cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Organ decellularization used as a novel approach to engineer three-dimensional urogenital tumor models
Creators: name: Tan, Zheng
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2020

description: Cancer is currently the leading cause of death in Canada and is responsible for 30% of all deaths. With various treatments available nowadays, it is necessary to develop a three-dimensional (3D) model to mimic in vivo condition of patients’ disease in order to test drug efficacy prior to any actual treatments. My study is focusing specifically on kidney and bladder cancer. Therefore, a 3D, acellular organ-specific extracellular matrix (ECM) can be established as bioactive substrates with the long-range goal of bioengineering tumors for drug testing. Specifically, decellularization is the process by which cells are removed from the organ to produce the aforementioned matrix. It is crucial to achieve a tight balance between effective cell removal and retention of native ECM architecture. Henceforth, the decellularized matrix can be used as a template and be repopulated with normal human organ-specific cells or cancerous cells. With these approaches, a bio-matrix that ultimately serves as a cancer model for drug testing can be developed. In this master’s thesis project, I hypothesized that decellularization preserves organ microarchitecture and retains various matrix-bound growth factors necessary for cell homing. Afterward, tumor models can be established through recellularization of human cells onto the decellularized ECMs as a proof-of-principle drug-testing platform to predict treatment response. Two objectives were pursued to test this hypothesis. Under objective 1, I optimized and established decellularization protocols for both kidney and bladder. The protocols ensure complete cell removal and preservation of ECM microarchitectures. In addition, comprehensive protein-profiling of the decellularized kidney and bladder’s ECM was completed by performing proteomic analysis with liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS). Under objective 2, recellularization protocols for both decellularized kidney and bladder ECM were established and optimized. As the decellularized kidney and bladder’s ECM was repopulated with normal human cells and cancerous cells, the proposed in vitro urogenital cancer model can be developed. In conclusion, a 3D in vitro urogenital cancer model can be developed from kidneys and bladders using protocols optimized under objective 1 & 2. This work establishes the model as proof –of principal and sets the foundation for the developments of personalized cancer treatments.
Thermal Hall conductivity with sign change in the Heisenberg-Kitaev kagome magnet
Creators: name: Li, Kangkang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Heisenberg-Kitaev (HK) model on various lattices have attracted a lot of attention because they may lead to exotic states such as quantum spin liquid and topological orders. The rare-earth-based kagome lattice (KL) compounds $\rm{Mg_2RE_3Sb_3O_{14}}$ $\rm{(RE=Gd, Er)}$ and $\rm{(RE=Nd)}$ have ${\bf q=0}$, $120^\circ$ order and canted ferromagnetic (CFM) order, respectively. Interestingly, the HK model on the KL has the same ground state long-range orders. In the theoretical phase diagram, the CFM phase resides in a continuous parameter region and there is no phase change across special parameter points, such as the Kitaev ferromagnetic (KFM) point, the ferromagnetic (FM) point and its dual FM point. However, a ground state property cannot distinguish a system with or without topological nontrivial excitations and related phase transitions. Here, we study the topological magnon excitations and related thermal Hall conductivity in the HK model on the KL with CFM order. The CFM phase can be divided into two regions related by the Klein duality, with the self dual KFM point as their boundary. We find that the scalar spin chirality which is intrinsic in the CFM order changes sign across the KFM point. This leads to the opposite Chern numbers of corresponding magnon bands in the two regions, and also the sign change of the magnon thermal Hall conductivity.
In a nanoscience lab
Creators: name: Bayle-Guillemaud, Pascale
name: Hadji, Emmanuel
name: Reiss, Peter
name: Villain, Jacques
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The production, observation and manipulation of very small objects is a tour de force, but these objects, which could infiltrate anywhere without being seen, may arouse suspicion. To assess the situation at best, we describe the activity of a nanoscience research institution, some of the methods used there, the spirit of its researchers and their attitude towards risk.
description: article accept\'e pour publication dans les C.R. Physique. El\'ement d'un dossier 'Nanosciences et nanotechnologies: esp\'erances et inqui\'etudes". D'autres articles de ce dossier, ainsi que la version fran\c{c}aise de cet articles, seront \'egalement soumis \`a HAL
Additional file 10 of ddRAD-seq reveals the genetic structure and detects signals of selection in Italian brown trout
Creators: name: Magris, Gabriele
name: Marroni, Fabio
name: D’Agaro, Edo
name: Vischi, Massimo
name: Chiabà, Cristina
name: Scaglione, Davide
name: Kijas, James
name: Messina, Maria
name: Tibaldi, Emilio
name: Morgante, Michele
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 10: Figure S5. Heterozygosity level according to the recombination rate in the complete dataset and in each population. R2 and the corresponding p-value are shown in the top right corner of each graph. Total: whole dataset, AT: Atlantic, CA: Garda’s Carpione, MA: Marmoratus, MM: Mediterranea Mainland, MI: Mediterranea Island
Semantic2Graph: Graph-based Multi-modal Feature Fusion for Action Segmentation in Videos
Creators: name: Zhang, Junbin
name: Tsai, Pei-Hsuan
name: Tsai, Meng-Hsun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.10; I.4.8; I.5
subject: 68T01, 68T30, 68T45

description: Video action segmentation have been widely applied in many fields. Most previous studies employed video-based vision models for this purpose. However, they often rely on a large receptive field, LSTM or Transformer methods to capture long-term dependencies within videos, leading to significant computational resource requirements. To address this challenge, graph-based model was proposed. However, previous graph-based models are less accurate. Hence, this study introduces a graph-structured approach named Semantic2Graph, to model long-term dependencies in videos, thereby reducing computational costs and raise the accuracy. We construct a graph structure of video at the frame-level. Temporal edges are utilized to model the temporal relations and action order within videos. Additionally, we have designed positive and negative semantic edges, accompanied by corresponding edge weights, to capture both long-term and short-term semantic relationships in video actions. Node attributes encompass a rich set of multi-modal features extracted from video content, graph structures, and label text, encompassing visual, structural, and semantic cues. To synthesize this multi-modal information effectively, we employ a graph neural network (GNN) model to fuse multi-modal features for node action label classification. Experimental results demonstrate that Semantic2Graph outperforms state-of-the-art methods in terms of performance, particularly on benchmark datasets such as GTEA and 50Salads. Multiple ablation experiments further validate the effectiveness of semantic features in enhancing model performance. Notably, the inclusion of semantic edges in Semantic2Graph allows for the cost-effective capture of long-term dependencies, affirming its utility in addressing the challenges posed by computational resource constraints in video-based vision models.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures, 9 tables. Published on Applied Intelligence
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title: Ð²ÑÐ¿ÑÑÐºÐ½Ð°Ñ ÐºÐ²Ð°Ð»Ð¸ÑÐ¸ÐºÐ°ÑÐ¸Ð¾Ð½Ð½Ð°Ñ ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐ° Ð±Ð°ÐºÐ°Ð»Ð°Ð²ÑÐ°
titleType: Subtitle
title: Web application prototype development for creating a balanced menu
Creators: name: ÐÐ°ÐºÑÐ¸Ð¼Ð¾Ð², ÐÐ¼Ð¸ÑÑÐ¸Ð¹
Publisher: name: Ð¡Ð°Ð½ÐºÑ-ÐÐµÑÐµÑÐ±ÑÑÐ³ÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ Ð¿Ð¾Ð»Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐ½Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ ÑÐ½Ð¸Ð²ÐµÑÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑ ÐÐµÑÑÐ° ÐÐµÐ»Ð¸ÐºÐ¾Ð³Ð¾
Year: 2019
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web application
client
request
server
service
interface
design
Java
Spring

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description: As part of this work, a web application designed for the selection of a balanced menu is being designed and developed. The analysis of the subject area is made, the functional requirements for the web application are formalized. As a result of the comparison of solutions to the problem, the results of which revealed the need to develop their own solutions. As a result of the work, a web application was developed that selects recipes for a balanced menu based on the initial indicators of users. For development, the java programming language and the spring framework are used.
Classification of Gapped Symmetric Phases in 1D Spin Systems
Creators: name: Chen, Xie
name: Gu, Zheng-Cheng
name: Wen, Xiao-Gang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum many-body systems divide into a variety of phases with very different physical properties. The question of what kind of phases exist and how to identify them seems hard especially for strongly interacting systems. Here we make an attempt to answer this question for gapped interacting quantum spin systems whose ground states are short-range correlated. Based on the local unitary equivalence relation between short-range correlated states in the same phase, we classify possible quantum phases for 1D matrix product states, which represent well the class of 1D gapped ground states. We find that in the absence of any symmetry all states are equivalent to trivial product states, which means that there is no topological order in 1D. However, if certain symmetry is required, many phases exist with different symmetry protected topological orders. The symmetric local unitary equivalence relation also allows us to obtain some simple results for quantum phases in higher dimensions when some symmetries are present.
description: 21 pages, 7 figures. Version 2, classification for parity and translation symmetry updated
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title: Ð²ÑÐ¿ÑÑÐºÐ½Ð°Ñ ÐºÐ²Ð°Ð»Ð¸ÑÐ¸ÐºÐ°ÑÐ¸Ð¾Ð½Ð½Ð°Ñ ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐ° Ð±Ð°ÐºÐ°Ð»Ð°Ð²ÑÐ°
titleType: Subtitle
title: Design, calculation and construction of turbo-detender unit
Creators: name: ÐÐ¸Ð½Ð¾Ð³ÑÐ°Ð´Ð¾Ð², ÐÐ°ÐºÑÐ¸Ð¼
Publisher: name: Ð¡Ð°Ð½ÐºÑ-ÐÐµÑÐµÑÐ±ÑÑÐ³ÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ Ð¿Ð¾Ð»Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐ½Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ ÑÐ½Ð¸Ð²ÐµÑÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑ ÐÐµÑÑÐ° ÐÐµÐ»Ð¸ÐºÐ¾Ð³Ð¾
Year: 2021
Subjects: ÑÑÑÐ±Ð¾Ð´ÐµÑÐ°Ð½Ð´ÐµÑ
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turboexpander
low temperature separation
optimization
vane profiling
centrifugal compressor
radial-axial turbine
disc
rotor

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description: The topic of the final qualification work: "Design, calculation and construction of a turboexpander" In the work, the calculation of the thermal scheme, the approximate calculation of the compressor, the optimization calculation, the calculation of the radial-axial turbine, the strength calculation of the disk and the rotor of the unit are performed, the design of the installation is described. The choice of the type of turbine for the installation for low-temperature separation is also justified.
Dependence of nonlocal Gilbert damping on the ferromagnetic layer type in FM/Cu/Pt heterostructures
Creators: name: Ghosh, A.
name: Sierra, J. F.
name: Auffret, S.
name: Ebels, U.
name: Bailey, W. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have measured the size effect in nonlocal Gilbert relaxation rate in FM(t$_{FM}$) / Cu (5nm) [/ Pt (2nm)] / Al(2nm) heterostructures, FM = \{ Ni$_{81}$Fe$_{19}$, Co$_{60}$Fe$_{20}$B$_{20}$, pure Co\}. Common behavior is observed for three FM layers, where the additional relaxation obeys both a strict inverse power law dependence $ΔG =K \:t^{n}$, $n=-\textrm{1.04}\pm\textrm{0.06}$ and a similar magnitude $K=\textrm{224}\pm\textrm{40 Mhz}\cdot\textrm{nm}$. As the tested FM layers span an order of magnitude in spin diffusion length $λ_{SDL}$, the results are in support of spin diffusion, rather than nonlocal resistivity, as the origin of the effect.
Residual surface charge mediated near-field radiative energy transfer: A topological insulator analog
Creators: name: Luo, Minggang
name: Zhu, Jiaqi
name: Biehs, S. -A.
name: Zhao, Junming
name: Liu, and Linhua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the modifications of near-field radiative energy transfer (NFRET) caused by residual surface charges, which are common in micro- and nano-systems like NEMS/MEMS. The host object with the residual surface charges and the inherent bulk state can be treated as an analog of the real three-dimensional topological insulator, which is inherent of also both surface states and bulk states and is promising to modulate NFRET. Through constructing such a topological insulator analog, we aim to modulate NFRET concerning only common trivial materials. Besides the well-known resonant modes (surface polariton and localized surface polariton) supported by the bulk state, the residual surface charges give rise to an additional temperature-dependent mode providing a new heat flux channel. For low temperatures we find a giant surface-charge-induced enhancement of the NFRET due to a good match between the surface-charge-induced resonance and the Planck window. However, for relative high temperatures where the Fröhlich resonance dominates the heat transfer rather the surface-charge-induced resonance, the residual charges result in a weakening of the NFRET. This work paves way for understanding and modulating the near-field radiative energy transfer for micro- and nano-systems.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures
Metabolic reprogramming supports microglial survival and immune function
Creators: name: York, Elisa
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2021

description: In addition to energy production, metabolic pathways, such as glycolysis and mitochondrial metabolism, are important in regulating peripheral immune cell activity. This thesis examines whether cellular metabolism also regulates the immunological functions of microglia, the brain’s resident immune cells. The metabolic and anatomical complexity of the brain provides unique challenges for these studies, which required the development of two new methodological approaches. The first, 3DMorph, allows automatic and unbiased quantification of microglial morphology in three dimensions, improving the efficiency, accuracy, and reproducibility of microglial morphology analyses. The second establishes the use of fluorescence lifetime imaging of endogenous nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH-FLIM) within single microglia of acute hippocampal slices. This work demonstrates that GFP exhibits blue emission with short fluorescence lifetimes, which contaminates the metabolic signal, and alternatively validates microglial identification using tomato lectin to allow metabolic measurements by NADH-FLIM in situ. Using these techniques, microglial metabolism was investigated at baseline, as was their metabolic flexibility following nutrient depletion. Relative to the surrounding neuropil, microglia are highly glycolytic in control conditions. However, upon removal of glucose, microglial glutaminolysis is sufficient to support mitochondrial metabolism, cell viability, and immune surveillance. This flexibility may permit microglial survival and function during metabolic perturbations, such as stroke or hypoglycemia. Changes in cellular metabolism also regulated microglial immune activity. Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) application to acute hippocampal slices triggered an increase in microglial glycolysis, which was inhibited by co-incubation with 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2DG), a glycolysis inhibitor. LPS stimulation also increased production of the pro-inflammatory cytokines IL-1β and TNFα. LPS-induced production of these cytokines was decreased in the presence of 2DG, confirming a role for glycolysis in regulating microglial immune function. These data indicate that microglia exhibit remarkable metabolic flexibility that exceeds the ability of neurons. In addition, the activity of metabolic pathways impacts microglial immune function by altering IL-1β and TNFα production. The microglial morphology and metabolism tools presented here will continue to provide insights into metabolic signals regulating brain immune function. Both microglial and metabolic dysregulation are implicated in neurodegeneration following trauma or disease, making metabolic manipulations for therapeutic intervention or disease prevention a promising area of study.
The Atlas3D project -- IV: the molecular gas content of early-type galaxies
Creators: name: Young, Lisa M.
name: Bureau, Martin
name: Davis, Timothy A.
name: Combes, Francoise
name: McDermid, Richard M.
name: Alatalo, Katherine
name: Blitz, Leo
name: Bois, Maxime
name: Bournaud, Frederic
name: Cappellari, Michele
name: Davies, Roger L.
name: de Zeeuw, P. T.
name: Emsellem, Eric
name: Khochfar, Sadegh
name: Krajnovic, Davor
name: Kuntschner, Harald
name: Lablanche, Pierre-Yves
name: Morganti, Raffaella
name: Naab, Thorsten
name: Oosterloo, Tom
name: Sarzi, Marc
name: Scott, Nicholas
name: Serra, Paolo
name: Weijmans, Anne-Marie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have carried out a survey for 12CO J=1-0 and J=2-1 emission in the 260 early-type galaxies of the volume-limited Atlas3D sample, with the goal of connecting their star formation and assembly histories to their cold gas content. This is the largest volume-limited CO survey of its kind and is the first to include many Virgo Cluster members. Sample members are dynamically hot galaxies with a median stellar mass 3\times 10^{10} Msun; they are selected by morphology rather than colour, and the bulk of them lie on the red sequence. The overall CO detection rate is 56/259 = 0.22 \error 0.03, with no dependence on K luminosity and only a modest dependence on dynamical mass. There are a dozen CO detections among the Virgo Cluster members; statistical analysis of their H_2 mass distributions and their dynamical status within the cluster shows that the cluster's influence on their molecular masses is subtle at best, even though (unlike spirals) they seem to be virialized within the cluster. We suggest that the cluster members have retained their molecular gas through several Gyr residences in the cluster. There are also a few extremely CO-rich early-type galaxies with H_2 masses >= 10^9 Msun, and these are in low density environments. We do find a significant trend between molecular content and the stellar specific angular momentum. The galaxies of low angular momentum also have low CO detection rates, suggesting that their formation processes were more effective at destroying molecular gas or preventing its re-accretion. We speculate on the implications of these data for the formation of various sub-classes of early-type galaxies.
description: Fixed typo in author list. 33 pages. MNRAS, accepted
Heat conduction across molecular junctions between nanoparticles
Creators: name: Merabia, Samy
name: Barrat, Jean-Louis
name: Lewis, Laurent J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the problem of heat conduction across a molecular junction connecting two nanoparticles, both in vacuum and in a liquid environment, using classical molecular dynamics simulations. In vacuum, the well-known result of a length independent conductance is recovered; its precise value, however, is found to depend sensitively on the overlap between the vibrational spectrum of the junction and the density of states of the nanoparticles that act as thermal contacts. In a liquid environment, the conductance is constant up to a crossover length, above which a standard Fourier regime is recovered.
Updated Predictions for Higgs Production at the Tevatron and the LHC
Creators: name: Ahrens, Valentin
name: Becher, Thomas
name: Neubert, Matthias
name: Yang, Li Lin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present updated predictions for the total cross section for Higgs boson production through gluon fusion at hadron colliders. In addition to renormalization-group improvement at next-to-next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy, we incorporate the two-loop electroweak corrections, which leads to the most precise predictions at present. Numerical results are given for Higgs masses between 115 GeV and 200 GeV at the Tevatron with \sqrt{s}=1.96 TeV and the LHC with \sqrt{s}=7-14 TeV.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures. v2: combined PDF+alpha_s uncertainties included; results using NNPDF2.0 added; upgrade CTEQ6.6->CT10
Variational Representations of Annealing Paths: Bregman Information under Monotonic Embedding
Creators: name: Brekelmans, Rob
name: Nielsen, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods for sampling from complex distributions and estimating normalization constants often simulate samples from a sequence of intermediate distributions along an annealing path, which bridges between a tractable initial distribution and a target density of interest. Prior works have constructed annealing paths using quasi-arithmetic means, and interpreted the resulting intermediate densities as minimizing an expected divergence to the endpoints. To analyze these variational representations of annealing paths, we extend known results showing that the arithmetic mean over arguments minimizes the expected Bregman divergence to a single representative point. In particular, we obtain an analogous result for quasi-arithmetic means, when the inputs to the Bregman divergence are transformed under a monotonic embedding function. Our analysis highlights the interplay between quasi-arithmetic means, parametric families, and divergence functionals using the rho-tau representational Bregman divergence framework, and associates common divergence functionals with intermediate densities along an annealing path.
description: Published in Information Geometry (Info. Geo. 2024)
Wie viele Blasen ergeben Schaum
Creators: name: Titze, Jean
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Honig
subject: DDC::6** Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::66* Chemische Verfahrenstechnik::664 Lebensmitteltechnologie

description: Des einen Freud – des anderen Leid. Bei Lebensmitteln können Schäume sowohl Begeisterung als auch Argwohn des Verbrauchers zur Folge haben. Während beim Bier die Schaumkrone ein emotionales Muss darstellt, sind Blasen oder Schäume bei Honigen hingegen tabu. Eine der häufigsten Fehleransprachen bei der Beurteilung von Honig im Rahmen der Internationalen DLG-Qualitätsprüfung sind Blasen oder Schaum auf der Oberfläche. Allein im Jahr 2022 traten bei einem Viertel aller geprüfter Honige diese Mängel auf. Dabei versteht man unter einem Schaum gasförmige Bläschen, die von flüssigen Wänden eingeschlossen sind. Doch wie viele Blasen ergeben einen Schaum? Darüber streiten sich immer wieder die Experten. Grund genug sich diese Mängel genauer anzusehen.
NTT and NOT spectroscopy of SDSS-II supernovae
Creators: name: Ostman, L.
name: Nordin, J.
name: Goobar, A.
name: Amanullah, R.
name: Smith, M.
name: Sollerman, J.
name: Stanishev, V.
name: Stritzinger, M. D.
name: Bassett, B. A.
name: Davis, T. M.
name: Edmondson, E.
name: Frieman, J. A.
name: Garnavich, P. M.
name: Lampeitl, H.
name: Leloudas, G.
name: Marriner, J.
name: Nichol, R. C.
name: Romer, K.
name: Sako, M.
name: Schneider, D. P.
name: Zheng, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context. The SDSS-II Supernova Survey, conducted between 2005 and 2007, was designed to detect a large number of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) around z~0.2, the redshift "gap" between low-z and high-z SN searches. The survey has provided multi-band photometric lightcurves for variable targets, and SN candidates were scheduled for spectroscopic observations, primarily to provide SN classification and accurate redshifts. We present SN spectra obtained in 2006 and 2007 using the NTT and the NOT. Aims. We provide an atlas of SN spectra in the range z =0.03-0.32 that complements the well-sampled lightcurves from SDSS-II in the forthcoming three-year SDSS SN cosmology analysis. The sample can, for example, be used for spectral studies of SNe Ia, which are critical for understanding potential systematic effects when SNe are used to determine cosmological distances. Methods. The spectra were reduced in a uniform manner, and special care was taken in estimating the uncertainties for the different processing steps. Host-galaxy light was subtracted when possible and the SN type fitted using the SuperNova IDentification code (SNID). We also present comparisons between spectral and photometric dating using SALT lightcurve fits to the photometry from SDSS-II, as well as the global distribution of our sample in terms of the lightcurve parameters: stretch and colour. Results. We report new spectroscopic data from 141 SNe Ia, mainly between -9 and +15 days from lightcurve maximum, including a few cases of multi-epoch observations. This homogeneous, host-galaxy subtracted, SN Ia spectroscopic sample is among the largest such data sets and unique in its redshift interval. The sample includes two potential SN 1991T-like SNe (SN 2006on and SN 2007ni) and one potential SN 2002cx-like SN (SN 2007ie). In addition, the new compilation includes spectra from 23 confirmed Type II and 8 Type Ib/c SNe.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A
The Impact of Water Hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) on Composition and  Abundance of Macrophytes and Phytoplanktons, and on Water Quality in  Lake Abaya, Southern Ethiopia
Creators: name: BEDILU BEKELE MENGISTU
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2015

description: The impact of water hyacinth (Eichhornia  crassipes) on macrophytes,  phytoplankton and some
physicochemical parameters of water was  studied in south western  part  of Lake  Abaya  in Gamo
Gofa  Zone,  SNNPRS  of  Ethiopia.  The  study  was  made  in  two  cases  in  which  one  with  water
hyacinth  (Eichhornia  crassipes)  infested  and  the  other  with  non-infested  sites  each  one
consisting  of  30  plots.  Macrophyte  plant  samples  were  collected,  dried  (using  herbarium
techniques) and identified (using  Ethiopian flora). For phytoplankton  studies,  two  liters of water
sample  were  collected  under  sterile  condition,  filtered  with  10µm  pore  size  membrane  filter,
preserved  with  luglose  solution  and  plankton  identification  was  carried  out  using  inverted
microscope.  The  results  showed  that  water  hyacinth  negatively  affect  the  abundance  of
macrophytes  by  reducing  20%  and  changing  the  community  into  nearly  monotypic.  However,
some  macrophytes  species  from  Poaceae  and  Cyperaceae  family  were  observed  to  share  the
same  niche  with  the  alien  plant.  The  results  also  indicated  that  water  hyacinth  affect
phytoplankton  abundance  and  distribution.  Cyanophyceae,  Bacillariophyceae  and  some
Chlorophyceae were observed  co-existing  with the alien species whereas  most  Chlorophycaea
and Dinophyceae were excluded from the niche. The less frequently  occurrence  of  the  nuisance
Microcyst  in  infested  sites  might  be  contributed  to  some  beneficial  impact  of  the  plant.  The
ANOVA  result  showed  that  except  salinity  there  is  significant  variation  of  water  quality
measurements among groups (sites).  The Pearson’s  correlation analyses  also showed that water
hyacinth  negatively  correlated  with  turbidity,  chl-a,  DO,  Salinity,  conductivity  and  TSS,  and
positively  correlated  with  TDS  and  pH  of  the  water.  In  addition,  multivariate  correspondence
analyses  of  discrimination  measures  showed  that  the  alien  plant  discriminate  some  of  water
quality  parameters  like  TDS,  DO,  TSS  and  Turbidity  more  than  other  macrophytes  do.  Water
hyacinth has the potential to alter the  floristic  composition,  abundance and diversity of plants of
the wetland ecosystem.  The spreading of the water hyacinth has to be checked and halted before
it cause irreversible distraction on the ecosystem
Interplay of thermal and quantum spin fluctuations on the kagome lattice
Creators: name: Wulferding, Dirk
name: Lemmens, Peter
name: Scheib, Patric
name: Roeder, Jens
name: Mendels, Philippe
name: de Vries, Mark A.
name: Chu, Shaoyan
name: Han, Tianheng
name: Lee, Young S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a Raman spectroscopic investigation of the Herbertsmithite ZnCu3(OH)6Cl2, the first realization of a Heisenberg s=1/2 antiferromagnet on a perfect kagome lattice. The magnetic excitation spectrum of this compound is dominated by two components, a high temperature quasi elastic signal and a low temperature, broad maximum. The latter has a linear low energy slope and extends to high energy. We have investigated the temperature dependence and symmetry properties of both signals. Our data agree with previous calculations and point to a spin liquid ground state.
description: 5 figures
Predicting disability progression in secondary progressive multiple sclerosis by machine learning : a comparison of common methods and analysis of data limitations
Creators: name: Law, Marco
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2020

description: Secondary progressive MS (SPMS) is a late stage neurological disease characterized by chronic worsening. Enhanced prediction of SPMS progression could improve clinical trial design and may inform patient/physician treatment decisions, but the task is difficult since MS is characterized by heterogeneity in terms of clinical features, genetics, pathogenesis, and treatment response. The Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS), is a nominal MS disability scale for describing physical disability that is often incorrectly treated as a continuous variable. Machine learning (ML) models identify relationships between features and outcome, while deep learning (DL) adds on automatic feature extraction from low-level data. Although both have been applied to MS classification and early-stage transition prediction, late-stage MS disability progression prediction is lacking. The contributions of this thesis are the design, implementation, and evaluation of 1) ML using user-defined features (UDF), 2) DL using automatically extracted brain lesion mask features (BLM) for predicting SPMS disability progression, and 3) an evaluation of the impact on performance when EDSS is misused as a continuous variable. SPMS participants (n=485) in a 2-year placebo-controlled (negative) trial of MBP8298 were labelled progressors if a 6-month-sustained increase in EDSS (≥1.0 and ≥0.5 for a baseline of ≤5.5 and ≥6.0 respectively) was observed within 24 months. UDF included EDSS, Multiple Sclerosis Functional Composite component scores, T₂ lesion volume, brain parenchymal fraction, disease duration, age, and sex. Logistic regression (LR), ensemble support vector machines (enSVM), random forest (RF), and AdaBoost decision trees (AdBDT) were trained using UDF only. DL networks were trained to extract BLM features and predict progression with and without UDF. The primary outcome was the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC). Of the 485 participants, 115 progressed. When using continuous EDSS, AdBDT and RF had a greater AUC (60.3% and 56.2%) than enSVM (52.1%) and LR (44.7%), and DL using only BLM features outperformed LR using UDF (55.0% vs. 45.0%). UDF did not improve DL. RF and AdBDT were robust to EDSS treatment. SPMS trial cohorts selected by ML, DL, or both, could identify those at highest risk for progression, enabling smaller, shorter studies.
AEROBIC-ANOXIC BIOPROCESS FOR THE TREATMENT OF MUNICIPAL  WASTEWATER AND APPLYING THE EFFLUENT FOR IRRIGATING  VEGETABLE CROPS
Creators: name: ASAMIN YESIGAT DESSIE
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: This  study  was  designed  to  evaluate  the  treatment  performance  of  aerobic-anoxic
bioprocess  system  for  Arba  Minch  Town  (AMT)  municipal  wastewater  treatment.
Wastewater  sample  were  collected  and  characterized  from  nine  purposively  selected
sampling stations. The treated effluent and influent wastewater were evaluated for growing
three  randomly  selected  vegetables  (Lettuce,  Cabbage  and  Tomato).  Petridish  and  pot
experiment  set  up  were  designed  and  analyzed  using  standard  protocols  for  vegetables
germination and physiological parameters test including shoot and root length, leaf number
and  area,  fresh  and  dry  biomass,  chlorophyll  content,  heavy  metal  and  pathogenic
organism.  Descriptive  statistics and  a  one-way  ANOVA  followed by Duncan’s  multiple
range test  with p<0.05 were used. The experimental results indicated that NH4
+
-N, NO3
--N, TN, PO4
-3
, COD and BOD5  removal efficiency from the aerobic-anoxic reactors were
found  97.41,  93.46,  97.03,  86.48,  92.96  and  90.01%,  respectively.  The  pH  of  the
wastewater collected from different sites varied from 8.2-9.4.  The order of heavy metals
(mg/L)  in  wastewater  were  also  found  Fe>Pb>Zn>Mn>Cu>Cd,  5.1±0.1,  2.2±0.4,
0.38±0.07, 0.26±0.07, 0.1±0.0, 0.006±0.11, respectively. Moreover, the result showed that
leaf number and area, chlorophyll, shoot and root length, dry and fresh weight of vegetable
crops were significantly  higher (p<0.05)  in  vegetables  irrigated with treated wastewater
(TWW) compared to untreated wastewater (UTWW). For vegetables irrigated with TWW,
heavy  metals  were  found  significant  lower  (p<0.05)  as  compared  with  UTWW.
Furthermore, the result  showed, coliform bacteria and helminthes eggs were significantly
higher  in  all  vegetables  irrigated  with  UTWW  than  irrigated  with  TWW  (p<0.05). The
overall results showed that most  of the physicochemical characteristic of AMT wastewater
has been above the recommended standards set by FAO and WHO, which needs treatment
before applied for  irrigation purpose.  Due to the effectiveness of laboratory -scale aerobicanoxic wastewater treatment plant which will be better to upscale to pilot plant is important
for treating AMU municipal wastewater.
Additional file 7 of ddRAD-seq reveals the genetic structure and detects signals of selection in Italian brown trout
Creators: name: Magris, Gabriele
name: Marroni, Fabio
name: D’Agaro, Edo
name: Vischi, Massimo
name: Chiabà, Cristina
name: Scaglione, Davide
name: Kijas, James
name: Messina, Maria
name: Tibaldi, Emilio
name: Morgante, Michele
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 7: Figure S3. Distribution of kinship (A) and inbreeding coefficients (B) with different MAF thresholds. The four panels were obtained using four MAF thresholds. (a) MAF > 0.05, (b) MAF > 0.1, (c) MAF > 0.2, (d) MAF > 0.25. MI: Mediterranea Island, AT: Atlantic, MM: Mediterranea Mainland, MA: Marmoratus, CA: Garda’s Carpione
Decreasing norm-trace codes
Creators: name: Carvalho, Cícero
name: López, Hiram H.
name: Matthews, Gretchen L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 94B05, 11T71, 14G50

description: The decreasing norm-trace codes are evaluation codes defined by a set of monomials closed under divisibility and the rational points of the extended norm-trace curve. In particular, the decreasing norm-trace codes contain the one-point algebraic geometry (AG) codes over the extended norm-trace curve. We use Gröbner basis theory and find the indicator functions on the rational points of the curve to determine the basic parameters of the decreasing norm-trace codes: length, dimension, and minimum distance. We also obtain their dual codes. We give conditions for a decreasing norm-trace code to be a self-orthogonal or a self-dual code. We provide a linear exact repair scheme to correct single erasures for decreasing norm-trace codes, which applies to higher rate codes than the scheme developed by Jin, Luo, and Xing (IEEE Transactions on Information Theory {\bf 64} (2), 900-908, 2018) when applied to the one-point AG codes over the extended norm-trace curve.
EVALUATING THE APPLICATION OF CHAMO LAKE MICROORGANISMS  IN TEXTILE WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNDER ANOXIC-OXIC  CONDITION
Creators: name: MESERETU MELESE
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2015

description: Textile wastewater is characterized by substantial organic load, extreme alkalinity and heavily
colored effluent. When it is discharged without treatment, some of these effluents become toxic
to the public and environmental health. To solve these  problems, there  are physical, chemical
and  biological  treatment  methods.  Having  inherent  drawbacks  for  physical  and  chemical
methods,  biological  methods  which  involve  microbial  activities  are  the  best  alternative  textile
wastewater treatment practiced worldwide. This study was designed to evaluate the activity of
alkaliphilic microbial consortia under sequential anoxic-oxic bioreactor configurations. Synthetic
wastewater  containing  mineral  salt  media  and  reactive  red  239  (RR  239)  were  enriched  with
samples collected from Lake Chamo. Considering the microbial metabolic activates, the anoxic
and oxic reactors were inoculated with sediment and water samples, respectively. The effects of
organic  loading  rates  (OLR),  hydraulic  retention  times  (HRT)  and  dye  concentrations  were
evaluated  for  biological  oxygen  demand  (BOD5),  nitrogen  (N)  and  dye  removal  potentials.
Increasing the  OLR from  0.5  to  1.25 kg/day  were  showed  a  decreasing in BOD5
removal
efficiency  was  (85.5±  4  to  43.1±4%  under  oxic  and  63.5±3  to  23.1±1.5%) under  anoxic
condition and  dye  removal increases  from (1.5±0.1  to 5.7±2%  under  oxic  and  80±0.4% to
94.5±0.5 under anoxic conditions). However, increasing the OLR showed an increasing trend of
denitrification from (1±0.1 to 3±0.1% and 53±3 to 60±3.5%) under anoxic and oxic conditions,
respectively.  Increasing  the  HRT  from  5  to  25  hrs  were  found  increasing  the  BOD5 removal
efficiency  (41.4±.4  to  66.3±1.5%  under  anoxic  and  84.4±6.8  to  85.5  ±7.3%)  under  oxic
conditions and  under  longer  HRT  conditions,  color  removal  efficiencies  were  also  improved
under  oxic  condition (8.8±2.3  to  27 ±3%)  and  under  anoxic  condition  (57.6±4.5  to  91±5%)
condition.  Increasing  the  concentration  of  RR  239  from  10  to  50  mg/L  was found a  negative
impact on color removal. Overall, anoxic condition showed better dye removal efficiency than
BOD5 and denitrification most likely indicating dye under oxygen tension condition served as a
final electron accepter.
Theory of Cluster Formation: Effects of Magnetic Fields
Creators: name: Nakamura, Fumitaka
name: Li, Zhi-Yun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Stars form predominantly in clusters inside dense clumps of molecular clouds that are both turbulent and magnetized. The typical size and mass of the cluster-forming clumps are $\sim 1$ pc and $\sim 10^2 - $ 10$^3$ M$_\odot$, respectively. Here, we discuss some recent progress on numerical simulations of clustered star formation in such parsec-scale dense clumps with emphasis on the role of magnetic fields. The simulations have shown that magnetic fields tend to slow down global gravitational collapse and thus star formation, especially in the presence of protostellar outflow feedback. Even a relatively weak can retard star formation significantly, because the field is amplified by supersonic turbulence to an equipartition strength. However, in such a case, the distorted field component dominates the uniform one. In contrast, if the field is moderately strong, the uniform component remains dominant. Such a difference in the magnetic structure is observed in simulated polarization maps of dust thermal emission. Recent polarization measurements show that the field lines in nearby cluster-forming clumps are spatially well-ordered, indicative of a rather strong field. In such strongly-magnetized clumps, star formation should proceed relatively slowly; it continues for at least several global free-fall times of the parent dense clump ($t_{\rm ff}\sim $ a few $\times 10^5$ yr).
description: 8 pages, proceedings of Computational Star Formation (IAU 270)
Strategic Roadmapping in AI: Bringing it all together
Creators: name: Bennett, Arielle
name: Herterich, Patricia
name: Sharan, Malvika
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This workshop material was delivered for The Turing Way Practitioners Hub 2024-25 cohort.

The main objectives of the workshop were: 

Understand how to integrate outputs and learnings from different workshops and trainings across the Practitioner's Hub cohort into a roadmap for strategic implementation

Discuss the opportunities, challenges, and insights generated from creating a roadmap

Understand the aspects of a strategic roadmap

Be able to use roadmapping templates

Identify your first action towards your identified strategic goal

This entry contains both the presentation for the workshop and the templates provided. 

latesIdentify your firstaction towards your identified strategic goal
FLORISTIC COMPOSITION AND DIVERSITY OF WOODY PLANT  SPECIES OF WOTAGISHOFOREST, BOLOSO SORE WOREDA, WOLAITA  ZONE, SNNPR, ETHIOPIA
Creators: name: TESEMA TEKLE
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2016

description: The study was conducted on Wotagisho forest in Boloso Sore Woreda, Wolaita Zone,  southern
nation  nationalities   people  region  and    Ethiopia,  to  determine  the  floristic  composition,
vegetation  structure,  community  type,  and  regeneration  and  conservation  status  of  woody
species.  Systematic  sampling  method  was  used  to  collect  data  from  50  quadrats  (20m  x  20m)
established  along  transects.  All  woody  plants  in  the  quadrats  were  recorded  and  cover
abundance data were estimated for each species in each quadrate which was later converted to
modified 1-9 Braun-Blanquette scale. In addition, structural variables such as DBH and height
were measured. Five 2 m x 2 m sub plots, one at each corner and one at the centre of the main
plot  were  laid  to  collect  seedling  and  sapling  data  Seedling  and  sapling  were  counted.
Environmental  factors  (altitude,  slope  and  aspect)  and  level  of  disturbances  were  recorded  in
each  plot.  Vegetation  classification  (hierarchical  clustering)  was  performed  using  Xlstatus
(version  2015)  and  three  distinct  plant  communities  were  identified  and  described.  Shannon
Wiener  diversity  index  and  Sorensen’s  similarity  coefficient  were  used  to  compute  species
diversity  and  to  detect  similarities  among  communities  and  between  the  plant  communities,
respectively. A total of 51 species representing 47 genera and 31 families of woody plant species
were recorded from the forest. The three top dominant families were Solanaceae, Euphorbiaceae
and  Moraceae;  Families  with  the  highest  floristic  composition  contribution  were  Myrtaceae
followed  by  Flacourtiaceae.  Analysis  on  the  structure  of  the  forest  indicated  that  the  forest  is
under good regeneration status.