cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The alteration of intraocular pressure and ocular pulse amplitude by retrobulbar anaesthesia : a search for risk factors for serious complications due to retrobulbar anaesthesia
Creators: name: Dobberstein, Deborah
name: Seitz, Berthold
name: Viestenz, Anja
name: Viestenz, Arne
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 610

description: Our goal was to assess the impact of retrobulbar anaesthesia on ocular pressure and perfusion development and to find out if there were systemic or biometric parameters of patients affecting them in order to understand the effect of retrobulbar anaesthesia better. Methods: Changes in intraocular pressure (IOP) and ocular pulse amplitude (OPA) using a dynamic contour tonometer (DCT) were noted before and after retrobulbar anaesthesia (RBA) in combination with five minutes of oculopression at 40 mmHg in 134 patients. Only results with a quality Q 1–3 were considered for further statistical analysis. Systemic and ophthalmic parameters were noted and their impact was tested using linear regression. Results: IOP decreased from 18.9 ± 7.2 mmHg to 15.4 ± 6.3 mmHg (n = 71, p = 0.001) after first RBA. The dosage of midazolam administered during premedication was found to increase IOP significantly after first RBA (B = 3.75; R2 = 0.38). Ocular pulse amplitude decreased significantly from 3.8 ± 1.7 mmHg to 3.0 ± 1.9 mmHg after first RBA (n = 72, p < 0.001). This change was found to be dependent on the presence of diabetes mellitus (n = 68, p = 0.048). Conclusions: IOP and OPA decrease after RBA and oculopression. Caution is needed with midazolam premedication due to potential IOP increase. Patients with diabetes and pre-existing retinal or optic nerve damage should consider alternative anaesthesia methods, such as eye drops or general anaesthesia, due to the observed decrease in OPA after RBA and oculopression.
Angular momentum evolution can be predicted from cosmological initial conditions
Creators: name: Cadiou, Corentin
name: Pontzen, Andrew
name: Peiris, Hiranya V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The angular momentum of dark matter haloes controls their spin magnitude and orientation, which in turn influences the galaxies therein. However, the process by which dark matter haloes acquire angular momentum is not fully understood; in particular, it is unclear whether angular momentum growth is stochastic. To address this question, we extend the genetic modification technique to allow control over the angular momentum of any region in the initial conditions. Using this technique to produce a sequence of modified simulations, we can then investigate whether changes to the angular momentum of a specified region in the evolved universe can be accurately predicted from changes in the initial conditions alone. We find that the angular momentum in regions with modified initial conditions can be predicted between 2 and 4 times more accurately than expected from applying tidal torque theory. This result is masked when analysing the angular momentum of haloes, because particles in the outskirts of haloes dominate the angular momentum budget. We conclude that the angular momentum of Lagrangian patches is highly predictable from the initial conditions, with apparent chaotic behaviour being driven by stochastic changes to the arbitrary boundary defining the halo.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS: 2021 February 3. Received 2021 January 30; in original form 2020 December 14
Structure in the radio counterpart to the 2004 Dec 27 giant flare from SGR 1806-20
Creators: name: Fender, R. P.
name: Muxlow, T. W. B.
name: Garrett, M. A.
name: Kouveliotou, C.
name: Gaensler, B. M.
name: Garrington, S. T.
name: Paragi, Z.
name: Tudose, V.
name: Miller-Jones, J. C. A.
name: Spencer, R. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: On Dec 27, 2004, the magnetar SGR 1806-20 underwent an enormous outburst resulting in the formation of an expanding, moving, and fading radio source. We report observations of this radio source with the Multi-Element Radio-Linked Interferometer Network (MERLIN) and the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA). The observations confirm the elongation and expansion already reported based on observations at lower angular resolutions, but suggest that at early epochs the structure is not consistent with the very simplest models such as a smooth flux distribution. In particular there appears to be significant structure on small angular scales, with ~10% of the radio flux arising on angular scales <100 milliarcsec. This structure may correspond to localised sites of particle acceleration during the early phases of expansion and interaction with the ambient medium.
description: Accepted for publication as a letter in MNRAS
Development of the software tools for the prototype readout chains of the CBM Silicon Tracking System
Creators: name: Sorokin, I.
name: Krieger, M.
name: Lehnert, J.
name: Müller, W. F. J.
name: Ovcharenko, E.
name: Uhlig, F.
Publisher: name: GSI Helmholtzzentrum fuer Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt
Year: 2015
Subjects: Physics

description: GSI Scientific Report 2014 - GSI Report 2015-1
title: The relationship between eggshell quality and bone biology in the laying hen
Creators: name: Darnell-Middleton, Sally
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 1999

description: (1). In this thesis the relationship between eggshell quality and bone biology was examined over the laying life of two strains of hen; a highly selected commercial line and the relatively unselected J.Line. (2). The efficiency of using osteocalcin as a marker of osteoid formation, in collaboration with established markers of bone mineralisation and bone resorption, during eggshell calcification was ratified. (3). It was established that magnesium is actively removed from bone hydroxyapatite during resorption and transported to the shell gland pouch for incorporation into the palisade layer of the eggshell. (4). A relationship was demonstrated between hatched eggshell quality and the bone biology of newly hatched chicks. (5). The association between high egg output and poor bone structure was evident in the commercial laying strain hen. No such deficit in skeletal quality occurred in the relatively unselected J.Line. (6). The commercial line demonstrated a significantly higher rate of bone remodelling at late lay concomitant with osteoporosis. (7). The unselected J.Line demonstrated significantly higher rates of bone remodelling throughout lay. It was hypothesised that this was due to a greater propensity for bone upkeep during the inter-egg interval. (8). The provision of a prelay diet influenced neither bone volume nor mineral composition at the beginning of lay. (9). The feeding of a prelay diet led to a longer period of sustained high production and an earlier increase in egg weight. This was accompanied by a delay in the increase in osteoid formation and decreased levels of blood ionised calcium. This led to high "on farm" seconds at late lay due to abnormally high fracture toughness and the Incidence of type B's within the mammillary layer. (10). The reason for the observed decrease in hatchability associated with poorly pigmented eggshells in a commercial guinea fowl flock was related to premature expulsion of the egg. These thinner shelled eggs may have resulted from the process of artificial insemination.
Correlation of immunomodulatory cytokines with tumor volume and cerebrospinal fluid in vestibular schwannoma patients
Creators: name: Becker, Anna-Louisa
name: Scholle, Leila
name: Klause, Clara Helene
name: Staege, Martin Sebastian
name: Strauss, Christian
name: Otto, Markus
name: Rampp, Stefan
name: Scheller, Christian
name: Leisz, Sandra
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 610

description: Sporadic vestibular schwannomas (VSs) often exhibit slow or negligible growth. Nevertheless, some VSs increase significantly in volume within a few months or grow continuously. Recent evidence indicates a role of inflammation in promoting VS growth. Therefore, our study aimed to identify cytokines, which are associated with larger VSs. The expression of different cytokines in VS tumor samples and VS primary cultures was investigated. Additionally, the concentration of cytokines in cell culture supernatants of VS primary cultures and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of VS patients and healthy controls were determined. Correlation analysis of cytokine levels with tumor volume, growth rate, Koos grade, age, and hearing was examined with Spearman’s-rank test. The mRNA expression of CC-chemokine ligand (CCL) 18, growth differentiation factor (GDF) 15, and interferon regulatory factor 4 correlated positively with tumor volume. Moreover, the amount of GDF15 in the cell culture supernatant of primary cells correlated positively with tumor volume. The concentrations of the cytokines CCL2, CCL5, and CCL18 and transforming growth factor beta (TGFB) 1 in the CSF of the patients were significantly different from those in the CSF controls. Inhibition of immune cell infiltration could be a putative approach to prevent and control VS growth.
The Effect of Silanization and Thermocycling on the Microshear Bond Strength of Silane-containing Universal Adhesive to Aged Resin Composite
Creators: name: Bumrungruan, Chonlaya
Publisher: name: The Dental Association of Thailand
Year: 2022
Subjects: Aged resin composite
Microshear bond strength
Silanization
Thermocycling
Universal adhesive

description: Journal of The Dental Association of Thailand, 72, 2, 356-362
The American Diet: Health and Economic Consequences
Creators: name: Frazão, Elizabeth
name: Frazão, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Nutrition
subject: diets
subject: health

description: Poor diets are associated with 4, including the top 3, of the leading causes of death in the United States: heart disease, cancer, stroke, and diabetes. Poor diets are also associated with other health conditions that contribute to premature mortality or reduced quality of life and productivity. Whereas it is not yet possible to determine the precise extent to which poor diets contribute to these health conditions, and thus determine the true costs associated with poor diets, this report provides information on the incidence, prevalence, and costs associated with health conditions commonly associated with poor diets and inadequate activity. Current dietary patterns are compared with Federal dietary recommendations. Possible reasons for current dietary pattems and USDA's efforts at improving diets are also described.
Addressing relationship quality of people with dementia and their family carers : which profiles require most support?
Creators: name: Marques, Maria J.
name: Bieber, Anja Martha
name: Stephan, Astrid
name: [Und Viele Weitere]
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 610

description: Objective: The quality of the relationship between persons with dementia and family carers influences health and quality-of-life outcomes. Little is known regarding those at higher risk of experiencing a decline in relationship quality, who could potentially benefit the most from interventions. We aimed to identify these risk profiles and explore the underlying factors. Methods: We applied a latent profile analysis to relationship quality data from a 1-year follow-up of 350 dyads of persons with dementia and their informal carers from the Actifcare cohort in eight European countries. Assessments included sociodemographic, clinical, functional, psychosocial and quality-of-life measures. Relationship quality was assessed with the Positive Affect Index. A discriminant analysis explored factors influencing the risk profiles. Results: There were two relationship quality profiles among persons with dementia (gradually decreasing, 74.0%; low but improving, 26%) and two among carers (steadily poor, 57.7%; consistently positive, 42.3%). The ‘gradually decreasing’ profile (persons with dementia) was related to their levels of dependence and unmet needs, along with carers’ social distress and negative feelings, lower baseline RQ and sense of coherence. The ‘steadily poor’ profile (carers) was influenced by their social distress and negative feelings, lower sense of coherence and perceived social support. These two predominant profiles showed significant decreases in quality-of-life over one year. Conclusions: Specific profiles of persons with dementia and their carers are at risk of worse relationship quality trajectories. By considering modifiable related factors (e.g., carers’ stress), our findings can help develop tailored, effective interventions.
Towards the STSXYTERv2, a silicon strip detector readout chip for the STS
Creators: name: Kasinski, K.
name: Kleczek, R.
name: Szczygiel, R.
name: Otfinowski, P.
name: Grybos, P.
name: Otfinowski, P.
Publisher: name: GSI Helmholtzzentrum fuer Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt
Year: 2015
Subjects: Physics

description: GSI Scientific Report 2014 - GSI Report 2015-1
Neighborhood properties of complex networks
Creators: name: Andrade, R. F. S.
name: Miranda, J. G. V.
name: Lobao, Thierry Petit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A concept of neighborhood in complex networks is addressed based on the criterion of the minimal number os steps to reach other vertices. This amounts to, starting from a given network $R_1$, generating a family of networks $R_\ell, \ell=2,3,...$ such that, the vertices that are $\ell$ steps apart in the original $R_1$, are only 1 step apart in $R_\ell$. The higher order networks are generated using Boolean operations among the adjacency matrices $M_\ell$ that represent $R_\ell$. The families originated by the well known linear and the Erdös-Renyi networks are found to be invariant, in the sense that the spectra of $M_\ell$ are the same, up to finite size effects. A further family originated from small world network is identified.
Restitution of the K and F Components of the Solar Corona from LASCO-C2 Images over 24 Years [1996--2019]
Creators: name: Llebaria, Antoine
name: Lamy, Philippe
name: Gilardy, Hugo
name: Boclet, Brice
name: Loirat, Jean
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a photometrically accurate restitution of the K and F coronae from white-light images obtained over 24 Years [1996--2019] by the Large-Angle Spectrometric COronagraph "LASCO-C2" onboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). The procedure starts with the data set coming from the polarimetric separation of images of 512 x 512 pixels in which the F-corona and the instrumental stray light are entangled. Disentangling these components proceeds in three stages, each composed of several steps. Stage 1 establishes the distinct variations of the radiance of these components with the Sun--SOHO distance and generate a new data set of median images calculated for each Carrington rotation. Stage 2 achieves the restitution of a set of 36 stray light images reflecting its temporal variation and the periodic rolls of SOHO which started in 2003. Stage 3 achieves the restitution of the F-corona and a time series of daily images is generated. These results allowed us processing the whole set of routine LASCO-C2 images of 1024 x 1024 pixels (approximately 626000 images) and producing calibrated, high resolution images of the K-corona. We extend our past conclusions that the temporal variation of the integrated radiance of the K-corona tracks the solar activity over two solar cycles 23 and 24 and that it is highly correlated with the temporal variation of the total magnetic field. The behaviours of the integrated radiance during the last few years of the declining phases of solar cycles 23 and 24 are remarkably similar, reaching the same floor level and leading to a duration of 11.0 year for the latter cycle, in agreement with the sunspot determination.
description: 1. Added two new Sections 3.5 and 4.2 discussing uncertainties, with new Figures (21 and 23); results unchanged. 2. Added a comparison with the results of Hayes et al. (2001) in Fig. 24
Development of a CO$_2$ cooling prototype for the CBM Silicon Tracking System
Creators: name: Sanchez Rosado, J.
name: Heuser, J.
name: Niebur, W.
name: Sturm, C.
name: Schmidt, H. R.
name: Lymanets, A.
name: Verlaat, B.
name: Zwakinski, L.
Publisher: name: GSI Helmholtzzentrum fuer Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt
Year: 2015
Subjects: Physics

description: GSI Scientific Report 2014 - GSI Report 2015-1
Studies of correlated events in the CBM STS silicon microstrip sensors
Creators: name: Pugatch, V.
name: Heuser, J.
name: Larionov, P.
name: Pugach, M.
name: Sorokin, I.
name: Sturm, C.
Publisher: name: GSI Helmholtzzentrum fuer Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt
Year: 2015
Subjects: Physics

description: GSI Scientific Report 2014 - GSI Report 2015-1
Marginally localized edges of time-reversal symmetric topological superconductors
Creators: name: Chou, Yang-Zhi
name: Nandkishore, Rahul M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate that the one-dimensional helical Majorana edges of two-dimensional time-reversal symmetric topological superconductors (class DIII) can become gapless and insulating by a combination of random edge velocity and interaction. Such a gapless insulating edge breaks time-reversal symmetry inhomogeneously, and the local symmetry broken regions can be regarded as static mass potentials or dynamical Ising spins. In both limits, we find that such glassy Majorana edges are generically exponentially localized and trap Majorana zero modes. Interestingly, for a statistically time-reversal symmetric edge, the low-energy theory can be mapped to a Dyson model at zero energy, manifesting a diverging density of states and exhibiting marginal localization (i.e., a diverging localization length). Although the ballistic edge state transport is absent, the localized Majorana zero modes reflect the nontrivial topology in the bulk. Experimental signatures are also discussed.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures, published version
Thermal conductance of a weakly coupled quantum dot
Creators: name: Tsaousidou, Margarita
name: Triberis, George P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the electronic contribution to the thermal conductance in a quantum dot that is weakly coupled via tunnel barriers to two electrons reservoirs. A linear response model is derived for the calculation of the heat current Q through the quantum dot when a small temperature difference and a small voltage difference are applied between the two reservoirs. We find that the thermal conductance oscillates as a function of the Fermi energy. The periodicity of these oscillations is the same as this of the Coulomb blockade oscillations of the conductance. In the quantum limit the peak values of the thermal conductance tends to zero as exp(-DE/kT) where DE is the spacing between the energy levels in the dot. This surprising result implies the failure of the Wiedemann-Franz law in the quantum limit and it could lead to structures with large figure of merit ZT. We have also examined the behavior of the thermal conductance in the classical limit and we find that the Wiedemann-Franz is recovered.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures, v3: more references added and discussed, some typos corrected
Directional association of TeV to PeV astrophysical neutrinos with radio blazars
Creators: name: Plavin, A. V.
name: Kovalev, Y. Y.
name: Kovalev, Y. A.
name: Troitsky, S. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently we have shown that high-energy neutrinos above 200 TeV detected by IceCube are produced within several parsecs in the central regions of radio-bright blazars, that is active galactic nuclei with jets pointing towards us. To independently test this result and extend the analysis to a wider energy range, we use public data for all neutrino energies from seven years of IceCube observations. The IceCube point-source likelihood map is analyzed against the positions of blazars from a statistically complete sample selected by their compact radio flux density. The latter analysis delivers a 3.0 sigma significance with the combined post-trial significance of both studies being 4.1 sigma. The correlation is driven by a large number of blazars. Together with fainter but physically similar sources not included in the sample, they may explain the entire IceCube astrophysical neutrino flux as derived from muon-track analyses. The neutrinos can be produced in interactions of relativistic protons with X-ray self-Compton photons in parsec-scale blazar jets.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures; accepted to ApJ; v2: extended and clarified discussion, added a diagram; v3: improved numerical estimates
Comparison of Survey Lines Obtained from the Newly Developed Intra-oral Surveyor and A Convention Dental Surveyor: An in vitro study
Creators: name: Doungtraiphop, Kritchanok
Publisher: name: The Dental Association of Thailand
Year: 2022
Subjects: Survey line validity
Surveyor
Intraoral surveyor

description: Journal of The Dental Association of Thailand, 72, 2, 363-372
Discovery of X-ray Pulsations from the HMXB Source AXJ1749.1-2733
Creators: name: Karasev, D. I.
name: Tsygankov, S. S.
name: Lutovinov, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We are reporting a discovery of X-ray pulsations from the source AX J1749.1-2733 with the period of ~132 s based on the XMM-Newton data obtained in March 2007. The observed pulse profile has a double-peaked structure with the pulse fraction of about 25-30 % in the 3-10 keV energy band. We have also found that a periodicity with practically the same period has been detected from the source by the IBIS telescope onboard the INTEGRAL observatory during an outburst on Sept. 9, 2003 in the 20-50 keV energy band. Due to the double-peaked pulse profile, there is an additional peak on both periodograms of nearly ~66 s, therefore we have also investigated the possibility that the last value is the true pulse period. The source spectrum obtained by the XMM-Newton observatory in the soft energy band is being heavily absorbed ($N_H\simeq2\times10^{23}$ cm$^{-2}$) due to a strong intrinsic absorption in the binary system that leads to the conclusion that AX J1749.1-2733 is a new transient X-ray pulsar in the high mass X-ray binary system.
description: MNRAS, 6 pages, 6 figures
Spin-Wave Doppler Shift by Magnon Drag in Magnetic Insulators
Creators: name: Yu, Tao
name: Wang, Chen
name: Sentef, Michael A.
name: Bauer, Gerrit E. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Doppler shift of the quasiparticle dispersion by charge currents is responsible for the critical supercurrents in superconductors and instabilities of the magnetic ground state of metallic ferromagnets. Here we predict an analogous effect in thin films of magnetic insulators in which microwaves emitted by a proximity stripline generate coherent chiral spin currents that cause a Doppler shift in the magnon dispersion. The spin-wave instability is suppressed by magnon-magnon interactions that limit spin currents to values close to but below the threshold for the instability. The spin current limitations by the backaction of magnon currents on the magnetic order should be considered as design parameters in magnonic devices.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
Vector Meson Dominance
Creators: name: Schildknecht, Dieter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Historically vector-meson physics arose along two different paths to be reviewed in Sections 1 and 2. In Section 3, the phenomenological consequences will be discussed with an emphasis on those aspects of the subject matter relevant in present-day discussions on deep inelastic scattering in the diffraction region of low values of the Bjorken variable.
description: To appear in the proceedings of "PHOTON2005 International Conference on the Structure and Interactions of the Photon including the 16th International Workshop on Photon-Photon Collisions", Warsaw, 2005
Local one-dimensional reggeon model of the interaction of pomerons and odderons
Creators: name: Braun, M. A.
name: Kuzminskii, E. M.
name: Vyazovsky, M. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose the one-dimensional reggeon theory describing local pomerons and odderons. It generalizes the well-known one-dimensional theory of pomerons (the Gribov model) and includes only triple interaction vertices. The proposed theory is studied by numerical methods: the one-particle pomeron and odderon propagators and the pA amplitude are found as functions of rapidity by integrating the evolution equation.
description: 19 pages, 11 figures; submitted to Eur.Phys.Jour. C
AMPA-Net: Optimization-Inspired Attention Neural Network for Deep Compressed Sensing
Creators: name: Li, Nanyu
name: Zhou, Charles C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Compressed sensing (CS) is a challenging problem in image processing due to reconstructing an almost complete image from a limited measurement. To achieve fast and accurate CS reconstruction, we synthesize the advantages of two well-known methods (neural network and optimization algorithm) to propose a novel optimization inspired neural network which dubbed AMP-Net. AMP-Net realizes the fusion of the Approximate Message Passing (AMP) algorithm and neural network. All of its parameters are learned automatically. Furthermore, we propose an AMPA-Net which uses three attention networks to improve the representation ability of AMP-Net. Finally, We demonstrate the effectiveness of AMP-Net and AMPA-Net on four standard CS reconstruction benchmark data sets. Our code is available on https://github.com/puallee/AMPA-Net.
description: 7 pages,7 figures
Suicides, Assisted Suicides and ‘Mercy Killings’: Would Voluntary Assisted Dying Prevent These ‘Bad Deaths’?
Creators: name: Del Villar, Katrine
name: Willmott, Lindy
name: White, Ben
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Voluntary assisted dying (‘VAD’) has recently been legalised in Victoria and Western Australia, with other Australian states following. One argument advanced in favour of legalisation of VAD is that terminally and chronically ill people are committing suicide, or asking friends or relatives to assist them to die, because they feel that they have no alternative. This article evaluates whether the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2017 (Vic) will prevent these ‘bad deaths’ from occurring. The article evaluates two important sources of evidence: coronial evidence from Victoria and Western Australia concerning suicides in the chronically and terminally ill; and Australian cases on assisted suicide and ‘mercy killings’. It concludes that many of these cases would not have met the eligibility criteria for VAD under the Victorian model, and thus ‘bad deaths’ will continue to occur.
Mean-Field Density Matrix Decompositions
Creators: name: Eriksen, Janus J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce new and robust decompositions of mean-field Hartree-Fock (HF) and Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT) relying on the use of localized molecular orbitals and physically sound charge population protocols. The new lossless property decompositions, which allow for partitioning 1-electron reduced density matrices into either bond-wise or atomic contributions, are compared to alternatives from the literature with regards to both molecular energies and dipole moments. Besides commenting on possible applications as an interpretative tool in the rationalization of certain electronic phenomena, we demonstrate how decomposed mean-field theory makes it possible to expose and amplify compositional features in the context of machine-learned quantum chemistry. This is made possible by improving upon the granularity of the underlying data. On the basis of our preliminary proof-of-concept results, we conjecture that many of the structure-property inferences in existence today may be further refined by efficiently leveraging an increase in dataset complexity and richness.
description: 36+31 pages, 12 figures. SI as an ancillary file
In vivo Protein Expression after Delivery of Modified mRNA Encoding Bone Morphogenetic Protein - 2 into Rat Gingiva Using Different Delivery Systems: A Pilot Study
Creators: name: Wisitrasameewong, Wichaya
Publisher: name: The Dental Association of Thailand
Year: 2022
Subjects: Bone morphogenetic protein-2
Delivery system
mRNA
Periodontal regeneration

description: Journal of The Dental Association of Thailand, 72, 2, 373-379
Cavity molecular dynamics simulations of vibrational polariton enhanced molecular nonlinear absorption
Creators: name: Li, Tao E.
name: Nitzan, Abraham
name: Subotnik, Joseph E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent experiments have observed that the chemical and photophysical properties of molecules can be modified inside an optical Fabry-Perot microcavity under collective vibrational strong coupling (VSC) conditions, and such modification is currently not well understood by theory. In an effort to understand the origin of such cavity induced phenomena, some recent studies have focused on the effect of the cavity environment on the nonlinear optical response of the molecular subsystem. Here, we use a recently proposed protocol for classical cavity molecular dynamics (CavMD) simulations to numerically investigate the linear and nonlinear response of liquid carbon dioxide under such VSC conditions following an optical pulse excitation. We find that applying a strong pulse of excitation to the lower hybrid light-matter state, i.e., the lower polariton (LP), can lead to an overall molecular nonlinear absorption which is enhanced by up to two orders of magnitude relative to the excitation outside the cavity. This polariton-enhanced multiphoton absorption also causes an ultrashort LP lifetime (0.2 ps) under strong illumination. Unlike usual polariton relaxation processes -- whereby polaritonic energy transfers directly to the manifold of singly excited vibrational dark states -- under the present mechanism, the LP transfers energy directly to the manifold of higher vibrationally excited dark states; these highly excited dark states subsequently relax to the manifold of singly excited states with a lifetime of tens of ps. Because the present mechanism is generic in nature, we expect these numerical predictions to be experimentally observed in different molecular systems and in cavities with different volumes.
SU(2)xU(1) unified theory for charge, orbit and spin currents
Creators: name: Jin, Pei-Qing
name: Li, You-Quan
name: Zhang, Fu-Chun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spin and charge currents in systems with Rashba or Dresselhaus spin-orbit couplings are formulated in a unified version of four-dimensional SU(2)$\times$U(1) gauge theory, with U(1) the Maxwell field and SU(2) the Yang-Mills field. While the bare spin current is non-conserved, it is compensated by a contribution from the SU(2) gauge field, which gives rise to a spin torque in the spin transport, consistent with the semi-classical theory of Culcer et al. Orbit current is shown to be non-conserved in the presence of electromagnetic fields. Similar to the Maxwell field inducing forces on charge and charge current, we derive forces acting on spin and spin current induced by the Yang Mills fields such as the Rashba and Dresselhaus fields and the sheer strain field. The spin density and spin current may be considered as a source generating Yang-Mills field in certain condensed matter systems.
description: Revtex, 6 pages, section IV revised, to be published in Journal of Physics A
Suicides, Assisted Suicides and ‘Mercy Killings’: Would Voluntary Assisted Dying Prevent These ‘Bad Deaths’? (Advance)
Creators: name: Del Villar, Katrine
name: Willmott, Lindy
name: White, Ben
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Voluntary assisted dying (‘VAD’) has recently been legalised in Victoria and Western Australia, with other Australian states following. One argument advanced in favour of legalisation of VAD is that terminally and chronically ill people are committing suicide, or asking friends or relatives to assist them to die, because they feel that they have no alternative. This article evaluates whether the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2017 (Vic) will prevent these ‘bad deaths’ from occurring. The article evaluates two important sources of evidence: coronial evidence from Victoria and Western Australia concerning suicides in the chronically and terminally ill; and Australian cases on assisted suicide and ‘mercy killings’. It concludes that many of these cases would not have met the eligibility criteria for VAD under the Victorian model, and thus ‘bad deaths’ will continue to occur.
Accurate description of bulk and interfacial properties in colloid-polymer mixtures
Creators: name: Vink, R. L. C.
name: Jusufi, A.
name: Dzubiella, J.
name: Likos, C. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Large-scale Monte Carlo simulations of a phase-separating colloid-polymer mixture are performed and compared to recent experiments. The approach is based on effective interaction potentials in which the central monomers of self-avoiding polymer chains are used as effective coordinates. By incorporating polymer nonideality together with soft colloid-polymer repulsion, the predicted binodal is in excellent agreement with recent experiments. In addition, the interfacial tension as well as the capillary length are in quantitative agreement with experimental results obtained at a number of points in the phase-coexistence region, without the use of any fit parameters
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Freudenberg, Adolf: Befreie, die zum Tode geschleppt werden
Creators: name: Krüger, Hanfried
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 35 Nr. 2 (1986): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 35, Heft 2
Saica carayoni Villiers 1943
Creators: name: María, Valentina Castro-Huertas
name: Melo, María Cecilia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Reduviidae
Saica
Saica carayoni

description: Saica carayoni Villiers, 1943
(Figs 2E, F; 5B; 7)
Saica carayoni Villiers, 1943a: 197; 1943b: 323 [cit.]. — Wygodzinsky 1949: 63 [cat.]. — Maldonado Capriles 1990: 478 [cat.]. — Gil-Santana & Marques 2005: 405 [cit.]. — Swanson 2020: 978 [cit.].
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Holotype. Brazil • ♂; São Paulo: Est. de São Paulo, Val. Du Rio Pardo; E. Gounelle; MNHN-EH-EH25369 (high-resolution images, Fig. 2E, F).
DIAGNOSIS. — Coloration red, with apex of thoracic spines yellow; antennae, coxae, trochanters and femora reddish (Fig. 2F); posterior margin of pygophore flat; posteromedial process of pygophore deeply concave medially, ramus curved and laterally projected (Fig. 5B).
DISTRIBUTION. — Brazil (São Paulo) (Villiers 1943a, b) (Fig. 7).
REDESCRIPTION
Male
Macropterous. Measurements in Table 2.
Coloration (Figs 2E, F). Head: Red. Scape and pedicel reddish, basi- and distiflagellomeres pale brown. First and second visible labial segments reddish, third visible labial segment yellowish. Thorax: Reddish. Proleg reddish, except apical portion of protibia and tarsus yellowish; meso- and metalegs similar to prolegs. Forewing pale brown with veins and pterostigma reddish. Abdomen: Reddish, medial region of the abdominal sternites pale brown.
Structure. Thorax (Fig. 2F): Humeral angle spines long, three times longer than their base. Mesonotal spine straight, three times longer than its base. Protuberance of scutellum with its apex slightly concave and conspicuously concave posteriorly, lateral margins conspicuously expanded in caudal view. Metanotal spine straight, 0.2 times the length of mesonotal spine. Forewing with two closed cells, apex of outer discal cell extending as far as apex of pterostigma. Abdomen: Abdominal segment 2 not conspicuously narrower than posterior segments. Genitalia: Posterior margin of pygophore flat, and densely setose. Posteromedial process of pygophore (mpp) deeply concaved medially. Ramus curved and projected laterally, nearly twice as long as its base, apical region narrowed with an acute and projected apical process (Fig. 5B).
REMARKS
Saica carayoni is known only by the holotype. This species is similar to S. rubripes, because both species have the basal process of the scutellum inverted scoop-shaped and deeply emarginated in caudal view. However S. carayoni shows the posterior margin of pygophore flat (S. rubripes has a pair of protruding processes); and the ramus of the posteromedial process of pygophore is longitudinally angulated (in S. rubripes is nearly straight).
description: Published as part of María, Valentina Castro-Huertas & Melo, María Cecilia, 2024, Saica Amyot & Serville, 1843 (Reduviidae, Emesinae, Saicini): taxonomic revision and phylogenetic analysis with morphological characters, pp. 813-845 in Zoosystema 46 (32) on page 824, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2024v46a32, http://zenodo.org/record/14532160
Health and cleanliness of the XMM-Newton science payload since launch
Creators: name: al., M. G. F. Kirsch et
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: On December 10th 2004 the XMM-Newton observatory celebrated its 5th year in orbit. Since the beginning of the mission steady health and contamination monitoring has been performed by the XMM-Newton SOC and the instrument teams. Main targets of the monitoring, using scientific data for all instruments on board, are the behaviour of the Charge Transfer Efficiency, the gain, the effective area and the bad, hot and noisy pixels. The monitoring is performed by combination of calibration observations using internal radioactive calibration sources with observations of astronomical targets. In addition a set of housekeeping parameters is continuously monitored reflecting the health situation of the instruments from an engineering point of view. We show trend behaviour over the 5 years especially in combination with events like solar flares and other events affecting the performance of the instruments.
description: 12 pages, 16 figures, SPIE paper number 5898-29
Differentiable Implicit Layers
Creators: name: Look, Andreas
name: Doneva, Simona
name: Kandemir, Melih
name: Gemulla, Rainer
name: Peters, Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we introduce an efficient backpropagation scheme for non-constrained implicit functions. These functions are parametrized by a set of learnable weights and may optionally depend on some input; making them perfectly suitable as a learnable layer in a neural network. We demonstrate our scheme on different applications: (i) neural ODEs with the implicit Euler method, and (ii) system identification in model predictive control.
Charge collection in STS silicon microstrip sensors at their surface layer
Creators: name: Panasenko, I.
name: Dobishuk, V.
name: Heuser, J.
name: Kyva, V.
name: Militsiya, V.
name: Momot, I.
name: Pugatch, V.
name: Teklishyn, M.
Publisher: name: GSI Helmholtzzentrum fuer Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt
Year: 2015
Subjects: Physics

description: GSI Scientific Report 2014 - GSI Report 2015-1
Wafer-scale integration of graphene-based photonic devices
Creators: name: Giambra, Marco A.
name: Mišeikis, Vaidotas
name: Pezzini, Sergio
name: Marconi, Simone
name: Montanaro, Alberto
name: Fabbri, Filippo
name: Sorianello, Vito
name: Ferrari, Andrea C.
name: Coletti, Camilla
name: Romagnoli, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Graphene and related materials can lead to disruptive advances in next generation photonics and optoelectronics. The challenge is to devise growth, transfer and fabrication protocols providing high (>5,000 cm2 V-1 s-1) mobility devices with reliable performance at the wafer scale. Here, we present a flow for the integration of graphene in photonics circuits. This relies on chemical vapour deposition (CVD) of single layer graphene (SLG) matrices comprising up to ~12000 individual single crystals (SCs), grown to match the geometrical configuration of the devices in the photonic circuit. This is followed by a transfer approach which guarantees coverage over ~80% of the device area, and integrity for up to 150 mm wafers, with room temperature mobility ~5000 cm2 V-1 s-1. We use this process flow to demonstrate double SLG electro-absorption modulators with modulation efficiency ~0.25, 0.45, 0.75, 1 dB V-1 for device lengths ~30, 60, 90, 120 μm. The data rate is up to 20 Gbps. Encapsulation with single-layer hBN is used to protected SLG during plasma-enhanced CVD of Si3N4, ensuring reproducible device performance. Our full process flow (from growth to device fabrication) enables the commercial implementation of graphene-based photonic devices.
description: 30 pages, 9 Figures
Charge sharing in micro-strip sensors: experiment and simulation
Creators: name: Malygina, H.
name: Friese, V.
name: Heuser, J.
name: Senger, A.
name: Sorokin, I.
Publisher: name: GSI Helmholtzzentrum fuer Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt
Year: 2015
Subjects: Physics

description: GSI Scientific Report 2014 - GSI Report 2015-1
Geometric (Clifford) algebra and its applications
Creators: name: Lundholm, Douglas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this Master of Science Thesis I introduce geometric algebra both from the traditional geometric setting of vector spaces, and also from a more combinatorial view which simplifies common relations and operations. This view enables us to define Clifford algebras with scalars in arbitrary rings and provides new suggestions for an infinite-dimensional approach. Furthermore, I give a quick review of classic results regarding geometric algebras, such as their classification in terms of matrix algebras, the connection to orthogonal and Spin groups, and their representation theory. A number of lower-dimensional examples are worked out in a systematic way using so called norm functions, while general applications of representation theory include normed division algebras and vector fields on spheres. I also consider examples in relativistic physics, where reformulations in terms of geometric algebra give rise to both computational and conceptual simplifications.
description: M.Sc. Thesis (January 2006), 68 pages. Department of Mathematics, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Data throttling procedures for the STS-XYTER based read-out of the CBM Silicon Tracking System
Creators: name: Balog, T.
name: Müller, W. F. J.
name: Schmidt, C. J.
name: Lehnert, J.
Publisher: name: GSI Helmholtzzentrum fuer Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt
Year: 2015
Subjects: Physics

description: GSI Scientific Report 2014 - GSI Report 2015-1
The Energy Dependence of the Saturation Scale
Creators: name: Kuroda, Masaaki
name: Schildknecht, Dieter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: At low $x \cong Q^2/W^2 << 1$, in deep inelastic scattering, the photon fluctuates into a $q \bar q$ vector state that interacts via two gluons with the proton. The energy dependence is determined by the saturation scale, in our approach given by $Λ^2_{sat} (W^2) \sim (W^2)^{C_2}$. Imposing DGLAP evolution, we find $C_2^{theory} = 0.27$ in agreement with the model-independent analysis of the HERA data. Different values of the exponent $C_2$ are correlated with different ratios of the longitudinal to transverse structure function. This stresses the need for experiments to separate longitudinal and transverse contributions in deep inelastic scattering.
description: To appear in the proceedings of "PHOTON2005 International Conference on the Structure and Interactions of the Photon including the 16th International Workshop on Photon-Photon Collisions", Warsaw, 2005
Deformations of flows from type IIB supergravity
Creators: name: Ahn, Changhyun
name: Vazquez-Poritz, Justin F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider supersymmetric SL(3,R) deformations of various type IIB supergravity backgrounds which exhibit flows away from an asymptotically locally AdS_5 x S^5 fixed point. This includes the gravity dual of the Coulomb branch of N=1 super Yang Mills theory, for which the deformed superpotential is known. We also consider the gravity duals of field theories which live on various curved backgrounds, such as Minkowski_2 x H^2, AdS_3 x S^1 and R x S^3. Some of the deformed theories flow from a four-dimensional N=1 superconformal UV fixed point to a two-dimensional (2,2) superconformal IR fixed point. We study nonsupersymmetric generalizations of the deformations of the above Coulomb branch flows.
description: 29 pages, additional references and comments
Almost-normality of Isbell-Mrówka spaces
Creators: name: Rodrigues, Vinicius de Oliveira
name: Ronchim, Victor dos Santos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Topology (math.GN)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 2020: (Primary) 54D15, 54D80, 54G20, (Secondary) 54A35

description: We explore almost-normality in Isbell-Mrówka spaces and some related concepts. We use forcing to provide an example of an almost-normal not normal almost disjoint family, explore the concept of semi-normality in Isbell-Mrówka spaces, define the concept of strongly $(\aleph_0,
description: Postprint, accepted in Topology and its Applications