cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Introduzione. Scienza e sapienza nel Medioevo
Creators: name: Ippolito , Benedetto
Publisher: name: Roma Tre-Press
Year: 2010

description: Il tema dominante di questo numero di B@bel è l'incontro/scontro tra teologia e filosofia nei pensatori tardoantichi e medioevali. Tale incontro/scontro ha preso la forma del binomio scienza/sapienza che rappresenta un luogo di ricerche inesauribili per gli studiosi, luogo che per questi pensatori costituiva una sorta di laboratorio sperimentale per escogitare figurazioni della realtà che hanno coinvolto la storia culturale e umana dell'intero Occidente.

description: B@belonline vol. 9 Scienza e sapienza nel Medioevo. Agostinismo e aristotelismo a confronto
MPEC 2023-D68 : DAILY ORBIT UPDATE (2023 February 27)
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Opioid Tolerance Development: A Pharmacokinetic/Pharmacodynamic Perspective
Creators: name: Pollack, Gary M.
name: Dumas, Emily O.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: The opioids are commonly used to treat acute and severe pain. Long-term opioid administration eventually reaches a dose ceiling that is attributable to the rapid onset of analgesic tolerance coupled with the slow development of tolerance to the untoward side effects of respiratory depression, nausea and decreased gastrointestinal motility. The need for effective-long term analgesia remains. In order to develop new therapeutics and novel strategies for use of current analgesics, the processes that mediate tolerance must be understood. This review highlights potential pharmacokinetic (changes in metabolite production, metabolizing enzyme expression, and transporter function) and pharmacodynamic (receptor type, location and functionality; alterations in signaling pathways and cross-tolerance) aspects of opioid tolerance development, and presents several pharmacodynamic modeling strategies that have been used to characterize time-dependent attenuation of opioid analgesia.
A variant of the h-index to measure recent performance
Creators: name: Schreiber, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The predictive power of the h-index has been shown to depend for a long time on citations to rather old publications. This has raised doubts about its usefulness for predicting future scientific achievements. Here I investigate a variant which considers only the recent publications and is therefore more useful in academic hiring processes and for the allocation of research resources. It is simply defined in analogy to the usual h-index, but taking into account only the publications from recent years, and it can easily be determined from the ISI Web of Knowledge.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures
Nanoparticles Containing Anti-inflammatory Agents as Chemotherapy Adjuvants II: Role of Plasma Esterases in Drug Release
Creators: name: Leggas, Markos
name: Lu, Xiuling
name: Potter, Philip M.
name: Howard, Melissa D.
name: Talbert, Dominique R.
name: Jay, Michael
name: Rinehart, John J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: The pre-administration of the anti-inflammatory drugs dexamethasone (DEX) and cortisone acetate reduces toxicity and enhances efficacy of anticancer agents in murine models and in human clinical trials (1–5). We previously reported on the formulation of the lipophilic dexamethasone palmitate ester (DEX-P) in nanoparticles (NPs) employing a microemulsion template engineering technique to achieve tumor-specific delivery of dexamethasone (6). The nanoparticles exhibited significantly enhanced stealth properties as indicated by reduced macrophage uptake and decreased adsorption of opsonin proteins in in vitro assays (6). Unexpectedly, preliminary biodistribution studies of NPs containing [3H]-DEX-P in tumor-bearing mice showed that the radiolabel was cleared from the circulation rapidly and exhibited high liver uptake. Our previous in vitro release studies demonstrated that rapid release of the radiolabel from the NPs was observed when 10% mouse plasma was used as the medium, while nominal release was observed in phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) buffer (6). Esterolysis of NP-associated DEX-P was presumed to be the main cause for the rapid drug release in plasma, as most of the released radioactivity was in the form of DEX and not DEX-P. High degradation rates of ester prodrugs in rodent plasma has been attributed to increased esterase activity, while only minimal degradation in human plasma has been observed (7–9). Based on our observation of the release of [3H]-DEX from NPs in mouse plasma, we studied the release of DEX from nanoparticles in various plasma sources as a guide for the design of future in vivo experiments.
Autocorrelation analysis for the unbiased determination of power-law exponents in single-quantum-dot blinking
Creators: name: Houel, J.
name: Doan, Q. T.
name: Cajgfinger, T.
name: Ledoux, G.
name: Amans, D.
name: Aubret, A.
name: Dominjon, A.
name: Ferriol, S.
name: Barbier, R.
name: Nasilowski, M.
name: Lhuillier, E.
name: Dubertret, B.
name: Dujardin, C.
name: Kulzer, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an unbiased and robust analysis method for power-law blinking statistics in the photoluminescence of single nano-emitters, allowing us to extract both the bright- and dark-state power-law exponents from the emitters' intensity autocorrelation functions. As opposed to the widely-used threshold method, our technique therefore does not require discriminating the emission levels of bright and dark states in the experimental intensity timetraces. We rely on the simultaneous recording of 450 emission timetraces of single CdSe/CdS core/shell quantum dots at a frame rate of 250 Hz with single photon sensitivity. Under these conditions, our approach can determine ON and OFF power-law exponents with a precision of 3% from a comparison to numerical simulations, even for shot-noise-dominated emission signals with an average intensity below 1 photon per frame and per quantum dot. These capabilities pave the way for the unbiased, threshold-free determination of blinking power-law exponents at the micro-second timescale.
Considerations concerning the generalization of the Dirac equations to unstable fermions
Creators: name: Kniehl, Bernd A.
name: Sirlin, Alberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the generalization of the Dirac equations and spinors in momentum space to free unstable spin-$1/2$ fermions taking into account the fundamental requirement of Lorentz covariance. We derive the generalized adjoint Dirac equations and spinors, and explain the very simple relation that exists, in our formulation, between the unstable and stable cases. As an application of the generalized spinors, we evaluate the probability density. We also discuss the behavior of the generalized Dirac equations under time reversal.
description: 7 pages, matches journal version
A cluster finding algorithm based on the multiband identification of red sequence galaxies
Creators: name: Oguri, Masamune
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new algorithm, CAMIRA, to identify clusters of galaxies in wide-field imaging survey data. We base our algorithm on the stellar population synthesis model to predict colours of red-sequence galaxies at a given redshift for an arbitrary set of bandpass filters, with additional calibration using a sample of spectroscopic galaxies to improve the accuracy of the model prediction. We run the algorithm on ~11960 deg^2 of imaging data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 8 to construct a catalogue of 71743 clusters in the redshift range 0.1
description: 16 pages, 19 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS; the SDSS DR8 cluster catalogue is available at http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~oguri/cluster/
Биохимический статус крови коз камерунской породы
Creators: name: Якименко Н.Н.
name: Бугаева А.А.
name: Клетикова Л.В.
Publisher: name: Эффективное животноводство
Year: 2023
Subjects: козы камерунской породы
общий белок
белковые фракции
минеральные и энергетические вещества
активность ферментов
процессы роста
Cameroon goats
total protein
protein fractions
minerals and energy substances
enzyme activity
growth processes

description: В статье представлены результаты биохимического исследования сыворотки крови 6-месячных коз камерунской породы. В результате установлен диапазон содержание общего белка 7682,5 г/л, процент содержания альбумина – 47,7, глобулинов – 52,3. Средняя концентрация холестерола, триглицеридов и глюкозы 1,49; 0,37 и 5,63 ммоль/л; уровень магния 0,164 ммоль/л, общего кальция 2,41 ммоль/л, неорганического фосфора 3,98 ммоль/л; активность АСТ 10,49; АЛТ – 16,50; щелочной фосфатазы – 1152,67 Ед/л. Полученные данные свидетельствуют о процессах роста молодняка коз.
description: The article presents the results of a biochemical study of the blood serum of 6-month-old goats of the Cameroon breed. As a result, the range of total protein content was 76-82.5 g/l, the percentage of albumin was 47.7, globulins was 52.3. The average concentration of cholesterol, triglycerides and glucose 1.49; 0.37 and 5.63 mmol/l; magnesium level 0.164 mmol/l, total calcium 2.41 mmol/l, inorganic phosphorus 3.98 mmol/l; AST activity 10.49; ALT 16.50; alkaline phosphatase 1152.67 U / l. The obtained data testify to the growth processes of young goats.
SARCOMA PRIMITIVE RARE DU THORAX: A CASE STUDY AND A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE
Creators: name: RADIA BENYAHIA
name: FADWA. HOCINE
name: OUARDA. ALLICHE
name: SALAH EDDINE. BENDIB
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: ---

description: Summary

Synovial sarcoma is a rare malignancy, accounting for 10% of soft tissue sarcomas. Thoracic involvement is rare and varies in location.  It usually develops in the limbs and its pulmonary location is exceptional. We report a clinical case of synovial sarcoma of the lung in a 25-year-old male discovered at a localized stage. This tumor, which is extremely rare, has a particular immunohistochemical phenotype, which strongly contributes to diagnosis. Tags: Imaging shows a heterogeneous tumor, invading adjacent structures. The histological diagnosis was made by mediastinal biopsy, revealing synovial sarcoma we discuss the clinical, radiological, histological and therapeutic aspects of this tumor, as well as data from the literature.
Screening for Potential Adjuvants Administered by the Pulmonary Route for Tuberculosis Vaccines
Creators: name: Wang, Chenchen
name: Garcia-Contreras, Lucila
name: Beltran-Torres, Adela Ayulia
name: Hickey, Anthony J.
name: Muttil, Pavan
name: Lu, Dongmei
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: Tuberculosis (TB) infects one third of the world’s population, and new infections occur at a rate of 1/s. Better vaccines are needed than the live mycobacterium Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG). Alveolar macrophages (AMΦs) play a central role in pulmonary manifestations of TB. Targeting immunomodulators to AMΦs, the first line of defense against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), may initiate a potent cell-mediated immune response. Muramyl dipeptide (MDP) and trehalose dibehenate (TDB) have elicited strong immune response when delivered to the lungs as aerosols. AMΦs show toxicity in response to some immunomodulators. The objective of this work was to screen the immunomodulators MDP and/or TDB encapsulated in microparticles (MPs) and to evaluate certain indicators of toxicity in human AMΦ-like cells. Poly(lactide-co-glycolide) (PLGA) MPs containing MDP and/or TDB were prepared by spray-drying. The morphology, particle size distribution, and immunomodulator encapsulation efficiency of MPs were examined. THP-1 cells were exposed to these MPs for 24 h and characteristics of cell morphology, tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) release, lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), N-acetyl-β-d-glucosaminidase (NAG) and alkaline phosphatase (ALP) activity in AMΦ culture supernatants were measured. MTT assay was used to assess the viability of cells. Spray-drying produced low-density MPs having volume median diameters between 4 and 6 μm as measured by laser diffraction and projected area diameter between 3 and 5 μm calculated by microscopy. More TNF-α was produced by THP-1 cells exposed to MPs composed of PLGA-MDP or PLGA alone than PLGA-TDB. LDH release following exposure to MPs of PLGA-MDP and PLGA alone was greater than controls. NAG release was higher following exposure to MPs of PLGA alone or PLGA-MDP 0.1% than PLGA-TDB (0.1% and 1.0%). Cells remained viable after exposure to MPs as per MTT assay. PLGA-MDP MPs demonstrated statistically elevated indicators of biochemical responses in cell culture compared to PLGA-TDB MPs, but the extent of their potential to elicit adverse effects in vivo must be studied independently.
Conformal invariance predictions for the three-dimensional self-avoiding walk
Creators: name: Kennedy, Tom
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 82B41

description: If the three dimensional self-avoiding walk (SAW) is conformally invariant, then one can compute the hitting densities for the SAW in a half-space and in a sphere. The ensembles of SAW's used to define these hitting densities involve walks of arbitrary lengths, and so these ensembles cannot be directly studied by the pivot Monte Carlo algorithm for the SAW. We show that these mixed length ensembles should have the same scaling limit as certain weighted ensembles that only involve walks with a single length, thus providing a fast method for simulating these ensembles. Preliminary simulations which found good agreement between the predictions and Monte Carlo simulations for the SAW were reported in [14]. In this paper we present more accurate simulations testing the predictions and find even stronger support for the prediction that the SAW is conformally invariant in three dimensions.
description: 22 pages, 4 figures. Version 2 corrected typos and changed the exposition in section 3, but no changes to conclusions
Бобово-жмыховый концентрат в кормлении поросят
Creators: name: Бетин А.Н.
Publisher: name: Эффективное животноводство
Year: 2023
Subjects: протеин
поросята
растительный протеин
кровь
экономическая эффективность
protein
piglets
vegetable protein
blood
economic efficiency

description: В связи с дефицитом протеина в рационе свиней и значительным удорожанием источников белка животного происхождения весьма актуально заменить их в комбикормах более доступным белком растительного происхождения.
description: Due to the lack of protein in the diet of pigs and a significant increase in the cost of animal protein sources, it is very important to replace them in compound feeds with a more affordable vegetable protein.
Deorphanization of Novel Peptides and Their Receptors
Creators: name: Lindberg, Iris
name: Kroeze, Wesley K.
name: Roth, Bryan
name: Ozawa, Akihiko
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Peptide hormones and neuropeptides play important roles in endocrine and neural signaling, often using G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR)-mediated signaling pathways. However, the rate of novel peptide discovery has slowed dramatically in recent years. Genomic sequencing efforts have yielded a large number of cDNA sequences that potentially encode novel candidate peptide precursors, as well as hundreds of orphan GPCRs with no known cognate ligands. The complexity of peptide signaling is further highlighted by the requirement for specific posttranslational processing steps, and these must be accomplished in vitro prior to testing newly discovered peptide precursor candidates in receptor assays. In this review, we present historic as well as current approaches to peptide discovery and GPCR deorphanization. We conclude that parallel and combinatorial discovery methods are likely to represent the most fruitful avenues for both peptide discovery as well as for matching the remaining GPCRs with their peptide ligands.
Программное обеспечение для расчета функциональных показателей при испытании опрыскивателей
Creators: name: Бондаренко Е.В.
name: Лытнев Н.Н.
name: Подольcкая Е.Е.
Publisher: name: АгроФорум
Year: 2023
Subjects: программное обеспечение
опрыскиватель
испытание
метод
функциональный показатель
оценка
software
sprayer
test
method
functional indicator
evaluation

description: В статье представлен результат разработки программного обеспечения к межгосударственному стандарту на методы испытаний машин для защиты растений (опрыскивателей), предназначенного для использования при обработке результатов их испытаний на машиноиспытательных станциях Минсельхоза России в соответствии с действующим межгосударственным стандартом ГОСТ 34630-2019 «Техника сельскохозяйственная. Машины для защиты растений. Опрыскиватели. Методы испытаний»; проанализированы основные показатели качества выполнения технологического процесса и технические характеристики современных средств механизации по защите сельскохозяйственных культур, данные которых получены при испытаниях на МИС.
description: The article presents the result of the development of software for the interstate standard for testing methods of plant protection machines (sprayers) intended for use in processing the results of their tests at the machine testing stations of the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia in accordance with the current interstate standard GOST 34630-2019 “Agricultural machinery. Machines for plant protection. Sprayers. Test methods”; the main indicators of the quality of the technological process and the technical characteristics of modern means of mechanization for the protection of crops, the data of which were obtained during tests on MIS, are analyzed.
Immunization of Guinea Pigs with Novel Hepatitis B Antigen as Nanoparticle Aggregate Powders Administered by the Pulmonary Route
Creators: name: Pulliam, Brian
name: Garcia-Contreras, Lucila
name: Prego, Cecilia
name: Wang, Chenchen
name: Edwards, David
name: Fallon, John Kevin
name: Muttil, Pavan
name: Hickey, Anthony James
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Novel nanoparticle-aggregate formulations containing recombinant hepatitis B surface antigen (rHBsAg) were administered to the lungs of guinea pigs and antibodies generated to this antigen evaluated. Preparations of dry powders of: (a) rHBsAg encapsulated within poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA)/polyethylene glycol (PEG) nanoparticles (antigen nanoparticles, AgN(SD)), (b) rHBsAg in a physical mixture with blank PLGA/PEG nanoparticles (antigen nanoparticle admixture (AgNA(SD)), and (c) rHBsAg encapsulated in PLGA/PEG nanoparticles plus free rHBsAg (antigen nanoparticles and free antigen), were generated by spray drying with leucine. Control groups consisted of alum with adsorbed rHBsAg (AlumAg); reconstituted suspensions of spray-dried rHBsAg-loaded PLGA/PEG nanoparticles with leucine; and rHBsAg-loaded PLGA/PEG nanoparticles (AgN). Control preparations were administered by intramuscular injection; AgN was also spray instilled into the lungs. The IgG titers were measured in the serum for 24 weeks after the initial immunization; IgA titers were measured in the bronchio-alveolar lavage fluid. While the highest titer of serum IgG antibody was observed in guinea pigs immunized with AlumAg administered by the IM route, animals immunized with powder formulations via the pulmonary route exhibited high IgA titers. In addition, guinea pigs immunized with AgNA(SD) via the pulmonary route exhibited IgG titers above 1,000 mIU/ml in the serum (IgG titers above 10 mIU/ml is considered protective). Thus, the disadvantages observed with the existing hepatitis B vaccine administered by the parenteral route may be overcome by administering them as novel dry powders to the lungs. In addition, these powders have the advantage of eliciting a high mucosal immune response in the lungs without traditional adjuvants.
"inclusive_corr.html" of "Measurements of differential jet cross sections in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV with the CMS detector"
Creators: name: CMS Collaboration
Publisher: name: HEPData
Year: 2015

description: Link to correlation matrices for the Inclusive Jet data
description: CERN-LHC. Measurements of the differential cross sections for inclusive jet and dijet production in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. Using a data sample of integrated luminosity of 5 fb-1, inclusive jet PT cross sections up to a PT of 2 TeV in five intervals of |rapidity| from 0 to 2.5 are presented as well as the invariant mass distributions of dijets up to a mass of 5 TeV in the 5 intervals of |rapidity|. Jets are reconstructed using the anti-kt algorithm with distance parameter R=0.7. The cross sections are fully corrected for detector effects. Note: The systematic errors on the inclusive cross sections were incorrectly displayed here, and were corrected on 10/3/2015.
The design and verification of Mumax3
Creators: name: Vansteenkiste, Arne
name: Leliaert, Jonathan
name: Dvornik, Mykola
name: Garcia-Sanchez, Felipe
name: Van Waeyenberge, Bartel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the design, verification and performance of mumax3, an open-source GPU-accelerated micromagnetic simulation program. This software solves the time- and space dependent magnetization evolution in nano- to micro scale magnets using a finite-difference discretization. Its high performance and low memory requirements allow for large-scale simulations to be performed in limited time and on inexpensive hardware. We verified each part of the software by comparing results to analytical values where available and to micromagnetic standard problems. mumax3 also offers specific extensions like MFM image generation, moving simulation window, edge charge removal and material grains.
Pulmonary Immunization of Guinea Pigs with Diphtheria CRM-197 Antigen as Nanoparticle Aggregate Dry Powders Enhance Local and Systemic Immune Responses
Creators: name: Edwards, David A.
name: Garcia-Contreras, Lucila
name: Muttil, Pavan
name: Hickey, Anthony James
name: Pulliam, Brian
name: Fallon, John Kevin
name: Wang, Chenchen
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: This study establishes the immune response elicited in guinea pigs after pulmonary and parenteral immunizations with diphtheria CRM-197 antigen (CrmAg). Several spray-dried powders of formalin-treated/untreated CrmAg nanoaggregates with L-leucine were delivered to the lungs of guinea pigs. A control group consisting of alum with adsorbed CrmAg in saline was administered by intramuscular injection. Animals received three doses of powder vaccines containing 20 or 40 μg of CrmAg. The serum IgG titers were measured for 16 weeks after the initial immunization; IgA titers were measured at the time of sacrifice in the broncho-alveolar lavage fluid. Further, toxin neutralization tests in naïve guinea pigs were performed for a few select serum samples. Histopathology of the lung tissues was conducted to evaluate inflammation or injury to the lung tissues. While the highest titer of serum IgG antibody was observed in guinea pigs immunized by the intramuscular route, those animals immunized with dry powder formulation by the pulmonary route, and without the adjuvant alum, exhibited high IgA titers. A pulmonary administered dry powder, compared to parenteral immunization, conferred complete protection in the toxin neutralization test. Mild inflammation was observed in lung tissues of animals receiving dry powder vaccines by the pulmonary route. Thus, administering novel CrmAg as dry powders to the lungs may be able to overcome some of the disadvantages observed with the existing diphtheria vaccine which is administered by the parenteral route. In addition, these powders will have the advantage of eliciting a high mucosal immune response in the lungs without using traditional adjuvants.
$\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric ladders with a scattering core
Creators: name: D'Ambroise, Jennie
name: Lepri, Stefano
name: Malomed, Boris A.
name: Kevrekidis, Panayotis G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric chain (ladder-shaped) system governed by the discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equation where the cubic nonlinearity is carried solely by two central "rungs" of the ladder. Two branches of scattering solutions for incident plane waves are found. We systematically construct these solutions, analyze their stability, and discuss non-reciprocity of the transmission associated with them. To relate these results to finite-size wavepacket dynamics, we also perform direct simulations of the evolution of the wavepackets, which confirm that the transmission is indeed asymmetric in this nonlinear system with the mutually balanced gain and loss.
Conformal anomaly actions for dilaton interactions
Creators: name: Rose, Luigi Delle
name: Marzo, Carlo
name: Serino, Mirko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss, in conformally invariant field theories such as QCD with massless fermions, a possible link between the perturbative signature of the conformal anomaly, in the form of anomaly poles of the 1-particle irreducible effective action, and its description in terms of Wess-Zumino actions with a dilaton. The two descriptions are expected to capture the UV and IR behaviour of the conformal anomaly, in terms of fundamental and effective degrees of freedom respectively, with the dilaton effective state appearing in a nonlinear realization. As in the chiral case, conformal anomalies seem to be related to the appearance of these effective interactions in the 1PI action in all the gauge-invariant sectors of the Standard Model. We show that, as a consequence of the underlying anomalous symmetry, the infinite hierarchy of recurrence relations involving self-interactions of the dilaton is entirely determined only by the first four of them. This relation can be generalized to any even space-time dimension.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures
Pulmonary Immunization Using Antigen 85-B Polymeric Microparticles to Boost Tuberculosis Immunity
Creators: name: McMurray, David N.
name: Braunstein, Miriam
name: Hickey, Anthony James
name: Padilla, Danielle
name: Muttil, Pavan
name: Xu, Ding
name: Garcia-Contreras, Lucila
name: Liu, Jian
name: Lu, Dongmei
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: This study aims to evaluate immunization with polymeric microparticles containing recombinant antigen 85B (rAg85B) delivered directly to the lungs to protect against tuberculosis. rAg85B was expressed in Escherichia coli and encapsulated in poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) microparticles (P-rAg85B). These were delivered as dry powders to the lungs of guinea pigs in single or multiple doses of homologous and heterologous antigens. Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) delivered subcutaneously was employed as the positive control and as part of immunization strategies. Immunized animals were challenged with a low-dose aerosol of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) H37Rv to assess the extent of protection measured as reduction in bacterial burden (CFU) in the lungs and spleens of guinea pigs. Histopathological examination and morphometric analysis of these tissues were also performed. The heterologous strategy of BCG prime-P-rAg85B aerosol boosts appeared to enhance protection from bacterial infection, as indicated by a reduction in CFU in both the lungs and spleens compared with untreated controls. Although the CFU data were not statistically different from the BCG and BCG-BCG groups, the histopathological and morphometric analyses indicated the positive effect of BCG-P-rAg85B in terms of differences in area of tissue affected and number and size of granulomas observed in tissues. P-rAg85B microparticles appeared to be effective in boosting a primary BCG immunization against MTB infection, as indicated by histopathology and morphometric analysis. These encouraging observations are relevant to boosting adults previously immunized with BCG or exposed to MTB, commonly the case in the developing world, and should be followed by further assessment of an appropriate immunization protocol for maximum protection.
"fnl2332d_I1208923.tab.gz" of "Measurements of differential jet cross sections in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV with the CMS detector"
Creators: name: CMS Collaboration
Publisher: name: HEPData
Year: 2015

description: Link to fastNLO v2.1 table (inclusive jets)
description: CERN-LHC. Measurements of the differential cross sections for inclusive jet and dijet production in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. Using a data sample of integrated luminosity of 5 fb-1, inclusive jet PT cross sections up to a PT of 2 TeV in five intervals of |rapidity| from 0 to 2.5 are presented as well as the invariant mass distributions of dijets up to a mass of 5 TeV in the 5 intervals of |rapidity|. Jets are reconstructed using the anti-kt algorithm with distance parameter R=0.7. The cross sections are fully corrected for detector effects. Note: The systematic errors on the inclusive cross sections were incorrectly displayed here, and were corrected on 10/3/2015.
People of Color
Creators: name: Ha, Noa K.
Publisher: name: Universität Osnabrück
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Rassismuserfahrung
subject: Selbstbezeichnung
subject: Afro-Deutsche
subject: Schwarze Deutsche
subject: Rassifizierung
subject: 300 - Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
subject: 71.37 - Ethnosoziologie

description: People of Color (PoC) ist ein politischer Bündnisbegriff zur Selbstbezeichnung von Menschen, die rassistische Erfahrungen im Alltag machen. Obschon die Bezeichnung PoC seit den 1990er Jahren in Deutschland zunehmend verwendet wird – mittlerweile auch erweitert als BPoC für Black and People of Color –, gab es auch davor schon Begriffe, mit denen migrantisierte Menschen sich selbst bezeichneten und so gegen rassistische Fremdzuschreibungen zur Wehr setzten. Als besondere Formen der Selbstbezeichnung werden die Begriffsgeschichten von Afro-Deutsche/Schwarze Deutsche, Kanak/Kanake und Asiatische Deutsche kurz vorgestellt. Um die Relevanz dieser Begriffe für eine selbstbestimmte und widerständige Praxis der Selbstbezeichnung herauszuarbeiten, geht der Beitrag zudem darauf ein, welche gesellschaftlichen Prozesse als Rassismus und Rassifizierung gefasst werden – und wie diese mit Prozessen der Veranderung durch Migration verschränkt sind.
In Vitro and In Vivo Evaluation of a Water-in-Oil Microemulsion System for Enhanced Peptide Intestinal Delivery
Creators: name: Gambling, Todd M.
name: Li, Fengling
name: Liu, Dongyun
name: Kobayashi, Taku
name: Russo, Steven
name: Carson, Johnny L.
name: Mumper, Russell J.
name: Plevy, Scott E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Peptide and protein drugs have become the new generation of therapeutics, yet most of them are only available as injections, and reports on oral local intestinal delivery of peptides and proteins are quite limited. The aim of this work was to develop and evaluate a water-in-oil (w/o) microemulsion system in vitro and in vivo for local intestinal delivery of water-soluble peptides after oral administration. A fluorescent labeled peptide, 5-(and-6)-carboxytetramethylrhodamine labeled HIV transactivator protein TAT (TAMRA-TAT), was used as a model peptide. Water-in-oil microemulsions consisting of Miglyol 812, Capmul MCM, Tween 80, and water were developed and characterized in terms of appearance, viscosity, conductivity, morphology, and particle size analysis. TAMRA-TAT was loaded and its enzymatic stability was assessed in modified simulated intestinal fluid (MSIF) in vitro. In in vivo studies, TAMRA-TAT intestinal distribution was evaluated using fluorescence microscopy after TAMRA-TAT microemulsion, TAMRA-TAT solution, and placebo microemulsion were orally gavaged to mice. The half-life of TAMRA-TAT in microemulsion was enhanced nearly three-fold compared to that in the water solution when challenged by MSIF. The treatment with TAMRA-TAT microemulsion after oral administration resulted in greater fluorescence intensity in all intestine sections (duodenum, jejunum, ileum, and colon) compared to TAMRA-TAT solution or placebo microemulsion. The in vitro and in vivo studies together suggested TAMRA-TAT was better protected in the w/o microemulsion in an enzyme-containing environment, suggesting that the w/o microemulsions developed in this study may serve as a potential delivery vehicle for local intestinal delivery of peptides or proteins after oral administration.
"dijet_corr.html" of "Measurements of differential jet cross sections in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV with the CMS detector"
Creators: name: CMS Collaboration
Publisher: name: HEPData
Year: 2015

description: Link to correlation matrices for the Dijet data
description: CERN-LHC. Measurements of the differential cross sections for inclusive jet and dijet production in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. Using a data sample of integrated luminosity of 5 fb-1, inclusive jet PT cross sections up to a PT of 2 TeV in five intervals of |rapidity| from 0 to 2.5 are presented as well as the invariant mass distributions of dijets up to a mass of 5 TeV in the 5 intervals of |rapidity|. Jets are reconstructed using the anti-kt algorithm with distance parameter R=0.7. The cross sections are fully corrected for detector effects. Note: The systematic errors on the inclusive cross sections were incorrectly displayed here, and were corrected on 10/3/2015.
URock 2023a: Data and Code to use to reproduce the evaluation of the model
Creators: name: Bernard, Jérémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: URock
Urban climate
wind speed
GIS

description: This deposit contains a zip file that once unzipped can be used to reproduce most of the work presented in the manuscript describing the URock 2023a model. Please refer to the Readme located at the root of the unzipped folder to reproduce the work.
A new analytic representation of the ringdown waveform of coalescing spinning black hole binaries
Creators: name: Damour, Thibault
name: Nagar, Alessandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new way of analyzing, and analytically representing, the ringdown part of the gravitational wave signal emitted by coalescing black hole binaries.By contrast with the usual {\it linear} decomposition of the multipolar complex waveform $h(t)$ in a sum of quasi-normal modes, our procedure relies on a {\it multiplicative} decomposition of $h(t)$ as the product of the fundamental quasi-normal mode with a remaining time-dependent complex factor whose amplitude and phase are separately fitted. As an illustrative example, we apply our analysis and fitting procedure to the ringdown part of a sample of sixteen $\ell=m=2$ equal-mass, spinning, nonprecessing, numerical waveforms computed with the SP$_{\rm E}$C code,now publicly available in the SXS catalogue. Our approach yields an efficient and accurate way to represent the ringdown waveform, thereby offering a new way to complete the analytical effective-one-body inspiral-plus-plunge waveform.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures. Results improved with respect to first version. To appear in Phys. Rev. D
"fnl2412e_I1208923.tab.gz" of "Measurements of differential jet cross sections in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV with the CMS detector"
Creators: name: CMS Collaboration
Publisher: name: HEPData
Year: 2015

description: Link to fastNLO v2.1 table (dijet mass)
description: CERN-LHC. Measurements of the differential cross sections for inclusive jet and dijet production in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. Using a data sample of integrated luminosity of 5 fb-1, inclusive jet PT cross sections up to a PT of 2 TeV in five intervals of |rapidity| from 0 to 2.5 are presented as well as the invariant mass distributions of dijets up to a mass of 5 TeV in the 5 intervals of |rapidity|. Jets are reconstructed using the anti-kt algorithm with distance parameter R=0.7. The cross sections are fully corrected for detector effects. Note: The systematic errors on the inclusive cross sections were incorrectly displayed here, and were corrected on 10/3/2015.
URock 2013a: Data and Code to use to reproduce the evaluation of the model
Creators: name: Bernard, Jérémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: URock
Urban climate
wind speed
GIS

description: This deposit contains a zip file that once unzipped can be used to reproduce most of the work presented in the manuscript describing the URock 2023a model. Please refer to the Readme located at the root of the unzipped folder to reproduce the work.
Resolving the stellar components of the massive multiple system Herschel 36 with AMBER/VLTI
Creators: name: Sanchez-Bermudez, J.
name: Alberdi, A.
name: Schödel, R.
name: Hummel, C. A.
name: Arias, J. I.
name: Barbá, R. H.
name: Apellániz, J. Maíz
name: Pott, J. -U.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context: Massive stars are extremely important for the evolution of the galaxies; there are large gaps in our understanding of their properties and formation, however, mainly because they evolve rapidly, are rare, and distant. It may well be that almost all massive stars are born as triples or higher multiples, but their large distances require very high angular resolution to directly detect the companions at milliarcsecond scales. Aims: Herschel36 is a young massive system located at 1.3 kpc. It has a combined smallest predicted mass of 45 M_sun. Multi-epoch spectroscopic data suggest the existence of at least three gravitationally bound components. Two of them, system Ab, are tightly bound in a spectroscopic binary, and the third one, component Aa, orbits in a wider orbit. Our aim was to image and obtain astrometric and photometric measurements of components Aa and Ab using, for the first time, long-baseline optical interferometry to further constrain its nature. Methods: We observed Herschel 36 with the near-infrared instrument AMBER attached to the ESO VLT Interferometer, which provides an angular resolution of approx. 2 mas. We used the code BSMEM to perform the interferometric image reconstruction. We fitted the interferometric observables using proprietary IDL routines and the code LitPro. Results: We imaged the Aa+Ab components of Herschel 36 in H and K filters. Component Ab is located at a projected distance of 1.81 mas, at a position angle of approx. 222 deg. east of north, the flux ratio between components Aa and Ab is close to one. The small measured angular separation indicates that system Ab and Ab may be approaching the periastron of their orbits. These results, only achievable with long-baseline near-infrared interferometry, constitute the first step toward a thorough understanding of this massive triple system.
description: accepted for publication by A&A, 4 pages, 4 figures
Nonaqueous Gel for the Transdermal Delivery of a DTPA Penta-ethyl Ester Prodrug
Creators: name: Pacyniak, Erik K.
name: Yang, Yu-Tsai
name: Braun, Brenda A.
name: Zhang, Yong
name: Mumper, Russell J.
name: Jay, Michael
name: Sueda, Katsuhiko
name: Kagel, John R.
name: Zamboni, William C.
name: Sadgrove, Matthew P.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid penta-ethyl ester, designated as C2E5, was successfully incorporated into a nonaqueous gel for transdermal delivery. The thermal and rheological properties of a formulation containing 40% C2E5, 20% ethyl cellulose, and 40% Miglyol 840® prepared using the solvent evaporation method demonstrated that the gel had acceptable content uniformity and flow properties. In vitro studies showed that C2E5 was steadily released from the gel at a rate suitable for transdermal delivery. Topical application of the gel at a 200 mg C2E5/kg dose level in rats achieved significantly higher plasma exposures of several active metabolites compared with neat C2E5 oil at the same dose level. The results suggest that transdermal delivery of a chelator prodrug is an effective radionuclide decorporation strategy by delivering chelators to the circulation with a pharmacokinetic profile that is more consistent with the biokinetic profile of transuranic elements in contaminated individuals.
Radionuclide Decorporation: Matching the Biokinetics of Actinides by Transdermal Delivery of Pro-chelators
Creators: name: Sadgrove, Matthew P.
name: Zhang, Yong
name: Jay, Michael
name: Mumper, Russell J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: The threat of nuclear terrorism by the deliberate detonation of a nuclear weapon or radiological dispersion device ("dirty bomb") has made emergency response planning a priority. The only FDA-approved treatments for contamination with isotopes of the transuranic elements Am, Pu, and Cm are the Ca and Zn salts of diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA). These injectable products are not well suited for use in a mass contamination scenario as they require skilled professionals for their administration and are rapidly cleared from the circulation. To overcome the mismatch in the pharmacokinetics of the DTPA and the biokinetics of these transuranic elements, which are slowly released from contamination sites, the penta-ethyl ester of DTPA (C2E5) was prepared and formulated in a nonaqueous gel for transdermal administration. When gels comprised of 40% C2E5, 40-45% Miglyol® 840, and 15-20% ethyl cellulose were spiked with [(14)C]-C2E5 and applied to rat skin; over 60% of the applied dose was absorbed within a 24-h period. Radioactivity was observed in urinary and fecal excretions for over 3 days after removal of the gel. Using an (241)Am wound contamination model, transdermal C2E5 gels were able to enhance total body elimination and reduce the liver and skeletal burden of (241)Am in a dose-dependent manner. The efficacy achieved by a single 1,000 mg/kg dose to contaminated rats was statistically comparable to intravenous Ca-DTPA at 14 mg/kg. The effectiveness of this treatment, favorable sustained release profile of pro-chelators, and ease of administration support its use following radiological emergencies and for its inclusion in the Strategic National Stockpile.
TRANSLATING FOR AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES
Creators: name: PAȘCALĂU, Raul
name: Smuleac, Laura
name: Stanciu, Sorin
name: Imbrea, Florin
name: Salasan, Cosmin
name: Feher, Andrea
name: Sabau, Gianina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Sustainable agricultural development

description: Agriculture had a definitory role in human lives since the beginning of mankind
 because it was the first area from where people could feed and produce food for daily subsistence. Since
 those times, through images and signs, marked on wood or stone plates, there has been the first
 representation of the translations in agriculture. Taken from ancient times, the drawings, figures, images,
 had to be interpreted and translated so that the main purpose, their use accordingly, was reached. Both
 agriculture and translation evolved and developed in the same time. It used the first types of translations,
 very important ones, to cultivate, to crop, to irrigate, interpreting and translating the symbols, the signs,
 the images for different operations. All the innovation technologies present in agriculture, from the very
 beginning to nowadays, went hand in hand with the evolution of translation and methods, tools and
 diversification of services, according to the needs on the labor market. The value of the agriculture and
 especially of the traditional agriculture and the one of the translations within one of the most important
 areas with a higher impact on the level of living, including the transition to a modern agriculture
 nowadays, with high tech tools, equipment and machinery, CAT tools and digital devices, is given by the
 output across time and by the results in the society, by the level of living and by the increase and
 development of the local, regional, national, international trade.
A Consistency Result for Bayes Classifiers with Censored Response Data
Creators: name: Wijayatunga, Priyantha
name: de Luna, Xavier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Naive Bayes classifiers have proven to be useful in many prediction problems with complete training data. Here we consider the situation where a naive Bayes classifier is trained with data where the response is right censored. Such prediction problems are for instance encountered in profiling systems used at National Employment Agencies. In this paper we propose the maximum collective conditional likelihood estimator for the prediction and show that it is strongly consistent under the usual identifiability condition.
"dijet_sys.html" of "Measurements of differential jet cross sections in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV with the CMS detector"
Creators: name: CMS Collaboration
Publisher: name: HEPData
Year: 2015

description: Link to the detailed systematics for the DiJet data
description: CERN-LHC. Measurements of the differential cross sections for inclusive jet and dijet production in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. Using a data sample of integrated luminosity of 5 fb-1, inclusive jet PT cross sections up to a PT of 2 TeV in five intervals of |rapidity| from 0 to 2.5 are presented as well as the invariant mass distributions of dijets up to a mass of 5 TeV in the 5 intervals of |rapidity|. Jets are reconstructed using the anti-kt algorithm with distance parameter R=0.7. The cross sections are fully corrected for detector effects. Note: The systematic errors on the inclusive cross sections were incorrectly displayed here, and were corrected on 10/3/2015.