cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Curl up with a good $\mathbf B$: Detecting ultralight dark matter with differential magnetometry
Creators: name: Bloch, Itay M.
name: Kalia, Saarik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ultralight dark matter (such as kinetically mixed dark-photon dark matter or axionlike dark matter) can source an oscillating magnetic-field signal at the Earth's surface, which can be measured by a synchronized array of ground-based magnetometers. The global signal of ultralight dark matter can be robustly predicted for low masses, when the wavelength of the dark matter is larger than the radius of the Earth, $λ_\mathrm{DM}\gg R$. However, at higher masses, environmental effects, such as the Schumann resonances, can become relevant, making the global magnetic-field signal $\mathbf B$ difficult to reliably model. In this work, we show that $\nabla\times\mathbf B$ is robust to global environmental details, and instead only depends on the local dark matter amplitude. We therefore propose to measure the local curl of the magnetic field at the Earth's surface, as a means for detecting ultralight dark matter with $λ_\mathrm{DM}\lesssim R$. As this measurement requires vertical gradients, it can be done near a hill/mountain. Our measurement scheme not only allows for a robust prediction, but also acts as a background rejection scheme for external noise sources. We show that our technique can be the most sensitive terrestrial probe of dark-photon dark matter for frequencies $10\,\mathrm{Hz}\leq f_{A'}\leq1\,\mathrm{kHz}$ (corresponding to masses $4\times10^{-14}\,\mathrm{eV}\leq m_{A'}\leq4\times10^{-12}\,\mathrm{eV}$). It can also achieve sensitivities to axionlike dark matter comparabe to the CAST helioscope, in the same frequency range.
description: 16 pages, 3 figures. Published version
Stability index, uncertainty exponent, and thermodynamic formalism for intermingled basins of chaotic attractors
Creators: name: Keller, Gerhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37AXX, 37D35

description: Skew product systems with monotone one-dimensional fibre maps driven by piecewise expanding Markov interval maps may show the phenomenon of intermingled basins. To quantify the degree of intermingledness the uncertainty exponent and the stability index were suggested by various authors and characterized (partially). Here we present an approach to evaluate/estimate these two quantities rigorously using thermodynamic formalism for the driving Markov map.
description: A minor mistake in Theorem 2 is corrected in the 2nd version
title: Secretory carcinoma of the breast
Creators: name: Tezel, Zülbiye Eda
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Breast imaging
subject: Breast
subject: Paediatric
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: Clinical Cases

description: Clinical History: A five-year-old child was referred to our breast unit with a right-sided, painless, palpable mass. This mass presented and increased in size for four months. On clinical examination, there was a nodular, non-tender lump in the subareolar region of her right breast. She had no history of trauma.

description: 5 years, female
Parametric metasurfaces for electromagnetic wave amplification
Creators: name: Kovalev, Fedor V.
name: Shadrivov, Ilya V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study parametric amplification of electromagnetic waves using metasurfaces. We design a variable capacitor-loaded metasurface that can amplify incident electromagnetic waves. We analyze various regimes of operation of the system and find that we can achieve a significant gain (over 10 dB) in just one layer of such a structure, and this gain can be controlled by parametric modulation. We study the instability threshold for this system and show that a simple theoretical model agrees well with the results of full numerical simulations.
description: This article was published in Optical Materials Express (https://opg.optica.org/ome)
Enhanced Raman scattering and weak localization in graphene deposited on GaN nanowires
Creators: name: Kierdaszuk, Jakub
name: Kaźmierczak, Piotr
name: Drabińska, Aneta
name: Korona, Krzysztof
name: Wołoś, Agnieszka
name: Kamińska, Maria
name: Wysmołek, Andrzej
name: Pasternak, Iwona
name: Krajewska, Aleksandra
name: Pakuła, Krzysztof
name: Zytkiewicz, Zbigniew R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The influence of GaN nanowires on the optical and electrical properties of graphene deposited on them was studied using Raman spectroscopy and microwave induced electron transport method. It was found that interaction with the nanowires induces spectral changes as well as large enhancement of Raman scattering intensity. Surprisingly, the smallest enhancement (about 30-fold) was observed for the defect induced D' process and the highest intensity increase (over 50-fold) was found for the 2D transition. The observed energy shifts of the G and 2D bands allowed to determine carrier concentration fluctuations induced by GaN nanowires. Comparison of Raman scattering spatial intensity maps and the images obtained using scanning electron microscope led to conclusion that vertically aligned GaN nanowires induce a homogenous strain, substantial spatial modulation of carrier concentration in graphene and unexpected homogenous distribution of defects created by interaction with nanowires. The analysis of the D and D' peak intensity ratio showed that interaction with nanowires also changes the probability of scattering on different types of defects. The Raman studies were correlated with weak localization effect measured using microwave induced contactless electron transport. Temperature dependence of weak localization signal showed electron-electron scattering as a main decoherence mechanism with additional, temperature independent scattering reducing coherence length. We attributed it to the interaction of electrons in graphene with charges present on the top of nanowires due to spontaneous and piezoelectric polarization of GaN. Thus, nanowires act as antennas and generate enhanced near field which can explain the observed large enhancement of Raman scattering intensity.
Developing an Effective Participatory Academic Administration Model to Improve the Quality of Education of Student, Bannongbuasaadpokom School, Udon Thani Educational Service Area Office 3
Creators: name: Napussanun Sompong
Publisher: name: DR.KEN Institute of Academic Development and Promotion
Year: 2022
Subjects: Model
Academic Administration
Participation

description: Interdisciplinary Academic and Research Journal, 2, 6, 1-16
Monochromatic sums and products
Creators: name: Green, Ben
name: Sanders, Tom
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Suppose that $\mathbb{F}_p$ is coloured with $r$ colours. Then there is some colour class containing at least $c_r p^2$ quadruples of the form $(x, y , x + y, xy)$.
description: 48 pages, accepted for publication in Discrete Analysis. Second version has minor changes arising from the referee report. Third version updated to DAJ format. in Discrete Analysis 2016:5
title: Reconstitution of pollinator-mediated speciation in Petunia through single gene mutations
Creators: name: Lüthi, Martina Nadine
Publisher: name: Universität Bern
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 580 Plants (Botany)

description: Identifying the major genes involved in speciation processes is a key step towards understanding the molecular basis of evolution. A major component of the speciation processes is reproductive isolation, which can occur in plants through differential visitation of pollinators due to diverging pollination syndromes. In the genus Petunia multiple shifts in pollination syndromes can be observed, allowing the genetic changes underlying evolutionary shifts in pollinator attraction to be studied. Here I aimed to mimic changes in phenotypic traits occurring during the transition from hawkmoth to bee pollination in the long tube clade in Petunia. Mimicking this transition required restoration of the AN2 gene while rendering MYB-FL, ODO1 and CNL1 non-functional. Through multiple transgenic complementation approaches AN2 function was restored, although full visible color as observed in P. secreta was not achieved. Genetic modification of the MYB-FL gene in a P. axillaris background through a CRISPR/Cas9 approach rendered it non-functional, altering the floral UV phenotype from absorbent to reflective. Not only were changes in UV color observed, but visible color changed from white to light pink as well, suggesting a trade-off between the anthocyanin and flavonol branches in the flavonoid biosynthetic pathway. Pollinator assays with primary pollinators (hawkmoths) demonstrated a significant preference towards the P. axillaris wildtype compared to the myb-fl mutant lines while the opposite preference was observed for secondary pollinators (bumblebees, solitary bees). However, when presented with the choice of P. secreta vs. the myb-fl mutant, these two lines were not yet indistinguishable for bee pollinators, demonstrating the need for further phenotypic changes needed to obtain a complete P. secreta mimic. To account for these additional phenotypic changes, I also aimed to combine the altered color genes with mutated scent speciation genes ODO1 and CNL1 in a P. axillaris background. Knocking-out the ODO1 transcription factor eliminated production of major scent compounds methylbenzoate, benzaldehyde and isoeugenol/eugenol, creating a scentless mutant. Mutation of the CNL1 gene eliminated scent volatiles methylbenzoate and benzaldehyde but did not alter production of isoeugenol/eugenol compounds. Ultimately analyzing the P. secreta mimic in pollinator assays should demonstrate whether altering these few speciation genes is enough to obtain a shift in primary and secondary pollinator preference strong enough to cause reproductive isolation. This should help settle the debate about the contributions of few mutations of large effect during the process of speciation.
Predicted effects of observed changes in the mRNA and microRNA transcriptome of lung neutrophils during S. pneumoniae pneumonia in mice
Creators: name: Dang, Hong
name: Doerschuk, Claire M.
name: Hagan, Robert S.
name: Mock, Jason R.
name: Sethupathy, Praveen
name: Kanke, Matthew
name: Kelada, Samir N. P.
name: Gomez, John C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: The complex role of neutrophils in modulating the inflammatory response is increasingly appreciated. Our studies profiled the expression of mRNAs and microRNAs (miRs) in lung neutrophils in mice during S. pneumoniae pneumonia and performed in depth in silico analyses. Lung neutrophils were isolated 24 hours after intratracheal instillation of PBS or S. pneumoniae, and differentially expressed (DE) mRNAs and miRs were identified. Lung neutrophils from mice with S. pneumoniae pneumonia contained 4127 DE mRNAs, 36% of which were upregulated at least 2-fold. During pneumonia, lung neutrophils increase expression of pattern recognition receptors, receptors for inflammatory mediators, transcription factors including NF-κB and AP-1, Nrf2 targets, cytokines, chemokines and other inflammatory mediators. Interestingly, neutrophils responded to Type I interferons, whereas they both produced and responded to Type II interferon. Expression of regulators of the inflammatory and immune response was verified at the mRNA and protein level. Of approximately 1100 miRs queried, 31 increased and 67 decreased more than 2-fold in neutrophils from S. pneumoniae pneumonia. Network analyses of potential DE miR-target DE mRNA interactions revealed candidate key regulatory miRs. Thus, S. pneumoniae modulates mRNA and miR expression by lung neutrophils, increasing their ability to respond and facilitating host defense.
Recreating a unique early modern beer
Creators: name: Belloch-Molina, Carlos
name: Taverner, Charlie
name: Reid, Joshua
name: Dicks, Jo
name: Lawrence, Stephen
name: Meltonville, Marc
name: Flavin, Susan
name: Morrissey, John
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: historic brewing
early modern diet
experimental archaelogy

description: Poster on the selection of yeast for the FoodCult Brewing project. More details here: foodcult.eu
Vurdering av forskere
Creators: name: Jensenius, Alexander Refsum
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: åpen forskning, vurdering

description: UHRs arbeidsgruppe for åpen evaluering lanserte i 2021 en veileder for vurdering i akademiske karriereløp. Arbeidsgruppen foreslår et mer fleksibelt og helhetlig rammeverk for arbeidet med vurdering i akademiske karriereløp. Ambisjonen har vært å utvikle en veileder der mer åpenhet, større bredde i vurderingene, og med helhetlige vurderinger som motsats til ensidig bruk av indikatorer står sentralt.
description: Presentasjon fra Erfaringsseminar for Cristin-rapportering, UiO, 24. august 2023.
Discrete gap solitons in binary positive-negative index nonlinear waveguide arrays with strong second-order couplings
Creators: name: Dovgiy, Alexander A.
name: Besedin, Ilya S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on existence and properties of discrete gap solitons in zigzag arrays of alternating waveguides with positive and negative refractive indices. Zigzag quasi-one-dimensional configuration of waveguide array introduces strong next-to-nearest neighbor interaction in addition to nearest-neighbor coupling. Effective diffraction can be controlled both in size and in sign by the value of the next-to-nearest neighbor coupling coefficient and even can be cancelled. In the regime where instabilities occur, we found different families of discrete solitons bifurcating from gap edges of the linear spectrum. We show that both staggered and unstaggered discrete solitons can become highly localized states near the zero diffraction points even for low powers. Stability analysis has shown that found soliton solutions are stable over a wide range of parameters and can exist in focusing, defocusing and even in alternating focusing-defocusing array.
description: 15 pages, 7 figures
The role of organisational nesting in risk-sharing – a case study of water security in the South African Sugar Industry
Creators: name: Masiri, Busani
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: One of human society’s priorities is to achieve water security. However, this securement will require farsighted collective action. For many organisations, the dynamic process of maintaining an effective alignment with the environment while managing internal interdependencies is complex, encompassing decisions and actions at several organisation levels. Alignment of stakeholder behaviour towards common goals is important in the governance of common-pool resources such as water. This thesis is based on the premise that organisational nesting and polycentric governance enable stakeholders in the South African sugar industry to align their behaviours and manage risk collectively based on their perception of the rules and expected benefits from the outcomes. It is also based on how they affect interpretation and management of risk in the industry, with particular reference to water scarcity. The objective of this research was to gain insight into how the sugar industry achieves the farsighted collective action required for progress toward water security. Because water security is a reflection of exposure to risk, I postulated that organisational structure and governance would be consciously adapted to manage risk. One approach to promoting learning and adaptation in complex systems, such as the sugar industry, is to implement polycentric governance. The design of the study was qualitative in nature. In this research, I used a case study approach to investigate the role of organisational nesting in risk-sharing among sugar industry members within the uMngeni River Basin in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. I used semi-structured interviews with industry stakeholders to gain insight into their perceptions of water security and how it was affected by institutional design. The interviews were conducted with twenty two respondents from the sugar industry. These respondents included sugarcane growers and their representatives, millers, extension services, and natural resources management representatives of the sugar industry. Respondents based their perceptions of water security on issues such as quality, quantity, and broader sustainability, including the nature of resource development and its social and economic consequences. I use these responses to interpret how perceptions of risk have influenced the evolution of governance, particularly polycentric governance, in the industry. Findings from this research suggest that in its response to risk to water security, the South African sugar industry is using polycentric governance. In addition, these findings show that organisational nesting and polycentric governance have facilitated the development and implementation of programmes that contribute to attaining a sense of water security within the industry. These results provide an insight into the wider relevance of risk-sharing and organisational nesting among actors in social-ecological systems regarding water security.
Single-Shot Electron Diffraction using a Cold Atom Electron Source
Creators: name: Speirs, Rory W.
name: Putkunz, Corey T.
name: McCulloch, Andrew J.
name: Nugent, Keith A.
name: Sparkes, Benjamin M.
name: Scholten, Robert E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cold atom electron sources are a promising alternative to traditional photocathode sources for use in ultrafast electron diffraction due to greatly reduced electron temperature at creation, and the potential for a corresponding increase in brightness. Here we demonstrate single-shot, nanosecond electron diffraction from monocrystalline gold using cold electron bunches generated in a cold atom electron source. The diffraction patterns have sufficient signal to allow registration of multiple single-shot images, generating an averaged image with significantly higher signal-to-noise ratio than obtained with unregistered averaging. Reflection high-energy electron diffraction (RHEED) was also demonstrated, showing that cold atom electron sources may be useful in resolving nanosecond dynamics of nanometre scale near-surface structures.
description: This is an author-created, un-copyedited version of an article published in Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics. IOP Publishing Ltd is not responsible for any errors or omissions in this version of the manuscript or any version derived from it. The Version of Record is available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/48/21/214002
Platonism, mereology and Whitehead's process ontology
Creators: name: Schulz, Dwayne
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis critically examines the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead focusing on the relationships between his platonism and his mereology. Particular attention is given to Whitehead’s notion of the ‘extensive continuum’; an ideal mereotopological structure said to ground the geometrical nature and measurability of physical events. The thesis argues that Whitehead’s platonism is inconsistent with his process philosophy and results in confused and mistaken ideas about inter alia the nature of spacetime and general relativity. The thesis makes the case however that Whitehead’s thought does contain the seeds of a one-category ontology of relational events producing and binding themselves into processes, whose similarity and contingency is grounded in their own genetic nature rather than some super-sensible realm of forms beyond sense experience.
Predicting HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Efficacy for Women using a Preclinical Pharmacokinetic-Pharmacodynamic In Vivo Model
Creators: name: Kashuba, Angela D.
name: Garrett, Katy L.
name: Swartz, Glenn
name: Wahl, Angela
name: O'Neill, Cynthia
name: Veronese, Fulvia
name: Garcia, J. Victor
name: Denton, Paul W.
name: Hudgens, Michael G.
name: Ho, Phong T.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: The efficacy of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) relies on adherence and may also depend on the route of HIV acquisition. Clinical studies of systemic tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) PrEP revealed reduced efficacy in women compared to men with similar degrees of adherence. To select the most effective PrEP strategies, preclinical studies are critically needed to establish correlations between drug concentrations (pharmacokinetics [PK]) and protective efficacy (pharmacodynamics [PD]). We utilized an in vivo preclinical model to perform a PK-PD analysis of systemic TDF PrEP for vaginal HIV acquisition. TDF PrEP prevented vaginal HIV acquisition in a dose-dependent manner. PK-PD modeling of tenofovir (TFV) in plasma, female reproductive tract tissue, cervicovaginal lavage fluid and its intracellular metabolite (TFV diphosphate) revealed that TDF PrEP efficacy was best described by plasma TFV levels. When administered at 50 mg/kg, TDF achieved plasma TFV concentrations (370 ng/ml) that closely mimicked those observed in humans and demonstrated the same risk reduction (70%) previously attained in women with high adherence. This PK-PD model mimics the human condition and can be applied to other PrEP approaches and routes of HIV acquisition, accelerating clinical implementation of the most efficacious PrEP strategies.
Modulating carrier and sideband coupling strengths in a standing wave gate beam
Creators: name: deLaubenfels, Thomas E.
name: Burkhardt, Karl A.
name: Vittorini, Grahame
name: Merrill, J. True
name: Brown, Kenneth R.
name: Amini, Jason M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We control the relative coupling strength of carrier and first order motional sideband interactions of a trapped ion by placing it in a resonant optical standing wave. Our configuration uses the surface of a microfabricated chip trap as a mirror, avoiding technical challenges of in-vacuum optical cavities. Displacing the ion along the standing wave, we show a periodic suppression of the carrier and sideband transitions with the cycles for the two cases $180^\circ$ out of phase with each other. This technique allows for suppression of off-resonant carrier excitations when addressing the motional sidebands, with applications in quantum simulation and quantum control. Using the standing wave fringes, we measure the relative ion height as a function of applied electric field, allowing for a precise measurement of ion displacement and, combined with measured micromotion amplitudes, a validation of trap numerical models.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
The promise of panpsychism: understanding integrated information theory as a panpsychist theory of mind.
Creators: name: Dobson, Henry John Lambert
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In contemporary philosophy of mind many philosophers regard physicalism to be the most promising theory of mind. In an attempt to defend physicalism against arguments such as the knowledge argument, the conceivability argument, and the explanatory gap argument, some philosophers have broadened the view. But in doing so they modify physicalism is such a way that it runs the risk of becoming more a form of panpsychism. If modifying physicalism has this effect then we have good reasons for taking panpsychism seriously. In my thesis I examine three contemporary versions of panpsychism, namely pan-experientialism, pan-phenomenalism and pan-protopsychism. All panpsychist theories must deal with what is called the ‘combination problem’. There are many different combination problems and I argue that both pan-experientialism and pan-phenomenalism fail to resolve their respective combination problems. And because pan-protopsychism is yet to be developed into a philosophical theory, it is yet to be seen whether it can do better than other forms of panpsychism. I turn my attention to a more recent theory of consciousness which is said to have panpsychist implications, namely Integrated Information Theory (IIT). I demonstrate that IIT can be thought of as a version of pan-protopsychism. I then identify two combination problems that confront IIT as a pan-protopsychist theory and present solutions to these problems. My purpose in writing this thesis is to present a philosophical investigation into how IIT is to be understood as a panpsychist theory of mind. I argue that it has the potential to resolve the relevant combination problems and I therefore believe that as a panpsychist theory IIT is the most promising theory of mind to date.
Anthedon revisited: a re-examination of Petrie and Ellis' 1937 excavation report
Creators: name: Ibrahim, Stuart
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The settlement of Tell el-Zuweyid, located 2km away from Modern Gaza, is one of many archaeological sites dispersed across the North Sinai Peninsula. It is also one of the many sites that Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie excavated in this region. While both the Ben Gurion University and l’Ecole Biblique and Archéologique Français also excavated in this area between 1972-1982 and 1995 respectively, a disruption in the latter excavations mean that they only reached the Assyrian levels, Petrie and Ellis (1937) being the only archaeologists to find a possible Late Bronze Age settlement. Given the limited methodology that Petrie (Petrie and Ellis 1937) had at his disposal, this thesis critically examines both his results and those of academics who have cited him. The limited architectural remains and artefacts present at Tell el-Zuweyid are compared to Late Bronze Age Egyptian and Iron Age Philistine fortresses and artefacts from this area, to try to identify the possible occupants. This thesis also analyses references to the Egyptian Ways of Horus sites, including Seti I’s Karnak relief, to establish what purpose Tell el-Zuweyid may have performed during the Late Bronze Age / Early Iron Age Period.
Observed Variability of the Solar Mg II h Spectral Line
Creators: name: Schmit, Donald
name: Bryans, Paul
name: De Pontieu, Bart
name: McIntosh, Scott
name: Leenaarts, Jorrit
name: Carlsson, Mats
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Mg II h&k doublet are two of the primary spectral lines observed by the Sun-pointing Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS). These lines are tracers of the magnetic and thermal environment that spans from the photosphere to the upper chromosphere. We use a double gaussian model to fit the Mg II h profile for a full-Sun mosaic dataset taken 24-Aug-2014. We use the ensemble of high-quality profile fits to conduct a statistical study on the variability of the line profile as it relates the magnetic structure, dynamics, and center-to-limb viewing angle. The average internetwork profile contains a deeply reversed core and is weakly asymmetric at h2. In the internetwork, we find a strong correlation between h3 wavelength and profile asymmetry as well h1 width and h2 width. The average reversal depth of the h3 core is inversely related to the magnetic field. Plage and sunspots exhibit many profiles which do not contain a reversal. These profiles also occur infrequently in the internetwork. We see indications of magnetically aligned structures in plage and network in statistics associated with the line core, but these structures are not clear or extended in the internetwork. The center-to-limb variations are compared with predictions of semi-empirical model atmospheres. We measure a pronounced limb darkening in the line core which is not predicted by the model. The aim of this work is to provide a comprehensive measurement baseline and preliminary analysis on the observed structure and formation of the Mg II profiles observed by IRIS.
description: Accepted for publication
Predicting the functional consequences of non-synonymous single nucleotide polymorphisms in IL8 gene
Creators: name: Dakal, Tikam Chand
name: Yadav, Vinod
name: Dhiman, Gourav
name: Kala, Deepak
name: Dokholyan, Nikolay V.
name: Krokhotin, Andrey
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Here we report an in-silico approach for identification, characterization and validation of deleterious non-synonymous SNPs (nsSNPs) in the interleukin-8 gene using three steps. In first step, sequence homology-based genetic analysis of a set of 50 coding SNPs associated with 41 rsIDs using SIFT (Sorting Intolerant from Tolerant) and PROVEAN (Protein Variation Effect Analyzer) identified 23 nsSNPs to be putatively damaging/deleterious in at least one of the two tools used. Subsequently, structure-homology based PolyPhen-2 (Polymorphism Phenotyping) analysis predicted 9 of 23 nsSNPs (K4T, E31A, E31K, S41Y, I55N, P59L, P59S, L70P and V88D) to be damaging. According to the conditional hypothesis for the study, only nsSNPs that score damaging/deleterious prediction in both sequence and structural homology-based approach will be considered as 'high-confidence' nsSNPs. In step 2, based on conservation of amino acid residues, stability analysis, structural superimposition, RSMD and docking analysis, the possible structural-functional relationship was ascertained for high-confidence nsSNPs. Finally, in a separate analysis (step 3), the IL-8 deregulation has also appeared to be an important prognostic marker for detection of patients with gastric and lung cancer. This study, for the first time, provided in-depth insights on the effects of amino acid substitutions on IL-8 protein structure, function and disease association.
title: Calcific myonecrosis following a 70-year-old trauma event
Creators: name: Peixoto, André
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: CT
subject: Clinical Cases

description: Clinical History: A 95-year-old man was admitted to the emergency room with swelling, redness, and a skin ulcer in the left leg. He had a fracture of the leg at the age of 20. It was interpreted as cellulitis, and the patient began antibiotic therapy. Radiography was performed to assess possible osteomyelitis.

description: 95 years, male
Representationalism about qualia
Creators: name: Chung, Sun Kyung
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis aims to challenge a variety of representationalist theory of mind – what may be called reductive wide representationalism or externalist representationalism – which asserts that phenomenal characters (or qualia) of perceptual experiences are completely determined by representational contents assuming that since representational contents, like all other propositional contents, are externally determined, so are phenomenal characters. The principal claim of this paper is that there is a gap between phenomenal characters of an experience and its representational content: even if all representational facts were given, we would not have a complete explanation about relevant phenomenal facts. In my view, no matter how much the theories of representational content can be refined, there is always going to be phenomenal residue. Furthermore, this version of representationalism cannot explain why certain phenomenal characters co-occur with certain representational contents since the link between them seems contingent. That is, representationalism is not immune to the typical explanatory gap problem. While most contemporary discussions about representationalism have focused extensively on vision and visual qualities, I focus particularly on audition and its distinctive features. I think that audition-centred examples can help to build a strong case against reductive wide representationalism by revealing what might have been overlooked in the vision-centred examples.
Hieracium rotundatum Kitaibel ex Schultes 1814
Creators: name: Szeląg, Zbigniew
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Asterales
Asteraceae
Hieracium
Hieracium rotundatum

description: Hieracium rotundatum Kitaibel ex Schultes (1814: 439).
 Type:― CROATIA. Ex horto, in que[m] e Croatia illatum, P. Kitaibel [Herb. Kitaibel XXVI: 335] (BP, holotype) (Fig. 1).
 Note: ― Kerner (1872: 352) treated an ‘old’ specimen labelled as H. rotundatum, which was deposited in the Innsbruck University Herbarium (IB), as conspecific with H. transylvanicum. He assumed that this specimen came from Kitaibel: ‘… welcher bekanntlich dem seiner Zeit in Innsbruck als Professor der Botanik weilenden Professor Schultes zahlreiche seiner neuen Funde für die Österreichische Flora mitgeteilt hat ’. Even if it had, the species description in the protologue of H. rotundatum does not fit H. transylvanicum, but agrees perfectly with the specimen no. 335 in the Kitaibel’s collection as above (Fig. 1).
 A search for the H. rotundatum specimen mentioned by Kerner (1872: 352) was unsuccessful in both Innsbruck herbaria (IB and IBF) (K. Pagitz, pers. comm.), nor is there a specimen of H. rotundatum with Kerner’s, Kitaibel’s or Schultes’ handwriting preserved in the Munich herbarium (M) (F. Schuhwerk, pers. comm.) where the greater part of the Schultes herbarium is held (Stafleu & Cowan 1985).
description: Published as part of Szeląg, Zbigniew, 2018, Hieracia balcanica XVI. Taxonomic and nomenclatural notes on Hieracium rotundatum and H. transylvanicum (Asteraceae), pp. 227-233 in Phytotaxa 382 (2) on page 228, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.382.2.8, http://zenodo.org/record/13724574
Upper bound on the Atiyah-Singer index from tadpole cancellation
Creators: name: Ishiguro, Keiya
name: Kai, Takafumi
name: Nishimura, Satsuki
name: Otsuka, Hajime
name: Takeuchi, Maki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose an upper bound on the Atiyah-Singer index in the effective action of string theory. For $E_8 \times E_8^\prime$ and $SO(32)$ heterotic string theories on smooth Calabi-Yau threefolds with line bundles, we find that the tadpole cancellation and supersymmetry conditions lead to an upper bound on the generation number of quarks and leptons as well as Higgs doublets. By taking into account the observed value of four-dimensional gauge couplings and the supergravity approximation, we explicitly evaluate the bound on favorable complete intersection Calabi-Yau threefolds. The bound can be extended to Calabi-Yau threefolds in the Kreuzer-Skarke database. We also put the upper bound on the Atiyah-Singer index in Type IIB/F-theory compactifications.
description: 23 pages, 2 figures, v2: published version
Prevention of tumorigenesis in mice by exercise is dependent on strain background and timing relative to carcinogen exposure
Creators: name: Threadgill, David W.
name: De Villena, Fernando Pardo Manuel
name: Zhao, Liyang
name: Kelly, Scott A.
name: Kim, Yunjung
name: Pomp, Daniel
name: Jung, Kuo-Chen
name: Hua, Kunjie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Among cancer diagnoses, colorectal cancer (CRC) is prevalent, with a lifetime risk of developing CRC being approximately 5%. Population variation surrounding the mean risk of developing CRCs has been associated with both inter-individual differences in genomic architecture and environmental exposures. Decreased risk of CRC has been associated with physical activity, but protective responses are variable. Here, we utilized a series of experiments to examine the effects of genetic background (strain), voluntary exercise (wheel running), and their interaction on azoxymethane (AOM)-induced intestinal tumor number and size in mice. Additionally, we investigated how the timing of exercise relative to AOM exposure, and amount of exercise, affected tumor number and size. Our results indicated that voluntary exercise significantly reduced tumor number in a strain dependent manner. Additionally, among strains where exercise reduced tumor number (A/J, CC0001/Unc) the timing of voluntary exercise relative to AOM exposure was crucial. Voluntary exercise prior to or during AOM treatment resulted in a significant reduction in tumor number, but exercise following AOM exposure had no effect. The results indicate that voluntary exercise should be used as a preventative measure to reduce risk for environmentally induced CRC with the realization that the extent of protection may depend on genetic background.
Additional file 6 of A scoping review of health literacy in rare disorders: key issues and research directions
Creators: name: Stenberg, Una
name: Westfal, Lydia
name: Dybesland Rosenberger, Andreas
name: Ørstavik, Kristin
name: Flink, Maria
name: Holmen, Heidi
name: Systad, Silje
name: Westermann, Karl Fredrik
name: Velvin, Gry
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 6
Kink solutions in generalized 2D dilaton gravity
Creators: name: Zhong, Yuan
name: Guo, Heng
name: Liu, Yu-Xiao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study static kink solutions in a generalized two-dimensional dilaton gravity model, where the kinetic term of the dilaton is generalized to be an arbitrary function of the canonical one $\mathcal X= -\frac12 (\nabla φ)^2$, say $\mathcal F(\mathcal X)$, and the kink is generated by a canonical scalar matter field $ϕ$. It is found that for arbitrary $\mathcal F(\mathcal X)$, the background field equations have a simple first-order formalism, and the linear perturbation equation can always be written as a Schrödinger-like equation with factorizable Hamiltonian operator. After choosing appropriate $\mathcal F(\mathcal X)$ and superpotential, we obtain a sine-Gordon type kink solution with pure AdS$_2$ metric. The linear perturbation issue of this solution becomes an exactly solvable conformal quantum mechanics problem, if one of the model parameter takes a critical value.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures
Additional file 5 of A scoping review of health literacy in rare disorders: key issues and research directions
Creators: name: Stenberg, Una
name: Westfal, Lydia
name: Dybesland Rosenberger, Andreas
name: Ørstavik, Kristin
name: Flink, Maria
name: Holmen, Heidi
name: Systad, Silje
name: Westermann, Karl Fredrik
name: Velvin, Gry
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 5
"Playing with autobiography" The performer as biographer: Viktor Ullmann’s Piano Sonata No. 7 (1944)
Creators: name: Felten, Stella
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Viktor Ullmann’s Jewish ancestry resulted in his deportation to Terezín concentration camp in 1942, where he wrote Piano Sonata No. 7 within three months of his death in Auschwitz in October 1944. This research focuses on the interpretation of Ullmann’s score as an autobiographical text, and how performance decisions will affect the sense of Ullmann’s ‘self’ presented to the audience, just as a biographer’s literary choices affect a reader’s interpretation of its subject. Additional material(s) submitted with thesis.
Hieracium transylvanicum Heuffel 1858
Creators: name: Szeląg, Zbigniew
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Asterales
Asteraceae
Hieracium
Hieracium transylvanicum

description: Hieracium transylvanicum Heuffel (1858a: 27).
 Type:― ROMANIA. In sylvis abiegnis versus alpen Retyezat in Cottu Hunyad Transylvaniae, Aug 1852, J. Heuffel (BP 194797, lectotype designated here) (Fig. 2).
 Other original material:― ROMANIA. In terra humosa sylvarum ad Thermas Herculis in Banatu, Jun 1857, J. Heuffel (BP 194785); In sylvis ad Thermas Herculis in Banatu, 16 Jun 1856, J. Heuffel (BP 194789).
 Note: ―On the labels in Heuffel’s own handwriting, as well as in the protologue, the species epithet was spelled as ‘ transylvanicum ’. The spellings used by subsequent authors are incorrect: ‘ transilvanicum ’ (Schur 1866; Kerner 1872), ‘ transsylvanicum ’ (Vukotinović 1876) and ‘ transsilvanicum ’ (Zahn 1921, 1935; Sell & West 1976; Gottschlich 1987; Schljakov 1989).
 The geographical name Transilvania has its origin in the Middle Ages, though different orthographical variants were used through the centuries. The spelling ‘Transilvania’ is given as correct in most recognized vocabularies of medieval Latin (Graesse & Benedict 1922). Nevertheless, according to Article 60.1 of the ICN (Turland et al. 2018), the original spelling of the specific epithet used by Heuffel is to be preserved, which is unfortunate from the nomenclatural point of view as H. sect. Transsilvanica has H. transylvanicum as a type (Schljakov 1989: 244).
description: Published as part of Szeląg, Zbigniew, 2018, Hieracia balcanica XVI. Taxonomic and nomenclatural notes on Hieracium rotundatum and H. transylvanicum (Asteraceae), pp. 227-233 in Phytotaxa 382 (2) on page 231, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.382.2.8, http://zenodo.org/record/13724574
Lyotropic Lamellar Phase Doped with a Nematic Phase of Magnetic Nanorods
Creators: name: Constantin, Doru
name: Davidson, Patrick
name: Chanéac, Corinne
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the elaboration of a hybrid mesophase combining the lamellar order of a lyotropic system of nonionic surfactant and the nematic order of a concentrated solution of inorganic nanorods confined between the surfactant layers. Highly aligned samples of this mesophase can be obtained by thermal annealing, and the orientation of the nanorods is readily controlled with a magnetic field. High-resolution synchrotron X-ray scattering and polarized optical microscopy show that, compared to their isolated counterparts, both the nematic and lamellar orders are altered, demonstrating their interplay.
An informed approach to performance practice issues in Lipstick (1998) - by Jacob ter Veldhuis
Creators: name: Hamilton, Elizabeth Jane
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Lipstick for amplified flute/alto flute and tape (1998) by Jacob ter Veldhuis (b. 1951) is a work for flute and soundtrack - composed around fragments of speech samples drawn from American popular culture. The score to Lipstick is problematic as it merely provides the notes and approximate rhythms, with minimal expressive instructions to the flautist. Furthermore, the recorded accompaniment is fixed and therefore raises questions about developing expression against a static accompaniment. Via performance-based research and interviews with Eleonore Pameijer, Connie Frigo and Jacob ter Veldhuis, this thesis addresses these problems through a detailed examination of rhythm and phrasing in Lipstick. Additional material(s) submitted with thesis.
Central limit theorems for mapping class groups and $\text{Out}(F_N)$
Creators: name: Horbez, Camille
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove central limit theorems for the random walks on either the mapping class group of a closed, connected, orientable, hyperbolic surface, or on $\text{Out}(F_N)$, each time under a finite second moment condition on the measure (either with respect to the Teichmüller metric, or with respect to the Lipschitz metric on outer space). In the mapping class group case, this describes the spread of the hyperbolic length of a simple closed curve on the surface after applying a random product of mapping classes. In the case of $\text{Out}(F_N)$, this describes the spread of the length of primitive conjugacy classes in $F_N$ under random products of outer automorphisms. Both results are based on a general criterion for establishing a central limit theorem for the Busemann cocycle on the horoboundary of a metric space, applied to either the Teichmüller space of the surface, or to Culler--Vogtmann's outer space.
description: 48 pages, 1 figure. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1506.06790
(Not) the Saudi women you hear about : the developed identity of Saudi women in Australia
Creators: name: Alfurayh, Luluh Ibrahim
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Studying abroad is considered to be an important factor behind the social changes happening in Saudi Arabia especially among Saudi women(Alhazmi, 2010). When abroad, some Saudi womenexperience a change in their values and beliefs which affect their social behaviors. Drawing on an Islamic feminism perspective,Norton’s investment theory, and SLA theories,this study explores the experience of female Saudi international students in Australia and the role of English in the development of these women’s identities. It discusses how learning English and living in an English speaking country impact upon Saudi women's social identity. The participants were five postgraduate Saudi female students, currently studying in Australia. The research methodology utilized a qualitative approach and data was generated from self-completion questionnaires and in-depth face to face interviews. The findings indicate thatthe Saudi women valued their traditional roles as mothers and felt empowered by performing the task of motherhood. However, they reject their traditional roles as wives and the mandates on women’s roles in Saudi culture and seek different roles. They do that in line with their religion by reinterpreting the Islamic teaching i.e. Islamic feminism, and learning English linguistically and using English to access different cultures. The findings also emphasize the importance of the English language, and socialisation in the new environment in developing the identity of the Saudi women, and how it is considered a resource which learners can optionally draw on. The findings also show that the Saudi women are investing in learning the target language as a way to provoke change (within themselves, their family and the Saudi society). This study helps to fill a gap in literature as almost all the literature found in this topic was conducted by non-Saudi researchers, who, as outsiders, could miss the changes happening in Saudi Arabia, so there is a need to discuss the identity of Saudi women with an insider perspective. Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Applied Linguistics, School of Languages, Literatures, Culture and Linguistics.