cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Benefits of Fiesta in the Philippines
Creators: name: Nuñez, Jayrome
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: fiesta, benefits, Philippines, festival

description: Energetic marching bands, processions of patron saints, sumptuous foods, lively parades, colorful floats, vibrant costumes, amateur singing or dancing competitions, competitive street dancing showdowns, beauty pageants, miss gay competitions, local makeshift shopping stores that come from different parts of the province, and many more. These are just some of the views that a Filipino fiesta has. Fiestas has been a long tradition that we got from our ancestors even before our Spanish colonizers arrived, they are rooted with religious beliefs of thanking the village’s (or town) patron saint or deities for blessing the place with abundance of resources. Fiestas also show some traditions of offering to nature as a way of gratitude or sacrifice. Fiestas are celebrated from the smallest level of governmental body (barangay/village) to national level. In this essay, I will be discussing the benefits of fiesta from different levels of society in our country; national, provincial/city, and barangay level.
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mTORC1 Activates SREBP-2 through Maintenance of Endosomal Cycling and Suppression of Autophagy
Creators: name: Eid, Walaa
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: mTORC1
Autophagy
SREBP-2
Endosomal
Cholesterol
Endoplasmic reticulum
Lysosome

description: The mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) is known to regulate lipogenesis through sterol regulatory element binding proteins (SREBPs), master regulators of cholesterol and fatty acid synthesis. Through an incompletely understood mechanism, mTORC1 triggers translocation of SREBPs, an endoplasmic reticulum (ER) resident protein, to the Golgi, where mature SREBP is proteolytically produced to activate transcription of lipogenic genes. Low ER cholesterol is a well-known trigger for SREBPs activation, which includes translocation, maturation, and transcriptional activation. The study investigated whether mTORC1 activates SREBP by limiting cholesterol delivery to the ER. The findings indicate an increase in mTORC1 activity is accompanied by lower ER cholesterol and by SREBP-2 activation, a transcription factor primarily responsible for cholesterol synthesis. A decrease in mTORC1 activity, on another hand, coincides with higher ER cholesterol and lower SERBP-2 activity. I further report that this ER cholesterol is of lysosomal origin, as blocking the exit of cholesterol from lysosomes by U18666A or NPC1 siRNA prevents ER cholesterol from rising and, consequently, SREBP-2 is activated without mTORC1 activation. I identified two membrane trafficking processes, triggered by low mTORC1 activity, supply the lysosomes with cholesterol: autophagy and re-routing of endosomes to lysosomes. Indeed, a dual blockade by Atg5-/- and rab5 kept the ER cholesterol low even when mTORC1 activity was low, and resulted in SREBP-2 activation. Conversely, over-expressing Atg7, which forces autophagy, raises the ER cholesterol and suppresses SREBP-2 activity even when mTORC1 activity is high. Thus, it can be concluded that mTORC1 actively suppresses the formation of autophagosomes and promotes endosomal recycling, both of which prevents cholesterol to reach the lysosomes, thereby reducing cholesterol levels in the ER and activating SREBP-2.
Broadband extended emission in gravitational waves from core-collapse supernovae
Creators: name: Levinson, Amir
name: van Putten, Maurice H. P. M.
name: Pick, Guy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Black holes in core-collapse of massive stars are expected to surge in mass and angular momentum by hyper-accretion immediately following their formation. We here describe a general framework of extended emission in gravitational waves from non-axisymmetric accretion flows from fallback matter of the progenitor envelope. It shows (a) a maximum efficiency in conversion of accretion energy into gravitational waves at hyper-accretion rates exceeding a critical value set by the ratio of the quadrupole mass inhomogeneity and viscosity with (b) a peak characteristic strain amplitude at the frequency $f_b=Ω_b/π$, where $Ω_b$ is the Keplerian angular velocity at which viscous torques equal angular momentum loss in gravitational radiation, with $h_{char}\propto f^{1/6}$ at $ff_b$. Upcoming gravitational wave observations may probe this scaling by extracting broadband spectra using time-sliced matched filtering with chirp templates, recently developed for identifying turbulence in noisy time series.
description: to appear in ApJ
Mechanistic insights into the role of silver in asymmetric gold(I) catalyzed cycloisomerization OF 1,6-ene allenes
Creators: name: Hulchanski, Allison J.
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2013

description: This thesis encompasses a series of studies carried out to ascertain the mechanism that axially chiral bis(gold) phosphine catalysts undergo to stereoselectivity cycloisomerize 1,6-ene allenes. The thesis also discusses the role in which silver salts play to not only activate the gold catalysts but their role in catalysis that affects catalyst speciation, stereoselectivity, and formation of dinuclear intermediates. While previous studies into the mechanism of gold(I) catalyzed reactions have focues primarily on monodentate ligated gold catalysts, little is known about the mechanism involved with bis(gold) phosphine based catalysts. In addition, only recently has it been acknowledged that silver may play an active role in catalysis rather than the notion that silver activates gold to become an inactive silver halide byproduct. The thesis first uses Non-linear effects experiments to determine if oligomers often seen in gold coordination chemistry occur during catalysis. Attempts were made at synthesizing 3-center-2-electron digold species often seen in mono-dentate gold catalyzed reaction failed. However, the inability to form stable or isolable digold model compounds suggests that axially chiral bis(gold) phosphine catalysts are too strained to form this type of intermediate. Also described in this thesis is the study of the role of silver in catalysis. The effect of the amount of silver used to activate the gold catalyst on the enantiomeric excess of the product as well as the catalysts speciation directly shows silver is more than an inactive bystander in catalysis. Titration of silver with bis(gold) phosphine aryl model compounds with silver at low temperatures demonstrate the potential for dinuclear Au-Ag intermediates. Finally, studies removing AgCl byproduct and addition of silver salts with less coordinating counter ions that chloride directly impacted enantiomeric excess of the products suggesting that the proposed dinuclear Au-Ag species is involved in the stereochemistry determining step of the mechanism.
title: A case study: Early presentation of Fahr’s syndrome
Creators: name: Alnassar, Ibrahim
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Neuroradiology peripheral nerve
subject: Clinical Cases

description: Clinical History: A 27-year-old male had an incidental finding of intracranial calcifications on a CT head scan. The scan was performed to evaluate an enlarged external occipital protuberance discovered after shaving his head. According to the family, over the past two years, the patient has experienced forgetfulness with a reduced attention span. His academic performance at the university has progressively declined during this period, especially in the last few months, during which he has become more silent and less communicative. He reported no sensory-motor disturbances, cerebellar symptoms, seizures, or extrapyramidal features. Consequently, both CT and MRI scans of the head were requested.

description: 27 years, male
Lagrangian isotopy of tori in $S^2 \times S^2$ and $\mathbb{C}P^2$
Creators: name: Rizell, Georgios Dimitroglou
name: Goodman, Elizabeth
name: Ivrii, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53D12

description: We show that, up to Lagrangian isotopy, there is a unique Lagrangian torus inside each of the following uniruled symplectic four-manifolds: the symplectic vector space $\mathbb{R}^4$, the projective plane $\mathbb{C}P^2$, and the monotone $S^2 \times S^2$. The result is proven by studying pseudoholomorphic foliations while performing the splitting construction from symplectic field theory along the Lagrangian torus. A number of other related results are also shown. Notably, the nearby Lagrangian conjecture is established for $T^*\mathbb{T}^2$, i.e.~it is shown that every closed exact Lagrangian submanifold in this cotangent bundle is Hamiltonian isotopic to the zero-section.
description: 66 pages, 10 figures. Final version. Added Lemmas 4.1 and 6.8, added details in the proof of Corollary 3.7, and altered the statement and proof of Lemma 5.14
Supplementary Figures and Tables from Ants act as olfactory bio-detectors of tumours in patient-derived xenograft mice
Creators: name: Piqueret, Baptiste
name: Montaudon, Élodie
name: Devienne, Paul
name: Leroy, Chloé
name: Marangoni, Elisabetta
name: Sandoz, Jean-Christophe
name: d'Ettorre, Patrizia
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Health Care
subject: Diseases
subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 170299 Cognitive Science not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Early detection of cancer is critical in medical sciences, as the sooner a cancer is diagnosed, the higher are the chances of recovery. Tumour cells are characterized by specific volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that can be used as cancer biomarkers. Through olfactory associative learning, animals can be trained to detect these VOCs. Insects such as ants have a refined sense of smell, and can be easily and rapidly trained with olfactory conditioning. Using urine from patient-derived xenograft mice as stimulus, we demonstrate that individual ants can learn to discriminate the odour of healthy mice from that of tumour-bearing mice and do so after only three conditioning trials. After training, they spend approximately 20% more time in the vicinity of the learned odour than beside the other stimulus. Chemical analyses confirmed that the presence of the tumour changed the urine odour, supporting the behavioural results. Our study demonstrates that ants reliably detect tumour cues in mice urine and have the potential to act as efficient and inexpensive cancer bio-detectors.
Evaluation of Body Composition in Overweight and Obese Subjects: Three-Compartment and Ultrasound Comparisons
Creators: name: Fultz, Sarah Nicole
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2013

description: Identifying valid field methods to measure body composition in overweight and obese individuals is essential for quantifying percent body fat (%BF), fat mass (FM) and fat free mass (FFM) and the associated concomitant health consequences. The purpose of this study was to compare the validity and reliability of an A-mode ultrasound (US) to the criterion three compartment model (3C) for the measurement of body composition in overweight and obese subjects. Body composition testing was performed on forty-seven overweight and obese subjects via the ultrasound, air displacement plethysmography and bioelectrical impedance spectroscopy, on two separate days. The US was not found to be a valid measurement of body composition in overweight or obese individuals; %BF and FM was significantly under-predicted, while FFM was over-predicted when compared to the criterion 3C model. The US was found to be reliable when compared to 3C for measuring %BF
Layer-layer competition in multiplex complex networks
Creators: name: Gómez-Gardeñes, Jesús
name: De Domenico, Manlio
name: Gutiérrez, Gerardo
name: Arenas, Alex
name: Gómez, Sergio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The coexistence of multiple types of interactions within social, technological and biological networks has moved the focus of the physics of complex systems towards a multiplex description of the interactions between their constituents. This novel approach has unveiled that the multiplex nature of complex systems has strong influence in the emergence of collective states and their critical properties. Here we address an important issue that is intrinsic to the coexistence of multiple means of interactions within a network: their competition. To this aim, we study a two-layer multiplex in which the activity of users can be localized in each of the layer or shared between them, favoring that neighboring nodes within a layer focus their activity on the same layer. This framework mimics the coexistence and competition of multiple communication channels, in a way that the prevalence of a particular communication platform emerges as a result of the localization of users activity in one single interaction layer. Our results indicate that there is a transition from localization (use of a preferred layer) to delocalization (combined usage of both layers) and that the prevalence of a particular layer (in the localized state) depends on their structural properties.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures. To appear in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A
Correlations between charge and heat currents in an interacting quantum dot
Creators: name: Crépieux, Adeline
name: Eyméoud, Paul
name: Michelini, Fabienne
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider an interacting quantum dot connected to two reservoirs driven at distinct voltage/temperature and we study the correlations between charge and heat currents first as a function of the applied voltage bias, and second as a function of the temperature gradient between the two reservoirs. The Coulomb interactions in the quantum dot are treated using the Hartree approximation and the dot occupation number is determined self-consistently. The correlators exhibit structures in their voltage dependency which are highly non-linear when the coupling between the dot and the reservoirs is weak, and their behavior with temperature is non-monotonous. Moreover the sign of heat cross-correlator can change contrary to what happens with the charge cross-correlator which is always negative. The presence of Coulomb interactions enlarges the domain of voltage in which the heat cross-correlator is negative.
description: Proceeding of the SCES 2014 conference
Near-extremal black holes as initial conditions of long GRB-supernovae and probes of their gravitational wave emission
Creators: name: van Putten, Maurice H. P. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) associated with supernovae and short GRBs with Extended Emission (SGRBEE) from mergers are probably powered by black holes as a common inner engine, as their prompt GRB emission satisfies the same Amati correlation in the $E_{p,i}-E_{iso}$ plane. We introduce modified Bardeen equations to identify hyper-accretion driving newly formed black holes in core-collapse supernovae to near-extremal spin as a precursor to prompt GRB emission. Subsequent spin-down is observed in the BATSE catalog of long GRBs. Spin-down provides a natural unification of long durations associated with the lifetime of black hole spin for normal long GRBs and SGRBEEs, given the absence of major fallback matter in mergers. The results point to major emissions unseen in high frequency gravitational waves. A novel matched filtering method is described for LIGO-Virgo and KAGRA broadband probes of nearby core-collapse supernovae at essentially maximal sensitivity.
Cumulants of multiplicity distributions in most-central heavy-ion collisions
Creators: name: Xu, Hao-jie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I investigate the volume corrections on cumulants of total charge distributions and net proton distributions. The required volume information is generated by an optical Glauber model. I find that the corrected statistical expectations of multiplicity distributions mimic the negative binomial distributions at non-central collisions, and they tend to approach the Poisson ones at most-central collisions due to the "boundary effects," which suppress the volume corrections. However, net proton distributions and reference multiplicity distributions are sensitive to the external volume fluctuations at most-central collisions, which imply that one has to consider the details of volume distributions in event-by-event multiplicity fluctuation studies.
description: text improved, typo corrected, more references added, 8 pages, 2 figures
Proposed searches for candidate sources of gravitational waves in a nearby core-collapse supernova survey
Creators: name: Heo, Jeon-Eun
name: Yoon, Soyoung
name: Lee, Dae-Sub
name: Kong, In-Taek
name: Lee, Sang-Hoon
name: van Putten, Maurice H. P. M.
name: Della Valle, Massimo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gravitational wave bursts in the formation of neutron stars and black holes in energetic core-collapse supernovae (CC-SNe) are of potential interest to LIGO-Virgo and KAGRA. Events nearby are readily discovered using moderately sized telescopes. CC-SNe are competitive with mergers of neutron stars and black holes, if the fraction producing an energetic output in gravitational waves exceeds about 1\%. This opportunity motivates the design of a novel Sejong University Core-CollapsE Supernova Survey (SUCCESS), to provide triggers for follow-up searches for gravitational waves. It is based on the 76 cm Sejong University Telescope (SUT) for weekly monitoring of nearby star-forming galaxies, i.e., M51, M81-M82 and Blue Dwarf Galaxies from the Unified Nearby Galaxy Catalog with an expected yield of a few hundred per year. Optical light curves will be resolved for the true time-of-onset for probes of gravitational waves by broadband time-sliced matched filtering.
Sampler (Tennyson) and Elaine Reichek’s Postmodern Parody
Creators: name: Koupash, Kelly
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: In Sampler (Tennyson), Elaine Reichek parodies Tennyson’s The Lady of Shalott to contest the Romantic values that have enabled the exclusion of women from the Western canon. The following essay argues that this work demonstrates a negotiation of competing desires: the desire to interrupt the gendered logic of artistic production that has defined the canon, and the impulse to preserve a stable connection between embroidery and femininity. This essay demonstrates, first, that the sampler format is coded “feminine” throughout Reichek’s work; second, that Reichek grapples with questions of identity and authorship in a manner that protects the creative contributions of women without explicitly endorsing the canon; and third, that Reichek’s work invites not only a structural critique of the canon, but a critique of individual works at the level of content.
Begonia balansae De Candolle 1903
Creators: name: Martín, Claudia M.
name: Ospina, Juan C.
name: Zanotti, Christian A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Cucurbitales
Begoniaceae
Begonia
Begonia balansae

description: Begonia balansae De Candolle (1903: 403).
 Lectotype:— PARAGUAY. [Cordillera]: ‘Tobaty, loco Sept.’, E. Hassler 6441 (lectotype G 00085101 [two sheet]! designated here, isolectotypes B 100247907!, F 0BN020917 (photo)!, G 00085102!, G 00076982!, G 00076983!, G 00076984!, GH 00068214!, K 000323039!, MICH 1210022!, NY 01842802!, P 00546752!, P 01900764!, S 1217548!, SI 001115!, UC 941385!).
  Taxonomic notes:  — Several syntypes were cited by De Candolle for Begonia balansae: ‘ In declivate rupestri collis Santo Tomas, Sept., n. 1008; inter rupescollis Tobaty, Mart., n. 3968; eod. loco, Apr., n. 4073; in rupibus verticalibus eod. loco Sept., n. 6441; in rupibus verticalibus Cerro Pelado, pr. Villa Rica, Apr. (Balansa, n. 2048 in h. Cand.); Cerro Santo Tomas ad saxa (Balansa, n. 3281 in h. Cand.)’. We found several specimens which correspond to the six syntypes cited therein: Hassler 1008 (G!), 3968 (G!, B!, P!), 4073 (G!, NY!), 6441 (B!, F!, G!, GH!, K!, MICH!, NY!, P!, S!, SI!, UC!); Balansa 2048 (G!, P!), 3281 (F!,G!, P!). The specimen Hassler 6441 [G 00085101 (two sheet)!] is designated as a lectotype for B. balansae, because this collection presents a higher number of duplicates in different herbaria, it is a complete specimen, and bear the original label with the name of the species with De Candolle’s handwriting in 1903. The specimen designated as a lectotype (G 00085101) was mounted on two sheets and represents a unique specimen of this collection (Gautier et al. 2016).
description: Published as part of Martín, Claudia M., Ospina, Juan C. & Zanotti, Christian A., 2017, Nomenclature issues into southern of South American species of Begonia (Begoniaceae), pp. 129-134 in Phytotaxa 314 (1) on page 130, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.314.1.13, http://zenodo.org/record/13686341
The Inclusivist Anomaly Is Not an Anomaly: A Reply to Buchanan and Powell
Creators: name: Porter, John
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: In their forthcoming book The Evolution of Moral Progress: A Biocultural Theory, Allen Buchanan and Russell Powell argue that evolutionary theory cannot explain the inclusivist anomaly—the relatively recent emergence of inclusivist moral commitments such as commitments to abolition or human rights—because the motivations which brought about the inclusivist anomaly are not accounted for by evolutionary theory. I argue, pace Buchanan and Powell, that evolutionary theory can account for the motivations which brought about the inclusivist anomaly, and that the inclusivist anomaly is therefore not an anomaly after all.
Neutrino Interactions with Nucleons and Nuclei: Importance for Long-Baseline Experiments
Creators: name: Mosel, Ulrich
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This article reviews our present knowledge of neutrino interactions with nucleons and discusses the interactions with nuclei, the target material of all presently running and planned long-baseline experiments. I emphasize descriptions of semi-inclusive reactions and full descriptions of the final state; the latter are needed to reconstruct the incoming neutrino energy from final-state observations. I then discuss Monte Carlo generator and more advanced transport theoretical approaches in connection with experimental results on various reaction mechanisms. Finally, I describe the effects of uncertainties in the reconstruction of the incoming neutrino energy on oscillation parameters. The review argues that the precision era of neutrino physics also needs precision-era generators.
description: Version essentially as published in Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science. Appendix on recent developments since submission of this article added
Rural African American families' child care placement: examined through child age, economic, education, social support, and geographic isolation measures
Creators: name: Bratsch, Mary E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: The focus of this study was to examine if the distal factors in a child's exosystem, as well as the proximal factor of child age, were associated with where rural, African American families placed their children in child care. The results indicated that the variables of maternal education, family income (as measured by the income-to-needs ratio), maternal employment type, perceived social support, and geographic isolation were not significant when put into models predicting to relative, family day care, or center care use at 15 and 35 months. Nevertheless, based on descriptive findings, this study added to the literature through a greater understanding of child care placement, as well as family characteristics, of the African American families in question.
Parking-garage structures in astrophysics and biophysics
Creators: name: Horowitz, C. J.
name: Berry, D. K.
name: Caplan, M. E.
name: Huber, Greg
name: Schneider, A. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A striking shape was recently observed for the cellular organelle endoplasmic reticulum consisting of stacked sheets connected by helical ramps. This shape is interesting both for its biological function, to synthesize proteins using an increased surface area for ribosome factories, and its geometric properties that may be insensitive to details of the microscopic interactions. In the present work, we find very similar shapes in our molecular dynamics simulations of the nuclear pasta phases of dense nuclear matter that are expected deep in the crust of neutron stars. There are dramatic differences between nuclear pasta and terrestrial cell biology. Nuclear pasta is 14 orders of magnitude denser than the aqueous environs of the cell nucleus and involves strong interactions between protons and neutrons, while cellular scale biology is dominated by the entropy of water and complex assemblies of biomolecules. Nonetheless the very similar geometry suggests both systems may have similar coarse-grained dynamics and that the shapes are indeed determined by geometrical considerations, independent of microscopic details. Many of our simulations self-assemble into flat sheets connected by helical ramps. These ramps may impact the thermal and electrical conductivities, viscosity, shear modulus, and breaking strain of neutron star crust. The interaction we use, with Coulomb frustration, may provide a simple model system that reproduces many biologically important shapes.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Measuring the Complexity of Continuous Distributions
Creators: name: Santamaría-Bonfil, Guillermo
name: Fernández, Nelson
name: Gershenson, Carlos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We extend previously proposed measures of complexity, emergence, and self-organization to continuous distributions using differential entropy. This allows us to calculate the complexity of phenomena for which distributions are known. We find that a broad range of common parameters found in Gaussian and scale-free distributions present high complexity values. We also explore the relationship between our measure of complexity and information adaptation.
description: 21 pages, 5 Tables, 4 Figures
Begonia boliviensis De Candolle 1859
Creators: name: Martín, Claudia M.
name: Ospina, Juan C.
name: Zanotti, Christian A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Cucurbitales
Begoniaceae
Begonia
Begonia boliviensis

description: Begonia boliviensis De Candolle (1859: 122).
 Type:— BOLIVIA. Acero: no locality, November 1845, H.A. Weddell 3632 (holotype P 01900760!; isotypes F 0077407F!, P 01900761!).
 Begonia argentinensis Spegazzini (1898: 53). Lectotype:— ARGENTINA. Salta: [Department of Guachipas], ‘ Pampa Grande’, January 1897, C.L. Spegazzini s.n. (lectotype, LP 058687! designated here, isolectotypes LP 058688!, LP 058689!).
 Taxonomic notes:— Spegazzini (1898) cited ‘ In umbrosis alpinis Cuesta de San Antonio (2800 m alt.), prope Pampa Grande, in Prov. Salta, January 1897 ’ in the protologue of Begonia argentinensis. Three specimens that belongs to Spegazzini’s collection were found in LP; two of them bearing a label with the locality ‘ Pampa Grande, Salta, Enr., 1897’ (LP 058687!, LP 058689!), and another one “Cuesta de San Antonio, Pampa Grande, no date” (LP058688!). We chose the specimen LP 058687!, because this is a complete specimen with female and male flowers (see Figure 1).
description: Published as part of Martín, Claudia M., Ospina, Juan C. & Zanotti, Christian A., 2017, Nomenclature issues into southern of South American species of Begonia (Begoniaceae), pp. 129-134 in Phytotaxa 314 (1) on page 130, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.314.1.13, http://zenodo.org/record/13686341
Finite-temperature hydrodynamics for one-dimensional Bose gases: Breathing mode oscillations as a case study
Creators: name: Bouchoule, I.
name: Szigeti, S. S.
name: Davis, M. J.
name: Kheruntsyan, K. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a finite-temperature hydrodynamic approach for a harmonically trapped one-dimensional quasicondensate and apply it to describe the phenomenon of frequency doubling in the breathing-mode oscillations of its momentum distribution. The doubling here refers to the oscillation frequency relative to the oscillations of the real-space density distribution, invoked by a sudden confinement quench. We find that the frequency doubling is governed by the quench strength and the initial temperature, rather than by the crossover from the ideal Bose gas to the quasicondensate regime. The hydrodynamic predictions are supported by the results of numerical simulations based on a finite-temperature c-field approach, and extend the utility of the hydrodynamic theory for low-dimensional quantum gases to the description of finite-temperature systems and their dynamics in momentum space.
description: Final published version; 5 pages and 1 figure in the main text, plus Supplemental Material
Studies of unicellular micro-organisms Saccharomyces cerevisiae by means of Positron Annihilation Lifetime Spectroscopy
Creators: name: Kubicz, E.
name: Jasińska, B.
name: Zgardzińska, B.
name: Bednarski, T.
name: Białas, P.
name: Czerwiński, E.
name: Gajos, A.
name: Gorgol, M.
name: Kamińska, D.
name: Kapłon, Ł.
name: Kochanowski, A.
name: Korcyl, G.
name: Kowalski, P.
name: Kozik, T.
name: Krzemień, W.
name: Niedźwiecki, S.
name: Pałka, M.
name: Raczyński, L.
name: Rajfur, Z.
name: Rudy, Z.
name: Rundel, O.
name: Sharma, N. G.
name: Silarski, M.
name: Słomski, A.
name: Strzelecki, A.
name: Wieczorek, A.
name: Wiślicki, W.
name: Zieliński, M.
name: Moskal, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Other Quantitative Biology (q-bio.OT)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Results of Positron Annihilation Lifetime Spectroscopy (PALS) and microscopic studies on simple microorganisms: brewing yeasts are presented. Lifetime of ortho - positronium (o-Ps) were found to change from 2.4 to 2.9 ns (longer lived component) for lyophilised and aqueous yeasts, respectively. Also hygroscopicity of yeasts in time was examined, allowing to check how water - the main component of the cell - affects PALS parameters, thus lifetime of o-Ps were found to change from 1.2 to 1.4 ns (shorter lived component) for the dried yeasts. The time sufficient to hydrate the cells was found below 10 hours. In the presence of liquid water an indication of reorganization of yeast in the molecular scale was observed. Microscopic images of the lyophilised, dried and wet yeasts with best possible resolution were obtained using Inverted Microscopy (IM) and Environmental Scanning Electron Microscopy (ESEM) methods. As a result visible changes to the surface of the cell membrane were observed in ESEM images.
description: Nukleonika (2015)
Determination of shower central position in laterally segmented lead-fluoride electromagnetic calorimeters
Creators: name: Mazouz, M.
name: Ghedira, L.
name: Voutier, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spatial resolution of laterally segmented electromagnetic calorimeters is studied on the basis of Monte-Carlo simulations worked-out for lead fluoride material. Parametrization of the relative resolution is proposed and optimized in terms of the energy of incoming particles and the elementary size of the calorimeter blocks. A new fit algorithm method is proposed that improves spatial resolution at high energies, and provides guidance for the design optimization of electromagnetic calorimeters.
Characterization of foreground emission at degree angular scale for CMB B-modes observations. Thermal Dust and Synchrotron signal from Planck and WMAP data
Creators: name: Krachmalnicoff, N.
name: Baccigalupi, C.
name: Aumont, J.
name: Bersanelli, M.
name: Mennella, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We quantify the contamination from polarized diffuse Galactic synchrotron and thermal dust emissions to the B-modes of the CMB anisotropies on the degree angular scale, using data from the Planck and WMAP satellites. We compute power spectra of foreground polarized emissions in 352 circular sky patches located at Galactic latitude |b|>20°, each of which covering a fraction of the sky of about 1.5%. We make use of the spectral properties derived from Planck and WMAP data to extrapolate, in frequency, the amplitude of synchrotron and thermal dust B-modes spectra in the multipole bin centered at $\ell\simeq80$. In this way we estimate, for each analyzed region, the amplitude and frequency of the foreground minimum. We detect both dust and synchrotron signal, at degree angular scale and at 3 confidence level, in 28 regions. Here the minimum of the foreground emission is found at frequencies between 60 and 100 GHz with an amplitude,expressed in terms of the equivalent tensor-to-scalar ratio, r_FG, between ~0.06 and ~1. Some of these regions are located at high Galactic latitudes, in areas close to the ones which are being observed by sub-orbital experiments.In all the other sky patches, where synchrotron or dust B-modes are not detectable with the required confidence, we put upper limits on the minimum foreground contamination and find values of r_FG between ~0.05 and ~1.5, in the frequency range 60-90 GHz. Our results indicate that, with the current sensitivity at low frequency, it is not possible to exclude the presence of synchrotron contamination to CMB cosmological B-modes at the level requested to measure a gravitational waves signal with r~0.01, at frequency <100 GHz, anywhere. Therefore, more accurate data are essential in order to better characterize the synchrotron polarized component, and eventually, remove its contamination to CMB signal through foreground cleaning.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures
The $N_f=2$ QCD chiral phase transition with Wilson fermions at zero and imaginary chemical potential
Creators: name: Philipsen, Owe
name: Pinke, Christopher
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The order of the thermal phase transition in the chiral limit of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) with two dynamical flavors of quarks is a long-standing issue and still not known in the continuum limit. Whether the transition is first or second order has important implications for the QCD phase diagram and the existence of a critical endpoint at finite densities. We follow a recently proposed approach to explicitly determine the region of first order chiral transitions at imaginary chemical potential, where it is large enough to be simulated, and extrapolate it to zero chemical potential with known critical exponents. Using unimproved Wilson fermions on coarse $N_t=4$ lattices, the first order region turns out to be so large that no extrapolation is necessary. The critical pion mass $m_π^c\approx 560$ MeV is by nearly a factor 10 larger than the corresponding one using staggered fermions. Our results are in line with investigations of three-flavour QCD using improved Wilson fermions and indicate that the systematic error on the two-flavour chiral transition is still of order 100\%.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures; Modified Table I,II consistent with published version, corrected ticks in Fig.4
Orbital period decay of compact black hole x-ray binaries: the influence of circumbinary disks?
Creators: name: Chen, Wen-Cong
name: Li, Xiang-Dong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, compact black hole X-ray binaries XTE J 1118+480 and A0620-00 have been reported to be experiencing a fast orbital period decay, which is two orders of magnitude higher than expected with gravitational wave radiation. Magnetic braking of an Ap/Bp star has been suggested to account for the period change when the surface magnetic field of the companion star $B_{\rm s}\ga 10^{4}$ G. However, our calculation indicates that anomalous magnetic braking cannot significantly contribute to the large orbital period decay rates observed in these two sources even if $B_{\rm s}\ga 10^{4}$ G. Observations have provided evidence that circumbinary disks around two compact black hole X-ray binaries may exist. Our analysis shows that, for some reasonable parameters, tidal torque between the circumbinary disk and the binary can efficiently extract the orbital angular momentum from the binary, and result in a large orbital period change rate. Based on the circumbinary disk model, we simulate the evolution of XTE J 1118+480 via a stellar evolution code. Our computations are approximatively in agreement with the observed data (the masses of two components, donor star radius, orbital period, and orbital period derivative). The mass transfer rate and circumbinary disk mass are obviously far greater than the inferred values from observations. Therefore, it seems that the circumbinary disk is unlikely to be the main cause of the rapid orbital decay observed in some compact black hole X-ray binaries.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures, Astronomy and Astrophysics in press
Analyzing the Diversity of a Small Antibody Mimic Library
Creators: name: Empey, Nicholas
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2011

description: The search for targeting molecules that allow therapies to be site-directed and specific is a very important area of research. Small engineered protein domains are well suited because of their size to be utilized as such targeting molecules. This thesis aims to examine the process of directed forward evolution of a small three helix bundle domain (3HB) library. mRNA display pre-selection was performed to analyze the 3HB library's potential to be successful in that process. 3HB genes were shown to be expressed at very low levels in E.Coli. Also, sequencing analysis from a pGFP-3HB fusion library is presented.
Volterra operators on Hardy spaces of Dirichlet series
Creators: name: Brevig, Ole Fredrik
name: Perfekt, Karl-Mikael
name: Seip, Kristian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 31B10 (Primary), 30H10, 30B50 (Secondary)

description: For a Dirichlet series symbol $g(s) = \sum_{n \geq 1} b_n n^{-s}$, the associated Volterra operator $\mathbf{T}_g$ acting on a Dirichlet series $f(s)=\sum_{n\ge 1} a_n n^{-s}$ is defined by the integral $f\mapsto -\int_{s}^{+\infty} f(w)g'(w)\,dw$. We show that $\mathbf{T}_g$ is a bounded operator on the Hardy space $\mathcal{H}^p$ of Dirichlet series with $0 < p < \infty$ if and only if the symbol $g$ satisfies a Carleson measure condition. When appropriately restricted to one complex variable, our condition coincides with the standard Carleson measure characterization of ${\operatorname{BMOA}}(\mathbb{D})$. A further analogy with classical ${\operatorname{BMO}}$ is that $\exp(c|g|)$ is integrable (on the infinite polytorus) for some $c > 0$ whenever $\mathbf{T}_g$ is bounded. In particular, such $g$ belong to $\mathcal{H}^p$ for every $p < \infty$. We relate the boundedness of $\mathbf{T}_g$ to several other ${\operatorname{BMO}}$ type spaces: ${\operatorname{BMOA}}$ in half-planes, the dual of $\mathcal{H}^1$, and the space of symbols of bounded Hankel forms. Moreover, we study symbols whose coefficients enjoy a multiplicative structure and obtain coefficient estimates for $m$-homogeneous symbols as well as for general symbols. Finally, we consider the action of $\mathbf{T}_g$ on reproducing kernels for appropriate sequences of subspaces of $\mathcal{H}^2$. Our proofs employ function and operator theoretic techniques in one and several variables; a variety of number theoretic arguments are used throughout the paper in our study of special classes of symbols $g$.
description: This paper has been accepted for publication in Journal f\"ur die reine und angewandte Mathematik
deliverable D-JRP15-FED-AMR-WP5.13 (Results of the soil microcosm experiments regarding environmental effects on competence gene expression
Creators: name: Cabal Rosel, Adriana
name: Woegerbauer, Markus
name: Hassan, Marwa M.
name: Chambers, Mark A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: FED-AMR
environmental conditions
transformation
soil microcosm

description: Since the aim of work package 5 was to identify effects of environmental conditions that influence bacterial transformation, in task 5.3 a soil microcosm setting was created by utilizing non-manured agricultural soil. After initial tests, we concluded that A. baylyi was the more suitable species to show the effects on soil microcosms. First, RNA isolation from soil microcosms was established and later on RT-TaqMan qPCR systems for two competence genes and several A. baylyi housekeeping/reference genes were designed. Pilot experiments were carried out with having a look at differential competence gene expression levels in relation to environmental stimuli (temperature shift, exposure to antibiotics, different nutrient levels). The first results of this task are shown in the uploaded file.
No Child Left Behind:  A Quality Improvement Clinical Implementation to Improve the Treatment Outcomes, Quality of Care, and Quality of Life for School-Aged Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder at a Rural Primary Care Practice
Creators: name: Dragomani, Rebecca
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: ABSTRACT
      Rebecca Dragomani: No Child Left Behind: A Quality Improvement Clinical Implementation to Improve Treatment Outcomes, Quality of Care, and Quality of Life and for Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder at a Rural Primary Care Practice
      (Under the direction of Dr. Victoria Soltis-Jarrett, PhD, RN, PMHCNS/NP-BC, FAAN)
      Background and Rationale: Children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) consistently report lower quality of life than their neurotypical peers and are at substantially increased risk for development of a comorbid psychiatric disorder. Fewer than half are prescribed an initial medication that is both efficacious and tolerable. Pharmacogenomic testing identifies medications likely to cause side effects and is available for use in routine clinical practice, although its effects on the quality of life among children who are prescribed medication for ADHD has not yet been evaluated.
       Problem: Genetic differences contribute to the wide variability of response to ADHD medications but are not considered in treatment decisions. Quality of life, which correlates with the development of psychiatric comorbidities, is rarely assessed.
       Purpose:  The project aimed to improve the quality of care, treatment outcomes, and quality of life for school-aged children with ADHD at a primary care practice by implementing a comprehensive bundle of practice changes that individualize treatment of ADHD.
      Methodology: The impact of routine pharmacogenomic testing on the incidence of ADHD medication side effects and change in behavioral symptoms was evaluated using retrospective chart review data.  A convenience sample of 52 charts included 26 charts of patients who received pharmacogenomic testing (PGT) prior to being prescribed medication for ADHD and a second group of 26 patients who did not receive testing (No PGT). Quality of life was measured using cross-sectional data from 40 KINDL Quality-of-Life Questionnaires (parent-respondent).  Quality of care was assessed through parent interviews.
      Results:  All QI initiatives were fully adopted. Pharmacogenomic testing was associated with fewer moderate and severe ADHD medication side effects (PGT 1.1 vs. No PGT 2.4) and greater differences in behavioral symptom scores (PGT -32 vs. NPGT -15.8). Mean quality-of-life scores of children with ADHD (PGT - 80.3, No PGT - 75.5, History Unknown 71.2) were higher than the benchmark averages.
      Conclusion: The results support the continued use of pharmacogenomic testing prior to prescribing medication to children for ADHD, use of standardized assessments of response, and quality-of-life assessments to identify children at higher risk for the development of comorbid psychiatric disorders.