cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Gluonic contributions to semi-inclusive DIS in the target fragmentation region
Creators: name: Chen, Kai-Bao
name: Ma, Jian-Ping
name: Tong, Xuan-Bo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study one-loop contributions to semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering in the target fragmentation region for a polarized lepton beam and nucleon target. Complete one-loop results at leading twist are derived, with a particular focus on the gluonic channel. It shows that four structure functions are generated uniquely by the gluon fracture functions starting at one-loop. Additionally, we obtain two structure functions associated with the longitudinal polarization of the virtual photon, and they are contributed by both gluon and quark channels. By combining existing twist-3 results, all eighteen structure functions for the studied process are predicted in terms of fracture functions convoluted with perturbative coefficient functions.
description: 10 pages, 1 figure; published version in JHEP
ncRNA BC1 influences translation in the oocyte
Creators: name: Aleshkina, D.
name: Iyyappan, R.
name: Lin, Ch. J.
name: Masek, T.
name: Pospisek, M.
name: Susor, A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Computational Biology

description: Regulation of translation is essential for the diverse biological processes involved in development. Particularly, mammalian oocyte development requires the precisely controlled translation of maternal transcripts to coordinate meiotic and early embryo progression while transcription is silent. It has been recently reported that key components of mRNA translation control are short and long noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs). We found that the ncRNABrain cytoplasmic 1 (BC1) has a role in the fully grown germinal vesicle (GV) mouse oocyte, where is highly expressed in the cytoplasm associated with polysomes. Overexpression of BC1 in GV oocyte leads to a minute decrease in global translation with a significant reduction of specific mRNA translation via interaction with the Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein (FMRP). BC1 performs a repressive role in translation only in the GV stage oocyte without forming FMRP or Poly(A) granules. In conclusion, BC1 acts as the translational repressor of specific mRNAs in the GV stage via its binding to a subset of mRNAs and physical interaction with FMRP. The results reported herein contribute to the understanding of the molecular mechanisms of developmental events connected with maternal mRNA translation.
Enhancing the application of field portable x-ray fluorescence technology for the measurement of metal-contaminated soils
Creators: name: Rouillon, Marek
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Field portable X-ray Fluorescence (pXRF) is utilised widely for a variety of environmental applications due to its rapid and inexpensive estimation of metal(loid) concentrations. The use of pXRF for metal-contaminated soil screening is an emerging measurement approach,however, its use for final quantitative assessments is less common, largely due to data quality concerns. This thesis evaluates the application of pXRF for the measurement of metal contaminated soils and in turn, assesses data quality, reliability and application benefits. The thesis research applies an evidence-based approach across five inter-related papers that examinea broad spectrum of pXRF-related misconceptions. These studies cover user safety, ex-situ and in-situ analytical performance for assessment of metal-contaminated sites and related environmental investigations. The thesis is comprised of a technical assessment of pXRF and its application to investigate and understand environmental contamination problems.The technical assessment component of the thesis is comprised of: the measurement of radiation dose rates from four different pXRF spectrometers to determine user pXRF-related radiation exposure an analytical evaluation of ex-situ pXRF to assess the accuracy, precision and detection limits of pXRF during the measurement of metal-contaminated soils an assessment of in-situ pXRF application for metal-contaminated site assessments to evaluate the benefits of lower cost and high volume sampling using pXRF compared to the current approach of less sampling and ex-situ wet chemistry analysis.The use of pXRF for the investigation of urban metal contamination is executed using two cases studies from Sydney and Newcastle in New South Wales: analysis of domestic garden soils collected as part of Macquarie University's free soil metal analysis program (VegeSafe) assessment of inorganic and organic contaminants collected from public and private soils in a former industrial city. The outcomes of the evaluation and application of pXRF demonstrates that it is safe for users and is capable of generating accurate and inexpensive geochemical measurements of soils for a range of metal-contaminants. In addition to the five papers on pXRF, this thesis presents three additional case studies examining contemporary and legacy metal contamination hazards in other mining and urban centres across Australia. Collectively, these research studies demonstrate that both legacy and contemporary environmental contamination by toxic metal(loid)s remains a hazard and a potential risk of harm to Australian residents.
Control Synthesis of Nonlinear Sampled Switched Systems using Euler's Method
Creators: name: Coënt, Adrien Le
name: De Vuyst, Florian
name: Chamoin, Ludovic
name: Fribourg, Laurent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we propose a symbolic control synthesis method for nonlinear sampled switched systems whose vector fields are one-sided Lipschitz. The main idea is to use an approximate model obtained from the forward Euler method to build a guaranteed control. The benefit of this method is that the error introduced by symbolic modeling is bounded by choosing suitable time and space discretizations. The method is implemented in the interpreted language Octave. Several examples of the literature are performed and the results are compared with results obtained with a previous method based on the Runge-Kutta integration method.
description: In Proceedings SNR 2017, arXiv:1704.02421
Coherent charge dynamics in molecules on the attosecond to few-femtosecond timescale
Creators: name: Alexander, Oliver
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2023

description: Electronic coherences in molecules are typically expected to survive for a few femtoseconds. This limits the timescale of charge migration, which is the electronic motion following valence excitation that is the result of electronic wavepackets, i.e. coherent superpositions of excited states. It is of fundamental and practical interest to molecular physics and quantum chemistry to understand how coherent charge migration results in long term outcomes of chemical reactions or in processes such as radiation damage. It may even be possible to bias reaction outcomes to desired products if the states with a wavepacket and their coherences can be controlled, which is the aim of quantum control. In this doctoral thesis, two experiments are also discussed in detail which aim to improve understanding of decohering interactions on this timescale. The first is a two colour all X-ray pump-probe experiment using an X-ray free electron laser to investigate charge migration of inner valence holes following ionisation of isopropanol vapour. Two hole wavepackets are studied, each corresponding to cluster of states which can be understood as satellites of a single one-hole state broken down due to coupling to two-hole one-particle states (breakdown in the molecular orbital picture of ionisation). Hole lifetimes for these states of 5.1 ± 3.2 fs and 1+2−1 fs were measured, and accompanying theoretical investigations are referred to which elucidate the role of the initial spread in nuclear geometries and nuclear motion on decoherence. The second experiment is in liquid isopropanol, this time looking at the role of the liquid environment of electron trajectories following ionisation via high harmonic generation. This experiment has tangential interest to strong field physics, as the processes involved in high harmonic generation in liquid are investigated. Harmonics up to 50 eV are generated, the highest reported to-date in the condensed phases, and it is found that scattering of electrons from neighbouring molecules dampens but does not exclude recombination. Accompanying these experiments is the advancement of experimental tools for those and future investigations, especially for the study of liquid systems. For this purpose, flat liquid targets of order 1 μm thickness as well as the tools for transient absorption spectroscopy using a soft X-ray high harmonic generation source are developed.
MOESM1 of Genetic diversity and structure related to expansion history and habitat isolation: stone marten populating ruralâ urban habitats
Creators: name: Wereszczuk, Anna
name: RaphaĂŤl Leblois
name: Zalewski, Andrzej
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Additional figures and tables.
Additional file 1 of EGR1 suppresses HCC growth and aerobic glycolysis by transcriptionally downregulating PFKL
Creators: name: Pan, Mingang
name: Luo, Muyu
name: Liu, Lele
name: Chen, Yunmeng
name: Cheng, Ziyi
name: Wang, Kai
name: Huang, Luyi
name: Tang, Ni
name: Qiu, Jianguo
name: Huang, Ailong
name: Xia, Jie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1.
Paws in the sand: the emergence and development of the use of canids in the funerary practice of the ancient Egyptians(ca. 5000 BC – 395 AD) : a thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
Creators: name: Hartley, Mary Louise
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This research investigates the nature and scope of the inclusion of canids/dogs in the funerary practice of the ancient Egyptians. Canids used in a mortuary context are well known, due mainly to the use of canids in the later votive context. However, the first documented evidence of actual burials of canids/dogs occurred during the Predynastic Period, and it is this aspect that is the focus for this research. Where did the concept of burying a canid/dog originate, and why? And did the practice evolve over time to morph into the later votive practice? This research employs the use of history, archaeology and physical anthropology to present an analysis for the significance of a canid/dog burial, and to trace the evolution of the practice through time. This research is based on a sample of 141 canid/dog burials derived from available archaeological data from the Predynastic to the Graeco-Roman Periods (ca. 5300 BC–AD 395). Additionally, a case study of 119 votive canid crania found at Saqqara, will provide data for the analysis regarding the use of canids in a votive capacity. The majority of canid/dog burials were observed in the Predynastic Period, therefore this period is significant to theunderstanding of how, when, and why this practice first began. Things do not ‘just happen’ without reason, and the historical iconographical evidence surrounding canids, particularly the dog, found in early communities provides an insight into how canids were perceived in society, which in turn provides a portal into the beginnings of the practice. Chronologically, canid/dog burials continued from the Predynastic Period, albeit somewhat sporadically, through to the Late Period, when a resurgence of the practice is observed. It is also during the Late Period that a marked rise in the use of votive canids linked to the Cult of Anubis begins. Burying a canid/dog in a funerary context, and offering a votive canid in a religious context, ran concurrently throughout the Late Period and into the Graeco-Roman Period, with the votive practice increasing considerably and becoming the preferred method for the general population to gain access to the god Anubis. Quantitative and qualitative data analysis presented in this thesis identifies canid/dog burials in the archaeological record from the Predynastic to the Graeco-Roman Periods, confirming and interpreting their role within the funerary process. This research concludes that the common thread binding the presence of the canid in the funerary practice consistently demonstrates a protective function.
title: ADCO, Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions de Beaune et du Beaunois (XVe siècle), Cart. 174 (11 H 79), 56 pages, f. 0000
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2015
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: cartulaire
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi

description: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions de Beaune et du Beaunois (XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 174 (11 H 79), 56 pages, f. 0000, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions de Beaune et du Beaunois (XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 174 (11 H 79), 56 pages, f. 0000, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
Structure-preserving operators for thermal-nonequilibrium hydrodynamics
Creators: name: Shiroto, Takashi
name: Kawai, Soshi
name: Ohnishi, Naofumi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Radiation hydrodynamics simulations based on the one-fluid two-temperature model may violate the law of energy conservation because the governing equations are expressed in a nonconservative formulation. Here, we maintain the important physical requirements by employing a strategy based on the key concept that the mathematical structures associated with the conservative and nonconservative equations are preserved, even at the discrete level. To this end, we discretize the conservation laws and transform them via exact algebraic operations. The proposed scheme maintains the global conservation errors within the round-off level. In addition, a numerical experiment concerning the shock tube problem suggests that the proposed scheme well agrees with the jump conditions at the discontinuities regulated by the Rankine-Hugoniot relationship. The generalized derivation allows us to employ arbitrary central difference, artificial dissipation, and Runge-Kutta methods.
From beyond good and evil to before good and evil
Creators: name: Tajalli, Payman
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Whereas a range of business and management scholars have argued that business is in an ethical crisis, Nietzsche makes it possible to see that it is ethics itself that is in crisis, and that only as the crisis in ethics is dealt with can ethics in specific areas such as business be addressed. Nihilism is the name that Nietzsche gives to the crisis in ethics. In response to nihilism, Nietzsche offers a revaluation of all values. This thesis will argue that Nietzsche’s revaluation of all values fails in its own terms. Thus, while Nietzsche poses the question of the crisis of ethics and even the method (revaluation of all values), he does not proffer a way beyond nihilism. Max Webers’ image of the iron cage and organisational disenchantment allows Nietzsche’s nihilism to be situated in an organisational context. The present thesis is developed by examining the way in which a range of religious existential philosophers respond to the crisis in ethics through their own permutations of a revaluation of all values. The religious existential philosophers are Gabriel Marcel, Paul Tillich and Emmanuel Levinas. The central question of the thesis is: do they provide a way beyond nihilism through their own form of a revaluation of all values? And if so, what is the implication for organisational existence? Chapter Two gives an account of nihilism as articulated by Nietzsche, before presenting his revaluation of values, offering an ethics that he claims rests on no foundation. Nietzsche’s project, however, as the chapter concludes, is ultimately doomed to failure. Chapter Three examines the writings of Weber, whose revaluation seeks re-enchantment and a solution in terms of a combination of value and instrumental rationalities in ethical decision making, falling short of the demand for an ethics without a foundation. Chapter Four considers Marcel’s revaluation, which is founded on ontology and revival of God as the unconditional, and hence a relapse on the need for a foundation. Chapter Five examines Tillich’s onto-theologically-based revaluation, showing that, despite the introduction of notions such as “ultimate concern”, it too is held hostage to the need for an absolute, albeit revelatory foundation. Chapter Six demonstrates how, by giving primacy to ethics, taking it as first philosophy, Levinas’ revaluation in terms of an ethics of responsibility, whilst re-enchanting a sense of the divine in the lived experience of individual, offers the promise of an ethics without a foundation. In conclusion, I will discuss how Levinas, more adequately than other philosophers, is able to respond to Nietzsche, and opens up the space for the realisation that an ethics of management occurs when management understands itself in terms of ethics as an irreducible relationship to the otherness of the Other.
“Profile of Sugar Babies: A Scoping Review”
Creators: name: Côté, Katia
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social Work
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: profile
subject: sugar baby
subject: sugar dating

description: Sugar dating is growing in popularity in most countries around the world, such as United States, United Kingdom, and Canada. Being identified as a form of prostitution, sugar dating presents several risks to sugar babies. However, according to some of our research, there is a lack of consensual information on sugar babies. This scoping review will inventory the profile of sugar babies in the scientific literature. Recommendations based on the scoping review will improve the ability of stakeholders to help people who are sugar babies.
Modeling effects of starspots on stellar magnetic cycles
Creators: name: Zhang, Zebin
name: Jiang, Jie
name: Kitchatinov, Leonid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Observations show that faster-rotating stars tend to have stronger magnetic activity and shorter magnetic cycles. The cyclical magnetic activity of the Sun and stars is believed to be driven by the dynamo process. The success of the Babcock-Leighton (BL) dynamo in understanding the solar cycle suggests an important role that starspots could play in stellar magnetic cycles. We aim at extending the BL mechanism to solar-mass stars with various rotation rates and explore the effects of emergence properties of starspots in latitudes and tilt angles on stellar magnetic cycles. We adopt a kinematic BL-type dynamo model operating in the bulk of the convection zone. The profiles of the large-scale flow fields are from the mean-field hydrodynamical model for various rotators. The BL source term in the model is constructed based on the rotation dependence of starspots emergence. That is, faster rotators have starspots at higher latitudes with larger tilt angles.Faster rotators have poloidal flux appearing closer to about $\pm55^\circ$ latitudes, where the toroidal field generation efficiency is the strongest because of the strongest latitudinal differential rotation there. It takes a shorter time for faster rotators to transport the surface poloidal field from their emergence latitude to the $\pm 55^\circ$ latitudes of efficient $Ω$-effect thus shortening their magnetic cycles. The faster rotators operate in a more supercritical regime due to a stronger BL $α$-effect relating to the tilt angles, which leads to stronger saturated magnetic fields and a coupling of the poloidal field between two hemispheres more difficult. Thus the magnetic field parity shifts from the hemispherically asymmetric mixed mode to quadrupole, and further to dipole when a star spins down. The emergence of starspots plays an essential role in the large-scale stellar dynamo.
description: 11 pages, 10 figures, accepted by A&A
The population of planetary nebulae near the Galactic centre: chemical abundances
Creators: name: Cavichia, O.
name: Costa, R. D. D.
name: Maciel, W. J.
name: Mollá, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Planetary nebulae (PNe) constitute an important tool to study the chemical evolution of the Milky Way and other galaxies, probing the nucleosynthesis processes, abundance gradients and the chemical enrichment of the interstellar medium. In particular, Galactic bulge PNe (GBPNe) have been extensively used in the literature to study the chemical properties of this Galactic structure. However, the presently available GBPNe chemical composition studies are strongly biased, since they were focused on brighter objects, predominantly located in Galactic regions of low interstellar reddening. In this work, we report physical parameters and abundances derived for a sample of 17 high extinction PNe located in the inner 2\degr of the Galactic bulge, based on low dispersion spectroscopy secured at the SOAR telescope using the Goodman spectrograph. The new data allow us to extend our database including faint objects, providing chemical compositions for PNe located in this region of the bulge and an estimation for the masses of their progenitors to explore the chemical enrichment history of the central region of the Galactic bulge. The results show that there is an enhancement in the N/O abundance ratio in the Galactic centre PNe compared with PNe located in the outer regions of the Galactic bulge. This may indicate recent episodes of star formation occurring near the Galactic centre.
description: 23 pages, 15 figures and 9 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Additional file 1: of The draft genome of Brucella abortus strain Ba col-B012, isolated from a dairy farm in Nariño, Colombia, bring new insights into the epidemiology of biovar 4 strains
Creators: name: Pacheco-Montealegre, Mauricio
name: Patiño, Rocío
name: Torres, Ligia
name: Jiménez, Sabrina
name: Rodríguez, José
name: Caro-Quintero, Alejandro
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Genes that differentiate Brucella abortus strain Ba Col-B012 from the type strain. (DOCX 56 kb)
title: ADCO, Cartulaire des Dominicains de Dijon (1286), Cart. 221 (H 53), 170 folios, f. 0350
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: cartulaire
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge

description: Cartulaire des Dominicains de Dijon (1286), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 221 (H 53), 170 folios. Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire des Dominicains de Dijon (1286), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 221 (H 53), 170 folios, f. 0350, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: Dijon
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7003
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb15250518p
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/02643413X/id
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/6453767
Intron-assisted, viroid-based production of insecticidal circular double-stranded RNA in Escherichia coli
Creators: name: Ortolá, Beltrán
name: Cordero, Teresa
name: Hu, Xu
name: Daròs, José-Antonio
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology

description: RNA interference (RNAi) is a natural mechanism for protecting against harmful genetic elements and regulating gene expression, which can be artificially triggered by the delivery of homologous double-stranded RNA (dsRNA). This mechanism can be exploited as a highly specific and environmentally friendly pest control strategy. To this aim, systems for producing large amounts of recombinant dsRNA are necessary. We describe a system to efficiently produce large amounts of circular dsRNA in Escherichia coli and demonstrate the efficient insecticidal activity of these molecules against Western corn rootworm (WCR, Diabrotica virgifera virgifera LeConte), a highly damaging pest of corn crops. In our system, the two strands of the dsRNA are expressed in E. coli embedded within the very stable scaffold of Eggplant latent viroid (ELVd), a small circular non-coding RNA. Stability in E. coli of the corresponding plasmids with long inverted repeats was achieved by using a cDNA coding for a group-I autocatalytic intron from Tetrahymena thermophila as a spacer. RNA circularization and large-scale accumulation in E. coli cells was facilitated by co-expression of eggplant tRNA ligase, the enzyme that ligates ELVd during replication in the host plant. The inserted intron efficiently self-spliced from the RNA product during transcription. Circular RNAs containing a dsRNA moiety homologous to smooth septate junction 1 (DvSSJ1) gene exhibited excellent insecticide activity against WCR larvae. Finally, we show that the viroid scaffold can be separated from the final circular dsRNA product using a second T. thermophila self-splicing intron in a permuted form.
Gregory of Neocaesarea: evangelist in Pontus
Creators: name: Lovell, Graham Davis
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: In this work, the life and works of Gregory of Neocaesarea (surnamed Thaumaturgus) are studied to assess his achievements as a Christian evangelist in Pontus. The literary works attributed to him are examined in turn, and the issues surrounding their authorship, context and audience are considered and evaluated. The events of Gregory life and the historical situation are examined from different angles. The historical background is reviewed. This is the first systematic study of the culture and religion of Pontus in the period prior to the introduction of Christianity. Gregory was reputed to have worked many miracles. This study demonstrates that Pontus was the kind of society in which stories about the extraordinary events reported from Gregory’s life could have arisen quite naturally. Evidence for his life and works is considered, in particular that drawn from his own Address of Thanksgiving to Origen and the testimony of the Canonical Letter. The authorship of the various works attributed to Gregory is examined using tests of context, terminology and style; it includes the first presentation of stylometric analysis of these texts. The biographical accounts of his life are examined, namely Gregory of Nyssa’s panegyric, and a Syriac version of a letter written from Pontus that also encapsulates a number of the oral traditions about Gregory. This brings together the two main sources for Gregory’s life in a comparative study not previously attempted. After this, the biographical accounts and other sources are examined with a view to establishing the authenticity of the creed attributed to him, and the place of Gregory in the development of the theology of the Pontic (and Cappadocian) churches. Finally, the canons of the Council of Neocaesarea are examined to determine whether they can be used to cast light on Gregory’s life and work: arguments are put that they should be redated to the period before 303, and the importance of the chorespiscopi is discussed.
Microsecond dark-exciton valley polarization memory in 2D heterostructures
Creators: name: Jiang, Chongyun
name: Xu, Weigao
name: Rasmita, Abdullah
name: Huang, Zumeng
name: Li, Ke
name: Xiong, Qihua
name: Gao, Wei-bo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have valley degree of freedom, which features optical selection rule and spin-valley locking, making them promising for valleytronics devices and quantum computation. For either application, a long valley polarization lifetime is crucial. Previous results showed that it is around picosecond in monolayer excitons, nanosecond for electrons, holes or local excitons and tens of nanosecond for interlayer excitons. Here we show that dark excitons in 2D heterostructures provide a microsecond valley polarization memory thanks to the magnetic field induced suppression of valley mixing. The lifetime of the dark excitons shows magnetic field and temperature dependence which is consistent with the theoretical prediction. The long dark exciton lifetime and valley polarization lifetime in 2D heterostructures make them promising for long-distance exciton transport and macroscopic quantum state generations.
3D RNA-seq: a powerful and flexible tool for rapid and accurate differential expression and alternative splicing analysis of RNA-seq data for biologists
Creators: name: Guo, Wenbin
name: Tzioutziou, Nikoleta A
name: Stephen, Gordon
name: Milne, Iain
name: Calixto, Cristiane PG
name: Waugh, Robbie
name: Brown, John W. S.
name: Zhang, Runxuan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) analysis of gene expression and alternative splicing should be routine and robust but is often a bottleneck for biologists because of different and complex analysis programs and reliance on specialized bioinformatics skills. We have developed the ‘3D RNA-seq’ App, an R shiny App and web-based pipeline for the comprehensive analysis of RNA-seq data from any organism. It represents an easy-to-use, flexible and powerful tool for analysis of both gene and transcript-level gene expression to identify differential gene/transcript expression, differential alternative splicing and differential transcript usage (3D) as well as isoform switching from RNA-seq data. 3D RNA-seq integrates state-of-the-art differential expression analysis tools and adopts best practice for RNA-seq analysis. The program is designed to be run by biologists with minimal bioinformatics experience (or by bioinformaticians) allowing lab scientists to analyse their RNA-seq data. It achieves this by operating through a user-friendly graphical interface which automates the data flow through the programs in the pipeline. The comprehensive analysis performed by 3D RNA-seq is extremely rapid and accurate, can handle complex experimental designs, allows user setting of statistical parameters, visualizes the results through graphics and tables, and generates publication quality figures such as heat-maps, expression profiles and GO enrichment plots. The utility of 3D RNA-seq is illustrated by analysis of data from a time-series of cold-treated Arabidopsis plants and from dexamethasone-treated male and female mouse cortex and hypothalamus data identifying dexamethasone-induced sex- and brain region-specific differential gene expression and alternative splicing.
Additional file 1: Figure S1. of Comparison of multiple transcriptomes exposes unified and divergent features of quiescent and activated skeletal muscle stem cells
Creators: name: Pietrosemoli, Natalia
name: SĂŠbastien Mella
name: Yennek, Siham
name: Baghdadi, Meryem
name: Sakai, Hiroshi
name: Ramkumar Sambasivan
name: Pala, Francesca
name: Girolamo, Daniela Di
name: Shahragim Tajbakhsh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Quality controls and data sample distribution for Quiescent [high/low]/D3Activated [high/low] dataset. a Relative log expression (RLE) and b normalized unscaled standard errors (NUSE) plots for the D3P7 dataset show that as expected for good quality data, RLE median values are centered around 0.0, while the median standard error should be 1 for most genes in the NUSE plots. A sample distribution is distributed according to status (D3H: activated, high; D3L: activated, low; QH: quiescent, high; QL: quiescent, low) using principal component analysis (c) and hierarchical clustering of the Euclidean distance (d). (PDF 103Â kb)
The politics of the new welfare state: social tax expenditures and the second tier of Australian welfare
Creators: name: Stebbing, Adam
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: "Classifying Australia as a 'targeted' welfare state overlooks the rising significance of social tax expenditures (STEs). As tax provisions that offer selective welfare benefits, STEs are increasingly relevant to Australian welfare because of their large scale, inequity and rapid growth. This thesis incorporates STEs into our understanding of the Australian welfare state by situating them within its institutional framework and explaining their political development. [The thesis explores] the relevance of STEs by analysing two case studies - the tax expenditures for private health insurance and superannuation. Both cases are difficult to understand as 'evidence-based' policies because they are inequitable and expensive... My analysis of the political development of STEs shows how they have emerged as core second-tier institutions through two 'overlapping processes' that coincided with the winding back of the wage-earner model. STEs have grown as both an indirect consequence of developing new wage-earner institutions and a means of meeting new demands for social provision in a policy environment hostile to extending social expenditures." -- abstract.
Minkowski Operations of Sets with Application to Robot Localization
Creators: name: Desrochers, Benoit
name: Jaulin, Luc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: interval analysis

description: This papers shows that using separators, which is a pair of two complementary contractors, we can easily and efficiently solve the localization problem of a robot with sonar measurements in an unstructured environment. We introduce separators associated with the Minkowski sum and the Minkowski difference in order to facilitate the resolution. A test-case is given in order to illustrate the principle of the approach.
description: In Proceedings SNR 2017, arXiv:1704.02421
Development of optimised compact chemical kinetic mechanisms to support the transition to net zero
Creators: name: Greenblatt, Daniel
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2023

description: Attitudes towards energy sources and any pollutant emissions as a result of their use are rapidly changing in a world seeking to reduce the rate of climate change. Renewable electricity generation is beginning to displace the legacy fossil fuel combustion based devices. However, due to intermittency issues with these renewable sources in the power generation sector and the scale and diversity of the transportation sector, combustion devices will linger in the mix, perhaps even indefinitely through the use of renewable fuels. Therefore, it is paramount that ever more stringent pollutant emission regulations are set and met and in order to achieve this, further understanding and computational modelling capabilities of the fuels to be used is required. In this work, chemical kinetic models are further developed and refined and comprehensive validation used to assess their ability to predict both global (burning velocities, ignition delay times) and detailed (speciation) properties. The fuel components studied in this work include the primary reference fuels, iso-octane and n-heptane, which represent the base level chemicals used to approximate real fuels in both laboratory-based research and computational surrogates. Additionally, with the advent of green hydrogen and its formation into green ammonia the study of fuel alternatives, such as ammonia, and fuel enhancers, such as nitromethane, have been included in this work. The chemical kinetic models are compact to allow for their direct implementation in computing dynamic systems. All mechanisms provide good to excellent agreement with experimental data for burning velocities and ignition delay times, and an assessment of their ability to predict speciation results with key sensitivities and uncertainties is outlined. Finally, these mechanisms have been implemented to consider the key trends at conditions of practical relevance, with a focus on the characteristic timescales within flames.
Robust state preparation in quantum simulations of Dirac dynamics
Creators: name: Song, Xue-Ke
name: Deng, Fu-Guo
name: Lamata, Lucas
name: Muga, J. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A non-relativistic system such as an ultracold trapped ion may perform a quantum simulation of a Dirac equation dynamics under specific conditions. The resulting Hamiltonian and dynamics are highly controllable, but the coupling between momentum and internal levels poses some difficulties to manipulate the internal states accurately in wave packets. We use invariants of motion to inverse engineer robust population inversion processes with a homogeneous, time-dependent simulated electric field. This exemplifies the usefulness of inverse-engineering techniques to improve the performance of quantum simulation protocols.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures
Additional file 1 of Sex differences in the effects of repeated ketamine infusions on bone markers in patients with unipolar and bipolar depression
Creators: name: Lan, Xiaofeng
name: Liu, Haiyan
name: Wang, Chengyu
name: Li, Weicheng
name: Zhang, Fan
name: Hu, Zhibo
name: Chen, Xiaoyu
name: You, Zerui
name: Ning, Yuping
name: Zhou, Yanling
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Mean values of the MADRS score and plasma bone marker in patients. Table S2. Results of comparisons of sex differences in timing and comparison with baseline using linear mixed-model analysis with Bonferroni-corrected post hoc tests. Table S3. Correlation between changes of bone markers and reductions of MADRS scores across ketamine treatment. Data are represented with r. Table S4. Correlation between baseline bone markers and reductions of MADRS scores across ketamine treatment. Data are represented with r.
Additional file 5: Figure S3. of Trends in cause and place of death for children in Portugal (a European country with no Paediatric palliative care) during 1987–2011: a population-based study
Creators: name: Lacerda, Ana Forjaz De
name: Gomes, Barbara
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Trend for home death in 0–17 year-old decedents from complex chronic conditions in Portugal (1987–2011, N = 10,571) by age groups below and above 1 year. (DOCX 109 kb)
Driver Drowsiness Estimation from EEG Signals Using Online Weighted Adaptation Regularization for Regression (OwARR)
Creators: name: Wu, Dongrui
name: Lawhern, Vernon J.
name: Gordon, Stephen
name: Lance, Brent J.
name: Lin, Chin-Teng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: One big challenge that hinders the transition of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) from laboratory settings to real-life applications is the availability of high-performance and robust learning algorithms that can effectively handle individual differences, i.e., algorithms that can be applied to a new subject with zero or very little subject-specific calibration data. Transfer learning and domain adaptation have been extensively used for this purpose. However, most previous works focused on classification problems. This paper considers an important regression problem in BCI, namely, online driver drowsiness estimation from EEG signals. By integrating fuzzy sets with domain adaptation, we propose a novel online weighted adaptation regularization for regression (OwARR) algorithm to reduce the amount of subject-specific calibration data, and also a source domain selection (SDS) approach to save about half of the computational cost of OwARR. Using a simulated driving dataset with 15 subjects, we show that OwARR and OwARR-SDS can achieve significantly smaller estimation errors than several other approaches. We also provide comprehensive analyses on the robustness of OwARR and OwARR-SDS.
description: in press
Gapless symmetry-protected topological phases and generalized deconfined critical points from gauging a finite subgroup
Creators: name: Su, Lei
name: Zeng, Meng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gauging a finite subgroup of a global symmetry can map conventional phases and phase transitions to unconventional ones. In this work, we study, as a concrete example, an emergent $\mathbb{Z}_2$-gauged system with global symmetry $U(1)$, namely, the $\mathbb{Z}_2$-gauged Bose-Hubbard model both in 1-D and in 2-D. In certain limits, there is an emergent mixed 't Hooft anomaly between the quotient $\tilde{U}(1)$ symmetry and the dual $\hat{\mathbb{Z}}_2$ symmetry. In 1-D, the superfluid phase is mapped to an intrinsically gapless symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phase, as supported by density-matrix renormalization group (DMRG) calculations. In 2-D, the original superfluid-insulator transition becomes a generalized deconfined quantum critical point (DQCP) between a gapless SPT phase, where a SPT order coexists with Goldstone modes, and a $\tilde{U}(1)$-symmetry-enriched topological (SET) phase. We also discuss the stability of these phases and the critical points to small perturbations and their potential experimental realizations. Our work demonstrates that partial gauging is a simple and yet powerful approach in constructing novel phases and quantum criticalities.
description: v1: 16+$\varepsilon$ pages, 7 figures; v2: published version with one more appendix
Additional file 4: Figure S2. of Trends in cause and place of death for children in Portugal (a European country with no Paediatric palliative care) during 1987–2011: a population-based study
Creators: name: Lacerda, Ana Forjaz De
name: Gomes, Barbara
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Trend for place of death of 0–17 year-old decedents from CCCs in Portugal (1987–2011, N = 10,571). (DOCX 119 kb)
Cultural Adaptations of Dialectical Behavior Therapy: A Systematic Review
Creators: name: Haft, Stephanie
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Clinical Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: This registration uses the Inclusive Systematic Review Registration Form v0.92 to describe the methodology for a systematic review on cultural adaptations of dialectical behavior therapy.