cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Phase Diagram of Carbon Dioxide from Correlation Functions and a Many-body Potential
Creators: name: Chen, Amanda A.
name: Do, Alexandria
name: Pascal, Tod A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The phase stability and equilibria of carbon dioxide is investigated from 125 -- 325K and 1 -- 10,000 atm using extensive molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and the Two-Phase Thermodynamics (2PT) method. We devise a direct approach for calculating phase diagrams in general, by considering the separate chemical potentials of the isolated phase at specific points on the P-T diagram. The unique ability of 2PT to accurately and efficiently approximate the entropy and Gibbs energy of liquids thus allows for assignment of phase boundaries from relatively short ($\mathrm{\sim}$ 100ps) MD simulations. We validate our approach by calculating the critical properties of the flexible Elementary Physical Model 2 (FEPM2), showing good agreement with previous results. We show, however, that the incorrect description of the short-range Pauli force and the lack of molecular charge polarization leads to deviations from experiments at high pressures. We thus develop a many-body, fluctuating charge model for CO${}_{2}$, termed CO${}_{2}$-Fq, from high level quantum mechanics (QM) calculations, that accurately captures the condensed phase vibrational properties of the solid (including the Fermi resonance at 1378 cm${}^{-1}$) as well as the diffusional properties of the liquid, leading to overall excellent agreement with experiments over the entire phase diagram. This work provides an efficient computational approach for determining phase diagrams of arbitrary systems and underscore the critical role of QM charge reorganization physics in molecular phase stability.
description: 18 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables
Rejection-free cluster Wang-Landau algorithm for hard-core lattice gases
Creators: name: Jaleel, Asweel Ahmed A.
name: Thomas, Jetin E.
name: Mandal, Dipanjan
name: Sumedha
name: Rajesh, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a rejection-free, flat histogram, cluster algorithm to determine the density of states of hard-core lattice gases. We show that the algorithm is able to efficiently sample low entropy states that are usually difficult to access, even when the excluded volume per particle is large. The algorithm is based on simultaneously evaporating all the particles in a strip and reoccupying these sites with a new appropriately chosen configuration. We implement the algorithm for the particular case of the hard-core lattice gas in which the first k next-nearest neighbors of a particle are excluded from being occupied. It is shown that the algorithm is able to reproduce the known results for k = 1,2,3 both on the square and cubic lattices. We also show that, in comparison, the corresponding flat histogram algorithms with either local moves or unbiased cluster moves are less accurate and do not converge as the system size increases.
description: 19 Pages, 25 figures
Bronislaw Malinowski : a critical analysis
Creators: name: Fox, Robert B., 1918-1985
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1944
Subjects: subject: Malinowski, Bronislaw, 1884-1942

description: The purpose or this study is to carefully and critically examine the methodologies and preconceptions of Bronislaw Malinowski. Because Malinowski was very influential in the field of anthropology and the social sciences in general, his methodologies and preconceptions are not peculiar to him alone. As a matter of fact a whole "school"--the so-called "functional school"--was built up around Malinowski. Moreover, the tradition which Malinowski typifies is symptomatic of fundamental developments which were/are taking place in all fields of inquiry. That is, the basic problems which confronted Malinowski and with which he struggled are similar to those facing economists, philosophers, psychologists, historians, political scientists, sociologists--all cultural investigators. For example, the problem of evaluation is universal. Thus, this thesis will have a wider orientation than that indicated by the title
Socialising the Landscape in the Early Neolithic of Thessaly, Greece
Creators: name: Souvatzi, Stella
name: Reingruber, Agathe
name: Toufexis, Giorgos
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Neolithic Thessaly
subject: settlements
subject: landscape
subject: architecture
subject: use of space
subject: 900 Geschichte und Geografie::930 Geschichte des Altertums (bis ca. 499), Archäologie::930 Geschichte des Altertums bis ca. 499, Archäologie

description: This article attempts to draw attention to the social choices of the earliest farming societies, evaluating new and old settlement data from the Early Neolithic of Thessaly in Greece. We examine the inhabitation of landscapes, the organisation of the inhabited spaces and the human–landscape interaction as a framework for the creation of a socialised environment. Taking into account aspects such as settlement location, duration, architecture and intra- and intersite arrangements, this study shows that the observed diversity in space and time reflects alternative modes of settlement and land use, variations in notions of permanence and continuity and different modalities of the adoption and meaning of new socioeconomic practices. This evidence challenges traditional interpretations of simplicity, homogeneity and change as being induced from outside and calls for a new reading of the Early Neolithic. We argue that the model of a single and uniform development, deriving from concepts of diffusionism and evolutionism, does not hold in Neolithic Thessaly (or in Greece). Instead, Neolithisation was a contextual process that involved human awareness and different choices, and that the social landscape created by the pioneering farming societies set the stage for all kinds of different developments that occurred in later phases.
Some conjectures on addition and multiplication of complex (real) numbers
Creators: name: Tyszka, Apoloniusz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 03B30, 12D99, 14P05, 15A06, 15A09

description: We discuss conjectures related to the following two conjectures: (1) for each complex numbers x_1,...,x_n there exist rationals y_1,...,y_n \in [-2^{n-1},2^{n-1}] such that \forall i \in {1,...,n} (x_i=1 \Rightarrow y_i=1) \forall i,j,k \in {1,...,n} (x_i+x_j=x_k \Rightarrow y_i+y_j=y_k) (2) for each complex (real) numbers x_1,...,x_n there exist complex (real) numbers y_1,...,y_n such that \forall i \in {1,...,n} |y_i| \leq 2^{2^{n-2}} \forall i \in {1,...,n} (x_i=1 \Rightarrow y_i=1) \forall i,j,k \in {1,...,n} (x_i+x_j=x_k \Rightarrow y_i+y_j=y_k) \forall i,j,k \in {1,...,n} (x_i \cdot x_j=x_k \Rightarrow y_i \cdot y_j=y_k)
description: 11 pages, LaTeX2e, added various versions of Conjecture 5
JADIDCHILIK HARAKATI DASTURIY MAQSADLARI
Creators: name: Yuldasheva, O'g'iloy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ushbu maqolaRossiya imperiyasi tomonidan O'rta Osiyo xonliklarning  bosib olinishi natijasida ushbu hududning tanazzulga yuz tutishiga, jahonning rivojlangan davlatlardan ko'p sohalarda orqada qolib ketishiga va milliy qadriyatlarning toptalishiga qarshi kurashgan taraqqiyotparvarlar yani jadidlarning dasturiy maqsadlari haqida.
High order finite difference Hermite WENO fixed-point fast sweeping method for static Hamilton-Jacobi equations
Creators: name: Ren, Yupeng
name: Xing, Yulong
name: Qiu, Jianxian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we combine the nonlinear HWENO reconstruction in \cite{newhwenozq} and the fixed-point iteration with Gauss-Seidel fast sweeping strategy, to solve the static Hamilton-Jacobi equations in a novel HWENO framework recently developed in \cite{mehweno1}. The proposed HWENO frameworks enjoys several advantages. First, compared with the traditional HWENO framework, the proposed methods do not need to introduce additional auxiliary equations to update the derivatives of the unknown function $ϕ$. They are now computed from the current value of $ϕ$ and the previous spatial derivatives of $ϕ$. This approach saves the computational storage and CPU time, which greatly improves the computational efficiency of the traditional HWENO scheme. In addition, compared with the traditional WENO method, reconstruction stencil of the HWENO methods becomes more compact, their boundary treatment is simpler, and the numerical errors are smaller on the same mesh. Second, the fixed-point fast sweeping method is used to update the numerical approximation. It is an explicit method and does not involve the inverse operation of nonlinear Hamiltonian, therefore any Hamilton-Jacobi equations with complex Hamiltonian can be solved easily. It also resolves some known issues, including that the iterative number is very sensitive to the parameter $\varepsilon$ used in the nonlinear weights, as observed in previous studies. Finally, in order to further reduce the computational cost, a hybrid strategy is also presented. Extensive numerical experiments are performed on two-dimensional problems, which demonstrate the good performance of the proposed fixed-point fast sweeping HWENO methods.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2009.03494
Lee-Carter mortality forecasting: methodological and computational issues
Creators: name: Russolillo, Maria
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Year: 2006

description: In this thesis we describe relevant aspects of the development of survival modelling in actuarial mathematics. In particular we introduce some recent mortality projection models and research dealing with uncertainty in future trends and we review the relevant actuarial evidence. We then investigate the feasibility of using the Lee-Carter methodology to construct mortality forecasts for the Italian population. We fit the model to the matrix of Italian death rates for each gender from 1950 to 2000. A time-varying index of mortality is forecasted in an ARIMA framework and is used to generate projected life tables. In particular we focus on life expectancies at birth and, for the purpose of comparison, we introduce an alternative approach for forecasting life expectancies on a period basis. The resulting forecasts generated by the two methods are then compared. We also analyse, in a Lee Carter mortality context, the standard endowment policy under a fair value approach. In order to determine an actuarial model for the fair valuation of the stochastic stream of cash flows at time t, we base our demographic assumptions on the life and death probabilities extracted from the tables constructed using the Lee Carter model. The emphasis of the existing literature has been on financial markets; the primary feature of our model is its focus on the demographic reference system.
Synthesis and reactivity of new phenolic and/or heteroaromatic systems of potential practical interest
Creators: name: Capelli, Luigia
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Year: 2010

description: My research project has been directed to the synthesis and characterization of a number of selected phenolic and/or heteroaromatic systems and their derivatives for preparation of new molecular scaffolds of potential practical interest. Most of the activity has therefore been directed to the preparation of new derivatives from 5,6-dihydroxyindole (DHI), the fundamental monomer precursors of eumelanins, and 17β-estradiol, an important human and mammal steroidal hormone, selected as biologically relevant building blocks. In particular Chapter 1 of this thesis is devoted to the synthesis of 5,6-dihydroxyindole oligomers, Chapter 2 to the synthesis and reactivity of new alkynyl-derivatives of DHI, Chapter 3 to the synthesis of new alkynyl-derivatives of 17β-estradiol.
The last chapter of this thesis, Chapter 4, concerns the results of experiments started during my Master thesis and regarding the synthesis and reactivity of 9- and 10-nitrolinoleic acids, two important nitrated derivatives of linoleic acid, under physiologically relevant conditions.
Cyrtopsis Bey-Bienko
Creators: name: Wang, Hanqiang
name: Qin, Yanyan
name: Liu, Xianwei
name: Li, Kai
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Cyrtopsis

description: Key to species of genus Cyrtopsis Bey-Bienko
 1. Hind process of male 10th abdominal tergite without lobate expansion, cerci longer bearing an inner lobe; female unknown.........................................................................  Cyrtopsis scutigera Bey-Bienko, 1962
- Hind process of male 10th abdominal tergite with lobate expansion, cerci shorter; subgenital plate of female swell or unknown.................................................................................................... 2
 2. Hind process of male 10th abdominal tergite bearing a cracked finger-shaped dorsal protrusion, cerci clavate but apex expanded; female unknown................................................  Cyrtopsis robusta Liu & Zhang, 2007
- Hind process of male 10th abdominal tergite without finger-shaped dorsal protrusion, base of male cerci stout; subgenital plate of female swollen..................................................................................... 3
 3. Vertex with a ‘T’ marking; apex of male cerci developed as 2 faint angles; female subgenital plate transverse................................................................................  Cyrtopsis t-sigillata Liu, Zhou & Bi, 2010
- Vertex with irregular markings........................................................................... 4
 4. Apex of male cerci bifurcate; subgenital plate of female elongate, terminally truncate.........  Cyrtopsis furcicerca sp. nov.
 - Apex of male cerci pointed; subgenital plate of female transverse, hind margin with a median incision..........................................................................  Cyrtopsis bivittata (Mu, He & Wang, 2000) comb. nov.
description: Published as part of Wang, Hanqiang, Qin, Yanyan, Liu, Xianwei & Li, Kai, 2015, Review of the genus Cyrtopsis Bey-Bienko with a new species, a new combination and some new descriptions, pp. 353-370 in Zootaxa 4057 (3) on page 355, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4057.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/239942
Associations of dry skin, skin care habits, well‐being, sleep quality and itch in nursing home residents: Results of a multicentre, observational, cross‐sectional study
Creators: name: Hahnel, Elisabeth
name: Blume‐Peytavi, Ulrike
name: Kottner, Jan
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: nursing home
subject: patient-reported outcome measures
subject: skin care
subject: sleep quality
subject: well-being
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Aim: Dry skin is one of the most frequent cutaneous problems in aged long-term care residents. Although it is clinically relevant, the impact on quality of life is unclear. The objective was to measure well-being, sleep quality and itch in nursing home residents being 65 years and older and to explore possible associations with demographics, dry skin and skincare habits. Design: Multicentre, observational, cross-sectional. Methods: Sleep quality was assessed with the Richards-Campbell Sleep Quality Questionnaire, well-being with the WHO-Five Well-being Index and itch with the 5-D Itch scale. Skin dryness was measured using the Overall Dry Skin score. Results: A total of 51 residents were included. The item scores of the sleep quality and itch questionnaires were strongly associated with each other. Demographics, dry skin and skincare habits were not associated with the questionnaires. It is unclear whether basic skincare activities can improve the quality of life in this population.
PA-ResSeg: A Phase Attention Residual Network for Liver Tumor Segmentation from Multi-phase CT Images
Creators: name: Xu, Yingying
name: Cai, Ming
name: Lin, Lanfen
name: Zhang, Yue
name: Hu, Hongjie
name: Peng, Zhiyi
name: Zhang, Qiaowei
name: Chen, Qingqing
name: Mao, Xiongwei
name: Iwamoto, Yutaro
name: Han, Xian-Hua
name: Chen, Yen-Wei
name: Tong, Ruofeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we propose a phase attention residual network (PA-ResSeg) to model multi-phase features for accurate liver tumor segmentation, in which a phase attention (PA) is newly proposed to additionally exploit the images of arterial (ART) phase to facilitate the segmentation of portal venous (PV) phase. The PA block consists of an intra-phase attention (Intra-PA) module and an inter-phase attention (Inter-PA) module to capture channel-wise self-dependencies and cross-phase interdependencies, respectively. Thus it enables the network to learn more representative multi-phase features by refining the PV features according to the channel dependencies and recalibrating the ART features based on the learned interdependencies between phases. We propose a PA-based multi-scale fusion (MSF) architecture to embed the PA blocks in the network at multiple levels along the encoding path to fuse multi-scale features from multi-phase images. Moreover, a 3D boundary-enhanced loss (BE-loss) is proposed for training to make the network more sensitive to boundaries. To evaluate the performance of our proposed PA-ResSeg, we conducted experiments on a multi-phase CT dataset of focal liver lesions (MPCT-FLLs). Experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed method by achieving a dice per case (DPC) of 0.77.87, a dice global (DG) of 0.8682, a volumetric overlap error (VOE) of 0.3328 and a relative volume difference (RVD) of 0.0443 on the MPCT-FLLs. Furthermore, to validate the effectiveness and robustness of PA-ResSeg, we conducted extra experiments on another multi-phase liver tumor dataset and obtained a DPC of 0.8290, a DG of 0.9132, a VOE of 0.2637 and a RVD of 0.0163. The proposed method shows its robustness and generalization capability in different datasets and different backbones.
description: A self-archive version to be published in Medical Physics, awaiting minor revision
Functional and molecular effects of chromosome 21 trisomy
Creators: name: Izzo, Antonella
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Year: 2010

description: Down Syndrome (DS) is the most frequent autosomal aneuploidy that is
compatible with post-natal life. The DS phenotype has been attributed to
overexpression of chromosome 21 (Hsa21) genes. It is unknown which, and
how many, chromosome 21 genes are responsible for each DS phenotypic sign such as mental retardation, cardiac defects, muscle hypotonia, immunological disorders, etc. Hsa21 trisomy has been associated to mitochondrial dysfunction in several DS cells and mouse models suggesting that a mitochondrial dysfunction contributes to DS phenotype. We demonstrated, by microarray analysis and by qRT-PCR, the global upregulation of Hsa21 genes and the dysregulation of genes located on other chromosomes in trisomic fetal hearts at 18-22 weeks of gestation. Downregulation of genes encoding mitochondrial enzymes was a hallmark of trisomic fetal samples.
Molecular, functional and morphological studies of mitochondria in primary
lines of fetal fibroblasts were performed in order to evaluate the mitochondrial dysfunction associated to the dysregulation of mitochondrial gene expression in DS.
Molecular analysis of trisomic fibroblasts demonstrated that the upregulation
of chromosome 21 genes and the dysregulation of mitochondrial genes also
occur in these cells, and that it is not identical to the one observed in fetal
hearts.
Functional studies demonstrated a significant reduction of the oxygen
consumption rate and of respiratory chain complex I activity in trisomic
fibroblasts, a decrease of mtDNA copy number and an increased production of reactive oxygen species.
Furthermore, the mitochondria ultrastructure of trisomic fibroblasts, assessed
by electron microscopy, revealed morphological abnormalities like giant
mitochondria with irregular shape, evident breaks of both inner and outer
membranes and an altered cristae pattern.
These results are indicative of a widespread mitochondrial dysfunction in DS.
To detect the earliest changes in gene expression profile, a new in vitro cell
culture model was set up. Human stem cells from euploid as well as from
Hsa21 trisomic fetuses were obtained. Both fresh and frozen amniotic fluid
cultures were successfully used and the lines obtained appear to be suitable to study the differentiation processes in trisomic vs. euploid cells.
Enhancement of optical switching parameter and third-order optical nonlinearities in embedded Si nanocrystals: a theoretical assessment
Creators: name: Yıldırım, Hasan
name: Bulutay, Ceyhun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Third-order bound-charge electronic nonlinearities of Si nanocrystals (NCs) embedded in a wide band-gap matrix representing silica are theoretically studied using an atomistic pseudopotential approach. Nonlinear refractive index, two-photon absorption and optical switching parameter are examined from small clusters to NCs up to a size of 3 nm. Compared to bulk values, Si NCs show higher third-order optical nonlinearities and much wider two-photon absorption threshold which gives rise to enhancement in the optical switching parameter.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures, to be published in Optics Communications
A disorder-to-order structural transition in the cytosolic tail of Fz4 is responsible for the misfolding of the L501fsX533 Fz4 mutant.
Creators: name: Lemma, Valentina
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Year: 2013

description: Frizzled 4 belongs to the superfamily of G protein coupled receptors. The unstructured cytosolic tail of the receptor is essential for the activation of different intracellular signalling pathway. Mutations in the fz4 gene are responsible for the Familial exudative vitreoretinopathy (FEVR), among these the autosomal dominant frameshift mutation L501fsX533 that codes for a new carboxy terminal tail. Here we show that the new tail generated by the frameshift mutation acquires a helix-loop-helix conformation. The helices are amphipathic, display affinity for membranes and resemble the structure of Influenza Hemagglutinin fusion peptide at the pH of fusion. Shape and curvature of the mutant tail is proven essential for proper membrane interaction in vitro. The new fold of the tail is necessary for the aggregation and retention in the Endoplasmic Reticulum of the receptor via its interaction with the membrane and is sufficient to induce  the misfolding and affect trafficking of a chimeric VSVG protein containing the mutated tail. Shifting the fold of the tail to a more disordered conformation relocates the receptor to the Plasma Membrane. Such disordered to ordered structural transition was never described in mammalian receptors and pinpoints the need to consider structural transition as possible outcome of mutations in unstructured regions of proteins.
Brief review of Rhabdovirus -Rabies Disease
Creators: name: K. Lavanya, S. Keerthika
Publisher: name: Bio Vet Innovator Magazine
Year: 2024

description: Rabies is viral disease that causes acute encephalitis seen in warm blooded animals which includes all mammals. Rabies is caused by lyssa virus the disease spreads to people through close contact with rabies infected saliva via bites or scratches. The main symptoms like hydrophobia which is fear for water and convulsions are seen. Fluorescent antibody test (FAT) is the standard diagnostic test for rabies. There is no treatment for rabies only preventive measures are to be followed therefore, awareness campaign, animal vaccination, Pre-exposure prophylaxis for the people who are in higher risk should be done to hinder the spread of disease. Keywords: Rabies, Viral disease, Hydrophobia, Rabies awareness programmes
Cyrtopsis scutigera Bey-Bienko 1962
Creators: name: Wang, Hanqiang
name: Qin, Yanyan
name: Liu, Xianwei
name: Li, Kai
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Cyrtopsis
Cyrtopsis scutigera

description: Cyrtopsis scutigera Bey-Bienko, 1962
 Cyrtopsis scutigera: Bey-Bienko, 1962, Trudy Onst. Akad. Nauk SSSR, 30, 132; Beier, 1966, Orthopterorum Catalogus, 9, 281; Liu & Jin, 1994, Contr. Shanghai Inst. Entomol., 11, 109; Jin & Xia, 1994, Jour. Orth. Res., 3, 26; Gorochov, 1998, Zoosystematica Rossica, 7(1), 120.
 Cyrtopsis (Cyrtopsis) scutigera: Liu & Zhang, 2007, Entomotaxonomia, 29(2), 86–87.
 Description (after Liu & Zhang, 2007). Male body larger, stout. Fastigium of vertex conical, stout and furrowed dorsally, apex blunt, compound eyes relatively small; last segment of maxillary palp longer than preceding. Metazona as long as prozona, raised and posterior area decurved, paranota relative deep, hind margin almost obliquely truncate; tegmina exceeding hind margin of pronotum, extending to 5th abdominal tergite, hind wings reduced; fore tibiae each armed spines by type 4, 4 (1, 1), mid tibiae each with 3 inner and 5 outer spines, hind tibiae each with 18 dorsal teeth either margin above. 10th abdominal tergite bearing a faintly compressed process at the middle of hind margin, the process deep divided, terminally slightly globularly expanded, left and right halves asymmetric, a conical tubercle protruding dorsad; epiproct reduced and oval, cerci longer, base slightly stout, lobate expanded at inner margin submedian, tapering to apex, apex blunt; titillator sclerotized in lateral and apical parts; subgenital plate longer than wide, base wider, narrowing apically, hind margin gently concave, styli conical on either side.
Female unknown.
 Coloration. Body yellowish with darkish brown stripes or markings. Dorsum of pronotum with brown longitudinal band, expand in metazona, lateral margins inlayed with darkish brown stripes.
 Measurements (in mm). Body ♂ 12.5; pronotum ♂ 5.9; tegmina ♂ 3.0; hind femora ♂ 12.7.
 Materials. Not examined.
 Type locality. Pingbian, Yunnan; type specimen deposits in IZCAS (Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Beijing, China.
 Distribution. China (Yunnan).
description: Published as part of Wang, Hanqiang, Qin, Yanyan, Liu, Xianwei & Li, Kai, 2015, Review of the genus Cyrtopsis Bey-Bienko with a new species, a new combination and some new descriptions, pp. 353-370 in Zootaxa 4057 (3) on page 355, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4057.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/239942
Driving-induced crossover: from classical criticality to self-organized criticality
Creators: name: Perez-Reche, Francisco-Jose
name: Truskinovsky, Lev
name: Zanzotto, Giovanni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a spin model with quenched disorder which exhibits in slow driving two drastically different types of critical nonequilibrium steady states. One of them corresponds to classical criticality requiring fine-tuning of the disorder. The other is a self-organized criticality which is insensitive to disorder. The crossover between the two types of criticality is determined by the mode of driving. As one moves from "soft" to "hard" driving the universality class of the critical point changes from a classical order-disorder to a quenched Edwards-Wilkinson universality class. The model is viewed as prototypical for a broad class of physical phenomena ranging from magnetism to earthquakes.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
The ALFALFA HI velocity width function
Creators: name: Oman, Kyle A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We make the most precise determination to date of the number density of extragalactic 21-cm radio sources as a function of their spectral line widths - the HI velocity width function (HIWF) - based on 21827 sources from the final 7000 deg$^2$ data release of the Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA (ALFALFA) survey. The number density of sources as a function of their neutral hydrogen masses - the HI mass function (HIMF) - has previously been reported to have a significantly different low-mass slope and 'knee mass' in the two sky regions surveyed during ALFALFA. In contrast with this, we find that the shape of the HIWF in the same two sky regions is remarkably similar, consistent with being identical within the confidence intervals implied by the data (but the overall normalisation differs). The spatial uniformity of the HIWF implies that it is likely a stable tracer of the mass function of dark matter haloes, in spite of the environmental processes to which the measured variation in the HIMF are attributed, at least for galaxies containing enough neutral hydrogen to be detected. This insensitivity of the HIWF to galaxy formation and evolution can be exploited to turn it into a powerful constraint on cosmological models as future surveys yield increasingly precise measurements. We also report on the possible influence of a previously overlooked systematic error affecting the HIWF, which may plausibly see its low-velocity slope steepen by $\sim$40 per cent in analyses of future, deeper surveys. Finally, we provide an updated estimate of the ALFALFA completeness limit.
description: 13 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, +appendices. MNRAS, accepted version
The phenotype‐driven computational analysis yields clinical diagnosis for patients with atypical manifestations of known intellectual disability syndromes
Creators: name: Jezela‐Stanek, Aleksandra
name: Ciara, Elżbieta
name: Jurkiewicz, Dorota
name: Kucharczyk, Marzena
name: Jędrzejowska, Maria
name: Chrzanowska, Krystyna H.
name: Krajewska‐Walasek, Małgorzata
name: Żemojtel, Tomasz
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: dysmorphology
subject: EP300
subject: HPO
subject: intellectual disability patients
subject: KMT2A
subject: PhenIX
subject: Phenomizer
subject: PURA
subject: SATB2
subject: SMC1A
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background: Due to extensive clinical and genetic heterogeneity of intellectual disability (ID) syndromes, the process of diagnosis is very challenging even for expert clinicians. Despite recent advancements in molecular diagnostics methodologies, a significant fraction of ID patients remains without a clinical diagnosis. Methods, results, and conclusions: Here, in a prospective study on a cohort of 21 families (trios) with a child presenting with ID of unknown etiology, we executed phenotype-driven bioinformatic analysis method, PhenIX, utilizing targeted next-generation sequencing (NGS) data and Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)-encoded phenotype data. This approach resulted in clinical diagnosis for eight individuals presenting with atypical manifestations of Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome 2 (MIM 613684), Spastic Paraplegia 50 (MIM 612936), Wiedemann-Steiner syndrome (MIM 605130), Cornelia de Lange syndrome 2 (MIM 300590), Cerebral creatine deficiency syndrome 1 (MIM 300352), Glass Syndrome (MIM 612313), Mental retardation, autosomal dominant 31 (MIM 616158), and Bosch-Boonstra-Schaaf optic atrophy syndrome (MIM 615722).
Numerical and experimental investigation of low Reynolds number wind turbine airfoils under stall and post-stall conditions
Creators: name: Daniele, Elia
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Year: 2013

description: This work concerns a numerical and experimental investigation of low Reynolds number wind turbine airfoils under stall and post-stall conditions.
A verification of high angle of attack semi empirical models, namely Viterna-Corrigan and Aerodas from Spera, is needed to assess the input data reliability for Blade Element Momentum (BEM) based Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT) performance code and also the performance predictions for Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine (HAWT) where passive stall control must be guaranteed by a reliable post-stall aerodynamic coefficients distribution. A great challenge is inherited by the low Reynolds number related to the phenomenon (considering VAWT for urban installation and small size generation) and the presence of possible laminar bubble burst induced stall. In case for which no laminar bubble promotion is observed on the stall behavior, still a strong dependency on turbulence intensity is present for the maximum lift coefficient attainable. Attention is also paid to not clean VAWT operating conditions as those occurring far from maintenance period in which a transition from laminar to turbulent flow regime could be supposed to be promoted by dirty material accumulation on the blade leading edge region. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations using OpenFOAM library and a transitional turbulence model are used as a comparison for the experimental results derived from the test campaign conducted in the closed test section wind tunnel facility of the Department of Industrial Engineering of University of Naples, for both free and fixed transition condition. A further comparison with Delft University experiments is performed for similar Reynolds number, and moreover, an analysis of blockage effect by means of another test campaign in the open test section wind tunnel facility is conducted to understand the influence of wind tunnel walls on secondary lift coefficient peak and maximum drag coefficient value.
Tracing the thread : a textual analysis of The Turn of the Screw
Creators: name: Emond, Elizabeth Suzanne
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: One of the finest examples of artistic ambiguity is Henry James' The Turn of the Screw, which was first published in 1898 in Collier's magazine, then revised slightly for book publication in The Two Magics later that year. Approximately three hundred more substantive revisions to the text were made before James published it in the New York Edition in 1908. These revisions, as my thesis shows, neither increase nor decrease the existing ambiguity of the story, but polarize it between a casual reading and a close one, such that the former renders the tale as a ghost story, and the latter as a story about a seriously disturbed governess. My contention is that James revised the tale not because his own interpretation of it changed, but because his conception of the best way to tell the story changed. James wished to tell a tale of evil, and his revisions enable him to tell two equally evil tales in the same breath. Over eighty percent of James' revisions for the New York Edition fall into one or the other of two categories of equal size: those that increase the governess' credibility, and those that increase her psychosis. Each category occupies a chapter, within which the revisions are grouped and tabulated according to the specific functions which they serve—with appropriate explanatory commentary, of course. Chapter I examines the intensification of the governess' disturbed state of mind; Chapter II addresses itself to the methods James used to give his narrator a tone of authority. None of James' revisions to The Turn of the Screw could be called extensive; most involve only the change, or the addition, or the transposition, of a single word. Yet, in aggregate they show, more clearly than anything could, what James' own interpretation of the tale was. Moreover, they point readers to a standard of close reading for a James text. And finally, they show us the powerful effect on a story of a few hundred tiny but subtle substantive revisions.
Emergência e desenvolvimento inicial de plântulas de Apidosperma pyrifolium Mart. em função de diferentes substratos
Creators: name: Kelina Bernardo Silva
name: and others
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: R E S U M OO experimento teve como objetivo de avaliar a influência de diferentes substratos na emergência e desenvolvimento de plântulas de Pereiro (Aspidosperma pyrifolium Mart.). Foi conduzido um experimento em casa de vegetação pertencente ao Centro de Ciências Humanas e Agrárias da Universidade Estadual da Paraíba, Câmpus IV. Foram avaliados os seguintes substratos: areia lavada 100% (S1), vermiculita 100% (S2), terra de subsolo 100% (S3), areia lavada + vermiculita na proporção de 1:1 (S4), areia lavada +terra de subsolo na proporção de 1:1 (S5), vermiculita + terra de subsolo na proporção de 1:1 (S6), areia lavada + vermiculita + terra de subsolo na proporção de 1:1:1 (S7). O delineamento utilizado foi o inteiramente casualizado com 7 tratamentos (substratos) e quatro repetições de 25 sementes. Foram avaliados os seguintes parâmetros: porcentagem de emergência, índice de velocidade de emergência, comprimento e massa seca das plântulas. De acordo com os resultados, os substratos vermiculita 100% (S2) e areia lavada + vermiculita na proporção de 1:1 (S4), foram os mais apropriados para avaliação do vigor das sementes. Por outro lado, verificou-se que o substrato terra de subsolo 100% (S3), mostrou-se inadequado para a emergência de plântulas de A. pyrifolium Mart.Palavras-chave: Mudas florestais. Sementes. Vigor. Germinação.
Superconductivity and Phase Diagram in the Iron-based Arsenic-oxides ReFeAsO1-delta (Re = rare earth metal) without F-Doping
Creators: name: Ren, Zhi-An
name: Che, Guang-Can
name: Dong, Xiao-Li
name: Yang, Jie
name: Lu, Wei
name: Yi, Wei
name: Shen, Xiao-Li
name: Li, Zheng-Cai
name: Sun, Li-Ling
name: Zhou, Fang
name: Zhao, Zhong-Xian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Here we report a new class of superconductors prepared by high pressure synthesis in the quaternary family ReFeAsO1-delta (Re = Sm, Nd, Pr, Ce, La) without fluorine doping. The onset superconducting critical temperature (Tc) in these compounds increases with the reduction of Re atom size, and the highest Tc obtained so far is 55 K in SmFeAsO1-delta. For the NdFeAsO1-delta system with different oxygen concentration a dome-shaped phase diagram was found.
Rapporti evolutivi nel genere Pancratium L. nel bacino del Mediterraneo
Creators: name: Di Maio, Antonietta
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Year: 2013

description: Nella prima fase del progetto è stata analizzata la filogenesi e la biogeografia delle specie appartenenti al genere Pancratium presenti nel bacino del Mediterraneo e nelle aree adiacenti. Sono stati sequenziati quattro marcatori presenti nel genoma plastidiale: i geni ndhF e rbcL, l'introne del trnL(UAA) e lo spaziatore intergenico trnL(UAA)-trnF(GAA). La filogenesi è stata eseguita utilizzando un’analisi cladistica attraverso approcci di massima parsimonia, di massima probabilità e attraverso l’inferenza Bayesiana. Inoltre è stata svolta un’analisi di dispersione-vicarianza per chiarire gli eventi biogeografici che hanno condotto all’attuale distribuzione delle specie analizzate di Pancratium. Dai risultati ottenuti si evince che le relazioni filogenetiche tra la maggior parte delle specie di Pancratium analizzate sono ben risolte, inoltre tale genere sembra formare un raggruppamento abbastanza omogeneo  con interessanti modelli di speciazione.
Nella seconda fase del progetto di dottorato è stato ottimizzato un nuovo protocollo di costruzione della libreria di SSR per l’isolamento di loci microsatellitari. Inoltre è stato sviluppato un set di  marcatori microsatellitari nucleari da utilizzare per la caratterizzazione genetica delle popolazioni di P. maritimum L. Tali marcatori hanno presentato buoni tassi di polimorfismo e potranno essere utili all’analisi della variabilità genetica intraspecifica di P. maritimum.
An Abelian two-Higgs model of strongly correlated electrons: phase structure, strengthening of phase transition and QCD at finite density
Creators: name: Bock, M.
name: Chernodub, M. N.
name: Ilgenfritz, E. -M.
name: Schiller, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate non-perturbative features of a three-dimensional Abelian Higgs model with singly- and doubly-charged scalar fields coupled to a single compact Abelian gauge field. The model is pretending to describe various planar systems of strongly correlated electrons such as high-Tc superconductivity in the overdoped regime and exotic materials possessing excitations with fractionalized quantum numbers. The complicated phase structure of the model is studied thoroughly using numerical tools and analytical arguments. In the three-dimensional space of coupling parameters we identify the Fermi liquid, the spin gap, the superconductor and the strange metallic phases. The behavior of three kinds of topological defects -- holon and spinon vortices and monopoles - is explored in various phases. We also observe a new effect, the strong enhancement of the phase transition strength reflected in a lower order of the transition: at sufficiently strong gauge coupling the two second order phase transitions -- corresponding to spinon-pair and holon condensation lines - join partially in the phase diagram and become a first order phase transition in that region. The last observation may have an analogue in Quantum Chromodynamics at non-zero temperature and finite baryon density. We argue that at sufficiently large baryon density the finite-temperature transition between the (3-flavor paired) color superconducting phase and the quark-gluon plasma phases should be much stronger compared with the transition between 2-flavor paired and 3-flavor paired superconducting phases.
description: 21 pages, 40 figures, RevTeX 4.0
An astronomical image content-based recommendation system using combined deep learning models in a fully unsupervised mode
Creators: name: Teimoorinia, Hossen
name: Shishehchi, Sara
name: Tazwar, Ahnaf
name: Lin, Ping
name: Archinuk, Finn
name: Gwyn, Stephen D. J.
name: Kavelaars, J. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have developed a method that maps large astronomical images onto a two-dimensional map and clusters them. A combination of various state-of-the-art machine learning (ML) algorithms is used to develop a fully unsupervised image quality assessment and clustering system. Our pipeline consists of a data pre-processing step where individual image objects are identified in a large astronomical image and converted to smaller pixel images. This data is then fed to a deep convolutional autoencoder jointly trained with a self-organizing map (SOM). This part can be used as a recommendation system. The resulting output is eventually mapped onto a two-dimensional grid using a second, deep, SOM. We use data taken from ground-based telescopes and, as a case study, compare the system's ability and performance with the results obtained by supervised methods presented by Teimoorinia et al. (2020). The availability of target labels in this data allowed a comprehensive performance comparison between our unsupervised and supervised methods. In addition to image-quality assessments performed in this project, our method can have various other applications. For example, it can help experts label images in a considerably shorter time with minimum human intervention. It can also be used as a content-based recommendation system capable of filtering images based on the desired content.
description: 25 pages, 18 figures (accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal)
Cyrtopsis robusta Liu & Zhang 2007
Creators: name: Wang, Hanqiang
name: Qin, Yanyan
name: Liu, Xianwei
name: Li, Kai
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Cyrtopsis
Cyrtopsis robusta

description: Cyrtopsis robusta Liu & Zhang, 2007
(Figs. 1–3)
 Cyrtopsis (Cyrtopsis) robusta: Liu & Zhang, 2007, Entomotaxonomia, 29(2), 87–88.
 Description. Male body large for this tribe, robust. Fastigium of vertex conical, short and stout, shallowly furrowed on dorsum, apex blunt; compound eyes relatively small, hemispheric, anteriorly convex; maxillary palps elongate, last segment longer than preceding. Metazona of pronotum prolonged and expanded, longer than prozona, considerably raised, posterior area down curved, hind margin rounded, paranota relatively high, hind margin truncate but gently convex, humeral sinus absent; tegmina short, completely concealed beneath pronotum, and invisible in lateral view, hind wings absent; each femur unarmed, genicular lobe with a spine, but inconspicuous in fore and mid femora in some case, each fore tibiae spines armed 4, 4 (1, 1), hind tibiae each with 26–28 dorsal teeth either margin above and 2 pairs of apical spurs. 9th abdominal tergite wider in lateral area, 10th abdominal tergite faintly prolonged, center of posterior area developing a compressed process, divided apically, forming a pair of finger-shaped elongate projections and a pair of decurved lobes, the projections divided and apically acute, left side a little longer than right; cerci elongate, clavate and incurved, apical part expanded, apex pointed; titillator sclerotized and specialized, apex developed dorsally and ventrally; subgenital plate short, almost trapezoidal, upcurved, posterior margin with angular incision, styli on each side of incision.
Female unknown.
 Coloration. Body yellowish brown (possibly green while alive). Compound eyes blackish, central dorsum of vertex brownish. Disk of pronotum with a pair of black longitudinal stripes, the stripes absent in posterior area, break at posterior transverse sulcus, sectorial diverged and expanded in metazoan, area between stripes yellowish brown; knee of hind leg darkish brown. Each segment of the abdomen with a pair of dorsal stripe, sectorial diverged at hind margin in last 3 segments.
 Measurements (in mm). Body ♂ 14.5–15.0; pronotum ♂ 7.2–7.3; tegmina ♂ 1.9–2.0; hind femora ♂ 14.0– 14.6.
 Materials. Holotype ♂, paratype 1♂, Neicu river, Longsheng, Guangxi, 1979. VII.26, leg. CHANG Lv-Lin.
 Distribution. China (Guangxi).
description: Published as part of Wang, Hanqiang, Qin, Yanyan, Liu, Xianwei & Li, Kai, 2015, Review of the genus Cyrtopsis Bey-Bienko with a new species, a new combination and some new descriptions, pp. 353-370 in Zootaxa 4057 (3) on pages 355-357, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4057.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/239942