cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
2004-2005 Beaverdam Creek Watershed Monitoring Report
Creators: name: Allan, Craig J.
name: Diemer, John A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 40608 Surfacewater Hydrology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Hydrology

description: Monitoring report compiled for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Stormwater Services by researchers at UNC-Charlotte describing hydrology and water quality in the Beaverdam Creek watershed in 2004-2005.
Lattice Quantum Gravity: Review and Recent Developments
Creators: name: Catterall, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review the status of different approaches to lattice quantum gravity indicating the successes and problems of each. Recent developments within the dynamical triangulation formulation are then described. Plenary talk at LATTICE 95 July 11-15, Melbourne, Australia.
description: 12 pages, 8 figures
Impulse-based discrete element modelling of rock impact and fragmentation, with applications to block cave mining
Creators: name: Tang, Xuhai
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2013

description: Impulse-based methods efficiently and accurately model high-frequency collisions of complex shapes based on the enforcement of non-penetrating constraints. It does not rely on penalty parameters nor requires the computation of penetration between bodies. This work presents a novel necessary condition for energy conservation in impulse-based methods. In previous versions of the impulse methods, such as sequential and simultaneous impulse methods, the relative velocity at the contact points after collision is directly derived from the relative velocity before collision, in a purely simultaneous or sequential manner. This work presents a novel energy tracking method (ETM), in which the relative velocities are iteratively but gradually adjusted, simultaneously modelling their interaction at each iteration. ETM ensures the energy conservation while capturing the propagation of forces during collision. The ETM is applied to model the dynamics of fragment collision in the context of fragmentation. Two approaches of fragmentation are proposed: a finite-discrete element approach, and a low cost, fragmentation pattern-based approach. The first approach models the growth of fractures using the finite element method (FEM) and advanced re-meshing technology. This finite-discrete element approach suffers from the drawback of massive computational cost. The low-cost, fragmentation pattern-based approach separate colliding bodies directly. The fragmentation pattern is generated using Weibull distribution equations, the patterns and size distributions computed using full finite/discrete element simulations and experimental results. This work investigates the influence of fragmentation on the frequency of hang-up events and on the gravity flow of rock fragments within a block caving system. Numerical results indicate that models that do not consider fragmentation tend to overestimate the frequency of hang-up accidents.
Synthedemic Modelling and Prediction of Internet-based Phenomena
Creators: name: Nika, Maria (Marily)
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2014

description: The study of infectious disease dynamics, termed epidemiology, has been an important area of research for hundreds of years. Nowadays, it is increasingly realised that such techniques may have application to epidemics of a socio-technological nature. Indeed, the proliferation of the Internet has created new opportunities to study the mechanisms behind the emergence and dynamic behaviour of online phenomena such as Internet-based popularity outbursts. The contributions of this thesis are threefold. Firstly, we explore how classical epidemiological models can be applied to model the Internet-based spreading of YouTube video views and BitTorrent downloads. We assess the potential for epidemiology to explain such phenomena, by progressively fitting and parameterising mono-epidemic models from a single data trace. We investigate the characterisation of parameter uncertainty by applying maximum likelihood-based techniques to obtain isosurfaces for different confidence intervals. We also study parameter recoverability from single stochastic simulation trajectories. Secondly, we propose a novel paradigm for modelling and predicting Internet-based phenomena. This framework is based on the composition of multiple compartmental epidemiological models, each of which is hypothesised to correspond to an underlying spreading mechanism. Our multiple-epidemic modelling approach regards data sets as the manifestation of a number of synthesised epidemics. This approach is termed “synthedemic” modelling. It is inspired by Fourier analysis, but instead of harmonic wave forms, our components are compartmental epidemiological models. We present results from applying the synthedemic model to several epidemic outbreak datasets: synthetic SIR/SEIR, Influenza, Swine flu reported cases, YouTube video views and BitTorrent music downloads. Finally, we extend the well-known SIR model in order to investigate the potential influence of reinforcing and inhibiting interactions between epidemics. The result is the first mathematical model that can reflect the dynamics of mutually reinforcing or inhibiting epidemics, via the syndemic and counter-syndemic interaction effects in multiple overlapping populations. Our findings relating to the effect of the degree of overlap between populations are consistent with existing literature on travel restrictions.
Bimolecular Triplet-Triplet Annihilation Upconversion for Photovoltaics
Creators: name: Piper, Roland
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2014

description: Organic upconversion of photons through triplet energy exchange between two or more molecules (OUC) has been investigated through transient absorption and fluorescence spectroscopy, kinetic rate modelling and morphological analysis of thin films. An OUC system, consisting of one sensitising molecule (PQ4Pd) and an emitting molecule (rubrene), was first studied to explore the possibility of modelling the entire OUC process with a kinetic rate model. Transient absorption spectroscopy allowed for the intermediate steps of OUC to be directly observed and fitted, producing rate constants for each step in the process. This complete model was then optimised against fluorescence measurements from a system containing PtTPBP (sensitiser) and perylene (emitter) to calculate rate constants for that system from a single fluorescence type experiment, as opposed to several orthogonal Stern-Volmer type experiments. The possibility of fabricating a thin film OUC has been investigated through microscopy, fluorescence spectroscopy and a simple Monte-Carlo model. Using a system of PtOEP (sensitiser) and DPA (emitter), it was shown that the maximal efficiency of a thin film containing these molecules suspended in a PMMA matrix is found when the matrix is between 80 and 85 weight% of the total mixture. It was shown that on short timescales (a few seconds to a few minutes), atmospheric oxygen does not adversely affect thin film upconverters of this type as local oxygen is extremely rapidly quenched (less than a ms) and fresh oxygen is not able to diffuse back into the matrix at a rate that is competitive to OUC. It was shown that the degree of intermixing of active materials is of absolute importance in this fabrication, and a novel optical technique for measuring this intermixing in air was developed, some preliminary results are included.
Strings on Celestial Sphere
Creators: name: Stieberger, Stephan
name: Taylor, Tomasz R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We transform superstring scattering amplitudes into the correlation functions of primary conformal fields on two-dimensional celestial sphere. The points on celestial sphere are associated to the asymptotic directions of (light-like) momenta of external particles, with the Lorentz group realized as the SL(2,C) conformal symmetry of the sphere. The energies are dualized through Mellin transforms into the parameters that determine dimensions of the primaries. We focus on four-point amplitudes involving gauge bosons and gravitons in type I open superstring theory and in closed heterotic superstring theory at the tree-level.
description: 28 pages, harvmac; v2: added Appendix A, final version to appear in Nucl. Phys. B
D-2.2-DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION PLANS FOR THE PRE-OPERATIONAL PHASE OF THE PILOTS
Creators: name: Ziemba, Alex
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Management Systems
subject: Multi-Use
subject: Anchoring
subject: Mooring
subject: Blue Economy
subject: Sustainable economy

description: This report presents the technological challenges of multi-use and co-location aspects of five UNITED pilots. Challenges, requirements, solutions and unsolved issues are given in three themes for each pilot. These three themes are monitoring and docking systems, deployment design and mooring systems and management systems. Note that some pilots are already operating in an existing infrastructure (e.g. wind farm). Hence, not the full design and construction of already existingcomponents are given, but rather the additional challenges that multi-use and co-location bring are discussed. Results are summarized in tabular format in chapter 3.
Search for narrow and broad dijet resonances in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV and constraints on dark matter mediators and other new particles
Creators: name: CMS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Searches for resonances decaying into pairs of jets are performed using proton-proton collision data collected at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of up to 36 fb$^{-1}$. A low-mass search, for resonances with masses between 0.6 and 1.6 TeV, is performed based on events with dijets reconstructed at the trigger level from calorimeter information. A high-mass search, for resonances with masses above 1.6 TeV, is performed using dijets reconstructed offline with a particle-flow algorithm. The dijet mass spectrum is well described by a smooth parameterization and no evidence for the production of new particles is observed. Upper limits at 95% confidence level are reported on the production cross section for narrow resonances with masses above 0.6 TeV. In the context of specific models, the limits exclude string resonances with masses below 7.7 TeV, scalar diquarks below 7.2 TeV, axigluons and colorons below 6.1 TeV, excited quarks below 6.0 TeV, color-octet scalars below 3.4 TeV, W' bosons below 3.3 TeV, Z' bosons below 2.7 TeV, Randall-Sundrum gravitons below 1.8 TeV and in the range 1.9 to 2.5 TeV, and dark matter mediators below 2.6 TeV. The limits on both vector and axial-vector mediators, in a simplified model of interactions between quarks and dark matter particles, are presented as functions of dark matter particle mass and coupling to quarks. Searches are also presented for broad resonances, including for the first time spin-1 resonances with intrinsic widths as large as 30% of the resonance mass. The broad resonance search improves and extends the exclusions of a dark matter mediator to larger values of its mass and coupling to quarks.
description: Replaced with the published version. Added the journal reference and DOI. All the figures and tables can be found at http://cms-results.web.cern.ch/cms-results/public-results/publications/EXO-16-056 (CMS Public Pages)
Boccacciomymar (Boccacciomymar) decameron S. Triapitsyn, sp. n.
Creators: name: TRIAPITSYN, SERGUEI V.
name: BEREZOVSKIY, VLADIMIR V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Mymaridae
Boccacciomymar
Boccacciomymar decameron

description: Boccacciomymar (Boccacciomymar) decameron S. Triapitsyn & Berezovskiy, sp. n. (Figs 87–90) Type material Holotype female (on slide, ANIC): AUSTRALIA, Australian Capital Territory, Black Mt., CSIRO, 35°16'S, 149°06'E, 17.IV.1999, G.A.P. Gibson, sweeping. Description FEMALE. Body and appendages mostly dark brown but most of legs (except distal tarsomeres) brown. Head (Fig. 87). Antenna (Fig. 88) much shorter than body, sparsely setose except clava densely setose (setae very short). Scape longer than pedicel or any funicle segment; F1 slightly shorter than pedicel; F2, F3, F4, and F6 subequal in length, F5 the shortest and F6 the widest funicle segment; longitudinal sensilla only on F4 (1) and F6 (2), clava large, a little longer than combined length of F4–F6, with 8 longitudinal sensilla. Mesosoma a little shorter than metasoma. Scutellum with row of frenal foveae. Propodeum (Fig. 89) with short submedial carinae. Forewing (Fig. 90) 3.0 x as long as wide, with about 5 rows of setae behind marginal vein; longest marginal cilia about 1/4 forewing width. Metasoma. Petiole about 1.3 x as long as wide, dorsally with several minute setae; ovipositor almost entire length of gaster, markedly exserted beyond apex of gaster (by about 2/5 of its own length); ovipositor length: metatibia length 2.1:1. Measurements: Mesosoma: 560; mesoscutum: 215; scutellum: 145; petiole: 106; gaster: 606; ovipositor: 923. Antenna: scape (excluding radicle): 103; pedicel: 76; F1: 71; F2: 76; F3: 73; F4: 74; F5: 48; F6: 78; clava: 228. Forewing: 1353/455; longest marginal cilia: 112. Hind wing: 1082/51. Legs (given as coxa, femur, tibia, tarsus): fore: 121, 281, 239, 309; middle: 115, 264, 336, 403; hind: 167, 297, 442, 440. MALE. Unknown. Diagnosis This species is distinguished from B. (B.) turneri by its much longer ovipositor and antennal clava with 8 longitudinal sensilla (it lacks the short ninth apical sensillum characteristic of B. (B.) turneri). It differs from both B. (B.) evanescens and B. (B.) conquistador sp. n. in having longitudinal sensilla on F4 and F6 only. Etymology This specific name is a noun in apposition, referring to the Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio.
description: Published as part of TRIAPITSYN, SERGUEI V. & BEREZOVSKIY, VLADIMIR V., 2007, Review of the Oriental and Australasian species of Acmopolynema, with taxonomic notes on Palaeoneura and Xenopolynema stat. rev. and description of a new genus (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae), pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 1455 (1) on pages 48-49, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1455.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5077726
Effects of Improvement: $f_π$ and $m_q$
Creators: name: Gough, Brian
name: Onogi, Tetsuya
name: Simone, Jim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a study of the effects of improvement on light-quark physics using the Fermilab formalism. The calculations were performed at three different lattice spacings, with the SW action and traditional Wilson action (both tadpole improved). We find that $O(a)$ effects for the decay constant $f_π$ and quark mass $m_q$ can be successfully removed using the tadpole-improved SW action in the light-quark regime.
description: 4 pages, 2 postscript figures, uuencoded tar file, LaTeX, epsf.sty, Contribution to Lattice 95
2005-2005 Beaverdam Creek Monitoring Report
Creators: name: Allan, Craig J.
name: Diemer, John A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 40608 Surfacewater Hydrology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Hydrology

description: Monitoring report compiled for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Stormwater Services by researchers at UNC-Charlotte describing hydrology and water quality in the Beaverdam Creek watershed in 2004-2005.
Real Time Intraoperative Three Dimensional Ultrasound in Biopsy and Resection of Intrinsic Brain Tumours
Creators: name: Apostolopoulos, Vasileios
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2013

description: There is growing evidence that maximal surgical resection of malignant gliomas is beneficial, both by increasing the progression free survival (Stummer, Pichlmeier et al. 2006) and also by facilitating postoperative chemotherapy and radiotherapy (Stupp, Mason et al. 2005). In this context there has been an increased need for real time intraoperative imaging in brain tumour surgery. The complex theatre arrangements, prohibitive cost and prolonged theatre time has restricted the wide application of intraoperative MRI (iMRI). Modern intraoperative ultrasound, which in the past has been relatively underused in oncological neurosurgery, is affordable, and easy to use (Unsgaard, Ommedal et al. 2002), but has not been robustly validated. This study attempts to histologically validate the accuracy of the intraoperative US and to explore its potential as an intraoperative navigation tool, which can accurately guide biopsies and resections of intrinsic brain tumours. The digital data extracted from US images obtained during ultrasound guided biopsies was correlated with the histology of the relevant specimens. Image analysis of selected regions of interest (ROI) was employed to extract quantitative parameters from the digital ultrasound images. The mean pixel brightness (MPB) and the standard deviation (SD) were correlated with histological parameters. The pattern of histograms from the selected ROIs was observed and correlated with the histological findings. A close correlation was observed between mean pixel brightness (MPB), an objective measure of echogenicity, and cellularity and an equally close correlation between the standard deviation (SD) and the intrinsic cellular diversity of the analysed areas. These two together, despite not being specific, can indirectly suggest the nature of the tumour and also reflect the sensitivity of intraoperative US to detect the presence and the extent of intrinsic brain tumours. Our findings could have translational potential as an intraoperative guidance tool.
Measurement of charged particle spectra in minimum-bias events from proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV
Creators: name: CMS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Pseudorapidity, transverse momentum, and multiplicity distributions are measured in the pseudorapidity range $|η| $ 0.5 GeV in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV. Measurements are presented in three different event categories. The most inclusive of the categories corresponds to an inelastic pp data set, while the other two categories are exclusive subsets of the inelastic sample that are either enhanced or depleted in single diffractive dissociation events. The measurements are compared to predictions from Monte Carlo event generators used to describe high-energy hadronic interactions in collider and cosmic-ray physics.
description: Replaced with the published version. Added the journal reference and the DOI. All the figures and tables can be found at http://cms-results.web.cern.ch/cms-results/public-results/publications/FSQ-16-011 (CMS Public Pages)
Additional file 5 of Plasma-derived exosomal miR-4732-5p is a promising noninvasive diagnostic biomarker for epithelial ovarian cancer
Creators: name: Liu, Jingjing
name: Yoo, Jigeun
name: Ho, Jung Yoon
name: Jung, Yuyeon
name: Lee, Sanha
name: Hur, Soo Young
name: Choi, Youn Jin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 5: Figure S2. Quality control of the data.
Synchronisation phenomena with time delay
Creators: name: Cheang, Seng
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2014

description: I study a simple model of synchronisation proposed by Jensen (2008). The relevant degrees of freedom are expected to be strictly increasing functions of time, such as the total angle swept out by an oscillator. The model is rooted in Winfree’s mean-field model for spontaneous synchronisation; some of Winfree’s basic assumptions, such as identical or nearly identical dynamics and identical couplings, are therefore retained. I investigated the behaviour of the present model with respect to synchronisation without and in the presence of time delay. The mathematical treatment focuses on characterising the synchronised state as either at- tractive or repulsive, producing a theory (which ultimately leads to a phase diagram) that compares well with numerics. I employed a perturbative approach, linearising in small time delays and small phase differences. The interaction between individual oscillators is captured by an interaction matrix, which does not require further approximation, i.e. lattice structure enters exactly. To link with established results in the literature, a mean field theory, however, is also studied. The main result is that these typically systems synchronise due to a time delay.
Oral history interview with William O'Neill, 1994
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021

description: New York intellectuals, Jewish, Marxist, Socialist context; communism and socialism compared; Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA), origins, membership, control by Soviet Union, roots in trade union movement, influence; opposition to CPUSA, Trotskyist movement; Max Eastman as example; anticommunism, origins of, dilemmas of, and New York intellectuals; Waldorf Conference 1948
2005-2008 Beaverdam Creek Watershed Monitoring Report
Creators: name: Allan, Craig J.
name: Diemer, John A.
name: Gagrani, Vijaya
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Hydrology
subject: 40608 Surfacewater Hydrology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Monitoring report compiled for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Stormwater Services by researchers at UNC-Charlotte describing hydrology and water quality in the Beaverdam Creek watershed in 2005-2008.
title: ADCO, Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions de Dijon et du Dijonnais (XVe siècle), Cart. 175 (11 H 479), 115 folios, f. 0040
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2017
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: cartulaire

description: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions de Dijon et du Dijonnais (XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 175 (11 H 479), 115 folios, f. 0040, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions de Dijon et du Dijonnais (XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 175 (11 H 479), 115 folios, f. 0040, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
Improving the energy efficiency of high speed rail and life cycle comparison with other modes of transport
Creators: name: Zhou, Jing
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2014

description: The world energy crisis and global warming call for a reduction of energy consumption. High speed rail, increasingly viewed as an effective solution to inter-city passenger transportation challenge of the 21st century, has the significant ability of increasing passenger capacity and reducing journey time. The advent of high speed rail provided many research opportunities. So far studies have been contributed from different perspectives: economical, environmental, and technical. The main research gaps are: addressing the problem of the effects of route geometry on train energy consumption and quantifying the contributing factors towards differences in energy consumption between different types of high speed trains. In addition, this energy assessment cannot be based solely on the energy consumption in the operation phase. In the life cycle assessment of the whole railway system, the vehicle evaluation is relatively straightforward, but the infrastructure raises many difficult issues. In this thesis, an existing approach for modelling the traction energy of electric trains is developed and extended to simulate the train operation under different driving strategies. Baseline simulation is carried out to estimate the journey time and energy consumption of a High Speed 2(HS2) reference train running on the London-Birmingham proposed high speed route. The influence of route geometry and train configuration on energy consumption is investigated, based on the metric of energy consumption per passenger kilometre. Simulations are also carried out of different types of high speed rolling stock running on the proposed HS2 route, to identify the key areas of vehicle design which help to minimise the energy consumption of high speed rail travel. The life cycle assessment of railway infrastructure is carried out in four stages of a whole life cycle: production, operation, maintenance and disposal, the influence of route parameters on life cycle cost is also investigated. Finally, high speed rail is compared with competing modes of transport, i.e. the aircraft, the automobile and the conventional train, in both operational energy efficiency and whole life cycle analysis. The high speed rail transportation has great advantage over the road and air transport, giving a reduction of carbon emission by roughly 95%, among which the operation stage contributes the largest reduction.
Evolution of Cluster X-Ray Luminosities and Radii: Results from the 160 Square Degree ROSAT Survey
Creators: name: Vikhlinin, A.
name: McNamara, B. R.
name: Forman, W.
name: Jones, C.
name: Quintana, H.
name: Hornstrup, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We searched for cluster X-ray luminosity and radius evolution using our sample of 200 galaxy clusters detected in the 160 deg^2 survey with the ROSAT PSPC (Vikhlinin et al. 1998, astro-ph/9803099). With such a large area survey, it is possible, for the first time with ROSAT, to test the evolution of luminous clusters, Lx > 3x10^44 erg/s, in the 0.5-2 keV band. We detect a factor of 3-4 deficit of such luminous clusters at z>0.3 compared to the present. The evolution is much weaker or absent at modestly lower luminosities, 1-3x10^44 erg/s. At still lower luminosities, we find no evolution from the analysis of the log N - log S relation. The results in the two upper Lx bins are in agreement with the Einstein EMSS evolution result (Gioia et al. 1990a, Henry et al. 1992) while being obtained using a completely independent cluster sample. The low-Lx results are in agreement with other ROSAT surveys (e.g. Rosati et al. 1998, Jones et al. 1998). We also compare the distribution of core radii of nearby and distant (z>0.4) luminous (with equivalent temperatures 4-7 keV) clusters, and detect no evolution. The ratio of average core radius for z~0.5 and z<0.1 clusters is 0.9+/-0.1, and the core radius distributions are remarkably similar. A decrease of cluster sizes incompatible with our data is predicted by self-similar evolution models for high-Omega universe.
description: 5 pages including 3 ps figures, uses enclosed emulateapj.sty. ApJ Letters, in press
Differential tumour necrosis factor signalling in human models of acute lung injury
Creators: name: Proudfoot, Alastair
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2014

description: Numerous clinical and experimental studies have implicated tumour necrosis factor (TNF) as a central mediator of acute lung injury (ALI). TNF signals through two cell surface receptors, TNFR1 and TNFR2, which initiate distinct signalling pathways and cellular responses. Using a novel, highly selective TNFR1 domain antibody GSK1995057 allied with TNF-receptor (TNFR) specific muteins, the work in this thesis investigated the roles of differential TNFR signalling in a range of human in vitro models of ALI using human lung microvascular endothelial cells (HMVEC-L), human alveolar type 2 cells (hAT2) and human neutrophils. In particular we focused on the cascade of events, which lead to neutrophil migration into the alveolar space during ALI. The TNFR1 signalling pathway mediated HMVEC-L activation (neutrophil adhesion molecule expression and chemokine / cytokine release) and injury (trans-endothelial resistance). These effects were associated with an amelioration of neutrophil migration through HMVEC-L monolayers. TNFR1 signalling also played key roles in neutrophil priming, activation, and cell fate. TNFR1 signalling mediated TNF-induced alterations in neutrophil cell surface molecule expression and reactive oxygen species production. TNFR1 antagonism also reversed TNF induced late survival (20 hours) of human neutrophils. In an attempt to generate translational data investigating the effects of differential TNFR1 signalling, we established a human ex vivo model of ALI. Using an LPS method of injury we demonstrated release of the pro-inflammatory cytokines TNF, interleukin (IL-)-8, IL-6 and IL-1β in the alveolar space. This was associated with a significant influx of healthy donor neutrophils and pulmonary oedema in LPS injured lung compared to control treated contralateral lung. These data suggest a central role for TNFR1 signalling in ALI. Translation of these in vitro data in our human ex vivo lung model may provide the basis for future clinical trials of selective TNFR1 antagonism in ALI.
Renormalization of the Lattice Heavy Quark Classical Velocity
Creators: name: Mandula, Jeffrey E.
name: Ogilvie, Michael C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the lattice formulation of the Heavy Quark Effective Theory (LHQET), the classical velocity is renormalized. The origin of this renormalization is the reduction of Lorentz (or O(4)) invariance to (hyper)cubic invariance. The renormalization is finite and depends on the form of the decretization of the reduced heavy quark Dirac equation. For the Forward Time - Centered Space discretization, the renormalization is computed both perturbatively, to one loop, and non-perturbatively using an ensemble of lattices provided by the Fermilab lattice collaboration. The estimates of the leading (linear) shift agree, and indicate that for small classical velocities, the renormalized velocity is reduced by about 25-30% relative to its bare (input) value.
description: 4 pages in uuencoded compressed postscript (using uufiles); Talk given at Lattice '95 (Melbourne)
The role of local complement factor H production in complement-mediated renal disease
Creators: name: Vernon, Katherine Anne
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2013

description: The aim of my research was to define the roles of local and hepatic-derived factor H, in particular the contribution of extra-hepatic factor H to plasma C3 regulation and spontaneous renal disease associated with factor H deficiency. Factor H is the major soluble regulator of the alternative pathway of complement activation, synthesised predominantly by the liver. To investigate the role of extra-hepatic factor H, I generated mice with hepatocyte-specific factor H deficiency (hepatocyte-Cfh-/-) by intercrossing conditional factor H-deficient animals with mice expressing Cre recombinase under the control of the murine albumin promoter. Plasma factor H levels in hepatocyte-Cfh-/- mice were 19% of wild-type levels and were associated with a secondary reduction in plasma C3 levels. Higher plasma C3 levels than in Cfh-/- animals demonstrated that extra-hepatic factor H contributes to plasma C3 regulation, confirmed by tubulointerstitial C3 staining in hepatocyte-Cfh-/- mice. Extra-hepatic factor H prevented the GBM C3 deposition typical of complete factor H deficiency and was associated with spontaneous mesangial C3 deposition. To test the hypothesis that underlying dysregulation of the alternative pathway predisposes to exaggerated renal injury in the presence of additional complement activation, I assessed the response of hepatocyte-Cfh-/- mice to accelerated serum nephrotoxic nephritis. Injection of nephrotoxic serum led to the rapid onset of haemolytic uraemic syndrome. Subtotal deficiency of factor H in hepatocyte-Cfh-/- mice therefore provides a novel model of either C3 glomerulopathy or atypical haemolytic uraemic syndrome depending on the environmental milieu. This mouse model will enable the pathophysiological mechanisms involved to be further defined and new therapeutics investigated. I also examined the association between abnormalities in factor H-related protein 5 and C3 glomerulopathy. Minimal expression of normal factor H-related protein 5 within the kidney could not prevent CFHR5 nephropathy. Serum factor H-related protein 5 levels may be a marker of renal complement deposition.
Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of the High Redshift Quasar S4 0636+68 at z=3.2
Creators: name: Murayama, Takashi
name: Taniguchi, Yoshiaki
name: Evans, Aaron S.
name: Sanders, D. B.
name: Ohyama, Youichi
name: Kawara, Kimiaki
name: Arimoto, Nobuo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present near-infrared (observed frame) spectra of the high-redshift quasar S4 0636+68 at z=3.2 which was previously thought to be one of a group of ``strong'' Fe II emitters [i.e., F(Fe II 4434-4684)/F(Hbeta) > 1]. Our K-band spectrum clearly shows emission lines of Hbeta and [O III]4959, 5007 as well as optical Fe II emission. Our computed value of F(Fe II 4434-4684)/F(Hbeta) ~ 0.8 for S4 0636+68 is less than previously thought, and in fact is comparable to values found for radio-loud, flat-spectrum, low-z quasars. Therefore S4 0636+68 appears not to be a strong optical Fe II emitter. Although more than half (5/8) of the high-z quasars observed to date are still classified as strong optical Fe II emitters, their Fe II/Hbeta ratios, for the most part, follow the same trend as that of low-$z$ quasars, i.e., an anticorrelation in EW(Fe II)/EW(Hbeta) versus EW([O III])/EW(Hbeta), with radio-loud quasars having a mean value of EW(Fe II)/EW(Hbeta) approximately half that of radio-quiet quasars at comparable values of EW([O III])/EW(Hbeta).
description: 11 pages (aaspp4.sty), 3 tables (aj_pt4.sty), and 6 postscript figures. To appear in the Astronomical Journal
Electrochemical deposition of Cu-Zn-Sn-S films
Creators: name: Tay, En
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2015

description: CZTS (Cu2ZnSnS4) solar cells offer an earth-abundant and non-toxic alternative to CIGS (CuIn1 xGaxSe2) and CdTe technologies. In a one-bath electrodeposition approach for CZTS, the wide deposition potential difference between Cu and Zn would result in dendritic morphology with poor adhesion to the substrate. This challenge was explored in Chapter 4 with three different additives (citric acid, thiosulfate, and thiourea) in pH 1.5 – 2.0, where Sn2+ is stable. Cyclic voltammetry was used to study reduction and oxidation peaks in electrolyte baths containing the metal ion and additive. Citric acid did not show significant complexing effect while thiosulfate and thiourea exhibited a negative shift in Cu deposition potential such that the deposition window is defined by Sn and Zn instead of Cu and Zn. In the pH range investigated, thiourea was found to be much more stable than thiosulfate, which decomposed to sulfur particles. With a suitable additive (thiourea) identified, a one-bath deposition of Cu-Zn-Sn was explored in Chapter 5. Electrolyte baths with Cu2+, Zn2+, Sn2+, and an additive was used for electrodeposition of films at -0.2 V, -0.5 V, -0.8 V, -1.1 V, and -1.3 V. Films deposited using thiosulfate showed weak adhesion to the substrate, and flaked off easily. Nanostructures obtained from citric acid and no additive exhibited were similar, highlighting an inactivation of citric acid at low pH values as suggested in literature. Nanostructures obtained from thiourea were different. In terms of film homogeneity, electrodeposition with thiourea resulted in films with improved surface coverage and less pinholes than the case with no additive and citric acid. The composition of the films exhibited a Sn incorporation from -0.5 V and below, and Zn incorporation from -1.1 V and below for citric acid and thiourea. Once films of Cu-Zn-Sn were obtained, sulfur was incorporated using co-deposition of metal ions and sulfur particles in Chapter 6. A comparison of continuous and pulsed co-deposition was explored and films obtained from pulsed co-deposition were found to exhibit significantly better film homogeneity, hence pulsed co-deposition was used for subsequent studies. Sulfur loading was increased from 0 g/L to 0.32 g/L and 0.64 g/L. The morphologies obtained from these films were similar, with sulfur incorporation increasing from 0 g/L to 0.32 g/L, with a slight increase from 0.32 g/L to 0.64 g/L. The results obtained from this work will be advantageous towards an economical one-bath electrodeposition approach for earth-abundant and non-toxic CZTS solar cells. In addition, this study is helpful for future possibilities of a multi-metal electrodeposition in a one-bath approach.
Toward Precision Measurement of $B_K$ with Quenched Kogut-Susskind Quarks
Creators: name: JLQCD Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a status report of our ongoing effort toward a precision determination of the kaon $B$ parameter with the Kogut-Susskind quark action in quenched QCD. Results for $B_K$ so far accumulated at $β=5.85$, 5.93, 6.0 and 6.2 corresponding to $a^{-1}=1.3-2.6$ GeV do not exhibit the theoretically expected $O(a^2)$ behavior, but are apparently more consistent with an $O(a)$ behavior.
description: contribution to Lattice 95 (presented by S. Aoki), 4 pages, 4 postscript figures
Gaia Data Release 2: Rotational modulation in late-type dwarfs
Creators: name: Lanzafame, A. C.
name: Distefano, E.
name: Messina, S.
name: Pagano, I.
name: Lanza, A. F.
name: Eyer, L.
name: Guy, L. P.
name: Rimoldini, L.
name: Lecoeur-Taibi, I.
name: Holl, B.
name: de Fombelle, M. Audard G. J.
name: Nienartowicz, K.
name: Marchal, O.
name: Mowlavi, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the methods devised to identify the BY Dra variables candidates in Gaia DR2 and infer their variability parameters. BY Dra candidates are pre-selected from their position in the HR diagram, built from Gaia parallaxes, $G$ magnitudes, and $(G_{BP} - G_{RP})$ colours. Since the time evolution of the stellar active region can disrupt the coherence of the signal, segments not much longer than their expected evolution timescale are extracted from the entire photometric time-series and period search algorithms are applied to each segment. For the Gaia DR2, we select sources having similar period in at least two segments as candidates BY Dra. Results are further filtered considering the time series phase coverage and the expected approximate light curve shape. Gaia DR2 includes rotational periods and modulation amplitudes of 147 535 BY Dra candidates. The data unveil the existence of two populations with distinctive period and amplitude distributions. The sample covers 38% of the whole sky when divided in bins (HEALPix) of $\approx$0.84 square degrees and we estimate that represents 0.7 -- 5 % of all BY Dra stars potentially detectable by Gaia. The preliminary data contained in Gaia DR2 illustrate the vast and unique information that the mission is going to provide on stellar rotation and magnetic activity. This information, complemented by Gaia exquisite parallaxes, proper motions, and astrophysical parameter, is opening new and unique perspectives for our understanding of the evolution of stellar angular momentum and dynamo action.
description: 14 pages, 11 figures, accepted by A&A
Deliverable 6.1:Dissemination and Communication Plan
Creators: name: Velásquez, Sergio
name: Soley, Gisela
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: One of the goals of NEON is to raise awareness and establish a vibrant community of interest in the project, as well as to sustain exploitable results after the end of the project. Effective dissemination is seen as the basis for the creation of a critical mass that will assure the engagement of a sufficient number of stakeholders serving as champions and early adopters of NEON service concepts. A dissemination and communication plan are defined to create an early network of stakeholders and engage a relevant number of events aiming at providing ‘outsider view’ of the project to the consortium.
Oral history interview with William O. Walker, 1971
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Newspapers--Circulation
Journalism--Political aspects
Journalism--Social aspects
Journalists
African Americans--Civil rights
African American press
African American journalists

description: In this interview conducted by Henry La Brie III, William Otis Walker recounts his life history and discusses: his time at the Call & Post; the methods used to get stories; the competition in breaking stories; the role of the black press in the Civil Rights Era; the distinctions between the white press' and the black press' growth and readerships; and the future of the black press. Walker discusses how the black press was instrumental in fighting segregation in public spaces around Washington D.C. and the black press's importance in the face of discrimination in the present and future. He compares the press of non-English speaking ethnic groups to the black press in America in regard to assimilation into mainstream media. Furthermore, Walker outlines how developments in technology, history, and shifting racial dynamics have affected the readership of the black press.
Modelling of gas-solid flows with non-spherical particles
Creators: name: Zhao, Fan
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2014

description: Dispersed multiphase flows are common in nature and industry and are governed by complex physical phenomena. The complex features of the turbulence continuity carrier phase and the dispersed phase make the problem of a dispersed multiphase flow much more complex than a single phase flow. This research work focuses on modelling and analysing one type of dispersed multiphase flows: solid particles suspended in a turbulent channel flow. The aim of this thesis is to numerically investigate the effects of Stokes number, particle shape and particle volume fraction on the behaviour of gas-solid turbulent channel flows with non-spherical particles. This study not only considers spherical particles but also studies non-spherical fibre-like ellipsoids suspended in the channel flow. To fully describe the complex dynamics of non- spherical particles, the rotational motion and orientation is efficiently and accurately re- solved by applying unit Quaternions. To address inevitable numerical errors caused by the Quaternion integration algorithms in previous studies, a novel Quaternion integration method is derived, validated and applied for more accurately updating the unit Quaternions. This work also derives a new Quaternion equation to relate second order tensor variables between different frameworks. This research work applies four-way coupling to accurately model the complex gas-solid turbulent channel flows, and the fluid-particle, particle-particle and particle-wall interactions are all taken into account. Important conclusions from this work are summarized as follows. In four-way coupled simulations, the average viscosity of the fluid flow is not affected by the particles, whereas the turbulence intensity is reduced by adding small heavy particles. The average direct dissipation by the particles is negligible, and the primary mechanism by which the particles affect the flow is by altering the turbulence structure near and around the turbulence kinetic energy peak. For non-spherical particles, the distributions of the orientation angles clearly demonstrate that ellipsoids tend to align within the plane that lies perpendicular to the span-wise direction in the very near wall region, follow the stream-wise direction in the buffer layer, and almost randomly distribute in the central region of the channel.
Leveraging Disease Progression Learning for Medical Image Recognition
Creators: name: Lao, Qicheng
name: Fevens, Thomas
name: Wang, Boyu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Unlike natural images, medical images often have intrinsic characteristics that can be leveraged for neural network learning. For example, images that belong to different stages of a disease may continuously follow a certain progression pattern. In this paper, we propose a novel method that leverages disease progression learning for medical image recognition. In our method, sequences of images ordered by disease stages are learned by a neural network that consists of a shared vision model for feature extraction and a long short-term memory network for the learning of stage sequences. Auxiliary vision outputs are also included to capture stage features that tend to be discrete along the disease progression. Our proposed method is evaluated on a public diabetic retinopathy dataset, and achieves about 3.3% improvement in disease staging accuracy, compared to the baseline method that does not use disease progression learning.
Oral history interview with William Phillips, circa 1988-96
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021

description: Youth, New York City; City College of New York 1930s; John Reed Clubs; Partisan Review, founding of, role of Philip Rahv, editorial policies of, authors published by, and modernism, role in New York intellectual life; Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA), opposition to, founding of League of American Writers, popular front and popular front organizations, Waldorf Conference, intellectual influence of; Trotskyism; Anti-Communism 1930-1970; Congress for Cultural Freedom, influence of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); McCarthyism; New York intellectuals, members of, influence of, role of Jews and Jewishness, political arguments among, cosmopolitanism of, relation to New Left, lasting influence of; teaching career, New York University; relationship of intellectual life and American universities
Additional file 1 of Mild hyperthermia enhanced synergistic uric acid degradation and multiple ROS elimination for an effective acute gout therapy
Creators: name: Zhao, Pei
name: Hu, Hua-Zhong
name: Chen, Xiao-Tong
name: Jiang, Qi-Yun
name: Yu, Xue-Zhao
name: Cen, Xiao-Lin
name: Lin, Shi-Qing
name: Mai, Sui-qing
name: Pang, Wei-lin
name: Chen, Jin-Xiang
name: Zhang, Qun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 1.