cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
In Vivo Evaluation of Engineered Self-Assembling Silk Fibroin Hydrogels after Intracerebral Injection in a Rat Stroke Model
Creators: name: Gorenkova, Natalia
name: Osama, Ibrahim
name: Seib, F. Philipp
name: Carswell, Hilary V.O.
Publisher: name: Washington, DC : ACS Publications
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: biomaterials
subject: hydrogel
subject: middle cerebral artery occlusion
subject: silk
subject: 540

description: Targeting the brain cavity formed by an ischemic stroke is appealing for many regenerative treatment strategies but requires a robust delivery technology. We hypothesized that self-assembling silk fibroin hydrogels could serve as a reliable support matrix for regeneration in the stroke cavity. We therefore performed in vivo evaluation studies of self-assembling silk fibroin hydrogels after intracerebral injection in a rat stroke model. Adult male Sprague-Dawley rats (n = 24) underwent transient middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAo) 2 weeks before random assignment to either no stereotaxic injection or a stereotaxic injection of either self-assembling silk fibroin hydrogels (4% w/v) or PBS into the lesion cavity. The impact on morbidity and mortality, space conformity, interaction with glial scar, interference with inflammatory response, and cell proliferation in the lesion cavity were examined for up to 7 weeks by a blinded investigator. Self-assembling hydrogels filled the stroke cavity with excellent space conformity and presented neither an overt microglial/macrophage response nor an adverse morbidity or mortality. The relationship between the number of proliferating cells and lesion volume was significantly changed by injection of self-assembling silk hydrogels. This in vivo stroke model confirmed that self-assembling silk fibroin hydrogels provide a favorable microenvironment as a future support matrix in the stroke cavity. Copyright © 2018 American Chemical Society.
Cosmological perturbations from hilltop potentials
Creators: name: Orani, Stefano
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2013

description: Cosmological inflation is the dominating paradigm to account for observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). In this thesis, we study the phenomenology of a class of particularly well motivated models of inflation, known under the generic name of hybrid models. They are characterised by a transition from a valley to a hilltop shaped potential. In particular, we study three limiting regimes of the simplest realisation, hybrid inflation, constraining its parameter space using observational bounds on the spectral index and the non-gaussianity of the primordial perturbations. We find that the model is highly constrained by observations, with large part of the parameter space either ruled out by a blue spectral index (ns > 1) or by a large non-gaussianity parameter fNL, two quantities measured with precision by PLANCK. However, there exists regions in parameter space leading to interesting phenomenology compatibly with observational bounds. Also, a version of hybrid inflation with a third light scalar field at horizon crossing is derived from the supersymmetry framework. We find that the model can generate observables within observational bounds.
title: AN, Registre des écrous du Châtelet, Y5266, f. p1000846
Creators: name: Claustre, Julie
name: Nationales, Archives
name: Archives Nationales
name: Claustre, Julie
name: ArchivesNationales/J.CLAUSTRE/H.REGAZZI/2020
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Châtelet
subject: registre

description: Registre des écrous du Châtelet, Archives Nationales, Y5266. Numérisation en mode image.
description: Bibliographic citation: Archives Nationales, Registre des écrous du Châtelet, Y5266, f. p1000846
Array Auto-calibration
Creators: name: Willerton, Marc
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2013

description: In this thesis, efficient methods are presented to calibrate large or small aperture array systems containing different types of uncertainties. specifically the challenge of reducing the number of external sources required to calibrate an array is addressed and array calibration methods suitable for use when sources may be operating in the "near-far" field of the array are developed. Together, this can ease the overheads involved in calibrating and recalibrating an array system. In addition to presenting novel array calibration algorithms, this thesis also presents a novel transformation allowing a planar array to be expressed as a virtual uniform linear array of a much larger number of elements. This allows the array manifold of a planar array, which in general consists of non-hyperhelical curves, to be expressed using a number of hyperhelices which each correspond to the array manifold of a linear array. This hyperhelical structure has the potential to ease calibration overheads as well as having many other potential applications in array processing. This thesis presents novel pilot and auto array calibration schemes for estimating different types of array uncertainties. A novel pilot calibration algorithm is proposed whereby a single source transmitting from a known location (i.e. a pilot) at two carrier frequencies is used to estimate geometrical uncertainties in a planar array. This is achieved by exploiting the frequency dependence on the boundary between the "near-far" and "far" field of the array. In addition, an auto-calibration method is presented which doesn't require any external sources to estimate array uncertainties. Here, geometrical, complex gain and local oscillator (i.e. frequency and phase) uncertainties associated with the array elements are considered. In this approach, array elements transmit in turn to the others which operate as an array receiver. Large and small array apertures are investigated. Throughout the thesis, extensive computer simulations are presented to analyse the performance of the algorithms developed.
MPEC 2025-G100 : 2016 FK14 = 2025 ED2
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Additional file 1: of The rare orange-red colored Euphorbia pulcherrima cultivar ‘Harvest Orange’ shows a nonsense mutation in a flavonoid 3’-hydroxylase allele expressed in the bracts
Creators: name: Nitarska, Daria
name: Stefanini, Carmen
name: Haselmair-Gosch, Christian
name: Miosic, Silvija
name: Walliser, Benjamin
name: Mikulic-Petkovsek, Maja
name: Regos, Ionela
name: Slatnar, Ana
name: Debener, Thomas
name: Diro Terefe-Ayana
name: Vilperte, Vinicius
name: Hadersdorfer, Johannes
name: Stich, Karl
name: Halbwirth, Heidi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Table S1. Gradient elution time-table program in the RP-HPLC system using mobile phase A (water with 5% HCO2H) and mobile phase B (MeOH). (DOCX 17 kb)
Short-range antiferromagnetic correlations in the superconducting state of filled skutterudite alloys Pr$_{1-x}$Eu$_x$Pt$_4$Ge$_{12}$
Creators: name: Adhikari, R. B.
name: Kunwar, D. L.
name: Jeon, I.
name: Maple, M. B.
name: Dzero, M.
name: Almasan, C. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by current research efforts towards exploring the interplay between magnetism and superconductivity in multiband electronic systems, we have investigated the effects of Eu substitution through thermodynamic measurements on the superconducting filled skutterudite alloys Pr$_{1-x}$Eu$_x$Pt$_4$Ge$_{12}$. An increase in Eu concentration leads to a suppression of the superconducting transition temperature consistent with an increase of magnetic entropy due to Eu local moments. While the low-temperature heat capacity anomaly is present over the whole doping range, we find that in alloys with $x\leq0.5$ the Schottky peaks in the heat capacity in the superconducting state appear to be due to Zeeman splitting by an internal magnetic field. Our theoretical modeling suggests that this field is a result of the short-range antiferromagnetic correlations between the europium ions. For the samples with $x > 0.5$, the peaks in the heat capacity signal the onset of antiferromagnetic (AFM) ordering of the Eu moments.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures
title:  Un sacro divertimento. Su Thomas Mann e il teatro
Creators: name: Fiorentino, Francesco
Publisher: name: Roma Tre University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05vf0dg29
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2025

description: L’articolo ricostruisce la concezione del teatro di Thomas Mann evidenziando alcuni punti in cui la sua riflessione tocca problematiche cruciali del dibattito teatrale del primo Novecento: il rapporto tra scena e testo drammatico, quello tra rappresentazione teatrale e rito, tra la dimensione cerimoniale e la dimensione ludica del teatro, tra la propensione religiosa e comunitaria dell’arte scenica e la natura essenzialmente parodica che le è connaturata.

The author examines Thomas Mann’s notion of theatre, highlighting a number of points where his thought touches crucial issues in the early 20th-century debate on theatre: the relationship between the written dramatic text and its staging; that between theatrical representation and ritual; between the ceremonial and the recreational dimension of the theatre; between the religious and community-centred inclination of dramatic art on the one hand and its natural tendency to incline towards parody on the other hand.
description: ἀγλαὰ δῶρα. Studi miscellanei in onore di Dora Faraci
Quantum Holonomies for Quantum Computing
Creators: name: Pachos, Jiannis
name: Zanardi, Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Holonomic Quantum Computation (HQC) is an all-geometrical approach to quantum information processing. In the HQC strategy information is encoded in degenerate eigen-spaces of a parametric family of Hamiltonians. The computational network of unitary quantum gates is realized by driving adiabatically the Hamiltonian parameters along loops in a control manifold. By properly designing such loops the non-trivial curvature of the underlying bundle geometry gives rise to unitary transformations i.e., holonomies that implement the desired unitary transformations. Conditions necessary for universal QC are stated in terms of the curvature associated to the non-abelian gauge potential (connection) over the control manifold. In view of their geometrical nature the holonomic gates are robust against several kind of perturbations and imperfections. This fact along with the adiabatic fashion in which gates are performed makes in principle HQC an appealing way towards universal fault-tolerant QC.
description: 16 pages, 2 figures, REVTEX
Phalaena umbratica Linnaeus, 1758, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Linnaeus, Carolus
Publisher: name: Laurentius Salvius
Year: 1758
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Phalaena
Phalaena umbratica

description: Phalaena umbratica [spec. nov.]
P. Noctua spirilinguis cristata, alis lanceolatis canis striatis, thoracis valvulis lunatis.
Reaum. ins. 1. t. 43. f. 9, 11.
Roes. ins. 1. phal. 2. t. 25.
Habitat in Soncho.
Larva nuda, nigricans, trifariam rubro-punctata.
description: Published as part of Linnaeus, Carolus, 1758, Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Stockholm :Laurentius Salvius on page 515, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542, http://zenodo.org/record/3922206
Gamma-Ray Burst Spectra and Time Histories from 2 to 400 keV
Creators: name: Fenimore, E. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Gamma-Ray burst detector on Ginga consisted of a proportional counter to observe the x-rays and a scintillation counter to observe the gamma-rays. It was ideally suited to study the x-rays associated with gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Ginga detected 120 GRBs and 22 of them had sufficient statistics to determine spectra from 2 to 400 keV. Although the Ginga and BATSE trigger criteria were very similar, the distribution of spectral parameters was different. Ginga observed bend energies in the spectra down to 2 keV and had a larger fraction of bursts with low energy power law indexes greater than zero. The average ratio of energy in the x-ray band (2 to 10 keV) compared to the gamma-ray band (50 to 300 keV) was 24%. Some events had more energy in the x-ray band than in the gamma-ray band. One Ginga event had a period of time preceding the gamma rays that was effectively pure x-ray emission. This x-ray ``preactivity'' might be due to the penchant for the GRB time structure to be broader at lower energy rather than a different physical process. The x-rays tend to rise and fall slower than the gamma rays but they both tend to peak at about the same time. This argues against models involving the injection of relativistic electrons that cool by synchrotron radiation.
description: 5 pages, 3 embedded figures, latex, to appear in Nuclear Physics B Proceedings, eds L. Scarsi, et al
Two-Dimensional Black Hole and Singularities of CY Manifolds
Creators: name: Ooguri, Hirosi
name: Vafa, Cumrun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the degenerating limits of superconformal theories for compactifications on singular K3 and Calabi-Yau threefolds. We find that in both cases the degeneration involves creating an Euclidean two-dimensional black hole coupled weakly to the rest of the system. Moreover we find that the conformal theory of A_n singularities of K3 are the same as that of the symmetric fivebrane. We also find intriguing connections between ADE (1,n) non-critical strings and singular limits of superconformal theories on the corresponding ALE space.
description: 26 pages, harvmac
Instance segmentation for biological image analysis
Creators: name: Yi, Jingru
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2021

description: Image-based instance segmentation is a task that differentiates and classifies objects at the pixel level. This task is of great significance for many biological applications (e.g., the study of neural cell interactions), which require precise segmentation of biological objects. However, it is challenging to capture fine-grained object details in biological images and separate the attached or overlapping objects due to their weak boundaries. This thesis presents a series of instance segmentation methods for biological images that address these challenges. We focus on three representative biological subjects, including neural cells, plants, and cell nuclei, to illustrate the image-based challenges and our methods' effectiveness. In particular, neural cells feature irregular shapes with tiny and slender protrusions; plant leaves typically contain thin stalks and overlapping regions; cell nuclei are usually distributed as clusters and have various shapes. In the first chapter, we present an overview of existing instance segmentation methods and their applications in biological image analysis. In the following chapters, we introduce a series of instance segmentation methods that distinguish objects from a global view and classify object pixels within bounding boxes. We study two kinds of object detectors: anchor-based and keypoint-based detectors. We explore strategies to remove undesired neighboring objects within a region of interest (ROI). On this basis, we further enhance the segmentation quality around the uncertain areas (e.g., boundary) via an auxiliary point-wise feature refinement module. Through extensive experiments, we show the superiority of our methods by comparing them to state-of-the-art approaches.
Supplemental Tables for Journal of Dairy Science 2020-19936
Creators: name: dos Santos Neto, José M.
name: de Souza, Jonas
name: Lock, Adam L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: experimental design
meta-analysis
fatty acid supplementation
dairy cow

description: Our primary objective was to perform a meta-analysis and meta-regression to evaluate the effects of diets supplemented with calcium salts of palm fatty acids (CSPF) compared to non-fat supplemented control diets (CON) on nutrient digestibility and production responses of lactating dairy cows. Our secondary objective was to perform a meta-analysis to evaluate whether experimental design impacts production responses to supplemental CSPF. The data set was formed from 33 peer-reviewed publications with CSPF supplemented at ≤ 3% diet dry matter (DM). We analyzed the interaction between experimental design (continuous vs. change-over) and treatments (CON vs. CSPF) to evaluate whether experimental design impacts responses to CSPF (Meta.1). Regardless of experimental design, we evaluated the effects of CSPF compared with CON on nutrient digestibility and production responses of lactating dairy cows by meta-analysis (Meta.2) and meta-regression (Meta.3) approaches. In Meta.1, there was no interaction between treatments and experimental design for any variable. In Meta.2, compared with CON, CSPF reduced dry matter intake (DMI, 0.56 ± 0.21 kg/d [±SE]) and milk protein content (0.05 ± 0.02 g/100g), increased neutral detergent fiber (NDF) digestibility (1.60 ± 0.57 percentage-units), the yields of milk (1.53 ± 0.56 kg/d), milk fat (0.04 ± 0.02 kg/d), and 3.5% fat corrected milk (FCM, 1.28 kg/d ± 0.60 kg/d), and improved feed efficiency (energy corrected milk [ECM]/DMI, 0.08 kg/kg ± 0.03). There was no effect of treatment for milk protein yield, milk fat content, body weight (BW), BW change, or body condition score (BCS). Compared with CON, CSPF reduced the yield of de novo milk fatty acids (FA) and increased the yields of mixed and preformed milk FA. In Meta.3, we observed that each 1-percentage-unit increase of CSPF in diet DM reduced DMI, increased NDF digestibility, tended to increase FA digestibility, increased the yields of milk, milk fat, and 3.5% FCM, reduced the content of milk protein, reduced the yield of de novo milk FA, and increased the yields of mixed and preformed milk FA. In conclusion, our results indicate no reason for the restrictive use of change-over designs in CSPF supplementation studies or meta-analysis. Feeding CSPF increased NDF digestibility, tended to increase FA digestibility, and increased the yields of milk, milk fat, and 3.5% FCM. Additionally, CSPF increased milk fat yield by increasing the yields of mixed and preformed milk FA.
Brane Tilings and Quiver Gauge Theories
Creators: name: Seong, Rak-Kyeong
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2013

description: This work presents recent developments on brane tilings and their vacuum moduli spaces. Brane tilings are bipartite periodic graphs on the torus and represent 4d N = 1 supersymmetric worldvolume theories living on D3-branes probing Calabi-Yau 3-fold singularities. The graph and combinatorial properties of brane tilings make the set of supersymmetric quiver theories represented by them one of the largest and richest known so far. The aim of this work is to give a concise pedagogical introduction to brane tilings and a summary on recent exciting advancement on their classification, dualities and construction. At first, particular focus is given on counting distinct Abelian orbifolds of the form C3/[gamma]. The presented counting of Abelian orbifolds of C3 and in more general of CD gives a first insight on the rich combinatorial nature of brane tilings. Following the classification theme, the work proceeds with the identification of all brane tilings whose mesonic moduli spaces as toric Calabi-Yau 3-folds are represented by reflexive polygons. There are 16 of these special convex lattice polygons. It is shown that 30 brane tilings are associated with them. Some of these brane tilings are related by a correspondence known as toric duality. The classification of brane tilings with reflexive toric diagrams led to the discovery of a new correspondence between brane tilings which we call specular duality. The new correspondence identifies brane tilings with the same master space - the combined mesonic and baryonic moduli space. As a by-product, the new correspondence paves the way for constructing brane tilings which are not confined to the torus but are on Riemann surfaces with arbitrary genus. We give the first classification of genus 2 brane tilings, illustrate the corresponding supersymmetric quiver theories and analyse their vacuum moduli spaces.
Phalaena aceris Linnaeus, 1758, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Linnaeus, Carolus
Publisher: name: Laurentius Salvius
Year: 1758
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Phalaena
Phalaena aceris

description: Phalaena aceris [spec. nov.]
P. Noctua spirilinguis cristata, alis deflexis canis: superioribus lineolis undatis annuloque ovali nigris.
Habitat in Acere, Aesculo, Juglande.
Larva hirsuta, fasciculis tecta flavis rubrisque, dorso albo nigro maculato.
description: Published as part of Linnaeus, Carolus, 1758, Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Stockholm :Laurentius Salvius on page 514, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542, http://zenodo.org/record/3922206
Yang-Mills Duality and the Generation Puzzle
Creators: name: Chan, HM
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The fermion generation puzzle has survived into this century as one of the great mysteries in particle physics. We consider here a possible solution within the Standard Model framework based on a nonabelian generalization of electric-magnetic duality. First, by constructing in loop space a nonabelian generalization of the abelian dual transform (Hodge *), one finds that a ``magnetic'' symmetry exists also in classical Yang-Mills theory dual to the original (``electric'') gauge symmetry. Secondly, from a result of 't Hooft's, one obtains that for confined colour SU(3), the dual symmetry $\widetilde{SU}(3)$ is spontaneously broken and can play the role of the ``horizontal symmetry'' for generations. Thirdly, such an identification not only offers an explanation why there should be three and apparently only three generations of fermions with the remarkable mass and mixing patterns seen in experiment, but allows even a calculation of the relevant parameters giving very sensible results. Other testible predictions follow ranging from rare hadron decays to cosmic ray air showers.
description: 19 pages, Latex, 4 figures, invited lecture at the Intern. Conf. on Fundamental Sciences: Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, March 2000, Singapore; Fig 4 changed
Additional file 1: of Spatial distribution and populations at risk of A. lumbricoides and T. trichiura co-infections and infection intensity classes: an ecological study
Creators: name: Owada, Kei
name: Lau, Colleen
name: Leonardo, Lydia
name: Clements, Archie
name: Yakob, Laith
name: Nielsen, Mark
name: HĂŠlĂ¨Ne Carabin
name: MagalhĂŁes, Ricardo Soares
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Text S1. Analysis of residual spatial dependence. Text S2. Model specification. Table S1. Number of individuals with two or more STH infections. Table S2. Number of individuals with mono- and co-infections. Table S3. Summary of parameters of semivariograms for prevalence of mono- and co-infections. Table S4. Summary of parameters of semivariograms for prevalence of infection intensity classes. Table S5. Summary of validation statistics for models used in study. Figure S1. Semivariograms of prevalence of co-infection models. Figure S2. Semivariograms of prevalence of infection intensity classes model. Figure S3. Map of observed prevalence of mono- and co-infections in Luzon. Figure S4. Map of observed prevalence of mono- and co-infections in the Visayas. Figure S5. Map of observed prevalence of mono- and co-infections in Mindanao. Figure S6. Map of observed infection intensity classes of A. lumbricoides in Mindanao. Figure S7. Map of observed infection intensity classes of T. trichiura in Mindanao. Figure S8. Maps of standard deviation of predicted prevalence of A. lumbricoides mono-, T. trichiura mono-, and co-infection. Figure S9. Maps of standard deviation of predicted prevalence of infection intensity classes of A. lumbricoides. Figure S10. Maps of standard deviation of predicted prevalence of infection intensity classes of T. trichiura. Figure S11. Maps showing number of individuals with A. lumbricoides monoinfection. Figure S12. Maps showing number of individuals with T. trichiura monoinfection. Figure S13. Maps showing number of individuals with co-infections. Figure S14. Map showing number of individuals with light intensity class of A. lumbricoides. Figure S15. Map showing number of individuals with moderate/high intensity classes of A. lumbricoides. Figure S16. Map showing number of individuals with light intensity class of T. trichiura. Figure S17. Map showing number of individuals with moderate/high intensity classes of T. trichiura. (DOCX 4419 kb)
Distributed optimisation in dynamic wireless sensor networks
Creators: name: Yang, Shusen
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2013

description: Over the past decade, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have evolved into a hot interdisciplinary research area. WSNs are generally considered to be statically deployed, but in reality they are dynamic in nature due to a variety of characteristics including fluctuating wireless link quality and clock drift. Furthermore, new WSN topologies and applications have introduced more dynamics, such as time-varying power resources, data traffic patterns, and mobile sensing. These dynamics pose challenges to the theoretical understanding of WSN behaviours and the design of practical algorithms. This thesis investigates distributed network optimisation in three types of dynamic WSNs: WSNs powered by time-varying solar energy, WSNs with fluctuating wireless channel quality, and WSNs with mobile relays and mobile sinks. In distributed optimisation, sensor nodes communicate with each other to collaboratively solve the overall network optimisation problem. Realistic models are established for these dynamic WSNs, and efficient distributed algorithms are developed to optimise network performance, including power management, duty cycling, wireless link scheduling, data routing and forwarding, sensing rate control, and network resource allocation and pricing. Considering the limited capacity of typical sensor nodes, this thesis also aims to understand and balance the tradeoff between system performance and complexity, bridging the gap between optimisation theory and practical algorithm design in dynamic WSNs. The proposed algorithms are shown to outperform state-of-the-art schemes through theoretical analysis, simulations, and real testbed experiments. The work presented in this thesis should be of interest to researchers in the areas of general embedded networked systems and wireless networks. It should also prove useful in emerging research areas including the Internet of Things (IoTs), Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), and Information and Communications Technology (ICT) for smart sustainable cites.
Composition law for the Cole-Cole relaxation and ensuing evolution equations
Creators: name: Górska, K.
name: Horzela, A.
name: Lattanzi, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Physically natural assumption says that the any relaxation process taking place in the time interval $[t_{0},t_{2}]$, $t_{2} > t_{0}\ge 0$ may be represented as a composition of processes taking place during time intervals $[t_{0}, t_{1}]$ and $[t_{1},t_{2}]$ where $t_{1}$ is an arbitrary instant of time such that $t_{0} \leq t_{1} \leq t_{2}$. For the Debye relaxation such a composition is realized by usual multiplication which claim is not valid any longer for more advanced models of relaxation processes. We investigate the composition law required to be satisfied by the Cole-Cole relaxation and find its explicit form given by an integro-differential relation playing the role of the time evolution equation. The latter leads to differential equations involving fractional derivatives, either of the Caputo or the Riemann-Liouville senses, which are equivalent to the special case of the fractional Fokker-Planck equation satisfied by the Mittag-Leffler function known to describe the Cole-Cole relaxation in the time domain.
Studies on the high-pressure liquid chromatography of vitamin D2 and its determination in multivitamin preparations
Creators: name: Mackay, Christeen
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Studies on the high-pressure liquid chromatography of vitamin D2 and its determination in multivitamin preparations
The stellate cancer-associated fibroblast in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma; its role in chemoresistance
Creators: name: Johnson, Natalie Georgette
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2012

description: Introduction: The tumour microenvironment has been found to contribute to cancer survival and progression, and more specifically, the stromal microenvironment has been implicated in the drug resistant nature of cancers such as pancreatic cancer. This microenvironment consists of fibroblasts, pericytes, endothelial cells and the extracellular matrix, with the stellate cancer-associated fibroblast (CAF) being the most predominant cell type present. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of the cancer associated fibroblast in tumourigenesis in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDA) with specific reference to the mechanisms involved in chemoresistance via the stellate cancer associated fibroblast. Methods: I investigated the molecular pathogenesis of PDA assessing DNA copy number alterations (CNA) in selection of clinically relevant PDA cell lines (PANC-1, MiaPaCa-2, ASPC-1, SU86.86, HPAC, HS776T, PL5 and PL45), seven primary resected, non immortalised samples (PF3, PF7, PF8, PF9, PF16, PF18 and PF20) and an immortalised stellate cell line using array comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH). All cultures and cell lines were then screened in order to determine their sensitivity to currently used therapeutic compounds. Analysis was done using R software and Graph Pad Prism 5. Results: The non-immortalised stellate CAFs and formalin fixed paraffin embedded stromal fibroblast samples showed no homozygous genomic CNAs. The stellate cancer associated fibroblasts both primary and immortalised appear more responsive to the chemotherapeutic drugs in the compound library compared to the PDA cell lines. Conclusions: This study suggests the absence of homozygous deletions that may lead to a change in phenotype in the stellate CAF. However, the presence of heterozygous deletions and epigenetic changes has not yet been excluded. Further experiments such as micro RNA and epigenetic studies, such as SNP arrays, may identify the presence of aberrations that have aetiological significance in carcinogenesis even if they do not result in CNVs. This higher sensitivity of the stellate CAF to the drugs in the chemotherapy library may favour them as potential targets for management of this hard to street subtype of disease.
Asymptotically Free $\hat{U}(1)$ Kac-Moody Gauge Fields in $3+1$ dimensions
Creators: name: Baaquie, B. E.
name: Parwani, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: $ \hat {U}(1)$ Kac-Moody gauge fields have the infinite dimensional $ \hat{U}(1)$ Kac-Moody group as their gauge group. The pure gauge sector, unlike the usual $U(1)$ Maxwell lagrangian, is nonlinear and nonlocal; the Euclidean theory is defined on a $d+1$-dimensional manifold $ {\cal{R}}_d \times {\cal{S}}^1 $ and hence is also asymmetric. We quantize this theory using the background field method and examine its renormalizability at one-loop by analyzing all the relevant diagrams. We find that, for a suitable choice of the gauge field propagators, this theory is one-loop renormalizable in $3+1$ dimensions. This pure abelian Kac-Moody gauge theory in $3+1$ dimensions has only one running coupling constant and the theory is asymptotically free. When fermions are added the number of independent couplings increases and a richer structure is obtained. Finally, we note some features of the theory which suggest its possible relevance to the study of anisotropic condensed matter systems, in particular that of high-temperature superconductors.
description: 20 page Latex File. Figures in a separate uuencoded postscript file
Phalaena scabriuscula Linnaeus, 1758, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Linnaeus, Carolus
Publisher: name: Laurentius Salvius
Year: 1758
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Phalaena
Phalaena scabriuscula

description: Phalaena scabriuscula [spec. nov.]
P. Noctua spirilinguis cristata, alis deflexis fuscis: margine dorsali posticoque pallidis.
Habitat in Europa.
Cristae in dorso ipsius abdominis 4 pone thoracem gibbum.
description: Published as part of Linnaeus, Carolus, 1758, Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Stockholm :Laurentius Salvius on page 516, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542, http://zenodo.org/record/3922206
title: ADCO, Cart. 186 (11 H 71), f. 0325v
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CBMA/CG21/F.PETOT/2012
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: cartulaire
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge

description: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, t. II (XVe siècle), tome II, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, C
art. 186 (11 H 71). Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, t. II (XVe siècle), tome II, Archives départementales de la
 Côte-d'Or, Cart. 186 (11 H 71), f. 0325v, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https://manuscrits.cbma-
project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
An extension of the Gluckstern formulas for multiple scattering: analytic expressions for track parameter resolution using optimum weights
Creators: name: Drasal, Zbynek
name: Riegler, Werner
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Momentum, track angle and impact parameter resolution are key performance parameters that tracking detectors are optimised for. This report presents analytic expressions for the resolution of these parameters for equal and equidistant tracking layers. The expressions for the contribution from position resolution are based on the Gluckstern formulas and are well established. The expressions for the contribution from multiple scattering using optimum weights are discussed in detail.
Neutron stars accreting the ISM: Are they fast or slow objects ?
Creators: name: Treves, A.
name: Colpi, M.
name: Turolla, R.
name: Zane, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Old neutron stars (ONSs) which have radiated away their internal and rotational energy may still shine if accreting the interstellar medium. Rather stringent limits from the analysis of ROSAT surveys indicate that most optimistic predictions on ONSs observability are in excess of a factor as large as $\sim 100$. Here we explore two possible evolutionary scenarios that may account for the paucity of ONSs. In the first it is assumed that the ONS population is not too fast ($V<100 km s^{-1}$) and that magnetic field decay guides the evolution. In the second, NSs move with high speed ($V>100$ km s$^{-1}$) and preserve their magnetic field at birth. We find that according to the former scenario most ONSs are now in the propeller phase, while in the latter nearly all ONSs are silent, dead pulsars.
description: 5 pages including 2 postscript figures, to appear in the proceedings of Rome BeppoSax-RossiXTE meeting
Majorana Representations and the Coxeter Groups G^(m,n,p)
Creators: name: Decelle, Sophie
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2013

description: The work presented in this thesis is a contribution to Majorana theory as introduced by A. A. Ivanov in [Iva09]. Inspired by a theorem of S. Sakuma [Sak07], Majorana theory is an axiomatisation of seven properties of the Monster algebra VM, invariant under the Monster group M, and of some of its idempotents. For a finite group G generated by a G-invariant set T of involutions one can define what it means for G to have a Majorana representation with respect to T. It yields a G-invariant Majorana algebra X generated by a set A of idempotents called Majorana axes. To each axis a in A an automorphism Tau(a) of X called Majorana involution is associated, so that X, A and Tau(A) satisfy the Majorana axioms. In this thesis we give a review of the Majorana algebras already obtained and we motivate the following objective: the classification of all Majorana algebras V generated by three Majorana axes a_1, a_2 and a_3 such that V also contains a Majorana axis a_1,2 with associated automorphism Tau(a_1,2) := Tau(a_1) Tau(a_2). This objective requires the classification of all subgroups G :=< Tau(a_{i}) | i in [1;3]> of GL(V ), which are necessarily quotients of the Coxeter groups G^(m,n,p) := such that m, n, p belong to [1; 6] and the set of conjugates of x, y, xy and z is 6-transposition. We prove that all such groups are quotients of only eleven finite groups. Comparing with S. P. Norton's list of `triangle-point' configurations of 2A involutions in M [Nor85], we observe that nine of them 2A-embed in M. The next step is to answer which of those eleven groups can be generated by Majorana involutions. Using partial results already known, we manage to answer this question completely for one of the eleven groups isomorphic to L2(11). For the remaining ten groups we give technical restrictions on the structure of their possible Majorana algebras, thus laying the foundations for further progress.
Charge transport properties of the Majorana zero mode induced noncollinear spin selective Andreev reflection
Creators: name: Shang, Xin
name: Liu, Haiwen
name: Xia, Ke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the charge transport of the spin-selective Andreev reflection(SSAR) effect between a spin polarized scanning tunneling microscope(STM) tip and a Majorana zero mode(MZM). Considering both the MZM and the excited states, we calculate the conductance and the shot noise power of the noncollinear SSAR using scattering theory. We find the influence of first excited states cannot be avoided when the spin polarization direction of the STM tip and the MZM are not collinear. In this case, the first excited states give rise to inside peaks and change the conductance peak value at zero energy. Moreover, we numerically calculate the shot noise power and the Fano factor of the SSAR effect. Our calculation shows that the shot noise power and the Fano factor are related to the angle between the spin polarization direction of the STM tip and that of the MZM. These transport properties of the SSAR effect provide additional characteristics to detect the MZM via SSAR.
description: 8 pages, 9 figures
MOESM1 of Surgical peritoneal stress creates a pro-metastatic niche promoting resistance to apoptosis via IL-8
Creators: name: Pasquier, Jennifer
name: Vidal, Fabien
name: Hoarau-Véchot, Jessica
name: Bonneau, Claire
name: Daraï, Emile
name: Touboul, Cyril
name: Rafii, Arash
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. A. Phase contrast microscopy imaging. Ovarian cancer cells (SKOV3and OVCAR3) treated with Taxol (20 µM) for 24 h in presence of H0 (middle picture), H1 (right picture) or nothing (left picture). Scale bar: 500 µm. B. MTT assay. SKOV3 (green) and OVCAR3 (red) were treated with Taxol (20 µM) in presence of H0 or H1. After 48 h a MTT assay was performed. The histogram represents the mean OD MTT. C. Proliferation assay. OVCAR3 and SKOV3 were plated and counted every 2 days in presence or not of H0 or H1 during 6 days.
Eine Einschätzung der Bezahlkarte für Geflüchtete
Creators: name: Brücker, Herbert
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Asylbewerberleistungsgesetz
subject: Bezahlkarte
subject: Teilhabe
subject: Integration
subject: Geflüchtete
subject: Fluchtmigration
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften

description: (1) Die Bezahlkarte für Geflüchtete soll Geldleistungen nach dem Asylbewerberleistungsgesetz ersetzen. Dies betrifft überwiegend Asylbe­werber­innen und -bewerber während der Asylverfahren und Personen, deren Anträge auf Schutz abgelehnt wurden, nicht aber Geflüchtete mit einem anerkannten Schutzstatus oder ukrainische Staatsangehörige, die seit Beginn des russischen Angriffskriegs am 24.02.2022 nach Deutschland geflohen sind. (2) Die Ausgestaltung der Bezahlkarte, insbesondere inwieweit die sächliche und räumliche Verwendung der Transferleistungen eingeschränkt wird und in welchem Umfang Bargeld abgehoben werden kann, ist noch offen. (3) Die Bezahlkarte kann die soziale und kulturelle Teilhabe, die Wahrnehmung von Integrationsangeboten und die Integration in den Arbeitsmarkt behindern. Die Wirkungen werden wesentlich von der Aus­ge­staltung der Bezahlkarte abhängen. Je ähnlicher sie einem allgemeinen Zahlungsmittel ist, desto geringer sind die negativen Wirkungen. (4) Mit der Bezahlkarte sind direkte und indirekte Kosten verbunden. Die direkten Kosten ergeben sich aus den Gebühren für die Finanz­dienst­leister und dem zusätzlichen Verwaltungsaufwand. Zusätzlich können aber auch indirekte Kosten für die Betroffenen und weitere fiskalische Kosten entstehen, wenn die Integration durch die Bezahlkarte beeinträchtigt wird. (5) Es ist unwahrscheinlich, dass die Bezahlkarte einen spürbaren Einfluss auf den Umfang der Fluchtmigration hat. Das Volumen der Rücküberweis­ungen an die Hauptasylherkunftsländer ist vergleichsweise gering und der überwiegende Teil dieser Rücküberweisungen dürfte von erwerbs­tät­igen Personen stammen. Auch sind die Leistungssätze zu gering, als dass unter realistischen Annahmen aus den Leistungen nach dem Asylbe­werberleistungsgesetz die Flucht von Familienangehörigen oder Freunden finanziert werden kann.
Growth, grain yield, water and nitrogen use efficiency of rainfed maize in response to straw mulching and urea blended with slow-release nitrogen fertilizer: A two-year field study
Creators: name: Guo, Jinjin
name: Fan, Junliang
name: Zhang, Fucang
name: Yan, Shicheng
name: Wu, You
name: Zheng, Jing
name: Xiang, Youzhen
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: The integrated management of water and fertilizer has been widely applied for effectively utilizing limited rainwater resources in rainfed farming systems. However, the combined effect of straw mulching and urea blended with slow-release nitrogen fertilizer (SU) on rainfed maize has seldom been studied. A two-year field experiment (2016–2017) was conducted to evaluate the effects of various agronomic practices, i.e. wheat straw mulching over the entire soil surface (QSU), wheat straw mulching over the partial soil surface (DSU), and water-retaining agent (BSU) under two N application rates (N1: 120 kg ha−1 and N2: 180 kg ha−1) on rainfed maize in northwest China. The results showed that DSUN2 delayed leaf senescence, increased chlorophyll content and photosynthesis, promoted N uptake, and increased grain yield (GY) (by 19.34%-39.91% in 2016 and 11.00%-52.57% in 2017), water use efficiency (WUE) (by 14.35%-56.21% in 2016 and 8.87%-57.44% in 2017) and nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) (by 12.03%-31.82% in 2016 and 0.49%-9.34% in 2017). More soil water was retained by QSU, which significantly promoted maize growth, but decreased GY compared with DSU. In conclusion, DSUN2 was the most effective agricultural management practice for improving GY, WUE and NUE of rained maize in northwest China.
Phalaena strigilis Linnaeus, 1758, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Linnaeus, Carolus
Publisher: name: Laurentius Salvius
Year: 1758
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Phalaena
Phalaena strigilis

description: Phalaena strigilis [spec. nov.]
P. Noctua spirilinguis cristata, alis deflexis nebulosis: denticulis setaceis intra fasciam albam terminalem.
Habitat in Europa.
Inter congeneres parva. Alae griseo-cinereae tribus annulis ovalibus nigris; fascia alba alas terminans latior, intra quam area fusca inserit 5 vel 6 strias nigras fere ad ejus medium.
description: Published as part of Linnaeus, Carolus, 1758, Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Stockholm :Laurentius Salvius on page 516, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542, http://zenodo.org/record/3922206