cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Why are normal sub-Riemannian extremals locally minimizing?
Creators: name: Jóźwikowski, Michał
name: Respondek, Witold
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 49K15, 53C17, 58A30

description: It is well-known that normal extremals in sub-Riemannian geometry are curves which locally minimize the energy functional. Most proofs of this fact do not make, however, an explicit use of relations between local optimality and the geometry of the problem. In this paper, we provide a new proof of that classical result, which gives insight into direct geometric reasons of local optimality. Also the relation of the regularity of normal extremals with their optimality becomes apparent in our approach.
description: Small corrections. Watch on YT: https://youtu.be/K3HApRo-V_s 14 pages, 1 figure. Comments are wellcome
An Exploration in Mathematical Cartography: Comparative Distortion
Creators: name: Goel, Amer
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: cartography, mathematics, comparative distortion, vector
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science

description: This paper intends to provide some mathematical notion to complement an intuition about how different two maps are. This qualitative notion of "difference" is called "comparative distortion" when quantified.
description: The purpose of this paper is to find a notion of comparative distortion (abbreviated CD in this paper) between two map projections. In historical mathematical cartography, and emphasis has been placed on (1) projecting the globe onto a flat surface and (2) quantifying the necessary distortion that came from it. This paper forms a method to compute some notion of comparative distortion, which is a way to quantify how "different" two maps are in terms of distortion. The premise of the methodology is to form a mathematical model that most closely follows human intuition about when graphs are different and how different they are, because "difference" between maps is something inherently subjective. Procedurally, this is done by dissecting each map into a finite number of points, and then quantifying distortion at each of those points. Each map can then be thought of a matrix or vector with a finite number of distortion entries, and two maps can be compared by comparing their vectors. The method of comparison involves taking the difference of a group of maps' distortion vectors, and then taking the magnitude of that difference vector. This represents some Euclidean notion of "distance" between the two maps and some intuitive notion of how "different" they are. It is consistent with qualitative intuition about map differences and it preserves ordinality, so any maps that are closer together than any other maps will be reflected quantitatively. Overall, this method is successful in modeling intuition about comparative distortion.
Cepillos Dentales como Instrumentos para la Remoción Mecánica de Biofilm en Personas Mayores: un Scoping Review
Creators: name: Fuentes Martinez, Ivana Catalina
name: Silva Acevedo, Consuelo
name: Fernandez, Constanza E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: toothbrushes, elderly, dependent, oral hygiene, plaque control

description: Estudios seleccionados memoria titulada "Cepillos Dentales como Instrumentos para la Remoción Mecánica de Biofilm en Personas Mayores: un Scoping Review".
Education, enlightenment and entertainment : a history of Mechanics' institutes in Victoria
Creators: name: Jones, Paul.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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A study of the sensitivity of shape measurements to the input parameters of weak lensing image simulations
Creators: name: Hoekstra, Henk
name: Viola, Massimo
name: Herbonnet, Ricardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Improvements in the accuracy of shape measurements are essential to exploit the statistical power of planned imaging surveys that aim to constrain cosmological parameters using weak lensing by large-scale structure. Although a range of tests can be performed using the measurements, the performance of the algorithm can only be quantified using simulated images. This yields, however, only meaningful results if the simulated images resemble the real observations sufficiently well. In this paper we explore the sensitivity of the multiplicative bias to the input parameters of Euclid-like image simulations.We find that algorithms will need to account for the local density of sources. In particular the impact of galaxies below the detection limit warrants further study, because magnification changes their number density, resulting in correlations between the lensing signal and multiplicative bias. Although achieving sub-percent accuracy will require further study, we estimate that sufficient archival Hubble Space Telescope data are available to create realistic populations of galaxies.
description: 18 pages, accepted for publications in MNRAS
The development and implementation of pay television policy in Australia
Creators: name: Greenshields, Ian L.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Renormalization of Spectral Line Shape and Dispersion below Tc in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 + delta
Creators: name: Campuzano, J. C.
name: Fretwell, H.
name: Kadowaki, K.
name: Kaminski, A.
name: Mesot, J.
name: Norman, M. R.
name: Randeria, M.
name: Sato, T.
name: Takahashi, T.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Bäumer, Remigius - Benirschke, J. Hans - Guz, Tadeusz (Hrsg.), Im Ringen um die Wahrheit: Festschrift der Gustav-Siewerth-Akademie zum 70. Geburtstag ihrer Gründerin und Leiterin Frau Prof. Dr. Alma von Stockhausen
Creators: name: Wehrle, L.
Publisher: name: Forum Katholische Theologie
Year: 1970

description: Forum Katholische Theologie, Bd. 14 Nr. 2 (1998): Forum Katholische Theologie, Band 14, Heft 2
Democratisation in Singapore and South Korea : a comparative study
Creators: name: Wahab, Dewi Savitri.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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A process mining- deep learning approach to predict survival in a cohort of hospitalized COVID‐19 patients
Creators: name: Pishgar, M
name: Harford, S
name: Theis, J
name: Galanter, William
name: Rodríguez-Fernández, JM
name: Chaisson, Lelia
name: Zhang, Y
name: Trotter, A
name: Kochendorfer, Karl
name: Boppana, A
name: Darabi, Houshang
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: BACKGROUND: Various machine learning and artificial intelligence methods have been used to predict outcomes of hospitalized COVID-19 patients. However, process mining has not yet been used for COVID-19 prediction. We developed a process mining/deep learning approach to predict mortality among COVID-19 patients and updated the prediction in 6-h intervals during the first 72 h after hospital admission. METHODS: The process mining/deep learning model produced temporal information related to the variables and incorporated demographic and clinical data to predict mortality. The mortality prediction was updated in 6-h intervals during the first 72 h after hospital admission. Moreover, the performance of the model was compared with published and self-developed traditional machine learning models that did not use time as a variable. The performance was compared using the Area Under the Receiver Operator Curve (AUROC), accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity. RESULTS: The proposed process mining/deep learning model outperformed the comparison models in almost all time intervals with a robust AUROC above 80% on a dataset that was imbalanced. CONCLUSIONS: Our proposed process mining/deep learning model performed significantly better than commonly used machine learning approaches that ignore time information. Thus, time information should be incorporated in models to predict outcomes more accurately.
Cesàro average in short intervals for Goldbach numbers
Creators: name: Languasco, Alessandro
name: Zaccagnini, Alessandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove that a suitable explicit formula for the Cesaro-averaged number of representations of an integer as a sum of two primes holds in short intervals.
description: revised version; to appear in Proc. AMS
Nome di Derrida
Creators: name: Arigone, Leonardo
Publisher: name: Filosofia
Year: 2022

description: Although Jackie Derrida had a deep interest in the hidden meanings of proper names, he never left us a satisfactory deconstruction of his own name. This article therefore attempts to fill this gap by examining – in a Derridean way – the name “Jackie”, whose etymology refers to the sphere of subversion. In order to achieve that, the paper takes into account two other characters from Jewish history named “Jackie” – the biblical Jacob and Jacob Frank –, who entertain an ambivalent relationship with the notion of sovereignty and embody a paradoxical coincidence of rebelliousness and obedience. The contribution then argues that – in a manner not unlike his namesakes – Derrida rejects the classical definition of power and shows the double-bind of operative de facto sovereignty and ineffectual de jure sovereignty. In conclusion, it is suggested that deconstructing the name “Jackie” helps illustrate the incompatibility of the Greek category of archè with Jewish spirituality.
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Stanley Wynton Kurrle : headmaster of Caulfield Grammar School, 1955-1964
Creators: name: Thomson, David Scott.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Truth, Scholastic Transcendentals, and the Implications of Ideal-Realism
Creators: name: Stango, Marco
Publisher: name: Filosofia
Year: 2022

description: The paper explores the possibility of philosophical cooperation between Thomism and American pragmatism by resurrecting a largely forgotten debate between Wilmon Henry Sheldon and Jacques Maritain. The discussion focuses primarily on the problem of truth as it is discussed by Peirce and by some contemporary Thomists, including Maritain but also Milbank, Pickstock, Lonergan, Balthasar, Pieper, and Ulrich. The paper claims that, if we bring Peirce’s version of pragmatism into the picture, cooperation is not possible but likely to be fruitful for both pragmatism and Thomism.
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One-point fluctuation analysis of the high-energy neutrino sky
Creators: name: Feyereisen, Michael R.
name: Tamborra, Irene
name: Ando, Shin'ichiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform the first one-point fluctuation analysis of the high-energy neutrino sky. This method reveals itself to be especially suited to contemporary neutrino data, as it allows to study the properties of the astrophysical components of the high-energy flux detected by the IceCube telescope, even with low statistics and in the absence of point source detection. Besides the veto-passing atmospheric foregrounds, we adopt a simple model of the high-energy neutrino background by assuming two main extra-galactic components: star-forming galaxies and blazars. By leveraging multi-wavelength data from Herschel and Fermi, we predict the spectral and anisotropic probability distributions for their expected neutrino counts in IceCube. We find that star-forming galaxies are likely to remain a diffuse background due to the poor angular resolution of IceCube, and we determine an upper limit on the number of shower events that can reasonably be associated to blazars. We also find that upper limits on the contribution of blazars to the measured flux are unfavourably affected by the skewness of the blazar flux distribution. One-point event clustering and likelihood analyses of the IceCube HESE data suggest that this method has the potential to dramatically improve over more conventional model-based analyses, especially for the next generation of neutrino telescopes.
description: 41 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables; different blazar model than v1 but same results
WQeMS - Newsletter V
Creators: name: Manakos, Ioannis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: We kindly welcome you to get acquainted with a Copernicus Service Evolution project within the Research and Innovation Action program of the H2020 framework. Being part of the cluster of projects for Space Research by the European Commission our working team is honored to inform you about the Copernicus Assisted Lake Water Quality Emergency Monitoring Service (WQeMS). In the previous volume (Newsletter ΙV) we presented the evolution of the rest service components (land-water transition zone change monitoring, alerting through reporting and crowdsourcing and capacity building through the provision of training material and tools), their results in the pilot areas and the benefits deriving for the users (e.g. water utilities) and the end users (e.g. citizens).

 Thanks to the contribution of all the partners of WQeMS consortium, the WQeMS Platform is now operational. In this volume we are presenting an overview of the platform, with a description of all the main functionalities implemented. Follow us at our social media accounts and visit our website for more information: https://wqems.eu/
“Rifiuti e costellazioni”
Creators: name: Carrieri, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Filosofia
Year: 2022

description: This essay aims to address Kracauer's concept of interstitial or intermediate space (Zwischenräum, then In- between). Since his early conviction that superficial phenomena allowed an exclusive and immediate access to the fundamental substance of reality, the categories of in-between and surface (Oberfläche) will provide indeed the main framework of Kracauer's wide-ranging thought. Reflecting upon these, he foresaw, as Benjamin later did, that the increase in rationality and the dissolution of traditional values did not correspond to the dissolution of myth and the emancipation from superstition but, rather, to their re-production and re- enforcement: which justifies the persistence and resurgence, in a hyper-rationalized society, of several anti- scientific and magical beliefs. Forms that Kracauer unmasked as essentially reactionary, as are the current and growing ones which deny the most elementary and established scientific truths. Kracauer's lesson, thus, could be very topical as it reminds us that the excesses and distortions of rationality cannot be fought and defeated by irrationality.
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Dynamically hot Super-Earths from outer giant planet scattering
Creators: name: Huang, Chelsea X.
name: Petrovich, Cristobal
name: Deibert, Emily
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The hundreds of multiple planetary systems discovered by the \textit{Kepler} mission are typically observed to reside in close-in ($\lesssim0.5$ AU), low-eccentricity, and low-inclination orbits. We run N-body experiments to study the effect that unstable outer ($\gtrsim1$ AU) giant planets, whose end orbital configurations resemble those in the Radial Velocity population, have on these close-in multiple super-Earth systems. Our experiments show that the giant planets greatly reduce the multiplicity of the inner super-Earths and the surviving population can have large eccentricities ($e\gtrsim0.3$) and inclinations ($i\gtrsim20^\circ$) at levels that anti-correlate with multiplicity. Consequently, this model predicts the existence of a population of dynamically hot single-transiting planets with typical eccentricities and inclinations %in the ranges of $\sim 0.1-0.5$ and $\sim 10^\circ-40^\circ$. We show that these results can explain the following observations: (i) the recent eccentricity measurements of \textit{Kepler} super-Earths from transit durations; (ii) the tentative observation that single-transiting systems have a wider distribution of stellar obliquity angles compared to the multiple-transiting systems; (iii) the architecture of some eccentric super-Earths discovered by Radial Velocity surveys such as HD\,125612c. Future observations from \textit{TESS} will reveal many more dynamically hot single transiting planets, for which follow up Radial Velocity studies will be able to test our models and see whether they have outer giant planets.
description: Accepted by AJ
Figure-eight choreographies of the equal mass three-body problem with Lennard-Jones-type potentials
Creators: name: Fukuda, Hiroshi
name: Fujiwara, Toshiaki
name: Ozaki, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on figure-eight choreographic solutions to a system of three identical particles interacting through a potential of Lennard-Jones type, $1/r^{12}-1/r^6$ where $r$ is a distance between the particles. By numerical search, we found there are a multitude of such solutions. A series of them are close to a figure-eight solutions to a homogeneous system with no $1/r^{12}$ term in the potential. The rest are very different from them and have several points with large curvatures in their figure-eight orbits, at which particles are repelled. Here figure-eight choreographies are the periodic motion whose shape is symmetric in both horizontal and vertical axis, starting with an isosceles triangle configuration and going back to an isosceles triangle configuration with opposite direction through Euler configuration. Thus the lobe of this figure-eight may be complex shape and needs not to be convex.
description: This is an author-created, un-copyedited version of an article accepted for publication/published in Journal of Physics A. IOP Publishing Ltd is not responsible for any errors or omissions in this version of the manuscript or any version derived from it. The Version of Record is available online at https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8121/aa5741
Teoria delle deformazioni
Creators: name: Guglielminetti, Enrico
Publisher: name: Filosofia
Year: 2022

description: Se l’ermeneutica oggi è in crisi, è perché ogni interpretazione appare eo ipso come deformazione della verità. La ragione è semplice: là dove c’è soggettività, o iniziativa, la verità non conta, mentre là dove c’è verità, o universalità, la soggettività non conta. Per questo motivo anche la democrazia entra in crisi, apparendo ormai un locus communis che la soggettività degli elettori costituisca una palla al piede sul cammino delle riforme, la cui necessità è computabile in automatico. Contro questa deriva disastrosa, che riduce i soggetti a bestie riottose e la verità a calcolo oggettivo, l’ermeneutica filosofica, pur inattuale, appare più che mai necessaria. La questione centrale che essa solleva è se la verità sia sostanza, se cioè possa esservi verità senza soggetto, senza un apporto intrinseco di singolarità. L’aspirazione a superare i limiti della individualità non dovrebbe insomma far dimenticare che c’è un nesso originario tra la risorsa “verità” e la risorsa “singolarità”.
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Comment on "Millimeter-Wave Magneto-Optical Determination of the Anisotropy of the Superconducting Order Parameter in the Molecular Superconductor kappa-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu(NCS)2"
Creators: name: Gaifullin, M. B.
name: Matsuda, Yuji
name: Shibauchi, T.
name: Tamegai, T.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Power transition of Hong Kong : diplomatic tension between the People's Republic of China and Britain
Creators: name: Wong, Angela.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Exact renormalization of the photino mass in softly broken ${\cal N}=1$ SQED with $N_f$ flavors regularized by higher derivatives
Creators: name: Nartsev, I. V.
name: Stepanyantz, K. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the softly broken ${\cal N}=1$ supersymmetric electrodynamics, regularized by higher derivatives. For this theory we demonstrate that the renormalization of the photino mass is determined by integrals of double total derivatives in the momentum space in all orders. Consequently, it is possible to derive the NSVZ-like exact relation between the photino mass anomalous dimension and the anomalous dimension of the matter superfields in the rigid theory by direct summation of supergraphs. It is important that both these renormalization group functions are defined in terms of the bare coupling constant, so that the considered NSVZ-like relation is valid independently of the subtraction scheme in the case of using the higher derivative regularization. The factorization of integrals defining the photino mass renormalization into integrals of double total derivatives is verified by an explicit two-loop calculation.
description: 32 pages, 8 figures; the version accepted for publication in JHEP
“Perlomeno come una macchina”
Creators: name: Revello, Roberto
Publisher: name: Filosofia
Year: 2022

description: According to Gilbert Simondon, nothing that is technical is alien to the human, and in this sense, shunning the cultural myth of a technology hostile to human beings, living beings and Nature, is the first ethical gesture of responsibility that we can take. In fact, acquiring a “technical mentality” does not mean forcing ourselves into a blind utilitarian rationality, but on the contrary, developing the richness of an analogical and operational thought, a synthetic science that Gilbert Simondon sometimes calls “praxeology”, other times “general technology”, “allagmatic”, or “anthropotechnology”. Thus a deep ethical vision emerges, humanist but in the name of a continuity between the human and the other domains, both biological and physical, of reality.
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Synthesis, characterization, mesogenic properties, and DFT studies of unsymmetrical liquid crystalline dimers of biphenyl
Creators: name: Rabari, Mahima
name: Koli, Chetna
name: Prajapati, A. K.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Virology

description: A series of asymmetrical liquid crystal dimers (E)-4((4(n([1,1’-biphenyl]-4-yloxy)alkoxy)phenyl) diazenyl)benzonitrile (BpnCN) were synthesized, consisting of two distinct rigid cores: 4-cyanoazobenzene and biphenyl units. Characterization was accomplished through various spectroscopic techniques. The mesomorphic properties were explored via polarizing optical microscopy and differential scanning calorimetry. UV–Visible spectroscopy assessed the photophysical properties. The presence of an even number of atoms in the flexible spacer resulted in linear molecular shapes for Bp4CN and Bp6CN, while Bp3CN and Bp5CN showed nonlinearity, explaining their non-mesomorphic properties. Computational studies showed a clear correlation between theoretical and experimental wave numbers. The enhanced stability of the mesophase in Bp4CN and Bp6CN was attributed to their higher aspect ratios, promoting ordered structures within the material. UV–visible spectroscopy of dimer Bp4CN revealed absorption bands at 445 nm (n–π* transitions) and 365 nm (π–π* transitions), with photoisomerization observed under UV exposure, reaching a photostationary state in 2.5 min and reversible isomerization back to the trans form in approximately 2.3 h. Notably, even in the absence of substitutions on the biphenyl core, the dimers in our present series demonstrated an enantiotropic nematic mesophase.
Overcoming experimental limitations in a non-linear two-qubit gate through postselection
Creators: name: Martínez-Rincón, Julián
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a modular-value two-qubit gate and explore its advantages in experimentally-limited situations. The gate is defined such that the final state of a target qubit is fully controlled by a pre- and post-selection procedure in a control qubit given an (imperfect or technically limited) intermediate conditional qubit-qubit interaction. As an example of the gate and its benefit, we make the connection to a postselected cross phase modulation scenario when a undesired absorption is present. Probabilistic amplification of a small cross phase while mitigating relative absorption is possible, and a complementary behaviour between phase and amplitude emerges.
Guerra ai mutanti: nella metaforica del mare alle origini dell’Antropocene
Creators: name: Ascari, Pierpaolo
Publisher: name: Filosofia
Year: 2022

description: In the Long Sixteenth Century, where World-Ecology proposes to situate the origins of the Anthropocene, we observe an overall devaluation of the principle of metamorphosis to which philosophical reflection, the experimental method, political doctrine, and even theatrical production seem to contribute. The development of this undertaking, however, the outer boundaries of which could be identified from Giovanni Pico’s reflection, is punctually disturbed by the presence of the aquatic element, with particular reference to the sea, whose connotations continue to deconstruct the movement of “separating humans from the rest of nature” that combines the production of the consistent subject with the so-called processes of primitive accumulation of capital. Therefore, the article aims to provide a historical and conceptual framework to situate this reading hypothesis.
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Praxisorientierte Lehrerbildung: Zusatzmaterialien - DoLiMette 2/2014
Creators: name: Wulf, Corinna
name: Marci-Boehncke, Gudrun
name: Strehlow, Kristina
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Media-Chronik
subject: Film
subject: Powerpoint-Präsentation
subject: Lehrerbildung
subject: Praxissemester
subject: Praxisorientierung
subject: 430
subject: Lehrerbildung
subject: Praxissemester

description: Hier finden Sie die Zusatzmaterialien der vierten Ausgabe der DoLiMette.
description: DoLiMette; Zusatzmaterialien, 2, 2014
Allelic compatibility in plant immune receptors facilitates engineering of new effector recognition specificities
Creators: name: Bentham, Adam R.
name: De la Concepcion, Juan Carlos
name: Jones, Sally
name: Vega Benjumea, Javier
name: Mendel, Melanie
name: Stubbs, Jack
name: Stevenson Clare. E., M.
name: Maidment, Josephine H.R.
name: Kourelis, Jiorgos
name: Kamoun, Sophien
name: Banfield, Mark J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Resistance engineering, NLR, effector recognition, plant immunity

description: Modification of plant intracellular NLR immune receptors to expand their recognition of pathogen effectors is a promising method for engineering novel disease resistance. However, many plant NLRs have coevolved in highly complex signalling networks. Thus, changes in the pairing of NLRs through breeding or genetic modification can result in autoimmunity, rendering certain combinations of NLRs incompatible. Here, we present a molecular dissection of the incompatibility between a pair of rice NLR alleles and use this information to facilitate the engineering of new effector recognition specificities previously prohibited by autoactive phenotypes. We show mismatching alleles of the rice sensor and helper NLRs Pik-1 and Pik-2 facilitates the engineering of the effector recognition domain of Pik-1, enhancing recognition of the AVR-Pik effector from Magnaporthe oryzae. Mismatching of Pik alleles can allow for integration of new effector recognition domains, which previously resulted in effector-independent cell death due to autoactivity. Using structural and biophysical approaches, we characterised the interaction between an engineered NLR domain with enhanced effector recognition and different M. oryzae effectors, highlighting the relationships between effector affinity and in planta defence responses. Taken together, our results demonstrate a new strategy for engineering NLRs, which has the potential to allow for a variety of new disease resistance specificities.
Storie di isole, lacrime e sirene
Creators: name: Varoli, Matteo
Publisher: name: Filosofia
Year: 2022

description: The early Pythagoreans committed some of their early teachings to orality, in the form of cryptic symbols. Following the hypothesis that some symbols could be an early form of exegesis of poetry, this paper examines some of those difficult witnesses of ancient Pythagoreanism, trying to explain them by their relationship with myths and poems focussed on the space of the sea, and Homer’s Odyssey in particular, showing that, far from being the realm of chaos and unlimitedness, the sea of the myth was generally understood by the Pythagoreans as a boundary land lying between this world and the afterlife, which is placed in the sky. This seems to lead to a better understanding of the symbols examined and brings further evidence of the importance of myth and poetry in early Pythagorean philosophy.
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Stability selection for component-wise gradient boosting in multiple dimensions
Creators: name: Thomas, Janek
name: Mayr, Andreas
name: Bischl, Bernd
name: Schmid, Matthias
name: Smith, Adam
name: Hofner, Benjamin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present a new algorithm for boosting generalized additive models for location, scale and shape (GAMLSS) that allows to incorporate stability selection, an increasingly popular way to obtain stable sets of covariates while controlling the per-family error rate (PFER). The model is fitted repeatedly to subsampled data and variables with high selection frequencies are extracted. To apply stability selection to boosted GAMLSS, we develop a new "noncyclical" fitting algorithm that incorporates an additional selection step of the best-fitting distribution parameter in each iteration. This new algorithms has the additional advantage that optimizing the tuning parameters of boosting is reduced from a multi-dimensional to a one-dimensional problem with vastly decreased complexity. The performance of the novel algorithm is evaluated in an extensive simulation study. We apply this new algorithm to a study to estimate abundance of common eider in Massachusetts, USA, featuring excess zeros, overdispersion, non-linearity and spatio-temporal structures. Eider abundance is estimated via boosted GAMLSS, allowing both mean and overdispersion to be regressed on covariates. Stability selection is used to obtain a sparse set of stable predictors.
description: 16 pages
Why are the "rich" in open science getting richer? Reflections on structural inequities and knowledge production
Creators: name: Chan, Leslie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Geopolitics of Knowledge, Equity in Open Science, Labour Governance,

description: Multiple forms of inequities exist in higher education and research institutions, traditionally regarded as the centers of knowledge production. Despite various reform efforts, generally under the guise of equity, diversity, and inclusion initiatives, stark inequities in knowledge production systems persist, both within and across institutions. The intersecting racial, epistemic, gender, class, and many other institutional biases are encoded into daily practices and in critical knowledge infrastructure and remain largely invisible. These norms and standards are seldom questioned and are often presented as neutral and universal. Open science or open scholarship practices, far from reducing the inequities in the participation and in the benefits of research, may run the risk of amplifying and consolidating the existing power hierarchy and dominance of the already powerful institutions and actors. This talk calls for inward reflection of how institutional racism and colonial legacy continue to structure and govern knowledge practices and ways of knowing and argue for justice-centered redesign of knowledge infrastructures that center historically marginalized communities and systems of knowledge.
title: The 'little businessman' of Bukit Timah: A study of the economic, social and political organization of traders in a market complex in Singapore.
Creators: name: Wong, Charlotte Hock Soon
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2023

description: This study seeks to understand the economic, social, and political organization of small scale traders in a market complex in Singapore. The range of material is discussed within one framework, the relationship between the State and the marketplaces. This is carried out through the detailed analysis of the processes that have been involved in the formation of marketplaces, the organization of marketing activities, the organization of social relationships for marketing, and the role of voluntary associations for marketplace traders. In all these the State exerts its control and effects change because it is concentrating economic growth in the large scale sector of the economy. The State acts to foster rapid economic growth, but at the expense of the small scale trading sector.
Chitosan and (Phenylthio) acetic acid-based ion pair self assembled for temperature and oxidation-responsive drug release
Creators: name: Joy, Jomon George
name: Kim, Jin-Chul
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Chitosan (CTSN), a cationic biopolymer was used to prepare Ion pair self-assembly (IPSAM) with (phenylthio)acetic acid (PTA) as hydrophobic counter ion which is responsive to temperature and oxidation. The IPSAM was formed when the amino to carboxylic group molar ratio was 1/9 ~ 4/6. CTSN/PTA IPSAM was found as sphere-like nanoparticles whose diameter was 30–50 nm on TEM image. The ion pair showed the upper critical solution temperature (UCST) that increased with increasing PTA content and decreased when PTA of the ion pair was oxidized by H2O2. The ion pair exhibited amphiphilic property which was responsible for interface activity which decline upon the oxidation of the PTA. The surface tension was low for the ratio of CTSN/PTA (3/7), which made the 3/7 ratio suitable for further studies. The ionic interaction between CTSN and PTA and the oxidation of PTA were confirmed by FT-IR spectroscopy. The payload’s release (i.e. Nile red) in IPSAM was constrained below the UCST but it was prompted above the phase transition temperature possibly due to the disassembly of the IPSAM and PTA oxidation. The release was found to be higher in tumor environment temperature in the presence of H2O2 indicating the release was dependent on temperature and oxidation.
Kremsmair, Josef; Pree, Helmuth, Ars boni et aequi. Gesammelte Schriften von Bruno Primetshofer, Berlin 1997 (= KStT; 49)
Creators: name: Rees, Wilhelm
Publisher: name: Forum Katholische Theologie
Year: 1970

description: Forum Katholische Theologie, Bd. 14 Nr. 1 (1998): Forum Katholische Theologie, Band 14, Heft 1
Multihole edge states in Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chains with interactions
Creators: name: Marques, A. M.
name: Dias, R. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We address the effect of nearest-neighbor (NN) interactions on the topological properties of the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chain, with alternating hopping amplitudes t1 and t2. Both numerically and analytically, we show that the presence of interactions induces phase transitions between topologically different regimes. In the particular case of one-hole excitations in a half-filled SSH chain, the V=t2 vs. t1=t2 phase diagram has topological phases at diagonal regions of the phase plane. The interaction acts in this case as a passivation potential. For general filling of the SSH chain, different eigensubspaces of the SSH Hamiltonian may be classified as topologically trivial and non-trivial. The two-hole case is studied in detail in the large interaction limit, and we show that a mapping can be constructed of the two-hole SSH eigensubspaces into one-particle states of a non-interacting one-dimensional (1D) tight-binding model, with interfaces between regions with different hopping constants and local potentials. The presence of topological edge states in the equivalent chain can be readily identifed, as well as their correspondence to the original two-hole states. Furthermore, we found that the presence of the NN interaction generates a state where two holes occupy two consecutive edge states. Such many-body states should also occur for arbitrary filling leading to the possibility of a macroscopic hole gathering at the surface (at consecutive edge states).
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
Valery: la favola del mare
Creators: name: D'Acunto, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Filosofia
Year: 2022

description: This essay intends to focus on Paul Valéry’s thought on the sea as featured in his poetry and essays. According to Valéry, the sea is not only what can be conceived under the sign of some categories with a strong philosophical meaning (one/many, sameness/distinction, stasis/movement, variability/permanence, life/death, being/becoming), but also, and above all, it acts as the arché regarding the origin of life and philosophy. But even more than an object of reflection, the sea can be understood, in Valéry, as the very principle that underpins his phenomenology of vision. In this sense, his meditation on the shell is exemplary.
description: Filosofia, N. 67 (2022): Mare
In the shadow of the Company : patronage and status in a mining settlement
Creators: name: Kunanayagam, Ramanie.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
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On inflation, cosmological constant, and SUSY breaking
Creators: name: Linde, Andrei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a broad class of inflationary models of two unconstrained chiral superfields, the stabilizer $S$ and the inflaton $Φ$, which can describe inflationary models with nearly arbitrary potentials. These models include, in particular, the recently introduced theories of cosmological attractors, which provide an excellent fit to the latest Planck data. We show that by adding to the superpotential of the fields $S$ and $Φ$ a small term depending on a nilpotent chiral superfield $P$ one can break SUSY and introduce a small cosmological constant without affecting main predictions of the original inflationary scenario.
description: 5 pages, Introduction and Discussion expanded, the version to appear in JCAP
Localization of Vector Field on Dynamical Domain Wall
Creators: name: Higuchi, Masafumi
name: Nojiri, Shin'ichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the previous works (arXiv:1202.5375 and 1402.1346), the dynamical domain wall, where the four dimensional FRW universe is embedded in the five imensional space-time, has been realized by using two scalar fields. In this paper, we consider the localization of vector field in three formulations. The first formulation was investigated in the previous paper (arXiv:1510.01099) for the $U(1)$ gauge field. In the second formulation, we investigate the Dvali-Shifman mechanism (hep-th/9612128), where the non-abelian gauge field is confined in the bulk but the gauge symmetry is spontaneously broken on the domain wall. In the third formulation, we investigate the Kaluza-Klein modes coming from the five dimensional graviton. In the Randall-Sundrum model, the graviton was localized on the brane. We show that the $(5,μ)$ components $\left(μ=0,1,2,3\right)$ of the graviton are also localized on the domain wall and can be regarded as the vector field on the domain wall. There are, however, some corrections coming from the bulk extra dimension if the domain wall universe is expanding.
description: LaTeX 12 pages
The evolution of the office of the Governor-General
Creators: name: Bennett, Russell R.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Biological and structural characterizations of mutations in X-linked spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia tarda
Creators: name: Jang, Se Bok
name: Jeong, Mi Suk
name: Lee, Kyoung Mi
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: CD analysis
subject: expression
subject: missense mutations
subject: modeling
subject: SEDL
subject: 610

description: Spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia tarda (SEDT), an X-linked genetic disease manifesting itself in a disproportionate skeletal structure, is caused by mutations in the SEDL gene. Four missense mutations (S73L, V130D, F83S, and D47Y) have been identified by molecular diagnosis as disease-causing SEDT. Nevertheless, how SEDL mutations disrupt the skeletal structure and cause disease remains unknown. We report here the cloning, expression, and characterization of three different missense mutations (S73L, V130D, and D47Y) in mouse SEDL. The overexpression of the D47Y mutation was mainly observed in the supernatant but those of the S73L and V130D mutations are shown in the insoluble pellets. The substitution of the S73L mutation induces the exposure to hydrophobic amino acids and causes aggregation. That of V130D might break hydrophobic interaction and decrease the secondary structure. The CD spectra of three mutants (S73L, V130D, and D47Y) showed that the a-helices decreased more than that of wild-type SEDL. The F83S (stop) mutant might suggest a large conformational change as the mutant V130D. In order to visualize conformational changes in mutated structures, we used molecular modeling techniques minimizing the total energy. These results could provide the biological characterization and conformational information of the SEDL mutants and suggest the clinical severity of the disorder among human SEDL patients.
description: EXCLI Journal ; Vol. 4, 2005
A review of tannery effluent treatment. International Journal of Applied Science and Mathematical Theory.
Creators: name: Yusif, B.B
name: Bichi, K.A
name: Oyekunle, O.A
name: Girei, A.I.,
name: Garba, P.Y.
name: Garba, F.H
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Tannery
Treatments
Physical
Biological and Chemical
Effluent

description: In the recent time, there have been several new improvements in the tannery effluents treatment. The pressure from environmental bodies to adopt cleaner technologies of tannery effluents treatments and hazardous nature of the effluents has become imperative. These effluents normally contained components such as organic, inorganic, (i.e. nitrogenous compounds, sulphide, and chromium), large quantities of solid waste, dissolve solid, and suspended solid. Discoveries of advanced methods of the effluent treatments have become an area of concern worldwide as individuals, communities, industries and nations are trying to find most viable and economical treatment/methods available and appropriate to be used. This paper reviews the development of trends of treatment methods and technological advancement for pollution control from effluents discharge from tannery. Thus; the paper covers various advanced methods of effluent treatments from physical, chemical, to biological or combination of these methods. From this review it shows that the combination methods give satisfactory results compared to other types of effluent treatment processes.
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Dialettica degli elementi: mari, spazi, poteri
Creators: name: Corigliano, Filippo
Publisher: name: Filosofia
Year: 2022

description: Starting from the contrast between land and sea as historical forces, the article uses Carl Schmitt's categories for a philosophical analysis of the concept of space, from antiquity to the global age. The text reconstructs the historical-political dynamics of the transformations that took place in modern times in the relationship between land and sea, in a comparison with the philosophical roots of ancient Greece and with the imploding of globalization processes. In the context of the planetary context, the path of rise and decline of the powers is traced according to the relationship with the maritime forces and with the land forces. The current scenario is affirmed as an area in which the outcome of this opposition can reveal the decisive pivot points for the future world political order.
description: Filosofia, N. 67 (2022): Mare