cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Simulation and Development of a Transportable Neutron Activation Analysis System for the Assessment of Aluminum In Vivo
Creators: name: Byrne, Patrick Joseph
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Medical physics

description: Aluminum is present throughout the environment and in many industrial processes and consumer goods. While very useful in everyday lives, it has no inherent biological functions in humans. High quantities in the human body can be toxic, resulting a range of skeletal, neurological, and hematopoietic effects. A system has been developed to analyze aluminum using the neutron activation analysis (NAA) technique in vivo. NAA was performed with a transportable neutron generator as a neutron source and a high purity germanium (HPGe) detector for spectroscopy. The neutron generator and HPGe detector were completely modelled in MCNP6. Measurements were carried out to evaluate the accuracy of the MCNP6 simulations and to determine the detection capabilities of the system for aluminum. Simulations were also conducted to determine the acceptability of radiation dose to subjects undergoing analysis. The detection limit for the system was evaluated using skeletal bone as a long-term aluminum biomarker. The detection limit was determined to be 3.41 x 101 μg of Al per g of dry bone for an irradiation time of six minutes. This detection level is below a point at which physiological effects have been observed in humans. A lower detection level was demonstrated to be possible with a longer irradiation time. The radiation absorbed dose was determined to be 7.30 mGy for an irradiation of six minutes. The system can therefore be utilized as a potential screening and monitoring tool for high skeletal burdens of aluminum that may lead to physiological effects. The simulation and calculation techniques developed herein were applied to a set of human subject data that were acquired for a purpose other than evaluating aluminum. The human subject data included both bone Al from NAA and fingernail Al from mass spectrometry measurements. No significant aluminum signals were observed when assessing the in vivo NAA spectra data. Through simulation and calculation, it was demonstrated that the NAA experimental parameters resulted in an elevated detection limit for aluminum that is above Al skeletal loads observed in healthy individuals. The elevated detection limit prevented the in vivo detection of aluminum in a healthy population, thus confirming the NAA results.
Additional file 1 of The role of emotional instability in borderline personality disorder: a systematic review
Creators: name: D’Aurizio, Giulia
name: Di Stefano, Ramona
name: Socci, Valentina
name: Rossi, Alessandro
name: Barlattani, Tommaso
name: Pacitti, Francesca
name: Rossi, Rodolfo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1. Search Line Syntax.
sj-pdf-1-pic-10.1177_09544062211021441 - Supplemental material for Design and analysis of motion and energy regulating vibration harvester
Creators: name: Satpute, Nitin
name: Jugulkar, Lalitkumar
name: Jabade, Siddharth
name: Korwar, Ganesh
name: Arawade, Swapnil
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 99999 Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-pic-10.1177_09544062211021441 for Design and analysis of motion and energy regulating vibration harvester by Nitin Satpute, Lalitkumar Jugulkar, Siddharth Jabade, Ganesh Korwar and Swapnil Arawade in Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science
sj-docx-2-tab-10.1177_1759720X211030809 – Supplemental material for Factors associated with risk of major adverse cardiovascular events in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a nationwide, population-based, case-control study
Creators: name: Chen, Yen-Ju
name: Liu, Shih-Chia
name: Lai, Kuo-Lung
name: Tang, Kuo-Tung
name: Lin, Ching-Heng
name: Chen, Yi-Ming
name: Tseng, Chih-Wei
name: Chang, Yu-Mei
name: Gotcher, Donald F.
name: Chiou, Chuang-Chun
name: Weng, Shao-Jen
name: Chen, Hsin-Hua
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: Orthopaedics
Sports Medicine
Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-2-tab-10.1177_1759720X211030809 for Factors associated with risk of major adverse cardiovascular events in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a nationwide, population-based, case-control study by Yen-Ju Chen, Shih-Chia Liu, Kuo-Lung Lai, Kuo-Tung Tang, Ching-Heng Lin, Yi-Ming Chen, Chih-Wei Tseng, Yu-Mei Chang, Donald F. Gotcher, Chuang-Chun Chiou, Shao-Jen Weng and Hsin-Hua Chen in Therapeutic Advances in Musculoskeletal Disease
«Andremo via di qui vincitori o morti». Militanza contadina indiana e l’occupazione a Delhi. Utilizzo di pratiche religiose e istituzioni tradizionali nel processo di costruzione di una identità collettiva e una militanza sacra.
Creators: name: BELLUCCI, LAURA
Publisher: name: Università degli studi di Genova
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: India; farmers’ protest; sacred activism; Three farm laws; Hindutva
subject: India
subject: farmers’ protest
subject: sacred activism
subject: Three farm laws
subject: Hindutva

description: This research focuses on farmers’ protest which started in November 2020 in Delhi against three laws, introduced by the Indian government, that aim to liberalise the agricultural market. Given the historical divisions related to caste, religion and class that characterise the Indian society and the peasant movements of the past, the current transversal alliance that has distinguished the protest is something new and unusual. In order to understand how this happened, we analysed the collective actions and forms of mobilisation implemented by two peasant communities at the forefront of the protest: the Sikhs and the Jats. The use of traditional Panchayat meetings, Sikhism practices such as seva and a shared idiom such as bhaichara were the cultural elements utilized during the protest and they have characterised the form of their militancy: a ‘Sacred activism’ that can find place in the ‘realm’ of social movements bringing inspiring results, as witnessed by the success of the Indian peasant protest.
Additional file 1 of Cranial irradiation disrupts homeostatic microglial dynamic behavior
Creators: name: Strohm, Alexandra O.
name: Johnston, Carl
name: Hernady, Eric
name: Marples, Brian
name: O’Banion, M. Kerry
name: Majewska, Ania K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. Changes inmicroglia numbers following cranial irradiation. Raw cell number changes in A) control and B) irradiated mice. Individual animals are represented by lines of different colors.
On the the critical exponent for the semilinear Euler-Poisson-Darboux-Tricomi equation with power nonlinearity
Creators: name: Palmieri, Alessandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this note, we derive a blow-up result for a semilinear generalized Tricomi equation with damping and mass terms having time-dependent coefficients. We consider these coefficients with critical decay rates. Due to this threshold nature of the time-dependent coefficients (both for the damping and for the mass), the multiplicative constants appearing in these lower-order terms strongly influence the value of the critical exponent, determining a competition between a Fujita-type exponent and a Strauss-type exponent.
sj-docx-4-tab-10.1177_1759720X211030809 – Supplemental material for Factors associated with risk of major adverse cardiovascular events in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a nationwide, population-based, case-control study
Creators: name: Chen, Yen-Ju
name: Liu, Shih-Chia
name: Lai, Kuo-Lung
name: Tang, Kuo-Tung
name: Lin, Ching-Heng
name: Chen, Yi-Ming
name: Tseng, Chih-Wei
name: Chang, Yu-Mei
name: Gotcher, Donald F.
name: Chiou, Chuang-Chun
name: Weng, Shao-Jen
name: Chen, Hsin-Hua
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: Orthopaedics
Sports Medicine
Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-4-tab-10.1177_1759720X211030809 for Factors associated with risk of major adverse cardiovascular events in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a nationwide, population-based, case-control study by Yen-Ju Chen, Shih-Chia Liu, Kuo-Lung Lai, Kuo-Tung Tang, Ching-Heng Lin, Yi-Ming Chen, Chih-Wei Tseng, Yu-Mei Chang, Donald F. Gotcher, Chuang-Chun Chiou, Shao-Jen Weng and Hsin-Hua Chen in Therapeutic Advances in Musculoskeletal Disease
title: Decentring Devices : Developing Quali-Quantitative Techniques for Studying Controversies with Online Platforms
Creators: name: Moats, David
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Sociology, Big Data, ANT, STS, Science Controversies, Data Visualisations, Social Media

description: This thesis considers the role of online platforms (Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) in digital social
research from a Science and Technology Studies (STS) perspective and proposes new conceptual,
methodological and visual tactics, drawing on a series of empirical case studies concerning controversies
over nuclear power.

Recent work in STS seeks to map science controversies (GM foods, nanotechnology, climate change, etc.
Venturini 2010) using digital tools, which repurpose online platforms for social research (Rogers 2009).
Yet these platforms not only provide data about controversies, they may also intervene in them as well
andI propose that this requires studying them ‘in action’, drawing on the techniques of controversy
analysis (Latour 1987) and actor-network theory (ANT). However, this research presents several
challenges. How to delineate a study when controversies transcend particular platforms? How to define
what is relevant when these platforms have their own relevance-defining metrics? How to track
information flows within or between platforms?

The central argument of this thesis is that while researchers should capitalise on the affordances of
these platforms, they must diverge from them as well. Theoretically, this means maintaining a tension
between studying controversies and studying the platforms themselves. Methodologically this means
decoupling methods from platform data structures: scraping less obvious data, juxtaposing quantitative
and qualitative traces and presenting data in novel ways. Over three case studies, I will develop a series
of mapping techniques for analysing controversies which qualify the quantitative and make the less
calculable more calculable, revealing imbalances in the articulation and dissemination of controversies
online which would remain hidden to platform-specific or qualitative approaches on their own. These
exploratory techniques, which draw on work in the sociology of scientific representations (Woolgar and
Lynch 1992), have implications for debates about big data, digital sociology, media studies and the
relationship between quantitative and qualitative methods.
title: Picturing Politics: Drawing Out the Histories of Collective Political Action in Contemporary Art
Creators: name: Ellul, Hannah
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Art and politics, drawing, political aesthetics, performativity, political images, political agency, documentary, protest, political histories, radical history, drawing and photography, political imagination

description: This project explores the appropriation of images of political upheaval in contemporary art, with a particular focus on artists who painstakingly draw from photographs. It is a project informed by contemporary debates on the convoluted temporality and performativity of the image, the aesthetic and affective dimensions of political subjectification, and forms of political agency.
 
The drawings of artists including Andrea Bowers, Fernando Bryce and Olivia Plender, discussed here, elaborate a piecemeal, meticulously-drawn iconography of protest. Photographs and documents of emancipatory political struggle from different periods and places are reworked by hand, in acts of salvage. Something like an affective atmosphere is limned in scenes and artefacts that may not have lost their capacity to move but nonetheless seem remote today, the collective political desire and will they evoke overwhelmed by the disconcerting vicissitudes of sociopolitical circumstance.
 
In light of the long and complex histories of art’s engagement with the political, and the many and various modes of reciprocity devised along the way, what does it mean to be preoccupied with images of political action? To ask as much is to begin to address the complex ways in which such images intersect with and shape processes of political identification and affiliation, the emergence of collective subjectivity and the desire for political agency. Moreover, it is to speculate upon how these processes take place in a negotiation with the often obscure histories of collective action, and how such histories inform renewed efforts of political imagination. What attachments or detachment are played out in these drawings? What choreographies of binding and unbinding are traced in these lines?
sj-pdf-1-jci-10.1177_01968599211041113 - Supplemental material for A Cultural History of the Digital Present
Creators: name: Williams, Tyler Solon
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 200199 Communication and Media Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: 200299 Cultural Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other humanities

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-jci-10.1177_01968599211041113 for A Cultural History of the Digital Present by Tyler Solon Williams in Journal of Communication Inquiry
Additional file 2 of Cranial irradiation disrupts homeostatic microglial dynamic behavior
Creators: name: Strohm, Alexandra O.
name: Johnston, Carl
name: Hernady, Eric
name: Marples, Brian
name: O’Banion, M. Kerry
name: Majewska, Ania K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 2: Fig. S2. Cranial Irradiation does not change microglia or soma shape. Percent change in microglial A) circularity, B) aspect ratio, C) roundness, and D) solidity for control and irradiated mice over time. Percent change in microglial soma E) circularity, F) aspect ratio, G) roundness, and H) solidity for control and irradiated mice over time. Mixed-effects analysis with Bonferroni’s post-hoc comparisons. Data are presented as mean ± SEM. Each data point represents an individual animal. n = 8–11 mice per timepoint per group.
Massive Black-Hole Binary Mergers: Dynamics, Environments & Expected Detections
Creators: name: Kelley, Luke Zoltan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: astronomy
astrophysics
gravitational waves
Astrophysical black holes
Quasars
Supermassive black holes
Active galactic nuclei
Black holes
Relativistic binaries
Binaries
black hole binaries
supermassive black hole binaries
Galaxy mergers
hydrodynamical simulations
pulsars
pulsar timing arrays
Gravitational wave astronomy
Gravitational wave sources
Gravitational wave detectors

description: This thesis studies the populations and dynamics of massive black-hole binaries and their mergers, and explores the implications for electromagnetic and gravitational-wave signals that will be detected in the near future.  Massive black-holes (MBH) reside in the centers of galaxies, and when galaxies merge, their MBH interact and often pair together.  We base our study on the populations of MBH and galaxies from the `Illustris' cosmological hydrodynamic simulations.  The bulk of the binary merger dynamics, however, are unresolved in cosmological simulations.  We implement a suite of comprehensive physical models for the merger process, like dynamical friction and gravitational wave emission, which are added in post-processing.  Contrary to many previous studies, we find that the most massive binaries with near equal-mass companions are the most efficient at coalescing; though the process still typically takes gigayears.

From the data produced by these MBH binary populations and their dynamics, we calculate the expected gravitational wave (GW) signals: both the stochastic, GW background of countless unresolved sources, and the GW foreground of individually resolvable binaries which resound above the noise.  Ongoing experiments, called pulsar timing arrays, are sensitive to both of these types of signals.  We find that, while the current lack of detections is unsurprising, both the background and foreground will plausibly be detected in the next decade.  Unlike previous studies which have predicted the foreground to be significantly harder to detect than the background, we find their typical amplitudes are comparable.

With traditional electromagnetic observations, there has also been a dearth of confirmed detections of MBH binary systems.  We use our binaries, combined with models of emission from accreting MBH systems, to make predictions for the occurrence rate of systems observable using photometric, periodic-variability surveys.  These variables should be detectable in current surveys, and indeed, we expect many candidates recently identified to be true binaries - though a significant fraction are likely false positives.  Overall, this thesis finds the science of MBH binaries at an exciting cusp: just before incredible breakthroughs in observations, both electromagnetically and in the new age of gravitational wave astrophysics.
description: 197 pages, single-spaced
Additional file 3 of Cranial irradiation disrupts homeostatic microglial dynamic behavior
Creators: name: Strohm, Alexandra O.
name: Johnston, Carl
name: Hernady, Eric
name: Marples, Brian
name: O’Banion, M. Kerry
name: Majewska, Ania K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 3: Fig. S3. Characterization of Microglial Morphology Parameters in control and irradiated mice. Variation among morphology parameters color-coded by radiation exposure A) or time point B) revealed by PCA analysis. Morphology parameters analyzed included the following: Sholl max intersections, Sholl mean intersections, Sholl area under the curve, process size, soma size, microglia size, microglia circularity, microglial roundness, microglia solidity, soma circularity, soma aspect ratio, soma roundness, and soma solidity. Each data point represents an individual mouse at an individual timepoint. n = 8–11 mice per timepoint per group. Correlation matrix of the Pearson correlation coefficient of morphology parameters for control C) and irradiated mice D). Significant correlations (p < 0.05) are denoted with *.
Analyze Anisotropic Nature of 1D Nanoribbon and Study the Effect of Type-II Porous Liquid in Li-S Battery
Creators: name: Singh, Sakshi
Publisher: name: University of Illinois Chicago
Year: 2025

description: 1. Angle Resolved Raman Spectroscopy (ARPRS) for analyzing anisotropic nature of (NbTaTi)0.33S3nanoribbon: One-dimensional (1D) nanostructures exhibit unique properties that make them promising candidates for various technological applications. Achieving precise control over the anisotropic properties of these materials presents significant challenges due to the complex nature of their synthesis and characterization. In this study, investigation of the anisotropic nature of (NbTaTi)0.33S3nanoribbons using Angle Resolved Raman Spectroscopy (ARPRS) was performed. The motivation stems from the pivotal role of anisotropic properties in influencing the electronic, mechanical, and optical behavior of 1D materials, making them indispensable for diverse applications. Raman spectroscopy, a non-destructive technique, is employed to probe the vibrational modes of the nanoribbons, providing insights into their anisotropic properties. Additionally, Angle Resolved Polarized Raman Spectroscopy (ARP-Raman) allows for the investigation of polarization and angle dependence of Raman scattering, enabling comprehensive analysis of the nanoribbons' anisotropic behavior. Our experimental results confirm the anisotropic nature of the (NbTaTi)0.33S3 nanoribbons, paving the way for further exploration and utilization of anisotropic 1D materials in various technological applications.
2. Utilizing type-II porous liquid as an additive in electrolyte to enhance Li-ion mobility: Literature investigates the potential of Type-II porous liquids as additives in electrolytes to enhance lithium-ion mobility in Li-S batteries. The study addresses the challenges associated with practical implementation of Li-S batteries, like low conductivity, which hinder their widespread adoption despite their cost-effectiveness and high specific capacity. By exploring the principles of Li-S batteries and Type-II porous liquids, the study aims to enhance understanding of the electrochemical processes involved and their interplay with host-guest interactions within the porous liquids. Through detailed experimentation and analysis, including the preparation of cathodes and electrolytes and battery testing, the study evaluates the influence of different molar ratios of Type-II porous liquids and LiTFSI salt concentrations on ionic conductivity. The results provide insights into the behavior of Li-S batteries with and without Type-II porous liquid additives, paving the way for future investigations to optimize battery performance and further explore the potential of porous liquids in energy storage applications. Future work may include the exploration of different types of porous liquids, electrolyte solvents, and reaction kinetics using advanced spectroscopic techniques to continue advancing Li-S battery technology.
COMPUTATIONAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES OF ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY ON VISCOELASTIC POLYMERS WITH SURFACE FORCES
Creators: name: Rajabifar, Bahram
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Mechanical engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is widely used to study material properties and domain heterogeneity of polymers. In both quasi-static force spectroscopy and dynamic AFM, challenging complexities such as the presence of different effective tip-surface forces, surface dynamics, and material viscoelasticity can occur on polymer samples. Many models that attempt to link experimental observables to contact mechanics fail to rigorously account for these complexities. This may lead to inaccurate and unreliable predictions, especially when examining soft polymers. Therefore, having access to rigorous models that can facilitate the understanding of the underlying phenomena during tip-surface interaction, explain the observations, and make reliable and accurate predictions, is of great interest. Among the previously developed models, Attard et al. proposed a novel non-Hertzian-based model that has a versatile ability to systematically incorporate different linear viscoelasticity constitutive models and surface adhesive forces. However, the implementation of Attard’s model into the AFM framework is challenging.
In a series of studies, we improve the computational speed and stability of Attard’s viscoelastic contact model and embed it into an AFM framework by proposing algorithms for three AFM operational modes: tapping mode, bimodal, and peak force tapping. For each mode, the results are successfully verified/validated against other reliable AFM codes, FEM simulations, and experiments. The algorithms’ predictions illustrate how viscoelasticity and surface adhesive hysteresis of polymeric samples is reflected in AFM observables. However, since Attard’s model does not lead to a closed-form solution for tip-surface interaction force, using that to quantify the surface mechanical properties based on the AFM observables is not straightforward. Therefore, we utilize the data analytics-based approaches such as linear regression and machine learning algorithms to enable the material viscoelasticity and adhesive parameters estimation based on the provided instrument observables.

The set of results reported in this thesis improves the current knowledge about complex phenomena that occur during tip-surface interactions, especially on soft-viscoelastic-adhesive polymers. The introduced “improved Attard’s model” fulfills the need for a continuum mechanics viscoelasticity contact model that rigorously captures the complexities of such samples. The viscoelasticity contact model and the proposed inverse solution algorithms in this thesis facilitate quantitative measurement and discrimination of the surface adhesive and viscoelastic properties based on the acquired nanoscale AFM maps of polymeric samples.
Sub-femtosecond optical control of entangled states
Creators: name: Shobeiry, Farshad
name: Fross, Patrick
name: Srinivas, Hemkumar
name: Pfeifer, Thomas
name: Moshammer, Robert
name: Harth, Anne
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For photo-dissociation of a single hydrogen molecule (H2) with combined XUV and IR laser pulses, we demonstrate optical control of the emission direction of the photoelectron with respect to the outgoing neutral fragment (the H-atom). Depending on the relative delay between the two laser fields, adjustable with sub-femtosecond time resolution, the photoelectron is emitted into the same hemisphere as the H-atom or opposite. This emission asymmetry is a result of entanglement of the two-electron final-state involving the spatially separated bound and emitted electron.
description: Now published as: "Emission control of entangled electrons in photoionisation of a hydrogen molecule", Scientific Reports (2024), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-67465-0
The chaotic history of the retrograde multi-planet system in K2-290A driven by distant stars
Creators: name: Best, Marcela
name: Petrovich, Cristobal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The equator of star K2-290A was recently found to be inclined by 124+/-6 degrees relative to the orbits of both its known transiting planets. The presence of a companion star B at ~100 au suggested that the birth protoplanetary disk could have tilted, thus providing an explanation for the peculiar retrograde state of this multi-planet system. In this work, we show that a primordial misalignment is not required and that the observed retrograde state is a natural consequence of the chaotic stellar obliquity evolution driven by a wider-orbit companion C at ~2000 au long after the disk disperses. The star C drives eccentricity and/or inclination oscillations on the inner binary orbit, leading to widespread chaos from the periodic resonance passages between the stellar spin and planetary secular modes. Based on a population synthesis study, we find that the observed stellar obliquity is reached in ~40-70% of the systems, making this mechanism a robust outcome of the secular dynamics,regardless of the spin-down history of the central star. This work highlights the unusual role that very distant companions can have on the orbits of close-in planets and the host star's spin evolution, connecting four orders of magnitude in distance scale over billions of orbits. We finally comment on the application to other exoplanet systems, including multi-planet systems in wide binaries.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJL, 10 pages, 5 figures
Additional file 4 of Cranial irradiation disrupts homeostatic microglial dynamic behavior
Creators: name: Strohm, Alexandra O.
name: Johnston, Carl
name: Hernady, Eric
name: Marples, Brian
name: O’Banion, M. Kerry
name: Majewska, Ania K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 4: Fig. S4. Characterization of Microglial Dynamics in control and irradiated mice. Variation among microglial dynamics color-coded by radiation exposure A) or time point B) revealed by PCA analysis. Dynamics analyzed were surveillance, motility, and coverage. Each data point represents an individual mouse at an individual timepoint. n = 9–11 mice per timepoint per group. Correlation matrix of the Pearson correlation coefficient of microglial dynamics for control C) and irradiated mice D). Significant correlations (p < 0.05) are denoted with *. Simple linear regression between motility and coverage in control E) and irradiated F) mice.
sj-pdf-6-uix-10.1177_01617346211041023 – Supplemental material for Is There a Difference Between the Joint Ultrasounds of Healthy Women and Men? A Study With Small, Medium, and Large Joints
Creators: name: Nunes-Tamashiro, Jose Carlos
name: Natour, Jamil
name: Pereira, Daniele Freitas
name: Machado, Flavia S.
name: Takahashi, Rogerio D.
name: Furtado, Rita Nely Vilar
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 90399 Biomedical Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Medical engineering

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-6-uix-10.1177_01617346211041023 for Is There a Difference Between the Joint Ultrasounds of Healthy Women and Men? A Study With Small, Medium, and Large Joints by Jose Carlos Nunes-Tamashiro, Jamil Natour, Daniele Freitas Pereira, Flavia S. Machado, Rogerio D. Takahashi and Rita Nely Vilar Furtado in Ultrasonic Imaging
Energy-Latency Attacks via Sponge Poisoning
Creators: name: Cinà, Antonio Emanuele
name: Demontis, Ambra
name: Biggio, Battista
name: Roli, Fabio
name: Pelillo, Marcello
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Sponge examples are test-time inputs optimized to increase energy consumption and prediction latency of deep networks deployed on hardware accelerators. By increasing the fraction of neurons activated during classification, these attacks reduce sparsity in network activation patterns, worsening the performance of hardware accelerators. In this work, we present a novel training-time attack, named sponge poisoning, which aims to worsen energy consumption and prediction latency of neural networks on any test input without affecting classification accuracy. To stage this attack, we assume that the attacker can control only a few model updates during training -- a likely scenario, e.g., when model training is outsourced to an untrusted third party or distributed via federated learning. Our extensive experiments on image classification tasks show that sponge poisoning is effective, and that fine-tuning poisoned models to repair them poses prohibitive costs for most users, highlighting that tackling sponge poisoning remains an open issue.
description: Paper accepted at Information Sciences journal; 20 pages Keywords: energy-latency attacks, sponge attack, machine learning security, adversarial machine learning
EXPLORING ANTIBIOTIC CONJUGATION TO CATIONIC AMPHIPHILIC POLYPROLINE HELICES
Creators: name: Zeiders, Samantha Mae
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Organic chemistry not elsewhere classified
Biologically active molecules

description: Pathogenic bacteria present a critical threat to modern medicine. Therapeutic strategies to target and eliminate resilient bacteria are not advancing at the same rate as the emergence of bacterial resistance. An associated urgent concern regarding antibiotic resistance is the existence and proliferation of intracellular bacteria, which find refuge from bactericidal mechanisms by hiding within mammalian cells. Therefore, many once-successful antibiotics become ineffective through the development of resistance, or through failure to reach intracellular locations in therapeutic concentration. To overcome these challenges, the covalent combination of a conventional antibiotic with an antibiotic, cell-penetrating peptide was explored to develop dual-action antibiotic conjugates. Herein, we utilized a strategy in conjugating the antibiotics by a cleavable linkage to cationic amphiphilic polyproline helices (CAPHs) to improve vancomycin and linezolid antibiotics. This approach enables the conjugate to penetrate cells and deliver two potent monomeric antimicrobial drugs. The vancomycin-CAPH conjugate, VanP14S, showed enhanced mammalian cell uptake compared to vancomycin, a poor mammalian cell-penetrating agent; and VanP14S was capable of cleaving and releasing two antibiotics under mimicked physiological conditions. Enhanced antibacterial activity was observed against a spectrum of Gram-positive and Gram-negative pathogens, including drug-resistant strains. Further investigation revealed that this conjugate’s bactericidal activity was not entirely the result of significant membrane perturbation such as a lytic mode of action. Mammalian cell toxicity and red blood cell lysis were insignificant at relevant bactericidal concentrations below 20 µM. The current results suggest an enhanced binding to the peptidoglycan of bacteria, the target of vancomycin, although more work is needed to justify this claim. Preliminary results on VanP14GAPS, a conjugate with a more rigid CAPH, convey similar activity to VanP14S; however, moderate increases in red blood cell lysis and cytotoxicity were observed. Regarding the LnzP14 conjugate, preliminary data reveal that the conjugate has Gram-negative activity against Escherichia coli, whereas linezolid is ineffective in killing Gram-negative bacteria. This conjugate showed significant enhancement in cellular uptake compared to the CAPH, and the release of linezolid and CAPH in physiological conditions was confirmed. Overall, arming a conventional antibiotic with an antimicrobial, cell-penetrating peptide appears to be a powerful strategy in providing novel antibiotic conjugates with the propensity to overcome the limitations in treating challenging pathogens.
Ungenutztes Potential - Menschen Mit Migrationshintergrund Im Lehrgang "Pflegehelfer/-In Srk": Kantonale Differenzen Und Zukünftige Möglichkeiten Des Nationalen Dienstleistungsangebotes
Creators: name: Brunner, Jeanine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013

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description: + Code Diss LU: hslusa masa + Fussnote: Master of Science in Sozialer Arbeit, Bern, Luzern, St. Gallen, Zürich, 2013
MULTI-PHYSICS MODELS TO SUPPORT THE DESIGN OF DYNAMIC WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER SYSTEMS
Creators: name: Agostino, Anthony Frank
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2022
Subjects: Electrical engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Present barriers to electric vehicle (EV) adoption include cost and range anxiety. Dynamic wireless power transfer (DWPT) systems, which send energy from an in-road transmitter to a vehicle in motion, offer potential remedies to both issues. Specifically, they reduce the size and charging needs of the relatively expensive battery system by supplying the power required for vehicle motion and operation. Recently, Purdue researchers have been exploring the development of inductive DWPT systems for Class 8 and 9 trucks operating at highway speeds. This research has included the design of transmitter/receiver coils as well as compensation circuits and power electronics that are required to efficiently transmit 200 kW-level power across a large air gap. In this thesis, a focus is on the derivation of electromagnetic and thermal models that are used to support the design and validation of DWPT systems. Specifically, electromagnetic models have been derived to predict the volume and loss of ferrite-based AC inductors and film capacitor used in compensation circuits. A thermal equivalent circuit of the transmitter has been derived to predict the expected coil and pavement temperatures in DWPT systems that utilize either single- or three-phase transmitter topologies. A description of these models, along with their validation using finite element-based simulation and their use in multi-objective optimization of DWPT systems is provided.
sj-pdf-2-hpq-10.1177_13591053211042075 – Supplemental material for Relationship quality and objectively measured physical activity before and after implementation of COVID-19 stay-home orders
Creators: name: Cornelius, Talea
name: Denes, Amanda
name: Webber, Katrina T
name: Guest, Chelsea
name: Goldsmith, Jeff
name: Schwartz, Joseph E
name: Gorin, Amy A
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 110319 Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-2-hpq-10.1177_13591053211042075 for Relationship quality and objectively measured physical activity before and after implementation of COVID-19 stay-home orders by Talea Cornelius, Amanda Denes, Katrina T Webber, Chelsea Guest, Jeff Goldsmith, Joseph E Schwartz and Amy A Gorin in Journal of Health Psychology
sj-pdf-5-hss-10.1177_15563316211039509 – Supplemental material for Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Overlay in the Spine for Surgical Planning: A Technical Report
Creators: name: Perez, Alberto A.
name: Yoon, Edward S.
name: Iyer, Sravisht
name: Lafage, Virginie
name: Sandhu, Harvinder
name: Schwab, Frank
name: Albert, Todd J.
name: Qureshi, Sheeraz
name: Kim, Han Jo
name: Katsuura, Yoshihiro
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 110323 Surgery
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-5-hss-10.1177_15563316211039509 for Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Overlay in the Spine for Surgical Planning: A Technical Report by Alberto A. Perez, Edward S. Yoon, Sravisht Iyer, Virginie Lafage, Harvinder Sandhu, Frank Schwab, Todd J. Albert, Sheeraz Qureshi, Han Jo Kim and Yoshihiro Katsuura in HSS Journal®: The Musculoskeletal Journal of Hospital for Special Surgery
Development of Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis L.) for non-burn seed production
Creators: name: Dodson, Kathleen Laura
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Kentucky bluegrass--Seeds--Production (Biology)

description: Open-field burning of post-harvest residue in the Pacific Northwest has been severely limited or banned for Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis L.) seed production. Mechanical removal of stubble and straw has replaced burning, but results in shorter lifespan of the field and smaller yields each year. To address this, Kentucky bluegrass germplasm has been evaluated to identify germplasm that has good turfgrass characteristics and sustained high seed yields under non-burn seed production. Selection methodology was examined to determine how best to improve seed yield, increase turfgrass quality, or perhaps both in Kentucky bluegrass. Seed production trials were established during the spring (dry-land) and summer (irrigated) of 2007, while a turfgrass trial was planted in fall 2006 at Pullman, WA. The turfgrass trial was evaluated monthly according to National Turfgrass Evaluation Program protocol to determine overall quality, color, texture, chlorophyll, spring green-up, and establishment. Seed was harvested from 23 June until 11 July 2008. Seed production plots were evaluated for yield, 1000 seed weight, yield plant-1, seeds panicle-1, and panicles area-1. The selection for yield components had a variable response, and appeared to be dependent on genotype. Some entries’ turfgrass quality was resistant to selection, but responded to selection for agronomic seed production characteristics. The best characteristics of Kentucky bluegrass germplasm for seed production under non-burn conditions are early spring green-up, medium panicle height, many panicles area-1, lighter seed weights, and a high number of seeds panicle-1. Of the 50 entries examined, two accessions, PI 371775 and PI 368241, displayed medium to high responses to these characteristics, which resulted in turfgrass quality ranges of 7.2 to 7.4 and 5.7 to 6.6 (1 = brown, 9 = ideal turf), respectively, and overall yield ranges of 66.5 g to 185.6 g and 47.0 g to 187.0 g, respectively. The extreme low values in the yield ranges are attributed to the selection for seed weight, which often decreased overall yield. Both entries show promise of being able to produce good seed yields under non-burn conditions.
A Zeroth-order Proximal Stochastic Gradient Method for Weakly Convex Stochastic Optimization
Creators: name: Pougkakiotis, Spyridon
name: Kalogerias, Dionysios S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we analyze a zeroth-order proximal stochastic gradient method suitable for the minimization of weakly convex stochastic optimization problems. We consider nonsmooth and nonlinear stochastic composite problems, for which (sub-)gradient information might be unavailable. The proposed algorithm utilizes the well-known Gaussian smoothing technique, which yields unbiased zeroth-order gradient estimators of a related partially smooth surrogate problem (in which one of the two nonsmooth terms in the original problem's objective is replaced by a smooth approximation). This allows us to employ a standard proximal stochastic gradient scheme for the approximate solution of the surrogate problem, which is determined by a single smoothing parameter, and without the utilization of first-order information. We provide state-of-the-art convergence rates for the proposed zeroth-order method using minimal assumptions. The proposed scheme is numerically compared against alternative zeroth-order methods as well as a stochastic sub-gradient scheme on a standard phase retrieval problem. Further, we showcase the usefulness and effectiveness of our method for the unique setting of automated hyper-parameter tuning. In particular, we focus on automatically tuning the parameters of optimization algorithms by minimizing a novel heuristic model. The proposed approach is tested on a proximal alternating direction method of multipliers for the solution of $\mathcal{L}_1/\mathcal{L}_2$-regularized PDE-constrained optimal control problems, with evident empirical success.
Quasi-Experimental Examination of Truth-in-Sentencing and Three-Strikes Laws
Creators: name: Tarbhai, Umair
Publisher: name: University of Illinois Chicago
Year: 2025

description: During the late 1970s and 1980s, crime rates and the perception of crime as a problem grew throughout the country, putting pressure on politicians, particularly Democrats, to respond (Cullen, 2018a; Ford, 2016). By 1990, crime rates in the United States (US) had reached historic highs and had been consistently rising for nearly three decades (Ford, 2016). Violent crime grew exponentially in the United States (US) between 1985 and 1990 with rates of crimes, like homicide, doubling (Blumstein & Wallman, 2006). As the US began to shift away from rehabilitating offenders there was an influx of punitive legislation passed. During the Reagan administration’s “war on drugs”, several bills passed during the 1980s (e.g., the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984 (CCCA), and the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 (ADAA)) (Taifa, 2021. In the early 1990s, the Clinton punctuated the US’s adoption of the tough-on-crime approach with the passage of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (VCCLEA), commonly referred to as “the crime bill”. Two of the more well-known sections featured in the crime bill, three-strikes laws and truth-in-sentencing laws, have been heavily criticized for their impacts on prison populations and lack of effectiveness in preventing other social determinants of crime (Ray & Galston, 2020; Alexander, 2019). These two provisions are the primary focus of this study. Much of the research examining the impacts of three-strikes and truth-in-sentencing laws on crime and incarceration up to this point has had limited ability to infer causality (Chen, 2008; Helland & Tabbarrok, 2007; Kovandzic et al., 2004; Sheperd, 2002; Marvell & Moody, 2001; Stolzenber & D'Alessio, 1997). The current study uses archival data from the US Census Bureau, US Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to create a state-
x
level panel data set with data between 1984 and 2019. Using a quasi-experimental design and difference-in-differences estimator (Callaway & Sant’Anna, 2021; Sant’Anna & Zhao, 2020) the current study assessed causal policy effects while accounting for variations in when each state passed the policy of interest in a way not previously done. The analyses estimated the policy effects on the outcomes of 1) violent crime rate, 2) property crime rate, and 3) overall incarceration rate for both three-strikes and truth-in-sentencing laws.
Ethics of treatment interruption trials in HIV cure research: Addressing the conundrum of risk/benefit assessment
Creators: name: Jupimai T.
name: Kroon E.
name: Meagher K.
name: Ananworanich J.
name: Ormsby N.Q.
name: Phanuphak N.
name: Gilbertson A.
name: Fisher J.
name: Henderson G.E.
name: Cadigan R.J.
name: Rennie S.
name: Chomchey N.
name: Peay H.L.
Publisher: name: BMJ Publishing Group
Year: 2018

description:
Though antiretroviral therapy is the standard of care for people living with HIV, its treatment limitations, burdens, stigma and costs lead to continued interest in HIV cure research. Early-phase cure trials, particularly those that include analytic treatment interruption (ATI), involve uncertain and potentially high risk, with minimal chance of clinical benefit. Some question whether such trials should be offered, given the risk/benefit imbalance, and whether those who choose to participate are acting rationally. We address these questions through a longitudinal decision-making study nested in a Thai acute HIV research cohort. In-depth interviews revealed central themes about decisions to join. Participants felt they possessed an important identity as members of the acute cohort, viewing their bodies as uniquely suited to both testing and potentially benefiting from HIV cure approaches. While acknowledging risks of ATI, most perceived they were given an opportunity to interrupt treatment, to test their own bodies and increase normalcy in a safe, highly monitored circumstance. They were motivated by potential benefits to themselves, the investigators and larger acute cohort, and others with HIV. They believed their own trial experiences and being able to give back to the community were sufficient to offset participation risks. These decisions were driven by the specific circumstances experienced by our participants. Judging risk/benefit ratios without appreciating these lived experiences can lead to false determinations of irrational decision- making. While this does not minimise vital oversight considerations about risk reduction and protection from harm, it argues for inclusion of a more participant-centered approach.