cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
MPEC 2023-W07 : DAILY ORBIT UPDATE (2023 November 16)
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.
Controlling interactions in supported bilayers from weak electrostatic repulsion to high osmotic pressure
Creators: name: Hemmerle, Arnaud
name: Malaquin, Linda
name: Charitat, Thierry
name: Lecuyer, Sigolène
name: Fragneto, Giovanna
name: Daillant, Jean
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Understanding interactions between membranes requires measurements on well-controlled systems close to natural conditions, in which fluctuations play an important role. We have determined, by grazing incidence X-ray scattering, the interaction potential between two lipid bilayers, one adsorbed on a solid surface and the other floating close by. We find that interactions in this highly hydrated model system are two orders of magnitude softer than in previously reported work on multilayer stacks. This is attributed to the weak electrostatic repulsion due to the small fraction of ionized lipids in supported bilayers with a lower number of defects. Our data are consistent with the Poisson-Boltzmann theory, in the regime where repulsion is dominated by the entropy of counter ions. We also have unique access to very weak entropic repulsion potentials, which allowed us to discriminate between the various models proposed in the literature. We further demonstrate that the interaction potential between supported bilayers can be tuned at will by applying osmotic pressure, providing a way to manipulate these model membranes, thus considerably enlarging the range of biological or physical problems that can be addressed.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures
Favorable clinical response and drug retention of anti-IL-6 receptor inhibitor in rheumatoid arthritis with high CRP levels: the ANSWER cohort study
Creators: name: Nakayama, Y
name: Hashimoto, M
name: Watanabe, R
name: Murakami, K
name: Murata, K
name: Tanaka, M
name: Ito, H
name: Yamamoto, W
name: Ebina, K
name: Hata, K
name: Hiramatsu, Y
name: Katayama, M
name: Son, Y
name: Amuro, H
name: Akashi, K
name: Onishi, A
name: Hara, R
name: Yamamoto, K
name: Ohmura, K
name: Matsuda, S
name: Morinobu, A
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Currently, biological disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (bDMARDs) with different modes of action [tumour necrosis factor inhibitor (TNFi), interleukin-6 receptor inhibitor (IL-6Ri), or cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen 4–immunoglobulin (CTLA4-Ig)] are used in clinical practice to treat rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, it is unclear which type of bDMARD is the most efficacious for a specific clinical situation. C-reactive protein (CRP) is an acute-phase reactant driven by IL-6 signalling. Here, we aimed to establish whether therapeutic efficacy differs between IL-6Ri and other bDMARDs with alternative modes of action in RA patients according to their CRP level. RA patients treated with bDMARDs were enrolled from an observational multicentre registry in Japan. Patients were classified into three groups according to baseline CRP tertiles. The overall 3 year retention rates of each bDMARD category were assessed. The Clinical Disease Activity Index (CDAI) was also assessed before and 3, 6, and 12 months after bDMARD initiation. A total of 1438 RA patients were included and classified into three groups according to tertiles of baseline CRP levels (CRP1, 0–0.3; CRP2, 0.3–1.8; CRP3, 1.8–18.4 mg/dL). In CRP3, the overall 3 year drug retention rates were significantly higher for IL-6Ri than for TNFi and CTLA4-Ig (77.5 vs 48.2 vs 67.3, respectively). No significant difference was evident in terms of CDAI 12 months after bDMARD initiation in CRP1–CRP3. IL-6Ri may be a favourable therapeutic option over TNFi and CTLA4-Ig in RA patients with high CRP levels.
Some exact results on CP and CPT violations in a $C=-1$ entangled pseudoscalar neutral meson pair
Creators: name: Shi, Yu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider neutral pseudoscalar mesons in an entangled or Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen state with $C=-1$. Due to quantum entanglement and antisymmetry of this state, the rates of the joint decays of the meson pair display various interesting features, as is well known. As functions of CP and CPT violating parameters, here we obtain some exact results about the joint decay rates and their asymmetries for a given time difference defined for joint decays to flavor eigenstates, as well as those for joint decays to CP eigenstates. The entanglement allows a meaningful and useful definition of the transition amplitude from a CP eigenstate of a meson. These results yield useful information and criteria on CP and CPT violations.
description: minor corrections. 14 pages, published in EPJC
Additional file 1 of Prevalence, pain intensity and symptoms associated with primary dysmenorrhea: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Barbosa-Silva, Jordana
name: Avila, Mariana Arias
name: de Oliveira, Raissa Fernanda
name: Dedicação, Anny Caroline
name: Godoy, Amanda Garcia
name: Rodrigues, Jessica Cordeiro
name: Driusso, Patricia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
Wilson loops T-dual to Short Strings
Creators: name: Kruczenski, M.
name: Tseytlin, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that closed string solutions in the bulk of AdS space are related by T-duality to solutions representing an open string ending at the boundary of AdS. By combining the limit in which a closed string becomes small with a large boost, we find that the near-flat space short string in the bulk maps to a periodic open string world surface ending on a wavy line at the boundary. This open string solution was previously found by Mikhailov and corresponds to a time-like near BPS Wilson loop differing by small fluctuations from a straight line. A simple relation is found between the shape of the Wilson loop and the shape of the closed string at the moment when it crosses the horizon of the Poincare patch. As a result, the energy and spin of the closed string are encoded in properties of the Wilson loop. This suggests that closed string amplitudes with one of the closed strings falling into the Poincare horizon should be dual to gauge theory correlators involving local operators and a Wilson loop of the T-dual ("momentum") theory.
description: 35 pages, 3 figures. v2: comments added
Incidence and prevalence of rheumatoid arthritis in Denmark from 1998 to 2018: a nationwide register-based study
Creators: name: Soussi, BG
name: Cordtz, RL
name: Kristensen, S
name: Bork, CS
name: Christensen, JH
name: Schmidt, EB
name: Torp-Pedersen, C
name: Prieto-Alhambra, D
name: Dreyer, L
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: To investigate the incidence and prevalence of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in the adult Danish population. In this nationwide register-based cohort study, patients with incident RA between 1998 and the end of 2018 were identified using Danish administrative registries. The age- and sex-standardized incidence rate (IR), incidence proportion (IP), lifetime risk (LR), and point prevalence (PP) of RA were calculated. RA was defined as a first-time RA diagnosis registered in the Danish National Patient Registry combined with a redeemed prescription of a conventional synthetic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drug in the following year. In addition, three different case definitions of RA were explored. The overall age- and sex-standardized IR of RA from 1998 to 2018 was 35.5 [95% confidence interval (CI) 35.1–35.9] per 100 000 person-years while the IP was 35.2 (95% CI 34.8–35.5) per 100 000 individuals. The IR was two-fold higher for women than for men. The LR of RA ranged from 2.3% to 3.4% for women and from 1.1% to 1.5% for men, depending on the RA case definition used. The overall PP of RA was 0.6% (95% CI 0.5–0.6%) in 2018: 0.8% (95% CI 0.7–0.8%) for women and 0.3% (95% CI 0.3–0.4%) for men. The prevalence increased about 1.5-fold from 2000 to 2018. The IR and PP were approximately two-fold higher for women than for men. The prevalence of RA in Denmark increased significantly from 2000 to 2018. The RA case definition had more impact on the results than the choice of denominator.
Measuring the total and baryonic mass profiles of the very massive CASSOWARY 31 strong lens. A fossil system at z ~ 0.7?
Creators: name: Grillo, C.
name: Christensen, L.
name: Gallazzi, A.
name: Rasmussen, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the total and baryonic mass distributions in deflector number 31 of the Cambridge And Sloan Survey Of Wide ARcs in the skY (CASSOWARY). We confirm spectroscopically a four-image lensing system at redshift 1.4870 with VLT/X-shooter observations. The lensed images are distributed around a bright early-type galaxy at redshift 0.683, surrounded by several smaller galaxies at similar photometric redshifts. We use available optical and X-ray data to constrain the deflector total, stellar, and hot gas mass through, respectively, strong lensing, stellar population analysis, and plasma modelling. We derive a total mass projected within the Einstein radius R_Ein = 70 kpc of (40 +/- 1) x 10^12 M_Sun, and a central logarithmic slope of -1.7 +/- 0.2 for the total mass density. Despite a very high stellar mass and velocity dispersion of the central galaxy of (3 +/- 1) x 10^12 M_Sun and (450 +/- 80) km/s, respectively, the cumulative stellar-to-total mass profile of the deflector implies a remarkably low stellar mass fraction of 20% (3%-6%) in projection within the central galaxy effective radius R_e = 25 kpc (R = 100 kpc). We also find that the CSWA 31 deflector has properties suggesting it to be among the most distant and massive fossil systems studied so far. The unusually strong central dark matter dominance and the possible fossil nature of this system renders it an interesting target for detailed tests of cosmological models and structure formation scenarios.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, accepted by MNRAS
Immunogenicity of the mRNA-1273 and ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccines in Asian patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases under biologic and/or conventional immunosuppressant treatments
Creators: name: Liao, H-T
name: Tung, H-Y
name: Chou, C-T
name: Tsai, H-C
name: Yen, Y-N
name: Tsai, C-Y
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Nucleic acid-based vaccines against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection are effective in the general population. However, it is unknown whether this is true in Asian patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases (ARDs) who have received various combinations of disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs). We designed a large prospective observational study recruiting 228 patients with ARDs in a tertiary rheumatology centre in Taiwan. Altogether, 142 received biological or targeted synthetic DMARDs and 86 received only conventional synthetic (cs) DMARDs. Serum levels of immunoglobulin G antibody against SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins were measured 2–6 weeks after COVID-19 vaccination with mRNA-1273 (Moderna®) or ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 (Oxford/AstraZeneca®). The immunomodulatory therapies were not modified before or after vaccination. Overall, 194 patients (85.09%) exhibited antibodies (758.33 ± 808.43 ng/mL) but 34 patients did not (103.24 ± 41.08 ng/mL). Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus or rheumatoid arthritis had significantly lower humoral responses to COVID-19 vaccination than those with other ARDs (p < 0.05). There was no significant difference in immunogenicity among patients on different csDMARD treatments. Compared to patients treated with only csDMARDs, those on rituximab or abatacept therapy had significantly lower immune response to the vaccination (p = 0.008 and p = 0.035, respectively). Patients who were treated with anti-tumour necrosis factor-α or interleukin-6 inhibitor exhibited higher titres of vaccination antibodies than those treated with direct lymphocyte inhibitors. mRNA-1273 and ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccines were immunogenic in the majority of ARD patients. Rituximab and abatacept were associated with significantly diminished COVID-19 vaccination immunogenicity.
ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКАЯ РОЛЬ КНР В ШОС
Creators: name: Жакипов Н.А
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: economic cooperation
economic role

description: Данная статья посвящена изучению экономической роли Китайской Народной Республики в ШОС. Это исследование представляет собой обзор состояния знаний об экономических отношениях между Китаем и ШОС, включая такие темы, как торговля, инвестиции и финансовая интеграция. В нем также обсуждаются потенциальные вызовы экономическому сотрудничеству в рамках ШОС, включая неравномерное развитие и риск экономической зависимости. В исследовании будет представлен всесторонний анализ экономического присутствия Китая в регионе и его влияния на региональное экономическое сотрудничество и интеграцию. Результаты этого исследования будут иметь важные последствия для будущего развития ШОС и ее государств-членов, особенно в контексте растущей экономической взаимозависимости между странами региона.
Solar induced growth of silver nanocrystals
Creators: name: Thøgersen, Annett
name: Muntingh, Georg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effect of solar irradiation on plasmonic silver nanocrystals has been investigated using Transmission Electron Microscopy and size distribution analysis, in the context of solar cell applications for light harvesting. Starting from an initial collection of spherical nanocrystals on a carbon film whose sizes are log-normally distributed, solar irradiation causes the nanocrystals to grow, with one particle reaching a diameter of 638 nm after four hours of irradiation. In addition some of the larger particles lose their spherical shape. The average nanocrystal diameter was found to grow as predicted by the Ostwald ripening model, taking into account the range of area fractions of the samples. The size distribution stays approximately log-normal and does not reach one of the steady-state size distributions predicted by the Ostwald ripening model. This might be explained by the system being in a transient state.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Anomalous transport in the crowded world of biological cells
Creators: name: Höfling, Felix
name: Franosch, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A ubiquitous observation in cell biology is that diffusion of macromolecules and organelles is anomalous, and a description simply based on the conventional diffusion equation with diffusion constants measured in dilute solution fails. This is commonly attributed to macromolecular crowding in the interior of cells and in cellular membranes, summarising their densely packed and heterogeneous structures. The most familiar phenomenon is a power-law increase of the MSD, but there are other manifestations like strongly reduced and time-dependent diffusion coefficients, persistent correlations, non-gaussian distributions of the displacements, heterogeneous diffusion, and immobile particles. After a general introduction to the statistical description of slow, anomalous transport, we summarise some widely used theoretical models: gaussian models like FBM and Langevin equations for visco-elastic media, the CTRW model, and the Lorentz model describing obstructed transport in a heterogeneous environment. Emphasis is put on the spatio-temporal properties of the transport in terms of 2-point correlation functions, dynamic scaling behaviour, and how the models are distinguished by their propagators even for identical MSDs. Then, we review the theory underlying common experimental techniques in the presence of anomalous transport: single-particle tracking, FCS, and FRAP. We report on the large body of recent experimental evidence for anomalous transport in crowded biological media: in cyto- and nucleoplasm as well as in cellular membranes, complemented by in vitro experiments where model systems mimic physiological crowding conditions. Finally, computer simulations play an important role in testing the theoretical models and corroborating the experimental findings. The review is completed by a synthesis of the theoretical and experimental progress identifying open questions for future investigation.
description: review article, to appear in Rep. Prog. Phys
title: Examining the impact of multiple tests on metamemory for emotional images
Creators: name: Gonsalves, Chavon Danial
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfounland
Year: 2023

description: Individuals engage in metamemory when they perceive, control, and monitor their memories. Metamemory research often focuses on participants’ accuracy in predicting future memory performance, commonly referred to as judgements of learning (JOLs). Participants often show higher JOLs for emotional (especially negative) content than for neutral content, but their recognition accuracy is often contradictory to these predictions, with better performance for neutral content. As JOLs may be the result of misunderstanding test conditions, participants may benefit from experience with test conditions to calibrate themselves better and adjust their JOLs to match their recognition accuracy. In the present study, participants studied a list of positive, negative, and neutral images while providing JOLs, and then completed an old/new recognition test. They then completed a second block of the same procedure, but with new images. JOLs were highest for negative emotional images in the first block, but recognition accuracy was highest for neutral images. JOLs were even less accurate on the second block, again showing the highest JOLs but the lowest recognition accuracy for negative images; experience did not calibrate participants to provide more accurate JOLs. Theoretical implications regarding the impact of emotion on metamemory for images and future directions of research are discussed.
Birthweight, body size, and growth during childhood and risks of rheumatoid arthritis: a large Danish cohort study
Creators: name: Thomas, PE
name: Aarestrup, J
name: Jacobsen, S
name: Jensen, BW
name: Baker, JL
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Adult obesity may be positively associated with risks of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), but associations with early life body size are unknown. We examined whether birthweight, childhood body mass index (BMI), height, and changes in BMI and height were associated with risks of adult RA. A cohort of 346 602 children (171 127 girls) from the Copenhagen School Health Records Register, born in 1930–1996, with measured weights and heights from 7 to 13 years of age, were included. Information on RA, including serological status, came from national registers from 1977 to 2017. Cox regressions were performed. During a median of 35.1 years of observation time per person, 4991 individuals (3565 women) were registered with RA. Among girls, per BMI z-score, risks of RA and seropositive RA increased by 4–9% and 6–10%, respectively. Girls with overweight had higher risks of RA than girls without overweight. Girls who became overweight by 13 years of age had increased risks of RA compared to girls without overweight at 7 or 13 years (hazard ratio = 1.40, 95% confidence interval 1.19–1.66). For boys, associations between BMI and RA (including seropositive RA) were not statistically significant. Height was not associated with RA (any type) in girls. Taller boys had higher risks of RA, especially seropositive RA. Birthweight was not associated with RA. Among women, childhood adiposity was associated with increased risks of RA. Among men, childhood height was positively associated with risks of RA. These findings support the hypothesis that early life factors may be important in the aetiology of RA.
Unconventional magnetostructural transition in CoCr2O4 at high magnetic fields
Creators: name: Tsurkan, V.
name: Zherlitsyn, S.
name: Yasin, S.
name: Felea, V.
name: Skourski, Y.
name: Deisenhofer, J.
name: von Nidda, H. -A. Krug
name: Wosnitza, J.
name: Loidl, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The magnetic-field and temperature dependencies of ultrasound propagation and magnetization of single-crystalline CoCr2O4 have been studied in static and pulsed magnetic fields up to 14 T and 62 T, respectively. Distinct anomalies with significant changes in the sound velocity and attenuation are found in this spinel compound at the onset of long-range incommensurate spiral-spin order at T_s = 27 K and at the transition from the incommensurate to the commensurate state at T_l = 14 K, evidencing strong spin-lattice coupling. While the magnetization evolves gradually with field, steplike increments in the ultrasound clearly signal a transition into a new magneto-structural state between 6.2 and 16.5 K and at high magnetic fields. We argue that this is a high-symmetry phase with only the longitudinal component of the magnetization being ordered, while the transverse helical component remains disordered. This phase is metastable in an extended H-T phase space.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Bright solitons from the nonpolynomial Schrödinger equation with inhomogeneous defocusing nonlinearities
Creators: name: Cardoso, W. B.
name: Zeng, J.
name: Avelar, A. T.
name: Bazeia, D.
name: Malomed, B. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Extending the recent work on models with spatially nonuniform nonlinearities, we study bright solitons generated by the nonpolynomial self-defocusing (SDF) nonlinearity in the framework of the one-dimensional (1D) Muñoz-Mateo - Delgado (MM-D) equation (the 1D reduction of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation with the SDF nonlinearity), with the local strength of the nonlinearity growing at any rate faster than |x| at large values of coordinate x. We produce numerical solutions and analytical ones, obtained by means of the Thomas-Fermi approximation (TFA), for nodeless ground states, and for excited modes with 1, 2, 3, and 4 nodes, in two versions of the model, with the steep (exponential) and mild (algebraic) nonlinear-modulation profiles. In both cases, the ground states and the single-node ones are completely stable, while the stability of the higher-order modes depends on their norm (in the case of the algebraic modulation, they are fully unstable). Unstable states spontaneously evolve into their stable lower-order counterparts.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures, (Physical Review E, in press)
Black hole motion in Euclidean space as a diffusion process II
Creators: name: Ropotenko, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A diffusion equation approach to black hole thermodynamics in Euclidean sector is proposed. A diffusion equation for a generic in Euclidean sector is derived from the Bloch equation. Black hole thermodynamics is also derived and it is found, in particular, that the entropy of a generic Kerr-Newman black hole is the same, apart from the logarithmic corrections, as the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of the black hole.
description: 5 pages, no figures; v3: a Kerr-Newman black holea is described by the canonical density matrix for a particle moving in a potential, not by the grand canonical density matrix; title, abstract and text slightly changed; results remains unchanged
Mathematics and Turbulence: where do we stand?
Creators: name: Bardos, Claude
name: Titi, Edriss S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 35Q30, 35Q31, 76D03, 76D09

description: This contribution covers the topics presented by the authors at the {\it ``Fundamental Problems of Turbulence, 50 Years after the Marseille Conference 1961"} meeting that took place in Marseille in 2011. It focuses on some of the mathematical approaches to fluid dynamics and turbulence. This contribution does not pretend to cover or answer, as the reader may discover, the fundamental questions in turbulence, however, it aims toward presenting some of the most recent advances in attacking these questions using rigorous mathematical tools. Moreover, we consider that the proofs of the mathematical statements (concerning, for instance, finite time regularity, weak solutions and vanishing viscosity) may contain information as relevant, to the understanding of the underlying problem, as the statements themselves.
Tapering of Etanercept is feasible in patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis in sustained remission: a pragmatic randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Bertrand, D
name: Stouten, V
name: De Cock, D
name: Pazmino, S
name: Doumen, M
name: de Wergifosse, I
name: Joly, J
name: Badot, V
name: Corluy, L
name: Hoffman, I
name: Taelman, V
name: De Knop, K
name: Geens, E
name: Langenaken, C
name: Lenaerts, JL
name: Lenaerts, J
name: Walschot, M
name: Mannaerts, J
name: Westhovens, R
name: Verschueren, P
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: In patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in sustained remission, tapering of biological disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs can be considered. Tapering has already been investigated, but its feasibility remains to be determined. Therefore, we explored the feasibility of tapering etanercept in RA in a setting close to practice. Patients with RA in 28-joint Disease Activity Score (DAS28) remission (≥ 6 months) and treated with etanercept 50 mg weekly (≥ 1 year) were included in the pragmatic 1 year open-label multicentre randomized controlled TapERA (Tapering Etanercept in Rheumatoid Arthritis) trial. Patients were assigned to continue etanercept weekly or to taper to every other week (EOW). Patients who lost remission [DAS28–C-reactive protein (CRP) ≥ 2.6] were re-escalated to etanercept weekly. The primary outcome was the proportion of patients maintaining DAS28-CRP remission for 6 months. Sixty-six patients were randomized to etanercept weekly (n = 34) or EOW (n = 32). After 6 months, 26/34 patients (76%) in the weekly and 19/32 (59%) in the EOW group maintained disease control (p = 0.136). In the EOW group, 20/32 patients (63%) remained on their tapered treatment during the trial. Two patients reintroduced weekly etanercept themselves. Ten patients were re-escalated to etanercept weekly by the rheumatologist, after a median (interquartile range) interval of 3.0 (2.0–6.0) months. Among these patients, 7/10 regained remission after re-escalation, four of them at the next study visit. Although non-inferiority could not be demonstrated, tapering of etanercept to EOW appeared feasible in patients in sustained remission.
An accurate geometric distance to the compact binary SS Cygni vindicates accretion disc theory
Creators: name: Miller-Jones, J. C. A.
name: Sivakoff, G. R.
name: Knigge, C.
name: Körding, E. G.
name: Templeton, M.
name: Waagen, E. O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dwarf novae are white dwarfs accreting matter from a nearby red dwarf companion. Their regular outbursts are explained by a thermal-viscous instability in the accretion disc, described by the disc instability model that has since been successfully extended to other accreting systems. However, the prototypical dwarf nova, SS Cygni, presents a major challenge to our understanding of accretion disc theory. At the distance of 159 +/- 12 pc measured by the Hubble Space Telescope, it is too luminous to be undergoing the observed regular outbursts. Using very long baseline interferometric radio observations, we report an accurate, model-independent distance to SS Cygni that places the source significantly closer at 114 +/- 2 pc. This reconciles the source behavior with our understanding of accretion disc theory in accreting compact objects.
description: 21 pages (8 as Supplementary Material), 3 figures (1 in the Supplementary Material). This is the authors' version of the work. It is posted here by permission of the AAAS for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Science in Vol. 340 no. 6135 on 24 May 2013
Convergence analysis of some multivariate Markov chains using stochastic monotonicity
Creators: name: Khare, Kshitij
name: Mukherjee, Nabanita
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We provide a nonasymptotic analysis of convergence to stationarity for a collection of Markov chains on multivariate state spaces, from arbitrary starting points, thereby generalizing results in [Khare and Zhou Ann. Appl. Probab. 19 (2009) 737-777]. Our examples include the multi-allele Moran model in population genetics and its variants in community ecology, a generalized Ehrenfest urn model and variants of the Polya urn model. It is shown that all these Markov chains are stochastically monotone with respect to an appropriate partial ordering. Then, using a generalization of the results in [Diaconis, Khare and Saloff-Coste Sankhya 72 (2010) 45-76] and [Wilson Ann. Appl. Probab. 14 (2004) 274-325] (for univariate totally ordered spaces) to multivariate partially ordered spaces, we obtain explicit nonasymptotic bounds for the distance to stationarity from arbitrary starting points. In previous literature, bounds, if any, were available only from special starting points. The analysis also works for nonreversible Markov chains, and allows us to analyze cases of the multi-allele Moran model not considered in [Khare and Zhou Ann. Appl. Probab. 19 (2009) 737-777].
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/12-AAP856 the Annals of Applied Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aap/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
title: Remote sensing data fusion as a tool for biomass prediction in extensive grasslands invaded by L. polyphyllus
Creators: name: Schulze-Brüninghoff, Damian
name: Wachendorf, Michael
name: Astor, Thomas
Publisher: name: Universität Kassel
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: above-ground biomass
subject: heterogenous grassland
subject: hyperspectral
subject: LiDAR
subject: senor fusion
subject: 500
subject: 580
subject: Biomasse
subject: Grünland
subject: Lidar
subject: Fernerkundung
subject: Datenfusion
subject: Vielblättrige Lupine

description: Gefördert durch den Publikationsfonds der Universität Kassel
Disease activity in women with ankylosing spondylitis remains higher under Tumour Necrosis Factor inhibitor treatment than in men: a five-year observational study
Creators: name: Rusman, T
name: Nurmohamed, MT
name: Hoekstra, S
name: van Denderen, CJ
name: van Vollenhoven, RF
name: Boers, M
name: Wee, MM Ter
name: van der Horst-Bruinsma, IE
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: To assess sex differences in response, level of disease activity, and drug survival in tumour necrosis factor inhibitor (TNFi)-naïve ankylosing spondylitis (AS) patients. Consecutive AS patients, fulfilling the modified New York criteria, were included in a prospective cohort study at initiation of the first TNFi and followed until this medication was stopped (drug survival). Disease activity scores [AS Disease Activity Score using C-reactive protein (ASDAS-CRP), Bath AS Disease Activity Index (BASDAI), and CRP] were measured at 3, 6, and 12 months, and every subsequent year, up to 5 years. The response was defined by the ASDAS-CRP response criteria (clinically important improvement: ASDAS-CRP decrease ≥ 1.1). Analyses included regression methods for repeated measurements and survival analyses. Overall, 356 patients were included (34% women, mean ± sd age 46 ± 12 years), with a median disease duration of 12 (interquartile range 6;20) years. Women were less likely than men to achieve a clinically important response after 6 months of TNFi treatment (47% vs 64%; relative risk 1.4, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.1;1.9, p = 0.02], despite a lack of sex differences in mean ASDAS-CRP levels over 5 year follow-up. Adjusted models for BASDAI over 5 years showed that women had a 0.6 point higher BASDAI score than men (β = 0.6 0.1;1.1 <0.02). Numerically, more women than men discontinued treatment over a period of 5 years (hazard ratio = 1.5, 95% CI 0.9;2.5, p = 0.15). Female AS patients show a lower response to TNFi and a higher disease activity compared to men.
Super Bloch oscillations with modulated interaction
Creators: name: Díaz, Elena
name: Mena, Alberto García
name: Asakura, Kunihiko
name: Gaul, Christopher
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study super Bloch oscillations of ultracold atoms in a shaken lattice potential, subjected to a harmonically modulated mean-field interaction. Usually, any interaction leads to the decay of the wave packet and its super Bloch oscillation. Here, we use the phases of interaction and shaking with respect to the free Bloch oscillation as control parameters. We find two types of long-living cases: (i) suppression of the immediate broadening of the wave packet, and (ii) dynamical stability of all degrees of freedom. The latter relies on the rather robust symmetry argument of cyclic time [Gaul et al., Phys. Rev. A 84, 053627 (2011)].
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Optimal Partitioned-Interval Detection Binary Quantum Receiver with Practical Devices
Creators: name: Li, Ke
name: Zhu, Bing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Partitioned-interval detection binary quantum receiver with non-ideal devices is theoretically analyzed. Using global optimized partition strategy, relatively large gain over standard quantum limit (SQL) is obtained with small partition number for certain mean photon number.
description: 2 pages, 2 figures, submitted to IEEE Photonics Society 2013 Summer Topicals
Synthesis and characterization of new bis(fluoroalkyl) phosphoramidates bearing sulfoximine groups
Creators: name: Mechi, Hanen
name: Sanhoury, M.A.K.
name: Laribi, F.
name: Dhia, M. T. Ben
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: A series of new sulfoximine derived bis(fluoroalkyl)phosphoramidates of the type MeRS(O)NP(O)(ORF)2 (R = Me or Ph; RF = CH2CF3, CH2C2F5, CH(CF3)2, CH2CH2C6F13 or CH2CH2C8F17) have been synthesized from phosphoramidation reaction of sulfoximine with bis(polyfluoroalkyl)phosphites as phosphorylating agents. These fluoroalkyl phosphoramidates were characterized by multinuclear (1H, 13C, 19F and 31P) NMR, IR and elemental analyses. Different literature methods were examined; results showed that whilst the presence of fluoroalkoxy groups gave better reactivity than non fluorinated analogs in such reactions, the choice of the method for phosphoramidate formation depended upon the nature of both sulfoximine and fluoroalkoxy groups.
Nonlocal Thermoelectric Effects and Nonlocal Onsager Relations in a Three-Terminal Proximity-Coupled Superconductor-Ferromagnet Device
Creators: name: Machon, P.
name: Eschrig, M.
name: Belzig, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study thermal and charge transport in a three-terminal setup consisting of one superconducting and two ferromagnetic contacts. We predict that the simultaneous presence of spin filtering and of spin- dependent scattering phase shifts at each of the two interfaces will lead to very large nonlocal thermo- electric effects both in clean and in disordered systems. The symmetries of thermal and electric transport coefficients are related to fundamental thermodynamic principles by the Onsager reciprocity. Our results show that a nonlocal version of the Onsager relations for thermoelectric currents holds in a three-terminal quantum coherent ferromagnet-superconductor heterostructure including a spin-dependent crossed Andreev reflection and coherent electron transfer processes.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, supplemental material
Stellar Orbital Studies in Normal Spiral Galaxies I: Restrictions to the Pitch Angle
Creators: name: Pérez-Villegas, A.
name: Pichardo, B.
name: Moreno, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We built a family of non-axisymmetric potential models for normal non-barred or weakly-barred spiral galaxies as defined in the simplest classification of galaxies: the Hubble sequence. For this purpose a three-dimensional self-gravitating model for spiral arms PERLAS is superimposed to the galactic axisymmetric potentials. We analyze the stellar dynamics varying only the pitch angle of the spiral arms, from 4$°$ to 40$°$, for an Sa galaxy, from 8$°$ to 45$°$, for an Sb galaxy, and from 10$°$ to 60$°$, for an Sc galaxy. Self-consistency is indirectly tested through periodic orbital analysis, and through density response studies for each morphological type. Based on ordered behavior, periodic orbits studies show that for pitch angles up to approximately $15°$, $18°$, and $20°$ for Sa, Sb and Sc galaxies, respectively, the density response supports the spiral arms potential, a requisite for the existence of a long-lasting large-scale spiral structure. Beyond those limits, the density response tends to "avoid" the potential imposed by mantaining lower pitch angles in the density response; in that case the spiral arms may be explained as transient features rather than long-lasting large-scale structures. In a second limit, from a phase space orbital study based on chaotic behavior, we found that for pitch angles larger than $\sim30°$, $\sim40°$ and $\sim50°$ for Sa, Sb, and Sc galaxies, respectively, chaotic orbits dominate all phase space prograde region that surrounds the periodic orbits sculpting the spiral arms and even destroying them. This result seems to be in good agreement with observations of pitch angles in typical isolated normal spiral galaxies.
description: 34 pages (preprint), 14 figures, 1 Table, accepted in ApJ
New potential fungicides pyrazole-based heterocycles derived from 2-cyano-3-(1,3-diphenyl-1H-pyrazol-4-yl) acryloyl isothiocyanate
Creators: name: Ramadan, Sayed K.
name: Ibrahim, Nasser A.
name: El-Kaed, Sarah A.
name: El-Helw, Eman A. E.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: New series of pyrazole-based heterocyclic systems were synthesized using 2-cyanopropenoyl isothiocyanate derivative as an intermediate through treating with some nucleophilic reagents. Therefore, derivatives of carbamothioate, acylthiourea, pyrimidinethione, benzothiazole, triazolopyrimidine, pyrimidobenzothiazine, and pyrimidothiadiazepine were obtained. Structures of the obtained compounds were elucidated according to their elemental analyses and compatible spectral data. The fungicidal activity of the title compounds was evaluated against five plant pathogens belonging to both airborne and soil-borne strains using the radial growth rate method and the pyrazole derivative 13 was the most potent one that showed better fungicidal activity against F. Solani and R. Solani soil-borne fungi than the standard fungicide and moderate activity against airborne fungi. Also, pyrazole derivative 16 displayed better activity than the two standard fungicides against B. cinerea airborne fungus. Both A. Alternata and S. Sclerotiorum airborne fungi showed more resistance to the new pyrazoles than the standard fungicides. This means, fungicidal activity of the synthesized pyrazoles is remarkably diversified and affected by the heterocyclic ring or functional group attached to the core pyrazole.
Multiphoton-double-ionization probability linearly depends on laser intensity: Experimental studies of barium
Creators: name: Bondar, I. I.
name: Suran, V. V.
name: Bondar, D. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Despite inherently complex multiphoton dynamics, our observations show that Ba double ionization with an infrared laser (8800-8920 cm^{-1}) resembles a single-photon process; namely, its probability is proportional to the laser intensity. In this regime, single-electron ionization is due to a four-photon resonant transition through the highly perturbed state 6p^2 1D_2, whereas double ionization is realized by the two-electron mechanism. Furthermore, we argue that these conclusions are valid for other alkaline-earth-metal atoms and other parameters of laser radiation.
description: 7 pages and 7 figures
Direct synthesis of sulfinic esters via ultrasound accelerated tandem reaction of thiols and alcohols with N-bromosuccinimide
Creators: name: Nguyen, Lan-Anh Thi
name: Le, Tri-Nghia
name: Duong, Cong-Thang
name: Vo, Chi-Tam
name: Duus, Fritz
name: Luu, Thi Xuan Thi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The direct transformation of various thiols and simple alcohols with N-bromosuccinimide into sulfinic esters has been investigated by using different categories of base/acidic catalysts as well as co-solvents under varied reaction conditions. The reaction was found out to afford the sulfinic esters with high yields in the absence of catalysts, especially within the shorter time under the acceleration of ultrasonic irradiation than under the longer-lasting conventional stirring conditions.
The stacked ISW signal of rare superstructures in ΛCDM
Creators: name: Flender, Samuel
name: Hotchkiss, Shaun
name: Nadathur, Seshadri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A detection of the stacked integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) signal in the CMB of rare superstructures identified in the SDSS Luminous Red Galaxy catalogue has been reported at very high statistical significance. The magnitude of the observed signal has previously been argued to be more than 3 standard deviations larger than the theoretical ΛCDM expectation. However, this calculation was made in the linear approximation, and relied on assumptions that may potentially have caused the ΛCDM expectation to be underestimated. Here we update the theoretical model calculation and compare it with an analysis of ISW maps obtained from N-body simulations of a ΛCDM universe. The differences between model predictions and the map analyses are found to be small and cannot explain the discrepancy with observation, which remains at >3 s.d. significance. We discuss the cosmological significance of this anomaly and speculate on the potential of alternative models to explain it.
description: 19 pages, 8 figures. Comments welcome. v2: minor changes to match version accepted for publication in JCAP