cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Cell-cell communication enhances the capacity of cell ensembles to sense shallow gradients during morphogenesis
Creators: name: Ellison, David
name: Mugler, Andrew
name: Brennan, Matthew
name: Lee, Sung Hoon
name: Huebner, Robert
name: Shamir, Eliah
name: Woo, Laura A.
name: Kim, Joseph
name: Amar, Patrick
name: Nemenman, Ilya
name: Ewald, Andrew J.
name: Levchenko, Andre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cell Behavior (q-bio.CB)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Collective cell responses to exogenous cues depend on cell-cell interactions. In principle, these can result in enhanced sensitivity to weak and noisy stimuli. However, this has not yet been shown experimentally, and, little is known about how multicellular signal processing modulates single cell sensitivity to extracellular signaling inputs, including those guiding complex changes in the tissue form and function. Here we explored if cell-cell communication can enhance the ability of cell ensembles to sense and respond to weak gradients of chemotactic cues. Using a combination of experiments with mammary epithelial cells and mathematical modeling, we find that multicellular sensing enables detection of and response to shallow Epidermal Growth Factor (EGF) gradients that are undetectable by single cells. However, the advantage of this type of gradient sensing is limited by the noisiness of the signaling relay, necessary to integrate spatially distributed ligand concentration information. We calculate the fundamental sensory limits imposed by this communication noise and combine them with the experimental data to estimate the effective size of multicellular sensory groups involved in gradient sensing. Functional experiments strongly implicated intercellular communication through gap junctions and calcium release from intracellular stores as mediators of collective gradient sensing. The resulting integrative analysis provides a framework for understanding the advantages and limitations of sensory information processing by relays of chemically coupled cells.
description: paper + supporting information, total 35 pages, 15 figures
Memorialising Native American Civil War Involvement: Visibility, Geography and Agency in 1920s and 1930s Civil War Monument Culture
Creators: name: ELIZABETH ANNE MILLER
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: History

description: This thesis investigates Native-American memorialisation of the Civil War in the 1920s and 1930s. Using a cross-regional approach, this thesis compares Civil War monuments in three distinct regions, assessing the agency of Native Americans in each case study. This thesis examines three instances of Civil War commemoration; the Stand Watie monument unveiled in Oklahoma in 1921, the Battle Creek Marker installed at Bear River, Idaho and the Seneca biography, The Life of General Ely S. Parker written and published in upstate New York in 1919. In each case study I evaluate the extent to which Native Americans proposed, conceptualised, endorsed, refuted, created and promoted their Civil War histories across the commemorative landscape.
In Vitro Assembly and Stabilization of Dengue and Zika Virus Envelope Protein Homo-Dimers
Creators: name: Gallichotte, Emily N.
name: Metz, Stefan W.
name: Baric, Ralph
name: Brackbill, Alex
name: De Silva, Aravinda M.
name: Miley, Michael J.
name: Premkumar, Lakshmanane
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Zika virus (ZIKV) and the 4 dengue virus (DENV) serotypes are mosquito-borne Flaviviruses that are associated with severe neuronal and hemorrhagic syndromes. The mature flavivirus infectious virion has 90 envelope (E) protein homo-dimers that pack tightly to form a smooth protein coat with icosahedral symmetry. Human antibodies that strongly neutralize ZIKV and DENVs recognize complex quaternary structure epitopes displayed on E-homo-dimers and higher order structures. The ZIKV and DENV E protein expressed as a soluble protein is mainly a monomer that does not display quaternary epitopes, which may explain the modest success with soluble recombinant E (sRecE) as a vaccine and diagnostic antigen. New strategies are needed to design recombinant immunogens that display these critical immune targets. Here we present two novel methods for building or stabilizing in vitro E-protein homo-dimers that display quaternary epitopes. In the first approach we immobilize sRecE to enable subsequent dimer generation. As an alternate method, we describe the use of human mAbs to stabilize homo-dimers in solution. The ability to produce recombinant E protein dimers displaying quaternary structure epitopes is an important advance with applications in flavivirus diagnostics and vaccine development.
Capse.jl: efficient and auto-differentiable CMB power spectra emulation
Creators: name: Bonici, Marco
name: Bianchini, Federico
name: Ruiz-Zapatero, Jaime
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present Capse.jl, a novel neural network-based emulator designed for rapid and accurate prediction of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature, polarization, and lensing angular power spectra. The emulator computes predictions in just a few microseconds with emulation errors below $0.1σ$ for all the scales relevant for the upcoming CMB-S4 survey. Capse.jl can also be trained in an hour's time on a 8-cores CPU. We test Capse.jl on Planck 2018, ACT DR4, and 2018 SPT-3G data and demonstrate its capability to derive cosmological constraints comparable to those obtained by traditional methods, but with a computational efficiency that is three to six orders of magnitude higher. We take advantage of the differentiability of our emulators to use gradient-based methods, such as Pathfinder and Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC), which speed up the convergence and increase sampling efficiency. Together, these features make Capse.jl a powerful tool for studying the CMB and its implications for cosmology. When using the fastest combination of our likelihoods, emulators, and analysis algorithm, we are able to perform a Plancky TT + TE + EE analysis in less than a second. To ensure full reproducibility, we provide open access to the codes and data required to reproduce all the results of this work.
description: 16 pages, 6 figures. Accepted for publication in The Open Journal of Astrophysics. Capse.jl is available $\href{https://github.com/CosmologicalEmulators/Capse.jl}{\text{here}}$
Metagenomic Analysis of Human Gut Mycobiome in the Community of Segamat, Malaysia
Creators: name: HUSSAIN, MD HAMED
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 310299
subject: Bioinformatics and computational biology not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 310799
subject: Microbiology not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 310705
subject: Mycology
classificationCode: 310703
subject: Microbial ecology

description: Gut fungi plays a cruicial role in human health. But the effect of ethnicity on gut fungi is not well understood for diverse population like Malysia where people of different cultures live close together. Using advanced scientific methods, this thesis states that ethnicity has the largest influence on the variety and functioning of gut fungi in a representative Malaysian community. This influence was affected by factors like diet, hygiene, and health. The findings highlight the need for further research using advanced techniques and considering ethnicity to better understand the gut fungi's role in our health.
Sorbus wallichii T. T. Yu 1974
Creators: name: Chen, Xin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Rosales
Rosaceae
Sorbus
Sorbus wallichii

description: Sorbus wallichii (J. D. Hooker 1878: 376) T. T. Yü (1974: 329)
 Basionym: Pyrus wallichii J. D. Hooker (1878: 376). Lectotype (designated by Long 1987: 267):— NEPAL. Sheopore, 1821, Wallich 677 (K-001111573 image!, isolectotypes E-00010894 image!, GUZ-000283011 image!, LE-00013475 image!, M-0213764 (lower left part) image!, P-02143308 image!)
description: Published as part of Chen, Xin, 2018, Taxonomic and nomenclatural notes on Sorbus foliolosa and related taxa (Rosaceae), pp. 297-300 in Phytotaxa 382 (3) on page 298, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.382.3.7, http://zenodo.org/record/13724463
Increased risk of low birth weight in women with placental malaria associated with P. falciparum VAR2CSA clade
Creators: name: ter Kuile, Feiko O.
name: Khairallah, Carole
name: Kalilani-Phiri, Linda
name: Massougbodji, Achille
name: Juliano, Jonathan J.
name: Mwapasa, Victor
name: Taylor, Steve M.
name: Bailey, Jeffery A.
name: Patel, Jaymin C.
name: Fievet, Nadine
name: Meshnick, Steven R.
name: Hathaway, Nicholas J.
name: Thwai, Kyaw L.
name: Parobek, Christian M.
name: Tuikue Ndam, Nicaise
name: Engel, Stephanie M.
name: Deloron, Philippe
name: Madanitsa, Mwayiwawo
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Pregnancy associated malaria (PAM) causes adverse pregnancy and birth outcomes owing to Plasmodium falciparum accumulation in the placenta. Placental accumulation is mediated by P. falciparum protein VAR2CSA, a leading PAM-specific vaccine target. The extent of its antigen diversity and impact on clinical outcomes remain poorly understood. Through amplicon deep-sequencing placental malaria samples from women in Malawi and Benin, we assessed sequence diversity of VAR2CSA's ID1-DBL2x region, containing putative vaccine targets and estimated associations of specific clades with adverse birth outcomes. Overall, var2csa diversity was high and haplotypes subdivided into five clades, the largest two defined by homology to parasites strains, 3D7 or FCR3. Across both cohorts, compared to women infected with only FCR3-like variants, women infected with only 3D7-like variants delivered infants with lower birthweight (difference: -267.99 g; 95% Confidence Interval [CI]: -466.43 g,-69.55 g) and higher odds of low birthweight (
Fermions in the background of mixed vector-scalar-pseudoscalar square potentials
Creators: name: de Oliveira, Luiz P.
name: Castro, Luis B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The general Dirac equation in 1+1 dimensions with a potential with a completely general Lorentz structure is studied. Considering mixed vector-scalar-pseudoscalar square potentials, the states of relativistic fermions are investigated. This relativistic problem can be mapped into a effective Schrödinger equation for a square potential with repulsive and attractive delta-functions situated at the borders. An oscillatory transmission coefficient is found and resonant state energies are obtained. In a special case, the same bound energy spectrum for spinless particles is obtained, confirming the predictions of literature. We showed that existence of bound-state solutions are conditioned by the intensity of the pseudoscalar potential, which posses a critical value.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:nucl-th/0604068 by other authors
SPICE Modeling of Memcomputing Logic Gates
Creators: name: Pershin, Y. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Memcomputing logic gates generalize the traditional Boolean logic gates for operation in the reverse direction. According to the literature, this functionality enables the efficient solution of computationally-intensive problems including factorization and NP-complete problems. To approach the deployment of memcomputing gates in hardware, this paper introduces SPICE models of memcomputing logic gates following their original definition. Using these models, we demonstrate the behavior of single gates as well as small self-organizing circuits. We also correct some inconsistencies in the prior literature. Importantly, the correct schematics of dynamic correction module is reported here for the first time. Our work makes memcomputing more accessible to those who are interested in this emerging computing technology.
title: «Der Mensch» als Mass?
title: Eine Auseinandersetzung mit Hans Küngs «Projekt Weltethos»
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Praetorius, Ina
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Religion
subject: Ethik
subject: Androzentrismus
subject: Frauenbewegung
subject: Kultur
subject: 205 Religiöse Ethik

description: Derfolgende Text ist die leicht gekürzte Fassung eines Vortrags, den Ina Praetorius am 1. Juli dieses Jahres im Rahmen einer Vorlesungsreihe zum Thema «Frauen in den Weltreligionen» der Gesamthochschule Kassel gehalten hat. Die Autorin setzt sich darin mit der neuerdings von Hans Küng vertretenen These auseinander, angesichts der Überlebenskrise sollten sich die Menschen verschiedener Religionszugehörigkeit auf ein gemeinsames Basisethos verständigen, statt den interreligiösen Dialog weiterhin im Sinne eines Gesprächs über Glaubensinhalte zuführen. Ina Praetorius untersucht, von einem feministisch-kritischen Standpunkt aus, die Zeitdiagnose Küngs ebenso wie seine Vorschlägefür den ethischen Dialog. Unerkannte androzentrische Vorurteile, so ihr Ergebnis, verhindern, dass Küngs «Projekt Weltethos» zu einer Zukunftsvision werden kann, die Frauen und Männern gleichermassen zugänglich ist.
Establishing traceability for on-wafer S-parameter measurements of membrane technology devices up to 110 GHz
Creators: name: Arz, Uwe
name: Zinal, Sherko
name: Probst, Thorsten
name: Hechtfischer, Gerd
name: Schmückle, Franz-Josef
name: Heinrich, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
Year: 2019
Subjects: on-wafer
calibration
S-parameters
traceability
uncertainty budget

description: In this paper we report on progress towards establishing traceability for fully calibrated on-wafer measurements of planar devices built in membrane technology. For the ﬁrst time, we present a comprehensive uncertainty budget for on-wafer S-parameter measurements, including instrumentation errors, connector repeatability and calibration standard uncertainties. Preliminary results are shown for three typical devices.
110 GHz on-wafer measurement comparison on alumina substrate
Creators: name: Probst, Thorsten
name: Dörner, Ralf
name: Ohlrogge, Matthias
name: Lozar, Roger
name: Arz, Uwe
Publisher: name: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
Year: 2019
Subjects: on-wafer
calibration
substrate
probes

description: This paper reports on initial results of a three-party on-wafer measurement comparison carried out on a custom-made alumina calibration substrate in the frequency range up to 110 GHz. The correction of the vector network analyzer measurement is done with the highly accurate multiline TRL (mTRL) calibration. The focus of the investigation is on the influence of the measurement system, the probe geometry and operator skills. The results of the calibrations are presented and the influence on selected devices under tests (DUT) are evaluated for different measurement configurations.
พระกาศยปะ-มาตังคะ: คำแปลและอรรถาธิบายชีวประวัติในคัมภีร์เกาเซิงจ้วน
Creators: name: เมธี พิทักษ์ธีระธรรม
Publisher: name: มูลนิธิธรรมะคุ้มครองโลก
Year: 2023
Subjects: พระกาศยปะ-มาตังคะ
เกาเซิงจ้วน
ฮุ่ยเจี่ยว
Kāśyapa-Mātaṅga
Gaoseng zhuan
Huijiao

description: ธรรมธารา, 9, 1, 36-79
On the importance of calibration standards definitions for on-wafer measurements up to 110 GHz
Creators: name: Probst, Thorsten
name: Zinal, Sherko
name: Dörner, Ralf
name: Arz, Uwe
Publisher: name: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
Year: 2019
Subjects: on-wafer
calibration
substrate
probes

description: This paper reports on the follow-up evaluation of an on-wafer measurement comparison on custom-made and conventional alumina calibration substrates in the frequency range up to 110GHz. The focus of the current investigation is on the performance of different calibration methods used for correcting device under test (DUT) measurements on the custommade substrate. Four different calibration schemes are discussed and the results of the calibration methods are presented and compared.
Evaluation of the microbiota associated with a salttolerant rice variety as a treatment to induce resistance in sensitive varieties
Creators: name: Romao, Inês
name: Santos, Ana Paula
name: Vilchez, Juan Ignacio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Rice
Salt stress
Seed-associated microbiota
Salt-tolerance enhancers

description: Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is one of the most important crops worldwide, feeding almost half of the global population. However, as a result of climate change, crops are highly submitted to abiotic stress conditions. Among them, soil salinity is considered as one of the major problems for agriculture, impacting not only the plant itself but also the soil and living organisms surrounding. Rice is considered salt sensitive by nature and when subjected to salt stress, it suffers an enormous negative impact in metabolic mechanisms, growth and productivity. Plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB) are able to promote plant vigor and improve adaptation in stress conditions, by producing phytohormones, secondary compounds, osmolites and antioxidant enzymes. Our goal is to study the effect of ST-PGPB (Salt Tolerant-PGPB) candidates selected from Pokkali (salt-tolerant rice variety) associated microbiota (seedborne and root recruited) in the level of salt stress resistance and response of Nipponbare
 (salt sensitive variety).
Characterization of high-frequency interconnects: Comparison between time- and frequency-domain methods
Creators: name: Bieler, Mark
name: Arz, Uwe
Publisher: name: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
Year: 2019

description: A high-frequency interconnect consisting of coplanar and coaxial elements is characterized using time- and frequency domain methods. As frequency-domain technique we employ conventional vector network analysis, while as time-domain technique a recently developed laser-based vector network analyzer is used. For the first time, both methods are compared in the frequency range from 10 GHz to 110 GHz. We obtain good agreement in almost the entire frequency range. Our results pave the way towards mutual independent verification of time- and frequency-domain high-frequency measurement techniques.
On-wafer residual error correction through adaptive filtering of verification line measurements
Creators: name: Arz, Uwe
name: Savin, Aleksandr
Publisher: name: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
Year: 2019
Subjects: calibration
transmission line measurements
standards
error correction
microwave measurement
frequency measurement
measurement uncertainty

description: In this paper we compare the performance of a residual error correction algorithm against the performance of its predecessor and investigate its ability to second-order correct on-wafer calibrations which are widely used in industry. Independent of the calibration standard definition and the calibration method used, consistent results are obtained after applying the residual error correction.
VNA Tools II: Calibrations Involving Eigenvalue Problems
Creators: name: Wollensack, Michael
name: Hoffmann, Johannes
name: Stalder, Daniel
name: Ruefenacht, Juerg
name: Zeier, Markus
Publisher: name: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
Year: 2019
Subjects: Vector network analyzer
S-parameters
calibration
uncertainty
traceability

description: Many calibration algorithms for vector network analyzers using partially unknown standards can be stated as an eigenvalue problem. The construction of the eigenvalue problem is described and examples for line reflect match (LRM) and thru reflect line (TRL) calibrations are given. Advantages of the new algorithm are that all uncertainties can be taken into account and that it is fully analytic. A further advantage is that the same approach can be used for different calibration schemes. The algorithm is implemented in METAS VNA Tools II and METAS UncLib is used for the linear propagation of uncertainties.
Extension of the Ginzburg - Landau approach for ultracold Fermi gases below a critical temperature
Creators: name: Klimin, S. N.
name: Tempere, J.
name: Devreese, J. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the context of superfluid Fermi gases, the Ginzburg - Landau (GL) formalism for the macroscopic wave function has been successfully extended to the whole temperature range where the superfluid state exists. After reviewing the formalism, we first investigate the temperature-dependent correction to the standard GL expansion (which is valid close to $T_{c}$). Deviations from the standard GL formalism are particularly important for the kinetic energy contribution to the GL energy functional, which in turn influences the healing length of the macroscopic wave function. We apply the formalism to variationally describe vortices in a strong-coupling Fermi gas in the BEC-BCS crossover regime, in a two-band system. The healing lengths, derived as variational parameters in the vortex wave function, are shown to exhibit hidden criticality well below $T_{c}$.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
Quantitative analysis of Clausius inequality
Creators: name: Bertini, L.
name: De Sole, A.
name: Gabrielli, D.
name: Jona-Lasinio, G.
name: Landim, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the context of driven diffusive systems, for thermodynamic transformations over a large but finite time window, we derive an expansion of the energy balance. In particular, we characterize the transformations which minimize the energy dissipation and describe the optimal correction to the quasi-static limit. Surprisingly, in the case of transformations between homogeneous equilibrium states of an ideal gas, the optimal transformation is a sequence of inhomogeneous equilibrium states.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1404.6466
Effects of ghost dark energy perturbations on the evolution of spherical overdensities
Creators: name: Malekjani, Mohammad
name: Naderi, Tayebe
name: Pace, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: While in the standard cosmological model the accelerated expansion of the Universe is explained by invoking the presence of the cosmological constant term, it is still unclear the true origin of this stunning observational fact. It is therefore interesting to explore alternatives to the simplest scenario, in particular by assuming a more general framework where the fluid responsible of the accelerated expansion is characterised by a time-dependant equation of state. Usually these models, dubbed dark energy models, are purely phenomenological, but in this work we concentrate on a theoretically justified model, the ghost dark energy model. Within the framework of the spherical collapse model, we evaluate effects of dark energy perturbations both at the linear and non-linear level and transfer these results into an observable quantity, the mass function, by speculatively taking into account contributions of dark energy to the mass of the halos. We showed that the growth rate is higher in ghost models and that perturbations enhance the number of structures with respect to the $Λ$CDM model, with stronger effects when the total mass takes into account dark energy clumps.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Intranasal drug delivery of small interfering RNA targeting Beclin1 encapsulated with polyethylenimine (PEI) in mouse brain to achieve HIV attenuation
Creators: name: Kashanchi, Fatah
name: Kaushik, Ajeet
name: Dever, Seth M.
name: El-Hage, Nazira
name: Rodriguez, Myosotys
name: Nair, Madhavan
name: Lapierre, Jessica
name: Ojha, Chet Raj
name: Batrakova, Elena
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: We previously reported that activation of the host autophagic protein, Beclin1, by HIV-1 infection represents an essential mechanism in controlling HIV replication and viral-induced inflammatory responses in microglial cells. Existing antiretroviral therapeutic approaches have been limited in their ability to cross the blood-brain barrier effectively and recognize and selectively eliminate persistent HIV-infected brain reservoirs. In the present study and for the first time, the bio-distribution and efficacy of noninvasive intranasal delivery of small interfering RNA (siRNA) against the Beclin1 gene using the cationic linear polyethylenimines (PEI) as a gene carrier was investigated in adult mouse brain. Fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC)-labeled control siRNA delivered intranasally was found in the cytoplasm of neurons and glial cells of the prefrontal cortex at 4 and 24 hours post-delivery, with no major adverse immune reaction encountered. Intranasal delivery of the siRNA targeting Beclin1 significantly depleted the target protein expression levels in brain tissues with no evidence of toxicity. Binding of siRNA to PEI-polymer was characterized and confirmed by Raman spectroscopy. These results indicate that the intranasal drug delivery allows for the direct delivery of the PEI-siRNA nano-complex to the central nervous system, which could potentially offer an efficient means of gene silencing-mediated therapy in the HIV-infected brain.
A Short Essay on Quantum Black Holes and Underlying Noncommutative Quantized Space-Time
Creators: name: Tanaka, Sho
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We emphasized the importance of underlying noncommutative geometry or Lorenz-covariant quantized space-time towards ultimate theory of quantum gravity and Planck scale physics. We focused there our attention on the statistical and substantial understanding of Bekenstein-Hawking's Area-Entropy Law of black holes in terms of Kinematical Holographic Relation (KHR). KHR manifestly holds in Yang's quantized space-time as the result of kinematical reduction of spatial degrees of freedom caused by its own nature of noncommutative geometry and plays an important role in our approach without any recourse to the familiar hypothesis, so-called Holographic Principle. In the present paper, we find out a {\it unified} form of KHR applicable to the whole region ranging from macroscopic to microscopic scales in spatial dimension $ d=3.$ We notice a possibility of nontrivial modification of Area-Entropy Law of Black Holes which becomes most remarkable in the extremely microscopic system close to Planck scale. We finally refer to the historical background of noncommutative geometry or quantized space-time.
description: 18 pages: several modifications given in sects. 1, 2, 5.2; App.B, Ack. added; References [26-28] newly added
Evaluation of Gracilaria gracilis effects on tomato plants: Pipelining the use of a new seaweed extract as biostimulant
Creators: name: Santos, Ana Sofía Rodrígues Dos
name: Santos, Ana Paula
name: Vilchez, Juan Ignacio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Gracilaria gracillis
Algae extract
Biostimulation
Microbiota shapping
Plant-microbe beneficial interaction

description: Our project aims to develop a pipeline to assess putative biostimulant effects of a novel seaweed extract, produced from the red seaweed Gracilaria gracilis, on Solanum lycopersicum plants. Moreover, we decided to go further and characterize the effects on root/soil microbiota after treatments. We also detected the presence of some interesting bacteria strains in G. gracilis extract, so we included complementary characterization test of these strains as bioinoculant.
Recenzja książki Norberta G. Pikuły „Poczucie sensu życia osób starszych. Inspiracje do edukacji dla starości” Kraków 2015
Creators: name: Mandrzejewska-Smól, Iwona
Publisher: name: Szkoła - Zawód - Praca
Year: 2016

description: Szkoła - Zawód - Praca, Nr 11 (2016): Szkoła - Zawód - Praca
Understanding how structure influences the function of glyoxalase 1
Creators: name: DIMITROPOULOS, ALEXANDRA
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 310199
subject: Biochemistry and cell biology not elsewhere classified

description: Glyoxalase 1 (GLO1), a vital metabolic enzyme, contributes to diseases such as diabetic complications and cancers. Utilising GLO1 as a therapeutic agent is of great significance but has been historically challenging. Mutagenesis and structural analyses performed in this research revealed that a single amino acid change effectively controls GLO1 activity. Valuable insights into necessary modifications for enhancing enzyme efficiency were obtained by studying diverse GLO1 variants in mammalian cells. A novel yeast model was developed to rapidly evaluate the impact of these changes on yeast growth, offering a means for further modulation of GLO1 activity with potential for therapeutic applications.
Probing an ultralight QCD axion with electromagnetic quadratic interaction
Creators: name: Kim, Hyungjin
name: Lenoci, Alessandro
name: Perez, Gilad
name: Ratzinger, Wolfram
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The axion-gluon coupling is the defining feature of the QCD axion. This feature induces additional and qualitatively different interactions of the axion with standard model particles -- quadratic couplings. Previously, hadronic quadratic couplings have been studied and experimental implications have been explored especially in the context of atomic spectroscopy and interferometry. We investigate additional quadratic couplings to the electromagnetic field and electron mass. These electromagnetic quadratic couplings are generated at the loop level from threshold corrections and are expected to be present in the absence of fine-tuning. While they are generally loop-suppressed compared to the hadronic ones, they open up new ways to search for the QCD axion, for instance via optical atomic clocks. Moreover, due to the velocity spread of the dark matter field, the quadratic nature of the coupling leads to low-frequency fluctuations in any detector setup. These distinctive low-frequency fluctuations offer a way to search for heavier axions. We provide an analytic expression for the power spectral density of this low-frequency background and briefly discuss experimental strategies for a low-frequency background search.
description: 13 pages, 4 figures
Telling Tales: The Use of Byron Almén’s Musical Narrative Theory as a Filter for a Performance of Nikolai Medtner’s Sonata-Skazka Op.25 No.1 (1910)
Creators: name: Lu, Jenny
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 190407 Music Performance
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: My project overlays Byron Almén’s narrative interpretation to Russian composer Nikolai Medtner’s Sonata-Skazka Op.25 No.1 (1910), in response to the discursive implications explicated in its reference to skazka (tale). I question how this piece of non-programmatic music can be interpreted as a discourse. The principal aim of my research is to translate my analytical observations to instil a sense of drama in my performance. In doing so, I facilitate a focused and supported interpretation of Sonata-Skazka that enables a way to penetrate its complex compositional style. I likewise establish a connection between score analyses and performance in a narrative context.
Finding corporeality in the performance of contemporary operatic countertenor repertoire through analysis and interpretation of Ian McQueen’s Line of Terror (1987) and Marko Nikodijevic’s Vivier: ein Nachtprotokoll (2013/2014).
Creators: name: HAMISH ALEXANDER GOULD
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 190407 Music Performance
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: Many operas composed from the mid 20th Century cast countertenors in supernatural and disembodied roles. In this thesis, I examine two operatic arias, composed in 1987 and 2014, which are human and embodied. Using philosophy and psychology as a basis, I develop three 'traits of corporality', which I use to interpret the composition of my case studies and develop an approach to performance which conveys corporeality.
Piety And Agency: The Filles du Saint-Esprit and Political Activism in Nineteenth Century Brittany
Creators: name: MEAGAN JAYNE POOL
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: History

description: During the nineteenth century in France, record numbers of women became members of female religious congregations. Congregational women integrated into French society through their work as teachers and nurses. As the struggle between Church and state intensified these women became important players in the Catholic Church’s fight to maintain the primacy of Catholicism in France. This thesis focuses on the work of the Filles du Saint-Esprit. This thesis examines the manner in which congregational women participated in French political life. As a result, this thesis also considers how these women challenged contemporary understandings of feminine piety, passivity and political action.
N=4 Supersymmetric AdS5 Vacua and their Moduli Spaces
Creators: name: Louis, Jan
name: Triendl, Hagen
name: Zagermann, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We classify the N=4 supersymmetric AdS5 backgrounds that arise as solutions of five-dimensional N=4 gauged supergravity. We express our results in terms of the allowed embedding tensor components and identify the structure of the associated gauge groups. We show that the moduli space of these AdS vacua is of the form SU(1,m)/(U(1)x SU(m)) and discuss our results regarding holographically dual N=2 SCFTs and their conformal manifolds.
description: 29 pages; v2: published version
The 'drone ecology' and United States counterterrorism practice in the global war on terror
Creators: name: EDWARD ROBERT BRUCE GILES
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science

description: This thesis investigates the technologies and processes that underpin one of the United States’ counterterrorism practices of drone-based targeted killing. The thesis develops the concept of a ‘drone ecology’ to outline the complex networked system of armed drone aircraft, intelligence databases and high-speed communications networks that the U.S. uses to target suspected terrorists in many remote areas of the globe. The study achieves this via an analysis of the network structures that support targeted killing operations in two case studies situated in Yemen and Somalia, based on data from a series of leaked U.S. military documents.
Chinese Economic Diplomacy in South Africa 1994-2015: A Partnership or a Chinese Neo-Colonial Endeavour?
Creators: name: MUSA MADUNGE MDUNGE
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science

description: The purpose of this thesis was to establish if Sino-South Africa economic relations were an example of a partnership or Chinese neo-colonialism. According to the composition of trade, China benefited from exporting value-added goods to South Africa and received cheaper resource imports from South Africa. However, South Africa has also benefited from a stable Chinese market. Sino-South African economic relations have impacted South Africa’s ability to exercise complete sovereignty in domestic affairs on various matters. This is an indication that despite an equal partnership, South Africa as the smaller partner, will at times needs to bend to China’s whims.
Mit dem Mut und der Frömmigkeit Davids...
Creators: name: Praetorius, Ina
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Christentum
subject: Menschenrechte
subject: Macht
subject: Kirche
subject: Gesellschaft
subject: 305 Soziale Gruppen

description: Ina Praetorius beurteilt in ihrem Bericht für die OeMEKommission Bern-Stadt das Open Forum Davos (OF) zwar als «Feigenblatt» für das World Economic Forum (WEF), das sie als geschlossenes Forum, als «Closed Forum», bezeichnet. Aber sie verwirft deshalb die Gesprächsanlage des OF nicht in Bausch und Bogen, da auch ein Feigenblatt der Anfang bedeutsamer Entwicklungen sein könne - wie die Geschichte von Eva und Adam zeige. Das OF soll es weiterhin geben. Aber es müsse raffinierter, mutiger und frommer werden - im Sinne der Frömmigkeit Davids. Die feministische Theologin unterbreitet den Verantwortlichen eine Reihe von Vorschlägen, die dem OF doch noch zu einer guten Zukunft verhelfen könnten.
The Promise and Peril of Moral Technology
Creators: name: JAMES DECLAN MCGUIRE
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: This thesis draws on ethical theory, empirical psychology, and economics to motivate and sketch a deeply social and deeply environmental approach to moral improvement. It argues that this approach, called moral technology, could be used to encourage prosocial behaviour and mutually beneficial cooperation. The thesis also outlines and defends a promising standard to evaluate the moral acceptability of moral technology implementation. This standard is one of transparency. It is shown that there are compelling moral and social reasons to restrict the implementation of non-transparent moral technology.
Sorbus foliolosa var. ambigua Xin Chen 2018, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Chen, Xin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Rosales
Rosaceae
Sorbus
Sorbus foliolosa
Sorbus foliolosa var. ambigua (cardot 1914: 353) xin chen

description: Sorbus foliolosa var. ambigua (Cardot 1914: 353) Xin Chen, comb. nov.
 Basionym: Pyrus foliolosa var. ambigua Cardot (1914: 353). Lectotype (designated here!):— CHINA. Yunnan: Montagne de Koua-la-po, Ho Kin (Heqing, Guolapo). Les bois des hautes montagnes, 3000 m., 26 May 1884, Delavay 187 (P-02143299 image!, isolectotypes P-02143300 image!, P-02143301 image!, P-02143302 image!)
description: Published as part of Chen, Xin, 2018, Taxonomic and nomenclatural notes on Sorbus foliolosa and related taxa (Rosaceae), pp. 297-300 in Phytotaxa 382 (3) on page 298, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.382.3.7, http://zenodo.org/record/13724463
การบูรณาการพระพุทธศาสนาเพื่อสร้างคุณค่าตามคติสุวรรณภูมิ กรณีวัดพระปฐมเจดีย์
Creators: name: สมบูรณ์ วัฒนะ
Publisher: name: มูลนิธิธรรมะคุ้มครองโลก
Year: 2023
Subjects: พระพุทธศาสนา
คุณค่าของวัดพระปฐมเจดีย์
สุวรรณภูมิ
Buddhism
Values of Wat Phra Pathom Chedi
Suvarnabhumi

description: ธรรมธารา, 9, 1, 80-111
Intravascular forward-looking ultrasound transducers for microbubble-mediated sonothrombolysis
Creators: name: Kim, Jinwook
name: Dai, Xuming
name: Stavas, Joseph M.
name: Dayton, Paul A.
name: Chang, Wei-Yi
name: Lindsey, Brooks D.
name: Jiang, Xiaoning
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Effective removal or dissolution of large blood clots remains a challenge in clinical treatment of acute thrombo-occlusive diseases. Here we report the development of an intravascular microbubble-mediated sonothrombolysis device for improving thrombolytic rate and thus minimizing the required dose of thrombolytic drugs. We hypothesize that a sub-megahertz, forward-looking ultrasound transducer with an integrated microbubble injection tube is more advantageous for efficient thrombolysis by enhancing cavitation-induced microstreaming than the conventional high-frequency, side-looking, catheter-mounted transducers. We developed custom miniaturized transducers and demonstrated that these transducers are able to generate sufficient pressure to induce cavitation of lipid-shelled microbubble contrast agents. Our technology demonstrates a thrombolysis rate of 0.7 ± 0.15 percent mass loss/min in vitro without any use of thrombolytic drugs.
Usages of Composition Search Tree in Web Service Composition
Creators: name: N, Lakshmi H
name: Mohanty, Hrushikesha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The increasing availability of web services within an organization and on the Web demands for efficient search and composition mechanisms to find services satisfying user requirements. Often consumers may be unaware of exact service names that is fixed by service providers. Rather consumers being well aware of their requirements would like to search a service based on their commitments (inputs) and expectations (outputs). Based on this concept we have explored the feasibility of I/O based web service search and composition in our previous work. The classical definition of service composition, i.e., one-to-one and onto mapping between input and output sets of composing services, is extended to give rise to three types of service match: Exact, Super and Partial match. Based on matches of all three types, different kinds of compositions are defined: Exact, Super and Collaborative Composition. Process of composition, being a match between inputs and outputs of services, is hastened by making use of information on service dependency that is made available in repository as an one time preprocessed information obtained from services populating the registry. Adopting three schemes for matching for a desired service outputs, the possibility of having different kinds of compositions is demonstrated in form of a Composition Search Tree. As an extension to our previous work, in this paper, we propose the utility of Composition Search Tree for finding compositions of interest like leanest and the shortest depth compositions.
description: 11 Pages ISSN : 0973-8215 IK International Publishing House Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, India
‘That Happy Island’: The 1683 Bombay Revolt, the East India Company and the formation of the Company-State
Creators: name: SAMUEL EDWARD PETER HOREWOOD
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: History

description: This thesis analyses the 1683 Bombay revolt and contextualizes the event itself as well as its impact on the East India Company in Asia. While this event has been noted by some historians, it has nonetheless been dismissed as an oddity in the long history of the East India Company. From the rebellions beginnings in December 1683 until November 1684, the rebels, the Company and the King of England engaged in a lively debate as to the obligations, expectations and extent of Company authority in Asia. By reanalysing the extensive material produced by these parties during the rebellion, this thesis contends that the 1683 Revolt was far from an oddity, but was instead an event that keenly demonstrated the complex set of obstacles the Company encountered in its early attempts to expand its authority in Asian.
‘These Are the Places I Call Paradise’: Community Musicking and Wellbeing in Derby, Western Australia
Creators: name: BRIGITTA CLARE SCARFE
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 190409 Musicology and Ethnomusicology
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: This thesis investigates how three community musicking institutions in Derby, Western Australia, contribute to emotional wellbeing in the community. Through ethnographic inquiry, the research finds that a community festival, a country music club and a community radio station afford many local Aboriginal musicians opportunities to traverse musical pathways, as well as imagined pathways to distant ancestral country. Moreover, by enabling democratic participation in music, these institutions provide spaces and moments within which Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal participants can mediate relationships with each other and with their immediate environment, thus enhancing feelings of agency, capability and hope.
Kernel-based Joint Feature Selection and Max-Margin Classification for Early Diagnosis of Parkinson’s Disease
Creators: name: Adeli, Ehsan
name: Shen, Dinggang
name: Shi, Feng
name: Saghafi, Behrouz
name: An, Le
name: Wu, Guorong
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Feature selection methods usually select the most compact and relevant set of features based on their contribution to a linear regression model. Thus, these features might not be the best for a non-linear classifier. This is especially crucial for the tasks, in which the performance is heavily dependent on the feature selection techniques, like the diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases. Parkinson’s disease (PD) is one of the most common neurodegenerative disorders, which progresses slowly while affects the quality of life dramatically. In this paper, we use the data acquired from multi-modal neuroimaging data to diagnose PD by investigating the brain regions, known to be affected at the early stages. We propose a joint kernel-based feature selection and classification framework. Unlike conventional feature selection techniques that select features based on their performance in the original input feature space, we select features that best benefit the classification scheme in the kernel space. We further propose kernel functions, specifically designed for our non-negative feature types. We use MRI and SPECT data of 538 subjects from the PPMI database, and obtain a diagnosis accuracy of 97.5%, which outperforms all baseline and state-of-the-art methods.
SOCIAL MEDIA AND LEARNING: A STUDY OF WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN MPOPHOMENI TOWNSHIP, KWAZULU-NATAL, SOUTH AFRICA
Creators: name: ELSAH NOMSA DHLIWAYO
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Environmental Science
subject: 50209 Natural Resource Management
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: The purpose of this research was to explore how sharing information through social media can facilitate dialogue, learning and community engagement in the management of water resources. The intention of this study was to go beyond using social media to share information by investigating how information was shared before the use of social media was implemented in the Save Midmar Dam Project; the justification for and selection of suitable social media platforms; how information is shared; the type of information shared; the role which social media has played in the diffusion of information; the learning that has resulted, and how this may have facilitated behavioural change that would lead to improved management of water resources.