cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
An innovative app for a parametric, holistic and multidisciplinary approach to early design stages
Creators: name: Donato, Mattia
name: Zemella, Giovanni
name: Rapone, Gianluca
name: Hussain, Jak
name: Black, Conor
Publisher: name: Journal of Facade Design and Engineering
Year: 2017

description: During early project stages, design teams need to explore a wide range of possible envelope configurations in order to identify those that best address the project constraints and objectives. Crucial aspects such as control of solar gains, use of blinds and renewable energy production are typically the subjects of extensive discussions among architects and façade, mechanical, electrical and PH engineers. Traditional methodologies used to inform the design on such matters are neither flexible nor time efficient, failing to meet the expectations of the team. Arup Solar is an innovative APP developed to overcome such inefficiencies and to provide a user-friendly way to aid the discussion between architects and engineers. The validated APP aims to investigate the relationships between envelope features (e.g. window to wall ratio, g values, etc.) and cooling strategies, as well as identify potential opportunities for renewable solar energy production. It allows for the exploration of a large number of design options instantaneously, visualizing results by mapping them on the 3D model of the building. The process of building any instance of the APP includes a first step where the NURBs modeler Rhino/Grasshopper is utilized to run a Radiance & DAYSIM solar analysis on any complex geometry. The resulting data (on each surface mesh) is then exported to the Unity gaming engine, where a set of pre-programmed features is automatically implemented and the graphic interface is created. The outcome is a stand-alone parametric application that can be potentially run on any device.
description: Journal of Facade Design and Engineering, Vol. 5 No. 2 (2017): Special Issue ICBEST Istanbul
Path-by-path regularisation through multiplicative noise in rough, Young, and ordinary differential equations
Creators: name: Dareiotis, Konstantinos
name: Gerencsér, Máté
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60H50, 60H10, 60L20

description: Differential equations perturbed by multiplicative fractional Brownian motions are considered. Depending on the value of the Hurst parameter $H$, the resulting equation is pathwise viewed as an ODE, YDE, or RDE. In all three regimes we show regularisation by noise phenomena by proving the strongest kind of well-posedness with irregular drift: strong existence and path-by-path uniqueness. In the Young and smooth regime $H>1/2$ the condition on the drift coefficient is optimal in the sense that it agrees with the one known for the additive case [CG16, Ger22]. In the rough regime $H\in(1/3,1/2)$ we assume positive but arbitrarily small drift regularity for strong well-posedness, while for distributional drift we obtain weak existence.
description: 40 pages
A survey of results toward the class number problem for real quadratic fields
Creators: name: Nevin, Joshua Borwein
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: The class number problem is one of the central open problems of algebraic number theory. It has long been known that there are only finitely many imaginary quadratic fields of class number one, and the full list of such fields is given by the Stark-Heegner theorem, but the corresponding problem for real quadratic fields is still open. It is conjectured that infinitely many real quadratic fields have class number one but at present it is still unknown even whether infinitely many algebraic number fields have class number one. This thesis reviews the relevant work that has been done on this problem in the last several decades. It is primarily concerned with a heuristic model of the sequence of real quadratic class groups called the Cohen-Lenstra heuristics, since this appears to offer the best hope of potentially solving the class number problem. The work of several other people who have put forward interpretations of the Cohen-Lenstra heuristics in other contexts, or who have generalized the heuristics, is also reviewed.
Modelling of active solar building envelopes for cost-effective evaluation
Creators: name: Maurer, Christoph
name: Kuhn, Tilmann E.
Publisher: name: Journal of Facade Design and Engineering
Year: 2017

description: Active building envelopes have provided cost reductions of 40% compared to the separate installation of solar collectors on a building envelope. However, solar building envelopes are more complex than conventional building envelopes due to their additional solar function. Firstly, the paper explains this complexity before describing methods of handling it. The focus of the simulation models is to obtain high levels of accuracy at low costs. From the development of innovative solar envelopes to the general planning and construction of solar architecture, this paper provides seven recommendations to optimize the cost-benefit ratio of simulations of active building envelopes.
description: Journal of Facade Design and Engineering, Vol. 5 No. 2 (2017): Special Issue ICBEST Istanbul
A litterature review of experimental setups monitoring thermal performance of vegetated facade systems
Creators: name: Yuksel, Elif
name: Turkeri, A. Nil
Publisher: name: Journal of Facade Design and Engineering
Year: 2017

description: The decline of green spaces through urbanization, the urban heat island effect resulting from the use of materials with low albedo value, and the greenhouse effect occurring as a result of the consumption of fossil fuels all lead to an increase in ambient air temperature. Use of roof, facade, and pavement materials with high albedo value and vegetated surfaces play an important role in reducing the urban heat island effect. It is essential to use renewable energy sources instead of fossil fuels and/or reduce energy consumption in order to decrease the greenhouse effect. There are various numerical and experimental studies in some countries of the world that investigate the contribution of vegetated facade systems (VFS) used as energy-efficient and sustainable systems to improve the thermal performance of the building envelope. However, in Turkey there has been no empirical study to measure and evaluate the thermal performance of VFSs. Therefore, a PhD thesis is being conducted at Istanbul Technical University to measure thermal performance of vegetated facade systems under Kocaeli climate (temperate humid) conditions. In the present study, a literature review investigating existing experimental setups has been conducted and experimental approaches are being complied, classified and tabulated. Hence, test assemblies, types of measured variables, sensors that have been used to measure different parameters, and location of the sensors within the assemblies have been determined. In addition, the resulting recommendations for further experimental studies have been put forward. The aim of the study is to explain and evaluate the existing experimental setups and, based on these and context-limitations of the thesis, put forward the details of experimental setup that will be used for the thesis.
description: Journal of Facade Design and Engineering, Vol. 5 No. 2 (2017): Special Issue ICBEST Istanbul
Suzaku Observations of Ejecta-Dominated Galactic Supernova Remnant G346.6-0.2
Creators: name: Sezer, A.
name: Gök, F.
name: Hudaverdi, M.
name: Kimura, M.
name: Ercan, E. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present here the results of the X-ray analysis of Galactic supernova remnant G346.6-0.2 observed with {\it Suzaku}. K-shell emission lines of Mg, Si, S, Ca and Fe are detected clearly for the first time. Strong emission lines of Si and S imply that X-ray emission nature of G346.6-0.2 is ejecta-dominated. The ejecta-dominated emission is well fitted with a combined model consisting of thermal plasma in non-equilibrium ionization and a non-thermal component, which can be regarded as synchrotron emission with a photon index of $Γ$ $\sim 0.6$. Absorbing column density of $N_{\rm H}\sim2.1\times10^{22}$ ${\rm cm^{-2}}$ is obtained from the best-fitting implying a high-density medium, high electron temperature of $kT_{\rm e}\sim1.2$ keV, and ionization timescale of $n_{\rm e}t\sim2.9\times10^{11}$ ${\rm cm^{-3}s}$ indicating that this remnant may be far from full ionization equilibrium. The relative abundances from the ejecta show that the remnant originates from a Type Ia supernova explosion.
description: 7 pages, 4 figure
Characterization and Implementation of Screen-Printed, Flexible PTC Heaters for Portable Diagnostic Testing
Creators: name: Brown, Riley J
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: Medical devices
Electronic device and system performance evaluation, testing and simulation
Infectious diseases

description: The 2020 pandemic emphasized the need for accessible and accurate point-of-care diagnostic tests. With the continued development of isothermal nucleic acid amplification tests, this can be achieved. A requirement of these tests includes heating and holding a specific temperature, in this case, 65C for 30 minutes, for amplification to occur. To achieve this, heaters often require external feedback to control the temperature; bringing up the device’s cost. Several self-regulating heaters have been made with materials having a positive thermal coefficient of resistance eliminating the need for complex circuitry. With this property, point-of-care diagnostic tests can be simplified and made more accessible. In this study, ink-based positive thermal coefficient of resistance heaters are developed and characterized using the scalable method of screen printing to achieve 65C and aid in the detection of SARS-CoV-2. Various curing methods and screen-printing parameters were evaluated to improve the stability and understanding of the reproducibility of the heaters. The longevity of the heaters was evaluated with oxidation studies and a COMSOL model was created to study the heat transfer within the device. Furthermore, the heaters were successfully implemented into a second-generation electronic point-of-care diagnostic device. Detection of SARS-CoV-2 using a self-regulating heater removes the need for complex circuitry, improving the accessibility of point-of-care tests with the potential to be expanded to a wide range of pathogen detection.
The Finite Field Multi-Way Relay Channel with Correlated Sources: The Three-User Case
Creators: name: Ong, Lawrence
name: Timo, Roy
name: Lechner, Gottfried
name: Johnson, Sarah J.
name: Kellett, Christopher M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The three-user finite field multi-way relay channel with correlated sources is considered. The three users generate possibly correlated messages, and each user is to transmit its message to the two other users reliably in the Shannon sense. As there is no direct link among the users, communication is carried out via a relay, and the link from the users to the relay and those from the relay to the users are finite field adder channels with additive noise of arbitrary distribution. The problem is to determine the set of all possible achievable rates, defined as channel uses per source symbol for reliable communication. For two classes of source/channel combinations, the solution is obtained using Slepian-Wolf source coding combined with functional-decode-forward channel coding.
description: to be presented at ISIT 2011
On Achievable Rate Regions of the Asymmetric AWGN Two-Way Relay Channel
Creators: name: Ong, Lawrence
name: Kellett, Christopher M.
name: Johnson, Sarah J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper investigates the additive white Gaussian noise two-way relay channel, where two users exchange messages through a relay. Asymmetrical channels are considered where the users can transmit data at different rates and at different power levels. We modify and improve existing coding schemes to obtain three new achievable rate regions. Comparing four downlink-optimal coding schemes, we show that the scheme that gives the best sum-rate performance is (i) complete-decode-forward, when both users transmit at low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR); (ii) functional-decode-forward with nested lattice codes, when both users transmit at high SNR; (iii) functional-decode-forward with rate splitting and time-division multiplexing, when one user transmits at low SNR and another user at medium--high SNR.
description: to be presented at ISIT 2011
Dynamical simulations of classical stochastic systems using matrix product states
Creators: name: Johnson, T. H.
name: Clark, S. R.
name: Jaksch, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We adapt the time-evolving block decimation (TEBD) algorithm, originally devised to simulate the dynamics of 1D quantum systems, to simulate the time-evolution of non-equilibrium stochastic systems. We describe this method in detail; a system's probability distribution is represented by a matrix product state (MPS) of finite dimension and then its time-evolution is efficiently simulated by repeatedly updating and approximately re-factorizing this representation. We examine the use of MPS as an approximation method, looking at parallels between the interpretations of applying it to quantum state vectors and probability distributions. In the context of stochastic systems we consider two types of factorization for use in the TEBD algorithm: non-negative matrix factorization (NMF), which ensures that the approximate probability distribution is manifestly non-negative, and the singular value decomposition (SVD). Comparing these factorizations we find the accuracy of the SVD to be substantially greater than current NMF algorithms. We then apply TEBD to simulate the totally asymmetric simple exclusion process (TASEP) for systems of up to hundreds of lattice sites in size. Using exact analytic results for the TASEP steady state, we find that TEBD reproduces this state such that the error in calculating expectation values can be made negligible, even when severely compressing the description of the system by restricting the dimension of the MPS to be very small. Out of the steady state we show for specific observables that expectation values converge as the dimension of the MPS is increased to a moderate size.
description: 16 pages, 10 figures
FOWT MOORING LINES FRETTING FATIGUE
Creators: name: M. MARTINEZ
name: M. GUITON
name: S. MONTALVO
name: F. BUSSOLATI
name: P.-A. GUIDAULT
name: O. ALLIX
name: S. FOUVRY
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: wind
wind power
wind turbines
floating wind
offshore wind

description: This presentation was part of the EERA JP Wind WORKSHOP on Ongoing research in offshore wind structures (September 16 & 17, 2021, hybrid event in Amsterdam and online).
Modelling the radio pulses of an ultracool dwarf
Creators: name: Yu, S.
name: Hallinan, G.
name: Doyle, J. G.
name: MacKinnon, A. L.
name: Antonova, A.
name: Kuznetsov, A.
name: Golden, A.
name: Zhang, Z. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently unanticipated magnetic activity in ultracool dwarfs (UCDs, spectral classes later than M7) have emerged from a number of radio observations. The highly (up to 100%) circularly polarized nature and high brightness temperature of the emission has been interpreted as an effective amplification mechanism of the high-frequency electromagnetic waves, the electron cyclotron maser instability (ECMI). In order to understand the magnetic topology and the properties of the radio emitting region and associated plasmas in these ultracool dwarfs and interpret the origin of radio pulses and their radiation mechanism, we built an active region model, based on the rotation of the UCD and the ECMI mechanism. ECMI mechanism is responsible for the radio bursts from the magnetic tubes and the rotation of the dwarf can modulate the integral of flux with respect to time. The high degree of variability in the brightness and the diverse profile of pulses can be interpreted in terms of a large-scale hot active region with extended magnetic structure existing in the magnetosphere of TVLM 513-46546. We suggest the time profile of the radio light curve is in the form of power law in the model. The radio emitting region consists of complicated substructure. With this model, we can determine the nature (e.g. size, temperature, density) of the radio emitting region and plasma. The magnetic topology can also be constrained. We compare our predicted X-ray flux with Chandra X-ray observation of TVLM 513-46546. Although the X-ray detection is only marginally significant, our predicted flux is significantly lower than the observed flux. We suggest more observations at multi-wavelength will help us understand the magnetic field structure and plasma behavior on the ultracool dwarf.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics, language edited
Editorial
Creators: name: Luible, Andreas
Publisher: name: Journal of Facade Design and Engineering
Year: 2018

description: This special issue is linked to the conference FAÇADE 2018 – Adaptive!, the fifth conference that is organised by Lucerne University of Applied Science and Arts within the framework of the European Façade Network EFN. FAÇADE 2018 is also the final conference of the COST Action TU1403 “Adaptive facades network” (www.tu1403.eu) and dedicated to multifunctional, adaptive and dynamic building envelopes. Approximately one third of all end-user energy in Europe today is consumed by space heating / cooling, ventilation and lighting of buildings. Therefore, the energy performance of future building envelopes will play a key role in order to meeting the EU climate and energy sustainability targets. Whereas most of our today’s facades are passive systems and are largely exhausted from an energetic point of view, multifunctional, adaptive and dynamic facades can be considered as the next big milestone in façade technology. Adaptive building envelopes are able to interact with the environment and the user by reacting to external influences and adapting their behaviour and functionality accordingly: the building envelope insulates only when necessary, it produces energy when possible, it shades or ventilates when the indoor comfort so demands. Nevertheless, the development and realisation of adaptive building envelopes is still in the initial stage In order to advance the development and application of adaptive facades COST Action TU1403 “Adaptive facades network” was initiated in 2014. The COST Action, which started in 2015 and ends by the end of 2018 is a European research project with the objective to support trans-national cooperation between researchers and industry through science and technology networks. Over four years, more than 210 participants from 27 countries were involved in numerous COST networking activities: 15 meetings, two training schools, two industry workshops, 31 short term scientific missions and two conferences.
description: Journal of Facade Design and Engineering, Vol. 6 No. 3 (2018): Special Issue FAÇADE 2018 – Adaptive!
Новая эра в лечении пациентов с ХСН.От исследования EMPA-REG OUTCOME к исследованию EMPEROR-Reduced.2021.pdf
Creators: name: Doe, Jonn
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Health Care
subject: 110201 Cardiology (incl. Cardiovascular Diseases)
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cardiology
subject: 110312 Nephrology and Urology

description: Нефропротективные механизмы ингибиторов SGLT2 многофакторны, один из ведущих — это снижение гиперфильтрации в клубочках.Эмпаглифлозин продемонстрировал нефропротективный эффект, замедляя прогрессирование паденияфункции почек у пациентов, исходно имевших ХБП, и у больных без ХБП. Важно, что лечение эмпаглифлозином не сопровождалось увеличением риска острого почечного повреждения и гиперкалиемии по сравнению с плацебо, и, следовательно, это безопасная терапия. Эмпаглифлозин обязательно войдет в практикунефрологов, т.к. снижает частоту почечных событий у пациентов с ХСН исходно с/без ХБП, а также по всему спектру фильтрационной функции почек, включая подгруппу пациентов с СКФ до 20 мл/мин/1,73 м2 при низкой частоте нежелательных явлений
Третий вопрос: возможно ли рекомендовать эмпаглифлозин к применению не только с формулировкой “для снижения сердечно-сосудистой смертности и госпитализаций по причине СН”, но и по показанию “для замедления прогрессирования ХБП”? Эксперты высказались в поддержку данного показания для назначения эмпаглифлозина с учетом значительной эффективности данного препарата среди пациентов с ХСН независимо от анамнеза ХБП при наличии высокойбезопасности данного лечения.
Measurement of the top quark pole mass using $\text{t}\bar{\text{t}}$+jet events in the dilepton final state at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV with the CMS experiment
Creators: name: Wuchterl, Sebastian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this contribution, a measurement of the top quark pole mass $m_{\text{t}}^{\text{pole}}$ is presented. Events where a top quark-antiquark pair ($\text{t}\bar{\text{t}}$) is produced in association with at least one additional energetic jet ($\text{t}\bar{\text{t}}$+jet) are analyzed. The data set recorded by the CMS experiment at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to a total integrated luminosity of 36.3fb$^{-1}$, is used. Reconstructed events are required to contain two opposite-sign leptons in the final state. Machine learning methods are employed for the reconstruction of the main observable event classification. The normalized $\text{t}\bar{\text{t}}$+jet production cross section as a function of the inverse of the invariant mass of the $\text{t}\bar{\text{t}}$+jet system is measured at the parton level using a likelihood unfolding method. The value for $m_{\text{t}}^{\text{pole}}$ is extracted by comparing the measurement to next-to-leading order theoretical predictions using two parton distribution functions (PDFs). For a reference set of the ABMP16NLO PDF, the resulting value is $m_{\text{t}}^{\text{pole}} = 172.94\pm1.37$ GeV.
description: To appear in the Proceedings of the The Tenth Annual Conference on Large Hadron Collider Physics - LHCP2022, online, 16-20 May 2022
Comment on "Delayed luminescence of biological systems in terms of coherent states" [Phys. Lett. A 293 (2002) 93]
Creators: name: Salari, Vahid
name: Brouder, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Popp and Yan [F. A. Popp, Y. Yan, Phys. Lett. A 293 (2002) 93] proposed a model for delayed luminescence based on a single time-dependent coherent state. We show that the general solution of their model corresponds to a luminescence that is a linear function of time. Therefore, their model is not compatible with any measured delayed luminescence. Moreover, the functions that they use to describe the oscillatory behaviour of delayed luminescence are not solutions of the coupling equations to be solved.
description: 2 pages, no figure
Unglazed Solar Thermal Systems for Building Integration, coupled with District Heating Systems. Conceptual Definition, Cost and Performance Assessment
Creators: name: Mugaguren, Mikel Lumbreras
name: Garay, Roberto
name: Martin, Koldobika
Publisher: name: Journal of Facade Design and Engineering
Year: 2018

description: In this paper, the energy performance of a solar thermal (ST) façade system is studied in relation to its connection to a district heating system. This concept allows for the direct use of ST heat in the building, while taking profit from the network for delivery/selling of excess heat and purchase of heat during periods of underproduction. The use of unglazed collectors for low-intrusive architectural interaction in façades is discussed. Studies are carried out on the heat production of the system and its capacity to cope with local demands. Economic studies are carried out in order to balance the investment and operational costs/profits of the system.
description: Journal of Facade Design and Engineering, Vol. 6 No. 2 (2018): Special Issue ICAE2018
Hybrid numerical and experimental performance assessment of structural thermal bridge retrofits
Creators: name: Garay Martinez, Roberto
Publisher: name: Journal of Facade Design and Engineering
Year: 2018

description: A methodological approach to the multi-dimensional heat transfer assessment of building envelopes is performed. The proposed method focuses on thermally weak points in envelope-structure junctions and the assessment of envelope retrofit alternatives. Thermal performance in these spots is seldom assessed in energy audit processes, although it is one of the main heat loss paths in many insulated façade solutions. An envelope-slab junction case is presented, where multi-dimensional heat transfer occurs. This paper proposes a methodology that allows for a hybrid experimental and numerical performance assessment in such circumstances. A numerical model is calibrated against experimental data, which is then modified to reflect various envelope retrofit solutions. Several possible analysis procedures are proposed, based on the capacities of transient thermal models. G M T Detect language Afrikaans Albanian Arabic Armenian Azerbaijani Basque Belarusian Bengali Bosnian Bulgarian Catalan Cebuano Chichewa Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Esperanto Estonian Filipino Finnish French Galician Georgian German Greek Gujarati Haitian Creole Hausa Hebrew Hindi Hmong Hungarian Icelandic Igbo Indonesian Irish Italian Japanese Javanese Kannada Kazakh Khmer Korean Lao Latin Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Malagasy Malay Malayalam Maltese Maori Marathi Mongolian Myanmar (Burmese) Nepali Norwegian Persian Polish Portuguese Punjabi Romanian Russian Serbian Sesotho Sinhala Slovak Slovenian Somali Spanish Sundanese Swahili Swedish Tajik Tamil Telugu Thai Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Uzbek Vietnamese Welsh Yiddish Yoruba Zulu Afrikaans Albanian Arabic Armenian Azerbaijani Basque Belarusian Bengali Bosnian Bulgarian Catalan Cebuano Chichewa Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Esperanto Estonian Filipino Finnish French Galician Georgian German Greek Gujarati Haitian Creole Hausa Hebrew Hindi Hmong Hungarian Icelandic Igbo Indonesian Irish Italian Japanese Javanese Kannada Kazakh Khmer Korean Lao Latin Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Malagasy Malay Malayalam Maltese Maori Marathi Mongolian Myanmar (Burmese) Nepali Norwegian Persian Polish Portuguese Punjabi Romanian Russian Serbian Sesotho Sinhala Slovak Slovenian Somali Spanish Sundanese Swahili Swedish Tajik Tamil Telugu Thai Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Uzbek Vietnamese Welsh Yiddish Yoruba Zulu Text-to-speech function is limited to 200 characters Options : History : Feedback : Donate Close
description: Journal of Facade Design and Engineering, Vol. 6 No. 2 (2018): Special Issue ICAE2018
Characterisation of the thermal performance of a novel roof ridge solar hot water system
Creators: name: Fuentes, Elena
name: Salom, Jaume
Publisher: name: Journal of Facade Design and Engineering
Year: 2018

description: The development of novel systems for the on-site integration of renewable energy in buildings is increasingly demanded for the reduction of the energy consumption resulting from domestic hot water, heating and cooling usages. Within this context, the development of efficient solar collectors for domestic hot water demand production that benefit from their architectural integration in buildings is of high relevance. In the present study a novel solar collector device with a tube-in-tube concept that integrates domestic hot water storage and absorber in a single unit, is tested under the standard ISO 9459-5. The thermal performance of the collector is evaluated by means of the so-called DST (Dynamic System Testing) method that allows prediction of its annual energy efficiency under different climate condition scenarios. The study concluded that three collector modules in series can provide a high annual DHW energy coverage between 62-70 % for Southern European climates and in the range of 30-40% for Central and Northern European climates. Along with its compactness and efficient design that allow easier architectural integration on roof ridges, an additional advantage of the system is that its cylindrical geometry makes it possible to rely on a significant surface for full diurnal radiation absorption, independently of solar orientation. With the objective for this new development to be technically and economically competitive compared to available solar domestic how water systems (SDHW), it is currently under the pre-production phase and ready to enter the market in 2018.
description: Journal of Facade Design and Engineering, Vol. 6 No. 2 (2018): Special Issue ICAE2018
Detection of parent H2O and CO2 molecules in the 2.5--5 micron spectrum of comet C/2007 N3 (Lulin) observed with AKARI
Creators: name: Ootsubo, Takafumi
name: Usui, Fumihiko
name: Kawakita, Hideyo
name: Ishiguro, Masateru
name: Furusho, Reiko
name: Hasegawa, Sunao
name: Ueno, Munetaka
name: Watanabe, Jun-ichi
name: Sekiguchi, Tomohiko
name: Wada, Takehiko
name: Ohyama, Youichi
name: Oyabu, Shinki
name: Matsuhara, Hideo
name: Onaka, Takashi
name: Nakagawa, Takao
name: Murakami, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Comet C/2007 N3 (Lulin) was observed with the Japanese infrared satellite AKARI in the near-infrared at a post-perihelion heliocentric distance of 1.7 AU. Observations were performed with the spectroscopic (2.5--5.0 micron) and imaging (2.4, 3.2, and 4.1 micron) modes on 2009 March 30 and 31 UT, respectively. AKARI images of the comet exhibit a sunward crescent-like shape coma and a dust tail extended toward the anti-solar direction. The 4.1 micron image (CO/CO2 and dust grains) shows a distribution different from the 2.4 and 3.2 micron images (H2O and dust grains). The observed spectrum shows distinct bands at 2.66 and 4.26 micron, attributed to H2O and CO2, respectively. This is the fifth comet in which CO2 has been directly detected in the near-infrared spectrum. In addition, CO at 4.67 micron and a broad 3.2--3.6 micron emission band from C-H bearing molecules were detected in the AKARI spectrum. The relative abundance ratios CO2/H2O and CO/H2O derived from the molecular production rates are \sim 4%--5% and < 2%, respectively. Comet Lulin belongs to the group that has relatively low abundances of CO and CO2 among the comets observed ever.
description: 14 pages, 2 tables, 2 figures, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Plasmid-mediated tigecycline-resistant gene tet(X4) in Escherichia coli from food-producing animals, China, 2008–2018
Creators: name: Sun, Chengtao
name: Cui, Mingquan
name: Zhang, Shan
name: Wang, Hejia
name: Song, Li
name: Zhang, Chunping
name: Zhao, Qi
name: Liu, Dejun
name: Wang, Yang
name: Shen, Jianzhong
name: Xu, Shixin
name: Wu, Congming
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: The recent emergence of plasmid-mediated tigecycline resistance genes, tet(X3) and tet(X4), in animals and humans in China would pose a foreseeable threat to public health. To illustrate this paradigm shift in tigecycline resistance, here, covering the period 2008-2018, we retrospectively analysed a national strain collection of Escherichia coli (n = 2254), obtained from chickens and pigs, in six representative provinces of China. The gene tet(X4) was identified in five pig isolates collected in 2016 and 2018 from the provinces of Sichuan (3/15, 2018), Henan (1/25, 2018) and Guangdong (1/28, 2016), but not in the isolates prior to 2016. None of the isolates was detected harbouring tet(X3). All tet(X4)-positive E. coli exhibited high levels of tigecycline resistance (MICs, 16-64 mg/L), and two were confirmed as colistin resistant, harbouring chromosome-borne mcr-1 gene. The gene tet(X4) was detected on a plasmid in all five isolates, whereas a co-location of tet(X4) on the chromosome of one isolate was observed. Diverse host strains and novel plasmids related to the tet(X4) gene were observed. Our timely findings of the recent emergence of tet(X4) gene in food animal support the rapid surveillance and eradication of this gene before it is established.
Generalized Geologic Map for Land-Use Planning: Owsley County, Kentucky
Creators: name: Hodges, Edward C.
name: Davidson, Bart
name: Carey, David I.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Geological Survey, University of Kentucky
Year: 2006

description: Abstract:
This map is not intended to be used for selecting individual sites. Its purpose is to inform land-use planners, government officials, and the public in a general way about geologic bedrock conditions that affect the selection of sites for various purposes. The properties of thick soils may supercede those of the underlying bedrock and should be considered on a site-to-site basis. At any site, it is important to understand the characteristics of both the soils and the underlying rock.
Distinct electronic nematicities between electron and hole underdoped iron pnictides
Creators: name: Ying, J. J.
name: Wang, X. F.
name: Wu, T.
name: Xiang, Z. J.
name: Liu, R. H.
name: Yan, Y. J.
name: Wang, A. F.
name: Zhang, M.
name: Ye, G. J.
name: Cheng, P.
name: Hu, J. P.
name: Chen, X. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We systematically investigated the in-plane resistivity anisotropy of electron-underdoped $EuFe_{2-x}Co_xAs_2$ and $BaFe_{2-x}Co_xAs_2$, and hole-underdoped $Ba_{1-x}K_xFe_2As_2$. Large in-plane resistivity anisotropy was found in the former samples, while {\it tiny} in-plane resistivity anisotropy was detected in the latter ones. When it is detected, the anisotropy starts above the structural transition temperature and increases smoothly through it. As the temperature is lowered further, the anisotropy takes a dramatic enhancement through the magnetic transition temperature. We found that the anisotropy is universally tied to the presence of non-Fermi liquid T-linear behavior of resistivity. Our results demonstrate that the nematic state is caused by electronic degrees of freedom, and the microscopic orbital involvement in magnetically ordered state must be fundamentally different between the hole and electron doped materials.
Influence of synaptic depression on memory storage capacity
Creators: name: Otsubo, Yosuke
name: Nagata, Kenji
name: Oizumi, Masafumi
name: Okada, Masato
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Synaptic efficacy between neurons is known to change within a short time scale dynamically. Neurophysiological experiments show that high-frequency presynaptic inputs decrease synaptic efficacy between neurons. This phenomenon is called synaptic depression, a short term synaptic plasticity. Many researchers have investigated how the synaptic depression affects the memory storage capacity. However, the noise has not been taken into consideration in their analysis. By introducing "temperature", which controls the level of the noise, into an update rule of neurons, we investigate the effects of synaptic depression on the memory storage capacity in the presence of the noise. We analytically compute the storage capacity by using a statistical mechanics technique called Self Consistent Signal to Noise Analysis (SCSNA). We find that the synaptic depression decreases the storage capacity in the case of finite temperature in contrast to the case of the low temperature limit, where the storage capacity does not change.
How to analyse the performances of innovative variable diffusivity membranes integrated within prefabricated timber facades Compute
Creators: name: Pinotti, Riccardo
name: Avesani, Stefano
name: Babich, Francesco
name: Gasparella, Andrea
name: Speranza, Alice
Publisher: name: Journal of Facade Design and Engineering
Year: 2018

description: Vapour barriers and retarders are often needed to improve the hygro-thermal performance of the building envelope. Their use is particularly important in prefabricated timber façades, especially when critical boundary conditions occur. In the literature, very little is known about the actual performance of complete envelope packages that integrate these membranes, since most previous studies focused on the analysis of single components. However, considering the growing interest and use of such timber facade elements, an analysis of the performance of integrated membranes is needed in order to improve the material function curves available in the datasheets to enable the correct design of the whole wall structure. Thus, the novelty of this work lies in the validated analysis of a building envelope sample that integrates membranes with a variable vapour diffusivity. The focus of the paper is more related to the experimental set-up and particular attention has been paid to the development of a relatively simple testing procedure to analyse the behaviour of such integrated membranes. The study seeks to investigate the behaviour of an envelope component integrating a hygro-variable membrane and a breathable membrane by using computer simulation and experimental facilities. A thermo-hygrometric analysis of the element has been performed in Delphin, and an experimental methodology is presented, aiming to validate the numerical model, measuring the temperature and relative humidity in different layers. Two sets of boundary conditions have been accurately chosen as they are critical for the building component in terms of thermal and humidity transmission. Results show very good agreement for one test condition. For the second condition, the measurement uncertainty was greater. One possible reason for this was the presence of condensate in the measurement box frame caused by the first test run. The experimental set-up developed is a relatively easy-to-replicate layout for the validation of similar complex packages. Compared to previous studies, the experimental set-up used in this research is simpler and less expensive.
description: Journal of Facade Design and Engineering, Vol. 6 No. 2 (2018): Special Issue ICAE2018
Current constraints on the epoch of cosmic acceleration
Creators: name: Santos, B.
name: Carvalho, J. C.
name: Alcaniz, J. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The cosmographic expansion history of the universe is investigated by using the 557 type Ia supernovae from the Union2 Compilation set along with the current estimates involving the product of the CMB acoustic scale $\ell_{A}$ and the BAO peak at two different redshifts. Using a well-behaved parameterization for the deceleration parameter, $q(z) = q_0 + q_1z/(1 + z)$, we estimate the accelerating redshift $z_{acc}=-q_0/(q_0 + q_1)$ (at which the universe switches from deceleration to acceleration) and investigate the influence of a non-vanishing spatial curvature on these estimates. We also use the asymptotic value of $q(z)$ at high-$z$ to place more restrictive bounds on the model parameters $q_0$ and $q_1$, which results in a more precise determination of the epoch of cosmic acceleration.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, LaTeX
Additional file 1: of WIPF1 antagonizes the tumor suppressive effect of miR-141/200c and is associated with poor survival in patients with PDAC
Creators: name: Pan, Yu
name: Lu, Fengchun
name: Xiong, Ping
name: Pan, Maoen
name: Zhang, Zheyang
name: Lin, Xianchao
name: Pan, Minggui
name: Huang, Heguang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Table S1. The primer sequences used for polymerase chain reaction. Table S2. The nucleotide sequence of the primers used for qRT-PCR. Table S3. The sequence of miR-200c mimic, miR-141 mimic, anti-miR-200c mimic (Has-miR-200c inhibitor), and anti-miR-141 mimic (Has-miR-141 inhibitor) used for lentivirus transfection and luciferase reporter assay. Table S4. Characteristics of patients with pancreatic cancer (N = 37). Table S5. Characteristics of patients with pancreatic cancer from the TCGA database (N = 177). Figure S1. Identifying miR-141/200c target genes using the TargetScan software program. Figure S2. The levels of CpG methylation of the promoter region of miR-200a/200b/429 in PDAC. Figure S3. Lentiviral expression of miR-141 and miR-200c and their inhibitors in pancreatic cancer cell lines. Figure S4. The effect of miR-141 and miR-200c inhibitors on cell migration and invasion in vitro and tumor growth in xenograft. Figure S5. miR-141 and miR-200c inhibit the expression of WIPF1 in HPDE cell line. Figure S6. Lentiviral expression of shWIPF1 in pancreatic cancer cell lines. Figure S7. WIPF1 antagonizes the inhibitory effect of miR-141/200c on cell migration, invasion and metastasis of PDAC. (DOCX 17513 kb)
BIM from Concept Design to Fabrication
Creators: name: Gallego-Fernández, Ana
name: Núñez Díaz, Miguel Ángel
name: Marcos Núñez, Ángel Mateo
Publisher: name: Journal of Facade Design and Engineering
Year: 2018

description: When an architect ideates a complex building envelope, they often rely on a façade consultancy to develop the final detailed solution of their design. The purpose of this paper is to describe a customised BIM methodology to develop complex building envelopes, evaluating the process followed to convert an architectural concept design to a fabrication reality. Over recent years, building information modelling has developed greatly in terms of architectural, structural and MEP disciplines. It conveniently advances and analyse the variables of a concept design, and furthermore, coordinates disciplines during the detailed design phases. However, when a technical approach to the envelope’s design must be implemented, we need detailed engineering tools to simulate the environmental data, and to analyse and develop the system’s fabrication features and assemblies, which are tedious to incorporate on BIM basis. This paper describes the process followed to develop and execute a building envelope project, starting with a concept design and incorporating virtual simulation processes for the solution to meet its structural and thermal requirements. The final aim is to have detailed drawings and documents of the envelope’s elements, with coordinated information for construction and fabrication purposes.
description: Journal of Facade Design and Engineering, Vol. 6 No. 2 (2018): Special Issue ICAE2018
Blow-up of dyadic MHD models with forward energy cascade
Creators: name: Dai, Mimi
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: A particular type of dyadic model for the magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) with dominating forward energy cascade is studied. The model includes intermittency dimension δ in the nonlinear scales. It is shown that when δ is small, positive solution with large initial data for either the dyadic MHD or the dyadic Hall MHD model develops blow-up in finite time. Moreover, for a class of positive initial data with large velocity components and small magnetic field components, we prove that there exists a positive solution that blows up at a finite time.
Transverse Mode Revival of a Light-Compensated Quantum Memory
Creators: name: Yang, Fan
name: Mandel, Torsten
name: Lutz, Christian
name: Yuan, Zhen-Sheng
name: Pan, Jian-Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A long-lived quantum memory was developed based on light-compensated cold $^{87}$Rb atoms in a dipole trap. The lifetime of the quantum memory was improved by 40 folds, from 0.67 ms to 28 ms with the help of a compensation laser beam. Oscillations of the memory efficiency due to the transverse mode breathing of the singly-excited spin wave have been clearly observed and clarified with a Monte-Carlo simulation procedure. With detailed analysis of the decoherence processes of the spin wave in cold atomic ensembles, this experiment provides a benchmark for the further development of high-quality quantum memories.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Development of a Modular End Effector for the installation of Curtain Walls with cable-robots
Creators: name: Taghavi, Meysam
name: Heredia, Homero
name: Iturralde, Kepa
name: Halvorsen, Håvard
name: Bock, Thomas
Publisher: name: Journal of Facade Design and Engineering
Year: 2018

description: The installation of façade enclosures is a manual, dangerous, and time-consuming construction task. However, thanks to the capability of automated systems, the application of automation in construction is increasing, and therefore, manual work and risky situations can be avoided. Despite this, only a few robotic systems are capable of spanning such a vast work space, i.e. the façade of a building. Among these systems is the cable driven parallel robot (CDPR). Furthermore, the CDPR could carry heavy loads such as unitised curtain wall modules (CWM). Nevertheless, the tools and devices required for installing the CWM need to be innovated. Firstly, in order to cover that research gap, the current manual procedure was analysed in detail. After that, the development team evaluated several options for performing the tasks. Finally, an optimal solution was chosen: the so-called modular end-effector (MEE). The MEE comprises several tools in order to achieve various tasks. Mainly, these tasks are: drilling the concrete slab, bracket installation, and CWM handling and positioning. In addition to the aforementioned tasks, the MEE should accurately fix all elements with a desired tolerance less than 1 mm. Meanwhile, the MEE should compensate for the perturbation movement due to external forces such as wind that affect the system. As part of the study, a detailed workflow for the automated installation of CWMs was elaborated. The drilling step of the workflow was tested and the result is presented in this paper.
description: Journal of Facade Design and Engineering, Vol. 6 No. 2 (2018): Special Issue ICAE2018