cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Aranea senoculata Linnaeus, 1758, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Linnaeus, Carolus
Publisher: name: Laurentius Salvius
Year: 1758
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Araneidae
Aranea
Aranea senoculata

description: Aranea senoculata [spec. nov.]
A. oculis tantum senis.
List. aran. 74. f. 24.
Raj. ins. 32. n. 24.
Habitat in Europa.
description: Published as part of Linnaeus, Carolus, 1758, Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Stockholm :Laurentius Salvius on page 622, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542, http://zenodo.org/record/3922206
Microfluidic synthesis of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanocrystals for magnetic resonance imaging
Creators: name: Kumar, Kritika
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2013

description: Superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs) are of significant interest in areas such as drug delivery, hyperthermic treatment, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and selective separation of biological fluids. For all these applications there is a recognised need for improved synthetic methods that are capable of yielding SPIONs of uniform size, geometry and stoichiometry. Microfluidic reactors offer an attractive route to nanoparticle synthesis due to the superior control they provide over reaction conditions and particle properties relative to traditional bulk methods. In 2002 Edel et al.1 proposed the use of microfluidic reactors for nanoparticle synthesis due to the high levels of control they provide over key reaction parameters such as temperature, reagent concentrations and reaction time. Since that report a diversity of metal, metal oxide, compound semiconductor and organic nanomaterials have been successfully synthesised in microfluidic systems. Most reports of nanoparticle synthesis in microreactors have involved single-phase mode of operation, in which continuous streams of miscible fluids are manoeuvred through microscale channels where nucleation and growth take place. Such reactors, however, are poorly suited to the synthesis of SPIONs due to their high susceptibility to fouling. An alternative approach is to use droplet-based reactors in which an immiscible liquid is injected alongside the reaction mixture, causing the latter to spontaneously divide into a series of near identical droplets. In this thesis microfluidic synthesis of SPIONs in a controlled and reproducible manner is described. This work is focussed on improving the microfluidic methods for controlled synthesis of SPIONs and utilise the produced nanoparticles directly as contrast enhancers in MR imaging. The droplet based reactions were initially performed on polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) microfluidic devices, however on such devices, low throughput was obtained. To overcome fabrication difficulty and to increase throughput, droplet-based synthesis was performed on the capillary-based reactor.
Magnetic Moments of Branes and Giant Gravitons
Creators: name: Das, S. R.
name: Trivedi, S. P.
name: Vaidya, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the magnetic analogue of Myers' Dielectric Effect and, in some cases, relate it to the blowing up of particles into branes, first investigated by Greevy, Susskind and Toumbas. We show that $D0$ branes or gravitons in M theory, moving in a magnetic four-form field strength background expand into a non-commutative two sphere. Both examples of constant magnetic field and non-constant fields in curved backgrounds generated by branes are considered. We find, in all cases, another solution, consisting of a two-brane wrapping a classical two-sphere, which has all the quantum numbers of the $D0$ branes. Motivated by this, we investigate the blowing up of gravitons into branes in backgrounds different from $AdS_m \times S^n$. We find the phenomenon is quite general. In many cases with less or even no supersymmetry we find a brane configuration which has the same quantum numbers and the same energy as a massless particle in supergravity.
description: 30 pages, no figures, harvmac
Gluon Propagators and Confinement
Creators: name: Nakamura, A.
name: Aiso, H.
name: Fukuda, M.
name: Iwamiya, T.
name: Nakamura, T.
name: Yoshida, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present SU(3) gluon propagators calculated on 48*48*48*N_t lattices at beta=6.8 where N_t=64 (corresponding the confinement phase) and N_t=16 (deconfinement) with the bare gauge parameter,alpha, set to be 0.1. In order to avoid Gribov copies, we employ the stochastic gauge fixing algorithm. Gluon propagators show quite different behavior from those of massless gauge fields: (1) In the confinement phase, G(t) shows massless behavior at small and large t, while around 5
description: 6 pages in Postscript
Additional file 1: of The Community Health Experience Model—value generation from person-centered health transaction network
Creators: name: Lantos, Zoltán
name: Simon, Judit
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Curative Experience Questionnaire. (DOCX 13 kb)
Aquila X-1 from outburst to quiescence: the onset of the propeller effect and signs of a turned-on rotation-powered pulsar
Creators: name: Campana, S.
name: Stella, L.
name: Mereghetti, S.
name: Colpi, M.
name: Tavani, M.
name: Ricci, D.
name: Fiume, D. Dal
name: Belloni, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the March-April 1997 BeppoSAX observations of Aql X-1, the first to monitor the evolution of the spectral and time variability properties of a neutron star soft X-ray transient from the outburst decay to quiescence. We observed a fast X-ray flux decay, which brought the source luminosity from ~10^36 to ~10^{33} erg/s in less than 10 days. The X-ray spectrum showed a power law high energy tail with photon index Gamma~2 which hardened to Gamma~1-1.5 as the source reached quiescence. These observations, together with the detection by RossiXTE of a periodicity of a few milliseconds during an X-ray burst, likely indicate that the rapid flux decay is caused by the onset of the propeller effect arising from the very fast rotation of the neutron star magnetosphere. The X-ray luminosity and hard spectrum that characterise the quiescent emission can be consistently interpreted as shock emission by a turned-on rotation-powered pulsar.
description: 4 pages (1 figure + 2 tables). Accepted for publication in ApJLetters. Requires emulateapj.sty and timesfonts.sty (included)
Additional file 3: of A genomic atlas of systemic interindividual epigenetic variation in humans
Creators: name: Gunasekara, Chathura
name: Scott, C.
name: Laritsky, Eleonora
name: Baker, Maria
name: MacKay, Harry
name: Duryea, Jack
name: Kessler, Noah
name: Hellenthal, Garrett
name: Wood, Alexis
name: Hodges, Kelly
name: Gandhi, Manisha
name: Hair, Amy
name: Silver, Matt
name: Moore, Sophie
name: Prentice, Andrew
name: Li, Yumei
name: Chen, Rui
name: Coarfa, Cristian
name: Waterland, Robert
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary methods. (DOCX 359 kb)
Probing entanglement in a many-body-localized system
Creators: name: Lukin, Alexander
name: Rispoli, Matthew
name: Schittko, Robert
name: Tai, M. Eric
name: Kaufman, Adam M.
name: Choi, Soonwon
name: Khemani, Vedika
name: Léonard, Julian
name: Greiner, Markus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An interacting quantum system that is subject to disorder may cease to thermalize due to localization of its constituents, thereby marking the breakdown of thermodynamics. The key to our understanding of this phenomenon lies in the system's entanglement, which is experimentally challenging to measure. We realize such a many-body-localized system in a disordered Bose-Hubbard chain and characterize its entanglement properties through particle fluctuations and correlations. We observe that the particles become localized, suppressing transport and preventing the thermalization of subsystems. Notably, we measure the development of non-local correlations, whose evolution is consistent with a logarithmic growth of entanglement entropy - the hallmark of many-body localization. Our work experimentally establishes many-body localization as a qualitatively distinct phenomenon from localization in non-interacting, disordered systems.
MOESM1 of A bronchoprotective role for Rgs2 in a murine model of lipopolysaccharide-induced airways inflammation
Creators: name: George, Tresa
name: Mainak Chakraborty
name: Giembycz, Mark
name: Newton, Robert
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology

description: Additional file 1: Tables S1, S2. Primers and probes used for genotyping. Primers used for qPCR.
Forward genetic analysis of natural T regulatory cell development
Creators: name: Salisbury, Emma
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2013

description: Natural (n) T regulatory (Treg) cells generated in the thymus are essential throughout life for the maintenance of T cell homeostasis and prevention of autoimmunity. T cell receptor (TCR)/CD28-mediated activation of Nuclear Factor Kappa-light-chain-enhancer of activated B cells (NFB) and Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) pathways is known to play a key role in nTreg development but many of the predicted molecular interactions are based on extrapolations from non-Treg cell TCR stimulation with non-physiological ligands. For the first time, this work provides strong genetic evidence of a scaffold function for the Caspase Recruitment Domain (CARD) of the TCR signalling protein CARD-MAGUK1 (CARMA1) in nTreg development in vivo. I report two, new, N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea (ENU)-derived mutant mice, Vulpo and Zerda, with a profound block in the development of nTregs in the thymus as well as impaired inducible (i) Treg differentiation in the periphery. Despite independent heritage, both mutants harbour different point mutations in the CARD of the CARMA1 protein. vulpo and zerda mutations do not affect expression levels of CARMA1 but still impair signalling through the TCR due to defective downstream B cell CLL/Lymphoma 10 (Bcl-10) protein recruitment by the mutated CARD of CARMA1. Phenotypic differences observed between Vulpo and Zerda mutants suggest a role for the CARD of CARMA1 independent of Bcl-10 activation of downstream pathways. I conclude that this forward genetic approach demonstrates a critical role for the CARD function of CARMA1 in Treg development in vivo.
Uniform upscaling techniques for eddy covariance FLUXes (UFLUX)
Creators: name: Zhu, Songyan
name: Quaife, Tristan
name: Hill, Timothy
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified

description: Data-driven techniques that scale up eddy covariance (EC) fluxes from tower footprints with satellite observations and machine learning algorithms significantly advance our understanding of global carbon, water, and energy cycles. However, few upscaling approaches take a consistent approach to upscaling both carbon and energy fluxes. A lack of uniformity in the upscaling approach could lead to inconsistencies in global interannual variability of fluxes and between types of carbon and energy fluxes. Hence, this study aims to identify obstacles in flux upscaling and propose a uniform upscaling framework UFLUX for gross primary productivity (GPP), ecosystem respiration (Reco), net ecosystem exchange (NEE), sensible heat (H), and latent energy (LE). The key findings are as follows: 1) The upscaling performance exhibits a limited improvement from the use of more advanced machine learning approaches (e.g. <0.3 in R2 improvements while using deep neural networks). 2) The spatial density of EC towers is the primary factor determining the effectiveness of upscaling, explaining >50% of the upscaling uncertainty. 3) The UFLUX framework considered the interconnection between fluxes and achieved a competitive validation precision (daily R2 = 0.7 on average of five flux types) when compared with products that upscaled a subset of the fluxes. UFLUX effectively preserved the ecosystem light-use efficiency (0.83 of linear regression slope and the same after), Bowen ratio (0.8), and particularly, the water-use efficiency (0.81), when compared to the only other product (i.e. FLUXCOM) to upscale both carbon and water.
Additional file 4 of The association between polymorphisms near TMEM18 and the risk of obesity: a meta-analysis
Creators: name: Koj, Natalia
name: Grochowalski, Łukasz
name: Jarczak, Justyna
name: Wójtowicz, Weronika
name: Sobalska-Kwapis, Marta
name: Słomka, Marcin
name: Marciniak, Błażej
name: Strapagiel, Dominik
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 4: Fig. S4. Meta-analysis of the association between rs2867125 and obesity risk using random effect model. Forest plot created within RevMan 5.3 software.
Aranea avicularia Linnaeus, 1758, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Linnaeus, Carolus
Publisher: name: Laurentius Salvius
Year: 1758
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Araneidae
Aranea
Aranea avicularia

description: Aranea avicularia [spec. nov.]
A. thorace orbiculato convexo centro transverse excavato. Amoen. acad. 1. p. 323.
Marcgr. bras. 248.
Clus. posth. 47.
Habitat in America, insidiatur Aviculis, Insectis.
Morsu diro serpentino minatur.
description: Published as part of Linnaeus, Carolus, 1758, Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Stockholm :Laurentius Salvius on page 622, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542, http://zenodo.org/record/3922206
Additional file 1: of High-level artemisinin-resistance with quinine co-resistance emerges in P. falciparum malaria under in vivo artesunate pressure
Creators: name: Tyagi, Rajeev
name: Gleeson, Patrick
name: Arnold, Ludovic
name: Tahar, Rachida
name: Prieur, Eric
name: Decosterd, Laurent
name: Jean-Louis PĂŠrignon
name: Olliaro, Piero
name: Druilhe, Pierre
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Details of genes, regions and primers used in genetic sequencing of P. falciparum artemisinin-resistant and control strains. (PDF 83 kb)
Exact Solutions of Multi-Vortices and False Vacuum Bubbles in Noncommutative Abelian-Higgs Theories
Creators: name: Bak, Dongsu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the noncommutative Abelian-Higgs theory and construct new types of exact multi-vortex solutions that solve the static equations of motion. They in general do not follow from the BPS equations; only for some specific values of parameters, they satisfy the BPS equations saturating the Bogomol'nyi bound. We further consider the Abelian-Higgs theory with more complicated scalar potential allowing unstable minima and construct exact solutions of noncommutative false vacuum bubble with integer magnetic flux. The classical stability of the solutions is discussed.
description: 7 pages, more general false vacuum bubble solutions added
The First-principles Study on the Mechanics, Optical and Phonon Properties of Carbon Chains
Creators: name: Li, Jinping
name: Meng, Songhe
name: Lu, Hantao
name: Tohyama, Takami
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81V99

description: The two kinds of carbyne, i.e., cumulene and polyyne, are investigated by the first principles, where the mechanical properties, electronic structure, optical and phonon properties of the two carbynes are calculated. The results on the crystal binding energy and the formation energy show that polyyne is more stable and harder than cumulene, and both are difficult to be synthesized from diamond or graphite. The tensile stiffness, bond stiffness and Young's modulus of cumulene are 94.669 eV/Å, 90.334GPa and 60.62GPa, respectively; while the corresponding values of polyyne are 94.939eV/Å, 101.42GPa and 60.06GPa, respectively. The supercell calculation shows that carbyne is the most stable at N=5, where N is the supercell number. It indicates that the carbon chain with 10 atoms is the most stable. The calculation on the electronic band structure shows that cumulene is conductor, while polyyne is semiconductor with a band gap as 0.37eV. The dielectric function of carbynes varies in different direction, consistent with the one dimensional nature of the carbon chains. In the phonon dispersion of cumulene there are imaginary frequencies with the lowest value down to -3.817THz, which indicates that cumulene could be unstable at room temperature and normal pressure.
description: 21 pages, 17 figures
Equation of State for the SU(3) Gauge Theory
Creators: name: Boyd, G.
name: Engels, J.
name: Karsch, F.
name: Laermann, E.
name: Legeland, C.
name: Lütgemeier, M.
name: Petersson, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Through a detailed investigation of the $SU(3)$ gauge theory at finite temperature on lattices of various size we can control finite lattice cut-off effects in bulk thermodynamic quantities. We calculate the pressure and energy density of the $SU(3)$ gauge theory on lattices with temporal extent $N_τ= 4$, 6 and 8 and spatial extent $N_σ=16$ and 32. The results are extrapolated to the continuum limit. We find a deviation from ideal gas behaviour of (15-20)\%, depending on the quantity, even at temperatures as high as $T\sim 3T_c$. A calculation of the critical temperature on lattices with temporal extent $N_τ= 8$ and 12 and the string tension on $32^4$ lattices at the corresponding critical couplings is performed to fix the temperature scale. An extrapolation to the continuum limit yields $T_c/\sqrtσ = 0.629(3)$.
description: 12 pages, LaTeX2e, 5 figures in a seperate uuencoded compressed file. fixed end{document}
Traits as units for prediction in ecological responses to climate change
Creators: name: Dryhurst, Sarah
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2013

description: Understanding and predicting ecological responses to climate change is crucial if we are to manage for the detrimental consequences that might ensue in its wake. This thesis looks to develop some new ideas and tools for ecological prediction under climate change, focusing on species traits rather than species themselves as units of prediction. Chapter One begins by reviewing the basis for a trait-based approach to prediction, presenting evidence from natural and experimental systems that responses to climate change cluster by traits. Chapter Two undertakes a proof-of-concept modelling study, using a well-known dataset of contemporary phenological changes under warming to test for trait-based links in the strength and direction of species responses. Chapter Three addresses the critical issue of transferability. One of the strongest justifications for the use of a trait-based approach is that inferences may extend more generally beyond the focal species and system. To test this, it develops trait-based models for long-term datasets of first-arrival dates for migratory birds in two neighbouring US states and assesses cross-applicability between them. Having investigated the functionality and transferability of the trait-based approach, I then explore the bounds of its utility. Chapter Four uses a detailed record of community-wide changes in species abundance under ten years of experimental climate change to assess whether changes in abundance cluster by traits. It also re-evaluates the prevailing hypothesis guiding researchers’ interpretations of ecological changes in this system. Chapter Five designs and implements an experiment building on the results of Chapter Four. This experiment tests the role of climatic effects on nitrogen-fixation in driving system dynamics via controlled removal of this trait from experimental communities. Overall, this thesis sheds new light on the role of traits in ecological responses to climate change, highlighting opportunities and limitations for using traits to organise our thinking over prediction and adaptation.
Aranea ocellata Linnaeus, 1758, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Linnaeus, Carolus
Publisher: name: Laurentius Salvius
Year: 1758
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Araneidae
Aranea
Aranea ocellata

description: Aranea ocellata [spec. nov.]
A. femoribus ocellis tribus geminatis.
Habitat in China. De Geer.
Corpus pallidum magnitudine Tarantulae. Abdomen nebulosum pallidum annulo nigro. Thoracis discus macula gemina magna nigra. Oculorum regio nigra. Maculae ocellis geminis albidis: in singulo femore tres, in tibiis pauciores.
description: Published as part of Linnaeus, Carolus, 1758, Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Stockholm :Laurentius Salvius on page 622, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542, http://zenodo.org/record/3922206
title: Geothermal energy and sustainability: Economic, social and environmental life cycle
analysis
title: Γεωθερμία και βιωσιμότητα: Οικονομική, κοινωνική και περιβαλλοντική ανάλυση κύκλου ζωής

Creators: name: Κουρομπινα Νικολεττα
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2022

description: This study is about the use of geothermal energy for electricity production, heating and cooling spaces and hot water supply. The technology and function of a geothermal plant is described, and the environmental, economic and social sustainability of geothermal energy is analysed. Furthermore, reference is made to Life Cycle Assessment, a method of environmental impact evaluation. Finally, the existing legislative framework of Greece, as well as previous forms of it is presented and the progress that has been made in favor of geothermal energy becomes apparent.
description: Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία αφορά τη χρήση της γεωθερμίας και τις εφαρμογές της στην παραγωγή ηλεκτρικής ενέργειας, στη θέρμανση - ψύξη χώρων και στην παροχή ζεστού νερού. Γίνεται μια περιγραφή της τεχνολογίας και της λειτουργίας μιας γεωθερμικής εγκατάστασης και αναλύεται η βιωσιμότητα της γεωθερμίας σε περιβαλλοντικό, οικονομικό και κοινωνικό επίπεδο. Στη συνέχεια γίνεται αναφορά στην Ανάλυση Κύκλου Ζωής, μια μέθοδο αξιολόγησης περιβαλλοντικών επιπτώσεων και τέλος παρατίθεται το υπάρχον ρυθμιστικό / νομοθετικό πλαίσιο της Ελλάδας που αφορά στη γεωθερμία, αλλά και παλαιότερες μορφές αυτού και γίνεται εμφανής η πρόοδος που έχει συντελεστεί προς όφελος της γεωθερμίας.
Additional file 4: of A genomic atlas of systemic interindividual epigenetic variation in humans
Creators: name: Gunasekara, Chathura
name: Scott, C.
name: Laritsky, Eleonora
name: Baker, Maria
name: MacKay, Harry
name: Duryea, Jack
name: Kessler, Noah
name: Hellenthal, Garrett
name: Wood, Alexis
name: Hodges, Kelly
name: Gandhi, Manisha
name: Hair, Amy
name: Silver, Matt
name: Moore, Sophie
name: Prentice, Andrew
name: Li, Yumei
name: Chen, Rui
name: Coarfa, Cristian
name: Waterland, Robert
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Figures. (DOCX 15207 kb)
Effect of high-resolution satellite and UAV imagery plot pixel resolution in wheat crop yield prediction
Creators: name: Sangjan, Worasit
name: Carter, Arron H.
name: Pumphrey, Michael O.
name: Hagemeyer, Kyall
name: Jitkov, Vadim
name: Sankaran, Sindhuja
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Accurate crop performance assessment and yield prediction in plant breeding programmes can aid decision-making to improve productivity and product quality during crop selection and management. Grain yield is a complex trait, which is a function of the genotype-environment interaction. While using digital remote sensing traits to assess crop performance and predict yield, the characteristics of the sensing tools and approaches can influence prediction performance. In this study, two sensing scales, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) equipped with a ten-band multispectral camera and high-resolution (~0.31 m) WorldView-3 satellite imagery, were used to monitor spring and winter wheat breeding trails in two growing seasons (2020 and 2021). The breeding plots were planted in three different plot sizes (about 1.5 × 5.0 m, 3.0 × 11.0 m, and 4.5 × 11.0 m in spring wheat, and about 1.5 × 3.0 m, 3.0 × 7.3 m, and 4.5 × 7.3 m in winter wheat), with each having 12 varieties and three replications per variety. The spectral and vegetation indices (VI) were extracted from the datasets, and machine learning models for yield prediction (partial least squares regression, least absolute shrinkage selector operator regression, and random forest regression) were evaluated. With multiscale approaches, a moderate to strong correlation of VI data between high-resolution satellite and UAV data (0.42 ≤ r ≤ 0.99, p < 0.01) was found in most cases. The yield prediction accuracies using the extracted data from the high-resolution satellite (6.26 ≤ RMSE% ≤ 25.49; 5.11 ≤ MAE% ≤ 20.95; 0.17 ≤ r ≤ 0.78) and UAV imagery (5.53 ≤ RMSE% ≤ 17.20; 4.28 ≤ MAE% ≤ 14.20; 0.43 ≤ r ≤ 0.92) were also comparable. These findings inform the applications of high-resolution satellite imagery in breeding programmes, considering that the plot size would influence yield prediction accuracies.
Additional file 5 of The association between polymorphisms near TMEM18 and the risk of obesity: a meta-analysis
Creators: name: Koj, Natalia
name: Grochowalski, Łukasz
name: Jarczak, Justyna
name: Wójtowicz, Weronika
name: Sobalska-Kwapis, Marta
name: Słomka, Marcin
name: Marciniak, Błażej
name: Strapagiel, Dominik
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 5: Fig. S5. Meta-analysis of the association between rs7561317 and obesity risk using random effect model. Forest plot created within RevMan 5.3 software.
Adaptive estimation with change detection for streaming data
Creators: name: Bodenham, Dean
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2014

description: Data streams have become ubiquitous over the last two decades; potentially unending streams of continuously-arriving data occur in fields as diverse as medicine, finance, astronomy and computer networks. As the world changes, so the behaviour of these streams is expected to change. This thesis describes sequential methods for the timely detection of changes in data streams based on an adaptive forgetting factor framework. These change detection methods are first formulated in terms of detecting a change in the mean of a univariate stream, but this is later extended to the multivariate setting, and to detecting a change in the variance. The key issues driving the research in this thesis are that streaming data change detectors must operate sequentially, using a fixed amount of memory and, after encountering a change, must continue to monitor for successive changes. We call this challenging scenario "continuous monitoring" to distinguish it from the traditional setting which generally monitors for only a single changepoint. Additionally, continuous monitoring demands that there be limited dependence on the setting of parameters controlling the performance of the algorithms. One of the main contributions of this thesis is the development of an efficient, fully sequential change detector for the mean of a univariate stream in the continuous monitoring context. It is competitive with algorithms that are the benchmark in the single changepoint setting, yet our change detector only requires a single control parameter, which is easy to set. The multivariate extension provides similarly competitive performance results. These methods are applied to monitoring foreign exchange streams and computer network traffic.
Critical behaviour of Lifshitz dilaton black holes
Creators: name: Dayyani, Zeinab
name: Sheykhi, Ahmad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Till now, critical behaviour of Lifshitz black holes, in an extended $P-v$ space, has not been studied, because it is impossible to find an analytical equation of state, $P=P(v,T)$, for an arbitrary Lifshitz exponent $z$. In this paper, we adopt a new approach toward thermodynamic phase space and successfully explore the critical behaviour of $(n+1)$-dimensional Lifshitz dilaton black holes. For this purpose, we write down the equation of state as $Q^s=Q^s(T,Ψ)$ with $Ψ=\left({\partial M}/{\partial Q^{s} }\right)_{S,P}$ is the conjugate of $Q^s$ and construct Smarr relation based on this new phase space as $ M=M(S,Q^{s},P)$, where $s=2p/(2p-1)$ with $p$ is the power of the power-law Maxwell Lagrangian. We justify such a choice mathematically and show that with this new phase space, the system admits the critical behaviour and resembles the Van der Waals fluid system when the cosmological constant (pressure) is treated as a fixed parameter, while the charge of the system varies. We obtain Gibbs free energy of the system and find swallow tail shape in Gibbs diagrams which represents the first order phase transition. Finally, we calculate the critical exponents and show that although thermodynamic quantities depend on the metric parameters such as $z$ , $p$ and $n$, the critical exponents are the same as Van der Walls fluid-gas system. This alternative viewpoint toward phase space of lifshitz dilaton black hole can be understood easily since one can imagine such a change for a given single black hole i.e., acquiring charge which induces the phase transition. Our results further support the viewpoint suggested in \cite{Dehy}.
description: 14 pages
Aranea tarantula Linnaeus, 1758, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Linnaeus, Carolus
Publisher: name: Laurentius Salvius
Year: 1758
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Araneidae
Aranea
Aranea tarantula

description: Aranea tarantula [spec. nov.]
A. Tarantula dicta.
Bagliv. Tarantula (monographia).
Bradl. natur. t. 24. f. 10.
Olear. mus. 21. t. 12. f. 4.
Habitat in Italia; imprimis in Apulia, Barbaria, Oriente.
Rabida sub canicula morsu excitat famosum Tarantismum Musica medendum.
Species hujus plures sistunt Authores! quae accuratius inquirendae & distingnendae, cum colore diversae forte etiam specie differant.
description: Published as part of Linnaeus, Carolus, 1758, Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Stockholm :Laurentius Salvius on pages 622-623, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542, http://zenodo.org/record/3922206
*-TREK: The One-Loop N=4 Noncommutative SYM Action
Creators: name: Liu, Hong
name: Michelson, Jeremy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate N=4 noncommutative super Yang-Mills (SYM) theory. We compute the one-loop four gauge boson scattering amplitude on parallel Dp-branes, and find the corresponding contribution to the noncommutative SYM one-loop action in a momentum expansion. The result is somewhat surprising. We find that while the planar diagram can be written using the usual *-product, the contributions from nonplanar diagrams in general involve additional structure beyond the *-product, arising from the nontrivial worldsheet correlations surviving the field theory limit. To each nonplanar diagram, depending on the number n of external vertex operator insertions on each boundary, there is a corresponding *_n n-ary operation. We further find that it is no longer possible to write down an off-shell gauge invariant one-loop effective action using the noncommutative field strength defined at tree-level.
description: 30 pages AMSLaTeX using JHEP.cls (22 pages if REVTeX4), 2 eps figures. dnmacs is optional. v2: minor typos corrected. Appendix on bosonic annular propogator added
Adaptive protection and control for wide-area blackout prevention
Creators: name: Bin Mohd Ariff, Mohd
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2014

description: Technical analyses of several recent power blackouts revealed that a group of generators going out-of-step with the rest of the power system is often a precursor of a complete system collapse. Out-of-step protection is designed to assess the stability of the evolving swing after a disturbance and take control action accordingly. However, the settings of out-of-step relays are found to be unsatisfactory due to the fact that the electromechanical swings that occurred during relay commissioning are different in practice. These concerns motivated the development of a novel approach to recalculate the out-of-step protection settings to suit the prevalent operating condition. With phasor measurement unit (PMU) technology, it is possible to adjust the setting of out-of-step relay in real-time. The setting of out-of-step relay is primarily determined by three dynamic parameters: direct axis transient reactance, quadrature axis speed voltage and generator inertia. In a complex power network, these parameters are the dynamic parameters of an equivalent model of a coherent group of generators. Hence, it is essential to identify the coherent group of generators and estimate the dynamic model parameters of each generator in the system first in order to form the dynamic model equivalent in the system. The work presented in this thesis develops a measurement-based technique to identify the coherent areas of power system network by analysing the measured data obtained from the system. The method is based on multivariate analysis of the signals, using independent component analysis (ICA). Also, a technique for estimating the dynamic model parameters of the generators in the system has been developed. The dynamic model parameters of synchronous generators are estimated by processing the PMU measurements using unscented Kalman filter (UKF).
Occupational injury among paramedics: examining the distribution and determinants of paramedic work-related injury
Creators: name: KEARNEY, JASON PAUL
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 350505
subject: Occupational and workplace health and safety
classificationCode: 320219
subject: Paramedicine
classificationCode: 420604
subject: Injury prevention

description: Paramedics are frequently exposed to stressors at work that greatly increase their risk of injury. The simplistic manner used to monitor and measure the occurrence of injury in paramedics is unable capture the complexity of their work environment. Consequently, our understanding of the true nature and drivers of the injury problem is limited. This research presents an innovative and novel approach to improve paramedic injury surveillance by incorporating broader epidemiological surveillance methods with systems thinking concepts. This holistic approach identified the influence of contributory factors at all levels of the system, and highlights areas where preventative interventions should be targeted.
Strain path dependence in ferritic steel polycrystals
Creators: name: Erinosho, Tomiwa
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2014

description: There is evidence to show that subjecting steel sheets to non-proportional biaxial strains can result in higher limit strains or conversely, premature failure depending on the strain path followed. It is therefore imperative to understand the concept of non-proportionality of strain, its relationship with texture and industrially important effects such as material localization and consequent failure in forming processes for high strength steels used in auto components. The role of texture, hardening and non-proportionality of strain was investigated followed by the consequent effects on ductility under a range of non-proportional strain paths. It was seen that most significant increases in ductility were achievable under non-proportional uniaxial straining as opposed to biaxial strain straining. A methodology was developed to evaluate peak broadening due to lattice spacing distributions in polycrystals by accounting for the contribution of elastic strains and geometrically necessary dislocations (GNDs). This study showed that whilst elastic strains were important, peak broadening is typically dominated by the contribution of GNDs. This methodology to calculate lattice spacing was then adopted to create a link to experimental x-ray diffraction lattice spacing measurements. It was shown that differing lattice spacing distributions were achieved by following differing strain paths to an identical strain state. Further, biaxial pre-strain had more influence on the subsequent deformation history compared to uniaxial pre-strain. Experiments showed that higher ductility is achievable under a uniaxial pre-strain as opposed to a biaxial pre-strain. Hence, the effects of pronounced strain re-distribution seen in the calculated response of the latter compared to the former was attributed to account for the differences in ductility seen.
Critical Kaluza-Klein black holes and black strings in D = 10
Creators: name: Cardona, Biel
name: Figueras, Pau
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct static vacuum localized black holes and non-uniform black strings in ten spacetime dimensions, where one of the dimension is compactified on circle. We study the phase diagram of black objects with these boundary conditions, especially near the critical point where localized black holes and non-uniform black strings merge. Remarkably, we find that the merger happens at a cusp in the phase diagram. We verify that the critical geometry is controlled by a Ricci-flat double cone as previously predicted. However, unlike the lower dimensional cases, we find that physical quantities approach to their critical values according to a power law plus a logarithmic correction. We extract the critical exponents and find very good agreement with the predictions from the double cone geometry. According to holography, localized black holes and black strings are dual to thermal states of (1 + 1)-dimensional SU($N$) maximal Super-Yang Mills theory compactified on a circle; we recover and extend the details of the (recently found) 1st order phase transition in this system from the gravity side.
description: 36 pages, 29 figures, 2 tables. Submitted for publication, updated references and minor rewording
The broad band spectral properties of galactic X-ray binary pulsars
Creators: name: Fiume, D. Dal
name: Orlandini, M.
name: Frontera, F.
name: Del Sordo, S.
name: Piraino, S.
name: Santangelo, A.
name: Segreto, A.
name: Oosterbroek, T.
name: Parmar, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: BeppoSAX observed several galactic binary X-ray pulsars during the Science Verification Phase and in the first year of the regular program. The complex emission spectra of these sources are an ideal target for the BeppoSAX instrumentation, that can measure the emission spectra in an unprecedented broad energy band. Using this capability of BeppoSAX a detailed observational work can be done on the galactic X-ray pulsars. In particular the 0.1-200 keV energy band allows the shape of the continuum emission to be tightly constrained. A better determination of the underlying continuum allows an easier detection of features superimposed onto it, both at low energy (Fe K and L, Ne lines) and at high energies (cyclotron features). We report on the spectral properties of a sample of X-ray pulsars observed with BeppoSAX comparing the obtained results. Some ideas of common properties are also discussed and compared with our present understanding of the emission mechanisms and processes.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures. Uses espcrc2.sty (included).To appear in Proceedings of "The Active X-ray Sky: Results from BeppoSAX and Rossi-XTE"
Effect of high-resolution satellite and UAV imagery plot pixel resolution in wheat crop yield prediction
Creators: name: Sangjan, Worasit
name: Carter, Arron H.
name: Pumphrey, Michael O.
name: Hagemeyer, Kyall
name: Jitkov, Vadim
name: Sankaran, Sindhuja
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Accurate crop performance assessment and yield prediction in plant breeding programmes can aid decision-making to improve productivity and product quality during crop selection and management. Grain yield is a complex trait, which is a function of the genotype-environment interaction. While using digital remote sensing traits to assess crop performance and predict yield, the characteristics of the sensing tools and approaches can influence prediction performance. In this study, two sensing scales, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) equipped with a ten-band multispectral camera and high-resolution (~0.31 m) WorldView-3 satellite imagery, were used to monitor spring and winter wheat breeding trails in two growing seasons (2020 and 2021). The breeding plots were planted in three different plot sizes (about 1.5 × 5.0 m, 3.0 × 11.0 m, and 4.5 × 11.0 m in winter wheat, and about 1.5 × 3.0 m, 3.0 × 7.3 m, and 4.5 × 7.3 m in winter wheat), with each having 12 varieties and three replications per variety. The spectral and vegetation indices (VI) were extracted from the datasets, and machine learning models for yield prediction (partial least squares regression, least absolute shrinkage selector operator regression, and random forest regression) were evaluated. With multiscale approaches, a moderate to strong correlation of VI data between high-resolution satellite and UAV data (0.42 ≤ r ≤ 0.99, p < 0.01) was found in most cases. The yield prediction accuracies using the extracted data from the high-resolution satellite (6.26 ≤ RMSE% ≤ 25.49; 5.11 ≤ MAE% ≤ 20.95; 0.17 ≤ r ≤ 0.78) and UAV imagery (5.53 ≤ RMSE% ≤ 17.20; 4.28 ≤ MAE% ≤ 14.20; 0.43 ≤ r ≤ 0.92) were also comparable. These findings inform the applications of high-resolution satellite imagery in breeding programmes, considering that the plot size would influence yield prediction accuracies.
Design, Synthesis and High-Throughput Assay of Inhibitors for p97-Cofactor Binding
Creators: name: Sudlow, James
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2014

description: p97 is an abundant protein in human cells and is essential for many forms of life. Its putative mechanism of action is the binding of adaptor proteins, which mediate its functions, and subsequent transfer of energy from ATP hydrolysis through the adaptor to substrate proteins. The unfolding or degradation of these substrates is known to regulate a diverse number of processes and the malfunction of p97 in many of these has been linked to a range of diseases. Developing inhibitors for p97-cofactor binding may help uncover further functions, as well as potentially providing a treatment for a number of the diseases in which p97 is implicated. A high-throughput assay based on Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) was developed, which allowed the high-throughput analysis of candidate compounds. Using this assay, the affinity of p97 for several of its partner proteins was measured. The results were found to be similar to literature values and the assay was measured to have a high Z' factor. Analysis of the hot-spot interactions between p97 and the adaptor protein, p47, enabled the design of novel peptide inhibitors of p97-Cofactor binding. A range of small molecules were also identified through a computer modelling approach known as scaffold hopping. A peptide that was designed to closely mimic the S3/S4 loop within p47 was found to bind to p97 and inhibit its interaction with p47. No inhibition, however, was detected from a second generation of peptides. Two molecules from the virtual ligand screen were found to inhibit p97 binding. Of these, one of the compounds was an unnatural tripeptide, amenable to the rapid synthesis of multiple variations. A second generation of compounds based on this original hit was analysed and another compound was identified with an improved level of inhibition.