cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Increase in coercive measures in psychiatric hospitals in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic
Creators: name: Flammer, Erich
name: Eisele, Frank
name: Hirsch, Sophie
name: Steinert, Tilman
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Pandemics
subject: Pandemie

description: Objective To examine whether the pandemic in 2020 caused changes in psychiatric hospital cases, the percentage of patients exposed to coercive interventions, and aggressive incidents. Methods We used the case registry for coercive measures of the State of Baden-Wuerttemberg, comprising case-related data on mechanical restraint, seclusion, physical restraint, and forced medication in each of the State’s 31 licensed hospitals treating adults, to compare data from 2019 and 2020. Results The number of cases in adult psychiatry decreased by 7.6% from 105,782 to 97,761. The percentage of involuntary cases increased from 12.3 to 14.1%, and the absolute number of coercive measures increased by 4.7% from 26,269 to 27,514. The percentage of cases exposed to any kind of coercive measure increased by 24.6% from 6.5 to 8.1%, and the median cumulative duration per affected case increased by 13.1% from 12.2 to 13.8 hrs, where seclusion increased more than mechanical restraint. The percentage of patients with aggressive incidents, collected in 10 hospitals, remained unchanged. Conclusions While voluntary cases decreased considerably during the pandemic, involuntary cases increased slightly. However, the increased percentage of patients exposed to coercion is not only due to a decreased percentage of voluntary patients, as the duration of coercive measures per case also increased. The changes that indicate deterioration in treatment quality were probably caused by the multitude of measures to manage the pandemic. The focus of attention and internal rules as well have shifted from prevention of coercion to prevention of infection.
Inner bounding the quantum entropy cone with subadditivity and subsystem coarse grainings
Creators: name: He, Temple
name: Hubeny, Veronika E.
name: Rota, Massimiliano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show via explicit construction that all the extreme rays of both the three-party quantum entropy cone and the four-party stabilizer entropy cone can be obtained from subsystem coarse grainings of specific higher-party quantum states, namely extreme states characterized by saturating a (non-trivial) maximal set of instances of subadditivity. This suggests that the study of the ``subadditivity cone'', and the set of its extreme rays realizable in quantum mechanics, provides a powerful tool for deriving inner bounds for the quantum and stabilizer entropy cones, as well as constraints on new inequalities for the von Neumann entropy.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures; v2: Minor typos corrected, added references, slightly expanded introduction and discussion, version to appear in PRA
Success rate and duration of orotracheal intubation of premature infants by healthcare providers with different levels of experience using a video laryngoscope as compared to direct laryngoscopy in a simulation-based setting
Creators: name: V. Salis-Soglio, Nicolaus
name: Hummler, Helmut
name: Schwarz, Stephan
name: Mendler, Marc R.
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Video laryngoscopy
subject: Neonate
subject: Premature infant
subject: Intubation time
subject: Intubation attempt
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Infant, Premature
subject: Laryngoscopy
subject: Video-assisted surgery
subject: Intubation
subject: Frühgeborenes
subject: Laryngoskopie
subject: Intubation

description: Background Endotracheal intubation of very low birth weight infants (VLBWI) is an essential procedure in NICUs, but intubation experience is often limited. Video laryngoscopy (VL) has been described as a tool to improve intubation skills, but studies in high-risk neonatal populations are limited. Objective The aim of this study was to investigate whether VL is a useful tool to support airway management in high-risk premature infants with inexperienced operators. Methods In this crossover study predominantly inexperienced participants were exposed in random sequence to VL and conventional direct laryngoscopy (DL) for endotracheal intubation of a VLBWI simulation manikin to measure total time, number of attempts, success rate on first attempt, view of the vocal cords and perceived subjective safety until successful intubation. Results In our study group of 94 participants there was no significant difference in the total time (mean VL: 34 s (±24 s); DL: 37 s (±28 s), p = 0.246), while the number of intubation attempts using VL was significantly lower (mean VL: 1.22 (±0.53); DL: 1.37 (±0.60), p = 0.023). Success rate of VL during the first attempt was significantly higher (VL: 84%; DL 69%, p = 0.016), view of the vocal cords was significantly better and perceived subjective safety was increased using VL. Conclusions Our study results suggest that with rather inexperienced operators, VL can be a useful tool to increase rate of successful endotracheal intubation of VLBWI and to improve their perceived safety during the procedure, which may have an impact on mortality and/or morbidity.
Comparative study on compact quantum circuits of hybrid quantum-classical algorithms for quantum impurity models
Creators: name: Sakurai, Rihito
name: Backhouse, Oliver J.
name: Booth, George H.
name: Mizukami, Wataru
name: Shinaoka, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Predicting the properties of strongly correlated materials is a significant challenge in condensed matter theory. The widely used dynamical mean-field theory faces difficulty in solving quantum impurity models numerically. Hybrid quantum--classical algorithms such as variational quantum eigensolver emerge as a potential solution for quantum impurity models. A common challenge in these algorithms is the rapid growth of the number of variational parameters with the number of spin-orbitals in the impurity. In our approach to this problem, we develop compact ansatzes using a combination of two different strategies. First, we employ compact physics-inspired ansatz, $k$-unitary cluster Jastrow ansatz, developed in the field of quantum chemistry. Second, we eliminate largely redundant variational parameters of physics-inspired ansatzes associated with bath sites based on physical intuition. This is based on the fact that a quantum impurity model with a star-like geometry has no direct hopping between bath sites. We benchmark the accuracy of these ansatzes for both ground-state energy and dynamic quantities by solving typical quantum impurity models with/without shot noise. The results suggest that we can maintain the accuracy of ground-state energy while we drop the number of variational parameters associated with bath sites. Furthermore, we demonstrate that a moment expansion, when combined with the proposed ansatzes, can calculate the imaginary-time Green's functions under the influence of shot noise. This study demonstrates the potential for addressing complex impurity models in large-scale quantum simulations with fewer variational parameters without sacrificing accuracy.
Scalable circuit depth reduction in feedback-based quantum optimization with a quadratic approximation
Creators: name: Arai, Don
name: Okada, Ken N.
name: Nakano, Yuichiro
name: Mitarai, Kosuke
name: Fujii, Keisuke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Combinatorial optimization problems are one of the areas where near-term noisy quantum computers may have practical advantage against classical computers. Recently a novel feedback-based quantum optimization algorithm has been proposed by Magann \textit{et al}. The method explicitly determines quantum circuit parameters by feeding back measurement results thus avoids classical parameter optimization that is known to cause significant trouble in quantum approximate optimization algorithm, the well-studied near-term algorithm. Meanwhile, a significant drawback of the feedback-based quantum optimization is that it requires deep circuits, rendering the method unsuitable to noisy quantum devices. In this study we propose a new feedback law for parameter determination by introducing the second-order approximation with respect to time interval, a hyperparameter in the feedback-based quantum optimization. This allows one to take larger time interval, leading to acceleration of convergence to solutions. In numerical simulations on the maximum cut problem we demonstrate that our proposal significantly reduces circuit depth, with its linear scaling with the problem size smaller by more than an order of magnitude. We expect that the new feedback law proposed in this work may pave the way for feedback-based quantum optimization with near-term noisy quantum computers.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures
The design of social media platforms : initial evidence on relations between personality, fear of missing out, design element-driven increased social media use, and problematic social media use
Creators: name: Sindermann, Cornelia
name: Montag, Christian
name: Elhai, Jon D.
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Personality
subject: Fear of missing out
subject: Problematic social media use
subject: Design element-driven increased social media use
subject: DDC 150 / Psychology
subject: Internet
subject: Behavior, Addictive
subject: Social networking
subject: Social media
subject: Social Media
subject: Online-Sucht

description: While relations between certain personality traits and problematic social media use (PSMU) are well-acknowledged, mechanisms underlying these associations are mostly unclear. One putatively mediating variable in these relations is fear of missing out (FoMO). Moreover, certain design elements of social media platforms are suspected to lure users into spending increasing time on the platforms and into PSMU, accordingly. Thus far, however, (independent) empirical research on whether there are individual differences driving tendencies toward design element-driven increased social media use is barely existent. Furthermore, there is a lack of empirical research on whether these tendencies are related to PSMU. The present work was conducted to close these gaps. College students from the United States (N = 446) completed scales on the Big Five personality traits, impulsivity, FoMO, and PSMU and indicated how often they spend more time on social media than intended due to design elements of social media platforms in an online survey. Results showed that individuals tend to use social media more frequently and time-intensively due to certain design elements. Such increased use was strongly positively related to PSMU. A cross-sectional path model revealed among others indirect positive associations of neuroticism and impulsivity with PSMUmediated via FoMOand design element-driven increased social media use. These results indicate that design elements of social media platforms could contribute to PSMU. Thus, a healthier design of such platforms must be discussed. Moreover, therapeutic interventions to reduce PSMU might profit from psychoeducation on strategies to prevent design element-driven increased social media use.
Amortized Active Learning for Nonparametric Functions
Creators: name: Li, Cen-You
name: Toussaint, Marc
name: Rakitsch, Barbara
name: Zimmer, Christoph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Active learning (AL) is a sequential learning scheme aiming to select the most informative data. AL reduces data consumption and avoids the cost of labeling large amounts of data. However, AL trains the model and solves an acquisition optimization for each selection. It becomes expensive when the model training or acquisition optimization is challenging. In this paper, we focus on active nonparametric function learning, where the gold standard Gaussian process (GP) approaches suffer from cubic time complexity. We propose an amortized AL method, where new data are suggested by a neural network which is trained up-front without any real data (Figure 1). Our method avoids repeated model training and requires no acquisition optimization during the AL deployment. We (i) utilize GPs as function priors to construct an AL simulator, (ii) train an AL policy that can zero-shot generalize from simulation to real learning problems of nonparametric functions and (iii) achieve real-time data selection and comparable learning performances to time-consuming baseline methods.
description: Accepted for publication at ECML-PKDD 2024 Workshop & Tutorial on Interactive Adaptive Learning
Outpacing conventional nicotinamide hydrogenation catalysis by a strongly communicating heterodinuclear photocatalyst
Creators: name: Zedler, Linda
name: Wintergerst, Pascal
name: Mengele, Alexander Klaus
name: Müller, Carolin
name: Li, Chunyu
name: Dietzek-Ivanšić, Benjamin
name: Rau, Sven
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: DDC 540 / Chemistry & allied sciences
subject: Photocatalysis
subject: Organometallic chemistry
subject: Fotokatalyse
subject: Metallorganische Chemie

description: Unequivocal assignment of rate-limiting steps in supramolecular photocatalysts is of utmost importance to rationally optimize photocatalytic activity. By spectroscopic and catalytic analysis of a series of three structurally similar [(tbbpy)2Ru-BL-Rh(Cp*)Cl]3+ photocatalysts just differing in the central part (alkynyl, triazole or phenazine) of the bridging ligand (BL) we are able to derive design strategies for improved photocatalytic activity of this class of compounds (tbbpy = 4,4´-tert-butyl-2,2´-bipyridine, Cp* = pentamethylcyclopentadienyl). Most importantly, not the rate of the transfer of the first electron towards the RhIII center but rather the rate at which a two-fold reduced RhI species is generated can directly be correlated with the observed photocatalytic formation of NADH from NAD+. Interestingly, the complex which exhibits the fastest intramolecular electron transfer kinetics for the first electron is not the one that allows the fastest photocatalysis. With the photocatalytically most efficient alkynyl linked system, it is even possible to overcome the rate of thermal NADH formation by avoiding the rate-determining β-hydride elimination step. Moreover, for this photocatalyst loss of the alkynyl functionality under photocatalytic conditions is identified as an important deactivation pathway.
Clistoabdominalis Skevington 2001
Creators: name: FÖLDVÁRI, MIHÁLY
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Pipunculidae
Clistoabdominalis

description: Genus Clistoabdominalis
1 Hypandrium deflected in ventral view, gonopods weakly developed............................................. 2
– Hypandrium straight in ventral view, gonopods well developed.................................................. 3
2 Phallic guide broad and flat, with small protuberances in ventral view. Base of surstyli without protuberances (Figs 5A–E). Cross-vein basally situated, pterostigma extremely reduced, eyes separated in males................................................................................................... Clistoabdominalis nitidifrons (Becker, 1900)
– Phallic guide only broad at base, pointed at tip. Surstyli with protuberances at base in dorsal view (Figs 5F–K). Cross-vein and pterostigma different, eyes not separated in males............................ Clistoabdominalis crassus (Bezzi, 1926)
3 Gonopods asymmetrical, outer gonopod longer; sides of phallic guide parallel, tip rounded (Figs 6A–F); ejaculatory apodeme and sperm pump parachute-like (as in E. flexus). Scutellum silvery pollinose, with 7–8 pairs of strong hairs. S7 not visible without dissection. Hind femur much thicker than others and curved, no subapical spines on mid tibiae.................................................................................... Clistoabdominalis lomholdti Földvári, 2003
– Gonopods highly asymmetrical, since the outer gonopod has a large, flat, spiny lobe (Figs 6G–L), ejaculatory apodeme and sperm pump different. Scutellum not silvery pollinose. S7 is visible in dorsal view without dissection. Hind femur not thicker than others, two subapical (distal) spines on mid tibiae of both sexes.............. Clistoabdominalis namibiensis sp. nov.
description: Published as part of FÖLDVÁRI, MIHÁLY, 2013, Taxonomic revision of the Afrotropical species of the tribe Eudorylini (Diptera, Pipunculidae), pp. 1-121 in Zootaxa 3656 (1) on page 114, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3656.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6039126
WELL Factsheet: Chlorination: a contribution to reducing diarrhoeal diseases
Creators: name: Skinner, Brian
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2024

description: Chlorination is the most widely used method of disinfection of water supplies in developed and developing countries. The main focus of this factsheet is the use of chlorination with small-scale water supplies in developing countries. Some suitable books and web addresses are listed on the last page, for readers seeking more comprehensive information on the topicProduced by WEDC and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine for the Department of International Development (DFID) of the UK government (now the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)), this archive collection of WELL factsheets remains relevant. It covers topics ranging from the anaerobic treatment of municipal wastewater through to water quality and safety plans.
Trombiculindus sibynatus
Creators: name: Nielsen, David H.
name: Robbins, Richard G.
name: Rueda, Leopoldo M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Actinedida
Trombiculidae
Trombiculindus
Trombiculindus sibynatus

description: Trombiculindus sibynatus (Traub, Nadchatram and Lakshana, 1968):
ORI
Leptotrombidium (Trombiculindus) sibynatum Traub, Nadchatram and Lakshana, 1968
Trombiculindus sibynatum, Chaisiri et al. 2016; Stekolnikov 2021
description: Published as part of Nielsen, David H., Robbins, Richard G. & Rueda, Leopoldo M., 2021, Annotated world checklist of the Trombiculidae and Leeuwenhoekiidae (1758 - 2021) (Acari: Trombiculoidea), with notes on nomenclature, taxonomy, and distribution, pp. 1-243 in Zootaxa 4967 (1) on page 189, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4967.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4745510
Cryptops Leach 1815
Creators: name: Ázara, Ludson Neves De
name: Ferreira, Rodrigo Lopes
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Scolopendromorpha
Cryptopidae
Cryptops

description: Genus Cryptops Leach, 1815
Type species: Scolopendra hortensis Donovan, 1810, by monotypy.
description: Published as part of Ázara, Ludson Neves De & Ferreira, Rodrigo Lopes, 2014, Cryptops (Cryptops) spelaeoraptor n. sp. a remarkable troglobitic species (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha) from Brazil, pp. 291-300 in Zootaxa 3826 (1) on page 292, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3826.1.10, http://zenodo.org/record/226360
Anomalous diffusion in quantum system driven by heavy-tailed stochastic processes
Creators: name: Guo, Chenyue
name: Bi, Yuchen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we study a stochastically driven non-equilibrium quantum system where the driving protocols consist of hopping and waiting processes. The waiting times between two hopping processes satisfy a heavy-tailed distribution. By calculating the squared width of the wavepackets, our findings demonstrate the emergence of various anomalous transport phenomena when the system remains unchanged within the heavy-tailed regime, including superdiffusive, subdiffusive, and standard diffusive motion. Only subdiffusion occurs when the system has evolved during the waiting process. All these transport behaviors are accompanied by a breakdown of ergodicity, highlighting the complex dynamics induced by the stochastic driving mechanism.
description: 10 pages, 9 figures
Exact simulation of pigment-protein complexes unveils vibronic renormalization of electronic parameters in ultrafast spectroscopy
Creators: name: Caycedo-Soler, F.
name: Mattioni, Andrea
name: Lim, Jaemin
name: Renger, T.
name: Fernández Huelga, Susana Gema
name: Plenio, Martin B.
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Antenna complex
subject: Chemical physics
subject: Method development
subject: DDC 530 / Physics
subject: Biophysics
subject: Photonik

description: The primary steps of photosynthesis rely on the generation, transport, and trapping of excitons in pigment-protein complexes (PPCs). Generically, PPCs possess highly structured vibrational spectra, combining many discrete intra-pigment modes and a quasi-continuous of protein modes, with vibrational and electronic couplings of comparable strength. The intricacy of the resulting vibronic dynamics poses significant challenges in establishing a quantitative connection between spectroscopic data and underlying microscopic models. Here we show how to address this challenge using numerically exact simulation methods by considering two model systems, namely the water-soluble chlorophyll-binding protein of cauliflower and the special pair of bacterial reaction centers. We demonstrate that the inclusion of the full multi-mode vibronic dynamics in numerical calculations of linear spectra leads to systematic and quantitatively significant corrections to electronic parameter estimation. These multi-mode vibronic effects are shown to be relevant in the longstanding discussion regarding the origin of long-lived oscillations in multidimensional nonlinear spectra.
Ultra-precise holographic optical tweezers array
Creators: name: Chew, Yuki Torii
name: Poitrinal, Martin
name: Tomita, Takafumi
name: Kitade, Sota
name: Mauricio, Jorge
name: Ohmori, Kenji
name: de Léséleuc, Sylvain
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Neutral atoms trapped in microscopic optical tweezers have emerged as a growing platform for quantum science. Achieving homogeneity over the tweezers array is an important technical requirement, and our research focuses on improving it for holographic arrays generated with a Spatial Light Modulator (SLM). We present a series of optimization methods to calculate better holograms, fueled by precise measurement schemes. These innovations enable to achieve intensity homogeneity with a relative standard deviation of 0.3 %, shape variations below 0.5 %, and positioning errors within 70 nm. Such ultra-precise holographic optical tweezers arrays allow for the most demanding applications in quantum science with atomic arrays.
Paramoera Miers 1875
Creators: name: Labay, Vjacheslav S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Amphipoda
Eusiridae
Paramoera

description: Genus Paramoera Miers, 1875
Barnard & Barnard, 1983: 713.— Barnard & Karaman, 1991: 331.— Staude, 1995: 63.
description: Published as part of Labay, Vjacheslav S., 2012, Paramoera anivae a new species of Eusiridae Stebbing, 1888 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Gammaridea) from the Okhotsk Sea, pp. 69-85 in Zootaxa 3475 on page 69, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.211511
Projected Entangled Pair States with flexible geometry
Creators: name: Patra, Siddhartha
name: Singh, Sukhbinder
name: Orús, Román
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Projected Entangled Pair States (PEPS) are a class of quantum many-body states that generalize Matrix Product States for one-dimensional systems to higher dimensions. In recent years, PEPS have advanced understanding of strongly correlated systems, especially in two dimensions, e.g., quantum spin liquids. Typically described by tensor networks on regular lattices (e.g., square, cubic), PEPS have also been adapted for irregular graphs, however, the computational cost becomes prohibitive for dense graphs with large vertex degrees. In this paper, we present a PEPS algorithm to simulate low-energy states and dynamics defined on arbitrary, fluctuating, and densely connected graphs. We introduce a cut-off, $κ\in \mathbb{N}$, to constrain the vertex degree of the PEPS to a set but tunable value, which is enforced in the optimization by applying a simple edge-deletion rule, allowing the geometry of the PEPS to change and adapt dynamically to the system's correlation structure. We benchmark our flexible PEPS algorithm with simulations of classical spin glasses and quantum annealing on densely connected graphs with hundreds of spins, and also study the impact of tuning $κ$ when simulating a uniform quantum spin model on a regular (square) lattice. Our work opens the way to apply tensor network algorithms to arbitrary, even fluctuating, background geometries.
description: 4 pages (main text), 7 pages (appendix), 15 figures
Active particle in one dimension subjected to resetting with memory
Creators: name: Boyer, Denis
name: Majumdar, Satya N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The study of diffusion with preferential returns to places visited in the past has attracted an increased attention in recent years. In these highly non-Markov processes, a standard diffusive particle intermittently resets at a given rate to previously visited positions. At each reset, a position to be revisited is randomly chosen with a probability proportional to the accumulated amount of time spent by the particle at that position. These preferential revisits typically generate a very slow diffusion, logarithmic in time, but still with a Gaussian position distribution at late times. Here we consider an active version of this model, where between resets the particle is self-propelled with constant speed and switches direction in one dimension according to a telegraphic noise. Hence there are two sources of non-Markovianity in the problem. We exactly derive the position distribution in Fourier space, as well as the variance of the position at all times. The crossover from the short-time ballistic regime, dominated by activity, to the large-time anomalous logarithmic growth induced by memory is studied. We also analytically derive a large deviation principle for the position, which exhibits a logarithmic time-scaling instead of the usual algebraic form. Interestingly, at large distances, the large deviations become independent of time and match the non-equilibrium steady state of a particle under resetting to its starting position only.
description: 18 pages, 3 figures
Functional IKK/NF-κB signaling in pancreatic stellate cells is essential to prevent autoimmune pancreatitis
Creators: name: Chan, Lap Kwan
name: Tsesmelis, Miltiadis
name: Gerstenlauer, Melanie
name: Leithäuser, Frank
name: Kleger, Alexander
name: Frick, Lukas Daniel
name: Maier, Harald Jacob
name: Wirth, Thomas
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Autoimmune pancreatitis
subject: I-kappa B kinase; Genetics
subject: NF-kappa B kinase; Genetics
subject: Pancreatic stellate cells
subject: Bauchspeicheldrüsenentzündung
subject: Autoaggressionskrankheit
subject: Nuklearfaktor Kappa B

description: Pancreatic stellate cells (PSCs) are resident cells in the exocrine pancreas which contribute to pancreatic fibrogenesis and inflammation. Studies on NF-κB in pancreatitis so far focused mainly on the parenchymal and myeloid compartments. Here we show a protective immunomodulatory function of NF-κB in PSCs. Conditional deletion of NEMO (IKKγ) in PSCs leads to spontaneous pancreatitis with elevated circulating IgM, IgG and antinuclear autoantibodies (ANA) within 18 weeks. When further challenged with caerulein, NEMOΔCol1a2 mice show an exacerbated autoimmune phenotype characterized by increased infiltration of eosinophils, B and T lymphocytes with reduced latency period. Transcriptomic profiling shows that NEMOΔCol1a2 mice display molecular signatures resembling autoimmune pancreatitis patients. Mechanistically, we show that PSCΔNEMO cells produce high levels of CCL24 ex vivo which contributes to eosinophil recruitment, as neutralization with a CCL24 antibody abolishes the transwell migration of eosinophils. Our findings uncover an unexpected immunomodulatory role specifically of NF-κB in PSCs during pancreatitis.
WELL Factsheet: Child survival and environmental health
Creators: name: Biran, Adam
name: Hunt, Caroline
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2024

description: This factsheet looks at the role of environmental health in improving child survival, focussing on three important causes of child mortality; acute respiratory infection (ARI), diarrhoeal disease and unintentional injury (including drowning and poisoning). A broad overview is presented. Specific details of implementing interventions are not considered.Produced by WEDC and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine for the Department of International Development (DFID) of the UK government (now the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)), this archive collection of WELL factsheets remains relevant. It covers topics ranging from the anaerobic treatment of municipal wastewater through to water quality and safety plans.
Syndyodosuchus Konzhukova 1956
Creators: name: Werneburg, Ralf
name: Witzmann, Florian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Temnospondyli
Eryopidae
Syndyodosuchus

description: Syndyodosuchus Konzhukova, 1956
Type species.
Syndyodosuchus tetricus Konzhukova, 1956.
Diagnosis.
As for species by monotypy.
Remarks.
Syndyodosuchus was interpreted as a basal stereospondylomorph by Konzhukova (1956); Gubin (1984) and all later workers (e. g. Shishkin et al. 2000 and Schoch and Milner 2000) followed this assignment. However, Syndyodosuchus bears the first four characters listed in the eryopid diagnosis (see above).
description: Published as part of Werneburg, Ralf & Witzmann, Florian, 2024, The last eryopids: Clamorosaurus and Syndyodosuchus from the late Kungurian (Cisuralian, Permian) of Russia revisited, pp. 353-380 in Fossil Record 27 (3) on pages 353-380, DOI: 10.3897/fr.27.e125460
A quantum computing concept for 1-D elastic wave simulation with exponential speedup
Creators: name: Schade, Malte
name: Boesch, Cyrill
name: Hapla, Vaclav
name: Fichtner, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum computing has attracted considerable attention in recent years because it promises speed-ups that conventional supercomputers cannot offer, at least for some applications. Though existing quantum computers are, in most cases, still too small to solve significant problems, their future impact on domain sciences is already being explored now. Within this context, we present a quantum computing concept for 1-D elastic wave propagation in heterogeneous media with two components: a theoretical formulation and an implementation on a real quantum computer. The method rests on a finite-difference approximation, followed by a sparsity-preserving transformation of the discrete elastic wave equation to a Schrödinger equation, which can be simulated directly on a gate-based quantum computer. An implementation on an error-free quantum simulator verifies our approach and forms the basis of numerical experiments with small problems on the real quantum computer IBM Brisbane. The latter produce simulation results that qualitatively agree with the error-free version but are contaminated by quantum decoherence and noise effects. Complementing the discrete transformation to the Schrödinger equation by a continuous version allows the replacement of finite differences by other spatial discretisation schemes, such as the spectral-element method. Anticipating the emergence of error-corrected quantum chips, an analogy between our method and analyses of coupled mass-spring systems suggests that our quantum computing approach may lead to wave field simulations that run exponentially faster than simulations on classical computers.
description: 16 pages, 4 figures
Self-assembling hybrid diamond–biological quantum devices
Creators: name: Albrecht, A
name: Koplovitz, G
name: Retzker, A
name: Jelezko, F
name: Yochelis, S
name: Porath, D
name: Nevo, Y
name: Shoseyov, O
name: Paltiel, Y
name: B Plenio, M
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: nitrogen vacancy center
subject: self-assembling
subject: DDC 530 / Physics
subject: Nanodiamonds
subject: Selbstorganisation

description: Abstract The realization of scalable arrangements of nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond remains a key challenge on the way towards efficient quantum information processing, quantum simulation and quantum sensing applications. Although technologies based on implanting NV-centers in bulk diamond crystals or hybrid device approaches have been developed, they are limited by the achievable spatial resolution and by the intricate technological complexities involved in achieving scalability. We propose and demonstrate a novel approach for creating an arrangement of NV-centers, based on the self-assembling capabilities of biological systems and their beneficial nanometer spatial resolution. Here, a self-assembled protein structure serves as a structural scaffold for surface functionalized nanodiamonds, in this way allowing for the controlled creation of NV-structures on the nanoscale and providing a new avenue towards bridging the bio–nano interface. One-, two- as well as three-dimensional structures are within the scope of biological structural assembling techniques. We realized experimentally the formation of regular structures by interconnecting nanodiamonds using biological protein scaffolds. Based on the achievable NV-center distances of 11 nm, we evaluate the expected dipolar coupling interaction with neighboring NV-centers as well as the expected decoherence time. Moreover, by exploiting these couplings, we provide a detailed theoretical analysis on the viability of multiqubit quantum operations, suggest the possibility of individual addressing based on the random distribution of the NV intrinsic symmetry axes and address the challenges posed by decoherence and imperfect couplings. We then demonstrate in the last part that our scheme allows for the high-fidelity creation of entanglement, cluster states and quantum simulation applications.
HOAA: Hybrid Overestimating Approximate Adder for Enhanced Performance Processing Engine
Creators: name: Kokane, Omkar
name: Sati, Prabhat
name: Lokhande, Mukul
name: Vishvakarma, Santosh Kumar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents the Hybrid Overestimating Approximate Adder designed to enhance the performance in processing engines, specifically focused on edge AI applications. A novel Plus One Adder design is proposed as an incremental adder in the RCA chain, incorporating a Full Adder with an excess 1 alongside inputs A, B, and Cin. The design approximates outputs to 2 bit values to reduce hardware complexity and improve resource efficiency. The Plus One Adder is integrated into a dynamically reconfigurable HOAA, allowing runtime interchangeability between accurate and approximate overestimation modes. The proposed design is demonstrated for multiple applications, such as Twos complement subtraction and Rounding to even, and the Configurable Activation function, which are critical components of the Processing engine. Our approach shows 21 percent improvement in area efficiency and 33 percent reduction in power consumption, compared to state of the art designs with minimal accuracy loss. Thus, the proposed HOAA could be a promising solution for resource-constrained environments, offering ideal trade-offs between hardware efficiency vs computational accuracy.
Diplax striolata Charpentier 1840
Creators: name: Martin, R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1910
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Odonata
Libellulidae
Diplax
Diplax striolata

description: 1. Diplax striolata Charp. _
Espèce répandue presque partout en Europe dans les pays marécageux, en nombre immense sur cer tains points durant Pete et Pautomne, très commune aussi sur tous les lacs et étangs du département de Constantine. La forme très voisine, D. vulgata L., plus septentrionale et plus orientale, n'habite pas l'Algérie.
description: Published as part of Martin, R., 1910, Contribution à l'étude des Neuroptères de l'Afrique, pp. 82-104 in Annales Societe Entomologique France 79 on page 96, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3531643
The Harmonic Exponential Filter for Nonparametric Estimation on Motion Groups
Creators: name: Saavedra-Ruiz, Miguel
name: Parkison, Steven A.
name: Arora, Ria
name: Forbes, James Richard
name: Paull, Liam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Bayesian estimation is a vital tool in robotics as it allows systems to update the robot state belief using incomplete information from noisy sensors. To render the state estimation problem tractable, many systems assume that the motion and measurement noise, as well as the state distribution, are unimodal and Gaussian. However, there are numerous scenarios and systems that do not comply with these assumptions. Existing nonparametric filters that are used to model multimodal distributions have drawbacks that limit their ability to represent a diverse set of distributions. This paper introduces a novel approach to nonparametric Bayesian filtering on motion groups, designed to handle multimodal distributions using harmonic exponential distributions. This approach leverages two key insights of harmonic exponential distributions: a) the product of two distributions can be expressed as the element-wise addition of their log-likelihood Fourier coefficients, and b) the convolution of two distributions can be efficiently computed as the tensor product of their Fourier coefficients. These observations enable the development of an efficient and asymptotically exact solution to the Bayes filter up to the band limit of a Fourier transform. We demonstrate our filter's performance compared with established nonparametric filtering methods across simulated and real-world localization tasks.
description: Accepted to the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L 2025) Code available at https://github.com/montrealrobotics/harmonic-filter. Webpage and additional videos at https://montrealrobotics.ca/hef/
Enhancing photocatalysis: understanding the mechanistic diversity in photocatalysts modified with single-atom catalytic sites
Creators: name: Kruczała, Krzysztof
name: Neubert, Susann
name: Dhaka, Kapil
name: Mitoraj, Dariusz
name: Jánošíková, Petra
name: Adler, Christiane
name: Krivtsov, Igor
name: Patzsch, Julia
name: Bloh, Jonathan Zacharias
name: Biskupek, Johannes
name: Kaiser, Ute
name: Hocking, Rosalie K.
name: Caspary Toroker, Maytal
name: Beranek, Radim
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Aerobic oxidation
subject: Charge separation
subject: Oxygen reduction
subject: Photocatalysis
subject: Single-atom catalysis
subject: DDC 540 / Chemistry & allied sciences
subject: Electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy
subject: Elektronenspinresonanzspektroskopie

description: Surface modification of heterogeneous photocatalysts with single-atom catalysts (SACs) is an attractive approach for achieving enhanced photocatalytic performance. However, there is limited knowledge of the mechanism of photocatalytic enhancement in SAC-modified photocatalysts, which makes the rational design of high-performance SAC-based photocatalysts challenging. Herein, a series of photocatalysts for the aerobic degradation of pollutants based on anatase TiO2 modified with various low-cost, non-noble SACs (vanadate, Cu, and Fe ions) is reported. The most active SAC-modified photocatalysts outperform TiO2 modified with the corresponding metal oxide nanoparticles and state-of-the-art benchmark photocatalysts such as platinized TiO2 and commercial P25 powders. A combination of in situ electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy and theoretical calculations reveal that the best-performing photocatalysts modified with Cu(II) and vanadate SACs exhibit significant differences in the mechanism of activity enhancement, particularly with respect to the rate of oxygen reduction. The superior performance of vanadate SAC-modified TiO2 is found to be related to the shallow character of the SAC-induced intragap states, which allows for both the effective extraction of photogenerated electrons and fast catalytic turnover in the reduction of dioxygen, which translates directly into diminished recombination. These results provide essential guidelines for developing efficient SAC-based photocatalysts.
Diplax meridionalis Selys 1853
Creators: name: Martin, R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1910
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Odonata
Libellulidae
Diplax
Diplax meridionalis

description: 2. Diplax meridionalis Selys. -
Voisine de la précédente et presque aussi commune sur les étangs, d'où elle se répand au loin dans les bois, en été et en automne; sa taille est très variable.
description: Published as part of Martin, R., 1910, Contribution à l'étude des Neuroptères de l'Afrique, pp. 82-104 in Annales Societe Entomologique France 79 on page 96, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3531643
Trombiculindus spinifoliatus Wang, Li and Tian 1985
Creators: name: Nielsen, David H.
name: Robbins, Richard G.
name: Rueda, Leopoldo M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Actinedida
Trombiculidae
Trombiculindus
Trombiculindus spinifoliatus

description: Trombiculindus spinifoliatus Wang, Li and Tian, 1985:
PAL
Trombiculindus (Trombiculindus) spinifoliatus Wang, Li and Tian, 1985
description: Published as part of Nielsen, David H., Robbins, Richard G. & Rueda, Leopoldo M., 2021, Annotated world checklist of the Trombiculidae and Leeuwenhoekiidae (1758 - 2021) (Acari: Trombiculoidea), with notes on nomenclature, taxonomy, and distribution, pp. 1-243 in Zootaxa 4967 (1) on page 189, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4967.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4745510
Diplax fonscolombii Selys 1840
Creators: name: Martin, R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1910
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Odonata
Libellulidae
Diplax
Diplax fonscolombii

description: 3. Diplax fonscolombei Sélys. _
Habite l’Europe et aussi 1’ Airique. Son faciès européen serait une preuve que, originaire d’Europe, elle est, comme les autres Diplaac, partie de 1à pour peupler un coin de l °Asie et PAlrique du Nord. Il est pourtant à remarquer que, si elle n’existe pas dans PAfrique tropicale, on la retrouve au Cap de Bonne-Espérance.
Observée à Biskra en mai et sur les lacs et étangs de PAlgérie, de juin à septembre.
description: Published as part of Martin, R., 1910, Contribution à l'étude des Neuroptères de l'Afrique, pp. 82-104 in Annales Societe Entomologique France 79 on page 96, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3531643
Characterization of adolescents with functional respiratory disorders and prior history of SARS‑CoV‑2
Creators: name: Bode, Sebastian Felix Nepomuk
name: Schwender, Anja
name: Toth, Monika
name: Kaeppler‑Schorn, Christine
name: Siebeneich, Ute
name: Freihorst, Joachim
name: Janda, Ales
name: Fabricius, Dorit
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Long-COVID syndrome
subject: Functional respiratory disorder
subject: Dysfunctional breathing
subject: Hyperventilation
subject: Exercise-induced laryngeal obstruction
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Adolescent
subject: COVID-19; Complications
subject: Respiratory tract diseases
subject: Dyspnea
subject: Respiratory function tests
subject: Jugend
subject: Post-COVID-19 Syndrom
subject: Atemnot
subject: Atemwegskrankheit

description: Background The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has caused significant pulmonary morbidity and mortality in the adult population. Children and adolescents typically show milder symptoms; however, a relevant proportion of them report persistent pulmonary symptoms even after mild SARS-CoV-2 infection. Functional respiratory disorders may be relevant differential diagnoses of persistent dyspnea. This study aims at characterizing functional respiratory disorders that may arise after SARS-CoV-2 infection regarding their clinical presentation and pulmonary function tests as well as gaining insights into the clinical course after initiation of appropriate therapy. Methods This study retrospectively identified all patients referred to an outpatient clinic for pediatric pulmonology with functional respiratory disorders manifesting after proven SARS-CoV-2 infection between January 1, 2022, and October 31, 2022. Clinical history, thorough clinical examination regarding breathing patterns, and pulmonary function tests (PFTs) were taken into consideration to diagnose functional respiratory disorders. Results Twenty-five patients (44% female) with mean (m) age = 12.73 years (SD ± 1.86) who showed distinctive features of functional respiratory disorders after SARS-CoV-2 infection (onset at m = 4.15 (± 4.24) weeks after infection) were identified. Eleven patients showed thoracic dominant breathing with insufficient ventilation, and 4 patients mainly had symptoms of inducible laryngeal obstruction. The rest (n = 10) showed overlap of these two etiologies. Most patients had a flattened inspiratory curve on spirometry and slightly elevated residual volume on body plethysmography, but values of PFTs were normal before and after standardized treadmill exercise testing. Patients were educated about the benign nature of the condition and were offered rebreathing training. All patients with follow-up (n = 5) showed normalization of the breathing pattern within 3 months. Conclusions Functional respiratory disorders are important differential diagnoses in persisting post-SARS-CoV-2 dyspnea in adolescents. A combination of clinical history, detailed examination of breathing patterns, and pulmonary function tests are helpful to correctly diagnose these conditions. Reassurance and rebreathing training are the mainstay of the therapy. The clinical course is favorable.
TBA equations and quantum periods for D-type Argyres-Douglas theories
Creators: name: Ito, Katsushi
name: Yang, Jingjing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct TBA equations for D-type Argyres-Douglas theories with an SU(2) flavor symmetry based on their spectral networks. We show that the solutions of these TBA equations agree with the quantum periods of the corresponding quantum Seiberg-Witten curves defined in the Nekrasov-Shatashvili limit of the Omega background, including a centrifugal correction. We study the variety of TBA systems across the Coulomb branch moduli space and find that they correspond to the Dynkin diagrams of $D_n$ Lie algebras in the minimal chamber, and reproduce the TBA equations for reflectionless D scattering theories at the maximally symmetric point. Numerical computations demonstrate that the quantum periods obtained from the Borel-Padé resummation and their WKB expansions are in agreement with the solutions of the TBA equations.
description: v2: 41 pages, 39 figures, 3 tables. Typos corrected, published version