cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
An investigation to determine the effectiveness of pictorial exposition versus symbolic exposition of tenth-grade incidence geometry
Creators: name: Weinstein, Gerald P.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The purpose of this investigation was to evaluate the effect of two modes of exposition of tenth-grade incidence geometry on logically evaluated problem solving ability. To achieve this purpose two classes of tenth-grade geometry students were chosen to be the experimental and control groups. The two treatments, which were of nine class hours duration per group, and were both taught by the investigator, involved the use of a set theoretic symbolic-nonrepresentational mode for the experimental group, and a pictorial-representational mode for the control group. The content of the treatments was Euclidean incidence geometry. At the termination of the treatment a criterion test was administered to both groups. The criterion test was composed of two types of problems- Type NR problems, which were believed to be most successfully solved by a symbolic-nonpictorial analysis, and Type R problems, which were believed to be most successfully solved by a pictorial analysis. Two hypotheses, of null form, were considered: that the mean scores of both groups on Type NR problems would be equal and that the mean scores of both groups on Type R problems would be equal. Both hypotheses were tested by means of an appropriate t-statistic at the .05 level of significance. Analysis of the data indicated that both null hypotheses were not to be rejected. A difference in means on Test NR of the control over experimental group was observed at the .20 level of significance. The implication of the analysis of the data and the restrictions imposed by the limitations of the study is that the pictorial-representational exposition was as effective as the experimental symbolic-nonrepresentational exposition for Type NR problems and for Type R problems. Since the pictorial-representational mode of exposition is generally considered standard practice in the teaching of tenth grade geometry it should be continued for the present.
назальный артериит – как Один из видов проявления атопического дерматита собак
Creators: name: Сообщество рецензентов Международного научно-исследовательского журнала
Publisher: name: ООО Цифра
Year: 2023
Subjects: dogs
skin
atopic dermatitis
nasal arteritis
atopy
dermatitis
собаки
кожа
атопический дерматит
назальный артериит
атопия
дерматит

description: Международный научно-исследовательский журнал, Выпуск 12 (138) 2023
Extracting the three- and four-graviton vertices from binary pulsars and coalescing binaries
Creators: name: Cannella, Umberto
name: Foffa, Stefano
name: Maggiore, Michele
name: Sanctuary, Hillary
name: Sturani, Riccardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a formulation of the post-Newtonian expansion in terms of Feynman graphs, we discuss how various tests of General Relativity (GR) can be translated into measurement of the three- and four-graviton vertices. In problems involving only the conservative dynamics of a system, a deviation of the three-graviton vertex from the GR prediction is equivalent, to lowest order, to the introduction of the parameter beta_{PPN} in the parametrized post-Newtonian formalism, and its strongest bound comes from lunar laser ranging, which measures it at the 0.02% level. Deviation of the three-graviton vertex from the GR prediction, however, also affects the radiative sector of the theory. We show that the timing of the Hulse-Taylor binary pulsar provides a bound on the deviation of the three-graviton vertex from the GR prediction at the 0.1% level. For coalescing binaries at interferometers we find that, because of degeneracies with other parameters in the template such as mass and spin, the effects of modified three- and four-graviton vertices is just to induce an error in the determination of these parameters and, at least in the restricted PN approximation, it is not possible to use coalescing binaries for constraining deviations of the vertices from the GR prediction.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures; v2: an error corrected; references added
Recovering the state sequence of hidden Markov models using mean-field approximations
Creators: name: Sinton, Antoine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Inferring the sequence of states from observations is one of the most fundamental problems in Hidden Markov Models. In statistical physics language, this problem is equivalent to computing the marginals of a one-dimensional model with a random external field. While this task can be accomplished through transfer matrix methods, it becomes quickly intractable when the underlying state space is large. This paper develops several low-complexity approximate algorithms to address this inference problem when the state space becomes large. The new algorithms are based on various mean-field approximations of the transfer matrix. Their performances are studied in detail on a simple realistic model for DNA pyrosequencing.
description: 43 pages, 41 figures
A study of the evolution of some Proustian themes from Jean Santeuil to A la recherche du temps/perdu
Creators: name: Bloomer, DC
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Jean Santeuil as the \roman de jeunesse\" of Marcel Proust and an early sketch of episodic events themes characters and settings offers an interesting and informative opportunity to study the genesis of literary motifs settings and dramatization of character and event which appear in their state of finished evolution saliency of detail theme and qualities of characterization in A la recherche du temps perdu. Jean Santeuil represents a youthful literary effort and unites rudimentary fragments of character presentation brief chapters of plot and adventure often without sequence or continuity in theme which in its unfinished and incomplete state affords insight into this first sketch of Proust's philosophical and literary themes. It gives an interesting comparison between his earliest thought and ideas of subject and the later mature and polished work of A la recherche du temps perdu."
Water-waves modes trapped in a canal by a body with the rough surface
Creators: name: Cardone, G.
name: Durante, T.
name: Nazarov, S. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 76B15, 35P20

description: The problem about a body in a three dimensional infinite channel is considered in the framework of the theory of linear water-waves. The body has a rough surface characterized by a small parameter $ε>0$ while the distance of the body to the water surface is also of order $ε$. Under a certain symmetry assumption, the accumulation effect for trapped mode frequencies is established, namely, it is proved that, for any given $d>0$ and integer $N>0$, there exists $ε(d,N)>0$ such that the problem has at least $N$ eigenvalues in the interval $(0,d)$ of the continuous spectrum in the case $ε\in(0,ε(d,N)) $. The corresponding eigenfunctions decay exponentially at infinity, have finite energy, and imply trapped modes.
description: 25 pages, 8 figures
Additional file 1 of SiFBA5, a cold-responsive factor from Saussurea involucrata promotes cold resilience and biomass increase in transgenic tomato plants under cold stress
Creators: name: Mu, Jianqiang
name: Fu, Yajuan
name: Liu, Bucang
name: Zhang, Yao
name: Wang, Aiying
name: Li, Yuxia
name: Zhu, Jianbo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequences of SiFBA5. The numbers of Nucleotide and amino acid are shown on the left.
On freeze-out problem in relativistic hydrodynamics
Creators: name: Ivanov, Yu. B.
name: Russkikh, V. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A finite unbound system which is equilibrium in one reference frame is in general nonequilibrium in another frame. This is a consequence of the relative character of the time synchronization in the relativistic physics. This puzzle was a prime motivation of the Cooper--Frye approach to the freeze-out in relativistic hydrodynamics. Solution of the puzzle reveals that the Cooper--Frye recipe is far not a unique phenomenological method that meets requirements of energy-momentum conservation. Alternative freeze-out recipes are considered and discussed.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures, references are corrected and updated, to be published in the issue of Phys. Atom. Nucl. dedicated to S.T. Belyaev on the occasion of his birthday
Additional file 2 of Association between triglyceride glucose index and sleep disorders: results from the NHANES 2005–2008
Creators: name: Pei, Heng
name: Li, Shuyu
name: Su, Xin
name: Lu, Yangyang
name: Wang, Zhijun
name: Wu, Shouling
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 2: e_table.2. Association of triglyceride-glucose index (TyG) with study outcomes, stratified by gender.
Post mortem breakdown of the myotendinous junction in fish
Creators: name: Bremner, H Allan
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The myotendinous junction of fish muscle was investigated in detail using both scanning and transmission electron microscopy (SEM, TEM respectively). The properties of the main connective tissue structure, type I collagen, were characterised and the purified collagen was used to prepare antibodies to examine structural aspects by immunogold procedures. The SEM studies showed that a network of fibrous connective tissue surrounds each muscle fibre, linking it into a socket-like indentation in the myocomma. These connective tissue fibres were degraded in chill storage, leading to the detachment of muscle fibres from the myocommata and subsequent loss of tissue integrity. Detailed study by TEM demonstrated grooves and invaginations in the terminal ends of the muscle fibres that were filled with fine collagen fibres from the myocomma. These collagen fibres were linked by fine connections to the basal lamina which in turn was linked to the sarcolemma. During chill storage, the basal lamina, the fine connections and the fine collagen fibres progressively degraded and significant deterioration occurred in the myotendinous junction. This deterioration preceded any obvious changes within the muscle fibre structure. The major structural collagen of the skin and muscle and other organs in the fish blue grenadier is an heterotrimer of type I collagen. This collagen was highly soluble in dilute acid and the proportion of insoluble collagen increased with the age of the fish. The collagen possessed three alpha chains in its molecular structure and the amino acid composition of the a-3 chain indicated its derivation from the a-1 chain. The melting and shrinkage temperatures obtained for this collagen were consistent with the imino acid levels and the environment of the fish. Immunogold labelling procedures were developed which confirmed the presence of type I collagen fibres in the myocomma adjacent to the muscle fibre cell but which were inadequate to define individual collagen fibre types. These studies illustrate the complex and intricate nature of the myotendinous junction in commercial fish species. They show that post mortem degradation occurs external to the muscle fibre cell in the extracellular matrix and, in particular, in the fine collagen fibres that form the muscle cell envelope and fill the interstitial muscle space. The study has thus shown that the initial problems of post mortem softening and gaping have their origin in the myotendinous junction not within the muscle fibre itself. The TEM work confirms the SEM work that the breakdown occurs at the interface between the muscle fibres and the connective tissue of the myocomma. It has highlighted the need for further work on the nature and properties of the interstinal collagens and on the nature, activity, specificity and location of the enzymes responsible for the degradation. It has also pointed out the need to establish whether the marine equivalents of minor components of mammalian muscle and its extracellular matrix occur in fish.
Candidate microlensing events from M31 observations with the Loiano telescope
Creators: name: Novati, S. Calchi
name: Bozza, V.
name: De Paolis, F.
name: Dominik, M.
name: Ingrosso, G.
name: Jetzer, Ph.
name: Mancini, L.
name: Nucita, A.
name: Scarpetta, G.
name: Sereno, M.
name: Strafella, F.
name: Gould, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Microlensing observations towards M31 are a powerful tool for the study of the dark matter population in the form of MACHOs both in the Galaxy and the M31 halos, a still unresolved issue, as well as for the analysis of the characteristics of the M31 luminous populations. In this work we present the second year results of our pixel lensing campaign carried out towards M31 using the 152 cm Cassini telescope in Loiano. We have established an automatic pipeline for the detection and the characterisation of microlensing variations. We have carried out a complete simulation of the experiment and evaluated the expected signal, including an analysis of the efficiency of our pipeline. As a result, we select 1-2 candidate microlensing events (according to different selection criteria). This output is in agreement with the expected rate of M31 self-lensing events. However, the statistics are still too low to draw definitive conclusions on MACHO lensing.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures, 5 tables - Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal
An experiment in the design of modular expert systems with special reference to fault diagnosis
Creators: name: Coleman, James P H
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: A method for dealing with three of the major problems in hybrid rule-based expert systems is proposed. They are; the problem of managing the complexity of the knowledge base, the problem of graceful degradation and the problem of the logics used to manipulate the rules, which do not fit easily with human expertise. An experimental expert system, Aristotle, is developed in which modules are used as a tool to reduce complexity. Modules group related rules together into components, which interact with the outside world through parameters. The module also provides a suitably sized object on which extra (partial) knowledge can be attached. It is proposed to use partial knowledge to reason, at a general level, about components and groups of components, giving the appearance of a knowledge base, which degrades gracefully. A five-value logic is introduced with the extra logic values irrelevant, do-not-know and unknown. This logic is able to reason about unusual situations without having to explicitly check for them. This thesis demonstrates, that modules, partial rules and the five-value logic, can overcome, to an extent, the problems mentioned earlier.
ОЦЕНКА РИСКА ДЛЯ ЗДОРОВЬЯ НАСЕЛЕНИЯ ОТ ОБЪЕКТОВ накопленного вреда окружающей среде – СВАЛОК ТВЕРДЫХ КОММУНАЛЬНЫХ ОТХОДОВ
Creators: name: Мишкин, Денис
Publisher: name: ООО Цифра
Year: 2023
Subjects: dumps
solid municipal waste
health risk assessment
prioritization of elimination
Voronezh Oblast
свалки
твердые коммунальные отходы
оценка риска здоровью
приоритетность ликвидации
Воронежская область

description: Международный научно-исследовательский журнал, Выпуск 12 (138) 2023
Finite-temperature local protein sequence alignment: percolation and free-energy distribution
Creators: name: Wolfsheimer, S
name: Melchert, O
name: Hartmann, AK
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Sequence alignment is a tool in bioinformatics that is used to find homological relationships in large molecular databases. It can be mapped on the physical model of directed polymers in random media. We consider the finite-temperature version of local sequence alignment for proteins and study the transition between the linear phase and the biologically relevant logarithmic phase, where the free-energy grows linearly or logarithmically with the sequence length. By means of numerical simulations and finite-size scaling analysis we determine the phase diagram in the plane that is spanned by the gap costs and the temperature. We use the most frequently used parameter set for protein alignment. The critical exponents that describe the parameter driven transition are found to be explicitly temperature dependent. Furthermore, we study the shape of the (free-) energy distribution close to the transition by rare-event simulations down to probabilities of the order $10^{-64}$. It is well known that, in the logarithmic region, the optimal score distribution (T=0) is described by a modified Gumbel distribution. We confirm that this also applies for the free-energy distribution ($T>0$). However, in the linear phase, the distribution crosses over to a modified Gaussian distribution.
Reduced ferility in red raspberry (Rubus Idaeus L.).
Creators: name: Virdi, Bessie Violet
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Microsporogenesis, embryo sac development Including fertilization, and fruit set involving cross pollinations were studied in the highly self-fertile red raspberry (Rubus idaeus L.) cultivar Mailing Jewel and the partially male sterile United States Department of Agriculture -Oregon State University selection Ore-US 1314 from the United States Department of Agriculture-Oregon State University red raspberry breeding program. Pollen was stained with aceto-carmine to determine pollen abnormality. Anthers of different filament lengths differed in the percent of normal pollen produced in the Ore-US 1314. Percent normal pollen produced by this selection is also much less than that, produced by Mailing Jewel. Longitudinal and cross sections of the anthers of both clones were examined and no direct involvement of the tapetum was observed to be contributing to the production of abnormal microspores in either clone. Anther squashes showed that only 41.8% of the cells of Ore-US 1314 underwent normal meiosis as compared to 93% in Mailing Jewel. Lagging chromosomes at meiosis I were also observed in Ore-US 1314. Cytogenetic factors are thought to be involved in causing increased pollen abortion and thus male sterility in Ore-US 1314. Examinations of embryo sac development under open pollination showed that while Ore-US 1314 did riot have a retarded embryo sac development, it had a high percentage of degenerate embryo sacs. Degeneration is believed to be a result of pollen of poor quality, incompatible pollen, the collapse of the egg cell due to failure of pollen to fertilize it at the critical time, or the involvement of all three. The pollination experiments involved self, open, and cross-pollinations of the two clones. The results obtained from the druplet set suggest that Ore-US 1314 could be both partial and cross-incompatible. Druplet set in Ore-US 1314 when open pollinated increased above that when selfed suggesting a positive reaction to pollen mixtures. Mailing Jewel, although not self-incompatible, was found to be partially cross-incompatible with Ore-US 1314.
Induced ovulation and larval rearing of four species of Australian marine fish
Creators: name: Battaglene, SC
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: This thesis developed techniques for the large-scale breeding of marine fish in New South Wales. It provides the first published account of the hormone induction and larval rearing to metamorphosis of Australian bass Macquarie novemaculeata (Percichthyidae), snapper Pagrus auratus (Sparidae), mulloway Argyrosomus hololepidotus (Sciaenidae) and sand whiting Sillago ciliate (Silliganidae) in Australia. Wild-caught broodstock were induced to spawn using hormones (hCG, LHRHa, Ovaprim) and either spawned naturally or were stripped. Pagrus auratus and S. ciliate were found to be multiple spawners with asynchronous ovaries. Conversely, M. novemaculeata and A. hololepidotus were found to be highly fecund single spawners having group synchronous ovaries. All four species were successfully induced to ovulate after periods in captivity ranging from one to five years. Species specific differences in hormone induction were determined, particularly in relation to the overripening of eggs and the optimum time between treatment and stripping. Commercial scale batches of larvae were reared in 2000 L conical tanks and replicated experiments were conducted in aquaria ranging in size from 2 to 70 L. Larval development for all four species was described and egg size, time to hatch, size at hatch, yolk size, oil globule size, and beginning of exogenous feeding were compared among species. First feeding larvae were reared on rotifers Brachionus plicatilis and then brine shrimp Artemia sp. Survival, growth and weaning of larvae at metamorphosis were compared. Factors affecting larval survival, particularly those influencing initial swim bladder development were tested in replicated laboratory experiments. The timing of swim bladder inflation was found to coincide with the start of exogenous feeding but feeding was not required for initial swim bladder inflation. Larvae that failed to inflate their swim bladder grew poorly and were susceptible to stress induced mortality. Light intensity, was shown to be an important factor influencing swim bladder inflation in cultured larvae. The effect of light intensity on inflation in M. novemaculeata and S. ciliate was quantified. Exposure to continuous light (100-200 Lux) inhibited inflation in M. novemaculeata. In contrast, S. ciliate were shown to have a diel pattern of nocturnal inflation and required higher light intensities to feed (1000 Lux). Manipulative experiments with S. ciliate larvae showed that they responded to darkness by inflating their swim bladders. Other abiotic factors such as surface access, low salinity and high aeration were shown to reduce inflation in larvae. Initial swim bladder inflation strategies are discussed and recommendations made regarding the importance of maximising inflation. The results of the study were used to assess the relative difficulty of intensive commercial production of each species for aquaculture.
The quantum spin Hall effect and topological insulators
Creators: name: Qi, Xiao-Liang
name: Zhang, Shou-Cheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In topological insulators, spin-orbit coupling and time-reversal symmetry combine to form a novel state of matter predicted to have exotic physical properties.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures, an introduction of the quantum spin Hall effect and topological insulators. For a video introduction of topological insulators, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg8Yu-Ju3Vw
MEDICC2: whole-genome doubling aware copy-number phylogenies for cancer evolution.
Creators: name: Kaufmann, Tom L
name: Petkovic, Marina
name: Watkins, Thomas BK
name: Colliver, Emma C
name: Laskina, Sofya
name: Thapa, Nisha
name: Minussi, Darlan C
name: Navin, Nicholas
name: Swanton, Charles
name: Van Loo, Peter
name: Haase, Kerstin
name: Tarabichi, Maxime
name: Schwarz, Roland F
Publisher: name: The Francis Crick Institute
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: Tumour Biology
subject: Tumour Biology
classificationCode: Signalling & Oncogenes
subject: Signalling & Oncogenes
classificationCode: Genetics & Genomics
subject: Genetics & Genomics
classificationCode: Genome Integrity & Repair
subject: Genome Integrity & Repair
classificationCode: Human Biology & Physiology
subject: Human Biology & Physiology
classificationCode: Chemical Biology & High Throughput
subject: Chemical Biology & High Throughput
classificationCode: Ecology,Evolution & Ethology
subject: Ecology,Evolution & Ethology
classificationCode: Computational & Systems Biology
subject: Computational & Systems Biology

description: Aneuploidy, chromosomal instability, somatic copy-number alterations, and whole-genome doubling (WGD) play key roles in cancer evolution and provide information for the complex task of phylogenetic inference. We present MEDICC2, a method for inferring evolutionary trees and WGD using haplotype-specific somatic copy-number alterations from single-cell or bulk data. MEDICC2 eschews simplifications such as the infinite sites assumption, allowing multiple mutations and parallel evolution, and does not treat adjacent loci as independent, allowing overlapping copy-number events. Using simulations and multiple data types from 2780 tumors, we use MEDICC2 to demonstrate accurate inference of phylogenies, clonal and subclonal WGD, and ancestral copy-number states.
Helping people grow : the evaluation of two communication skills programs at Devonport High School
Creators: name: Clarke, Christine
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: In the past, pastoral care at Devonport High School has occurred within the context of the Supportive School Environment Policy. Four key areas of pastoral care emerged from a review of the literature. Two of these, peer mediation training for students and training in basic counselling skills for staff, became the focus for the practical aspect of the project. Both were implemented as part of this project. This project also contains the evaluation of both training programs; an essential component in future development within the school.
Radiation of an electric charge in the field of a magnetic monopole
Creators: name: Lublinsky, Michael
name: Ratti, Claudia
name: Shuryak, Edward
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the radiation of photons from quarks scattering on color-magnetic monopoles in the Quark-Gluon Plasma. We consider a temperature regime $T\gsim2T_c$, where monopoles can be considered as static, rare objects embedded into matter consisting mostly of the usual "electric" quasiparticles, quarks and gluons. The calculation is performed in the classical, non-relativistic approximation and results are compared to photon emission from Coulomb scattering of quarks, known to provide a significant contribution to the photon emission rates from QGP. The present study is a first step towards understanding whether this scattering process can give a sizeable contribution to dilepton production in heavy-ion collisions. Our results are encouraging: by comparing the magnitudes of the photon emission rate for the two processes, we find a dominance in the case of quark-monopole scattering. Our results display strong sensitivity to finite densities of quarks and monopoles.
description: 28 pages, 8 figures
СОСТОЯНИЕ КЛЕТОЧНОГО ИММУНИТЕТА И УРОВЕНЬ ЦИРКУЛИРУЮЩИХ ИММУННЫХ КОМПЛЕКСОВ У БОЛЬНЫХ С ХРОНИЧЕСКОЙ ПЕРСИСТРИРУЮЩЕЙ ИНФЕКЦИЕЙ СМЕШАННОГО ГЕНЕЗА, ОБУСЛОВЛЕННОЙ ВИРУСАМИ ПРОСТОГО ГЕРПЕСА И ЭПШТЕЙН-БАРР У БОЛЬНЫХ ДИФФУЗНЫМИ ЗАБОЛЕВАНИЯМИ ПЕЧЕНИ
Creators: name: Сообщество рецензентов Международного научно-исследовательского журнала
Publisher: name: ООО Цифра
Year: 2023
Subjects: persistent viral infection
chronic diffuse liver disease
immunological homeostasis
персистирующая вирусная инфекция
хронические диффузные заболевания печени
иммунологический гомеостаз

description: Международный научно-исследовательский журнал, Выпуск 12 (138) 2023
title:  Meaning in the Historic and Artistic Milieu of the Jacobean Court Masque
Creators: name: Bledsoe, John R.
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 1987

description: The seventeenth-century masque is usually remembered as one of several kinds of entertainment that contributed to the evolution of staged drama and its allied forms, opera and ballet. It is not generally appreciated, however, that the tradition of masqueing was a rite of homage to the reigning monarch. This study shows how the Jacobean court masque served a ceremonial purpose.

Most studies of the English masque begin and end with analyses of liberetti and tell little about performance practices. This paper demonstrates how poetry, music, dance, and scenic design were employed by masque writers to further King James' concept of rule by divine right. Emphasis is placed on explaining how the various artistic components used acquired the religious underpinnings that held the court masque to its traditional ceremonial purpose.

This paper is based on interdisciplinary research, the findings of which provide conclusive evidence that the Jacobean court masque was a cult-like ceremony centering on the king. The findings were extrapolated from the court's ceremonial traditions and from artistic performance practices, and demonstrate that the masque was a manifestation of an English social order based on Christian ideals.
Additional file 1 of Effects of a history of headache and migraine treatment on baseline neurocognitive function in young athletes
Creators: name: McCarthy, Lily
name: Hannah, Theodore C.
name: Li, Adam Y.
name: Schupper, Alexander J.
name: Hrabarchuk, Eugene
name: Kalagara, Roshini
name: Ali, Muhammad
name: Gometz, Alex
name: Lovell, Mark R.
name: Choudhri, Tanvir F.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Factor Analysis of Symptoms.
Voices from \The cheap seats\" : popular American reactions to issues raised in the papal encyclical Testem Benevolentiae 1899 : a discussion of contemporary newspaper articles reacting to the \"Americanist Crisis\" of 1899 as preserved in the Paulist Archives Washington DC"
Creators: name: Bretz, Lew
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The focus of this thesis, is a collection of contemporary clippings about the Americanist controversy which were preserved in the 52nd Street Paulist Library in New York City and thereafter moved to the Paulist Archives attached to the Order's institute near American University in Washington DC. Many clippings in the collection, ordered chronologically by anonymous Brothers, are simply record pieces abstracting various speeches and epistles on the Americanist issue, or straightforward reportage on unfolding events which tell us only what is covered better in histories of the era. SECTION ONE - AMERICANISM: THE NATIONAL CONTEXT SECTION TWO - THE PAULIST CLIPPINGS SECTION THREE - AFTERMATH AT THE TOP, CONSEQUENCES AT THE BOTTOM
Soft Decision Decoding of the Orthogonal Complex MIMO Codes for Three and Four Transmit Antennas
Creators: name: Nordman, Risto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Orthogonality is a much desired property for MIMO coding. It enables symbol-wise decoding, where the errors in other symbol estimates do not affect the result, thus providing an optimality that is worth pursuing. Another beneficial property is a low complexity soft decision decoder, which for orthogonal complex MIMO codes is known for two transmit (Tx) antennas i.e. for the Alamouti code. We propose novel soft decision decoders for the orthogonal complex MIMO codes on three and four Tx antennas and extend the old result of maximal ratio combining (MRC) to cover all orthogonal codes up to four Tx antennas. As a rule, a sophisticated transmission scheme encompasses forward error correction (FEC) coding, and its performance is measured at the FEC decoder instead of at the MIMO decoder. We introduce the receiver structure that delivers the MIMO decoder's soft decisions to the demodulator, which in turn cranks out the logarithm of likelihood ratio (LLR) of each bit and delivers them to the FEC decoder. This makes a significant improvement on the receiver, where a maximum likelihood (ML) MIMO decoder makes hard decisions at a too early stage. Further, the additional gain is achieved with stunningly low complexity.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 9 Dec. 2009
A_{N-1} conformal Toda field theory correlation functions from conformal N=2 SU(N) quiver gauge theories
Creators: name: Wyllard, Niclas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a relation between correlation functions in the 2d A_{N-1} conformal Toda theories and the Nekrasov instanton partition functions in certain conformal N=2 SU(N) 4d quiver gauge theories. Our proposal generalises the recently uncovered relation between the Liouville theory and SU(2) quivers. New features appear in the analysis that have no counterparts in the Liouville case.
description: 23 pages. v2: some typos corrected
Sphecodopsis argyrura
Creators: name: Pöllein, Daniela
name: Kuhlmann, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Sphecodopsis
Sphecodopsis argyrura

description: Sphecodopsis argyrura (Cockerell, 1933)
Morgania argyrura Cockerell, 1933b: 108–109, holotype ♀ (type locality: Stellenbosch, South Africa) (NHML), examined.
As already mentioned by Eardley & Brothers (1997), only the mesosoma and part of the legs of the holotype still exist. This and the unspecific description do not allow for an identification, so the species is here treated as a nomen dubium.
description: Published as part of Pöllein, Daniela & Kuhlmann, Michael, 2025, Taxonomic revision of the southern African bee genus Sphecodopsis Bischoff, 1923 (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Nomadinae), pp. 1-157 in European Journal of Taxonomy 980 on page 148, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.980.2805, http://zenodo.org/record/14981767
Gwyn Thomas and the emergence of an Anglo- Welsh literary tradition
Creators: name: Wilson, Jeanne Mary
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Gwyn Thomas, a Welshman from the Rhondda Valley in industrial South Wales, is a contemporary writer whose contribution to Anglo-Welsh literature bridges the divergence between cultures. The emergence of Anglo-Welsh writers is relatively recent; and although these writers have no imposed homogeneity, no shared defined purpose, they have in common a generic quality that is recognizably that of the Welshman writing in English. Collectively, the Anglo-Welsh demonstrate their fundamental and real experience of the alienating effects of industrialism and anglicisation. The industrial wasteland and linguistic schizophrenia are the shameful and inconsolable central wound in South Wales. Gwyn Thomas demonstrates the effects of industrialism in Merthyr and the Rhondda Valley. In his novel, All Things Betray Thee, he recognizes the destructive and alienating effects of technological progress. In this and other works, he speaks for the victims of economic depression, but transmutes the mean streets of industrial villages into a world where there is a rural and green peace within echoing distance of the mountainous tips, a world where an articulate, lyrical, Puckish people, who were indigenous to Wales long before the expansion of Elizabethan England, are the counterpart to their rural country-men. Gwyn Thomas exemplifies the invincible spirit of the people among whom he was born and grew to manhood and with whom he shares lineage ties with all Welshmen, whichever tongue they speak. In harmony with the precept that laughter ameliorates suffering, the humour of Thomas's characters annihilates their degradation. His jester's wit entertains and evokes laughter which, by virtue of its contrast with his compassion and serious comment, gives insight into the pity and the shame of a people's rejection and a land unmade. His alliterative, euphonious language, his vivid imagery and metaphor, his wit, perception and lyricism, derive from the people of Wales. He is a poet of the industrial valleys, and his voice is true to Wales. His is the generation of Anglo-Welsh writers who have established a new literary tradition.
Catastrophic Phase Transitions and Early Warnings in a Spatial Ecological Model
Creators: name: Fernandez, Ariel
name: Fort, Hugo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gradual changes in exploitation, nutrient loading, etc. produce shifts between alternative stable states (ASS) in ecosystems which, quite often, are not smooth but abrupt or catastrophic. Early warnings of such catastrophic regime shifts are fundamental for designing management protocols for ecosystems. Here we study the spatial version of a popular ecological model, involving a logistically growing single species subject to exploitation, which is known to exhibit ASS. Spatial heterogeneity is introduced by a carrying capacity parameter varying from cell to cell in a regular lattice. Transport of biomass among cells is included in the form of diffusion. We investigate whether different quantities from statistical mechanics -like the variance, the two-point correlation function and the patchiness- may serve as early warnings of catastrophic phase transitions between the ASS. In particular, we find that the patch-size distribution follows a power law when the system is close to the catastrophic transition. We also provide links between spatial and temporal indicators and analyze how the interplay between diffusion and spatial heterogeneity may affect the earliness of each of the observables. We find that possible remedial procedures, which can be followed after these early signals, are more effective as the diffusion becomes lower. Finally, we comment on similarities and differences between these catastrophic shifts and paradigmatic thermodynamic phase transitions like the liquid-vapour change of state for a fluid like water.
Forms of healing
Creators: name: Beattie, Heather Anne
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: There is an observable growing interest in the process of healing. While most are familiar with what occurs when healing takes place, the questions of how it takes place, and by what means, remain difficult ones. Through increased understanding of the process it may be possible to increase its occurrence and effectiveness, and broaden its scope. Antecedents of contemporary healing activity are documented in the early history of the Christian church. However, the orthodoxy which arose in the church led to the suppression of much of the information relating to this, and also to the spread of orthodoxy and hierarchy as models for government and the professions. Within the contemporary health system, the medical model is the dominant one, although there is an increasingly important social model emerging alongside. There are signs also of increasing overlap between conventional medicine and complementary medicine, despite their differences in emphasis. Emerging also is a growing field of practice which bases itself on an energy model with diagnosis and treatment reflecting information and concepts which stem from theoretical and practical advances made this century, largely in the field of physics and biophysics. Adapting medical practice to the changed conceptualisation which this has produced, is a challenging prospect. The energy model has been employed widely by \New Age\" practitioners and there remains scope for further research to systematise the basis for much of this practice. Non-Western cultures have always provided the Shamanistic model of healing. It offers the possibility of wider incorporation of dance art and symbolism into practices which could enhance both individuals and communities in Western cultures. Some discussion is devoted to the issue of how contemporary healers see themselves and their work. Questionnaire responses and literature sources are used to examine aspects such as training and techniques and the extent to which healing work aims at achieving a situation of self-responsibility in patients or clients. The scientific backdrop against which developments in the practice of healing are occurring is also examined. Philosophical and conceptual shifts in the 1980's suggest there is what might be called a post-rationalist approach to problems emerging alongside continuing rationalist theory and technological change. A post-rationalist approach could involve working more within the existing social and natural systems to understand them better and to improve quality of life and to bring healing to people and situations. A shift from hierarchical to holographic perspectives may assist this process."
title: Development of a gene therapy for congenital neutropenia caused by ELANE mutations
Creators: name: Ritter, Malte Ulrich
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Gentherapie , Knochenmark , Hämatologie , Pädiatrie , Neutropenie , Leukämie
subject: CRISPR/Cas
subject: Kongenitale Neutropenie
subject: congenital neutropenia
subject: Geneditierung
subject: gene-editing
subject: Blutstammzellen
subject: haematopoietic stem cells
subject: leukemia
subject: CRISPR/Cas

description: The monogenetic disease congenital neutropenia (CN) is a pre-leukemia bone marrow failure syndrome. In approximately 50 % of CN patients, the disease is caused by mutations in the ELANE gene. This gene encodes the protein neutrophil elastase (NE). Patients suffer from an insufficient number of neutrophils, resulting in frequent severe and life-threatening bacterial infections and sepsis. The current standard of care is regular injections with the recombinant human granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (rhG-CSF), a cytokine produced naturally in the body. This treatment is not curative and does not prevent leukemia development, for which the patients have a 15 – 20 % lifetime risk. If the patient does not respond to rhG-CSF or develops leukemia, the only chance of survival is a bone marrow transplantation, which is associated with a risk of graft-vs-host disease, graft failure, infections, and a mortality risk of about 20 %. These circumstances create a clear unmet medical need for therapy improvements. The recent development of CRISPR/Cas9 nucleases for gene editing has created a versatile tool ideally suited for genetic manipulation for gene therapy. Here, I present preclinical investigations into the application of CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing tools for the purpose of gene therapy development for patients with CN caused by ELANE mutations. Specifically, the development of a knockout strategy for the ELANE gene that restores neutrophil development and preserves neutrophil functions. And a novel knockdown strategy that reduces ELANE expression by genetically modifying the ELANE promotor region using two CRISPR/Cas9 nickases. The therapeutic potential of this approach has been demonstrated in vitro and in vivo. This approach has been shown to have a favorable genotoxic profile with no detectable off-target gene editing and no chromosomal translocations. Finally, work on establishing an in vitro model with mouse hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) with the mutations most frequently involved in MDS and AML development in CN patients has provided new insights into the dysregulated pathways and mechanisms underlying the progression from pre-leukemic to leukemic stages. These are mainly driven by increased innate immune activation in HSPCs. These observations are also crucial for disease-specific safety considerations in gene therapy development. My work has contributed to understanding CN's pathophysiological mechanisms and offers novel gene therapeutic approaches for ELANE mutations that cause CN.
Theory of two-dimensional macroscopic quantum tunneling in YBa$_2$ Cu$_3$ O$_{7-δ}$ Josephson junctions coupled to an LC circuit
Creators: name: Kawabata, Shiro
name: Bauch, Thilo
name: Kato, Takeo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate classical thermal activation (TA) and macroscopic quantum tunneling (MQT) for a YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{7-δ}$ (YBCO) Josephson junction coupled to an LC circuit theoretically. Due to the coupling between the junction and the LC circuit, the macroscopic phase dynamics can be described as the escape process of a fictitious particle with an anisotropic mass moving in a two-dimensional potential. We analytically calculate the escape rate including both the TA and MQT regime by taking into account the peculiar dynamical nature of the system. In addtion to large suppression of the MQT rate at zero temperature, we study details of the temperature dependece of the escape rate across a crossover region. These results are in an excellent agreement with recent experimental data for the MQT and TA rate in a YBCO biepitaxial Josephson junction. Therefore the coupling to the LC circuit is essential in understanding the macroscopic quantum dynamics and the qubit operation based on the YBCO biepitaxial Josephson junctions.
description: 13pages, 7 figures, 1 table, to appear in Phys. Rev. B 80 (2009)
Microlensing of close binary stars
Creators: name: Rattenbury, Nicholas J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The gravity due to a multiple-mass system has a remarkable gravitational effect: the extreme magnification of background light sources along extended so-called caustic lines. This property has been the channel for some remarkable astrophysical discoveries over the past decade, including the detection and characterisation of extra-solar planets, the routine analysis of limb-darkening, and, in one case, limits set on the apparent shape of a star several kiloparsec distant. In this paper we investigate the properties of the microlensing of close binary star systems. We show that in some cases it is possible to detect flux from the Roche lobes of close binary stars. Such observations could constrain models of close binary stellar systems.
description: 10 pages, accepted to MNRAS
Model Independent Constraints Among the Wtb, Zbb, and Ztt Couplings
Creators: name: Berger, Edmond L.
name: Cao, Qing-Hong
name: Low, Ian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using an effective Lagrangian approach, we perform a model-independent analysis of the interactions among electroweak gauge bosons and the third generation quarks, i.e. the Wtb, Ztt and Zbb couplings. After one imposes the known experimental constraint on the Z b_L b_L coupling, we show that the electroweak symmetry of the standard model specifies the pattern of deviations of the Z t_L t_L and W t_L b_L couplings, independent of underlying new physics scenarios. We study implications of the predicted pattern with data on the single top quark and Ztt associated production processes at the Large Hadron Collider. Such an analysis could in principle allow for a determination of the Wtb coupling without prior knowledge of |V_{tb}|, which is otherwise difficult to achieve.
description: version in Phys.Rev.D