cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Damaged Self-Esteem is Associated with Internalizing Problems
Creators: name: Wiers, Reinout W.
name: Engels, Rutger C. M. E.
name: Creemers, Daan H. M.
name: Scholte, Ron H. J.
name: Prinstein, Mitchell J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Implicit and explicit self-esteem are assumed to be important factors in understanding the onset and maintenance of psychological problems. The current study aims to examine the association between implicit and explicit self-esteem and their interaction with depressive symptoms, suicidal ideation, and loneliness. Specifically, the relationship between the size and the direction of the discrepancy between implicit and explicit self-esteem with depressive symptoms, suicidal ideation, and loneliness were examined. Participants were 95 young female adults (M = 21.2 years, SD = 1.88) enrolled in higher education. We administered the IAT to assess implicit self-esteem, and the Rosenberg self-esteem scale to measure explicit self-esteem while psychological problems were assessed through self-reports. Results showed that discrepancies between implicit and explicit self-esteem were positively associated with depressive symptoms, suicidal ideation, and loneliness. In addition, the direction of the discrepancy was specifically relevant: damaged self-esteem (i.e., high implicit self-esteem and low explicit self-esteem) was consistently associated with increased levels of depressive symptoms, suicidal ideation, and loneliness. In contrast, defensive or fragile self-esteem (i.e., low implicit and high explicit self-esteem) was solely associated with loneliness. These findings provide further support that specifically damaged self-esteem is an important vulnerability marker for depressive symptoms, suicidal ideation, and loneliness.
Effect of prenatal cocaine on early postnatal thermoregulation and ultrasonic vocalization production
Creators: name: Tien, Hsiao
name: Garber, Kristin A.
name: Zeskind, Philip S.
name: McMurray, Matthew S.
name: Johns, Josephine M.
name: Meiners, Stephanie M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Prenatal cocaine exposure can alter the postnatal care received by rat pups. Such effects could be caused in part by alterations in pup-produced stimuli that elicit early postnatal maternal care. Pup ultrasonic vocalizations are thought to be a particularly salient stimulus, and when paired with other cues, may elicit maternal attention. Cocaine is known to acutely alter thermoregulatory and cardiac function, thus prenatal cocaine may affect vocalizations through altering these functions. The data presented here determine the impact of full term prenatal cocaine exposure, saline exposure, or no exposure on thermogenic capacity, cardiac function, and the resulting ultrasonic vocalizations across the early postnatal period (days 1–5). Results indicated that while sharing many similar characteristics with saline-exposed and untreated animals, prenatal cocaine exposure was associated with specific alterations in vocalization characteristics on postnatal day 1 (PND 1), including call amplitude. Furthermore, numerous spectral parameters of their vocalizations were found altered on PND 3, including rate, call duration, and frequency, while no alterations were found on PND 5. Additionally, cocaine-exposed pups also showed a reduced thermoregulatory capacity compared to saline animals and reduced cardiac mass compared to untreated animals on PND 5. Together, these findings indicate that prenatal cocaine may be altering the elicitation of maternal care through its impact on vocalizations and thermoregulation, and suggests a potential mechanism for these effects through cocaine's impact on developing stress systems.
Exploring the role of gaze behavior and object detection in scene understanding
Creators: name: Berg, Tamara L.
name: Zelinsky, Gregory J.
name: Samaras, Dimitris
name: Yun, Kiwon
name: Peng, Yifan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: We posit that a person's gaze behavior while freely viewing a scene contains an abundance of information, not only about their intent and what they consider to be important in the scene, but also about the scene's content. Experiments are reported, using two popular image datasets from computer vision, that explore the relationship between the fixations that people make during scene viewing, how they describe the scene, and automatic detection predictions of object categories in the scene. From these exploratory analyses, we then combine human behavior with the outputs of current visual recognition methods to build prototype human-in-the-loop applications for gaze-enabled object detection and scene annotation.
A method to discriminate solar and antisolar differential rotation in high-precision light curves
Creators: name: Reinhold, T.
name: Arlt, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Surface differential rotation (DR) is one major ingredient of the magnetic field generation process in the Sun and likely in other stars. The term solar-like differential rotation describes the observation that solar equatorial regions rotate faster than polar ones. The opposite effect of polar regions rotating faster than equatorial ones (termed as antisolar DR) has only been observed in a few stars, although there is evidence from theoretical dynamo models. We present a new method to detect the sign of DR (i.e. solar-like or antisolar DR) by analyzing long-term high-precision light curves with the Lomb-Scargle periodogram.We compute the Lomb-Scargle periodogram and identify a set of significant periods $P_k$, which we associate with active regions located at different latitudes on the the stellar surface. If detectable, the first harmonics ($P_k'$) of these periods were identified to compute their peak-height-ratios $r_k:=h(P_k')/h(P_k)$. Spots rotating at lower latitudes generate less sine-shaped light curves, which requires additional power in the harmonics, and results in larger ratios $r_k$. Comparing different ratios $r_k$ and the associated periods $P_k$ yields information about the spot latitudes, and reveals the sign of DR. We tested our method on different sets of synthetic light curves all exhibiting solar-like DR. The number of cases where our method detects antisolar DR is the false-positive rate of our method. Depending on the set of light curves, the noise level, the required minimum peak separation, and the presence or absence of spot evolution, our method fails to detect the correct sign in at most 20%. We applied our method to 50 Kepler G stars and found 21-34 stars with solar-like DR and 5-10 stars with antisolar DR, depending on the minimum peak separation.
description: 8 pages, 5 Figures, 3 Tables. Accepted for publication in A&A
Modeling Superionic Behavior of Plutonium Dioxide
Creators: name: Günay, S. D.
name: Akgenç, B.
name: Taşseven, Ç.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Bredig transition to the superionic phase indicated with the lambda-peak in Cp was highly expected for PuO2 as other actinide dioxides. However, least-square fit and local smoothing techniques applied to the experimental enthalpy data of plutonium dioxide in 80's could not detect a lambda-peak in specific heat that might be due to too scattered and insufficient experimental data. Therefore, this issue has not been yet put beyond the doubts. In the current article, a superionic model of PuO2 is developed with partially ionic model of a rigid ion potential. Thermophysical properties were calculated in constant pressure-temperature ensemble using molecular dynamics simulation. The Bredig transition with vicinity of a lambda-peak in specific heat was a successfully observed for the model system at about 2100K. Moreover, the experimental enthalpy change was well reproduced before and after the estimated transition temperature.
description: 21 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables
Schubladen öffnen: Chancen von Open Access für Forschendes Lernen
Creators: name: Lang, Sandra
name: Jeanrenaud, Yves
name: Hansen, Solveig Lena
name: Hädicke, Maximiliane
name: Hofmann, Susanne
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Open Access
Gender Studies
Students as Authors
Publication Bias

description: Veröffentlichungen in wissenschaftlichen Zeitschriften zählen in der akademischen Welt zu den primären Karrieretreibern. Wissenschaftler:innen in frühen Karrierephasen eignen sich die Kompetenzen für erfolgreiches Publizieren jedoch erst während oder nach der Promotion an. Hierzu zählen etwa Kenntnisse der publikationsbezogenen Standards guter wissenschaftlicher Praxis oder der konstruktive Umgang mit dem Peer Review Verfahren. Daraus ergibt sich ein überfachlicher und überinstitutioneller Unterstützungsbedarf, den die Working Paper Series gender thoughts basierend auf folgenden Prinzipien leistet: 1. Die Sichtbarkeit von Autor:innen in frühen Karrierephasen durch Veröffentlichung ihrer wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse (Open Access) 2. Unterstützende Begleitung der Autor:innen auf den unterschiedlichen Etappen eines Publikationsprozesses (Forschendes Lernen) 3. Verringerung von Publication Biases und Gaps durch gender- und ungleichheitssensible Perspektiven
description: {"references": ["Haberstroh, S., & Petersen, M. (2020). Publikationsformate im Forschenden Lernen. In C. Wulf, S. Haberstroh, & M. Petersen (Eds.) Forschendes Lernen: Theorie, Empirie, Praxis (pp. 290-297). Springer VS.", "K\u00fchl, S. (2015). Die publikationsorientierte Vermittlung von Schreibkompetenzen: Zur Orientierung des studentischen Schreibens i n der Soziologie am wissenschaftlichen Ver\u00f6ffentlichungsprozess. Soziologie, 44(1), 56-77.", "Rahn, F. J. (2021). Studentische Publikation als \u00dcbung. In O. M. Pawlak & F. J. Rahn (Eds.), Ein transdisziplin\u00e4res Panoptikum: Aktuelle Forschungsbeitr\u00e4ge aus dem wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs der Universit\u00e4t Bielefeld (pp. 121-128). Springer VS.", "Schwertel, T., & Schulz, A. (2020). Publizieren statt archivieren. Ehrenamtliche F\u00f6rderung des sozialwissenschaftlichen Nachwuch ses. Expos\u00e9, 1(2) , 18-21.."]}
Spiral Disk Instability Can Drive Thermonuclear Explosions in Binary White Dwarf Mergers
Creators: name: Kashyap, Rahul
name: Fisher, Robert
name: García-Berro, Enrique
name: Aznar-Siguán, Gabriela
name: Ji, Suoqing
name: Lorén-Aguilar, Pablo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Thermonuclear, or Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), originate from the explosion of carbon--oxygen white dwarfs, and serve as standardizable cosmological candles. However, despite their importance, the nature of the progenitor systems that give rise to SNe Ia has not been hitherto elucidated. Observational evidence favors the double-degenerate channel in which merging white dwarf binaries lead to SNe Ia. Furthermore, significant discrepancies exist between observations and theory, and to date, there has been no self-consistent merger model that yields a SNe Ia. Here we show that a spiral mode instability in the accretion disk formed during a binary white dwarf merger leads to a detonation on a dynamical timescale. This mechanism sheds light on how white dwarf mergers may frequently yield SNe Ia.
description: Final version (as in ApJL) with minor edits
Nearby Low-Mass Hypervelocity Stars
Creators: name: Zhang, Yanqiong
name: Smith, Martin C.
name: Carlin, Jeffrey L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hypervelocity stars are those that have speeds exceeding the escape speed and are hence unbound from the Milky Way. We investigate a sample of low-mass hypervelocity candidates obtained using data from the high-precision SDSS Stripe 82 catalogue, which we have combined with spectroscopy from the 200-inch Hale Telescope at Palomar Observatory. We find four good candidates, but without metallicities it is difficult to pin-down their distances and therefore total velocities. Our best candidate has a significant likelihood that it is escaping the Milky Way for a wide-range of metallicities.
description: 5 pages; Contribution to proceedings for "The Milky Way Unravelled by Gaia" conference, Barcelona, Dec 2015
Supplemental information for manuscript: Comprehensive Molecular Characterization of Renal Cell Carcinoma Tumors From Patients in a Phase III Trial With Anti-Angiogenesis Adjuvant Therapy
Creators: name: J Motzer, Robert
name: Martini, Jean-François
name: Jasmine Mu, Xinmeng
name: Staehler, Michael
name: George, Daniel J.
name: Valota, Olga
name: Lin, Xun
name: Pandha, Hardev S.
name: A. Ching, Keith
name: Ravaud, Alain
Publisher: name: Pfizer
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medical biochemistry and metabolomics not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer therapy (excl. chemotherapy and radiation therapy)
subject: Oncology and carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified
subject: Pharmacogenomics
subject: FOS: Medical biotechnology
subject: Tumour immunology

description: This data set is comprised of 3 files, the whole exome sequencing analysis of resected tumors; the whole transcriptome analysis of these tumors; the key patients’ characteristics and clinical data of the the patients included in this analysis (subset of the entire STRAC analysis)
Electronic transition from graphite to graphene via controlled movement of the top layer with scanning tunneling microscopy
Creators: name: Xu, P.
name: Yang, Y.
name: Qi, D.
name: Barber, S. D.
name: Schoelz, J. K.
name: Ackerman, M. L.
name: Bellaiche, L.
name: Thibado, P. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A series of measurements using a technique called electrostatic-manipulation scanning tunneling microscopy (EM-STM) were performed on a highly-oriented pyrolytic graphite surface. The electrostatic interaction between the STM tip and the sample can be tuned to produce both reversible and irreversible large-scale movement of the graphite surface. Under this influence, atomic-resolution STM images reveal that a continuous electronic transition from triangular symmetry, where only alternate atoms are imaged, to hexagonal symmetry can be systematically controlled. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations reveal that this transition can be related to vertical displacements of the top layer of graphite relative to the bulk. Evidence for horizontal shifts in the top layer of graphite is also presented. Excellent agreement is found between experimental STM images and those simulated using DFT.
description: 36 pages, 8 figures
Promece - Optimization Systems - Enhanced Route Optimization Algorithm For Realistic Environments
Creators: name: ITI
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: PROMECE2016
Algorithms
Route optimization
Vehicles

description: Instituto Tecnológico de Informática has a non-economic Activities Plan (PROMECE) whose general objective is to strengthen the research lines in which the Institute works, within the scope of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).

Within the Optimization Systems R&D Line we work to improve and facilitate the decision making process in supply chain management, from production and purchasing planning to delivery to the final customer, with a global vision, a realistic optimization perspective, and in a simple way.

This document presents the results of applying optimization algorithms in 4 scenarios present in real operation routing problems: first, adjustment of departure time according to client time windows; second, use of outsource fleet; third, inclusion of unloading points prior to return to depot and, finally, vehicles that stay overnight in a place different from the depot.
description: PROMECE 2016. Project funded by the Valencian Institute of Business Competitiveness (IVACE) and the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), within the public grant program adressed to Technological Institutes of IVACE network. File number: IMAMCN/2016/1
ALMA Multi-line Observations of the IR-bright Merger VV 114
Creators: name: Saito, Toshiki
name: Iono, Daisuke
name: Yun, Min S.
name: Ueda, Junko
name: Nakanishi, Kouichiro
name: Sugai, Hajime
name: Espada, Daniel
name: Imanishi, Masatoshi
name: Motohara, Kentaro
name: Hagiwara, Yoshiaki
name: Tateuchi, Ken
name: Lee, Minju
name: Kawabe, Ryohei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 85A04

description: We present ALMA cycle 0 observations of the molecular gas and dust in the IR-bright mid-stage merger VV114 obtained at 160 - 800 pc resolution. The main aim of this study is to investigate the distribution and kinematics of the cold/warm gas and to quantify the spatial variation of the excitation conditions across the two merging disks. The data contain 10 molecular lines, including the first detection of extranuclear CH3OH emission in interacting galaxies, as well as continuum emission. We map the 12CO(3-2)/12CO(1-0) and the 12CO(1-0)/13CO(1-0) line ratio at 800 pc resolution (in the units of K km/s), and find that these ratios vary from 0.2 - 0.8 and 5 - 50, respectively. Conversely, the 200 pc resolution HCN(4-3)/HCO+(4-3) line ratio shows low values (< 0.5) at a filament across the disks except for the unresolved eastern nucleus which is three times higher (1.34 +/- 0.09). We conclude from our observations and a radiative transfer analysis that the molecular gas in the VV114 system consists of five components with different physical and chemical conditions; i.e., 1) dust-enshrouded nuclear starbursts and/or AGN, 2) wide-spread star forming dense gas, 3) merger-induced shocked gas, 4) quiescent tenuous gas arms without star formation, 5) H2 gas mass of (3.8 +/- 0.7) * 10^7 Msun (assuming a conversion factor of α_CO = 0.8 Msun (K km s^-1 pc^2)^-1) at the tip of the southern tidal arm, as a potential site of tidal dwarf galaxy formation.
description: 67 pages, 21 figures, 15 tables, ApJ accepted
Supplemental Fig. S1-S7 and Supplemental Table S1-S3.pdf
Creators: name: de Almeida, Martin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 111601 Cell Physiology
subject: FOS: Basic medicine
subject: 110602 Exercise Physiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental Fig. S1-S7 and Supplemental Table S1-S3 supporting "Altered intramuscular network of lipid droplets and mitochondria in type 2 diabetes".
GEOMETRY DRIVEN COALESCENCE OF WATER DROPLETS IN A HIGHLY  VISCOUS FLUID
Creators: Shayunusov, Doston
Zeng, Hongbo
Eskin, Dmitry
Nikrityuk, Petr
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2022

Conference abstract. Part of the Proceedings of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering International Congress 2022.
Electrochemical Performance of a Wire Arc Additive Manufactured PH 13–8Mo  -AISI 420 Martensitic Stainless Steels Dissimilar Metal Combination
Creators: Salahi, Salar
Ghaffari, Mahya
Nemani, Alireza Vahedi
Nasiri, Ali
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2022

Conference abstract. Part of the Proceedings of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering International Congress 2022.
Improved spectral stability in spin transfer nano-oscillators: single vortex versus coupled vortices dynamics
Creators: name: Locatelli, Nicolas
name: Lebrun, Romain
name: Naletov, Vladimir V.
name: Hamadeh, Abbass
name: De Loubens, Grégoire
name: Klein, Olivier
name: Grollier, Julie
name: Cros, Vincent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a comparative study of spin transfer induced excitation of the gyrotropic motion of a vortex core with either uniform or vortex spin polarizers. The microwave output voltage associated with the vortex dynamics, detected in both cases, displays a strong reduction of phase fluctuations in the case of the vortex polarizer, with a decrease of the peak linewidth by one order of magnitude down to 200kHz at zero field. A thorough study of rf emission features for the different accessible vortex configurations shows that this improvement is related to the excitation of coupled vortex dynamics by spin transfer torques.
Non-equilibrium dynamics of the Dicke model for mesoscopic aggregates: signatures of superradiance
Creators: name: Fuchs, Sebastian
name: Ankerhold, Joachim
name: Blencowe, Miles
name: Kubala, Björn
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the dissipative quantum dynamics of a mesoscopic aggregate of excited two level systems (atoms) coupled to a single resonance mode of a cavity, two physical phenomena associated with superradiance appear. A pronounced emission peak on short time scales is related to the known superradiant burst of excited atoms cooperatively radiating into free space. It is followed by relaxation to a stationary state of the composite system such that for sufficiently large atom-field coupling a strongly correlated state emerges. The crossover to this state can be interpreted as the precursor of the transition from normal to superradiant phase in the thermodynamic limit of the Dicke Hamiltonian. Motivated by recent experimental activities, these features are investigated in detail for a mesoscopic number of atoms and a cavity embedded in a dissipative medium described by a damped Dicke model. We identify observables and characteristics of the quantum dynamics on shorter time scales which allow to clearly distinguish weakly correlated from strongly correlated Dicke physics.
description: 18 pages, 5 figures
Observations on the Partial Breaking of $N=2$ Rigid Supersymmetry
Creators: name: Andrianopoli, Laura
name: D'Auria, Riccardo
name: Ferrara, Sergio
name: Trigiante, Mario
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the partial breaking of $N=2$ rigid supersymmetry for a generic rigid special geometry of $n$ abelian vector multiplets in the presence of Fayet-Iliopoulos terms induced by the Hyper-Kähler momentum map. By exhibiting the symplectic structure of the problem we give invariant conditions for the breaking to occur, which rely on a quartic invariant of the Fayet-Iliopoulos charges as well as on a modification of the $N=2$ rigid symmetry algebra by a vector central charge.
description: 7 pages, LaTeX source
title:   Landslide Susceptibility Map of Magoffin County, Kentucky
Creators: name: Crawford, Matthew M.
name: Koch, Hudson J.
name: Dortch, Jason M.
name: Haneberg, William C.
name: Killen, Ashton A.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Geological Survey, University of Kentucky
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
valueUri: http://www.oecd.org/science/inno/38235147.pdf

description: The purpose of this map is to identify landslide-prone areas in Magoffin County, Kentucky, in order to provide the public, as well as local and state government agencies, with information about where landslides are likely to occur. This map represents geomorphic-based susceptibility modeling that focuses on physical slope characteristics and morphology, the quality of which is dependent on data accuracy and resolution of terrain models. The availability of high-resolution (5-ft digital elevation model) lidar derived datasets allows for the generation of terrain elevation derivatives such as hillshades, slope, aspect, curvature, and roughness, as well as identification of existing landslide deposits. These high-resolution lidar derived datasets, coupled with landslide inventory mapping, enable us to produce detailed, high-resolution landslide susceptibility maps.
description: Report of Investigations 48, Series Xlll
Electron Beam-Induced Reduction of Cuprite
Creators: name: Siudzinska, Anna
name: Gorantla, Sandeep M.
name: Serafinczuk, Jaroslaw
name: Kudrawiec, Robert
name: Hommel, Detlef
name: Bachmatiuk, Alicja
Publisher: name: Basel : MDPI
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: catalysis
subject: cupprite
subject: electron beam irradiation
subject: HRTEM
subject: 530

description: Cu-based materials are used in various industries, such as electronics, power generation, and catalysis. In particular, monolayered cuprous oxide (Cu2O) has potential applications in solar cells owing to its favorable electronic and magnetic properties. Atomically thin Cu2O samples derived from bulk cuprite were characterized by high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM). Two voltages, 80 kV and 300 kV, were explored for in situ observations of the samples. The optimum electron beam parameters (300 kV, low-current beam) were used to prevent beam damage. The growth of novel crystal structures, identified as Cu, was observed in the samples exposed to isopropanol (IPA) and high temperatures. It is proposed that the exposure of the copper (I) oxide samples to IPA and temperature causes material nucleation, whereas the consequent exposure via e-beams generated from the electron beam promotes the growth of the nanosized Cu crystals.
Combined In Vitro Toxicity and Immunogenicity of Cold Plasma and Pulsed Electric Fields
Creators: name: Wolff, Christina M.
name: Kolb, Juergen F.
name: Bekeschus, Sander
Publisher: name: Basel : MDPI
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: apoptosis
subject: kINPen
subject: leukemia
subject: plasma medicine
subject: reactive oxygen species
subject: ROS
subject: 610
subject: 570

description: In modern oncology, therapies are based on combining monotherapies to overcome treatment resistance and increase therapy precision. The application of microsecond-pulsed electric fields (PEF) is approved to enhance local chemotherapeutic drug uptake within combination electrochemotherapy regimens. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) have been implicated in anticancer effects, and cold physical plasma produces vast amounts of ROS, which have recently been shown to benefit head and neck cancer patients. PEF and cold plasma technology have been linked to immunogenic cell death (ICD) induction, a regulated cell death accompanied by sterile inflammation that promotes antitumor immunity. To this end, we investigated the combined effect of both treatments regarding their intracellular ROS accumulation, toxicity, ICD-related marker expression, and optimal exposure sequence in a leukemia model cell line. The combination treatment substantially increased ROS and intracellular glutathione levels, leading to additive cytotoxic effects accompanied by a significantly increased expression of ICD markers, such as the eat-me signal calreticulin (CRT). Preconditioned treatment with cold plasma followed by PEF exposure was the most potent treatment sequence. The results indicate additive effects of cold plasma and PEF, motivating further studies in skin and breast tumor models for the future improvement of ECT in such patients.
Supplementary document for Synchronization of frequency combs by optical injection - 5982921.pdf
Creators: name: Hillbrand, Johannes
name: Bertrand, Mathieu
name: Wittwer, Valentin
name: Opacak, Nikola
name: Kapsalidis, Filippos
name: Gianella, Michele
name: Emmenegger, Lukas
name: Schwarz, Benedikt
name: Südmeyer, Thomas
name: Beck, Mattias
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental document
Extended reaction kinetics model for non-thermal argon plasmas and its test against experimental data
Creators: name: Stankov, M.
name: Becker, M.M.
name: Hoder, T.
name: Loffhagen, D.
Publisher: name: Bristol : IOP Publ.
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: argon plasma
subject: dielectric barrier discharge
subject: fluid modelling
subject: plasma jet
subject: 530

description: An extended reaction kinetics model (RKM) suitable for the analysis of weakly ionised, non-thermal argon plasmas with gas temperatures around 300 K at sub-atmospheric and atmospheric pressures is presented. It considers 23 different species including electrons as well as the ground state atom, an atomic and molecular ion, four excited molecular states, and 15 excited atomic states of argon, where all individual 1s and 2p states (in Paschen notation) are included as a separate species. This 23-species RKM involves 409 collision processes and radiative transitions and recent electron collision cross section data. It is evaluated by means of results of time- and space-dependent fluid modelling of argon discharges and their comparison with measured data for two different dielectric barrier discharge configurations as well as a micro-scaled atmospheric-pressure plasma jet setup. The results are also compared with those obtained by use of a previously established 15-species RKM involving only the two lumped 2p states 2p10…5 and 2´p4 … 1. It is found that the 23-species RKM shows generally better agreement with experimental data and provides more options for direct comparison with measurements than the frequently used 15-species RKM.
Longitudinal wave function control in single quantum dots with an applied magnetic field
Creators: name: Cao, Shuo
name: Tang, Jing
name: Gao, Yunan
name: Sun, Yue
name: Qiu, Kangsheng
name: Zhao, Yanhui
name: He, Min
name: Shi, Jin-An
name: Gu, Lin
name: Williams, David A.
name: Sheng, Weidong
name: Jin, Kuijuan
name: Xu, Xiulai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Controlling single-particle wave functions in single semiconductor quantum dots is in demand to implement solid-state quantum information processing and spintronics. Normally, particle wave functions can be tuned transversely by an perpendicular magnetic field. We report a longitudinal wave function control in single quantum dots with a magnetic field. For a pure InAs quantum dot with a shape of pyramid or truncated pyramid, the hole wave function always occupies the base because of the less confinement at base, which induces a permanent dipole oriented from base to apex. With applying magnetic field along the base-apex direction, the hole wave function shrinks in the base plane. Because of the linear changing of the confinement for hole wave function from base to apex, the center of effective mass moves up during shrinking process. Due to the uniform confine potential for electrons, the center of effective mass of electrons does not move much, which results in a permanent dipole moment change and an inverted electron-hole alignment along the magnetic field direction. Manipulating the wave function longitudinally not only provides an alternative way to control the charge distribution with magnetic field but also a new method to tune electron-hole interaction in single quantum dots.
description: 19 pages,3 figures
Kinetic Monte Carlo study of the type1/type 2 choice in apoptosis elucidates selective killing of cancer cells under death ligand induction
Creators: name: Raychaudhuri, Subhadip
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cell Behavior (q-bio.CB)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Death ligand mediated apoptotic activation is a mode of programmed cell death that is widely used in cellular and physiological situations. Interest in studying death ligand induced apoptosis has increased due to the promising role of recombinant soluble forms of death ligands (mainly recombinant TRAIL) in anti-cancer therapy. A clear elucidation of how death ligands activate the type 1 and type 2 apoptotic pathways in healthy and cancer cells may help develop better chemotherapeutic strategies. In this work, we use kinetic Monte Carlo simulations to address the problem of type 1/ type 2 choice in death ligand mediated apoptosis of cancer cells. Our study provides insights into the activation of membrane proximal death module that results from complex interplay between death and decoy receptors. Relative abundance of death and decoy receptors was shown to be a key parameter for activation of the initiator caspases in the membrane module. Increased concentration of death ligands frequently increased the type 1 activation fraction in cancer cells, and, in certain cases changes the signaling phenotype from type 2 to type 1. Results of this study also indicate that inherent differences between cancer and healthy cells, such as in the membrane module, may allow robust activation of cancer cell apoptosis by death ligand induction. At the same time, large cell-to-cell variability through the type 2 pathway was shown to provide protection for healthy cells. Such elucidation of selective activation of apoptosis in cancer cells addresses a key question in cancer biology and cancer therapy.
description: 31 pages, 11 figures
Structural characterization of ((9-fluorenylidene) (ferrocenyl)methyl)palladium iodide as the catalytic intermediate in the synthesis of 9-(ferrocenyl (ferrocenylethynyl)methylene)-9H-fluorene
Creators: name: Korb, Marcus
name: Low, Paul J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: The reaction of 2,2′-diiodo-1,1′-biphenyl (1a) with ethynyl ferrocene (2) gave trace amounts of the expected 2,2′-bis(ferrocenylethynyl)-1,1′-biphenyl (3) together with 9-(ferrocenyl(ferrocenylethynyl)methylene)-9H-fluorene (4), formed via a cyclization process during the Sonogashira cross-coupling reaction, as the major product. In contrast, a similar reaction of the 2,2′-diiodo-1,1′-diphenyl ether analogue with 2 gave the anticipated 2,2′-bis(ferrocenylethynyl) substituted product (11). Reaction of 11 with tetracyanoethylene gave its bis-[2 + 2] cycloaddition product in high yield (12), while the alkynyl motif in fluorenylidene 4 proved to be inert towards such reactions. Studies of the mechanism leading to formation of 4 using a Pd/dppf (dppf = 1,1′-bis(diphenylphosphino)ferrocene) catalyst combination allowed for isolation of a {C = C(Fc)–PdI(dppf)} intermediate (13), which was structurally characterized by single crystal X-ray diffraction. Electrochemical investigations of 4, 11, 12 and 13 revealed a series of essentially ferrocene-based oxidation processes, which in the case of 4 and 11 could be better resolved using a non-coordinating anion based electrolyte. Electronic structure studies at the DFT level (B3LYP/def2-TZVP/CPCM(CH2Cl2) suggest that the first oxidation event in 4 can be assigned to the vinyl-bonded ferrocenyl moiety.
Optimized High-Content Imaging Screening Quantifying Micronuclei Formation in Polymer-Treated HaCaT Keratinocytes
Creators: name: Saadati, Fariba
name: Da Silva Brito, Walison Augusto
name: Emmert, Steffen
name: Bekeschus, Sander
Publisher: name: Basel : MDPI
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: algorithm
subject: cytotoxicity
subject: micro-plastic
subject: nano-plastic
subject: Operetta CLS
subject: 570
subject: 540

description: Research on nano- and micro-plastic particles (NMPPs) suggests their potential threat to human health. Some studies have even suggested genotoxic effects of NMPP exposure, such as micronuclei (MN) formation, while others found the opposite. To clarify the ability of NMPP to induce MN formation, we used non-malignant HaCaT keratinocytes and exposed these to a variety of polystyrene (PS) and poly methyl methacrylate (PMMA) particle types at different concentrations and three different sizes. Investigations were performed following acute (one day) and chronic exposure (five weeks) against cytotoxic (amino-modified NMPPs) and genotoxic (methyl methanesulfonate, MMS) positive controls. An optimized high-content imaging workflow was established strictly according to OECD guidelines for analysis. Algorithm-based object segmentation and MN identification led to computer-driven, unsupervised quantitative image analysis results on MN frequencies among the different conditions and thousands of cells per condition. This could only be realized using accutase, allowing for partial cell detachment for optimal identification of bi-nucleated cells. Cytotoxic amino-modified particles were not genotoxic; MMS was both. During acute and long-term studies, PS and PMMA particles were neither toxic nor increased MN formation, except for 1000 nm PS particles at the highest concentration of unphysiological 100 µg/mL. Interestingly, ROS formation was significantly decreased in this condition. Hence, most non-charged polymer particles were neither toxic nor genotoxic, while aminated particles were toxic but not genotoxic. Altogether, we present an optimized quantitative imaging workflow applied to a timely research question in environmental toxicity.
Reading a book can change your mind, but only some changes last for a year: food attitude changes in readers of The Omnivore's Dilemma
Creators: name: Fincher, Katrina
name: Hormes, Julia M.
name: Rozin, Paul
name: Green, Melanie C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Attitude change is a critical component of health behavior change, but has rarely been studied longitudinally following extensive exposures to persuasive materials such as full-length movies, books, or plays. We examined changes in attitudes related to food production and consumption in college students who had read Michael Pollan's book The Omnivore's Dilemma as part of a University-wide reading project. Composite attitudes toward organic foods, local produce, meat, and the quality of the American food supply, as well as opposition to government subsidies, distrust in corporations, and commitment to the environmental movement were significantly and substantially impacted, in comparison to students who had not read the book. Much of the attitude change disappeared after 1 year; however, over the course of 12 months self-reported opposition to government subsidies and belief that the quality of the food supply is declining remained elevated in readers of the book, compared to non-readers. Findings have implications for our understanding of the nature of changes in attitudes to food and eating in response to extensive exposure to coherent and engaging messages targeting health behaviors.
Low Complexity Radar Gesture Recognition Using Synthetic Training Data
Creators: name: Zhao, Yanhua
name: Sark, Vladica
name: Krstic, Milos
name: Grass, Eckhard
Publisher: name: Basel : MDPI
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: FMCW radar
subject: gesture sensing
subject: machine learning
subject: mmWave
subject: synthetic features
subject: 620

description: Developments in radio detection and ranging (radar) technology have made hand gesture recognition feasible. In heat map-based gesture recognition, feature images have a large size and require complex neural networks to extract information. Machine learning methods typically require large amounts of data and collecting hand gestures with radar is time- and energy-consuming. Therefore, a low computational complexity algorithm for hand gesture recognition based on a frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radar and a synthetic hand gesture feature generator are proposed. In the low computational complexity algorithm, two-dimensional Fast Fourier Transform is implemented on the radar raw data to generate a range-Doppler matrix. After that, background modelling is applied to separate the dynamic object and the static background. Then a bin with the highest magnitude in the range-Doppler matrix is selected to locate the target and obtain its range and velocity. The bins at this location along the dimension of the antenna can be utilised to calculate the angle of the target using Fourier beam steering. In the synthetic generator, the Blender software is used to generate different hand gestures and trajectories and then the range, velocity and angle of targets are extracted directly from the trajectory. The experimental results demonstrate that the average recognition accuracy of the model on the test set can reach 89.13% when the synthetic data are used as the training set and the real data are used as the test set. This indicates that the generation of synthetic data can make a meaningful contribution in the pre-training phase.
Promece - Optimization Systems - Mrp Optimized With Simulation Environment
Creators: name: ITI
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: PROMECE2016
MRP
Optimization Systems
collaborative framework
SCM
supply chain management
simulation enviroment

description: Instituto Tecnológico de Informática has a non-economic Activities Plan (PROMECE) whose general objective is to strengthen the research lines in which the Institute works, within the scope of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).

Within the Optimization Systems R&D Line, we work to improve and facilitate the decision making process in supply chain management, from production and purchasing planning to delivery to the final customer, with a global vision, a realistic optimization perspective, and in a simple way.

This document presents the results of the work done on an optimized MRP, that includes realistic restrictions, and on a collaborative framework that facilitates the generation of results that are useful for companies without providing a high volumen of data, often not available.
description: PROMECE 2016. Project funded by the Valencian Institute of Business Competitiveness (IVACE) and the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), within the public grant program adressed to Technological Institutes of IVACE network. File number: IMAMCN/2016/1
Next-generation leadership development in family businesses: the critical roles of shared vision and family climate
Creators: name: Miller, Stephen P.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: The multigenerational survival rate for family-owned businesses is not good. Lack of a shared vision for the family enterprise and weak next-generation leadership are often cited as two of the leading reasons for the failure of family firms to successfully transition from one generation of family ownership to the next. The climate of the business-owning family has also been suggested as important to the performance of the family enterprise. Despite these commonly held tenets, there is a lack of rigorous quantitative research that explores the relationships among these three factors. To address this gap, a quantitative study of 100 next-generation family firm leaders and 350 family and non-family leaders and employees with whom they work was conducted. The results demonstrate that a shared vision for the family business has a strong effect on the leadership effectiveness of next-generation family leaders and a moderate effect on the degree to which they are positively engaged with their work. The findings also show that two dimensions of family climate significantly influence the likelihood that a shared vision for the family firm has been created. Open communication in the family is positively related to the presence of a shared vision for the business. Intergenerational authority, which refers to a senior generation that exercises unquestioned authority and sets the rules, is negatively related to the presence of a shared vision. Surprisingly, a third dimension of family climate, cognitive cohesion, which includes shared values in the family, had no relationship with the degree to which there was a shared vision for the family business. The implications for family business owners is that they would be wise to spend as much time on fostering a positive family climate characterized by open communication as they do on creating and executing a successful business strategy if their goal is to pass the business from one generation of family owners to the next.
Predicting Results of the Research Excellence Framework using Departmental h-Index -- Revisited
Creators: name: Mryglod, O.
name: Kenna, R.
name: Holovatch, Yu.
name: Berche, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit our recent study [Predicting results of the Research Excellence Framework using departmental h-index, Scientometrics, 2014, 1-16; arXiv:1411.1996] in which we attempted to predict outcomes of the UK's Research Excellence Framework (REF~2014) using the so-called departmental $h$-index. Here we report that our predictions failed to anticipate with any accuracy either overall REF outcomes or movements of individual institutions in the rankings relative to their positions in the previous Research Assessment Exercise (RAE~2008).
Confirm: Building Semantic Models and Knowledge Graphs for Intelligent Smart Manufacturing Applications
Creators: name: Yahya, Muhammad
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: ontology
standard
data management
global workshop
ontology commons ecosystem
FAIR

description: A defining feature of Industry 4.0 factories is the equipping of assets and machinery with sensors for effective monitoring of the production line resources. This comprehensive monitoring allows for the early identification of potential failures, affecting the performance, energy consumption, and reliability of the manufacturing processes put in place in smart manufacturing environment to produce products for intelligent applications. Proactive decisions can then be made to prevent production downtime. However, interpreting the data collected by the sensors is a complex task due to the need to integrate and process heterogeneous data from various sources, each produced in different formats. The building of semantic models and knowledge graphs, including ontologies, have emerged as a vital solutions to this problem.
Smart Design of Cz-Ge Crystal Growth Furnace and Process
Creators: name: Dropka, Natasha
name: Tang, Xia
name: Chappa, Gagan Kumar
name: Holena, Martin
Publisher: name: Basel : MDPI
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: CFD training data
subject: correlation coefficient
subject: Czochralski Ge growth
subject: furnace design
subject: process design
subject: regression tree
subject: 540

description: The aim of this study was to evaluate the potential of the machine learning technique of decision trees to understand the relationships among furnace design, process parameters, crystal quality, and yield in the case of the Czochralski growth of germanium. The ultimate goal was to provide the range of optimal values of 13 input parameters and the ranking of their importance in relation to their impact on three output parameters relevant to process economy and crystal quality. Training data were provided by CFD modelling. The variety of data was ensured by the Design of Experiments method. The results showed that the process parameters, particularly the pulling rate, had a substantially greater impact on the crystal quality and yield than the design parameters of the furnace hot zone. Of the latter, only the crucible size, the axial position of the side heater, and the material properties of the radiation shield were relevant.