cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: The influence of humic acid and water hardness on the partitioning of silver ions and nanoparticles between fresh water and freshwater algae
Creators: name: Ferguson, Matthew D.
Publisher: name: Western Washington University
Year: 2011

description:
Silver nanoparticle (AgNP) containing products are abundant in consumer goods. If trends continue, AgNP levels will continue to rise as innovative applications continue to be realized. These nanoparticles (NPs) can enter the environment as their uses can transport them to natural waters (e.g., washing socks containing AgNPs). Research on the behavior of AgNPs and Ag+ in artificial fresh water is presented in this thesis. Specifically, their sorptive properties between fresh water and freshwater algae, Pseudokirchneriella subcapitata (Korshikov) Hindák, as a function of hardness, humic acid (HA) content, and silver type were investigated. The experimental design was modeled after a 23 factorial analysis in which each factor is varied at two levels: (1) no added HA and with HA, (2), Ag type [AgNP versus Ag+], and (3) low hardness and high hardness. The Freundlich Isotherm method was used to determine the KF partitioning constants at the varying conditions. The effects of each factor on partitioning constants were evaluated. A normal probability plot was used to determine which factors had the greatest effect. Results were that the greatest effects were caused by hardness and the interaction between hardness and HA. An increase in hardness caused a decrease in Ag sorption by an average log KF of 0.46475, whereas the interaction between hardness and HA caused an increase in Ag sorption by an average log KF of 0.40375. The other two main effects (Ag type and HA content) also had an effect on sorption. However, these main effects were not as great as that observed with hardness.
Diagrammatization of the Transmission Control Protocol
Creators: name: Al-Fedaghi, Sabah
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With the wide spread of Internet services, developers and users need a greater understanding of the technology of networking. Acquiring a clear understanding of communication protocols is an important step in understanding how a network functions; however, many protocols are complicated, and explaining them can be demanding. In addition, protocols are often explained in terms of traffic analysis and oriented toward technical staff and those already familiar with network protocols. This paper aims at proposing a diagrammatic methodology to represent protocols in general, with a focus on the Transmission Control Protocol and Secure Sockets Layer in particular. The purpose is to facilitate understanding of protocols for learning and communication purposes. The methodology is based on the notion of flow of primitive things in a system with six stages: creation, release, transfer, arrival, acceptance, and processing. Though the method presents a basic description of protocols without in-depth analysis of all aspects and mechanisms, the resultant conceptual description is a systematic specification that utilizes a few basic notions that assist in illustrating functionality and support comprehension.
description: 9 pages, 10 figures
Dendromus lovati De Winton 1900
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Cricetidae
Dendromus
Dendromus lovati

description: Dendromus lovati De Winton, 1900. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1899:986. TYPE LOCALITY: Ethiopia, Managasha, near Addis Ababa. DISTRIBUTION: Ethiopia. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008104003001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 3), pp. 392-476 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 408, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353031
Kunkel, Otto: Pommersche Urgeschichte in Bildern
Creators: name: Jacob-Friesen, Karl Hermann
Publisher: name: Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte
Year: 2017

description: Rezension zu: Kunkel, Otto: Pommersche Urgeschichte in Bildern. 8°. Textteil 175 Seiten mit 45 Textabbildungen und einer Karte. Tafelteil 110 Tafeln. Stettin 1931. Leon Sauniers Buchhandlung.
description: Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte, 1931: Neue Folge Nr. 5
Privilege and Competition: Tashiroya in the East Asian Treaty Ports, 1860–1895
Creators: name: Yamamoto, Takahiro
Publisher: name: Transcultural Studies
Year: 2018
Subjects: Nagasaki, China, Korea, merchants, porcelain

description: This paper attempts to illustrate the connectivities of the late-nineteenth-century treaty ports in East Asia, experienced by a Japanese business called Tashiroya. In the 1860s it had a monopoly over foreign trade in porcelain in Nagasaki, under the protection of the Saga domain. After the emergence of treaty port network that enabled freer movement of goods and people, Tashiroya lost its privilege and found itself in a competition in Chinese ports, not so much against the Western merchants, but with its domestic peers. In an effort to deal with the new commercial environment around the East China Sea, Tashiroya’s family members and employees set up branch stores in  the treaty ports and travelled around to carry goods and to seek business opportunities. They aimed at diversifying the merchandise and markets, which saw partial success. In doing so they also attempted to get around the taxation by the Chinese Maritime Customs, rather than calling for the revision of Japan’s unequal treaties. After a series of botched effort to maintain the price of porcelain products by forming a cartel with other Japanese exporters, Tashiroya ventured into an uncharted territory of exporting roof tiles to Korea, which it failed to implement. The paper overall provides a microhistory of the East Asian treaty ports, decoupled from the state-level analysis and the narratives driven by national history.
description: Transcultural Studies, No 2 (2017)
Monte Carlo aided design of the inner muon veto detectors for the Double Chooz experiment
Creators: name: Dietrich, D.
name: Greiner, D.
name: Jochum, J.
name: Lachenmaier, T.
name: Stokes, L. F. F.
name: Röhling, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Double Chooz neutrino experiment aims to measure the last unknown neutrino mixing angle theta_13 using two identical detectors positioned at sites both near and far from the reactor cores of the Chooz nuclear power plant. To suppress correlated background induced by cosmic muons in the detectors, they are protected by veto detector systems. One of these systems is the inner muon veto. It is an active liquid scintillator based detector and instrumented with encapsulated photomultiplier tubes. In this paper we describe the Monte Carlo aided design process of the inner muon veto, that resulted in a detector configuration with 78 PMTs yielding an efficiency of 99.978 +- 0.004% for rejecting muon events and an efficiency of >98.98% for rejecting correlated events induced by muons. A veto detector of this design is currently used at the far detector site and will be built and incorporated as the muon identification system at the near site of the Double Chooz experiment.
PSF photometry analysis of small solar system objects from ZTF as preparation for the LSST era
Creators: name: Rommel, Flavia Luane
name: Boufleur, Rodrigo Carlos
name: Braga Ribas, Felipe
name: Nicolaci da Costa, Luiz Alberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: TNOs
Centaurs
Stellar occultations
ZTF
LSST

description: Our international collaboration focuses on predicting and observing stellar occultation events by Trans-Neptunian Objects, Centaurs, Trojans, and Satellites. Despite the size constraints from stellar occultation data, we seek to determine their rotation periods for a complete physical characterization of these small bodies. Therefore, this work aims to develop a Python script that downloads public photometric measurements from the ZTF database and analyses them to search for a rotational light curve. ZTF is an extensive database that allows emulating a LSST like system environment. Therefore, despite ZTF data not providing accurate measurements for fainter objects like TNOs, it allows for exhaustive testing of the Python tool before LSST survey data is released. The immense sky and magnitude coverage presented by the ZTF may provide valuable insight into data requirements and limitations for rotational analysis with the LSST data sets. The preliminary findings of this work are presented and discussed in the last section of the poster. Examples of the phase and rotational light curves obtained for known small bodies are discussed, exploring some possible studies that may be developed with ZTF and LSST photometric measurements.
Multiple dynamic transitions in nonequilibrium work fluctuations
Creators: name: Noh, Jae Dong
name: Kwon, Chulan
name: Park, Hyunggyu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The time-dependent work probability distribution function $P(W)$ is investigated analytically for a diffusing particle trapped by an anisotropic harmonic potential and driven by a nonconservative drift force in two dimensions. We find that the exponential tail shape of $P(W)$ characterizing rare-event probabilities undergoes a sequence of dynamic transitions in time. These remarkable locking-unlocking type transitions result from an intricate interplay between a rotational mode induced by the nonconservative force and an anisotropic decaying mode due to the conservative attractive force. We expect that most of high-dimensional dynamical systems should exhibit similar multiple dynamic transitions.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, published version
Additional file 1 of Model selection for survival individualized treatment rules using the jackknife estimator
Creators: name: Honvoh, Gilson D.
name: Cho, Hunyong
name: Kosorok, Michael R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Proof for the consistency of the proposed jackknife estimator for right-censored data.
Drift-diffusion model of the fragmentation of the external ring structure in the photoluminescence pattern of indirect excitons in coupled quantum wells
Creators: name: Wilkes, J.
name: Muljarov, E. A.
name: Ivanov, A. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Under optical excitation, coupled quantum wells are known to reveal fascinating features in the photoluminescence pattern originating from dipole orientated indirect excitons. The appearance of an external ring has been attributed to macroscopic charge separation in the quantum well plane. We present a classical model of non-linear diffusion to account for the observed fragmentation of the external ring into a periodic array of islands. The model incorporates the Coulomb interactions between electrons, holes and indirect excitons. At low temperatures, these interactions lead to pattern formation similar to the experimentally observed ring fragmentation. The fragmentation is found to persist to temperatures above the quantum degeneracy temperature of indirect excitons.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
The Real cost of beef: A monetary assessment of the environmental degradation caused by beef production
Creators: name: Babcock, Carolyn
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 1996

description: The environmental degradation caused by beef production is severe. The current literature assesses the ecological damage, but falls short of assigning a per pound dollar amount to reflect the real cost of beef. In the United States, most of the environmental focus has been centered around the use of public lands for grazing and the grazing fee the government considers appropriate. The fee covers the maintenance of the grazing program, which includes maintenance of the actual land. This paper will concentrate on beef-related environmental degradation and select specific damage for monetary valuation.
SYNTHESIS AND BIOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF POTENT INTEGRIN LIGANDS CONTAINING A DIKETOPIPERAZINE SCAFFOLD, AND OF THEIR CONJUGATES WITH CYTOTOXIC AGENTS
Creators: name: COLOMBO, RAFFAELE
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2013

description: A library of eight bifunctional 2,5-diketopiperazine (DKP) scaffolds, which are formally derived from 2,3-diaminopropionic acid and aspartic acid (DKP1 - DKP7) or glutamic acid (DKP8) was designed and synthesized. The scaffolds differ for the configuration at the two stereocenters and the substitution at the diketopiperazinic nitrogens. The bifunctional diketopiperazines were introduced into eight cyclic peptidomimetics containing the Arg-Gly-Asp (RGD) sequence. The resulting RGD-peptidomimetics were screened for their ability to inhibit biotinylated vitronectin binding to the purified integrins alphaVbeta3 and alphaVbeta5, which are involved in tumor angiogenesis. Nanomolar values were obtained for the RGD-peptidomimetics derived from trans DKP scaffolds (DKP2 - DKP8). Conformational studies of the cyclic RGD-peptidomimetics by 1H-NMR experiments (VT-NMR and NOESY) in aqueous solution and Monte Carlo ? Stochastic Dynamics (MC-SD) simulations revealed that the highest affinity ligands display well-defined preferred conformations featuring intramolecular hydrogen-bonded turn motifs and an extended arrangement of the RGD sequence [Cbeta(Arg)-Cbeta(Asp) average distance ? 8.8 A]. Docking studies were performed, starting from the representative conformations obtained from the MC/SD simulations and taking as a reference model the crystal structure of the extracellular segment of integrin alphaVbeta3 complexed with the cyclic pentapeptide Cilengitide. The highest affinity ligands produced top-ranked poses conserving all the important interactions of the X-ray complex. Since alphaV integrins, which can be internalized by cells, are involved in tumor angiogenesis and are overexpressed on the surface of cancer cells, integrin ligands can be usefully employed as tumor homing peptidomimetics for site-directed delivery of cytotoxic drugs. A small library of integrin ligand - Paclitaxel conjugates 90-93 was synthesized with the aim of using the tumor-homing cyclo[DKP-RGD] peptidomimetics for site-directed delivery of the cytotoxic drug. All the Paclitaxel-RGD constructs 90-93 inhibited biotinylated vitronectin binding to the purified alphaVbeta3 integrin receptor at low nanomolar concentration and showed in vitro cytotoxic activity against a panel of human tumor cell lines similar to that of Paclitaxel. Among the cell lines, the cisplatin-resistant IGROV-1/Pt1 cells expressed high levels of integrin alphaVbeta3, making them attractive to be tested in in vivo models. Cyclo[DKP-f3-RGD]-PTX 91 displayed sufficient stability in physiological solution and in both human and murine plasma to be a good candidate for in vivo testing. In tumor-targeting experiments against the IGROV-1/Pt1 human ovarian carcinoma xenotransplanted in nude mice, compound 91 exhibited a superior activity than Paclitaxel, despite the lower (ca. half) molar dosage used.
PROTESI PARZIALE FISSA, IMPLANTO-SUPPORTATA A CARICO IMMEDIATO: STUDIO PROSPETTICO
Creators: name: COLOMBO, CHIARA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: The aim of the study is to analyze immediate loading in FPD. 8 patients were rehabilitated with 20 implants (Straumann RN TL 4.1x10mm) and immediate FPD. 9 patients were rehabilitated with 20 implants (Straumann RN TL 4.1x10mm) and early loading protocol. We analyze bone density according to Lekholm and Zarb classification, implant torque during implantsurgery and resonance frequency (Osstell). We recall probing depth around implant, plaque index and bleeding index at 1 month, 6 months, 12 months e 24 months from final restoration. Implant survival rate at 12 months is 100%, success rate is 100% in control group and 95% in test group. At 12 months probing depth, plaque index and bleeding index are similar for test and control group. Provisional implant-supported restorations have 30% prosthetic complications.
Classical and quantum flux energy conditions for quantum vacuum states
Creators: name: Martin-Moruno, Prado
name: Visser, Matt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The classical energy conditions are known to not be fundamental physics -- they are typically violated by semiclassical quantum effects. Consequently, some effort has gone into finding possible semiclassical replacements for the classical energy conditions -- the most well developed being the Ford-Roman quantum inequalities. In the current article we shall instead develop classical and quantum versions of a "flux energy condition" (FEC and QFEC) based on the notion of constraining the possible fluxes measured by timelike observers. The naive classical FEC will be seen to be satisfied in some situations, and even for some quantum vacuum states, while its quantum analogue (the QFEC) is satisfied (for naturally defined quantum vacuum states) under a rather wide range of conditions. The situation for completely general (nonvacuum) quantum states is less clear.
description: V1: 4 pages. V2: 5 pages. Some changes in presentation emphasizing necessary versus sufficient conditions. No changes in physics conclusions. V3: Change in title emphasizing the relevance of quantum vacuum states. Extra discussion regarding quantum vacuum states. Nine additional references, some updates. This version accepted for publication in PRD
Berichte über die Tätigkeit der Altertums- und Geschichtsvereine und über die Vermehrung der städtischen und Vereinssammlungen innerhalb der Rheinprovinz
Creators: name: Redaktion, Die
Publisher: name: Bonner Jahrbücher
Year: 2018

description: -
description: Bonner Jahrbücher, Bd. 116 (1907): Bonner Jahrbücher : Jahrbücher des Vereins von Altertumsfreunden im Rheinlande
THE ROLE OF HISTONE DEMETHYLASE JMJD3 IN THE INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE: GENERATION AND ANALYSIS OF IN VIVO MODELS
Creators: name: KHORAMIAN TUSI, BETSABEH
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Jmjd3, a JmjC family histone demethylase, is quickly induced by the transcription factor NF- kB in response to microbial stimuli. Jmjd3 erases trimethylated lysine 27 in histone H3 (H3K27me3), a histone mark associated with transcriptional repression and involved in lineage determination, differentiation and tissue homeostasis. However, the specific contribution of Jmjd3 induction and H3K27me3 demethylation to innate immunity and inflammation remains unknown. To define this role, we generated gene-targeted mice lacking histone demethylase using standard protocol to see the effect of this specific Histone demethylase depletion on all tissues and in particular in immune system to understand the biological functions of jmjd3 in inflammatory responses.. Strikingly, transcription of most Jmjd3 target genes was unaffected by its deletion, a few hundred genes including IL12b and Ccl5 showed mild to moderate mRNA changes associated with impaired transcription; however, no gene was completely dependent on Jmjd3 for induction. Importantly, most Jmjd3 target genes were not associated with detectable levels of H3K27me3, and the transcriptional effects of Jmjd3 absence in the window of time analyzed were uncoupled from measurable effects on this histone mark. Overall, these data demonstrate that Jmjd3 participates in fine- tuning the transcriptional output of LPS-activated macrophages in a manner that is largely independent of H3K27me3 demetylation.
Three s-wave interacting fermions under anisotropic harmonic confinement: Dimensional crossover of energetics and virial coefficients
Creators: name: Gharashi, S. E.
name: Daily, K. M.
name: Blume, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present essentially exact solutions of the Schroedinger equation for three fermions in two different spin states with zero-range s-wave interactions under harmonic confinement. Our approach covers spherically symmetric, strictly two-dimensional, strictly one-dimensional, cigar-shaped, and pancake-shaped traps. In particular, we discuss the transition from quasi-one-dimensional to strictly one-dimensional and from quasi-two-dimensional to strictly two-dimensional geometries. We determine and interpret the eigenenergies of the system as a function of the trap geometry and the strength of the zero-range interactions. The eigenenergies are used to investigate the dependence of the second- and third-order virial coefficients, which play an important role in the virial expansion of the thermodynamic potential, on the geometry of the trap. We show that the second- and third-order virial coefficients for anisotropic confinement geometries are, for experimentally relevant temperatures, very well approximated by those for the spherically symmetric confinement for all s-wave scattering lengths.
description: 13 figures (multiple subfigures)
title: Modulated nanopores using pulse anodization on thin aluminum
Creators: name: Gunukula, Mahesh Babu
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2009

description: Nanoporous anodic aluminum oxide has traditionally been made in one of two ways: "Mild Anodization (MA)" or "Hard Anodization (HA)". The former method produces self-ordered pore structures but it is slow and only works for a narrow range of processing conditions; the latter method, which is widely used in the aluminum industry, is faster but it produces films with disordered pore structures. Here we report a novel approach termed "pulse anodization" that combines the advantages of the MA and HA processes. By designing the pulse sequences it is possible to control both the composition and pore structure of the anodic aluminum oxide films while maintaining high throughput.
SIRBOT - Semantic Image Retrieval Based on Object Translation
Creators: name: Islam, Md Monirul
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author. Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the References field.
Culturing the Unculturable: Human Coronavirus HKU1 Infects, Replicates, and Produces Progeny Virions in Human Ciliated Airway Epithelial Cell Cultures
Creators: name: Damon Deming
name: Maarten Jebbink
name: Raymond Pickles
name: Amy C. Sims
name: Ronald Dijkman
name: Eric Donaldson
name: Casey Long
name: Ralph Baric
name: Lia van der Hoek
name: Astrid Vabret
name: Krzysztof Pyrc
Publisher: name: American Society for Microbiology
Year: 2010

description: Culturing newly identified human lung pathogens from clinical sample isolates can represent a daunting task, with problems ranging from low levels of pathogens to the presence of growth suppressive factors in the specimens, compounded by the lack of a suitable tissue culture system. However, it is critical to develop suitable in vitro platforms to isolate and characterize the replication kinetics and pathogenesis of recently identified human pathogens. HCoV-HKU1, a human coronavirus identified in a clinical sample from a patient with severe pneumonia, has been a major challenge for successful propagation on all immortalized cells tested to date. To determine if HCoV-HKU1 could replicate in in vitro models of human ciliated airway epithelial cell cultures (HAE) that recapitulate the morphology, biochemistry, and physiology of the human airway epithelium, the apical surfaces of HAE were inoculated with a clinical sample of HCoV-HKU1 (Cean1 strain). High virus yields were found for several days postinoculation and electron micrograph, Northern blot, and immunofluorescence data confirmed that HCoV-HKU1 replicated efficiently within ciliated cells, demonstrating that this cell type is infected by all human coronaviruses identified to date. Antiserum directed against human leukocyte antigen C (HLA-C) failed to attenuate HCoV-HKU1 infection and replication in HAE, suggesting that HLA-C is not required for HCoV-HKU1 infection of the human ciliated airway epithelium. We propose that the HAE model provides a ready platform for molecular studies and characterization of HCoV-HKU1 and in general serves as a robust technology for the recovery, amplification, adaptation, and characterization of novel coronaviruses and other respiratory viruses from clinical material.
A note on certain convolution operators
Creators: name: Nayar, Piotr
name: Tkocz, Tomasz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 47G10 (Primary) 47B34 (Secondary)

description: In this note we consider a certain class of convolution operators acting on the L_p spaces of the one dimensional torus. We prove that the identity minus such an operator is nicely invertible on the subspace of functions with mean zero.
description: 10 pages
Dendromus melanotis Smith 1834
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Cricetidae
Dendromus
Dendromus melanotis

description: Dendromus melanotis Smith, 1834. S. Afr. J., 2: 158. TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, near Port Natal (Durban). DISTRIBUTION: Ethiopia and Uganda to South Africa to N. Nigeria; Guinea. COMMENT: Includes exoneratus; see Misonne, 1974, Part 6: 13. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008104004001 as D. melanotis. 5301410008104001001 as D. exoneratus.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 3), pp. 392-476 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 408, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353031
description: {"references": ["Misonne, X. 1974. Order Rodentia. Part 6. Pp. 1 - 39, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.). [issued 10 Sep 1974]. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated."]}
Distributed denial of service attack detection in wireless sensor networks
Creators: name: Baig, Zubair A.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author. Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the References field.
Additional file 2 of Model selection for survival individualized treatment rules using the jackknife estimator
Creators: name: Honvoh, Gilson D.
name: Cho, Hunyong
name: Kosorok, Michael R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Values obtained based on non censored data according to the true and estimated treatment rules.
A Graphical Language for Proof Strategies
Creators: name: Grov, Gudmund
name: Kissinger, Aleks
name: Lin, Yuhui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Complex automated proof strategies are often difficult to extract, visualise, modify, and debug. Traditional tactic languages, often based on stack-based goal propagation, make it easy to write proofs that obscure the flow of goals between tactics and are fragile to minor changes in input, proof structure or changes to tactics themselves. Here, we address this by introducing a graphical language called PSGraph for writing proof strategies. Strategies are constructed visually by "wiring together" collections of tactics and evaluated by propagating goal nodes through the diagram via graph rewriting. Tactic nodes can have many output wires, and use a filtering procedure based on goal-types (predicates describing the features of a goal) to decide where best to send newly-generated sub-goals. In addition to making the flow of goal information explicit, the graphical language can fulfil the role of many tacticals using visual idioms like branching, merging, and feedback loops. We argue that this language enables development of more robust proof strategies and provide several examples, along with a prototype implementation in Isabelle.
Successful Vaccination Strategies That Protect Aged Mice from Lethal Challenge from Influenza Virus and Heterologous Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus
Creators: name: Robert Johnston
name: Mark Heise
name: Barry Rockx
name: Ralph S. Baric
name: Martin Ferris
name: Timothy Sheahan
name: Kristin Long
name: Alan Whitmore
name: William Funkhouser
name: Lisa Gralinski
name: Nancy Davis
name: Eric Donaldson
name: Martha Collier
Publisher: name: American Society for Microbiology
Year: 2010

description: Newly emerging viruses often circulate as a heterogeneous swarm in wild animal reservoirs prior to their emergence in humans, and their antigenic identities are often unknown until an outbreak situation. The newly emerging severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) and reemerging influenza virus cause disproportionate disease in the aged, who are also notoriously difficult to successfully vaccinate, likely due to immunosenescence. To protect against future emerging strains, vaccine platforms should induce broad cross-reactive immunity that is sufficient to protect from homologous and heterologous challenge in all ages. From initial studies, we hypothesized that attenuated Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (VEE) replicon particle (VRP) vaccine glycoproteins mediated vaccine failure in the aged. We then compared the efficacies of vaccines bearing attenuated (VRP3014) or wild-type VEE glycoproteins (VRP3000) in young and aged mice within novel models of severe SARS-CoV pathogenesis. Aged animals receiving VRP3000-based vaccines were protected from SARS-CoV disease, while animals receiving the VRP3014-based vaccines were not. The superior protection for the aged observed with VRP3000-based vaccines was confirmed in a lethal influenza virus challenge model. While the VRP3000 vaccine's immune responses in the aged were sufficient to protect against lethal homologous and heterologous challenge, our data suggest that innate defects within the VRP3014 platform mediate vaccine failure. Exploration into the mechanism(s) of successful vaccination in the immunosenescent should aid in the development of successful vaccine strategies for other viral diseases disproportionately affecting the elderly, like West Nile virus, influenza virus, norovirus, or other emerging viruses of the future.
Supersymmetric Higgses beyond the MSSM: An update with flavour and Dark Matter constraints
Creators: name: Boudjema, F.
name: La Rochelle, G. Drieu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spurred by the discovery of a boson resonance at the LHC as the result of the search for the Standard Model Higgs, we pursue our investigation of the properties and signatures of Higgses in an effective supersymmetric scenario that goes beyond the usual MSSM. Such scenarios were first introduced to alleviate the naturalness problem of the MSSM Higgs and are found to have a very rich phenomenology that allows departures from the Standard Model in the production rate of the Higgs in many of the search channels. We now include the constraints from flavour observables in particular the rare decays b-> s gamma and Bs -> mu+ mu- including the recent measurement from LHCb. We also address the issue of Dark Matter and its impact on Higgs physics. In particular, we incorporate the latest data from XENON100 on the spin independent direct detection rates. These turn out to be powerful constraints, especially if one also imposes that the observed thermal relic density is obtained. We also study models with a low abundance that can more easily evade the direct detection rates. We study the impact of the flavour and Dark Matter observables on the production rates of the Higgs at the LHC, and their correlations in the diphoton, diphoton+jets and 4 leptons. We also comment on the other channels.
description: 23 pages
title: Vectoring algal toxin in marine planktonic food webs: sorting out nutritional deficiency from toxicity effects
Creators: name: Burgess, Amy K. (Amy Keita)
Publisher: name: Western Washington University
Year: 2011

description:
The present study determined whether increased mortality and delayed development of larval crabs fed heterotrophic prey that themselves have been fed toxin-containing algae is due to toxicity effects or nutritional deficiency. The effects on larval crabs of previous exposure to heterotrophic prey fed toxin-containing algae were examined. Effects of varying length of exposure of larvae to toxin-containing prey were also examined. The rotifer Brachionus plicatilis was used as a heterotrophic prey source for three larval crab species (Lophopanopeus bellus, Metacarcinus magister, and Glebocarcinus oregonensis). Two rotifer treatments were created, one of rotifers fed a toxin-containing alga (Alexandrium andersoni or A. fundyense); the other of rotifers fed a non-toxic, nutritionally sufficient alga (Isochrysis galbana). To distinguish between toxic and nutritional effects, groups of larvae were fed various combinations of the two rotifer types. Diet treatments included the following ratios of toxin-containing algal fed and non-toxic algal fed rotifers: 100%/0%, 75%/25%, 50%/50%, 25%/75%, and 0%/100%. Larval crabs showed no differences in feeding rates or feeding preferences for the two rotifer diets. Crab survival was lower on the 100% toxin-containing algal fed rotifer diet when compared to the 100% nontoxin- containing algae fed rotifer diet for all three crab species. In all three crab species, stage duration was also extended in larvae fed the 100% toxin-containing algal fed rotifers compared to the 100% non-toxin-containing algal fed rotifers. Increased survival and accelerated development when toxin-containing rotifers were replaced in treatments with non-toxin-containing rotifers implicates nutritional deficiency in the former diet rather than its potential toxic effects. Reduction in time of exposure to a prey source reduced survival and extended development to a greater degree in toxin-containing rotifer treatments than in non-toxincontaining diets. There was no apparent effect of prior exposure to toxin-containing prey on survival or stage duration of later larval stage exposed to the same diet. Larval crabs face an unpredictable and complex prey environment once they enter the plankton. Encounters with Harmful Algal Blooms (HAB) or heterotrophic prey that have ingested HAB species may injure larvae that have no other food source. While my research suggests that nutritional deficiency of the rotifers fed toxin-containing algae causes higher mortality rates and delayed development in the crab larvae, toxin transfer cannot be totally eliminated and a combination of the two factors is most likely causing the negative effects. If the prey environment for these larval crabs includes a nutritionally sufficient animal prey source, negative impacts (i.e. delay in stage duration and decreased survival) caused by exposure to HABs and prey that have ingested HABs can be supplemented.
Additional file 3 of Model selection for survival individualized treatment rules using the jackknife estimator
Creators: name: Honvoh, Gilson D.
name: Cho, Hunyong
name: Kosorok, Michael R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3: Simulations scenarios for assessing the Type I error.
Ein früheisenzeitliches Hügelgrab bei Leese (Kreis Stolzenau)
Creators: name: Jacob-Friesen, Karl Hermann
Publisher: name: Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte
Year: 2017

description: -
description: Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte, 1925: Neue Folge Nr. 2
Jacob-Friesen, K. H. Prachtfunde aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte
Creators: name: Gummel, Hans
Publisher: name: Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte
Year: 2017

description: Rezension zu: Jacob-Friesen, K. H. Prachtfunde aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte. Mit 24 Tafeln. Bremen 1925. 44 S.
description: Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte, 1925: Neue Folge Nr. 2
Behn, Friedrich. Hausurnen
Creators: name: Jacob-Friesen, Karl Hermann
Publisher: name: Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte
Year: 2017

description: Rezension zu: Behn, Friedrich. Hausurnen. Mit 29 Taf. Berlin 1924. 120 S. Lexikon
description: Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte, 1925: Neue Folge Nr. 2
Efficient and scalable association rule mining algorithms
Creators: name: Ashrafi, Mafruz Zaman
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author. Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the References field.
Open Shell Effects in a Microscopic Optical Potential for Elastic Scattering of $^{6(8)}$He
Creators: name: Orazbayev, A.
name: Elster, Ch.
name: Weppner, S. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Elastic scattering observables (differential cross section and analyzing power) are calculated for the reaction $^6$He(p,p)$^6$He at projectile energies starting at 71 MeV/nucleon. The optical potential needed to describe the reaction is based on a microscopic Watson first-order folding potential, which explicitly takes into account that the two neutrons outside the $^4$He-core occupy an open p-shell. The folding of the single-particle harmonic oscillator density matrix with the nucleon-nucleon t-matrix leads for this case to new terms not present in traditional folding optical potentials for closed shell nuclei. The effect of those new terms on the elastic scattering observables is investigated. Furthermore, the influence of an exponential tail of the p-shell wave functions on the scattering observables is studied, as well as the sensitivity of the observables to variations of matter and charge radius. Finally elastic scattering observables for the reaction $^8$He(p,p)$^8$He are presented at selected projectile energies.
description: 14 pages, 14 figures
Eröffnung eines Hügelgrabes der älteren Bronzezeit bei Oberhaverbeck (Kr. Soltau)
Creators: name: Bahrs, H.
Publisher: name: Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte
Year: 2017

description: -
description: Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte, 1930: Neue Folge Nr. 4
Environment and daily life in the Campagna Romana of the late Lower Palaeolithic: the case-study of La Polledrara di Cecanibbio (Latium, Italy)
Creators: name: Cerilli, Eugenio
name: Lemorini, Cristina
name: Santucci, Ernesto
name: Fiore, Ivana
name: Marano, Federica
name: Bulgarelli, Grazia Maria
name: Palombo, Maria Rita
name: Milli, Salvatore
Publisher: name: Journal of Mediterranean Earth Sciences
Year: 2023

description: The site of La Polledrara di Cecanibbio (Latium, Italy) is located about 22 kilometers northwest of Rome. Excavation campaigns conducted from 1985 to 2013 revealed 1200 square meters of deposits referable to a river that was active during the Middle Pleistocene. Two main sedimentary phases have been recognized. Initially, a fluvial episode led to the deposition of thousands of skeletal remains (mainly mammals, but also amphibians, reptiles, and birds) along with lithic and bone artifacts. Successively, a swampy phase occurred, during which some elephants (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) were trapped in muddy ponds. The skeleton of one of these individuals is surrounded by lithic implements that were carried at (and/or knapped on) the spot. The taphonomic analysis of the skeleton and artifacts context - including technology, refitting, use-wear, residues, and spatial analyses - indicates that the elephant carcass had been subjected to a butchering activity aimed at collecting meat and fat for food, possibly in more than one episode, as well as bones as raw material for making tools. The evidence collected at the site and the comparison with other relevant sites allow for some considerations about the daily dietary needs of the humans who frequented the site and the resources available there.
description: Journal of Mediterranean Earth Sciences, Vol. 15 (2023): In progress
Controlling General Polynomial Networks
Creators: name: Cuneo, Noé
name: Eckmann, Jean-Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37 Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory, 93 Control Theory

description: We consider networks of massive particles connected by non-linear springs. Some particles interact with heat baths at different temperatures, which are modeled as stochastic driving forces. The structure of the network is arbitrary, but the motion of each particle is 1D. For polynomial interactions, we give sufficient conditions for Hörmander's "bracket condition" to hold, which implies the uniqueness of the steady state (if it exists), as well as the controllability of the associated system in control theory. These conditions are constructive; they are formulated in terms of inequivalence of the forces (modulo translations) and/or conditions on the topology of the connections. We illustrate our results with examples, including "conducting chains" of variable cross-section. This then extends the results for a simple chain obtained in Eckmann, Pillet, Rey-Bellet (1999).
description: 21 pages, 9 figures. Typos corrected, new "physical" networks added (Example 6.5)
The Price of clean air: A consideration of market based emissions trading
Creators: name: Miller, Mark W.
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 1998

description: Traditional regulatory approaches for environmental protection do not consider
the costs and benefits of the standards they impose. Further, imposing strict performance
standards on firms with heterogeneous control costs leads to an inefficient allocation of resources devoted to pollution control. This paper explores the use of emission allowance trading as a way to improve economic efficiency within the context of environmental protection. PM10 air pollution from sources within the Las Vegas Valley is used as the case study.
This paper found that an emission trading
program in this particular case study would not live up to the theoretical expectations. Although, emissions trading did show some potential for reducing the amount of money spent to reduce PM10 air pollution, technical problems such as increased monitoring costs, and complicated trading rules would detract the any cost savings that would accrue through allowance trades. In addition, political and legal factors would pose a significant obstacle to implementing the considered trading program.
Although, this particular case study did not prove to be especially conducive to a decentralized regulatory structure, allowance trading proved to be an attractive policy instrument, offering many advantages over traditional regulatory approaches.
Dendromus mesomelas Brants 1827
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Cricetidae
Dendromus
Dendromus mesomelas

description: Dendromus mesomelas Brants, 1827. Het. Gesl. Muiz., p. 122. TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, E. Cape Prov., Sunday's River, east of Port Elizabeth. DISTRIBUTION: Ethiopia to South Africa to Cameroun. COMMENT: Includes areas; see Misonne, 1974, Part 6: 13. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008104005001 as D. mesomelas. 5301410008104009001 as D. areas.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 3), pp. 392-476 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 408, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353031
description: {"references": ["Misonne, X. 1974. Order Rodentia. Part 6. Pp. 1 - 39, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.). [issued 10 Sep 1974]. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated."]}
Investigation of tracer diffusion in crowded cylindrical channel
Creators: name: Chakrabarti, Rajarshi
name: Kesselheim, Stefan
name: Kosovan, Peter
name: Holm, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on a coarse-grained model, we carry out molecular dynamics simulations to analyze the diffusion of a small tracer particle inside a cylindrical channel whose inner wall is covered with randomly grafted short polymeric chains. We observe an interesting transient subdiffusive behavior along the cylindrical axis at high attraction between the tracer and the chains, however, the long time diffusion is always normal. This process is found to be enhanced for the case that we immobilize the grafted chains, i.e. the sub-diffusive behavior sets in at an earlier time and spans over a longer time period before becoming diffusive. Even if the grafted chains are replaced with a frozen sea of repulsive, non-connected particles in the background, the transient subdiffusion is observed. The intermediate subdiffusive behavior only disappears when the grafted chains are replaced with a mobile background sea of mutually repulsive particles. Overall, the long time diffusion coefficient of the tracer along the cylinder axis decreases with the increase in system volume fraction, strength of attraction between the tracer and the background and also on freezing the background. We believe that the simple model presented here could be useful for a qualitative understanding of the process of macromolecular diffusion inside the nuclear pore complex.
Jacob-Friesen, K. H.: Einführung in Niedersachsens Urgeschichte
Creators: name: Zylmann, Peter
Publisher: name: Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte
Year: 2017

description: Rezension zu: Jacob-Friesen, K. H.: Einführung in Niedersachsens Urgeschichte. 8°. 216 S. mit 366 Abbildungen auf 75 Tafeln. Hildesheim und Leipzig 1931. August Lax.
description: Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte, 1931: Neue Folge Nr. 5