cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Satellite-Based Quantum Key Distribution in the Presence of Bypass Channels
Creators: name: Ghalaii, Masoud
name: Bahrani, Sima
name: Liorni, Carlo
name: Grasselli, Federico
name: Kampermann, Hermann
name: Wooltorton, Lewis
name: Kumar, Rupesh
name: Pirandola, Stefano
name: Spiller, Timothy P.
name: Ling, Alexander
name: Huttner, Bruno
name: Razavi, Mohsen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The security of prepare-and-measure satellite-based quantum key distribution (QKD), under restricted eavesdropping scenarios, is addressed. We particularly consider cases where the eavesdropper, Eve, has limited access to the transmitted signal by Alice, and/or Bob's receiver station. This restriction is modeled by lossy channels between Alice/Bob and Eve, where the transmissivity of such channels can, in principle, be bounded by monitoring techniques. An artefact of such lossy channels is the possibility of having {\it bypass} channels, those which are not accessible to Eve, but may not necessarily be characterized by the users either. This creates interesting, unexplored, scenarios for analyzing QKD security. In this paper, we obtain generic bounds on the key rate in the presence of bypass channels and apply them to continuous-variable QKD protocols with Gaussian encoding with direct and reverse reconciliation. We find regimes of operation in which the above restrictions on Eve can considerably improve system performance. We also develop customised bounds for several protocols in the BB84 family and show that, in certain regimes, even the simple protocol of BB84 with weak coherent pulses is able to offer positive key rates at high channel losses, which would otherwise be impossible under an unrestricted Eve. In this case the limitation on Eve would allow Alice to send signals with larger intensities than the optimal value under an ideal Eve, which effectively reduces the effective channel loss. In all these cases, the part of the transmitted signal that does not reach Eve can play a non-trivial role in specifying the achievable key rate. Our work opens up new security frameworks for spaceborne quantum communications systems.
description: 26 pages, 17 figures
Evaluation of quality systems for animal units: report of the Scand-LAS working group
Creators: name: Ritskes-Hoitinga, Merkel
name: Bräutigam, John
name: Kaliste-Korhonen, Eila
name: Smith, Ardrian
Publisher: name: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences
Year: 2019

description: No abstract available
description: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences, Vol. 26 No. 3 (1999)
Additional file 1 of Developing and testing the effectiveness of a novel online integrated treatment for problem gambling and tobacco smoking: a protocol for an open-label randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Bilevicius, Elena
name: Single, Alanna
name: Baumgartner, Chris
name: Bui, Van
name: Kempe, Tyler
name: Schaub, Michael P.
name: Stewart, Sherry H.
name: MacKillop, James
name: Hodgins, David C.
name: Wardell, Jeffrey D.
name: O’Connor, Roisin
name: Read, Jennifer
name: Hadjistavropoulos, Heather
name: Sundstrom, Christopher
name: Keough, Matthew T.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Informed Consent Form
Spontaneous lesions in clinically healthy, microbiologically defined Göttingen minipigs
Creators: name: Madsen, Lars Wichmann
name: Jensen, Asger Lundorff
name: Larsen, Steen
Publisher: name: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences
Year: 2019

description: The use of miniature swine in biomedical research is increasing, whereas reports on their spontaneous pathology are sparse. Therefore, a study was performed to determine the incidence and nature of spontaneous lesions seen at necropsy and by microscopic examination. Eighteen clinically healthy, mierobiologieally defined Göttingen minipigs, reared under strict barrier conditions, were examined in a scheme covering both sexes and three different ages i.e., 3, 6, and 12 months. The most common microscopic lesion was focal aecumulations of mononuclear inflammatory cells in various rgans. Exutlative dermatitis and hyperkeratosis with Candida Spp. in the scaly debris was seen in the periocular region of three animals. Other inflammatory lesions were few, generally mild, and also of a focal nature. Iron deposition. probably due to preventive iron administration, was seen in the liver, kidneys, and lymph nodes. In the oesophageal part of the stomach a high incidence of apparently feed-related hyper- and parakeratosis was found. It is concluded that spontaneous lesions in microbiologically defined Göttingen minipigs are generally of a mild and focal nature.
description: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences, Vol. 25 No. 3 (1998)
A Note On Square-free Commuting Probabilities of Finite Rings
Creators: name: Mendelsohn, Andrew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20P05, 20D15, 16U80, 16P10

description: It is shown that the commuting probability of a finite ring cannot be a fraction with square-free denominator, resolving a conjecture of Buckley and MacHale.
description: 5 pages, published in the Journal of Algebra and its Applications
Classical scattering in strongly attractive potentials
Creators: name: Khrapak, Sergey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Scattering in central attractive potentials is investigated systematically, in the limit of strong interaction, when large-angles scattering dominates. In particular, three important model interactions (Lennard-Jones, Yukawa, and exponential), which are qualitatively different from each other, are studied in detail. It is shown that for each of these interactions the dependence of the scattering angle on the properly normalized impact parameter exhibits a quasi-universal behavior. This implies simple scaling of the transport cross sections with energy in the considered limit. Accurate fits for the momentum transfer cross section are suggested. Applications of the obtained results are discussed.
description: Phys. Rev. E (in press)
Additional file 5 of High-fat diet-induced and genetically inherited obesity differentially alters DNA methylation profile in the germline of adult male rats
Creators: name: Sharvari S. Deshpande
name: Harishankar Nemani
name: Gandhimathi Arumugam
name: Ravichandran, Avinash
name: Balasinor, Nafisa H.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 5: Supplementary Figures S1–S13.
Investigation of the involvement of Candida albicans in hyperkeratosis of the Göttingen minipig
Creators: name: Bollen, P J A
name: Madsen, L W
name: Mortensen, J T
name: Ritskes-Hoitinga, J
name: Hansen, A K
Publisher: name: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences
Year: 2019

description: At a breeding colony of Gettingen minipigs. 6404 animals born in 1995-1997 were examined for the occurence of hyperkeratosis. The percentage affected mimals varied from 1.4 to 6.9% monthly, with an average of 3.6%, 4.9% and 4.8% for the years 1995. 1996 and 1997 respectively. Candida albicans infection was not found on the skin of the back or head of animals with hyperkeratosis. One healthy animal was positive for Candida albicans. Of the animals with brown staining at the periocular region, all findings were positive for Candida albicans. Other infections found were Candida humicola and Trichosporon spp. In connection with histological examination, Candida parapsilosis was found. The underlying cause of hyperkeratosis remains unknown. Hyperkeratosis is not associated with Candida albicans infection. Hyperkeratosis is common in intensively housed pigs, and manifests as a brownish greasy scaling dorsal 0f the neck and back. The scales can be tubbed off. revealing normal skin underneath. Affected animals are otherwise healthy, and do not seem to have discomfort from hyperkeratosis (Scott, 1988). Lehman (1992) describes hyperkeratosis (hypcrkeratinization) as a diffuse proliferative, non-clevated skin alteration on the back. This in contradiction to parakeratosis, which is described as a generalized diffuse proliferative, non-elevated skin alteration. Hyperkeratosis should not be mistaken for dermatophytosis (tnycosis) or ectoparasitosis (mange). Barrier bred Göttingen minipigs are also affected by hyperkeratosis. Young minipig boars are most frequently affected, developing signs of hyperkeratosis from the age of 6—8 weeks. Lesions may recover spontaneuosly at a later age. Previous investigations have shown an opportunistic Candida albicans infection in connection with hyperkeratosis and exudative dermatitis of the perioeular region ofmierobiologically defined Göttingen minipigs (Madsen er al. 1998). The present study investigates the involvement of fungal infections in hyperkeratosis it) the Göttingen minipig. The incidence of hyperkeratosis was registered, and fungal investigations were performed in order to elucidate a fungal involvement.
description: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences, Vol. 25 No. 3 (1998)
Exact solution of the position-dependent mass Schrödinger equation with the completely positive oscillator-shaped quantum well potential
Creators: name: Jafarov, E. I.
name: Nagiyev, S. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 33C45, 33C90, 34L10, 34L15, 34L40

description: Two exactly-solvable confined models of the completely positive oscillator-shaped quantum well are proposed. Exact solutions of the position-dependent mass Schrödinger equation corresponding to the proposed quantum well potentials are presented. It is shown that the discrete energy spectrum expressions of both models depend on certain positive confinement parameters. The spectrum exhibits positive equidistant behavior for the model confined only with one infinitely high wall and non-equidistant behavior for the model confined with the infinitely high wall from both sides. Wavefunctions of the stationary states of the models under construction are expressed through the Laguerre and Jacobi polynomials. In general, the Jacobi polynomials appearing in wavefunctions depend on parameters $a$ and $b$, but the Laguerre polynomials depend only on the parameter $a$. Some limits and special cases of the constructed models are discussed.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures
On the zeros of weakly holomorphic modular forms
Creators: name: Gun, Sanoli
name: Saha, Biswajyoti
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11F03, 11J81, 11J91

description: In this article, we study the nature of zeros of weakly holomorphic modular forms. In particular, we prove results about transcendental zeros of modular forms of higher levels and for certain Fricke groups which extend a work of Kohnen. Furthermore, we investigate the algebraic independence of values of weakly holomorphic modular forms.
D6.4 Initial progress report on the actions carried out in the case studies
Creators: name: Knudsen, Alma Skjold
name: Chavardes, Chloe
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Polluted urban water runoff is a significant threat to public health and biodiversity. Changing rainfall patterns causing storm overflows and the discovery of new contaminants are only increasing the problems caused and it is important for urban planners, policy makers and water utilities to work together into order to mitigate the effects of diffuse pollution. One potentially scalable method of mitigation is implementing hybrid Nature Based Solutions (NBS). By identifying and monitoring water pollutants, their sources, and impacts, NBS can be scaled based on social needs, policy, and urban design. The synergies formed, knowledge gained and insights from the three pilot locations will be instrumental in developing hybrid NBS as scalable solutions.

This document reports on the stakeholder engagement activities carried out in the first 18 months of the D4RUNOFF project in the three case study sites - Odense (Denmark), Santander (Spain), and Pontedera (Italy). The objectives are to enhance interaction and communication with local audiences to maximize impact, keep stakeholders informed, improve understanding of urban runoff impacts, and promote project results.

Key activities include:- Local engagement in case studies through collaborations with authorities and institutions on implementing nature-based solutions (NBS)

- Co-design of AI platform user experience through surveys, interviews and workshops with stakeholders (60 engaged)

- Open Day in Santander with Climate Fresk workshop, presentations, site visit of NBS, and co-design workshop (50+ participants)

- Initial work on gamification challenge and educational game for children

- Social media campaigns to raise awareness on urban runoff (example posts shown) 

Key outcomes are increased awareness of urban runoff issues, input to platform development, and ongoing collaborations to implement NBS solutions. Engagement willcontinue with upcoming Open Days, gamification challenge, educational game session, and social media campaigns. The approach enhances interaction with stakeholders and transfers knowledge on sustainable solutions for urban water management.
Additional file 1 of GIS-based approaches on the accessibility of referral hospital using network analysis and the spatial distribution model of the spreading case of COVID-19 in Jakarta, Indonesia
Creators: name: Silalahi, Florence Elfriede Sinthauli
name: Hidayat, Fahrul
name: Dewi, Ratna Sari
name: Purwono, Nugroho
name: Oktaviani, Nadya
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1. The capacity of the Referral Hospitals.
Kinetic approaches to lactose operon induction and bimodality
Creators: name: Michel, Denis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The quasi-equilibrium approximation is acceptable when molecular interactions are fast enough compared to circuit dynamics, but is no longer allowed when cellular activities are governed by rare events. A typical example is the lactose operon (lac), one of the most famous paradigms of transcription regulation, for which several theories still coexist to describe its behaviors. The lac system is generally analyzed by using equilibrium constants, contradicting single-event hypotheses long suggested by Novick and Weiner (1957). Enzyme induction as an all-or-none phenomenon. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 43, 553-566) and recently refined in the study of (Choi et al., 2008. A stochastic single-molecule event triggers phenotype switching of a bacterial cell. Science 322, 442-446). In the present report, a lac repressor (LacI)-mediated DNA immunoprecipitation experiment reveals that the natural LacI-lac DNA complex built in vivo is extremely tight and long-lived compared to the time scale of lac expression dynamics, which could functionally disconnect the abortive expression bursts and forbid using the standard modes of lac bistability. As alternatives, purely kinetic mechanisms are examined for their capacity to restrict induction through: (i) widely scattered derepression related to the arrival time variance of a predominantly backward asymmetric random walk and (ii) an induction threshold arising in a single window of derepression without recourse to nonlinear multimeric binding and Hill functions. Considering the complete disengagement of the lac repressor from the lac promoter as the probabilistic consequence of a transient stepwise mechanism, is sufficient to explain the sigmoidal lac responses as functions of time and of inducer concentration. This sigmoidal shape can be misleadingly interpreted as a phenomenon of equilibrium cooperativity classically used to explain bistability, but which has been reported to be weak in this system.
Weyl conjecture and thermal radiation of finite systems
Creators: name: Baldiotti, M. C.
name: Jaraba, M. A.
name: Santos, L. F.
name: Molina, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, corrections for the Weyl law and Weyl conjecture in d dimensions are obtained and effects related to the polarization and area term are analyzed. The derived formalism is applied on the quasithermodynamics of the electromagnetic field in a finite $d$-dimensional box within a semi-classical treatment. In this context, corrections to the Stefan-Boltzmann law are obtained. Special attention is given to the two-dimensional scenario, since it can be used in the characterization of experimental setups. Another application concerns acoustic perturbations in a quasithermodynamic generalization of Debye model for a finite solid in d dimensions. Extensions and corrections for known results and usual formulas, such as the Debye frequency and Dulong-Petit law, are calculated.
description: 21 pages, 2 figures. To be published in Journal of Physics A
Electronic properties of linear carbon chains: resolving the controversy
Creators: name: Al-Backri, Amaal
name: Zólyomi, Viktor
name: Lambert, Colin J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Literature values for the energy gap of long one-dimensional carbon chains vary from as little as 0.2 eV to more than 4 eV. To resolve this discrepancy, we use the GW many-body approach to calculate the band gap $E_g$ of an infinite carbon chain. We also compute the energy dependence of the attenuation coefficient $β$ governing the decay with chain length of the electrical conductance of long chains and compare this with recent experimental measurements of the single-molecule conductance of end-capped carbon chains. For long chains, we find $E_g = 2.16$ eV and an upper bound for $β$ of $0.21$ Å$^{-1}$.
description: Accepted for publication in Journal of Chemical Physics
Additional file 1 of Identification of high-copy number long terminal repeat retrotransposons and their expansion in Phalaenopsis orchids
Creators: name: Hsu, Chia-Chi
name: Chen, Shu-Yun
name: Pei-Han Lai
name: Hsiao, Yu-Yun
name: Wen-Chieh Tsai
name: Liu, Zhong-Jian
name: Mei-Chu Chung
name: Panaud, Olivier
name: Hong-Hwa Chen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Four native Phalaenopsis species analyzed in the study, including P. aphrodite subsp. formosana (A) and P. equestris (B) with small genome/small chromosomes, and P. bellina (C) and P. violacea (D) with large genome/large chromosomes.
Brain Tumor Detection Based On Mathematical Analysis and Symmetry Information
Creators: name: G., Narkhede Sachin
name: Khairnar, Vaishali
name: Kadu, Sujata
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Image segmentation some of the challenging issues on brain magnetic resonance image tumor segmentation caused by the weak correlation between magnetic resonance imaging intensity and anatomical meaning.With the objective of utilizing more meaningful information to improve brain tumor segmentation,an approach which employs bilateral symmetry information as an additional feature for segmentation is proposed.This is motivated by potential performance improvement in the general automatic brain tumor segmentation systems which are important for many medical and scientific applications.Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging segmentation is a complex problem in the field of medical imaging despite various presented methods.MR image of human brain can be divided into several sub-regions especially soft tissues such as gray matter,white matter and cerebra spinal fluid.Although edge information is the main clue in image segmentation,it cannot get a better result in analysis the content of images without combining other information.Our goal is to detect the position and boundary of tumors automatically.Experiments were conducted on real pictures,and the results show that the algorithm is flexible and convenient.
description: 05 Pages,02 figures
Behavioural alteration in the progeny of rats exposed to ketamine, a n-methyl-d-aspartate receptor blocker
Creators: name: Sannes, Eva
name: Bernhof, Aksel
name: Nafstad, Inger
name: Engen, Patricia
name: Oye, Ivar
Publisher: name: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences
Year: 2019

description: The first study was conducted with the administration of ketamine to rats during pregnancy, both pregnancy and lactation, or lactation, respectively, in order to localisc the most sensitive period for behavioural effects of ketamine. In the second study, pups were injected subcutaneously with ketmnine during the suckling period. No significant effects on litter size, physical signs. early movements and neuromuscular development of the pups were observed. From the discrimination behavioural tests in Skinner boxes differences between groups appeared at the most demanding tasks, the 10 % reinforcement schedule. In the first study, the behavioural activity as expressed by the total number of tray visits tended to be increased in the preg/lae group, although not statistically significant. For the animals exposed during lactation (lac) and especially those exposed during pregnancy and lactation (preg/lae), the percentage of correct tray visits tended to be decreased during the last 5 sessions. In the second study, the total activity as expressed by total number of lever presses tended to be increased in the in pups exposed by postnatal injections (inj), although not statistically significant. In the same group the percentage of correct lever presses tended be decreased during the last 5 sessions. For the perseveration error type, there was a statistically significant increase in error number for the last 5 sessions in the injected (inj) group. Reduced learning ability was observed both for the pups that were indirectly exposed to ketamine both prenatally and during lactation, and for the pups receiving direct ketamine injections during the suckling period, more clearly however in the latter group.
description: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences, Vol. 25 No. 3 (1998)
Multi-partite separable states with unique decompositions and construction of three qubit entanglement with positive partial transpose
Creators: name: Ha, Kil-Chan
name: Kye, Seung-Hyeok
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 81P15, 15A30, 46L05

description: We investigate conditions on a finite set of multi-partite product vectors for which separable states with corresponding product states have unique decomposition, and show that this is true in most cases if the number of product vectors is sufficiently small. In the three qubit case, generic five dimensional spaces give rise to faces of the convex set consisting of all separable states, which are affinely isomorphic to the five dimensional simplex with six vertices. As a byproduct, we construct three qubit entangled PPT edge states of rank four with explicit formulae. This covers those entanglement which cannot be constructed from unextendible product basis.
description: 19 pages, 1 figure
Additional file 2 of GIS-based approaches on the accessibility of referral hospital using network analysis and the spatial distribution model of the spreading case of COVID-19 in Jakarta, Indonesia
Creators: name: Silalahi, Florence Elfriede Sinthauli
name: Hidayat, Fahrul
name: Dewi, Ratna Sari
name: Purwono, Nugroho
name: Oktaviani, Nadya
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 2. Standard Deviational Ellipse per day starting from March 25, 2020 to April 16, 2020. Data and information regarding patients and COVID-19 trends in Jakarta can be directly accessed on https://corona.jakarta.go.id/id/data . For topographic map and hospital information, even the data is public domain, it requires Foreign Research Permit for international readers or users who want to use the data.
Online Linear Optimization via Smoothing
Creators: name: Abernethy, Jacob
name: Lee, Chansoo
name: Sinha, Abhinav
name: Tewari, Ambuj
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present a new optimization-theoretic approach to analyzing Follow-the-Leader style algorithms, particularly in the setting where perturbations are used as a tool for regularization. We show that adding a strongly convex penalty function to the decision rule and adding stochastic perturbations to data correspond to deterministic and stochastic smoothing operations, respectively. We establish an equivalence between "Follow the Regularized Leader" and "Follow the Perturbed Leader" up to the smoothness properties. This intuition leads to a new generic analysis framework that recovers and improves the previous known regret bounds of the class of algorithms commonly known as Follow the Perturbed Leader.
description: COLT 2014
Bacteriological quality and intake of acidified drinking water in Wistar rats is pH-dependent
Creators: name: Ritskes-Hoitinga, J
name: Meijers, M
name: Van Herck, H
Publisher: name: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences
Year: 2019

description: The effects of acidification of drinking water on bacteriological quality and water intake in adult, male Wistar rats. was studied in 2 consecutive experiments. HCl was used to aeidify water to pH 2.5, 3.0 and 3.5. Control groups received untreated tap or demineralized water. Acidification of water with HCl to pH 2.5 effectively prevented growth of aerobic bacteria in the drinking water bottles after a number of days, but also caused a reproducible decline in water intake when compared to untreated water. A reduced water intake may indicate disturbed wellbeing and may interfere with experimental results. Acidification to pH 3.0 also kept bacteriological counts low and did not reduce water intake when compared to rats drinking non-acidified water. Acidification to pH 3.5 led to high bacteriological counts after a few days. On the basis of these 2 experiments, acidification of drinking water with 1101 to pH 3.0 is advised.
description: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences, Vol. 25 No. 3 (1998)
Surface heating steers planetary-scale ocean circulation
Creators: name: Bhagtani, Dhruv
name: Hogg, Andrew McColl
name: Holmes, Ryan Mahony
name: Constantinou, Navid C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gyres are central features of large-scale ocean circulation and are involved in transporting tracers such as heat, nutrients, and carbon-dioxide within and across ocean basins. Traditionally, the gyre circulation is thought to be driven by surface winds and quantified via Sverdrup balance, but it has been proposed that surface buoyancy fluxes may also contribute to gyre forcing. Through a series of eddy-permitting global ocean model simulations with perturbed surface forcing, the relative contribution of wind stress and surface heat flux forcing to the large-scale ocean circulation is investigated, focusing on the subtropical gyres. In addition to gyre strength being linearly proportional to wind stress, it is shown that the gyre circulation is strongly impacted by variations in the surface heat flux (specifically, its meridional gradient) through a rearrangement of the ocean's buoyancy structure. On shorter timescales ($\sim$ decade), the gyre circulation anomalies are proportional to the magnitude of the surface heat flux gradient perturbation, with up to $\sim 0.15\,\mathrm{Sv}$ anomaly induced per $\mathrm{W}\,\mathrm{m}^{-2}$ change in the surface heat flux. On timescales longer than a decade, the gyre response to surface buoyancy flux gradient perturbations becomes non-linear as ocean circulation anomalies feed back onto the buoyancy structure induced by the surface buoyancy fluxes. These interactions complicate the development of a buoyancy-driven theory for the gyres to complement the Sverdrup relation. The flux-forced simulations underscore the importance of surface buoyancy forcing in steering the large-scale ocean circulation.
description: Submitted to the Journal of Physical Oceanography
Additional file 4 of Identification of high-copy number long terminal repeat retrotransposons and their expansion in Phalaenopsis orchids
Creators: name: Hsu, Chia-Chi
name: Chen, Shu-Yun
name: Pei-Han Lai
name: Hsiao, Yu-Yun
name: Wen-Chieh Tsai
name: Liu, Zhong-Jian
name: Mei-Chu Chung
name: Panaud, Olivier
name: Hong-Hwa Chen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4: Table S2. The expression levels of Orchid-rt1 inserted gene and their paralogs genes among different organs.
Bi-AM-RRT*: A Fast and Efficient Sampling-Based Motion Planning Algorithm in Dynamic Environments
Creators: name: Zhang, Ying
name: Wang, Heyong
name: Yin, Maoliang
name: Wang, Jiankun
name: Hua, Changchun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The efficiency of sampling-based motion planning brings wide application in autonomous mobile robots. The conventional rapidly exploring random tree (RRT) algorithm and its variants have gained significant successes, but there are still challenges for the optimal motion planning of mobile robots in dynamic environments. In this paper, based on Bidirectional RRT and the use of an assisting metric (AM), we propose a novel motion planning algorithm, namely Bi-AM-RRT*. Different from the existing RRT-based methods, the AM is introduced in this paper to optimize the performance of robot motion planning in dynamic environments with obstacles. On this basis, the bidirectional search sampling strategy is employed to reduce the search time. Further, we present a new rewiring method to shorten path lengths. The effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed Bi-AM-RRT* are proved through comparative experiments in different environments. Experimental results show that the Bi-AM-RRT* algorithm can achieve better performance in terms of path length and search time, and always finds near-optimal paths with the shortest search time when the diffusion metric is used as the AM.
description: Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles
Platform for enhanced light-graphene interaction length and miniaturizing fiber stereo-devices
Creators: name: Xu, Fei
name: Kou, Jun-long
name: Chen, Jin-hui
name: Chen, Ye
name: Lu, Yan-qing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Sufficient light-matter interactions are important for waveguide-coupled graphene optoelectronic devices. Using a microfiber-based lab-on-a-rod technique, we present a platform for ultra-long light-graphene interaction and design graphene-integrated helical microfiber (MF) devices. Using this approach, we experimentally demonstrate an in-line stereo polarizer by wrapping an MF on a rod pretreated with a graphene sheet. The device operates as a broadband (450 nm wavelength) polarizer capable of achieving an extinction ratio (ER) as high as ~8 dB/coil in the telecommunication band. Furthermore, we extend this approach to successfully demonstrate a high-Q graphene-based single-polarization resonator, which operates with an ER of ~11 dB with excellent suppression of polarization noise. The fiber-coil resonator shows great potential for sensing applications and gyro-integration. By specializing the rod surface and coil geometry, we believe the preliminary results reported herein could contribute to advancing the research for lab-on-a-rod graphene-MF-integrated devices.
description: 6 figures
THE DETERMINANTS OF BANKING SYSTEM STABILITY IN ETHIOPIA: A PANEL REGRESSION ANALYSIS
Creators: name: EDIMEALEM MIHRETIE
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014

description: This study examines the various bank specific and macroeconomic variables that affect the banking system stability in Ethiopia during the study period ranging from 2000 to 2013. Arellano-Bond estimation technique had been employed to estimate the various determinants. From the Empirical result of this paper it was concluded that previous year banking system stability, economic growth and lending growth to the private sector were amongst determinants that affect the banking system stability positively; whereas total bank’s asset, inflation and real interest rate were found to negatively affect the banking system stability; whilst government budget deficit, exchange rate volatility and treasury bills were found not having any impact on the banking system stability in Ethiopia. The policy implications of these results is so vital to the banking industry in Ethiopia, incase that most of the variables can be maintained and controlled by the National Bank of Ethiopia. The researcher thus finally puts the policy implications based on these results. To maintain the banking system stability in Ethiopia the researcher recommends to uphold: the economic growth of the country, previous year’s banking system stability, bank lending growth and increasing the management’s aptitude especially to lessen the diseconomies of scale in the banking industry; on the contrary the researcher recommends to dwindle the inflation rate and interest rate.
On tests of the quantum nature of gravitational interactions in presence of non-linear corrections to quantum mechanics
Creators: name: Spaventa, Giovanni
name: Lami, Ludovico
name: Plenio, Martin B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When two particles interact primarily through gravity and follow the laws of quantum mechanics, the generation of entanglement is considered a hallmark of the quantum nature of the gravitational interaction. However, we demonstrate that entanglement dynamics can also occur in the presence of a weak quantum interaction and non-linear corrections to local quantum mechanics, even if the gravitational interaction is classical or absent at short distances. This highlights the importance of going beyond entanglement detection to conclusively test the quantum character of gravity, and it requires a thorough examination of the strength of other quantum forces and potential non-linear corrections to quantum mechanics in the realm of large masses.
description: 16 pages, 4 figures
Universal lower bound on topological entanglement entropy
Creators: name: Kim, Isaac H.
name: Levin, Michael
name: Lin, Ting-Chun
name: Ranard, Daniel
name: Shi, Bowen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Entanglement entropies of two-dimensional gapped ground states are expected to satisfy an area law, with a constant correction term known as the topological entanglement entropy (TEE). In many models, the TEE takes a universal value that characterizes the underlying topological phase. However, the TEE is not truly universal: it can differ even for two states related by constant-depth circuits, which are necessarily in the same phase. The difference between the TEE and the value predicted by the anyon theory is often called the spurious topological entanglement entropy. We show that this spurious contribution is always nonnegative, thus the value predicted by the anyon theory provides a universal lower bound. This observation also leads to a definition of TEE that is invariant under constant-depth quantum circuits.
description: 13 pages, 16 figures
An uncomplicated method for making periodical identical radiographs of experimental bone lesions in the rat. A technical report.
Creators: name: Mörner-Svalling, Ann-Catherine
name: Hienz, Stefan
name: Heimdahl, Anders
Publisher: name: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences
Year: 2019

description: An uncomplicated method for making periodically similar radiographs of the rat mandible is presented. A stent was produced by making an impression of the rat maxilla using an acrylic resin, incorporating an orthodontic wire: and fixing the impression to a RinnTM holder for the detector of the Sens-A-RayTM direct digital radiographie system This inflexible stent was then inserted and fixed to the maxilla of rats, anaesthetised with HypnormTM (fluanison 10mg/ml and fentanyl 0.2 mg/ml). In this fashion, serial radiographs were taken once a week for 12 weeks, making it possible to follow the healing of experimental bone lesions.
description: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences, Vol. 25 No. 3 (1998)
Additional file 2 of Identification of high-copy number long terminal repeat retrotransposons and their expansion in Phalaenopsis orchids
Creators: name: Hsu, Chia-Chi
name: Chen, Shu-Yun
name: Pei-Han Lai
name: Hsiao, Yu-Yun
name: Wen-Chieh Tsai
name: Liu, Zhong-Jian
name: Mei-Chu Chung
name: Panaud, Olivier
name: Hong-Hwa Chen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Table S1. The copy numbers of the predicted Copia-like retrotransposons.
Análisis de la eficiencia económica de una flota camaronera de Salina Cruz, Oaxaca, México /
Creators: name: Frausto Salcedo, Felipe
Publisher: name: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California.
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: SH380.62 .M6 F73 1990

description: Se analizo la eficiencia económica a una flota camaronera de una cooperativa de producción pesquera del Puerto de Salina Cruz Oaxaca.
Micro-wires self-assembled and 3D-connected with the help of a nematic liquid crystal
Creators: name: Agha, Hakam
name: Fleury, Jean-Baptiste
name: Galerne, Yves
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss a method for producing automatic 3D connections at right places between substrates in front to one another. The idea is based on the materialization of disclination lines working as templates. The lines are first created in the nematic liquid crystal (5CB) at the very place where microwires have to be synthesized. Due to their anchoring properties, colloids dispersed into the nematic phase produce orientational distortions around them. These distortions, which may be considered as due to topological charges, result in a nematic force, able to attract the colloids towards the disclinations. Ultimately, the particles get trapped onto them, forming micro or nano-necklaces. Before being introduced in the nematic phase, the colloids are covered with an adhering and conducting polypyrrole film directly synthesized at the surface of the particles (heterogeneous polymerization). In this manner, the particles become conductive so that we may finally perform an electropolymerization of pyrrole monomers solved in 5CB, and definitely stick the whole necklace. The electric connection thus synthesized is analyzed by AFM, and its strength is checked by means of hydrodynamic tests. This wiring method could allow Moore's law to overcome the limitations that arise when down-sizing the electronic circuits to nanometer scale.
Corporate Proxies: Class Organizing, Law, and Corporate Power in Delaware and the United States Until the New Deal
Creators: name: Shenoy, Maya Uma
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Corporations
subject: Delaware
subject: Proxies
subject: Organizing
subject: Chartering
subject: Managers
subject: Corporation Service Company
subject: Charter Trust Company

description: ant producer of corporate charters, addressing this historical change as a process of both class and institutional formation. Positing that a group of lawyers, judges, bureaucrats, businessmen, and politicians organized to form a unique and strategic interest group, the paper points to legal and institutional transformations that this coalition brought forth, which preceded the structural reconfiguration of incorporation. The paper’s primary focus is the genesis and fallout of the General Corporation Law of Delaware. Though Delaware’s success as a home for corporate interest has been credited to the fall of New Jersey after the passage of a set of antitrust laws -- “Seven Sisters Act” -- in 1913, this paper instead argues that Delaware was, if not uniquely positioned, uniquely motivated to take up the mantle of New Jersey. Managerial and political actors mobilized around class interests to build pro-corporate legal and social institutions with existing frameworks. Focusing on an interconnected network of actors, the paper examines how innovations in legal technology – notably corporate personification – produced structural transformations that institutionalized the managerial function. Homing in on corporation service companies/charter trust companies, the paper details how they allowed corporations to outsource the work of incorporation, and their legitimation by the state, to the charter trust company. Further, it examines the charter trust company’s use of legal proxies to illustrate how corporate personalities were distanced from real ties to their state of incorporation. This legal transformation insulated corporations from scrutiny in their direct contact with the state. Fundamentally, the paper argues that this network of corporate-adjacent political and managerial actors in Delaware altered the process of chartering to invigorate corporate interest and created a stable local system for the national corporation.
DeepVATS: Deep Visual Analytics for Time Series
Creators: name: Rodriguez-Fernandez, Victor
name: Montalvo, David
name: Piccialli, Francesco
name: Nalepa, Grzegorz J.
name: Camacho, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The field of Deep Visual Analytics (DVA) has recently arisen from the idea of developing Visual Interactive Systems supported by deep learning, in order to provide them with large-scale data processing capabilities and to unify their implementation across different data and domains. In this paper we present DeepVATS, an open-source tool that brings the field of DVA into time series data. DeepVATS trains, in a self-supervised way, a masked time series autoencoder that reconstructs patches of a time series, and projects the knowledge contained in the embeddings of that model in an interactive plot, from which time series patterns and anomalies emerge and can be easily spotted. The tool includes a back-end for data processing pipeline and model training, as well as a front-end with a interactive user interface. We report on results that validate the utility of DeepVATS, running experiments on both synthetic and real datasets. The code is publicly available on https://github.com/vrodriguezf/deepvats
description: Submitted to Elsevier's Knowledge Based Systems journal. Code available at https://github.com/vrodriguezf/deepvats
Additional file 3 of Identification of high-copy number long terminal repeat retrotransposons and their expansion in Phalaenopsis orchids
Creators: name: Hsu, Chia-Chi
name: Chen, Shu-Yun
name: Pei-Han Lai
name: Hsiao, Yu-Yun
name: Wen-Chieh Tsai
name: Liu, Zhong-Jian
name: Mei-Chu Chung
name: Panaud, Olivier
name: Hong-Hwa Chen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Figure S2. The global alignment result between Orchid-rt1 full length and predicted insertion region from Peq009948.
Summary of Discussions from the workshop at Seanbur's Seminar Oct. 1998 with the topic “Positive and Negative Effects of Enrichment Elements in Cages for Small Rodents”
Creators: name: Krohn, T C
Publisher: name: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences
Year: 2019

description: No abstract available
description: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences, Vol. 25 No. 4 (1998)
Move ordering and communities in complex networks describing the game of go
Creators: name: Kandiah, V.
name: Georgeot, B.
name: Giraud, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We analyze the game of go from the point of view of complex networks. We construct three different directed networks of increasing complexity, defining nodes as local patterns on plaquettes of increasing sizes, and links as actual successions of these patterns in databases of real games. We discuss the peculiarities of these networks compared to other types of networks. We explore the ranking vectors and community structure of the networks and show that this approach enables to extract groups of moves with common strategic properties. We also investigate different networks built from games with players of different levels or from different phases of the game. We discuss how the study of the community structure of these networks may help to improve the computer simulations of the game. More generally, we believe such studies may help to improve the understanding of human decision process.
description: 14 pages, 21 figures