cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Calculating reactions with use of no-core shell-model states
Creators: name: Efros, V. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A scheme to compute reactions is described that uses the Slater determinants constructed of oscillator orbitals. Simple linear equations are suggested for this purpose and shown to be efficient in model examples. A universal method to evaluate the required matrix elements is given.
description: 27 pages, 2 figures, presentation improvements and additions
Simulation, modelling and feedback control of the flow around a simplified square-back road vehicle
Creators: name: Dalla Longa, Laurent
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2018

description: The present work investigates the use of wall-resolved Large Eddy Simulations (LES) to compute the flow around simpli fied square-back road vehicles. The objective being to simulate numerically the unsteady flow past such blunt bluff bodies and to assess the use of a linear feedback control technique for drag reduction. Wall-resolved large-eddy simulations are employed as a test-bed, but the control strategy could be transferrable to moving vehicle experiments as both the sensing (base pressure sensors) and the actuation (synthetic jets) are body-mounted. The control strategy attempts to reduce the pressure drag by acting on the wake rather than manipulating the flow separation location which is fi xed for square-back road vehicles. This technique is known as direct wake control. The control technique exploits the link between wake flow fluctuations and mean drag reduction. The flow response to the synthetic jets is characterised using system identi cation, and controller design is via shaping the frequency reponse to achieve wake fluctuation attenuation. The first bluff body studied is an in finite spanwise blunt bluff body called D-shaped body. It exhibits two interacting shear layers and a large recirculation area. The designed controller successfully attenuates base pressure fluctuations, increasing the time-averaged pressure on the body base by 38%. The second bluff body is a three-dimensional simplifi ed lorry in presence of a fixed floor. The wake flow is composed of four detached shear layers, which form the envelope of a large low-pressure recirculation area. For this case, unforced simulations captured numerically, for the first time, the wake bi-modality. Bi-modality manifests as a random displacement (switching) of the wake between preferred off-center locations. The unsteady flow fi eld is studied in great details using modal decomposition. High-frequency snapshots of the switching sequence allow us to propose an explanation for the triggering of the bi-modal switching. Finally, various feedback control confi gurations are assessed. Base pressure fluctuations are signifi cantly reduced as targeted but it appears challenging to obtain a clear mean base pressure recovery. The best confi guration yields to a mean base pressure increase of 2.1%.
title: Authorship Attribution Leveraging Idiolect Analysis
Creators: name: Yadav, Omkar
Publisher: name: University of Michigan
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: linguistics
subject: authorship attribution
subject: style
subject: machine learning
subject: regression
subject: Engineering

description: We investigate the nuances of individual writing styles across various contexts, aiming to understand how authors uniquely express themselves�termed idiolects. Using multiple datasets, we explore the persistence of stylistic identity, the impact of context on stylistic choices, and the potential for authorship attribution through stylistic markers. We define style as a combination of linguistic features and develop a classifier to identify texts that exemplify an author's consistent style. We use this classifier to prune the PAN 2019 Cross-domain authorship attribution dataset without sacrificing performance by removing text that is unrepresentative of idiolect. Our findings highlight the dynamic interplay between individual expression and linguistic style, offering insights for developing more nuanced and effective computational models for various applications, including authorship attribution and personalized content creation.
Dwarf Galaxies of the Local Group
Creators: name: Mateo, Mario
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Local Group (LG) dwarf galaxies offer a unique window to the detailed properties of the most common type of galaxy in the Universe. In this review, I update the census of LG dwarfs based on the most recent distance and radial velocity determinations. I then discuss the detailed properties of this sample, including (a) the integrated photometric parameters and optical structures of these galaxies, (b) the content, nature and distribution of their ISM, (c) their heavy-element abundances derived from both stars and nebulae, (d) the complex and varied star-formation histories of these dwarfs, (e) their internal kinematics, stressing the relevance of these galaxies to the dark-matter problem and to alternative interpretations, and (f) evidence for past, ongoing and future interactions of these dwarfs with other galaxies in the Local Group and beyond. To complement the discussion and to serve as a foundation for future work, I present an extensive set of basic observational data in tables that summarize much of what we know, and what we still do not know, about these nearby dwarfs. Our understanding of these galaxies has grown impressively in the past decade, but fundamental puzzles remain that will keep the Local Group at the forefront of galaxy evolution studies for some time.
description: 66 pages; 9 figures; 8 tables
σ-Complexes of Copper(I)
Creators: name: Hicken, Alex
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2018

description: Three new bent {CuL2} fragments of copper(I) supported by β–diketiminate ligands have been synthesised and characterised in the solid state, in solution and via DFT calculations. The suitability of these {CuL2} fragments to be used as precursors for the formation of σ-complexes with an E–H (E = B) or M–H (M = Zn, Al, Mg, Ca, Au, W) bond has been investigated. Their electronic properties and bent confirmation make them ideal fragments for the stabilisation of σ-complexes of copper(I). A range of σ-complexes of the type Cu–H–E and Cu–H–M (E = B, M = Zn, Al, Mg, Ca, Au) have been isolated and characterised in the solid state, in solution and via DFT calculations. In the case of E = B and M = Zn, Mg and Ca, an insight into their decomposition to 4 coordinate M(Ln)2 species’ (Ln = β–diketiminate ligand) has been summarised. Increased Cu---M bond character is observed when the heavier transition metal tungsten is employed, and these complexes can be considered as well defined heterobimetallic hydride species of Cu–H–W. The reactivity of heterobimetallics of the type Cu–H–E and Cu–H–M, whereby E = B and M = Zn, W has been investigated through ligand exchange reactions. σ-Complexes of Cu–H–Au, along with mixtures of isolable group 10 fragments and the gold hydride complex IPrAu–H (IPr = 1,3-di(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)imidazol-2-ylidine), have shown to be selective in the reduction of carbon dioxide to a formate equivalent with HBPin (HBPin = pinacolborane). In summary, this thesis provides new insights into the synthesis, characterisation, stability and reactivity of σ-complexes of copper(I).
OceanSITES User’s Manual. NetCDF Conventions and Reference Tables
Creators: name: OceanSITES Data Management Team
Publisher: name: Ifremer
Year: 2010
Subjects: OceanSITES
physical oceanography
in-situ marine data
mooring
operational oceanography

description: The OceanSITES program is the global network of open-ocean sustained time series sites, called ocean reference stations, being implemented by an international partnership of researchers. The main purpose of this document is to specify the format of the files that are used to distribute OceanSITES data, and to document the standards used therein. This includes naming conventions, or taxonomy, as well as metadata content.
title: A communication protocol for securing connected vehicle platoons using joint hardware-software means
Creators: name: Li, Peijing
Publisher: name: University of Michigan
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: VANET
subject: security
subject: vehicle platoon
subject: SUMO
subject: OMNet++
subject: simulation
subject: Engineering

description: This study proposes a new protocol for securing vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs) in platoons of connected vehicles, addressing a research gap where no such dedicated protocols exist that account for the specific features and requirements of vehicular platoons. The protocol features a two-level trust system, a communication scheme that enables more efficient communication between trusted platoon members via symmetric cryptography, and a challenge-response scheme for misbehavior detection. It aims to improve the efficiency of secured communication within connected vehicle platoons while maintaining the goals of authentication, privacy, and data integrity during the entire process of electing leaders, establishing trust, securing connections, and managing misbehaviors, while also tries to also explore the capabilities of Trusted Platform Modules (TPMs) in authentication and message security. We implement the protocol with a variety of open-source libraries at each level of the simulation stack and evaluate its performance primarily in terms of communication and computation overheads and their impact on the string stability of the platoon.
Nuclear thermal hydraulic analysis using coupled CFD and system codes
Creators: name: Palazzi, Antonello
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2018

description: The thermal hydraulic analysis of nuclear reactors is largely performed by what are known as system codes. These codes predict the flows in the complex network of pipes, pumps, vessels and heat exchangers that together form the thermal hydraulic systems of a nuclear reactor. These codes have been used for many decades and are now very well established. Given this long process of refinement, they are able to produce remarkably accurate predictions of plant behaviour under both steady and transient conditions. Modern CFD is able to produce high quality predictions of flows in complex geometries, but only with the use of large computing resources. It would be impractical to build a CFD model of, for example, the entire primary circuit of a PWR. However, it is possible to model with adequate fidelity much of the primary circuit using a cheaper one-dimensional system code, and it may only be in a limited part of the circuit that full three-dimensional effects are important. A coupling scheme was developed to couple the CFD software STAR-CCM+ and the system code RELAP5-3D. The structure of the scheme is presented, together with validations for single phase flow in smooth pipes in both transient and steady state cases. Attention was also given to the problem of reconstructing the flow profile at the inlet of the CFD model under the hypothesis of fully developed flow. This problem arises when flow data has to be passed from the one-dimensional system code to the three-dimensional CFD software. The coupling scheme was then modified to be able to perform multiphase simulations. The PWR subchannel and bundle test (PSBT) benchmark was used to validate the multiphase coupling methodology.
Tringa tobata Linnaeus, 1758, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Linnaeus, Carolus
Publisher: name: Laurentius Salvius
Year: 1758
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Charadriiformes
Scolopacidae
Tringa
Tringa tobata

description: Tringa tobata [spec. nov.]
T. rostro subulato apice inflexo, pedibus virescentibus lobatis, abdomine albido.
Tringa fusca, pedibus fulicae. Edw. av. 143. t. 143. & 46. t. 46.
Habitat in America septentrionali, Lapponia.
Rostrum tenuissimum est; procellosa tempestate natat gregaria.
description: Published as part of Linnaeus, Carolus, 1758, Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Stockholm :Laurentius Salvius on page 148, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542, http://zenodo.org/record/3922206
Ischaemia reperfusion injury in the pathogenesis of intensive care unit acquired weakness
Creators: name: Paul, Richard
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2018

description: Intensive Care Unit Acquired Weakness (ICUAW) is a syndrome of muscle wasting and weakness in response to critical illness that carries with it a considerable morbidity and mortality. It is associated with a considerable health and economic burden both during admission and beyond during the rehabilitation period in survivors of intensive care. There are currently no effective therapies for ICUAW. The purpose of this thesis, therefore, was to identify molecular mechanisms involved in the pathogenesis of ICUAW with the aim of identifying potential targets for future therapies. In an observational study of patients undergoing major aortic surgery, as a model of ICUAW, raised circulating GDF-15 was associated with raised atrophy gene expression and acute muscle wasting in the post-operative period. This muscle loss was also associated with raised circulating markers of oxidative stress and ischaemia-reperfusion injury, which positively correlated with circulating GDF-15 concentration. Additionally, a pattern of miRNA expression was observed in the muscle of patients who developed acute muscle loss after surgery compared with those who did not. These miRNAs fall into two broad categories when expressed at high levels, those that confer protection to muscle atrophy (C19MC miRNAs, miR-422a) and those that promote atrophy (miR-675, miR-424/miR-542). The differential expression of these miRNAs was shown to be able to predict acute muscle wasting after the catabolic insult of major surgery, whilst individually they may also be potential targets for therapeutic intervention. In summary, the work within this thesis supports the evidence that GDF-15 is involved the pathogenesis of ICUAW, identifies miRNAs that may be potential targets for future pharmacotherapy, and presents a set of miRNA profiles that may be used to develop a risk stratification model to aid future clinical and research interventions.
MaRINET2 NetCDF format reference manual for data and metadata
Creators: name: Marinet2 Data Management,
Publisher: name: Marinet2
Year: 2019

description: This document specifies the NetCDF file format of Marinet, used to distribute Marine test sites data and metadata. It documents the standards used herein; this includes naming conventions as well as metadata content.
It was initiated in March 2019, based on Copernicus Marine in situ and SeaDataNet NetCDF manuals.
Foam templated macroporous polymers and polymer composites
Creators: name: Song, Wenzhe
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2018

description: A blowing agent and stabiliser free method – foam templating method – has been introduced to manufacture bio-based epoxy foams. In order to widen the potential applications of the foam templated macroporous polymers, three major challenges have been successfully addressed in this thesis: (i) increase the porosity of the foam templated macroporous polymers above the state of the art; (ii) enhance the fracture resistance and impact toughness of the foam templated macroporous polymers; and (iii) improve the mechanical performance of the foam templated macroporous polymers. The thesis starts from increasing the porosity of foam templated macroporous polymers. By using heat-induced bubble expansion, the porosity has been successfully increased from 71% to 85% without introducing any blowing agents or stabilisers. Correspondingly, the compressive modulus and strength decrease from 231 MPa and 5.9 MPa to 58 MPa and 1.9 MPa. The influence of the curing conditions on the mechanical properties and the deformation of the pores based on in-situ SEM micro-compression test are also discussed. Hollow elastomeric microspheres are used to enhance the fracture resistance and impact toughness of the foam templated macroporous polymers. A 15% increase in critical stress intensity factor and 33% increase in Charpy impact strength are achieved, and the failure behaviour of the epoxy foams changes from catastrophic failure to progressive failure. More importantly, the compressive properties of the toughened epoxy foams are not compromised. Short carbon fibres are used to improve the mechanical properties of the foam templated macroporous polymers. After short mixing time of 20 s, the carbon fibres are still mostly in tow form, and 58% and 10% increase in compressive modulus and strength along the fibre orientation direction are observed. By optimising the mixing process and prolonging the mixing time to 2 min, the single carbon fibres are successfully individualised from the original fibre tows, leading to more significant improvement – 165% and 53% increase in compressive modulus and strength. The highest compressive modulus and strength achieved are 845 MPa and 14.8 MPa.
M Subdwarfs: The Population II Luminosity Function
Creators: name: Gizis, J. E.
name: Reid, I. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results of a study of very low mass halo stars. Using a sample of proper motion stars identified from plate material taken as part of the first and second Palomar Sky Surveys, we measure the space density, metallicity distribution, and kinematics of the Population II M subdwarfs. Our overall luminosity function is in good agreement with previous analyses of the space density of nearby very-low-mass halo subdwarfs, and confirms the discrepancy between local analyses and the space densities inferred from deep HST starcounts. We show for the first time that both the metallicity distribution and kinematics of late-type halo subdwarfs are consistent with those of their higher mass metal-poor counterparts. Dividing our sample by abundance, we find no evidence that the mass function of field halo stars is dependent upon metallicity. We provide data for three nearby subdwarfs that may merit additional observations.
description: 34 pages inc. 10 figures. To appear in January 1999 Astronomical Journal
Az Európai Unió kiképző művelete Maliban és a magyar szerepvállalás.
Creators: name: János, Besenyő
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 160604 Defence Studies
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 210310 Middle Eastern and African History
subject: FOS: History and archaeology

description: Article about Mali conflict, and Hungarians in EUTM MALI
High-throughput kinetic analysis for target-directed covalent ligand discovery
Creators: name: Craven, Gregory
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2017

description: Cysteine-reactive small molecules are used as chemical probes of biological systems and as medicines. By forming covalent bonds with target proteins they achieve distinct potency and selectivity profiles that are redefining the scope of potentially druggable targets. Identifying high-quality covalent ligands requires comprehensive kinetic analysis to distinguish selective binders from pan-reactive compounds. This thesis describes quantitative irreversible tethering, a general method for screening cysteine-reactive small molecules based upon the maximisation of kinetic selectivity. A high-throughput assay is described that facilitates robust kinetic analysis of electrophile-thiol conjugation, effective for both small molecule- and protein-derived thiols in combination with any irreversibly thiol-reactive ligand. Crucial to its success is its ability to account for variations in intrinsic reactivity observed within electrophilic fragment libraries by comparing reactivity between target- and control-thiols. The method is applied prospectively to discover covalent fragments that target two distinct regions of the clinically important cell cycle regulator cyclin-dependent kinase 2. Crystal structures of the inhibitor complexes validate the approach and guide further optimisation. The power of this technique is highlighted by the identification of cyclin-dependent kinase 2-selective probes whose novel mode-of-action may offer future therapeutic potential.
Holographic BCFT with Dirichlet Boundary Condition
Creators: name: Miao, Rong-Xin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Neumann boundary condition plays an important role in the initial proposal of holographic dual of boundary conformal field theory, which has yield many interesting results and passed several non-trivial tests. In this paper, we show that Dirichlet boundary condition works as well as Neumann boundary condition. For instance, it includes AdS solution and obeys the g-theorem. Furthermore, it can produce the correct expression of one point function, the boundary Weyl anomaly and the universal relations between them. We also study the relative boundary condition for gauge fields, which is the counterpart of Dirichlet boundary condition for gravitational fields. Interestingly, the four-dimensional Reissner-Nordstrom black hole with magnetic charge is an exact solution to relative boundary condition under some conditions. This holographic model predicts that a constant magnetic field in the bulk can induce a constant current on the boundary in three dimensions. We suggest to measure this interesting boundary current in materials such as the graphene.
description: 28 pages, 3 figures, match the published revision of JHEP
Unprecedented Migration Crisis Affecting Europe: Will Western or Russian Style De-radicalization save the European Way of Life? Part 2.
Creators: name: János, Besenyő
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 160604 Defence Studies
subject: FOS: Political science

description: There are five main chapters of the analysis. The first chapter outlines the unprecedented migration pressure on Europe including political, economic, demographic, social, etc. factors. The second chapter gives an account of both Western and Russian de-radicalization efforts, providing a broad understanding of what de-radicalization is. It starts from crisis zones in the Middle East, North Africa and Afghanistan, followed by Western handling of the migration process itself prior to migrant settlement in Europe. The third chapter provides a list of fundamental questions unasked and unanswered by the European political elites. The fourth chapter will analyze some scenarios depending on European policy changes. The fifth chapter will provide recommendations for European policy makers to handle the migration crisis and minimize the damage already done to the European way of life, where de-radicalization and reintegration play a key role.
MPEC 2025-D180 : 2025 DB7
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2025 DB7

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.
Reflected Spectra and Albedos of Extrasolar Giant Planets I: Clear and Cloudy Atmospheres
Creators: name: Marley, M. S.
name: Gelino, C.
name: Stephens, D.
name: Lunine, J.
name: Freedman, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The reflected spectra of extrasolar giant planets are primarily influenced by Rayleigh scattering, molecular absorption, and atmospheric condensates. We present model geometric albedo and phase integral spectra and Bond albedos for planets and brown dwarfs with masses between 0.8 and 70 Jupiter masses. Rayleigh scattering predominates in the blue while molecular absorption removes most red and infrared photons. Thus cloud-free atmospheres, found on giant planets with effective temperatures exceeding about 400 K, are quite dark in reflected light beyond 0.6 microns. In cooler atmospheres first water clouds and then other condensates provide a bright reflecting layer. Only planets with cloudy atmospheres will be detectable in reflected light beyond 1 micron. Thermal emission dominates the near-infrared for warm objects with clear atmospheres. However the presence of other condensates, not considered here, may brighten some planets in reflected near-infrared light and darken them in the blue and UV. Bond albedos, the ratio of the total reflected to incident power, are sensitive to the spectral type of the primary. Most incident photons from early type stars will be Rayleigh scattered, while most incident photons from late type stars will be absorbed. The Bond albedo of a given planet thus may range from 0.4 to 0.05, depending on the primary type. Condensation of a water cloud increases the Bond albedo of a given planet by up to a factor of two. The spectra of cloudy planets are strongly influenced by poorly constrained cloud microphysical properties, particularly particle size and supersaturation. Both Bond and geometric albedos are comparatively less sensitive to variations in planet mass and effective temperature.
description: AASTeX; 23 pages, 2 tables, 18 figures; ApJ in press; typo fixed
Országismertető Szomália, második, bővített kiadás/Country Study Somaila (2. edition)Country Study of Somalia (2. edition)
Creators: name: János, Besenyő
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 160604 Defence Studies
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 220401 Christian Studies (incl. Biblical Studies and Church History)
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 210310 Middle Eastern and African History
subject: FOS: History and archaeology

description: Book about Somalia
title: JERBOA INSPIRED ROBOTIC TAIL: CONTROLLING TAIL MOTION WITH VARYING TENDON ATTACHMENTS
Creators: name: Jamal, Saima
Publisher: name: University of Michigan
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Bioinspired
subject: Robotics
subject: Jerboa
subject: Tendons
subject: OpenSim
subject: Engineering

description: Animal tails serve various functions ranging from locomotion to communication with other animals. One function of tails that has yet to be investigated is its impact on mobility and correlation with inertial maneuvering. Additionally, the impact of tendon attachment and tendon branching patterns within the tail on observed tail motions has not been clearly identified. This study focuses on exploring the complexity of different tendon branching styles and attachment points within animal tails, particularly Jerboas, and how these branching patterns affect control in 3D motion. To better understand the impact of tail anatomy on tail motion, a modular mechanical tail �test bed� is developed and different tendon branching patterns are tested. The proposed �test bed� will begin by assuming a constant bone and ligament size to better understand the effect of tendons on tail motion. The motions created by this physical model are then compared to the motions of an OpenSim model that simulates various tendon branching patterns. This comparison of observed mechanical tail behavior will be used to determine the validity of the simulation and ability to utilize branching in physical robots. Validation of the mechanical model and simulation will provide a better understanding of the impact of tendons on tail behavior. Characterizing the effect of different types of tendon branching patterns and attachment points can provide key insights for the development of underactuated mechanisms with large degrees of freedom.
Constraining Temporal Oscillations of Cosmological Parameters Using Type Ia Supernovae
Creators: name: Brownsberger, Sasha R.
name: Stubbs, Christopher W.
name: Scolnic, Daniel M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The existing set of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) is now sufficient to detect oscillatory deviations from the canonical $Λ$CDM cosmology. We determine that the Fourier spectrum of the Pantheon data set of spectroscopically well-observed SNe Ia is consistent with the predictions of $Λ$CDM. We also develop and describe two complementary techniques for using SNe Ia to constrain those alternate cosmological models that predict deviations from $Λ$CDM that are oscillatory in conformal time. The first technique uses the reduced $χ^2$ statistic to determine the likelihood that the observed data would result from a given model. The second technique uses bootstrap analysis to determine the likelihood that the Fourier spectrum of a proposed model could result from statistical fluctuations around $Λ$CDM. We constrain three oscillatory alternate cosmological models: one in which the dark energy equation of state parameter oscillates around the canonical value of $w_Λ = -1$, one in which the energy density of dark energy oscillates around its $Λ$CDM value, and one in which gravity derives from a scalar field evolving under an oscillatory coupling. We further determine that any alternate cosmological model that produces distance modulus residuals with a Fourier amplitude of $\simeq 36$ millimags is strongly ruled out, given the existing data, for frequencies between $\simeq 0.08\ \textrm{Gyr}^ {-1} h_{100}$ and $\simeq 80\ \textrm{Gyr}^ {-1} h_{100}$.
title: Elegance in Exoskeletons: Designing Robot Exteriors for Best User Experience
Creators: name: Vargas, Andrea
Publisher: name: University of Michigan
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Creativity
subject: industrial design
subject: user-experience
subject: robotics
subject: redesign
subject: Engineering

description: When was the last time you saw a cute or curvy robot? Baymax or EVE, from Disney? In children's toys? Human to robot interactions have only become more relevant, especially in the world of telepresence robots (think robots with a tablet at the top, that you can control remotely), but the exterior designs of these robots do not reflect this. My client, IPAVE LLC., has developed a unique telepresence robot technology, but now, they look to make the robot as non intimidating as possible- after all, their telepresence robots typically interact with kids and the elderly. The goal of this project is to design an exterior to the telepresence robot designed in my Multidisciplinary Design Project, such that it structurally and visually matches the goals and constraints set by IPAVE LLC. The sponsor requires a humanoid, organic-shaped telepresence robot that can be manufactured with no specialty or custom machinery. I am to provide both the design and prototype to showcase how this could be manufactured, not unlike the final prototype of my MDP Project. I will be manning the project in its entirety.
Ferramenta da Terapia Humanista: Técnicas de Respiração
Creators: name: Brandl, Edenilson
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Ferramenta da Terapia Humanista
Terapia Humanista
Técnicas de Respiração
Enciclopédia da Conscienciologia

description: Definologia: As técnicas de respiração constituem uma ferramenta terapêutica da abordagem humanista que se baseia na utilização consciente e controlada da respiração para promover o relaxamento, o equilíbrio emocional e o autoconhecimento.
A computational design strategy for discovering the protein targets of histone lysine methyltransferases
Creators: name: Alonso Martínez, Diego
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2017

description: The activity of lysine methyltransferases (KMTs) is crucial for the regulation of chromatin-related processes, such as gene expression. Since all KMTs catalyse the transfer of a methyl group from the same SAM cofactor, no current technology is able to directly assess which KMT has performed each observed methylation in a cellular context. This information would be particularly informative in the development of more specific treatments for epigenetically-regulated diseases, such as cancer. To address this technology gap, this work aims at developing a “methylome” profiling assay based on engineering synthetic SAM cofactors specific towards a given KMT. Our proposed computational design strategy takes aligned crystal structures of KMTs as input to identify unique cavities in wild type KMTs that could accommodate complementary synthetic “bumps” on SAM. SAM analogues with sterically matching “bumps” are then designed, and molecular dynamics simulations are utilised to predict their binding mode and affinity with the target KMT to rank the designs. The highest-ranked SAM analogues are synthesised and include an isotopically-heavy methyl donor group (CD3), which retains the biological-consistency of cellular methylation and renders new methylation events detectable via MS. The ability of the KMT to utilise the synthesised SAM analogues as a cofactor for methylation is finally assessed using in vitro assays and quantified via LC-MS/MS proteomics. The results of this work identified bumped SAM analogues that were selective to certain KMTs lacking a post-SET domain. Specifically, a natural pocket was identified in the SET domain of SETD7 that does not exist in post-SET containing KMTs, such as G9a. Complementary bumped SAM analogues were designed and synthesised for experimental validation. A computational screening approach using docking, molecular dynamics and binding affinity estimation revealed that the binding mode and affinity for some of these bumped SAM analogues were comparable to the one of native SAM for SETD7, but not for G9a. Subsequent in vitro experiments using recombinant G9a and SETD7 with our engineered SAM analogues and nucleosome substrates revealed cofactor selectivity towards SETD7. These results were consistent with the predictions of the computational screening approach, which supports the feasibility of our proposed design methodology.
Sub-millimeter non-contaminated detection of the disk around TWA\,7 by ALMA
Creators: name: Bayo, A.
name: Olofsson, J.
name: Matra, L.
name: Beamin, J. C.
name: Gallardo, J.
name: de Gregorio-Monsalvo, I.
name: Booth, M.
name: Zamora, C.
name: Iglesias, D.
name: Henning, Th.
name: Schreiber, M. R.
name: Caceres, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Debris disks can be seen as the left-overs of giant planet formation and the possible nurseries of rocky planets. While M-type stars out-number more massive stars we know very little about the time evolution of their circumstellar disks at ages older than $\sim 10$\,Myr. Sub-millimeter observations are best to provide first order estimates of the available mass reservoir and thus better constrain the evolution of such disks. Here, we present ALMA Cycle\,3 Band\,7 observations of the debris disk around the M2 star TWA\,7, which had been postulated to harbor two spatially separated dust belts, based on unresolved far-infrared and sub-millimeter data. We show that most of the emission at wavelengths longer than $\sim 300$\,$μ$m is in fact arising from a contaminant source, most likely a sub-mm galaxy, located at about 6.6" East of TWA\,7 (in 2016). Fortunately, the high resolution of our ALMA data allows us to disentangle the contaminant emission from that of the disc and report a significant detection of the disk in the sub-millimeter for the first time with a flux density of 2.1$\pm$0.4 mJy at 870 $μ$m. With this detection, we show that the SED can be reproduced with a single dust belt.
description: 6 pages, accepted to MNRAS
Tringa fulicaria Linnaeus, 1758, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Linnaeus, Carolus
Publisher: name: Laurentius Salvius
Year: 1758
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Charadriiformes
Scolopacidae
Tringa
Tringa fulicaria

description: Tringa fulicaria [spec. nov.]
T. rostro recto, pedibus lobatis subfuscis, abdomine ferrugineo.
Tringa fusca canadensis, membranis ad digitorum articulos. Edw. av. 142. t. 142.
Habitat in America.
description: Published as part of Linnaeus, Carolus, 1758, Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Stockholm :Laurentius Salvius on pages 148-149, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542, http://zenodo.org/record/3922206
The future costs of low-carbon energy technologies: Case studies on the drivers, uncertainties and implications of solar PV and battery electricity storage
Creators: name: Gambhir, Ajay
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2017

description: The cost of addressing climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions is heavily dependent on the future costs of low-carbon energy technologies. Yet many of these technologies are still relatively immature, with potentially significant room for further innovation and cost reduction. Estimating future technology costs is therefore critical yet challenging. This thesis investigates how different drivers of innovation and cost reduction, such as technological improvements, material inputs and manufacturing scale can be considered in tandem to better understand the future cost ranges of energy technologies. The thesis presents a first-of-a-kind assessment of organic solar photovoltaic modules using a bottom-up engineering model of material and manufacturing costs, with a stochastic analysis to understand the range of cost outcomes and the principal drivers of those outcomes. It also includes a first-of-a-kind expert elicitation of lithium ion battery packs for off-grid applications, further developing and enhancing existing best-practice expert elicitation protocols to account for different drivers of cost-reduction, including R&D, learning-by-doing and economies of scale. The thesis explores the implications of the future cost estimates of these technologies at two geographical scales: the first by considering the costs of off-grid solar and battery systems in rural communities currently reliant on diesel generators, using a bespoke model; the second by considering the potential impact of future solar photovoltaic and battery storage costs on global mitigation costs to meet a 2oC climate target, using an integrated assessment model. The thesis finds that disaggregation of technological innovation and cost reduction drivers provides important insights into how future cost reductions are likely to come about, including the role of specific policy support. In addition, the influence of solar photovoltaic and battery storage costs on mitigation costs is significant, since these technologies are making renewable-generated electricity at a variety of scales cost-competitive with fossil fuel electricity generation.
title: ADCO, Grènetier de Cîteaux : comptes (1499-1503) (11 H 1173), f. 00085
Creators: name: de la Côte-d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CBMA/CG21/F.PETOT/2019
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: comptes

description: Grènetier de Cîteaux : comptes (1499-1503), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, (11 H 1173). Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Grènetier de Cîteaux : comptes (1499-1503), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, (11 H 1173), f. 00085, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https://manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
Diagnosing tuberculosis using nanomaterial-based detection of a host gene expression signature
Creators: name: Gliddon, Harriet Dulcie
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2016

description: Tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis remains a major public health challenge. Recent gene expression studies of TB have used microarray analysis to identify host whole blood gene expression signatures comprising relatively few transcripts that are able to distinguish TB from other diseases with similar presentation (OD), and TB from latent TB infection (LTBI), regardless of HIV infection status. These gene expression signatures represent promising diagnostic biomarkers for TB. However, the feasibility of measuring gene expression at the point-of-care has been questioned due to technical and cost constraints. This work presents the identification of two reduced gene expression signatures for TB/OD and TB/LTBI, which each consist of just four transcripts, and therefore represent feasible diagnostic TB biomarkers. The validation of these TB-specific gene expression signatures was performed using RT-qPCR and digital PCR. Both platforms showed excellent agreement with the results of the microarray analysis and verified the robustness of the signatures in classifying patients with TB, LTBI or OD. In order to translate these gene expression signatures into diagnostic assays for TB, nanomaterials were explored as a means of detecting the transcripts comprising the gene expression signatures for TB. The field of nanodiagnostics, in which nanoscale phenomena are linked to the presence of specific bio-analytes, has given rise to sensors with extremely low limits of detection. Nanomaterials offer many signalling mechanisms, strong signal intensities, finely tuneable surface chemistries, extremely large surface areas and multiplexing capabilities. A nucleic acid sensor based on graphene oxide quenching of fluorescent dyes was developed that could successfully detect synthetic RNAs in a monoplex format, with nanomolar limits of detection. The use of a cholesterol moiety to anchor DNA probes to graphene oxide was investigated in order to prevent nonspecific desorption of probes in the absence of target RNA. An alternative detection system relied on the strand displacement of a quencher-labelled DNA probe by target RNA, which then modulates quantum dot (QD) fluorescence emission. QDs are nanoparticles that exhibit extraordinarily bright fluorescence emission and are ideal for multiplexing due to their broad excitation and narrow emission spectra. This sensor design was first developed in a direct detection format that allowed multiplexed, sub-picomole (nanomolar) limits of detection of synthetic target RNA in pure buffer and in the presence of purified RNA from whole blood. To improve the sensitivity of this QD-based direct detection assay, an alternative format was also designed, which relies on an isothermal amplification-assisted detection assay that can potentially give much lower limits of detection. This work develops host gene expression signatures as promising new biomarkers for TB, and the potentially powerful application of nanomaterials for their detection.
The environment-dependence of the growth of the most massive objects in the Universe
Creators: name: Bolejko, Krzysztof
name: Ostrowski, Jan J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper investigates the growth of the most massive cosmological objects. We utilize the Simsilun simulation, which is based on the approximation of the silent universe. In the limit of spatial homogeneity and isotropy the silent universes reduce to the standard FLRW models. We show that within the approximation of the silent universe the formation of the most massive cosmological objects differs from the standard background-dependent approaches. For objects with masses above $10^{15} M_\odot$ the effect of spatial curvature (overdense regions are characterized by positive spatial curvature) leads to measurable effects. The effect is analogous to the effect that the background cosmological model has on the formation of these objects (i.e. the higher matter density and spatial curvature the faster the growth of cosmic structures). We measure this by the means of the mass function and show that the mass function obtained from the Simsilun simulation has a higher amplitude at the high-mass end compared to standard mass function such as the Press-Schechter or the Tinker mass function. For comparison, we find that the expected mass of most massive objects using the Tinker mass function is $4.4^{+0.8}_{-0.6} \, \times 10^{15} M_\odot$, whereas for the Simsilun simulation is $6.3^{+1.0}_{-0.8} \, \times 10^{15} M_\odot$. We conclude that the nonlinear relativistic effects could affect the formation of the most massive cosmological objects, leading to a relativistic environment-dependence of the growth rate of the most massive clusters.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures
Országismertető, Egyiptom (második, bővített kiadás)/ Country Study of Egypt (2. edition)
Creators: name: János, Besenyő
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 160604 Defence Studies
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 210108 Historical Archaeology (incl. Industrial Archaeology)
subject: FOS: History and archaeology
subject: 140101 History of Economic Thought
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: History
subject: 210310 Middle Eastern and African History

description: Book about Egypt
Investigating the functional domains of meiotic HORMA-domain protein HTP-1
Creators: name: Kounde, Daimona Alice
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2016

description: Proper chromosome segregation during meiosis is required to prevent the formation of aneuploid gametes, which result in sterility, miscarriages and birth defects. Formation of euploid gametes requires a series of events that occur during meiotic prophase, including: homologue pairing, synaptonemal complex assembly, and the formation of inter-homologue crossovers. All these events are promoted by a group of conserved HORMA (HOP-1, REV-1 and MAD2) domain proteins that associate with chromosomes at the onset of meiosis. C. elegans carries four of these proteins: HIM-3, HTP-1, HTP-2 and HTP-3, which form part of the proteinaceous axis of meiotic chromosomes. HTP-1 promotes pairing and crossover formation, and participates in two checkpoint mechanisms coordinating meiotic events, while HTP-2 alone cannot promote any of these events. HTP-1 and HTP-2 are 82% homologous at the amino acid level, hinting that essential residues for HTP-1 functions lie in the 62-amino-acid difference between the two proteins. Using recombinant proteins in which HTP-1 domains are substituted for the corresponding regions of HTP-2, I show that an 84-amino-acid region within the HORMA domain of HTP-1, named “HORMA C” is essential for HTP-1 function. Specifically, I show that ten residues wherein are essential for pairing, synapsis, correct timing of double strand break repair, chiasma formation and proper chromosome segregation. Moreover, the HORMA C region of HTP-1 functions with the support of the C-terminus, and the HORMA C region and C-terminus of HTP-1 are, together, sufficient to confer HTP-1 function to the HTP-2 protein sequence. This study provides insight into the relationship between sequence and function in HORMA domain proteins, and how proteins of this family have evolved specific roles supported by cis sequences.