cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
EXPLORING THE MOLECULAR MECHANISM OF ROOT-MEDIATED RESPONSES TO RALSTONIA
Creators: name: Rivera-Zuluaga, Katherine
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 300103
subject: Agricultural molecular engineering of nucleic acids and proteins
classificationCode: 300105
subject: Genetically modified field crops and pasture
classificationCode: 300199
subject: Agricultural biotechnology not elsewhere classified

description: Bacterial Wilt, caused by Ralstonia solanacearum, is among the most devastating plant diseases in the world. This pathogen causes significant loss in crops such as tobacco, potato, and tomato. R. solanacearum root infection and xylem colonization determine disease outcome. To date, little is known about the defense mechanism mediated by roots to prevent R. solanacearum vascular colonization during the initial infection stages. Plant early responses are important since they may impact disease outcomes. Here, we report the formation of root hairs and primary root growth inhibition in tomato seedlings as Ralstonia-induced phenotypes that depend on tomato genotype and Ralstonia species. The Ralstonia-induced root phenotypes are independent of a functional type III secretion system and exopolysaccharide production (EPS). We also found that R. solanacearum K60 infection increased auxin levels throughout the root meristem in wilt-susceptible tomato roots. Our data suggest proper auxin signaling and transport are important for susceptibility to R. solanacearum K60. Blocking auxin transport pharmacologically or genetically led to fewer wilting symptoms, suggesting that auxin is important during early infection stages and disease outcomes in tomato. We previously found that a tomato mutant defective in auxin transport and signaling, known as diageotropica (dgt), has enhanced resistance to R. solanacearum K60. We characterized the resistant response in the dgt mutant, and we found that the resistant response in the dgt mutant may be due to increased lignin content preventing pathogen vasculature colonization. DGT encodes a cyclophilin protein that regulates auxin transport and signaling. Mutations in the cyclophilin DGT promote resistance to R. solanacearum K60. DGT has been reported to regulate auxin transport and signaling. However, the molecular mechanism regarding how DGT mediates these processes is still unknown. We used Yeast Two-Hybrid to identify candidate protein interactors, and we found that SlbZIP1/SlbZIP29, Sl14-3-3, and SlMYB110 may interact with DGT to regulate both development and defense responses. Understanding the role of DGT, auxin, and lignin in defense responses to R. solanacearum K60 in tomato is necessary for Solanaceae crop improvement.
Trans Abdominis Plan Block Reduce Postoperative Analgesic Requirement and Prolong Time to First Analgesic Request in Abdominal Surgery at University of Gondar Hospital: Prospective Observational Study
Creators: name: Yohannes Molla, Tadesse Belayneh
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2015

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title: Liste de mots en rục lue par une locutrice née à Mò O Ồ Ồ en 1994
title: List of Rục words read by a speaker born in Mò O Ồ Ồ in 1994
Creators: name: Tạ Thành Tấn
Publisher: name: Pangloss
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Linguistique
subject: Rục

description: Frame sentences containings target words with onset dentals and velars. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada 435-2017-0498: Voicing and its transphonologization: the initiation and actuation of a sound change in Southeast Asia
Inflationary perturbation theory is geometrical optics in phase space
Creators: name: Seery, David
name: Mulryne, David J.
name: Frazer, Jonathan
name: Ribeiro, Raquel H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A pressing problem in comparing inflationary models with observation is the accurate calculation of correlation functions. One approach is to evolve them using ordinary differential equations ("transport equations"), analogous to the Schwinger-Dyson hierarchy of in-out quantum field theory. We extend this approach to the complete set of momentum space correlation functions. A formal solution can be obtained using raytracing techniques adapted from geometrical optics. We reformulate inflationary perturbation theory in this language, and show that raytracing reproduces the familiar "delta N" Taylor expansion. Our method produces ordinary differential equations which allow the Taylor coefficients to be computed efficiently. We use raytracing methods to express the gauge transformation between field fluctuations and the curvature perturbation, zeta, in geometrical terms. Using these results we give a compact expression for the nonlinear gauge-transform part of fNL in terms of the principal curvatures of uniform energy-density hypersurfaces in field space.
description: 22 pages, plus bibliography and appendix. v2: minor changes, matches version published in JCAP
Callabonica Blackburn 1895
Creators: name: Allsopp, Peter G.
name: Schoolmeesters, Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Callabonica

description: Callabonica Blackburn, 1895
[1 species].
Type species Callabonica propria Blackburn, 1895, by monotypy.
description: Published as part of Allsopp, Peter G. & Schoolmeesters, Paul, 2024, All genera of the world: Subfamilies Prototroginae, Cretoscarabaeinae, Dynamopodinae, Electrorubesopsinae, Phaenomeridinae, Orphninae, Allidiostomatinae, Aclopinae, Lichniinae, Melolonthinae, Oncerinae, Podolasiinae, Sericinae, Sericoidinae (Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), pp. 104-175 in Megataxa 12 (1) on page 148, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.12.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/14984437
Perception of pain in others : the impact of a label of major depressive disorder
Creators: name: Turcotte, Kara
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Approximately one in five Canadian adults suffer from chronic pain. Furthermore, rates of psychiatric disorders, particularly major depression, are elevated among chronic pain populations. Although the influence of psychosocial factors on judgments of pain in others is gaining increased attention in the research literature, the extent to which a label of a comorbid psychiatric condition influences how pain is perceived in individuals with chronic pain has not yet been investigated. Using a between-subject vignette methodology, the current study examined how a label of comorbid major depression influenced the assessment of pain intensity in individuals with chronic pain. The present study investigated whether a comorbid diagnosis of depression can influence the perception of pain in individuals with chronic pain, as well as how and for whom this effect might exist. This research hypothesized the association between a comorbid MDD label and pain intensity assessment may be mediated by physical pain attributions, psychological pain attributions, or pain genuineness or moderated by an individuals’ level of mental illness stigma, psychological distress, or empathy. Three hundred and seventy-one participants read a vignette and watched a video of a middle-aged male or female adult with chronic pain undergoing a pain induction exercise. The participants responded to an online questionnaire assessing their perception of the patient’s pain intensity, pain genuineness, physical or psychological causal attributions of pain, and psychological distress, as well as self-report trait measures of mental illness stigma, and empathy. The findings indicated that a label of comorbid depression in individuals with chronic pain influences observers’ perception of the patient’s psychological distress, pain genuineness, and physical pain attributions regarding causes of pain, but not pain intensity. No significant mediation or moderation effects emerged. Given the high rates of depression in chronic pain and the poor quality of life outcomes in this population, future research is needed to examine other ways comorbid depression may impact pain perception in others. This area of research shows promise in improving the assessment and subsequent treatment of individuals suffering from acute and chronic pain.
Hymenocephalus neglectissimus Sazonov & Iwamoto 1992
Creators: name: Schwarzhans, Werner
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Gadiformes
Macrouridae
Hymenocephalus
Hymenocephalus neglectissimus

description: Hymenocephalus neglectissimus Sazonov & Iwamoto, 1992
Figs. 35A–C, 37
 Hymenocephalus neglectissimus Sazonov & Iwamoto, 1992: 56 (type locality: Sala y Gomez Ridge, Prof. Shtokman cr. 18, sta. 1964).
 Hymenocephalus neglectissimus: Iwamoto & Merrett, 1997: 523 (reference values only).
 Material examined. 2 specimens ZMMGU P-18221, 105 and 112 mm TL, 23°33’S, 89°11’W, 563– 590 m.
 Diagnosis (after Sazonov & Iwamoto with additions). Pelvic fin rays 8; pectoral fin rays 13–15; gill rakers 16–21. Barbel moderately long, 15–28% HL. Black blotch on dorsum short, with clear-cut outline. Orbit very large, 44–55% HL along the longest diameter, slightly oblique. Snout rounded, not protruding, 10–15% HL. Ventral striae extending to about ⅔ the distance from pelvic fin bases to periproct. Infraorbital width 5–8% HL. Otolith very compressed with broad, pointed predorsal lobe, OL:OH = 0.8.
 Comparison. Hymenocephalus neglectissimus is a small species that is characterized by its large orbit size in combination with a long barbel and a narrow infraorbital width and narrow infraorbital supporter. Sazonov & Iwamoto used the sharp edged, short black blotch on the dorsum as a further character to distinguish H. neglectissimus from the co-occurring H. semipellucidus (long and eroded outline).
 Description. Head morphology (n = 1) (Fig. 35A–B): snout short, rounded, not projecting, 10–15% HL, orbit diameter very large, 42–50% HL, 44–55% HL along the longest diameter, slightly obliquely oriented, interorbital width about 40–50% HW. Barbel moderately long, 15–20% HL (up to 28% HL according to Sazonov & Iwamoto), reaching slightly beyond vertical through anterior margin of orbit. Head canals well developed, infraorbital width 5–8% HL, supraorbital canal with 4 segments, width 6% HL, supratemporal canal indistinct, above segment 3 of supraorbital canal, preopercular canal width 10% HL, postorbital-preopercular interspace 4% HL. Infranasal supporter short; infraorbital very short and narrow, 25% OD; preopercular supporter short, 4% HL, with straight rear margin.
Otolith morphology (n = 1) (Fig. 35C): otolith large; OL:OH = 0.8. No sufficiently well preserved otolith was retrieved from any of the studied specimens. An outline could be reconstructed from one otolith, which has a very compressed shape and a broad, dorsally pointed predorsal lobe.
 Distribution (Fig. 37). Hymenocephalus neglectissimus is only known from the Sala y Gomez Ridge.
description: Published as part of Schwarzhans, Werner, 2014, Head and otolith morphology of the genera Hymenocephalus, Hymenogadus and Spicomacrurus (Macrouridae), with the description of three new species, pp. 1-73 in Zootaxa 3888 (1) on pages 64-65, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3888.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10086415
Cubidens Britton 1992
Creators: name: Allsopp, Peter G.
name: Schoolmeesters, Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Cubidens

description: Cubidens Britton in Houston, 1992
[1 species].
Replacement name for Paraheteronyx Britton, 1988, not Paraheteronyx Moser, 1912.
Paraheteronyx Britton, 1988.
Type species Heteronyx unguiculatus Burmeister, 1855, by original designation.
description: Published as part of Allsopp, Peter G. & Schoolmeesters, Paul, 2024, All genera of the world: Subfamilies Prototroginae, Cretoscarabaeinae, Dynamopodinae, Electrorubesopsinae, Phaenomeridinae, Orphninae, Allidiostomatinae, Aclopinae, Lichniinae, Melolonthinae, Oncerinae, Podolasiinae, Sericinae, Sericoidinae (Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), pp. 104-175 in Megataxa 12 (1) on page 148, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.12.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/14984437
Agalmatidae Brandt 1835
Creators: name: Pugh, P. R.
name: Baxter, E. J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Hydrozoa
Siphonophorae
Agalmatidae

description: Family Agalmatidae Brandt, 1835   Diagnosis: Physonect siphonophores whose nectophores, when present, are budded off on the dorsal side of the nectosome. Descending mantle canal present on nectophores, when such are developed. Species are monoecious. For most species, with the possible exception of those of the genus Athorybia, the adult tentilla are involucrate.
 Genera: Agalma, Halistemma, Nanomia, Athorybia and Melophysa, the last two being short-stemmed forms with, in the genus Athorybia, the total suppression of the nectosome.
 Remarks: The family Agalmidae, based on the genus Agalma Eschscholtz, 1825, was established by Brandt (1835); the name coming from the Greek for glory or delight. However, Poche (1914) pointed out that, because of the Greek declension of the noun, the name of the family should correctly be written as Agalmatidae, and this form has been generally used after it was adopted by Cairns et al. (1991).
  Genus Halistemma Huxley, 1859
 Diagnosis: Agalmatid siphonophores with characteristic arrangement of ridges on the nectophores; basically consisting of pairs of upper and lower lateral, lateral, and vertical lateral. Characteristic sinuous arrangement of the lateral radial canals on the nectosac. Adult bracts of at least two different types. In development the colonies pass through a distinctive post-larval Nectalia stage. Tentilla with single terminal filament, often ending in a cupulate process. Involucrum vestigial or covering only first one or two spirals of cnidoband.
description: Published as part of Pugh, P. R. & Baxter, E. J., 2014, A review of the physonect siphonophore genera Halistemma (Family Agalmatidae) and Stephanomia (Family Stephanomiidae), pp. 1-111 in Zootaxa 3897 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3897.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10086517
title: Liste de mots en rục lue par une locutrice née à Mò O Ồ Ồ en 1966
title: List of Rục words read by a speaker born in Mò O Ồ Ồ in 1966
Creators: name: Tạ Thành Tấn
Publisher: name: Pangloss
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Linguistique
subject: Rục

description: Frame sentences containings target words with onset dentals and velars. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada 435-2017-0498: Voicing and its transphonologization: the initiation and actuation of a sound change in Southeast Asia
Spontaneous Mirror Parity Violation, Common Origin of Matter and Dark Matter, and the LHC Signatures
Creators: name: Cui, Jian-Wei
name: He, Hong-Jian
name: Lv, Lan-Chun
name: Yin, Fu-Rong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Existence of a mirror world in the universe is a fundamental way to restore the observed parity violation in weak interactions and provides the lightest mirror nucleon as a unique GeV-scale dark matter particle candidate. The visible and mirror worlds share the same spacetime of the universe and are connected by a unique space-inversion symmetry -- the mirror parity (P). We conjecture that the mirror parity is respected by the fundamental interaction Lagrangian, and study its spontaneous breaking from minimizing the Higgs vacuum potential. The domain wall problem is resolved by a unique soft breaking linear-term from the P-odd weak-singlet Higgs field. We also derive constraint from the Big-Bang nucleosynthesis. We then analyze the neutrino seesaw for both visible and mirror worlds, and demonstrate that the desired amounts of visible matter and mirror dark matter in the universe arise from a common origin of CP violation in the neutrino sector via leptogenesis. We derive the Higgs mass-spectrum and Higgs couplings with gauge bosons and fermions. We show their consistency with the direct Higgs searches and the indirect precision constraints. We further study the distinctive signatures of the predicted non-standard Higgs bosons at the LHC. Finally, we analyze the direct detections of GeV-scale mirror dark matter by TEXONO and CDEX experiments.
description: 55pp. PRD final version. Only minor refinements (including to comment on the latest LHC Higgs searches in Sec.5 and estimate abundances of mirror dark matter particles in Sec.6); more references added
Superfluid to normal phase transition in strongly correlated bosons in two and three dimensions
Creators: name: Carrasquilla, Juan
name: Rigol, Marcos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using quantum Monte Carlo simulations, we investigate the finite-temperature phase diagram of hard-core bosons (XY model) in two- and three-dimensional lattices. To determine the phase boundaries, we perform a finite-size-scaling analysis of the condensate fraction and/or the superfluid stiffness. We then discuss how these phase diagrams can be measured in experiments with trapped ultracold gases, where the systems are inhomogeneous. For that, we introduce a method based on the measurement of the zero-momentum occupation, which is adequate for experiments dealing with both homogeneous and trapped systems, and compare it with previously proposed approaches.
description: 13 pages, 11 figures. http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.86.043629
Transverse Ising Chain under Periodic Instantaneous Quenches: Dynamical Many-Body Freezing and Emergence of Solitary Oscillation
Creators: name: Bhattacharyya, Sirshendu
name: Das, Arnab
name: Dasgupta, Subinay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the real-time dynamics of a quantum Ising chain driven periodically by instantaneous quenches of the transverse field (the transverse field varying as rectangular wave symmetric about zero). Two interesting phenomena are reported and analyzed: (1) We observe dynamical many-body freezing or DMF (Phys. Rev. B, vol. 82, 172402, 2010), i.e. strongly non-monotonic freezing of the response (transverse magnetization) with respect to the driving parameters (pulse width and height) resulting from equivocal freezing behavior of all the many-body modes. The freezing occurs due to coherent suppression of dynamics of the many-body modes. For certain combination of the pulse height and period, maximal freezing (freezing peaks) are observed. For those parameter values, a massive collapse of the entire Floquet spectrum occurs. (2) Secondly, we observe emergence of a distinct solitary oscillation with a single frequency, which can be much lower than the driving frequency. This slow oscillation, involving many high-energy modes, dominates the response remarkably in the limit of long observation time. We identify this slow oscillation as the unique survivor of destructive quantum interference between the many-body modes. The oscillation is found to decay algebraically with time to a constant value. All the key features are demonstrated analytically with numerical evaluations for specific results.
description: Published version (with minor changes and typo corrections)
Is Enucleation Safe When the Distance Between the Tumor and the Main Pancreatic Duct Is Less Than 3 mm? Results from a Multi-Institutional Retrospective Study
Creators: name: Partelli, Stefano
name: Fendrich, Volker
name: Crippa, Stefano
name: Lopez, Caroline L
name: Boninsegna, Letizia
name: Dietzel, Kristin
name: Bartsch, Detlef K
name: Falconi, Massimo
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2012
Subjects: Meeting Abstracts; Pancreas

description: Background Enucleation of small tumors can prevent pancreatic function impairment although the incidence of postoperative pancreatic fistula is relatively high. It has been suggested that this procedure should be avoided when the distance between the tumor and the main pancreatic duct is less than 3 mm. Objective To evaluate the safety of pancreatic enucleation for tumors distant less than 3 mm from the main pancreatic duct. Methods We reviewed the databases of the Department of Surgery of Marburg University (MU) and “Sacro Cuore” (SCH) Hospital of Negrar (1990-2012). All patients underwent intra-operative ultrasound (US) to measure the distance between the main pancreatic duct and the tumor. Binary logistic regression analysis of predictors of pancreatic fistula was performed. Results Sixty patients underwent enucleation in the two institutions. There were 21 males (35%) and 39 females (65%) with a median age of 50 years. The main reason for surgery was insulinomas (60%) followed by nonfunctioning neuroendocrine tumors (22%), gastrinomas (8%) and other tumors (6%). The median operative time was 137 minutes (IQR: 120-160). The overall rate of pancreatic fistula was 48% whereas the mortality was nil. The rate of pancreatic fistula was similar among the two institutions (55% in the SCH versus 42% in the MU; P=0.305). Overall, 31 patients (52%) had a distance between the tumor and the main pancreatic duct less than 3 mm. Re-exploration was necessary in 5 patients (8%) who had a tumor distant less than 3 mm from main pancreatic duct whereas the rate of grade C pancreatic fistula was similar among the two groups (25% vs. 29%; P=0.257). The only variable associated with a higher risk of pancreatic fistula was the distance between the tumor and main pancreatic duct less than 3 mm (odds ratio: 5.51; P=0.003). Conclusions Although the distance between the main pancreatic duct and tumor less than 3 mm is associated with a higher risk of pancreatic fistula, enucleation remains acceptably safe also in this group of patients. An intra-operative US is always mandatory to improve the post-operative management other than preventing main pancreatic duct injuries.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 13, N° 5S (2012): September (Suppl.) - p. 548-650
On bouncing solutions in non-local gravity
Creators: name: Koshelev, Alexey S.
name: Vernov, Sergey Yu.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A non-local modified gravity model with an analytic function of the d'Alembert operator is considered. This model has been recently proposed as a possible way of resolving the singularities problem in cosmology. We present an exact bouncing solution, which is simpler compared to the already known one in this model in the sense it does not require an additional matter to satisfy all the gravitational equations.
description: 5 pages; v2: matching the jounral version
Universal Blind Quantum Computing with Weak Coherent Pulses
Creators: name: Dunjko, Vedran
name: Kashefi, Elham
name: Leverrier, Anthony
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recently proposed Universal Blind Quantum Computation (UBQC) protocol allows a client to perform an arbitrary quantum computation on a remote server such that perfect privacy is guaranteed if the client is capable of producing random separable single qubit states. While from a theoretical point of view, this arguably constitutes the lowest possible quantum requirement, from a pragmatic point of view, generation of random single qubits which can be sent along long distances without loss is quite challenging and can never be achieved perfectly. In analogy to the concept of approximate security developed for other cryptographic protocols, we introduce here the concept of approximate blindness for UBQC, allowing us to characterize the robustness of the protocol to possible imperfections. Following this, we present a remote blind single qubit preparation protocol, by which a client with access to realistic quantum devices (such as coherent laser light) can in a delegated fashion prepare quantum states arbitrarily close to perfect random single qubit states. We finally prove that access to coherent states is sufficient to efficiently achieve approximate blindness with arbitrary small security parameter.
description: 16 pages, 1 figure
BIOLOGIYA FANINI O'QITISH JARAYONIDA ZAMONAVIY METODLAR
Creators: name: Abduxalilova, Madinaxon
name: Xolmatova, Irodaxon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Ushbu maqolada biologiya fanini oʻqitish jarayonida zamonaviy metodlar yordamida ushbu fanini o'qitishning xususiyatlari tahlil qilib o'tildi. Biologiyani fanini o'qitish metodikasi pedagogika fani sifatida didaktika bilan uzviy bog'liq hisoblandi. Biologiya o'qitish metodikasi maktab biologiyasining o'ziga xos xususiyatlaridan kelib chiqib, ta'lim va tarbiyaning mazmuni, shakllari, usullari va vositalarining nazariy va amaliy muammolarini ishlab chiqadi.Biologiya fanini o'qitish metodikasi psixologiya bilan chambarchas bog'liq, chunki u bolalarning yosh xususiyatlariga asoslangan. Bolalarni yoshiga qarab ularni darslarga jalab qilish zarur. Bolalarni daslarga qiziqshini kuchaytirish uchun turli xil metodlardan foydalanish ham muhim hisoblanadi.
Nash Equilibria via Duality and Homological Selection
Creators: name: Basu, Arnab
name: Basu, Samik
name: Mj, Mahan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 55M05 (Primary), 55N45, 91A10

description: Given a multifunction from $X$ to the $k-$fold symmetric product $Sym_k(X)$, we use the Dold-Thom Theorem to establish a homological selection Theorem. This is used to establish existence of Nash equilibria. Cost functions in problems concerning the existence of Nash Equilibria are traditionally multilinear in the mixed strategies. The main aim of this paper is to relax the hypothesis of multilinearity. We use basic intersection theory, Poincaré Duality in addition to the Dold-Thom Theorem.
description: 20 pages, 4 figures. Final version to appear in Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences (Math. Sci.)
Eurychelus Blanchard 1850
Creators: name: Allsopp, Peter G.
name: Schoolmeesters, Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Eurychelus

description: Eurychelus Blanchard, 1850
[1 species].
Type species Eurychelus marmoratus Blanchard, 1850, by monotypy.
description: Published as part of Allsopp, Peter G. & Schoolmeesters, Paul, 2024, All genera of the world: Subfamilies Prototroginae, Cretoscarabaeinae, Dynamopodinae, Electrorubesopsinae, Phaenomeridinae, Orphninae, Allidiostomatinae, Aclopinae, Lichniinae, Melolonthinae, Oncerinae, Podolasiinae, Sericinae, Sericoidinae (Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), pp. 104-175 in Megataxa 12 (1) on page 148, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.12.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/14984437
Cohomotopy sets of 4-manifolds
Creators: name: Kirby, Robion
name: Melvin, Paul
name: Teichner, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57N13, 55Q55

description: Elementary geometric arguments are used to compute the group of homotopy classes of maps from a 4-manifold X to the 3-sphere, and to enumerate the homotopy classes of maps from X to the 2-sphere. The former completes a project initiated by Steenrod in the 1940's, and the latter provides geometric arguments for and extensions of recent homotopy theoretic results of Larry Taylor. These two results complete the computation of all the cohomotopy sets of closed oriented 4-manifolds and provide a framework for the study of Morse 2-functions on 4-manifolds, a subject that has garnered considerable recent attention.
description: 20 pages, 6 figures; this version to appear in the FreedmanFest (G&T Monographs, Volume 18)
The Titanium Surface Modulates the Expression of Beta-Catenin and DLX5 Genes in Pancreatic Ductal Carcinoma in Vitro. Can the Metallic Stent Increase PDAC Aggressiveness?
Creators: name: Denaro, Maria
name: Alvino, Alessandra
name: Botta, Lucia
name: Pelliccioni, Serena
name: Pollina, Luca Emanuele
name: Costa, Francesca
name: Gennai, Andrea
name: Boggi, Ugo
name: Campani, Daniela
name: Funel, Niccola
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2012
Subjects: Meeting Abstracts; Pancreas

description: Context Adenoductal pancreas (PDAC) is a fatal cancer. Its aggressiveness is associated in part with the EMT process of metastasis. Two genes specifically involved in these phenomena are b-catenin and DLX5. While the first gene has been widely studied also in pancreatic cancer, few data are associated with DLX5. However, its over-expression has been recently associated with the formation of metastases in breast cancer in vivo. An exogenous factor involved in the modulation of the expression of these genes seems to be titanium. This compound is usually employed for the pallia action of patients with PDAC, to reduce choledochal stenosis due to compression. Objective The purpose of this study was to assess whether titanium is able to modulate the expression of these two genes in vitro. Methods We used a primary cell culture of PADC (PP78). The cells were seeded and cultivated in contact with two different titanium surfaces for 10 days. After this period the total mRNA was extracted and the quantification of β-catenin and DLX5 genes was performed by RT-PCR according to the ΔΔCt analysis. Then cells were stained using the immunofluorescence technique (IF) to quantify the b-catenin protein expression .using a computerized high-resolution acquisition system (D-Sight, Menarini, Florence, Italy) The cells were scored evaluating the cytoplasmic positivity as follows (0 absent, 1 low, 2 middle, 3 strong). The experiment was carried out in triplicate and untreated cells (without titanium contact) were used as control. Results Quantitative analyses showed that both titanium surfaces positively affected beta-catenin (mean 2.8 fold) and DLX5 (2.0 fold) mRNA expressions with respect to the controls (P<0.0007). Both titanium surfaces also increased the protein score 3 values of β-catenin in treated cells with respect to their controls (P=0.0158). Conclusion Our data showed that several titanium surfaces positively modulated the expression of two genes associated with the increase of the aggressiveness of PDAC in vitro. Clinical studies are needed to find out which type of stent can be used in the surgical operation with palliative intent.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 13, N° 5S (2012): September (Suppl.) - p. 548-650
title: Governments, Parliaments and Parties (Germany)
title: Governments, Parliaments and Parties (Germany)
Creators: name: Oppelland, Torsten
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: o.P. Deutschland
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: Politik
subject: o.P. Germany--Politics and government--1888-1918
subject: World War, 1914-1918

description: At the beginning of World War I, Germany was a constitutional monarchy in which political parties were limited to the legislative arena. They could control neither the government nor the military. At the end of the war, the political system had been transformed into a – albeit short-lived – parliamentary monarchy in which the political and military branches of the executive were designed to be fully responsible to the ''Reichstag'' and in which members of the legislative branch were able to serve in government as well. It was not a straightforward development from one state of affairs to another, but rather one that was accelerated at two critical junctures: the crisis of July 1917 and the looming military defeat in September 1918.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
The New Fully Automated System For Ki67 Evaluation in Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors (PNETs). Would It Be Possible to Obtain a Standard to Grade Evaluation?
Creators: name: Funel, Niccola
name: Denaro, Maria
name: Faviana, Pinuccia
name: Pollina, Luca E
name: De Lio, Nelide
name: Perrone, Vittorio G
name: Boggi, Ugo
name: Basolo, Fulvio
name: Campani, Daniela
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2012
Subjects: Meeting Abstracts; Pancreas

description: Context Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PNETs) are diseases with varying degrees of aggressiveness and differentiation. In some cases it is even difficult to make a histological diagnosis. The international guidelines drive the pathologist to assess histological evaluation of degree and differentiation, but this latter parameter still depends on experience of the pathologist. Grading evaluation of these tumors is based on the evaluation of mitosis number and the number of positive cells for the Ki67 marker. This type of evaluation is closely subjective as the major difficulty consists in counting exactly the number of total cells, but not the number of positive cells. Objective The aim of this study was to evaluate the actual number of positive Ki-67 neuroendocrine tumor cells in fully automatic computerized modality, comparing the obtained results with those of the pathologist. Methods In this study, we evaluated 22 cases of PNET including: 5 adenomas, 4 and 13 borderline using a computerized high-resolution acquisition system (D-Sight, Menarini, Florence, Italy). The entire histological section labeled by immune­histochemistry for the Ki-67 marker was acquired for each case. Positivity assessment was made by counting at least 2,000 tumor representative cells. The two groups of analyses were evaluated by t-test (P<0.05 for significant results). Results Statistical analysis showed no significant differences when comparing the results obtained by computerized analysis and those obtained from pathologist. However, the computerized evaluation was rapid, reproducible and operator-independent. Furthermore, the D-Sight system was able to provide percentage grading of nuclear staining intensity. Conclusion Pathological grading for PNET is currently of fundamental importance to the setting of adjuvant therapy in carcinomas. The possibility to evaluate the Ki-67 value in a safe, rapid and reproducible way, could greatly enhance the work of the pathologist and oncologist within PNET. Furthermore, large scale studies are needed in order to take advantage of this technology routinely.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 13, N° 5S (2012): September (Suppl.) - p. 548-650
ESiWACE Business Plan (D1.3)
Creators: name: Lawrence, Bryan
name: Biercamp, Joachim
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: This deliverable discusses options and plans for transferring the ESiWACE activity into sustainable services for the community. ESiWACE consists of two kinds of activities: explicit and specific actions, for which we have milestones and deliverables, and a more implicit set of activities which revolve around collaboration and setting and achieving shared objectives. Key to both sorts of activities is the set of stakeholders – partners in the activities and objective definition, and users, both within partner institutions and elsewhere.
description: ESiWACE has received funding from the European Union's
Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme
under Grant Agreement No 675191
Stellar Nucleosynthesis Nuclear Data Mining
Creators: name: Pritychenko, Boris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Stellar nucleosynthesis is an important nuclear physics phenomenon that is responsible for presently observed chemical elements and isotope abundances. It is also one of the corner stone hypotheses that provides basis for our understanding of Nature. Its theoretical predictions are often verified through the astrophysical observation and comparison of calculated isotopic abundances with the observed values. These calculations depend heavily on the availability of nuclear reaction rate, cross section and decay data. In this work, we will provide a review of theoretical and experimental nuclear reaction data for Big Bang, stellar and explosive nucleosynthesis and modern computer tools. Examples of evaluated and compiled nuclear reaction data will be given. Major databases and their input in nuclear reaction calculations will be discussed.
description: 20 pages, 9 figures, 4 tables
Homological Mirror Symmetry for Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces in projective space
Creators: name: Sheridan, Nicholas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove Homological Mirror Symmetry for a smooth d-dimensional Calabi-Yau hypersurface in projective space, for any d > 2 (for example, d = 3 is the quintic three-fold). The main techniques involved in the proof are: the construction of an immersed Lagrangian sphere in the `d-dimensional pair of pants'; the introduction of the `relative Fukaya category', and an understanding of its grading structure; a description of the behaviour of this category with respect to branched covers (via an `orbifold' Fukaya category); a Morse-Bott model for the relative Fukaya category that allows one to make explicit computations; and the introduction of certain graded categories of matrix factorizations mirror to the relative Fukaya category.
description: 133 pages, 17 figures. Changes to the argument ruling out sphere bubbling in the relative Fukaya category, and dealing with the behaviour of the symplectic form under branched covers. Other minor changes suggested by the referee. List of notation included
Addressing cyber warfare : bolstering deterrence through developing norms
Creators: name: Dawson, Ashley
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: This paper is interested in two things: one, exploring the ways in which states can deploy cyber-attacks that aim at disrupting, paralyzing and possibly destroying another state’s assets, with direct bearing on national security; and two, the potential strategies for limiting the scope and number of these attacks in the absence of viable deterrence. There is an ongoing debate about the nature and possibility of a ‘cyber war’ in the international system. By revisiting traditions conceptions of war, this paper argues a large-scale cyber war can be deterred using a strategy of deterrence by punishment, but deterrence fails to prevent ongoing limited-aims cyber attacks due to the issue of plausible deniability. Moreover, international legal frameworks fall short because states cannot credibly commit, even states could credible commitment the issue of adequately balancing humanitarian concerns and military necessity poses a challenge. As controlling behavior through traditional deterrence or purely rationalist legal frameworks fail with respect to limited-aims cyber attacks, this paper considers the possibility of changing states’ preferences as a means of addressing the problem. By allowing an agency/structure dichotomy to enter into the analysis, this paper explores the potential for norms in bolstering cyber deterrence. Although the development of new norms of behaviour is still in its early stages, there is evidence of states asserting their role in the process, acting as norms entrepreneurs in an attempt to shape state preferences in cyberspace.
Novel Attractive Force Between Ions in Quantum Plasmas
Creators: name: Shukla, Padma Kant
name: Eliasson, Bengt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report new attractive force between ions that are shielded by degenerate electrons in quantum plasmas. Specifically, we show that the electric potential around an isolated ion has a hard core negative part that resembles the Lennard-Jones (LJ)-type potential. Physically, the new electric potential is attributed to the consideration of the quantum statistical pressure, the quantum Bohm potential, as well as the electron exchange and electron correlations due to electron-1/2 spin within the framework of the quantum hydrodynamical description of quantum plasmas. The shape of the attractive potential is determined by the ratio between the Bohr radius and the Wigner-Seitz radius of degenerate electrons. The existence of the hard core negative potential will be responsible for the attraction of ions forming lattices and atoms/molecules, as well as for critical points and phase transitions in quantum plasmas at nanoscales.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
The Lesser Role of Shear in Star Formation: Insight from the Galactic Ring Survey
Creators: name: Dib, Sami
name: Helou, George
name: Moore, Toby
name: Urquhart, James
name: Dariush, Ali
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyse the role played by shear in regulating star formation in the Galaxy on the scale of individual molecular clouds. The clouds are selected from the 13^CO J=1-0 line of the Galactic Ring Survey. For each cloud, we estimate the shear parameter which describes the ability of density perturbations to grow within the cloud. We find that for almost all molecular clouds considered, there is no evidence that shear is playing a significant role in opposing the effects of self-gravity. We also find that the shear parameter of the clouds does not depend on their position in the Galaxy. Furthermore, we find no correlations between the shear parameter of the clouds with several indicators of their star formation activity. No significant correlation is found between the shear parameter and the star formation efficiency of the clouds which is measured using the ratio of the massive young stellar objects luminosities, measured in the Red MSX survey, to the cloud mass. There are also no significant correlations between the shear parameter and the fraction of their mass that is found in denser clumps which is a proxy for their clump formation efficiency, nor with their level of fragmentation expressed in the number of clumps per unit mass. Our results strongly suggest that shear is playing only a minor role in affecting the rates and efficiencies at which molecular clouds convert their gas into dense cores and thereafter into stars.
description: Accepted to ApJ. 30 pages, 11 figures. Content substantially enlarged and includes quantitative correlations between the SFE of molecular clouds and their shear parameters. Some references corrected
title: Pre-war Military Planning (Austria-Hungary)
title: Pre-war Military Planning (Austria-Hungary)
Creators: name: Kronenbitter, Günther
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: Vorgeschichte
subject: o.P. Österreich
subject: o.P. World War, 1914-1918--Austria
subject: World War, 1914-1918--Causes

description: Austria-Hungary’s General Staff enjoyed a monopoly on war planning. Its long-time Chief Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf worked hard to improve the Habsburg Monarchy’s war preparations and the basic features of Austro-Hungarian war plans were shaped by his ideas. The unfavorable strategic situation and inadequate military resources made it particularly difficult to conceive coherent plans for deployment and operations. Gripped by notions of the supremacy of the offensive, the Viennese General Staff failed to take the consequences of modern firepower and the importance of logistics properly into account.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Gemcitabine-Ukrain Combination Affects MMP9 Expression in Primary Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma Cell Cultures (PPCCs)
Creators: name: Botta, Lucia
name: Denaro, Maria
name: Alvino, Alessandra
name: Giovannetti, Elisa
name: Pollina, Luca Emanuele
name: Perrone, Vittorio
name: De Lio, Nelide
name: Boggi, Ugo
name: Campani, Daniela
name: Funel, Niccola
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2012
Subjects: Meeting Abstracts; Pancreas

description: Context Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is among the most lethal tumors mostly because of its invasive behavior and resistance to most chemotherapy regimens. Our previous results suggested that NSC-631570 (ukrain) modulates extracellular matrix remodeling of PDAC cell lines [1]. This study investigates the modulation of key determinants of invasive behavior such as MMP9 protein by gemcitabine-ukrain, using appropriate preclinical models. Objective This study investigates the modulation of key determinants of invasive behavior such as MMP9 protein by gemcitabine-ukrain, using appropriate preclinical models. Methods Two PPCCs and two cell lines of PDAC were seeded in multi-well chamber slides (8,000 each/well) and exposed to gemcitabine (10 nM), ukrain (1 µM) and their combination. After 48-h treatment the cells were stained with the polyclonal antibody (CST-Euroclone) for MMP9. Untreated cells were used to evaluate the basal level of MMP9, and while non-stained cells were employed as negative control. Protein expression levels were evaluated with novel software for image analysis, checking both nuclei and cytoplasm staining intensity. Differences in expression values were compared by t-test/ANOVA analyses. Results We observed a significant reduction of MMP9 expression in both PPCCs treated with gemcitabine-ukrain combination with respect to their controls and to cells treated with gemcitabine or ukrain alone (P<0.01). Moreover, drug combination significantly reduced the number cells, and modified the structure of most nuclei with respect to untreated cells. Conclusion New approaches to reduce the metastatic behavior of PDAC are warranted, and gemcitabine-ukrain showed promising results in our preclinical studies. The new computerized approach to evaluate MMP9 staining at ICC is an ease-to-use and rapid method that should be further developed both in preclinical models and for IHC analyses of PDAC tissues.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 13, N° 5S (2012): September (Suppl.) - p. 548-650