cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Atmospheric Retrieval of Terrestrial Solar System Planets for LIFE
Creators: name: Konrad, Björn S.
name: Alei, Eleonora
name: Angerhausen, Daniel
name: Quanz, Sascha P.
name: LIFE Collaboration
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Retrievals
Terrestrial Exoplanets
LIFE
Future Missions

description: Context A long-term goal of exoplanet research is to characterize the atmospheres of a sizable sample of temperate terrestrial exoplanets. Such studies will augment our knowledge on the diversity of terrestrial worlds and might enable the discovery of habitable or even inhabited worlds. Missions capable of measuring spectra of temperate terrestrial exoplanets have been proposed (LUVOIR/HabEx - optical & near-infrared; Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE) - mid-infrared (MIR) [see Quanz et al., this conference]). The MIR thermal emission measured by LIFE provides exclusive probes to important molecules (e.g. the potential bioindicators CH4 and O3). Further, MIR observations can provide direct constraints on a planet’s pressure-temperature (PT) profile, radius, and surface conditions. Methods/Results We present results from our recent atmospheric retrievals of detailed LIFE mock-observations. We investigate a cloud-free Earth-twin [1] and, to our knowledge for the first time, a cloudy Venus-twin [Konrad et al., in prep.] exoplanet around a sun-like star at 10 pc. We simulate MIR planet emission spectra with petitRADTRANS (a 1D radiative transfer model) [2] and use LIFESim [Ottiger et al., subm.] to estimate the wavelength-dependent astrophysical noise expected for exoplanet observations with LIFE. Our retrieval suite uses the atmospheric model petitRADTRANS, including a parametric cloud model, and the MultiNest [3] parameter estimation algorithm. We retrieve the planetary radius, the PT profile, the surface pressure, the molecular abundances, and the cloud parameters, and constrain the planetary mass using the mass-radius relation forecaster [4]. By retrieving spectra of different wavelength ranges, resolutions (R), and noise levels (S/N), we determine the requirements to: discriminate Earth- from Venus-like MIR spectra characterize the structure/composition of atmospheres detect potential biomarkers in an Earth-twin infer cloud presence in atmospheres constrain cloud structure/composition in a Venus-twin We also discuss the challenges for retrievals of MIR exoplanet spectra from LIFE and how differences in the quality of the spectra affect them. Conclusion With these studies and an additional retrieval study for Earth at different times [Alei et al., this conference], we find first constraints for the LIFE instrument requirements and identify important limitations and challenges of MIR exoplanet retrievals. References [1] Konrad, B.S., et al., 2021, arXiv:2112.02054 [2] Mollière, P., et al., 2019, A&A, 627:A67 [3] Feroz, F., et al., 2009, MNRAS, 398(4):1601–1614 [4] Chen, J., Kipping, D.M., 2016, arXiv:1603.08614
Search for new resonances decaying via WZ to leptons in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV
Creators: name: CMS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A search is performed in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV for exotic particles decaying via WZ to fully leptonic final states with electrons, muons, and neutrinos. The data set corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 19.5 inverse femtobarns. No significant excess is observed above the expected standard model background. Upper bounds at 95% confidence level are set on the production cross section of a W' boson as predicted by an extended gauge model, and on the W'WZ coupling. The expected and observed mass limits for a W' boson, as predicted by this model, are 1.55 and 1.47 TeV, respectively. Stringent limits are also set in the context of low-scale technicolor models under a range of assumptions for the model parameters.
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title:  Un Canale “spontaneo” per la memoria
Creators: name: Pulvirenti, Sara
Publisher: name: Roma Tre University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05vf0dg29
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2025

description: Canale Monterano, ed in generale i paesi a nord di Roma e del viterbese, fino agli anni ’70 avevano una vera e propria tradizione di poeti a braccio. Localmente alcune rime e canzoni sono rimaste ancora oggi vive nel tessuto sociale di quei luoghi, ma è venuto meno lo slancio creativo di quegli anni. Il contributo ne richiama alcune testimonianze e ripercorre l’attenzione che verso queste espressioni di cultura popolare e contadina hanno avuto, negli anni Settanta, autori come Gaspare Barbiellini Amidei e Giovanni Kezich.

Canale Monterano, and in general the towns north of Rome and the Viterbo area, had a real tradition of off-the-cuff poets until the 1970s. Locally, some rhymes and songs remain today alive in the social network of those places, but the creative momentum of those years has faded. The contribution recalls some evidence of this and traces the attention that authors such as Gaspare Barbiellini Amidei and Giovanni Kezich paid to these expressions of popular and peasant culture in the 1970s.
description: Eredità culturale bene comune. Per un Museo della comunità nel territorio di Canale Monterano. Prime ricerche
Forming the cores of giant planets from the radial pebble flux in protoplanetary discs
Creators: name: Lambrechts, Michiel
name: Johansen, Anders
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The formation of planetary cores must proceed rapidly in order for the giant planets to accrete their gaseous envelopes before the dissipation of the protoplanetary gas disc (<3 Myr). In orbits beyond 10 AU, direct accumulation of planetesimals by the cores is too slow. Fragments of planetesimals could be accreted faster, but planetesimals are likely too large for fragmentation to be efficient, and resonant trapping poses a further hurdle. Here we instead investigate the accretion of small pebbles (mm-cm sizes) that are the natural outcome of an equilibrium between the growth and radial drift of particles. We construct a simplified analytical model of dust coagulation and pebble drift in the outer disc, between 5 AU and 100 AU, which gives the temporal evolution of the solid surface density and the dominant particle size. These two key quantities determine how core growth proceeds at various orbital distances. We find that pebble surface densities are sufficiently high to achieve the inside-out formation of planetary cores within the disc lifetime. The overall efficiency by which dust gets converted to planets can be high, close to 50 % for planetary architectures similar to the Solar System. Growth by pebble accretion in the outer disc is sufficiently fast to overcome catastrophic Type I migration of the cores. These results require protoplanetary discs with large radial extent (~100 AU) and assume a low number of initial seed embryos. Our findings imply that protoplanetary discs with low disc masses, as expected around low-mass stars (<1 M_sun), or with sub-solar dust-to-gas ratios, do not easily form gas-giant planets (M > 100 M_E), but preferentially form Neptune-mass planets or smaller (< 10 M_E). This is consistent with exoplanet surveys which show that gas giants are relatively uncommon around stars of low mass or low metallicity.
description: Version accepted for publication in A&A
Adults, but not children, benefit from a pretrial signal cue in a random-frequency, two-tone masker
Creators: name: Bonino, Angela Yarnell
name: Leibold, Lori J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: This study examined the benefit of a pretrial cue, a preview of the signal, on children's (5–10 years) and adults' detection of a 1000-Hz pure-tone signal in a broadband noise or a random-frequency, two-tone masker. No cuing effect was observed with the noise masker, regardless of listener age. In contrast, all but one adult benefited from the cue with the two-tone masker (average = 9.4 dB). Most children showed no cuing effect (average = 0.1 dB) with the two-tone masker. These results suggest that, unlike adults, the provision of a pretrial cue does not promote frequency-selective listening during detection for 5- to 10-year-olds.
MPEC 2023-F241 : 2014 GC34
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
title: Verhaltenswirkungen von Lesbarkeit und einer Fremdsprache im Management Reporting: Experimentelle Studien
Creators: name: Besuglov, Ewgenij
Publisher: name: Bergische Universität Wuppertal
Year: 2022
Subjects: Cognitive load effect
experiments
foreign language effect
management accounting reporting
moral judgement
readability
risk-taking

description: In internationalen Großkonzernen werden interne Berichte für das Management häufig in einer einheitlichen Konzernsprache erstellt. Die Wahl fällt dabei nicht nur bei Mutterunternehmen mit Sitz in einem anglophonen Land häufig auf Englisch. Für viele Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter bedeutet diese Festlegung, dass die Erstellung und Nutzung der Berichte den Umgang mit einer Fremdsprache erfordert. Die Verwendung einer einheitlichen Konzernsprache erleichtert die Kommunikation. Sie hat jedoch auch potenzielle Nachteile: Es ist davon auszugehen, dass es den Erstellerinnen und Erstellern von Berichten schwerer fällt, die Berichte in einer Fremdsprache zu formulieren als in ihrer Muttersprache, so dass sich die Lesbarkeit der Berichte z. B. durch einen umständlichen Satzbau oder eine ungeschickte Wortwahl verringert. Auf der Seite der Nutzerinnen und Nutzer ist zu vermuten, dass das Verständnis der Berichte leidet, wenn diese in einer fremden Sprache verfasst sind und/oder deren Lesbarkeit aufgrund der Erstellung in einer Fremdsprache verringert ist. Psychologische Forschungsergebnisse zeigen, dass der Grad der Lesbarkeit (niedrig vs. hoch) und die Wahl der Sprache (Fremdsprache vs. Muttersprache) einen Einfluss darauf haben, wie Menschen Informationen wahrnehmen und bei Entscheidungen verarbeiten. Die vorliegende Dissertation knüpft an diese meist im Kontext von Alltagsentscheidungen erzielten Forschungsergebnisse an und untersucht anhand von zwei Experimenten, ob betriebswirtschaftliches Entscheidungsverhalten in ähnlicher Weise von der Berichtssprache und der Lesbarkeit beeinflusst wird.
Effect of stimulus bandwidth and duration on monaural envelope correlation perception
Creators: name: Buss, Emily
name: Hall, Joseph W.
name: Dai, Huanping
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Monaural envelope correlation perception is the ability to discriminate between stimuli composed of two or more bands of noise based on envelope correlation. Sensitivity decreases as stimulus bandwidth is reduced below 100 Hz. The present study manipulated stimulus bandwidth (25–100 Hz) and duration (25–800 ms) to evaluate whether performance of highly trained listeners is limited by the number of inherent modulation periods in each presentation. Stimuli were two bands of noise, separated by a 500-Hz gap centered on 2250 Hz. Performance improved reliably with increasing numbers of envelope modulation periods, although there were substantial individual differences.
What is EEGManyPipeline project?
Creators: name: Yang, Yu-Fang
name: Fischer, Nastassja Lopes
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: EEG, ERP, Replication, Many analysts, Open Science, Cognitive neuroscience

description: The analytical flexibility of EEG has called into question the robustness of EEG findings. Because there is myriad of ways to process and analyze EEG data, analysis pipelines differ a lot from study to study. To what extent different, but plausible pipelines create various conclusions and assumptions is still unknown. The EEGManyPipelines project is inspired by other recent projects involving many independent analysis teams to investigate a) how different analysts approach a given data set and b) how analysis approaches affect the obtained results. Participants in this project will be given access to an EEG dataset and will be asked to analyze it using an analysis pipeline that they consider suitable for their research. Participants will then send us their findings as well as a thorough description of the analysis pipeline. These reports will be used to map the variety of analytic pipelines as well as the impact of pipeline parameters on the final results. EEGManyPipelines will assist examine the robustness of EEG findings across alternative studies, identify potential (sub)optimal analysis pipelines, and suggest standards for describing EEG analyses in publications in this way. As a result, we believe that EEGManyPipelines will contribute to increasing the credibility of EEG research and the quality of analysis, as well as inspiring new guidelines for conducting and publishing EEG investigations.
Search for Displaced Supersymmetry in events with an electron and a muon with large impact parameters
Creators: name: CMS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A search for new long-lived particles decaying to leptons is presented using proton-proton collisions produced by the LHC at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV. Data used for the analysis were collected by the CMS detector and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 inverse femtobarns. Events are selected with an electron and a muon that have transverse impact parameter values between 0.02 cm and 2 cm. The search has been designed to be sensitive to a wide range of models with nonprompt e-mu final states. Limits are set on the "displaced supersymmetry" model, with pair production of top squarks decaying into an e-mu final state via R-parity-violating interactions. The results are the most restrictive to date on this model, with the most stringent limit being obtained for a top squark lifetime corresponding to c tau = 2 cm, excluding masses below 790 GeV at 95% confidence level.
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title: Von der Sorge um die Sorgearbeit
Creators: name: Hauck, Anne
Year: 2022

description: Sorgearbeit ist Grundvoraussetzung gesellschaftlicher Organisation. Während der Corona-Pandemie gelang dieser Grundpfeiler gesellschaftlichen (Zusammen)Lebens unter Druck. Differente, situationsbedingte Herausforderungen brachten die Instabilität des österreichischen Care-Regimes zum Vorschein. Ungleichheiten hinsichtlich des Geschlechtes, der Herkunft und der Klasse sind im österreichischen Care-Regime manifestiert und wurden durch die COVID-19 Pandemie verstärkt. Einen wesentlichen Beitrag zur Wahrnehmung dieser bestehenden und durch die Pandemie verstärkten Ungleichheiten lieferten österreichische Tageszeitungen. Die öffentliche, diskursive Aushandlung von Care in Österreich im Blickfeld der gegenwärtigen Pandemie und die Veräußerungen dieser in Deutungsmustern sind von Interesse. Aus der wissenssoziologische Diskursanalyse österreichischer Tageszeitungsartikeln, unter Berücksichtigung des Gesichtspunktes, dass die geschlechterspezifische Verteilung von Care-Arbeit ein blinder Fleck der Gleichstellungsdebatte ist sowie zur Verstärkung sozialer Ungleichheiten beiträgt, wurden folgende Erkenntnisse gezogen. Im spezifischen Kontext der Pandemie wird der ungleichen, vergeschlechtlichten Verteilung von bezahlter und unbezahlter Arbeit Wert beigemessen, dennoch bleibt sie die ‚Blackbox‘ der Gleichstellung, da eine Traditionalisierung der Rollenzuschreibungen an Frauen und Männer während der Pandemie diagnostiziert wurde. Weiteres verstärkt die Pandemie soziale Ungleichheiten gegenüber verschiedenen Strukturkategorien wie Herkunft, Geschlecht und Klasse – häufig intersektional. Der österreichische Care-Diskurs ist primär an den Fragen nach Gleichstellung und zukünftiger Sorgearrangements ausdifferenziert.
Optimal integration of independent observations from Poisson sources
Creators: name: Dai, Huanping
name: Buss, Emily
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: The optimal integration of information from independent Poisson sources (such as neurons) was analyzed in the context of a two-interval, forced-choice detection task. When the mean count of the Poisson distribution is above 1, the benefit of integration is closely approximated by the predictions based on the square-root law of the Gaussian model. When the mean count falls far below 1, however, the benefit of integration clearly exceeds the predictions based on the square-root law.
DD1/E/73 - Carte de viste, portrait of a monk by a writing desk
Creators: name: Evoy, Charlie Mc
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: carte de visite, photograph

description: Title: Carte de visite, portrait of a monk by a writing desk Reference: DD1/E/73 DOI:  Subseries: A.D [Alice Dolan] Album Level of Description: Item Format: Photograph Material & Techniques: Extent: 1 Creator: Adolphe Lesage, William Lawrence [photographers] Published/Created: [ca. 1872-1880] Place of Origin: Dublin Physical Description: Marks & Inscriptions:  [Front] Registered. A. Lesage. Dublin [Back] AE A Lesage, Photographer to the Catholic Hierarchy. 40 Lower Sackville Street Dublin. NOTICE. - The whole of A. Lesage's negatives have been purchased by W. Lawrence, Photographer,  5&7, UP Sackville Street Dublin. For whom Copies can only now be had. Summary: The carte de visite was patented in 1854 by the French photographer André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri, and soon became the most common type of photograph. Between four and six miniature portraits could be taken on one glass plate negative. Sitters then chose their favourites, which were printed, cut out and mounted onto calling cards. It was fashionable to exchange and collect images of family, friends, royalty and celebrities, into specially designed albums. Note: This image may have been enhanced for ease of viewing. Please contact the webmaster for an original copy.
Spectro-temporal modulation detection in children
Creators: name: Spratford, Meredith
name: McCreery, Ryan W.
name: Brennan, Marc A.
name: Kirby, Benjamin J.
name: Browning, Jenna M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Children's performance on psychophysical tasks improves with age. The relationship of spectro-temporal modulation detection to age, particularly in children who are hard of hearing, is not well-established. In this study, children with normal hearing (N = 22) and with sensorineural hearing loss (N = 15) completed measures of spectro-temporal modulation detection. Measures of aided audibility were completed in the children who are hard of hearing. Pearson product-moment correlations were completed with listener age and aided audibility as parameters. Spectro-temporal modulation detection performance increased with listener age and with greater aided audibility.
Resilience of the standard predictions for primordial tensor modes
Creators: name: Creminelli, Paolo
name: Gleyzes, Jérôme
name: Noreña, Jorge
name: Vernizzi, Filippo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
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: We show that the prediction for the primordial tensor power spectrum cannot be modified at leading order in derivatives. Indeed, one can always set to unity the speed of propagation of gravitational waves during inflation by a suitable disformal transformation of the metric, while a conformal one can make the Planck mass time-independent. Therefore, the tensor amplitude unambiguously fixes the energy scale of inflation. Using the Effective Field Theory of Inflation, we check that predictions are independent of the choice of frame, as expected. The first corrections to the standard prediction come from two parity violating operators with three derivatives. Also the correlator $$ is standard and only receives higher derivative corrections. These results hold also in multifield models of inflation and in alternatives to inflation and make the connection between a (quasi) scale-invariant tensor spectrum and inflation completely robust.
description: 5 pages, reference added, version accepted in PRL
Every Ternary Quintic is a Sum of Ten Fifth Powers
Creators: name: De Paris, Alessandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 15A21, 15A69, 15A72, 14A25, 14N05, 14N15

description: To our knowledge at the time of writing, the maximum Waring rank for the set of all ternary forms of degree $d$ (with coefficients in an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero) is known only for $d\le 4$. The best upper bound that is known for $d=5$ is twelve, and in this work we lower it to ten.
description: Relevant information added in the footnote (1) at p. 2
THE RIPID AND LONG-TERM IMPACT OF ACUTE STRESS ON NEUROPLASTICITY. A NOVEL PARADIGM FOR DISSECTION OF STRESS RESPONSE
Creators: name: SALA, NATHALIE
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2019

description: The response to stressful events is physiologically required to adapt to external challenges. However, the stress response can either have a ?pro-adaptive? outcome, when the response is efficiently activated and then inactivated, or exert ?maladaptive? effects, when the subject is vulnerable and the response is dysregulated. Unfortunately, it is still unknown what mechanisms address the individual responses towards pro-adaptive or maladaptive outcome of stress. In previous studies we found that acute inescapable footshock (FS)-stress rapidly enhances depolarization-evoked glutamate release from prefrontal and frontal cortex (PFC/FC) purified synaptic terminals (synaptosomes), with a mechanism involving rapid, nongenomic enlargement of the readily releasable pool (RRP) of glutamate presynaptic vesicles. Moreover, we showed that the same protocol of acute stress induces long-term atrophy/remodeling of apical dendrites in the same area up to 14 days later, thus suggesting that the consequences of acute stress are far from being simply acute. Traditional models of chronic stress reproduce only the endpoint of several changes occurring in brain and body during the stress response. On the opposite, analyzing short- and long-term alterations induced by acute stress could be a useful tool to dissect adaptive and maladaptive components underlying stress response. Here, we aimed at dissecting the early and delayed alterations induced by a single session of acute FS-stress, focusing on the putative effectors that trigger towards adaptive/maladaptive trajectories of the stress response. We demonstrated that FS-stress increases both glutamate release evoked by depolarization and RRP size up to 24h after the stress protocol. In parallel, we found that acute FS-stress exerts different time-dependent molecular alterations in synaptic membranes from PFC/FC. We then set up a behavioral paradigm that discriminates resilience/vulnerability towards acute stress, based on stress-induced behavioral alterations. We demonstrated that the different behavioral phenotypes are associated with specific functional and molecular alterations in PFC glutamatergic synapses. Our approach, dissecting rapid and delayed effects of acute stress response, and their adaptive/maladaptive components, could lead to better understand mechanisms that turn stress response from a physiological adaptation into maladaptive alterations. The final aim is to look for the putative effectors of this switch, searching for markers of vulnerability and novel targets for the therapies of neuropsychiatric disorders.
Blueprint for a smart measure of public investment: public statistics on behalf of fiscal discipline. Revue ECU/EURO, N°56 (2022)
Creators: name: Baret, Kéa
name: Barbier-Gauchard, Amélie
Publisher: name: RESuME
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Economic and Monetary Union
subject: Union économique et monétaire
subject: Stability and Growth Pact
subject: Pacte de croissance et de stabilité
subject: public investments
subject: Investissements publics
subject: Golden rule
subject: Règle d'or
subject: gross fixed capital formation
subject: formation brute de capital fixe

description: The European Union has mobilized all possible instruments to deal with the ongoing global pandemic crisis and boost growth and employment. The Next Generation EU fund has been its main achievement. Meanwhile, the monitoring of national public finance has been relegated to the background, the urgent priority being to prevent a deep recession. The Stability and Growth Pact (1997), the cornerstone of European fiscal discipline, has thereby been suspended in March 2020 until the end of 2023. As the deadline approaches, the issue of national public finance surveillance returns to the forefront of hot topics for 2020 and 2021. Nevertheless, the issue of national public finance surveillance will soon return to the forefront of hot topic of debate. Fiscal discipline is now at a turning point. The time is ripe to reconsider the way public finance is monitored to avoid jeopardizing economic growth. This paper proposes to feed this discussion by focusing on a major component of public finance, which is not well known and whose measurement is still subject to many methodological and statistical challenges: public investment. After a brief description of fiscal discipline in the euro area, the Golden rule will be introduced highlighting the need for public investment’s understanding and this paper addresses the accurately measure of public investment.
Electrical imprint effects on far infrared (FIR) transmittance spectrum in PZT ferroelectric films
Creators: name: C, H. Vivas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Tunable transmittance response in the $0.1-25$ THz range for a lead Zirconate Titanate Ferroelectric film under imprint effects and surface anisotropy is calculated by adapting the classical Landau Devonshire theory and the Rouard's method. Induced electrical field is introduced by modulating the $P-E$ polarization profile, while the dielectric permittivity frequency dependence enters into the formalism by taking into the account the soft phonon mode E(TO1) contribution in the framework of the Drude-Lorentz model. It is found that two optical states of light transmittance emerge at zero applied field and normal incidence, and the intensities of transmitted light are closely correlated with the strength of imprint and the path of the electrical polarization.
description: 5 pages, 10 figures
The Relationship Between Self-Reported History of Endodontic Therapy and Coronary Heart Disease in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study
Creators: name: Caplan, Daniel J.
name: Offenbacher, Steven
name: Cai, Jianwen
name: Pankow, James S.
name: Beck, James D.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: Results from numerous studies have suggested links between periodontal disease and coronary heart disease (CHD), but endodontic disease has not been studied extensively in this regard.
HETEROGENEITY OF DUODENAL NEUROENDOCRINE TUMORS: NATURAL HISTORY AND PROGNOSTIC FACTORS IN A LARGE COHORT PROSPECTIVELY FOLLOWED-UP
Creators: name: ROSSI, ROBERTA ELISA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2021

description: Background and aims. The natural history, clinical characteristics and optimal management of duodenal neuroendocrine neoplasms (dNENs) are unclear. Present multicenter study was aimed at analyzing the natural history of patients with dNENs. The secondary goal was to evaluate the overall (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS), according to the histological features, stage at initial diagnosis, and other possible prognostic parameters. Methods. This is a retrospective analysis of patients with histologically confirmed diagnosis of dNENs, managed at five Italian tertiary referral Centers in Italy. Results. From 2000 to 2017, 108 patients were included in this study. Seventy-one patients had G1, 21 G2, 4 G3 dNENs (12 Ki-67 not available). Fifty-four patients showed metastases at diagnosis, and 20 patients developed metachronous metastases. Thirty patients had a functioning dNEN (14 metastatic). Fifty-seven patients had the dNEN surgically resected, 16 endoscopically, 23 metastatic, received medical therapy + surgery or endoscopy. Seven patients underwent liver-directed therapies, and one patient had PRRT. Median OS was 187 months. During a median follow-up of 76 months, 20 patients died (19 of disease-related causes). At Cox?s multivariate proportional hazard regression, grading and age were the only variables independently related to OS. Median PFS was 170 months. Grading and staging at the initial diagnosis were independently related to PFS. No differences in terms of OS and PFS were observed between patients treated surgically or endoscopically. Conclusions. dNENs prognosis may be highly variable. These tumors can be metastatic in up to 50% of cases at the time of first diagnosis and can develop metastases thereafter. Functioning neoplasms express high metastatic potential. Nuclear imaging should be performed to exclude distant metastases in all dNENs. Endoscopy and surgery play a primary role in the management of the disease. Further prospective studies are needed.
Probing the light radion through diphotons at the Large Hadron Collider
Creators: name: Bhattacharya, Satyaki
name: Frank, Mariana
name: Huitu, Katri
name: Maitra, Ushoshi
name: Mukhopadhyaya, Biswarup
name: Rai, Santosh Kumar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A radion in a scenario with a warped extra dimension can be lighter than the Higgs boson, even if the Kaluza-Klein excitation modes of the graviton turn out to be in the multi-TeV region. The discovery of such a light radion would be gateway to new physics. We show how the two-photon mode of decay can enable us to probe a radion in the mass range 60 - 110 GeV. We take into account the diphoton background, including fragmentation effects, and include cuts designed to suppress the background to the maximum possible extent. Our conclusion is that, with an integrated luminosity of 3000 $\rm fb^{-1}$ or less, the next run of the Large Hadron Collider should be able to detect a radion in this mass range, with a significance of 5 standard deviations or more.
description: 24 pages, 4 figures, Version published in Phys. Rev. D
Enhancement of electron-hole superfluidity in double few-layer graphene
Creators: name: Zarenia, M.
name: Perali, A.
name: Neilson, D.
name: Peeters, F. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose two coupled electron-hole sheets of few-layer graphene as a new nanostructure to observe superfluidity at enhanced densities and enhanced transition temperatures. For ABC stacked few-layer graphene we show that the strongly correlated electron-hole pairing regime is readily accessible experimentally using current technologies. We find for double trilayer and quadlayer graphene sheets spatially separated by a nano-thick hexagonal boron-nitride insulating barrier, that the transition temperature for electron-hole superfluidity can approach temperatures of 40 K.
description: 17 pages, 5 figures
IL GENERE LEPUS IN ITALIA: CHIAVI DIAGNOSTICHE MORFO-ODONTOLOGICHE E CONTRIBUTI PALEOBIOGEOGRAFICI
Creators: name: VISMARA, PAOLO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2013

description: This work aims both to propose some new dental characters which are useful to achieve an accurate specific discrimination within genus Lepus, between Lepus europaeus (European hare), Lepus timidus (Mountain hare), Lepus corsicanus (Italian hare) and Lepus capensis (Cape hare) and to suggest a reconstruction of the natural history and the palaeobiogeography of genus Lepus in Italy using the dental characters identified. The first part of the work is focused on the morphological examination of dental remains of the four hare species, starting from the analysis of some European osteological collections of hares (Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Museo di Storia Naturale Milano, Collezione ISPRA Ozzano dell?Emilia). More specifically, the cross section morphology of three classes of samples was examined: third lower premolar (P3), second upper premolar (P2) and third upper premolar (P3). This led to the identification of 12 morphological characters and consequently to the creation of three morpho-odontological keys, a diagnostic tool for distinguishing the four Lepus species. The second part of the work focused on the analysis of dental remains from Italian Pleistocene sites using the diagnostic keys defined in the first part of the work. The aim of this analysis was to define the time range in which Lepus europaeus reached Italy. Evidence was found of the presence of Lepus corsicanus in the north of Italy (Riparo di Visogliano ? Trieste) during the first part of middle Pleistocene. The analysis of dental remains from other sites located in the province of Verona allowed to set the time range in which Lepus europaeus reached north of Italy, thus substituting Lepus corsicanus in this area, towards the end of middle Pleistocene.
Sustainability of Cos4Cloud services for Citizen Observatories. Policy Brief. Cos4Cloud project
Creators: name: Fabó Cartas, Claudia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: citizen observatories
citizen science
open science
co-design
services
infrastructure
European Open Science Cloud
EOSC
interoperability
policy brief
policy recommendations
data gap

description: The increase in popularity of citizen observatories (COs) over the last decade has come with increased participation and large amounts of collected data. This has evidenced the challenges faced by COs associated with low interoperability, low levels of data validation and low technological capacity. COs need to ensure that data of various formats and in large amounts is efficiently collected, identified, validated, analysed and stored. Moreover, interoperability must be ensured if data is to be shared across COs, organisations or reporting bodies. The overarching vision of the Cos4Cloud project (‘Co-designed citizen observatories for the EOS-Cloud’) is to integrate citizen science infrastructures into the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) through the co-design of innovative services and tools to solve challenges faced by COs, while bringing citizen science closer to the scientific community and society and providing new data sources. This document describes some of the challenges faced by COs mentioned above and how the services developed by Cos4Cloud have responded to this need while integrating citizen science infrastructures into the EOSC in a groundbreaking manner and contributing to the ambitions of the EU’s open science policy. The document also argues in favour of sustaining the services for COs and recommends actions for doing so. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement no. 863463.
REGULATION OF THE EXPRESSION OF HETEROMERIC RECEPTOR SUBUNITS BY MODULATION OF MRNA STABILITY � A CASE STUDY OF TRC40 RECEPTOR
Creators: name: FERNANDES CARVALHO, HUGO JOSE'
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2018

description: In recent years, the mechanisms of post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression have gained increased attention, including their importance in oligomeric protein assembly. The ER based proteins CAML and WRB have been described to form a heteromeric protein complex that functions as a receptor for the TRC40 ATPase, mediating the post-translational insertion of tail-anchored proteins into the ER membrane. A recent study showed that, even if the two proteins are not in a stoichiometric equilibrium - CAML is in ~5-fold excess over WRB -, the transient siRNA mediated depletion of each one of the two subunits, in HeLa cells, leads to the depletion of the second one. Interestingly, the silencing of CAML leads not only to the depletion of WRB protein but also to the depletion and strong destabilization of WRB mRNA, revealing a novel mechanism for the regulation of the expression of different subunits of a protein complex. In this thesis, I have followed up on this work, trying to unveil the mechanisms involved in the co-regulation of the expression and assembly of the TRC40 receptor complex. My results demonstrate that the interplay observed at the transcript level is not reciprocal, i.e. CAML mRNA is not affected by WRB siRNA mediated depletion, and that the CAML-sensitivity of the WRB transcript is attributable to a relatively small portion (370 nt) of its 3' untranslated sequence (UTR), as shown by the results obtained with the dual-luciferase reporter system. Moreover, co-IP experiments show that CAML is indeed in excess over WRB and that a WRB-free population of CAML exists. It remains however unclear, what mechanism may explain the depletion of CAML upon WRB silencing. Finally, I propose a model according to which, on the one hand, CAML protein either directly or indirectly interacts with the 3?UTR of WRB, promoting is stability, which is lost when CAML is silenced. On the other hand, CAML may be inserted in the ER membrane in an unusual way, via the TRC40 pathway, meaning that it would require a functional TRC40 receptor complex, which is lost when WRB is silenced. The resulting non-inserted CAML molecules would then be degraded by the ubiquitinproteasome system. Future work is required to further understand the precise mechanisms involved in the co-regulation of the expression of the two subunits of the TRC40 receptor. This work could pave the way for the discovery of new posttranscriptional co-regulatory mechanisms for the expression and assembly of oligomeric protein subunits, which could very well be relevant to many different protein complexes.
Neutral hydrogen in galaxy halos at the peak of the cosmic star formation history
Creators: name: Faucher-Giguere, C. -A.
name: Hopkins, P. F.
name: Keres, D.
name: Muratov, A. L.
name: Quataert, E.
name: Murray, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use high-resolution cosmological zoom-in simulations from the FIRE project to make predictions for the covering fractions of neutral hydrogen around galaxies at z=2-4. These simulations resolve the interstellar medium of galaxies and explicitly implement a comprehensive set of stellar feedback mechanisms. Our simulation sample consists of 16 main halos covering the mass range M_h~10^9-6x10^12 Msun at z=2, including 12 halos in the mass range M_h~10^11-10^12 Msun corresponding to Lyman break galaxies (LBGs). We process our simulations with a ray tracing method to compute the ionization state of the gas. Galactic winds increase the HI covering fractions in galaxy halos by direct ejection of cool gas from galaxies and through interactions with gas inflowing from the intergalactic medium. Our simulations predict HI covering fractions for Lyman limit systems (LLSs) consistent with measurements around z~2-2.5 LBGs; these covering fractions are a factor ~2 higher than our previous calculations without galactic winds. The fractions of HI absorbers arising in inflows and in outflows are on average ~50% but exhibit significant time variability, ranging from ~10% to ~90%. For our most massive halos, we find a factor ~3 deficit in the LLS covering fraction relative to what is measured around quasars at z~2, suggesting that the presence of a quasar may affect the properties of halo gas on ~100 kpc scales. The predicted covering fractions, which decrease with time, peak at M_h~10^11-10^12 Msun, near the peak of the star formation efficiency in dark matter halos. In our simulations, star formation and galactic outflows are highly time dependent; HI covering fractions are also time variable but less so because they represent averages over large areas.
description: 20 pages, including 11 figures. MNRAS, in press
Unsinkable vessel through unlimited watertight bulkheads with serviceable balloons for sustainability and insurance efficiency
Creators: name: Zisopoulos, Athanasios
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 91105 Ship and Platform Structures
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering

description: Unsinkable vessel through unlimited watertight bulkheads with serviceable balloons for sustainability and insurance efficiency. The protection of a ship after a collision is mainly dependent by the its watertight bulkheads. A war ship Nimitz Class has 300 meters length and a full-load weight of 100,000 tons supported by 100 watertight bulkheads. With this patent one of the bulkheads is filled with 100 big balloons. In any collision the most of these will remain untouchable due elasticity and number. The patent uses huge balloons attached to the hull of any ship.. In case of an accident the balloon offers enough buoyance to keep the vessel floated. The balloons are serviced through an air compressor system and monitoring through various sensors. The unsinkable vessel offers increased sustainability on water eco-systems. The main invention advantage is not sustainability but the improved insurance options minimizing the premium and compensation.
Oral hygiene practices and dental service utilization among pregnant women: An in vitro study
Creators: name: Urlaub, Diana M.
name: Boggess, Kim A.
name: Lorenz, Carol
name: Matheson, Matthew B.
name: Moos, Merry-K
name: Massey, Katie E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Daily oral hygiene and regular dental visits are important components of oral health care. The authors’ objective in this study was to examine women's oral hygiene practices and use of dental services during pregnancy.
The Likelihood Encoder for Lossy Compression
Creators: name: Song, Eva C.
name: Cuff, Paul
name: Poor, H. Vincent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A likelihood encoder is studied in the context of lossy source compression. The analysis of the likelihood encoder is based on the soft-covering lemma. It is demonstrated that the use of a likelihood encoder together with the soft-covering lemma yields simple achievability proofs for classical source coding problems. The cases of the point-to-point rate-distortion function, the rate-distortion function with side information at the decoder (i.e. the Wyner-Ziv problem), and the multi-terminal source coding inner bound (i.e. the Berger-Tung problem) are examined in this paper. Furthermore, a non-asymptotic analysis is used for the point-to-point case to examine the upper bound on the excess distortion provided by this method. The likelihood encoder is also related to a recent alternative technique using properties of random binning.
Guias de execução como estratégia de memorização de partituras para clarinetistas
Creators: name: Rosa, Leonardo Resende
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Memória Musical
Guias de execução
Performance musical

description: O músico profissional possui uma rotina intensa de estudos de repertório musical tendo um prazo curto para sua preparação. A organização e sistematização do processo do estudo permite maior eficiência e eficácia na memorização de partituras. As estratégias de memorização utilizando guias de execução ajudam na retenção do grande fluxo de informações necessárias a uma boa performance. Este trabalho teve como objetivo investigar, por meio de estudo de uma série de casos, a eficácia e a eficiência das guias de execução para a memorização de partituras em clarinetistas profissionais. Quatro participantes foram divididos em dois grupos, sendo um grupo que recebeu um material de apoio com guias de execução para orientar seu processo de memorização, e outro grupo que não recebeu nenhuma orientação para o estudo. Os participantes fizeram cinco sessões de estudo das músicas Tarantella e Albumblatt com duração de uma hora cada sessão e depois gravaram as músicas sem a utilização da partitura. Após um mês sem contato com a música, os participantes gravaram novamente a performance de memória. Foram analisadas as duas gravações realizadas pelos participantes e os documentos preenchidos, como questionários de verificação do grau de conhecimento da peça e de feedback dos participantes e os diários de estudo. Os resultados apontaram que a utilização das guias de execução pode influenciar a capacidade de memorização de partituras para a memória de curto prazo. A compreensão de uma organização e estruturação para a memorização pode contribuir para melhorar os estudos mnemônicos voltados à performance e ao ensino musical.
Supplemental Materials and Methods and Figures from HSD3B1 is an oxysterol 3β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase in human placenta
Creators: name: Dickson, Alison
name: Yutuc, Eylan
name: Thornton, Catherine A.
name: Dunford, James E.
name: Oppermann, Udo
name: Wang, Yuqin
name: Griffiths, William J.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biochemistry

description: Materials and Methods and Figures
Evidence of cross-correlation between the CMB lensing and the gamma-ray sky
Creators: name: Fornengo, N.
name: Perotto, L.
name: Regis, M.
name: Camera, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the measurement of the angular power spectrum of cross-correlation between the unresolved component of the Fermi-LAT gamma-ray sky-maps and the CMB lensing potential map reconstructed by the Planck satellite. The matter distribution in the Universe determines the bending of light coming from the last scattering surface. At the same time, the matter density drives the growth history of astrophysical objects, including their capability at generating non-thermal phenomena, which in turn give rise to gamma-ray emissions. The Planck lensing map provides information on the integrated distribution of matter, while the integrated history of gamma-ray emitters is imprinted in the Fermi-LAT sky maps. We report here the first evidence of their correlation. We find that the multipole dependence of the cross-correlation measurement is in agreement with current models of the gamma-ray luminosity function for AGN and star forming galaxies, with a statistical evidence of 3.0$σ$. Moreover, its amplitude can in general be matched only assuming that these extra-galactic emitters are also the bulk contribution of the measured isotopic gamma-ray background (IGRB) intensity. This leaves little room for a big contribution from galactic sources to the IGRB measured by Fermi-LAT, pointing toward a direct evidence of the extragalactic origin of the IGRB.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures. v2: analysis updated with Planck 2015 lensing map and 3FGL catalogue, conclusions strengthened; to appear in ApJ Letters