cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Characterization of T cell clones derived from a mixed lymphocyte reaction
Creators: name: Kwong, Pearl C.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Monoclonal T cells with distinct function and specificity were isolated and characterized. The method used to obtain monoclonal T cells involved four steps: First, C57BL/6 spleen cells were cultured with irradiated D-BA/2 spleen cells in vitro. Second, the activated C57BL/6 cells were maintained for several months in a medium containing T Cell Growth Factor(TCGF) , irradia'ted DBA/2 and C57BL/6 spleen cells. Third, the activated cells were cloned in microtiter wells by limiting dilution. Fourth, wells detected to contain growth were expanded and tested for their functional activities. Using this method, three classes of clones were derived. The first class of clones were cytotoxic clones, presumably of H-2[sup b] phenotype, which have different specificities against foreign histocompatibility antigens. The second class of clones was an H-2[sup b], Thy 1⁺, Lyt 2⁺ and Lyt 1 low cytotoxic clone whose specificity was against cells carrying H-2D[sup b], antigens. The supernatant derived from this clone nonspecifically supressed CTL generation and mitogen activation, but was weakly toxic in the ⁵¹Cr release assay. The third class of clones was an H-2[sup d], Thy 1⁺ Lyt 1⁻ and Lyt 2⁻ clone which helped augment the CTL responses of cells carrying the H-2D[sup b] antigens. This clone required accessory cells for its helper function and was effective only when added during the early phase of the CTL response. The supernatant derived from this clone exhibited the same properties as the clone and acted in synergy with TCGF in the augmentation of CTL responses.
Quantum Phase Transition in a Graphene Model
Creators: name: Hands, Simon
name: Strouthos, Costas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results for the equation of state of a graphene-like model in an effort to understand the properties of its quantum phase transition. The N_f fermion species interact through a three dimensional instantaneous Coulomb potential. Since there are no reliable analytical tools that work for all values of N_f and the coupling constant g, we rely on Monte Carlo simulations to calculate the critical properties of the model near the phase transition. We consider the four-component formulation for the fermion fields, which arises naturally as the continuum limit of the staggered fermion construction in (2+1) dimensions. In the limit of infinitely strong Coulomb interaction, the system undergoes a quantum phase transition at a critical number of fermion species N_fc ~ 4.7. We also calculate the values of the critical exponents at the quantum phase transition.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, presented at the 25th international conference on Low Temperature Physics, 6-13 August 2008, Amsterdam
Note Illustrative della Carta geologica d'Italia alla scala 1:50.000, F. 611 Mistretta, Servizio Geologico d'Italia - ISPRA
Creators: name: Vezzani, L.
Publisher: name: INFN Open Access Repository
Year: 1972
Subjects: carta geologica, Mistretta, Sicilia, Regione Siciliana, CARG, stratigrafia, tettonica, sottosuolo, geological map, stratigraphy, tectonics, subsurface

description: Note illustrative redatte per il Foglio geologico n. F. 611 Mistretta della Carta Geologica d'Italia alla scala 1:50.000. 38 pp.
Plusiocampa (Stygiocampa) dalmatica Conde 1959
Creators: name: Sendra, Alberto
name: Antić, Dragan
name: Barranco, Pablo
name: Borko, Špela
name: Christian, Erhard
name: Delić, Teo
name: Fadrique, Floren
name: Faille, Arnaud
name: Galli, Loris
name: Gasparo, Fulvio
name: Georgiev, Dilian
name: Giachino, Pier Mauro
name: Kovac, L'ubomír
name: Lukić, Marko
name: Marcia, Paolo
name: Miculinić, Kazimir
name: Nicolosi, Giuseppe
name: Palero, Ferran
name: Paragamian, Kaloust
name: Pérez, Toni
name: Polak, Slavko
name: Prieto, Carlos E.
name: Turbanov, Ilya
name: Vailati, Dante
name: Reboleira, Ana Sofia P. S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Entognatha
Diplura
Campodeidae
Plusiocampa
Plusiocampa dalmatica

description: Plusiocampa (Stygiocampa) dalmatica Condé, 1959
Figs 205, 208
Plusiocampa dalmatica Condé, 1959: 48, fig. 2.
Diagnosis (Condé 1959; Bareth 1988; Condé & Bareth 1996)
Troglomorphic species. Antennae with 41–47 antennomeres; numerous sheet-shaped complex olfactory chemoreceptors in cupuliform organ; protruding frontal process with tubercular setae. Pronotum with 1+1 ma, 3+3–4+4 la, 2+2 lp macrosetae; mesonotum with 1+1 ma, 2+2 la, 2+2 lp macrosetae; metanotum with 1+1 ma, 1+1 la, 2+2 lp macrosetae; long, barbed notal macrosetae; long, barbed notal clothing setae. No ventral tibial macrosetae; unequal claws with large lateral crests, posterior claw with a backward overhang. Urotergite III with 0+0–1+1 (1+0) la macrosetae; urotergite IV with 1+1 la, 0+1 post macrosetae; urotergite V with 1+1 la, 4+4 (3+4) post macrosetae; urotergites VI–VII with 1+1 la, 4+4 post macrosetae; urotergite VIII with 5+5–6+6 post macrosetae; abdominal segment IX with 8+8– 9+9 (10+9) post macrosetae. Urosternite I with 14+15–21+20, urosternites II–VII with 9+9–12+12, urosternite VIII with 2+2–3+3 macrosetae. Male with lateral expansions of posterior margin occupied by an area of glandular g 1 setae in adults (no expansion in juveniles and little expansion in young males), subcylindrical appendages without glandular a 2 setae; female with subcylindrical appendages with glandular a 1 setae.
Remarks
The studied material (see Table S 2 in Supplementary Material) allowed us to make additions to the diagnosis (Coll. AS).
Habitat and distribution
Subterranean species well distributed around the northwestern Dinaric Mountains, found in 18 caves (Figs 205, 208).
description: Published as part of Sendra, Alberto, Antić, Dragan, Barranco, Pablo, Borko, Špela, Christian, Erhard, Delić, Teo, Fadrique, Floren, Faille, Arnaud, Galli, Loris, Gasparo, Fulvio, Georgiev, Dilian, Giachino, Pier Mauro, Kovac, L'ubomír, Lukić, Marko, Marcia, Paolo, Miculinić, Kazimir, Nicolosi, Giuseppe, Palero, Ferran, Paragamian, Kaloust, Pérez, Toni, Polak, Slavko, Prieto, Carlos E., Turbanov, Ilya, Vailati, Dante & Reboleira, Ana Sofia P. S., 2020, Flourishing in subterranean ecosystems: Euro-Mediterranean Plusiocampinae and tachycampoids (Diplura, Campodeidae), pp. 1-138 in European Journal of Taxonomy 591 on pages 97-98, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.591, http://zenodo.org/record/3659823
The aesthetics of cut in found footage film. The case of Decasia by Bill Morrison
Creators: name: Colavita, Sonia
Publisher: name: La Rivista di Engramma
Year: 2021
Subjects: found footage film
experimental cinematography
archival cinema
Decasia
Bill Morrison
post digital

description: In the field of experimental cinematography, recycling images offered the chance to give life to innovative audio-visual products, creating a new type of cinema starting from the remains of its past. In the perspective of all recently produced found footage film, we are witnesses of a re-enactment and remediation able to revive and reinstate old objects in the contemporary age considering all the opportunities of this era. Specifically, these works are configured almost as archival curatorial practices, placing the artist as a filmmaker, archivist, and film preservationist. They are made by evaluating the possibilities and limits of their physical materials and are conceived by analyzing their relationship with the historical, artistic, and social context and with the most suitable forms of presentation for today’s audience, moving from analog production ‘framed’ in electronic and digital distribution. This essay focuses on this topic analyzing Bill Morrison’s Decasia, a case study which well represents the nature of this kind of films, inscribed in a precise modernist tradition that relates to some specific audiovisual experiments and artistic research to the materiality of the media. In this instance, according to the Kuleshov effect, cut, montage and selection have an important role which constitutes an efficient example of film syntax because the vision of a scene is a stimulus-response phenomenon since the spectator actively participates in the process of creating meanings. The manipulation of the context can certainly modify the perception of the audience which projects its emotions into the face of an actor or in a scene and relates it to the rest. Therefore, the perceptive effect produced by the succession of images is rapid and unconscious. The aesthetics of cut in these works cannot be separated from linguistic specificity typical of found footage films that goes beyond the traditional film structure. For example, there is a free and open story, a rejection of the causal rigidity, the presence of metalinguistic elements, and a possible soundtrack free from synchronism. Moreover, these works often make use of the performative dimension, especially with live screening, which determines a deep change with the perception of the classic frame of the cinematographic screen, making possible the reconstitution of ancient cultural objects in structures with a new interpretation.
A time frequency analysis of wave packet fractional revivals
Creators: name: Ghosh, Suranjana
name: Banerji, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the time frequency analysis of the autocorrelation function is, in many ways, a more appropriate tool to resolve fractional revivals of a wave packet than the usual time domain analysis. This advantage is crucial in reconstructing the initial state of the wave packet when its coherent structure is short-lived and decays before it is fully revived. Our calculations are based on the model example of fractional revivals in a Rydberg wave packet of circular states. We end by providing an analytical investigation which fully agrees with our numerical observations on the utility of time-frequency analysis in the study of wave packet fractional revivals.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures
Potential distribution of rice thrips (Stenchaetothrips biformis) in India under changing climate
Creators: name: Pushpalatha, Raji
name: Gangadharan, Byju
name: Thendiyath, Roshni
name: Kutty, Govindan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Sudden outbreaks of agricultural pests are increasing in India due to the growing prominence of environmental issues like global warming, the occurrence of weather extremes, and hydrological extremes. Climate change impacts the developmental rates and population dynamics of agricultural pests. As rice is a staple food widely used in India, it often suffers intensive damage by various pests, leading to a considerable decrease in crop yield. One of the most common pests in rice fields in India and neighboring countries is the rice thrips (Stenchaetothrips biformis). However, the degree of pest infestation of rice crops under climate change scenarios is poorly known. Therefore, this study aimed to understand the potential geographical distribution of the rice thrips in India for future scenarios using the MaxEnt modeling framework. Future projections from global climate models (GCMs), such as HadGEM3-GC31 and MPI-ESMI-2, are used to predict the most affected regions in 2050 under three greenhouse gas emission scenarios: SSP1-2.6, SSP3-4.5, and SSP5-8.5. The results from the MaxEnt indicate that the southern and northeastern parts of India will be highly affected by rice thrips in 2050. The affected number of districts are found to be 256, 330 and 313 under SSP1-2.6, SSP3-4.5, and SSP5-8.5 scenarios, respectively. It has been observed that the maximum temperature is the most influential climatic parameter for the geographical distribution of rice thrips, followed by the annual mean and minimum temperatures. It can be concluded from these results that the elevated temperature enhances the growth and distribution of rice thrips.
Self-preserving ice layers on CO2 clathrate particles: implications for Enceladus, Pluto and similar ocean worlds
Creators: name: Boström, Mathias
name: Esteso, Victoria
name: Fiedler, Johannes
name: Brevik, Iver
name: Buhmann, Stefan Yoshi
name: Persson, Clas
name: Carretero-Palacios, Sol
name: Parsons, Drew F.
name: Corkery, Robert W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Under both engineering and natural conditions on Earth and in the Universe, some gas hydrates are found to be stabilised outside their window of thermodynamic stability by the formation of an ice layer-a phenomenon termed self-preservation. Low occupancy surface regions on type I CO2 clathrate structures together with the self-preserving ice layer lead to an effective buoyancy for these structures which restricts the size range of particles that float in the ocean on Enceladus, Pluto and similar oceanic worlds. Our goal here is to investigate the implications of Lifshitz forces and low occupancy surface regions on clathrate structures for their self-preservation through ice layer formation, presenting a plausible model based on multilayer interactions through dispersion forces. We predict that the growth of an ice layer between 0.01 and 0.2 $μ$m thick on CO2 clathrate surfaces depends on the presence of surface regions in the gas hydrates with low occupancy. The effective particle density is estimated delimiting a range of particles that would be buoyant in different oceans. Over geological time, deposition of floating CO2 hydrates could result in the accumulation of kilometre-thick hydrate layers above liquid water reservoirs, and below the water ice crusts of their respective ocean worlds. On Enceladus, destabilisation of near-surface hydrate deposits could lead to increased gas pressures that both drive plumes and entrain stabilised hydrates to be redeposited on the surface of Enceladus or ejected into the E-ring of Saturn. On ocean worlds such as Enceladus and particularly Pluto, the accumulation of thick CO2 hydrate deposits could insulate its ocean against freezing. In preventing the freezing of liquid water reservoirs in ocean worlds, the presence of CO2 hydrate layers could enhance the habitability of ocean worlds in our solar systems and on the exoplanets and exomoons beyond.
Effects of Herba Picriae Extract on Growth performance and Immune Organ Index of Guangxi Partridge Chickens
Creators: name: YANG Cui
name: LIAO  Xiaoguang
name: WU Siqian
name: HAN Huofu
name: SHI Jing
name: CAO Huihui
name: ZHAO Linling
name: LAI Dawei
name: ZENG  Fanquan
name: WANG Fulin
name: YANG Jiahuang
name: WU Zhuyue
name: YANG Cui
name: LIAO  Xiaoguang
name: WU Siqian
name: HAN Huofu
name: SHI Jing
name: CAO Huihui
name: ZHAO Linling
name: LAI Dawei
name: ZENG  Fanquan
name: WANG Fulin
name: YANG Jiahuang
name: WU Zhuyue
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Herba Picriae extract, Guangxi partridge chicken, Growth performance, Immune organ index

description: [Objectives] The purpose of this experiment was to study the effects of dietary supplementation of Herba Picriae extract on the growth performance and immune organ index of Guangxi partridge chickens. [Methods] A total of 500 one-day-old Guangxi partridge chickens were selected and randomly divided into five groups, five replicates for each group and 20 chickens for each replicate. Groups A, B and C were treatment groups, in which 0.70%, 0.35% and 0.175% of Herba Picriae extract was added to the basal diet, respectively. Group D was a positive drug control group, in which 0.01% colistin sulfate premix was supplemented. Group E was a blank control group, in which the chickens were fed the basal diet. The experimental period was 105 d. During the experiment, five chickens were randomly selected from each group on days 21, 35 and 49, respectively for the measurement of immune organ index. [Results] When the chickens were fed basal diet supplemented with 0.175% of Herba Picriae extract, their daily body weight gain increased significantly from day 22 to day 35 and from day 71 to day 105 and tended to increase from day 1 to day 21, from day 36 to day 49, and from day 50 to day 70, with a range of 7.37%-8.72%. Dietary supplementation of 0.70% and 0.175% of Herba Picriae extract significantly promoted the growth and development of Fabricius bursae in the experimental chickens. [Conclusions] Dietary supplementation of 0.175% of Herba Picriae extract improved the growth performance and feed intake, as well as 21-d-old bursal index of the experimental chickens.
Confinement free energy of flexible polyelectrolytes in spherical cavities
Creators: name: Kumar, Rajeev
name: Muthukumar, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A weakly charged flexible polyelectrolyte chain in a neutral spherical cavity is analyzed using self-consistent field theory (SCFT) within an explicit solvent model. Assuming the radial symmetry for the system, it is found that the confinement of the chain leads to creation of a charge density wave along with the development of a potential difference across the center of cavity and the surface. We show that the solvent entropy plays an important role in the free energy of the confined system. For a given radius of the spherical cavity and fixed charge density along the backbone of the chain, solvent and small ion entropies dominate over all other contributions when chain lengths are small. However, with the increase in chain length, chain conformational entropy and polymer-solvent interaction energy also become important. Our calculations reveal that energy due to electrostatic interactions plays a minor role in the free energy. Furthermore, we show that the total free energy under spherical confinement is not extensive in the number of monomers. Results for the osmotic pressure and mean activity coefficient for monovalent salt are presented. We demonstrate that fluctuations at one-loop level lower the free energy and corrections to the osmotic pressure and mean activity coefficient of the salt are discussed. Finite size corrections are shown to widen the range of validity of the fluctuation analysis.
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE CLINICAL COURSE OF AQUATIC DISEASE
Creators: name: Keldiyorova, Zilola
name: Muhammadov, Sadriddin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: A comparative analysis of the incidence and clinical course of chickenpox in 290 patients admitted to the infectious disease hospital of the Bukhara region in 2022-2023 is presented. It was found that children between the ages of 3 and 14 years were hospitalized significantly more often, and among adults - between the ages of 18 and 34 years (1,3-7). Symptoms of chickenpox in the nervous system did not differ significantly between adults and children. Rashes in children are characterized by the localization of the body on the trunk and extremities, and in adults - on the face and trunk (2).
Archivierung Quellcode und Daten zur Dissertation: Kleen, Christian: Einfluss der Besteuerung auf innovative Geschäftsmodelle, insbesondere von Start-up-Unternehmen, unter sich wandelnden Rahmenbedingungen
Creators: name: Kleen, Christian
Publisher: name: Universität Hamburg
Year: 2023

description: Im Rahmen des Projekts: „Die ertragsteuerliche Rechtsformwahl aus der Perspektive von Start-ups unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Option zur Körperschaftsteuer (erschienen in: FR – Finanz-Rundschau, 24/2022, 1115 – 1127)“ wurde ein Simulationsmodell auf Grundlage der Programmiersprache Python geschrieben. Mithilfe des Simulationsmodells wurden sodann unter Berücksichtigung von Sekundärdaten die Berechnungen für das genannte Projekt durchgeführt.

Der Quellcode für das Simulationsmodell wird jeweils als Python File (.py) und als TXT-Datei (.txt) gesichert. Das Simulationsmodell basiert auf dem geltenden Ertragsteuerrecht (Einkommensteuergesetz, Körperschaftsteuergesetz, Gewerbesteuergesetz, Solidaritätszuschlaggesetz) der Jahre 2017 bis 2022. Innerhalb des Programmcodes werden die rechtlichen Grundlagen genannt sowie die Berechnungsschritte erläutert.

Die verwendeten Sekundärdaten stammen hierbei aus den folgenden Quellen:

 Deutscher Startup Monitor (2013-2022)
 KfW-Gründungsmonitor (2021)
 KfW-Mittelstandspanel (2020, 2021)
 KfW-Start-up-Report (2021)
 NRW-Start-up-Report (2020)

Die Sekundärdaten wurden in einer Excel-Tabelle mit der Bezeichnung „Start-up Daten“ gesichert, wobei die jeweiligen exakten Fundstellen in den vorstehenden Quellen für alle Datensätze angegeben werden. Es handelt sich hierbei um aggregierte Daten. Die Daten wurden regelmäßig direkt in das Simulationsmodell überführt. Lediglich vereinzelnd wurden vor der Übernahme ins Simulationsmodell einfache Rechenoperationen mithilfe von Excel durchgeführt.
Multi wavelength study of 4C+28.07
Creators: name: Das, Avik Kumar
name: Prince, Raj
name: Gupta, Nayantara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: 4C+28.07 is a $γ$-ray Flat Spectrum Radio Quasar (FSRQ) type source. It is often monitored at different frequencies, though long-term multi-wavelength data of this source have not been modelled in detail before. We have analyzed $\sim 12$ years (Aug, 2008 - May, 2020) of Fermi-LAT data with a binning of 10 days time scale and observed three distinctive flaring states. Each flaring state consists of different phases of activity, namely, pre-flare, flare \& post-flare regions. $γ$-ray spectral analysis of these different activity phases has been performed and the best fit model for its spectra is found to be a Log-parabola model. We have also studied the correlation of simultaneous $γ$-ray light curves with the optical \& radio counterparts in these flaring states and report the DCF with a 95\% significance level. A large time delay is found between radio and gamma-ray data for two flares, indicating two zones of emission. We have fitted the multi-wavelength data with a two-zone leptonic model. In our two-zone leptonic model, the maximum required power in the jet is 9.64 $\times$ 10$^{46}$ erg sec$^{-1}$, which is lower than its Eddington luminosity $2.29\times 10^{47}$ erg sec$^{-1}$.
description: 23 pages, 16 figures, Accepted for publication in ApJ
Nonequilibrium critical relaxations of the order parameter and energy in the two-dimensional ferromagnetic Potts model
Creators: name: Nam, Keekwon
name: Kim, Bongsoo
name: Lee, Sung Jong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The static and dynamic critical properties of the ferromagnetic q-state Potts models on a square lattice with q = 2 and 3 are numerically studied via the nonequilibrium relaxation method. The relaxation behavior of both the order parameter and energy as well as that of the second moments are investigated, from which static and dynamic critical exponents can be obtained. We find that the static exponents thus obtained from the relaxation of the order parameter and energy together with the second moments of the order parameter exhibit a close agreement with the exact exponents, especially for the case of q = 2 (Ising) model, when care is taken in the choice of the initial states for the relaxation of the second moments. As for the case of q = 3, the estimates for the static exponents become less accurate but still exhibit reasonable agreement with the exactly known static exponents. The dynamic critical exponent for q = 2 (Ising) model is estimated from the relaxation of the second moments of the order parameter with mixed initial conditions to give z(q = 2) = 2.1668(19).
description: 29 pages, 16 figures
The TREX Survey: Kinematical Complexity Throughout M33's Stellar Disk and Evidence for a Stellar Halo
Creators: name: Gilbert, Karoline M.
name: Quirk, Amanda C. N.
name: Guhathakurta, Puragra
name: Tollerud, Erik
name: Wojno, Jennifer
name: Dalcanton, Julianne J.
name: Durbin, Meredith J.
name: Seth, Anil
name: Williams, Benjamin F.
name: Fung, Justin T.
name: Tangirala, Pujita
name: Yusufali, Ibrahim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present initial results from a large spectroscopic survey of stars throughout M33's stellar disk. We analyze a sample of 1667 red giant branch (RGB) stars extending to projected distances of $\sim 11$ kpc from M33's center ($\sim 18$ kpc, or $\sim 10$ scale lengths, in the plane of the disk). The line-of-sight velocities of RGB stars show the presence of two kinematical components. One component is consistent with rotation in the plane of M33's HI disk and has a velocity dispersion ($\sim 19$ km s$^{-1}$) consistent with that observed in a comparison sample of younger stars, while the second component has a significantly higher velocity dispersion. A two-component fit to the RGB velocity distribution finds that the high dispersion component has a velocity dispersion of $59.3^{+2.6}_{-2.5}$ km s$^{-1}$ and rotates very slowly in the plane of the disk (consistent with no rotation at the $<1.5σ$ level), which favors interpreting it as a stellar halo rather than a thick disk population. A spatial analysis indicates that the fraction of RGB stars in the high-velocity-dispersion component decreases with increasing radius over the range covered by the spectroscopic sample. Our spectroscopic sample establishes that a significant high-velocity-dispersion component is present in M33's RGB population from near M33's center to at least the radius where M33's HI disk begins to warp at 30$'$ ($\sim 7.5$ kpc) in the plane of the disk. This is the first detection and spatial characterization of a kinematically hot stellar component throughout M33's inner regions.
description: 33 pages, 19 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ
title: Achieving the net-zero target: A meta-analysis of Turkish energy and climate scenarios
title: https://github.com/gorkemgungormetu/Turkish_energy_and_climate_pathways.git
titleType: Other
Creators: name: Güngör, Görkem
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: energy model
climate scenario
national assessment
meta analysis

description: The climate target of the Paris Agreement to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 oC in 2100 and the ongoing conflict in Ukraine forced the EU to revise the climate policy from low-carbon transition to phase-out of fossil fuels. The energy markets are vulnerable to the price volatility of fossil fuel resources due to the instability of the supplier countries. With a stringent climate mitigation target, the EU aims for inter-regional cooperation with countries having renewable energy potential. Turkey is one of the countries having renewable energy potential and climate ambition. The Turkish National Energy Plan (TUEP), announced on January 2023, projects an increased supply of renewable primary energy sources from 24.6 Mtoe in 2020 to 48.7 Mtoe in 2035. But, the achievement of the net-zero emission target for 2053 is uncertain with capital investment requirements, such as the commissioning of 70 GW electrolyser by 2055 and the hydrogen infrastructure required for the industrial low-carbon transition. In the first part of this study, the authors aim to conduct a meta-analysis of the literature by focusing on the synergies and trade-offs between the European and Turkish energy and climate policies. The authors also aim to elaborate on the uncertainties using mathematical modeling tools and by focusing on the low-carbon transition of the buildings and industrial sectors.
Deep-sleep-inspired activity induces density-based-clustering on memories and entropic, energetic and classification gains
Creators: name: Luca, Chiara De
name: Capone, Cristiano
name: Paolucci, Pier Stanislao
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: deep-sleep, synaptic plasticity, learning

description: The role of sleep is known to be important but still unclear. Relying on very minimal assumptions, which are the talamo-cortical structure and the presence of cortically generated cortico-thalamic slow oscillations we formally find out that sleep might naturally perform a "density-based clustering" in the thalamo-cortical connections.
 The huge advantages of such clustering are: not requiring a number of clusters, finding arbitrarily shaped clusters, independence on the number of elements.
 This process improves the performances of visual classification tasks (e.g. MNIST).
 Our findings can be reproduced in spiking networks. Finally, we propose entropy-based measures, that can be applied to experimental data to verify our theoretical predictions.
description: Funding from: European Commission (EU) Horizon 2020 Flagship project HBP SGA3 945539
Students’ Political Belief Education in Agricultural and Forestry Colleges and Universities in Network Environment: Taking Northwest A & F University as an Example
Creators: name: RAN Long
name: RAN Long
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Network environment, Agricultural and forestry colleges and universities, Political belief education for college students

description: The influence of the network environment on the education of political beliefs of college students in China cannot be ignored. Taking Northwest A & F University as an example, starting from the current situation of students’ political belief education in agricultural and forestry colleges and universities, the impact of network environment on the education of political beliefs of students in agricultural and forestry colleges and universities was analyzed, and the implementation path of improving political belief education in the network environment was explored, in order to provide a reference for improving the effectiveness of ideological and political education of students in agricultural and forestry colleges and universities.
Modelling the evolution and nucleosynthesis of carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars
Creators: name: Pols, O. R.
name: Izzard, R. G.
name: Lugaro, M.
name: de Mink, S. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of binary population simulations of carbon-enhanced metal-poor (CEMP) stars. We show that nitrogen and fluorine are useful tracers of the origin of CEMP stars, and conclude that the observed paucity of very nitrogen-rich stars puts strong constraints on possible modifications of the initial mass function at low metallicity. The large number fraction of CEMP stars may instead require much more efficient dredge-up from low-metallicity asymptotic giant branch stars.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure, to appear in the proceedings of IAU Symposium 252 "The Art of Modelling Stars in the 21st Century", April 6-11, 2008, Sanya, China
The Extinction and Distance of the MBM Molecular Clouds at High Galactic Latitude
Creators: name: Sun, Mingxu
name: Jiang, Biwei
name: Zhao, He
name: Ren, Yi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on the accurate color excess $E_{\rm G_{BP},G_{RP}}$ of more than 4 million stars and $E_{\rm NUV,G_{BP}}$ of more than 1 million stars from \citet{2021ApJS..254...38S}, the distance and the extinction of the molecular clouds in the MBM catalog at $|b|>20^{\circ}$ are studied in combination with the distance measurement of \emph{Gaia}/EDR3. The distance as well as the color excess is determined for 66 molecular clouds. The color excess ratio $E_{\rm G_{BP},G_{RP}}/E_{\rm NUV,G_{BP}}$ is derived for 39 of them, which is obviously larger and implies more small particles at smaller extinction. In addition, the scale height of the dust disk is found to be about 100 pc and becomes large at the anticenter direction due to the disk flaring.
description: 20 pages, 14 figures, Accepted by The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series on 7/15/2021
A label-free 5CB-based aptasensor for highly selective optical detection of amoxicillin residue in freshwater samples
Creators: name: Das, Sayani
name: Kula, Przemysław
name: Roy, Susanta Sinha
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: A novel application of thermotropic liquid crystal (LC) 5CB in an optical aptasensor for the sensitive detection of amoxycillin (AMOX) antibiotic has been reported. In the studied system, the glass substrates were treated with dimethyloctadecyl [3–(trimethoxysilyl) propyl] ammonium chloride (DMOAP) and an aqueous solution of cationic surfactant cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) was used to obtain a homeotropically aligned 5CB monolayer at the LC-aqueous interface resulting in a uniformly dark appearance. A highly specific amoxycillin aptamer (AMXA) was immobilised on the glass substrate as a target recognition probe for AMOX molecules. The specific binding of AMXA and AMOX molecules induces orientational changes in LC ordering resulting in a change in LC optical textures observed under a Polarized Optical Microscope (POM). A low limit of detection (LOD) of 10 nM for AMOX was obtained using this sensing system. Additionally, a high specificity for AMOX was also observed during comparative analysis. Finally, the developed biosensor was used to successfully detect AMOX in environments of potential application like tap water and lake water samples. Thus, the developed LC-based aptasensor can be a simple, sensitive and label‐free platform for monitoring real‐time levels of AMOX in freshwater environments.
Cosmic string formation by flux trapping
Creators: name: Blanco-Pillado, Jose J.
name: Olum, Ken D.
name: Vilenkin, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the formation of cosmic strings by confining a stochastic magnetic field into flux tubes in a numerical simulation. We use overdamped evolution in a potential that is minimized when the flux through each face in the simulation lattice is a multiple of the fundamental flux quantum. When the typical number of flux quanta through a correlation-length-sized region is initially about 1, we find a string network similar to that generated by the Kibble-Zurek mechanism. With larger initial flux, the loop distribution and the Brownian shape of the infinite strings remain unchanged, but the fraction of length in infinite strings is increased. A 2D slice of the network exhibits bundles of strings pointing in the same direction, as in earlier 2D simulations. We find, however, that strings belonging to the same bundle do not stay together in 3D for much longer than the correlation length. As the initial flux per correlation length is decreased, there is a point at which infinite strings disappear, as in the Hagedorn transition.
description: 16 pages and 9 figures. (Minor changes and new references added)
Assessing adolescents’ sport participation motives: psychometric evaluation of BRSQ
Creators: name: Tsitskari, Efi
name: Vernadakis, Nickos
name: Foridou, Andromahi
name: Bebetsos, Evaggelos
Publisher: name: Motricidade
Year: 2015

description: The aim of the study was to examine the factorial structure and validity of Behavioral Regulation in Sports Questionnaire (BRSQ – Lonsdale Hodge & Rose, 2008). The proposed nine dimensional motivation model by Lonsdale et al. (2008) investigated: i) amotivation, ii) external regulation, iii) introjected regulation, iv) identified regulation, v) integrated regulation, vi) IM-general, vii) IM to know, viii) IM to experience stimulation and ix) IM to accomplish.  One hundred and fifty-eight children aged 10 to 13 years old, all active members of private volleyball, football and basketball sport academies in a Greek city, completed the questionnaire. The age groups were chosen based on the early period of adolescence when a person seems to formulate his/her decision about whether to continue participating in a sport, choose another or abandon exercise in general. The scale was translated into Greek using the back-translation procedure.  A confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) did not provide adequate support for the factorial validity of the motivational model. The data were then analyzed with an exploratory factor analysis and internal consistency through Cronbach alpha. Exploratory Factor Analysis revealed six out of the initial nine motivational factors. The theoretical and practical implications of these results are discussed.
description: Motricidade, Vol 11 No 1 (2015)
Desordem coordenativa desenvolvimental: uma análise do estado nutricional e nível socioeconómico
Creators: name: Santos, Viviane Aparecida Pereira Dos
name: Contreira, Andressa Ribeiro
name: Caruzzo, Nayara Malheiros
name: Passos, Patricia Carolina Borsato
name: Vieira, José Luiz Lopes
Publisher: name: Motricidade
Year: 2015

description: O objetivo deste estudo foi analisar o estado nutricional e o nível socioecónomico de escolares com provável desordem coordenativa desenvolvimental (DCD), risco de DCD e desenvolvimento típico (DT). Participaram 581 crianças com idades entre 7 e 10 anos de escolas públicas de um município do noroeste do Paraná. Para avaliação do desempenho motor utilizou-se a Movement Assessment Battery for Children (MABC); medidas antropométricas de peso e altura para avaliar o estado nutricional e o Questionário ABEP para a classificação socioeconómica. Para análise dos dados utilizou-se o teste Kolmogorov-Smirnov, teste Qui-quadrado e estatística descritiva, adotando p < .05. Os resultados demonstraram que 78.1% dos escolares apresentaram DT, 10.5% apresentaram risco de DCD e 11.4% provável DCD. Ocorreu associação significativa entre provável DCD e a classe econômica “C” (p = .01). O estado nutricional não esteve associado ao desempenho motor e ao nível socioeconómico dos escolares. Conclui-se que ocorreu alta prevalência de provável DCD e risco de DCD. Quanto ao estado nutricional, para esta amostra não ocorreu associação com o DCD. No entanto, para o nível socioeconómico foi encontrada associação com o provável DCD, ocorrendo maior proporção desses escolares nos níveis sociais mais baixos.
description: Motricidade, Vol 11 No 1 (2015)
Decoding the Morphological Evolution of Open Clusters
Creators: name: Hu, Qingshun
name: Zhang, Yu
name: Esamdin, Ali
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Base on Gaia Second Data Release and the combination of nonparametric bivariate density estimation with the least square ellipse fitting, we derive the shape parameters of the sample clusters. By analyzing the dislocation of the sample clusters, the dislocation $d$ is related to the X-axis pointing toward the Galactic center, Y-axis pointing in the direction of Galactic rotation, and the Z-axis (log(|H|/pc)) that is positive toward the Galactic north pole. This finding underlines the important role of the dislocation of clusters in tracking the external environment of the Milky Way. The orientation ($q_{pm}$) of the clusters with $e_{pm}$ $\geq$ 0.4 presents an aggregate distribution in the range of -45$\degr$ to 45$\degr$, about 74\% of them. This probably suggests that these clusters tend to deform heavily in the direction of the Galactic plane. NGC 752 is in a slight stage of expansion in the two-dimensional space and will deform itself morphology along the direction perpendicular to the original stretching direction in the future if no other events occur. The relative degree of deformation of the sample clusters in the short-axis direction decreases as their ages increase. On average, the severely distorted sample clusters in each group account for about 26\% $\pm$ 9\%. This possibly implies a uniform external environment in the range of $|$H$|$ $\leq$ 300 pc if the sample completeness of each group is not taken into account.
description: 11pages,11 figures, accepted by Astronomy & Astrophysics
A preliminary study of the characteristics of style-switching in American sign language as a function of participants
Creators: name: Glazer, Susan Merryl
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This study was designed to isolate and describe the features of American Sign Language (ASL) that vary according to social parameters. Two assumptions underlie this proposition: ASL is a natural language of the world, and users of languages of the world demonstrate variation in style which is triggered by specific social factors. The study examined and compared linguistic and paralinguistic features of a native ASL user's signing under different social conditions. Six people took part in the study. The principal subject or Sender was a profoundly deaf, native signer of ASL. Five other people acted as Receivers. They were all users of ASL and differed from the Sender in one or several of the social variables: age, occupation and proficiency in ASL. The Sender signed seven tasks to each Receiver separately. The tasks included instructions, paraphrase, directions for completion of a puzzle and questions. Each Sender-Receiver dyad was videotaped in a recording studio. Data was transcribed and analyzed for evidence of seven performance parameters including lexicon, morphology, syntax, rate, headtilt, body movement and amplitude. It was predicted that each of the social variables would contribute to a unique Receiver profile based on amount of use of each performance parameter. The results of this study show that the Sender modified his signing of each task to each Receiver. The modifications were not as systematic on the basis of social variables as predicted. Comparison of Receiver profiles reveals two styles of signing, distinct from a third neutral style. The Sender's signing to a child, who ranked lower than himself in terms of age, occupation and signing proficiency was characterized by redundancy of the message and reliance on parameters that augmented clarity. The second distinct style seen in the Sender's performance to an adult, who ranked higher than himself on all three social variables, was marked by increased complexity. Comparison of tasks revealed a marked distinction between the Instructions and the Paraphrase tasks, thereby establishing a profile for an information-giving style and a story-telling style. This investigation was able to furnish preliminary information about what changes occur in ASL given different tasks and different participants.
Selenium-linked cyanobiphenyl-based liquid crystal dimers: the effects of chalcogen linkage and spacer length on the twist-bend nematic phase
Creators: name: Arakawa, Yuki
name: Shiba, Takuma
name: Igawa, Kazunobu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: We synthesised selenium-linked liquid crystal dimers and examined their phase behaviour to determine the effects of chalcogen linkage and spacer length on the formation of a twist-bend nematic (NTB) phase. Two new homologous series of nonsymmetric selenoether- and ether- or thioether-linked cyanobiphenyl-based dimers (CBSenOCB and CBSenSCB, respectively) comprising an alkyl spacer chain with a carbon number (n) of 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, and 11 were developed. We also synthesised n = 6 and 11 of previously reported symmetrically selenoether-linked CBSenSeCB homologues. Conventional nematic (N) and NTB phases were observed for nearly all odd-n CBSenSeCB, CBSenOCB, and CBSenSCB dimers. The phase transition behaviours of the three homologous series were compared with those of the known symmetric ether-linked CBOnOCB, thioether-linked CBSnSCB, and asymmetric thioether- and ether-linked CBSnOCB dimers. Replacing ether with thioether or selenoether resulted in lower LC phase-transition temperatures, particularly for selenoether. Single-crystal structural analyses revealed that CBS3SCB and CBSe3SeCB exhibited folded U-shaped molecular shapes that were bent more than the V-shapes of CBOnOCB (n = 3 and 5) and CBS5SCB. In addition, thioether and selenoether linkages rendered the molecular forms of odd-spacer dimers in the crystals more bent.
Cyanobiphenyl-based liquid crystal dimers and the twist-bend nematic phase: on the role played by the length and parity of the spacer
Creators: name: Cruickshank, Ewan
name: Strachan, Grant J
name: Thapa, Kamal
name: Pociecha, Damian
name: Salamończyk, Mirosław
name: Storey, John M D
name: Gorecka, Ewa
name: Lavrentovich, Oleg
name: Imrie, Corrie T
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Six members of the 1,ω-bis(4-cyanobiphenyl-4′-yl) alkanes are reported and referred to as CBnCB in which n = 1, 15, 16, 17, 19 and 20 and indicates the number of methylene units in the spacer separating the two cyanobiphenyl units. The behaviour of CB3CB is revisited. The temperature dependence of the refractive indices, optical birefringence and dielectric permittivities measured in the nematic, N, phase for selected homologues are reported. The dimers with n ≥ 15 showed an enantiotropic N phase, and for the odd members the twist-bend nematic, NTB, phase was observed. CB3CB shows a direct NTB-isotropic, I, transition, whereas for CB1CB a virtual NTB-I transition is found. The temperature dependence of the bend elastic constant, K33, measured in the oblique helicoidal cholesteric state formed by mixtures of CBnCB with a chiral additive S811, shows strong non-monotonous behaviour with a deep minimum near the transition point to the NTB phase. The minimum value of K33 decreases as n increases. The long even members of the CBnCB series show similar values of TNI to their odd-membered counterparts, but their estimated values of TNTBN are considerably lower. This is attributed to molecular shape and its effect on K33.