xingyu
name: Dai, Jie
name: Wang, Lu
name: Li, Qingshan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Incorrect placement of methods within classes is a typical code smell called Feature Envy, which causes additional maintenance and cost during evolution. To remove this design flaw, several Move Method refactoring tools have been proposed. To the best of our knowledge, state-of-the-art related techniques can be broadly divided into two categories: the first line is non-machine-learning-based approaches built on software measurement, while the selection and thresholds of software metrics heavily rely on expert knowledge. The second line is machine learning-based approaches, which suggest Move Method refactoring by learning to extract features from code information. However, most approaches in this line treat different forms of code information identically, disregarding their significant variation on data analysis. In this paper, we propose an approach to recommend Move Method refactoring named RMove by automatically learning structural and semantic representation from code fragment respectively. We concatenate these representations together and further train the machine learning classifiers to guide the movement of method to suitable classes. We evaluate our approach on two publicly available datasets. The results show that our approach outperforms three state-of-the-art refactoring tools including PathMove, JDeodorant, and JMove in effectiveness and usefulness. The results also unveil useful findings and provide new insights that benefit other types of feature envy refactoring techniques.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures. This paper is the corrected version of the "RMove: Recommending Move Method Refactoring Opportunities using Structural and Semantic Representations of Code", which has published on ICSME22,and the missing part, "Method Structural Information Collection", is added in Chapter 3
Particle Capture Efficiency in a Multi-Wire Model for High Gradient Magnetic Separation
Creators: name: Eisenträger, Almut
name: Vella, Dominic
name: Griffiths, Ian M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High gradient magnetic separation (HGMS) is an efficient way to remove magnetic and paramagnetic particles, such as heavy metals, from waste water. As the suspension flows through a magnetized filter mesh, high magnetic gradients around the wires attract and capture the particles, removing them from the fluid. We model such a system by considering the motion of a paramagnetic tracer particle through a periodic array of magnetized cylinders. We show that there is a critical Mason number (ratio of viscous to magnetic forces) below which the particle is captured irrespective of its initial position in the array. Above this threshold, particle capture is only partially successful and depends on the particle's entry position. We determine the relationship between the critical Mason number and the system geometry using numerical and asymptotic calculations. If a capture efficiency below 100% is sufficient, our results demonstrate how operating the HGMS system above the critical Mason number but with multiple separation cycles may increase efficiency.
description: 4.5 pages, 5 figures + supplementary material: 4.5 pages, 3 figures
Reasons for women aged 50 years and older to seek gynaecological advice and treatment
Creators: name: Krause, Laura
name: Dini, Lorena
name: Prütz, Franziska
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Gesundheit
subject: Krankheit
subject: Medizin
subject: 618 Gynäkologie, Geburtsmedizin, Pädiatrie, Geriatrie
subject: Menopause
subject: Gynäkologie

description: Gynaecological care is generally perceived as focused on reproductive health. However, when women enter the nonreproductive life phase, other reasons to seek gynaecological care gain in importance. This paper presents findings on the reasons for women in the 50 years and older age group to seek gynaecological consultation and treatment. Our findings are based on data from the German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Adults (DEGS1 , 2008-2011), conducted by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), as well as the 2016 claims data from the Associations of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KVen), provided by the Central Research Institute of Ambulatory Health Care in Germany (Zi) . At this age, cancer screening and menopausal complaints can become, as DEGS1 data shows, important reasons to seek gynaecological services. Around 65.0% of 50- to 79-year-old women took advantage of breast palpation examinations during the last twelve months, and 58.0% underwent cervical cell smear tests (pap smear). 47.2% of women had their last menstrual period at age 50 or later. KV data shows that with 45.3% and 33.1% of cases respectively, menopausal symptoms (International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th revision, ICD-10: N95) and screening for malignant neoplasms (ICD 10: Z12) were the most frequently billed services. The data clearly shows reasons for consultation and treatment of women aged 50 years and older and these should therefore be considered in treatment planning and design .
Deep Learning Approaches to Bed-Exit Monitoring of Patients, Factory Inspection, and 3D Reconstruction
Creators: name: Bu, Fan
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2022
Subjects: Image processing

description: In this dissertation, we dedicate ourselves to applying deep-learning-based computer vision algorithms to industrial applications in 2D and 3D image processing. More specifically, we present the application of deep-learning-based image processing algorithms to the following three topics: RGB-image-based shipping box defect detection, RGB-image-based patients' bed-side status monitoring, and an RGBD-image-based 3D surface video conferencing system. These projects cover 2D image detection of static objects in industrial scenarios, 2D detection of dynamic human images in bedroom environments, and accurate 3D reconstruction of dynamic humanoid objects in video conferencing. In each of these projects, we proposed ready-to-deploy pipelines combining deep learning and traditional computer vision algorithms to improve the overall performance of industrial products. In each chapter, we describe in detail how we utilize, modify, and enhance the architecture of convolutional neural networks, including the training techniques using data acquisition, image annotation, synthetic datasets, and other schemes. In the relevant sections, we also present how post-processing steps with image processing algorithms can improve the overall effectiveness of the algorithm. We hope that our work demonstrates the versatility and advantages of deep neural networks in both 2D and 3D computer vision applications.
Photon Emission from a Momentum Anisotropic Quark-Gluon Plasma
Creators: name: Shen, Chun
name: Paquet, Jean-Francois
name: Heinz, Ulrich
name: Gale, Charles
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the photon emission rate from a quark-gluon plasma with an anisotropic particle momentum distribution induced by a non-vanishing local shear pressure tensor. Our calculation includes photon production through Compton scattering and quark-antiquark annihilation at leading order in $α_s$, with all off-equilibrium corrections to leading order in the momentum anisotropy. For fermions we prove that the Kubo-Martin-Schwinger (KMS) relation holds in the hard loop regime for any particle momentum distribution function that is reflection-symmetric. This supports the equivalence, for 2 to 2 scattering processes, of the diagrammatic and kinetic approaches to calculating the photon emission rate. We compare the viscous rates from these two approaches at weak and realistic coupling strengths and provide parameterizations of the equilibrium and viscous photon emission rates for phenomenological studies in relativistic heavy-ion collisions.
description: 19 pages, 8 figures
Structure-function analysis of a Group II Intron reverse transcriptase
Creators: name: Alvarado Torres, Jose Mario
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2022
Subjects: GroupIIintron
Reverse transcriptase
RDRP
Protein
Enzyme
Intron
Purification
In vitro

description: Mobile group II introns are ribozymes and mobile genetic elements found in all branches of life. They consist of a highly structured intron RNA that encodes a reverse transcriptase (RT). This RT is utilized during retrohoming to synthesize a full-length DNA copy (cDNA) of the intron RNA which is then integrated into new genome locations. One theory suggests that RTs evolved from an RNA Dependent RNA Polymerase (RDRP) that originated in the RNA World. These ancestral RDRPs served to propagate genetic material, and during the transition to DNA-based life, RDRPs evolved into RTs. Recent structural data for Geobacillus stearothermophilus Group II Intron RT (GsI-IIC RT) suggests a close evolutionary relationship between RDRPs and group II intron RTs, including a strikingly similar RT active site and regions that function in binding the template and primer. To further probe this evolutionary relationship rational mutations were introduced into GsI-IIC RT that affected rNTP incorporation ability. Group II introns have also potentially evolved characteristics like higher fidelity and processivity compared to other RTs due to stringent accuracy requirements when reverse transcribing the catalytically active and highly structured intron RNA. Host-encoded group II intron-like RTs that have acquired other functions often have substitutions for the conserved A residue in the YADD motif at the RT active site. This suggests that the active site can be modified by evolutionary pressures to suit diverse activities. This tolerance was exploited to mutate the highly conserved YADD motif to study structure-function relationships between conserved features of previously uncharacterized classes of RTs. Current laboratory data suggests that the YXDD motif can be modified to modulate different activities, although other crucial complementary or compensatory mutations are likely necessary. Through this work I obtained data that suggests group II intron RTs evolved from ancestral RdRPs, that their constricted active site might serve to increase fidelity, and that their conserved active site motif can be modified to modulate biochemical activities.
Performance of Hybrid NbTiN-Al Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors as Direct Detectors for Sub-millimeter Astronomy
Creators: name: Janssen, R. M. J.
name: Baselmans, J. J. A.
name: Endo, A.
name: Ferrari, L.
name: Yates, S. J. C.
name: Baryshev, A. M.
name: Klapwijk, T. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the next decades millimeter and sub-mm astronomy requires large format imaging arrays and broad-band spectrometers to complement the high spatial and spectral resolution of the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array. The desired sensors for these instruments should have a background limited sensitivity and a high optical efficiency and enable arrays thousands of pixels in size. Hybrid microwave kinetic inductance detectors consisting of NbTiN and Al have shown to satisfy these requirements. We present the second generation hybrid NbTiN-Al MKIDs, which are photon noise limited in both phase and amplitude readout for loading levels $P_{850GHz} \geq 10$ fW. Thanks to the increased responsivity, the photon noise level achieved in phase allows us to simultaneously read out approximately 8000 pixels using state-of-the-art electronics. In addition, the choice of superconducting materials and the use of a Si lens in combination with a planar antenna gives these resonators the flexibility to operate within the frequency range $0.09 < ν< 1.1$ THz. Given these specifications, hybrid NbTiN-Al MKIDs will enable astronomically usable kilopixel arrays for sub-mm imaging and moderate resolution spectroscopy.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures. Presented at SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2014: Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy VII
Information Technology per IATE, la banca dati terminologica multilingue dell’Unione Europea
Creators: name: Rossi, Francesco
Publisher: name: Universita degli studi di Salerno
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: L-LIN/01 GLOTTOLOGIA E LINGUISTICA
subject: Terminologia
subject: Informatica
subject: IATE

description: 2015 - 2016
description: Information Technology is the matrix and engine of innovation and change. Thanks to it, various disciplines and sciences evolve and permeate each other. Terminology is one such example. InterActive Terminology for Europe (IATE) is the multilingual, interinstitutional terminological database of the European Union and its objective is to provide a centralised infrastructure for all the EU terminological resources, improving their usability and standardization. The objective of this research is to investigate how to improve IATE's linguistic and terminological resources. The present thesis outlines the most recent Information Technology (IT) developments oriented at IATE's terminology management. It focuses on the projects realized at the Directorate General for Translation of the European Parliament, aimed at the improvement of EU terminology through the use of termbases, as well as on the cooperation agreement between the Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, Sociali e della Comunicazione of the University of Salerno and the Terminology Coordination Unit of the European Parliament, whose objective is to make the database terminology a tool for semantic interoperability, i.e. the ability of an informatics system to elaborate and exchange data while keeping their precise meaning, regardless of the means and mode used to represent it. ...[edited by Author]
NGC 1365: A low column density state unveiling a low ionization disk wind
Creators: name: Braito, V.
name: Reeves, J. N.
name: Gofford, J.
name: Nardini, E.
name: Porquet, D.
name: Risaliti, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the time-resolved spectral analysis of the XMM-Newton data of NGC 1365, collected during one XMM-Newton observation, which caught this "changing-look" AGN in a high flux state characterized also by a low column density ($N_{\mathrm{H}}\sim 10^{22}$ cm $^{-2}$) of the X-ray absorber. During this observation the low energy photoelectric cut-off is at about $\sim 1$ keV and the primary continuum can be investigated with the XMM-Newton-RGS data, which show strong spectral variability that can be explained as a variable low $N_{\mathrm{H}}$, which decreased from $N_{\mathrm{H}} \sim10^{23}$ cm $^{-2}$ to $10^{22}$ cm $^{-2}$ in a 100 ks time-scale. The spectral analysis of the last segment of the observation revealed the presence of several absorption features that can be associated with an ionized (log $ξ\sim 2$ erg cm s$^{-1}$) outflowing wind ($v_{\mathrm{out}} \sim 2000$ km s$^{-1}$). We detected for the first time a possible P-Cygni profile of the Mg\,\textsc{xii} Ly$α$ line associated with this mildly ionized absorber indicative of a wide angle outflowing wind. We suggest that this wind is a low ionization zone of the highly ionized wind present in NGC 1365, which is responsible for the iron K absorption lines and is located within the variable X-ray absorber. At the end of the observation, we detected a strong absorption line at $E\sim 0.76$ keV most likely associated with a lower ionization zone of the absorber (log $ξ\sim 0.2$ erg cm s$^{-1}$, $N_{\mathrm{H}} \sim 10^{22}$ cm $^{-2}$), which suggests that the variable absorber in NGC 1365 could be a low ionization zone of the disk wind.
description: 39 pages, 8 figures, 7 tables. Accepted for publication in the ApJ
Drug delivery to the lung in Cystic Fibrosis: deposition, dissolution, mucus interaction and microbiological evaluation of dry powder inhalers
Creators: name: Manniello, Michele Dario
Publisher: name: Universita degli studi di Salerno
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: CHIM/09 FARMACEUTICO TECNOLOGICO APPLICATIVO
subject: Dry powder inhalers
subject: Dry Powder
subject: Antibiotic
subject: Cystic fibrosis

description: 2016 - 2017
description: The inhalation therapy consists of a direct administration of drugs for the treatment of lung diseases. A formulation for inhalation is a valid option in the symptomatic management of pulmonary diseases typical of cystic fibrosis (CF). This is a rare hereditary disease that affects the normal function of the exocrine glands of the mucosa, with the production of a dry and poorly flowing mucus even in the respiratory tract. The first objective of my PhD project was to evaluate the rheological behaviour of the CF sputum samples, kindly donated by the “G. Gaslini” Hospital of Genoa. Following the in vitro addition of HCO3 - to the sputum samples, a decrease in the viscosity of this material was therefore evaluated, compared to samples pre-treated with water alone. To verify if this evidence was accompanied by an increase in permeation of a drug through this sample, the second purpose was to evaluate the permeation of a drug through CF sputum. The Ketoprofen lysinate, a formulation in dry powder, called Dry Powder Inhaler (DPI), already developed in previous research work was selected. As the results show, the viscosity decrease was therefore accompanied by an increase in the permeation of the drug only after the addition of HCO3 - to the sputum samples... [edited by Author]
Taming Infrared Divergences in the Effective Potential
Creators: name: Elias-Miro, J.
name: Espinosa, J. R.
name: Konstandin, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Higgs effective potential in the Standard Model (SM), calculated perturbatively, generically suffers from infrared (IR) divergences when the (field-dependent) tree-level mass of the Goldstone bosons goes to zero. Such divergences can affect both the potential and its first derivative and become worse with increasing loop order. In this paper we show that these IR divergences are spurious, we perform a simple resummation of all IR-problematic terms known (up to three loops) and explain how to extend the resummation to cure all such divergences to any order. The method is of general applicability and would work in scenarios other than the SM. Our discussion has some bearing on a scenario recently proposed as a mechanism for gauge mediation of scale breaking in the ultraviolet, in which it is claimed that the low-energy Higgs potential is non-standard. We argue that all non-decoupling effects from the heavy sector can be absorbed in the renormalization of low-energy parameters leading to a SM-like effective theory.
description: 26 pages, LaTeX
Open_Biology_Supplemental_figures.pdf from Exploring differential exon usage via short- and long-read RNA sequencing strategies
Creators: name: Leshkowitz, Dena
name: Kedmi, Merav
name: Fried, Yael
name: Pilzer, David
name: Keren-Shaul, Hadas
name: Ainbinder, Elena
name: Dassa, Bareket
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 60408 Genomics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Alternative splicing produces various mRNAs, and thereby various protein products, from one gene, impacting a wide range of cellular activities. However, accurate reconstruction and quantification of full-length transcripts using short-reads is limited, due to their length. Long-reads sequencing technologies may provide a solution by sequencing full-length transcripts. We explored the use of both Illumina short-reads and two long Oxford Nanopore Technology (cDNA and Direct RNA) RNA-Seq reads for detecting global differential splicing during mouse embryonic stem cell differentiation, applying several bioinformatics strategies: gene-based, isoform-based and exon-based. We detected the strongest similarity among the sequencing platforms at the gene level compared to exon-based and isoform-based. Furthermore, the exon-based strategy discovered many differential exon usage (DEU) events, mostly in a platform-dependent manner and in non-differentially expressed genes. Thus, the platforms complemented each other in the ability to detect DEUs, i.e. long-reads exhibited an advantage in detecting DEUs at the 3׳ UTRs, and short-reads detected more DEUs. Exons within 20 genes, detected in one or more platforms, were here validated by PCR, including key differentiation genes, such as Mdb3 and Aplp1. We provide an important analysis resource for discovering transcriptome changes during stem cell differentiation and insights for analysing such data.
A multi-disciplinary team-based classroom exercise for small molecule drug discovery
Creators: name: Dodson, Charlotte
name: Flower, Steve
name: Thomas, Mark
Publisher: name: National Teaching Repository
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 340499
subject: Medicinal and biomolecular chemistry not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 310199
subject: Biochemistry and cell biology not elsewhere classified

description: Industrial drug discovery teams encompass scientists from multiple specialities and require participants to communicate effectively across disciplinary boundaries. In this resource we present an undergraduate or graduate classroom simulation of this environment. Over a series of five workshops, student teams of mixed scientific backgrounds perform five iterations of the chemistry cycle of small molecule drug discovery. Students analyze physicochemical, structural and (fictional) assay data, and use these to design new compounds for testing. Simulated assay results are returned to students who use the information in the design of subsequent compounds. After workshop 5, each team submits a single lead compound, supported by a potential synthetic route, a portfolio of assay data and logical scientific decision-making. Our exercise provides students with opportunities for hands-on student-responsive data handing, team-building, and technical knowledge acquisition – all within an industrially relevant scientific scenario.Version historyv1: author submitted manuscript, supplementary files.v2: author accepted manuscript, promotional / summary mp4 video, drug discovery illustration. All article supplementary files also provided as a single .zip file for easy download.v3: journal published manuscript, promotional / summary mp4 video, drug discovery illustration. All article supplementary files renamed for easy reference and provided as a single .zip file for easy download.
Strong lensing interferometry for compact binaries
Creators: name: Pen, Ue-Li
name: Yang, I-Sheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a possibility to improve the current precision measurements on compact binaries. When the orbital axis is almost perpendicular to our line of sight, a pulsar behind its companion can form two strong-lensing images. These images cannot be resolved, but we can use multi-wavelength interferometry to accurately determine the passage through superior conjunction. This method does not depend strongly on the stability of the pulse profile, and applies equally well to both slow and fast pulsars. We discuss the possible improvement this can bring to the bound on stochastic gravitational wave background and to determine black hole spin. We also discuss the possibility of discovering a suitable binary system by the Square Kilometer Array that our method can apply to.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
The Atomic Lighthouse Effect
Creators: name: Máximo, C. E.
name: Kaiser, R.
name: Courteille, Ph. W.
name: Bachelard, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the deflection of light by a cold atomic cloud when the light-matter interaction is locally tuned via the Zeeman effect using magnetic field gradients. This "lighthouse" effect is strongest in the single-scattering regime, where deviation of the incident field is largest. For optically dense samples, the deviation is reduced by collective effects, as the increase in linewidth leads to a decrease of the magnetic field efficiency.
Biosciences Programme Competencies for a Competence-based Education
Creators: name: Henri, Dominic
name: Morrell, Lesley
Publisher: name: National Teaching Repository
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 319999
subject: Other biological sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Aims of Repository To help with the design of Programme Competencies for science-based subjects looking to adopt a Competence-based Education curriculum. Contents of Repository A. A primer for competence-based education and rationale for bioscience competencies. B. The University of Hull Bioscience Competencies list C. An example marking criteria based on a competence-based assessment.
Resumos e dados dos estudos extraídos das bases de dados
Creators: name: Pinheiro Monteiro, Iago Orleans
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 111712 Health Promotion
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111708 Health and Community Services

description: Arquivos contendo os resumos em formato específico extraidos das bases de dados Lilacs, BDENF, Web of Science, CINAHL, EMBASE e Scopus.
The price of wind power generation in Iberia and the merit-order effect
Creators: name: Figueiredo, Nuno Carvalho
name: Silva, Patrícia Pereira Da
Publisher: name: International Journal of Sustainable Energy Planning and Management
Year: 2018

description: Renewable energy generation depresses electricity spot prices, which is often used as argument to justify incentives provided to renewables. In the so-called “merit-order effect”, renewable power reduces the load available for conventional power and displaces higher marginal cost generation out of the market. In this study, we estimate the value of the “merit-order effect” due to wind power generation in the Iberian market, in the period between 1st January 2008 and 31st October 2016. This value, representing consumers’ potential cost savings, is compared with the direct costs of the financial incentives in Portugal and in Spain. The accumulated “merit-order effect” amount is estimated to be 26.1 billion €, whilst the total values for the financial incentives reported is 23.9 billion €. The value of the “merit-order effect” explains the existing lower returns by conventional generation and might have additional impacts on future RES projects, subject to normal electricity market risks.
description: International Journal of Sustainable Energy Planning and Management, Vol 15 (2018)
Dissipative effects on the sustainment of a magnetorotational dynamo in Keplerian shear flow
Creators: name: Riols, A.
name: Rincon, F.
name: Cossu, C.
name: Lesur, G.
name: Ogilvie, G. I.
name: Longaretti, P-Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The magnetorotational (MRI) dynamo has long been considered one of the possible drivers of turbulent angular momentum transport in astrophysical accretion disks. However, various numerical results suggest that this dynamo may be difficult to excite in the astrophysically relevant regime of magnetic Prandtl number (Pm) significantly smaller than unity, for reasons currently not well understood. The aim of this article is to present the first results of an ongoing numerical investigation of the role of both linear and nonlinear dissipative effects in this problem. Combining a parametric exploration and an energy analysis of incompressible nonlinear MRI dynamo cycles representative of the transitional dynamics in large aspect ratio shearing boxes, we find that turbulent magnetic diffusion makes the excitation and sustainment of this dynamo at moderate magnetic Reynolds number (Rm) increasingly difficult for decreasing Pm. This results in an increase in the critical Rm of the dynamo for increasing kinematic Reynolds number (Re), in agreement with earlier numerical results. Given its very generic nature, we argue that turbulent magnetic diffusion could be an important determinant of MRI dynamo excitation in disks, and may also limit the efficiency of angular momentum transport by MRI turbulence in low Pm regimes.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures
Supporting files from Exploring differential exon usage via short- and long-read RNA sequencing strategies
Creators: name: Leshkowitz, Dena
name: Kedmi, Merav
name: Fried, Yael
name: Pilzer, David
name: Keren-Shaul, Hadas
name: Ainbinder, Elena
name: Dassa, Bareket
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 60408 Genomics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Alternative splicing produces various mRNAs, and thereby various protein products, from one gene, impacting a wide range of cellular activities. However, accurate reconstruction and quantification of full-length transcripts using short-reads is limited, due to their length. Long-reads sequencing technologies may provide a solution by sequencing full-length transcripts. We explored the use of both Illumina short-reads and two long Oxford Nanopore Technology (cDNA and Direct RNA) RNA-Seq reads for detecting global differential splicing during mouse embryonic stem cell differentiation, applying several bioinformatics strategies: gene-based, isoform-based and exon-based. We detected the strongest similarity among the sequencing platforms at the gene level compared to exon-based and isoform-based. Furthermore, the exon-based strategy discovered many differential exon usage (DEU) events, mostly in a platform-dependent manner and in non-differentially expressed genes. Thus, the platforms complemented each other in the ability to detect DEUs, i.e. long-reads exhibited an advantage in detecting DEUs at the 3׳ UTRs, and short-reads detected more DEUs. Exons within 20 genes, detected in one or more platforms, were here validated by PCR, including key differentiation genes, such as Mdb3 and Aplp1. We provide an important analysis resource for discovering transcriptome changes during stem cell differentiation and insights for analysing such data.
The game shop and other stories
Creators: name: Douman, Bronwyn Millicent
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: My collection of short stories are inspired by a need for more representative literature of the South African Cape 'coloured' community. It is a complex community to represent as these "rainbow nation" people are of mixed race ancestry. As a result, they are always caught within the margins of colour politics. I call this group, "The Marginal Grey". My two part series of stories, is an attempt to provide a window into the world of my character's to illustrate the lived realities of the working class and middle class 'coloured' group. These stories embody a range of voices and perspectives, some contemporary, some set in the past. The concept of voice is examined through the diverse voices of the collection‘s narrators or the voices of characters via dialogue and thought.Themes explored in this collection include that of Cape 'coloured' identity and culture, intergenerational trauma, grief, and loss. This collection features some *Afrikaans words and phrases.
Does twist angle affect the properties of water confined inside twisted bilayer graphene?
Creators: name: Majumdar, Jeet
name: Dasgupta, Subhadeep
name: Mandal, Soham
name: Moid, Mohd
name: Jain, Manish
name: Maiti, Prabal K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Graphene nanoslit pore is used for nanofluidic devices like water desalination, ion-selective channels, ionic transistors, sensing, molecular sieving, blue energy harvesting, and protein sequencing. It is a strenuous task to prepare nanofluidic devices because a small misalignment leads to a significant alteration in various properties of the devices. Here we focus on the rotational misalignment between two parallel graphene sheets. Using molecular dynamics simulation, we probe the structure and dynamics of monolayer water confined inside graphene nanochannels for a range of commensurate twist angles. With SPC/E and TIP4P/2005 water model, our simulations reveal the independence of equilibrium number density $(n \sim 13 nm^{-2})$ for SPC/E and $(n \sim 11.5 nm^{-2})$ for TIP4P/2005) across twists. Based on the respective densities of water models, the structure and dielectric constant are invariant of twist angles. The confined water structure at this shows square ice ordering for SPC/E water only. TIP4P/2005 shows ordering at the vicinity of a critical density $(n \sim 12.5 nm^{-2})$. The average perpendicular dielectric constant of the confined water remains anomalously low ($\sim 2$ for SPC/E and $\sim 6$ for TIP4P/2005) for studied twist angles. We find that the friction coefficient of confined water molecules varies for small twist angles while becoming independent for twists greater than $5.1^{o}$. Our results indicate that small angular misalignment will not impair the dielectric properties of monolayer water within graphene slit-pore but can significantly influence its dynamics.
description: 29 pages, 12 figures
Iterative Method for Generating Correlated Binary Sequences
Creators: name: Usatenko, O. V.
name: Melnik, S. S.
name: Apostolov, S. S.
name: Makarov, N. M.
name: Krokhin, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new efficient iterative method for generating random correlated binary sequences with prescribed correlation function. The method is based on consecutive linear modulations of initially uncorrelated sequence into a correlated one. Each step of modulation increases the correlations until the desired level has been reached. Robustness and efficiency for the proposed algorithm are tested by generating sequences with inverse power-law correlations. The substantial increase in the strength of correlation in the iterative method with respect to the single-step filtering generation is shown for all studied correlation functions. Our results can be used for design of disordered superlattices, waveguides, and surfaces with selective transport properties.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures
$Ξ$-nuclear constraints from $Ξ^-$ emulsion capture events
Creators: name: Friedman, Eliahu
name: Gal, Avraham
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: All five KEK and J-PARC two-body $Ξ^-$+$^A$Z $\to$ $^{A'}_Λ$Z'+$^{A''}_Λ$Z'' capture events in light emulsion nuclei, including KISO and IBUKI in $^{14}$N, are consistent with Coulomb-assisted $1p_{Ξ^-}$ nuclear states. The underlying $Ξ$-nuclear potential is strongly attractive, with nuclear-matter depth $V_Ξ$ larger than 20 MeV. The recent $^{14}$N capture events KINKA and IRRAWADDY assigned by J-PARC E07 to $1s_{Ξ^-}$ nuclear states, and implying considerably shallower $V_Ξ$, have also another interpretation as $1p_{Ξ^0}$ nuclear states.
description: Invited talk at HYP2022, Prague, June-July 2022, reporting on recent Phys. Lett. B published work [15,24]. Published in EPJ Web of Conferences 271, 03002 (2022)
Plain Language: A Conservation and Management Plan for the National Heritage Listed Fitzroy River Catchment Estate (No. 1)
Creators: name: RiverOfLife Martuwarra
name: Poelina, Anne
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111701 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110403 Traditional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Medicine and Treatments
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 130301 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 160501 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 180101 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: 210301 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History
subject: FOS: History and archaeology
subject: 200201 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Studies
subject: FOS: Other humanities
subject: 80701 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Knowledge Management
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: 169902 Studies of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Society
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 200501 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Literature
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: 210101 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Archaeology
subject: 200319 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages
subject: 190401 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Performing Arts
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)
subject: 50201 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Environmental Knowledge
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 80601 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Information and Knowledge Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This is the plain language version of the publication, 'A Conservation and Management Plan for the National Heritage Listed Fitzroy River Catchment Estate (No. 1).
Supplementary document for Polarization multiplexed metasurface enabled tri-functional imaging - 6648182.pdf
Creators: name: Ge, Suyang
name: Li, Xingyi
name: Liu, Zilei
name: Zhao, Jiaqi
name: Wang, Wanjun
name: li, siqi
name: Zhang, Wenfu
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: supplemental materials
Diffusion models and steady-state approximations for exponentially ergodic Markovian queues
Creators: name: Gurvich, Itai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Motivated by queues with many servers, we study Brownian steady-state approximations for continuous time Markov chains (CTMCs). Our approximations are based on diffusion models (rather than a diffusion limit) whose steady-state, we prove, approximates that of the Markov chain with notable precision. Strong approximations provide such "limitless" approximations for process dynamics. Our focus here is on steady-state distributions, and the diffusion model that we propose is tractable relative to strong approximations. Within an asymptotic framework, in which a scale parameter $n$ is taken large, a uniform (in the scale parameter) Lyapunov condition imposed on the sequence of diffusion models guarantees that the gap between the steady-state moments of the diffusion and those of the properly centered and scaled CTMCs shrinks at a rate of $\sqrt{n}$. Our proofs build on gradient estimates for solutions of the Poisson equations associated with the (sequence of) diffusion models and on elementary martingale arguments. As a by-product of our analysis, we explore connections between Lyapunov functions for the fluid model, the diffusion model and the CTMC.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/13-AAP984 the Annals of Applied Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aap/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Gli occhi sulla storia. Prefazione al Dossier
Creators: name: De Maria, Carlo
Publisher: name: C. De Maria, Gli occhi sulla storia. Prefazione al Dossier, «Clionet», 2020, n. 4, pp. 28-33
Year: 2020
Subjects: Cinema
Didattica della storia
Novecento
Public history
Storia

description: Questo dossier rappresenta l’ultima tappa di un progetto pluriennale di public history – “Gli occhi sulla storia. La storia contemporanea al cinema” – promosso tra il 2016 e il 2019 dall’Istituto storico della Resistenza e dell’Età contemporanea di Forlì-Cesena1 con l’obiettivo di raccontare la contemporaneità attraverso il cinema, grazie a proiezioni adeguatamente introdotte e commentate da storici, critici e studiosi di cinema, e ad approfondimenti in forma seminariale.
Evidence for Wave Heating of the Quiet Sun Corona
Creators: name: Hahn, Michael
name: Savin, Daniel Wolf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have measured the energy and dissipation of Alfvenic waves in the quiet Sun. A magnetic field was used to infer the location and orientation of the magnetic field lines along which the waves are expected to travel. The waves were measured using spectral lines to infer the wave amplitude. The waves cause a non-thermal broadening of the spectral lines, which can be expressed as a non-thermal velocity v_nt. By combining the spectroscopic measurements with this magnetic field model we were able to trace the variation of v_nt along the magnetic field. At the footpoints of the quiet Sun loops we find that waves inject an energy flux in the range of 1.2-5.2 x 10^5 erg cm^-2 s^-1. At the minimum of this range, this amounts to more than 80% of the energy needed to heat the quiet Sun. We also find that these waves are dissipated over a region centered on the top of the loops. The position along the loop where the damping begins is strongly correlated with the length of the loop, implying that the damping mechanism depends on the global loop properties rather than on local collisional dissipation.
description: Submitted to the Astrophysical Journal
Chinesisch studieren
Creators: name: Guder, Andreas
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2022

description: Institutes of Chinese studies are still the only institutions in Germany where Chinese language skills can be acquired to an extent that enables learners to deal with authentic Chinese language material and corresponding texts. At the same time, Chinese is considered one of the most difficult languages to master, especially because of its complex writing system. This paper documents the results of an extensive survey of teaching in institutes of Chinese studies/sinology in German-speaking countries, with a focus on target competences, size of courses, number and background of teaching staff, and information on the workload estimated via ECTS in relation to the scope of the language courses. In addition, the integration into curricula of semesters abroad, the relevance of standardized examinations from the PRC and Taiwan as well as language training in master’s programs for Chinese studies and courses in pre-modern/classical Chinese were also included in the survey. The results show that education in Chinese language, even in an academic context, is a complex task, which can by no means be considered complete within the framework of three-year BA programs, which are still under-resourced at many institutes.
description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 158/159 (2021): ASIEN (Januar/April)
Propagation of Visible Light in Nanostructured Niobium Stripes Embedded in a Dielectric Polymer
Creators: name: Telesio, F.
name: Mezzadri, F.
name: Serrano-Ruiz, M.
name: Peruzzini, M.
name: Bisio, F.
name: Heun, S.
name: Fabbri, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nanometric metallic stripes allow the transmission of optical signals via the excitation and propagation of surface-localized evanescent electromagnetic waves, with important applications in the field of nano-photonics. Whereas this kind of plasmonic phenomena typically exploits noble metals, like Ag or Au, other materials can exhibit viable light-transport efficiency. In this work, we demonstrate the transport of visible light in nanometric niobium stripes coupled with a dielectric polymeric layer, exploiting the remotely-excited/detected Raman signal of black phosphorus (bP) as the probe. The light-transport mechanism is ascribed to the generation of surface plasmon polaritons at the Nb/polymer interface. The propagation length is limited due to the lossy nature of niobium in the optical range, but this material may allow the exploitation of specific functionalities that are absent in noble-metal counterparts.
description: 18 pages, 6 figures; supporting information 7 pages, 9 figures
Light scattering by a vacuum-like sphere with magnetoelectric gyrotropy
Creators: name: Jafri, A. D. Ulfat
name: Lakhtakia, Akhlesh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An exact transition matrix was formulated for electromagnetic scattering by a vacuum-like sphere with magnetoelectric gyrotropy. Both the total scattering and forward scattering efficiencies are lower when the magnetoelectric gyrotropy vector of the sphere is co/anti-parallel to the electric field or magnetic field of an incident plane wave than when the magnetoelectric gyrotropy vector is coparallel to the propagation vector of the incident plane wave. Backscattering is absent when the propagation vector is co/anti-paralel to the magnetoelectric gyrotropy vector.
Exploring Rural Well-Being through an Interdisciplinary Lens — The “Shrinking, but Happy” Research Team at the University of Vienna
Creators: name: Askitis, Dionyssios
name: Miserka, Antonia
name: Polak-Rottmann, Sebastian
Publisher: name: Asien
Year: 2022

description: Japan’s rural areas are facing substantial demographic and structural change. While the negative impact of this development can be traced by objective social indicators, subjective well-being in these communities does not show a clear trend. This interdisciplinary project aims at assessing the interrelations between different dimensions of social relationships and locally salient conceptions of well-being, such as relational well-being, in the structurally average rural Aso region. Applying a mixed-methods approach, we combine quantitative and qualitative research, which enables an integration of both statistically robust associations and case study material with its focus on contextual aspects of well-being. In so doing we demonstrate how a broad interdisciplinary analysis is a promising approach when tackling complex issues such as well-being and social relationships as well as their interplay.
description: Asien, Nr. 158/159 (2021): ASIEN (Januar/April)