cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Price Promotions and Brand Loyalty: Empirical Evidence for the German Breakfast Cereals Market
Creators: name: Empen, Janine
name: Loy, Jens-Peter
name: Weiss, Christoph R.
name: Empen, Janine
name: Loy, Jens-Peter
name: Weiss, Christoph R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Price Promotion
subject: Brand Loyalty
subject: Food Retailing
subject: Ready-to-Eat Cereals
subject: Germany
subject: Instruments
subject: Tobit

description: Price promotions are important marketing activities for (food) retailers; brand loyalty is a major requisite to foster brands' assets. Several theoretical papers have analyzed the relationship between price promotions and brand loyalty resulting in mixed or perhaps contradictory outcomes; only a few empirical studies for (European) grocery markets are available to test which model(s) might be most relevant to reflect pricing strategies in food retailing. In this analysis, two detailed data sets for the German ready-to-eat breakfast cereals market are merged to investigate the relationship between price promotions and brand loyalty. We find significant empirical evidence that stronger brands tend to be promoted less frequently at lower discounts compared to weaker brands. The reason might be that price reductions are more costly for brands having loyal customers who are willing to accept higher mark-ups. Therefore stronger brands might need to come up with alternative measures to recruit new customers instead of offering attractive promotional sales.
Scaling Estimates for Solutions and Dynamical Lower Bounds on Wavepacket Spreading
Creators: name: Damanik, David
name: Tcheremchantsev, Serguei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We establish quantum dynamical lower bounds for discrete one-dimensional Schrödinger operators in situations where, in addition to power-law upper bounds on solutions corresponding to energies in the spectrum, one also has lower bounds following a scaling law. As a consequence, we obtain improved dynamical results for the Fibonacci Hamiltonian and related models.
description: 23 pages
Additional file 2 of Is functional training functional? a systematic review of its effects in community-dwelling older adults
Creators: name: Liu, Chiung-ju
name: Chang, Wen-Pin
name: Shin, Yun Chan
name: Hu, Yi-Ling
name: Morgan-Daniel, Jane
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 3
Additional file 1 of Risk of early progression according to circulating ESR1 mutation, CA-15.3 and cfDNA increases under first-line anti-aromatase treatment in metastatic breast cancer
Creators: name: Clatot, Florian
name: Perdrix, Anne
name: Beaussire, Ludivine
name: Lequesne, Justine
name: Lévy, Christelle
name: Emile, George
name: Bubenheim, Michael
name: Lacaille, Sigrid
name: Calbrix, Céline
name: Augusto, Laetitia
name: Guillemet, Cécile
name: Alexandru, Cristina
name: Fontanilles, Maxime
name: Sefrioui, David
name: Burel, Lucie
name: Guénot, Sabine
name: Richard, Doriane
name: Sarafan-Vasseur, Nasrin
name: Fiore, Frédéric Di
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Cancer
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Provides the following survival curves: PFS according to cfDNA level at baseline. OS according to cfDNA level at baseline. PFS according to CA-15.3 level at baseline. OS according to CA-15.3 level at baseline.
Additional file 3 of Is functional training functional? a systematic review of its effects in community-dwelling older adults
Creators: name: Liu, Chiung-ju
name: Chang, Wen-Pin
name: Shin, Yun Chan
name: Hu, Yi-Ling
name: Morgan-Daniel, Jane
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 4
Numerical Simulation of Vortex Crystals and Merging in N-Point Vortex Systems with Circular Boundary
Creators: name: Yoshida, Takeshi
name: Sano, Mitsusada M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In two-dimensional (2D) inviscid incompressible flow, low background vorticity distribution accelerates intense vortices (clumps) to merge each other and to array in the symmetric pattern which is called ``vortex crystals''; they are observed in the experiments on pure electron plasma and the simulations of Euler fluid. Vortex merger is thought to be a result of negative ``temperature'' introduced by L. Onsager. Slight difference in the initial distribution from this leads to ``vortex crystals''. We study these phenomena by examining N-point vortex systems governed by the Hamilton equations of motion. First, we study a three-point vortex system without background distribution. It is known that a N-point vortex system with boundary exhibits chaotic behavior for N\geq 3. In order to investigate the properties of the phase space structure of this three-point vortex system with circular boundary, we examine the Poincaré plot of this system. Then we show that topology of the Poincaré plot of this system drastically changes when the parameters, which are concerned with the sign of ``temperature'', are varied. Next, we introduce a formula for energy spectrum of a N-point vortex system with circular boundary. Further, carrying out numerical computation, we reproduce a vortex crystal and a vortex merger in a few hundred point vortices system. We confirm that the energy of vortices is transferred from the clumps to the background in the course of vortex crystallization. In the vortex merging process, we numerically calculate the energy spectrum introduced above and confirm that it behaves as k^{-α},(α\approx 2.2-2.8) at the region 10^0
description: 30 pages, 11 figures. to be published in Journal of Physical Society of Japan Vol.74 No.2
SPINN: Synergistic Progressive Inference of Neural Networks over Device and Cloud
Creators: name: Laskaridis, Stefanos
name: Venieris, Stylianos I.
name: Almeida, Mario
name: Leontiadis, Ilias
name: Lane, Nicholas D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Despite the soaring use of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in mobile applications, uniformly sustaining high-performance inference on mobile has been elusive due to the excessive computational demands of modern CNNs and the increasing diversity of deployed devices. A popular alternative comprises offloading CNN processing to powerful cloud-based servers. Nevertheless, by relying on the cloud to produce outputs, emerging mission-critical and high-mobility applications, such as drone obstacle avoidance or interactive applications, can suffer from the dynamic connectivity conditions and the uncertain availability of the cloud. In this paper, we propose SPINN, a distributed inference system that employs synergistic device-cloud computation together with a progressive inference method to deliver fast and robust CNN inference across diverse settings. The proposed system introduces a novel scheduler that co-optimises the early-exit policy and the CNN splitting at run time, in order to adapt to dynamic conditions and meet user-defined service-level requirements. Quantitative evaluation illustrates that SPINN outperforms its state-of-the-art collaborative inference counterparts by up to 2x in achieved throughput under varying network conditions, reduces the server cost by up to 6.8x and improves accuracy by 20.7% under latency constraints, while providing robust operation under uncertain connectivity conditions and significant energy savings compared to cloud-centric execution.
description: Accepted at the 26th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), 2020
Synthesis and Characterization of Magnetoplasmonic Air-Stable Au@FeCo
Creators: name: Sajini Devadas, Mary
name: Aligholizadeh, Dariush
name: Smolyaninova, Vera
name: Krushinsk, Lynn
name: Langford, Kameron
name: Korzi, William
name: Miller, Cody
name: Reddy Kadasala, Naveen
name: Zhukovskyi, Maksym
name: Hondrogiannis, Ellen
Publisher: name: University of Notre Dame
Year: 2024

description: The synthesis of FeCo alloys as highly magnetic nanoparticles has been valuable, as far as applications for magnetic nanoparticles are concerned. However, recently, a field of magnetoplasmonics in which magnetic nanoparticles such as the FeCo alloys doped with plasmonic materials such as Au and Ag to create a hybrid nanostructure with both properties has emerged. These magnetoplasmonic metamaterials have greatly enhanced the limit of detection of analytes in spectroscopic methods, as well as providing a more widely applicable nanoparticle to broaden the use of FeCo alloys even further. Herein, we discuss the synthesis of high-yield and fairly monodisperse spherical FeCo and Au-doped FeCo (Au@FeCo) with varying compositions of Au synthesized via the thermal decomposition of iron pentacarbonyl (Fe(CO)5) and dicobalt octacarbonyl (Co2(CO)8), followed by the addition of Au atoms using triphenylphosphine gold(I) chloride ((Ph3P)AuCl) via both coprecipitation and by delayed addition methods. The products were separated using a hand-held magnet, and then characterized via ultraviolet–visible light (UV-vis), scanning electron microscopy coupled with energy-dispersive X-ray analysis (SEM-EDX), high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), flame atomic absorption spectrometry (F-AAS), and magnetization measurements. Optical studies revealed a plasmonic peak at 550 nm in the Au@FeCo nanoparticles that had a gold content (%Au) of >2% (by weight), determined using F-AAS. Colocation of the Fe, Co, and Au were demonstrated through EDX analysis. Location of the Au atoms in the core were seen through high-resolution bright-field imaging. To understand the use of these nanoparticles for potential application in therapeutics and/or electronics, resistance measurements were performed to assess power loss as a function of frequency. We also achieved magnetization values as high as 150 emu/g and as low as 50 emu/g for gold-loaded samples based on %Au by weight. This paves the way to continue to develop magneto-plasmonic structures chemically using these synthesis strategies.
Looking at Blazar Light Curve Periodicities with Gaussian Processes
Creators: name: Covino, Stefano
name: Landoni, Marco
name: Sandrinelli, Angela
name: Treves, Aldo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Temporal analysis of blazar flux is a powerful tool to draw inferences about the emission processes and physics of these sources. In the most general case, the available light curves are irregularly sampled and influenced by gaps, and in addition are also affected by correlated noise, making their analysis complicated. Gaussian processes may offer a viable tool to assess the statistical significance of proposed periods in light curves characterized by any sampling and noise pattern. We infer the significance of the periods proposed in the literature for two well known blazars with multiple claims of possible year-long periodicity: PG1553+113 and PKS2155-304, in the high-energy and optical bands. Adding a periodic component to the modeling gives a better statistical description of the analyzed light curves. The improvement is rather solid for PG1553+113, both at high energies and in the optical, while for PKS2155-304 at high energies the improvement is not yet strong enough to allow cogent claims, and no evidence for periodicity emerged by the analysis in the optical. Modeling a light curve by means of Gaussian processes, in spite of being relatively computationally demanding, allows us to derive a wealth of information about the data under study and suggests an original analysis framework for light curves of astrophysical interest.
description: Astronomical Journal, in press
Optimal Management of Invasive Species with Different Reproduction and Survival Strategies
Creators: name: Elofsson, Katarina
name: Bengtsson, Goran
name: Gren, Ing-Marie
name: Elofsson, Katarina
name: Bengtsson, Goran
name: Gren, Ing-Marie
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: invasive species
subject: resident species
subject: control
subject: harvest
subject: age-structured model
subject: optimization

description: In this paper, a numerical model is developed where the role of species life history and age structure for the optimal management of a harvested resident species which is exposed to an invasive species. It is shown that reproduction and mortality characteristics of both species as well as age structure of the invader at the time of invasion are important for the costs of invasions when the invader and resident species compete for scarce resources. Species with low juvenile survival and high reproduction is found to be most robust against invasions and more damaging as an invader. Properties of the harvesting cost function as well as the discount rate are shown to be of importance for the development of the invader population. Hence, it is possible to identify specific combinations of biological and economic conditions under which invasions cause particularly large economic and ecologic damage.
Spatio-Temporal Mode-locking in Quadratic Nonlinear Media
Creators: name: Bağcı, Mahmut
name: Kutz, J. Nathan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new theoretical model is developed to characterize spatio-temporal mode-locking (ML) in quadratic nonlinear media. The model is based on the two-dimensional nonlinear Schrödinger equation with coupling to a mean term (NLSM) and constructed as an extension of the master mode-locking model. It is numerically demonstrated that there exists steady state soliton solutions of the ML-NLSM mode-locking model that are astigmatic in nature. A full stability analysis and bifurcation study is performed for the ML-NLSM model and it is manifest that spatio-temporal mode-locking of the astigmatic steady-state solutions is possible in quadratic nonlinear media.
description: 9 pages, 7 Figures
title: Graphene-based biosensor platform for the development of an artificial nose
Creators: name: Agneter, Anja
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biosensoren
subject: artifical nose
subject: FET
subject: biosensor
subject: FET
subject: artificial nose

description: The sense of smell is the oldest, most versatile and as some biologists claim, the most important one for living creatures. It is understandable that mimicking this sense by building an arti cial nose would be highly useful in an abundance of applications. For instance it could be used in food industry, cosmetic production, environmental monitoring and medical diagnostics, where the detection of volatile biomolecules plays an important role. However, the sense of smell in humans and animals still outperforms any analytical device. As the sensitivity and selectivity of the biological olfactory system is by far not reached yet, new approaches to build a stable and miniaturised biosensor as an arti cial nose are needed.This study is an attempt to improve and miniaturise a biosensor used for the detection of odorants. A reduced graphene oxide eld-eect transistor (rGO-FET) functionalised with odorant-binding proteins is used as a biosensor. Due to its unique electrical properties and easy handling procedure, reduced graphene oxide is utilized as the transducer. To reduce the complexity of the biological olfactory system, odorant-binding proteins (OBP) are chosen as a biorecognition element. They are very stable and can bind selectively to odorants. This sensor platform consisting of an rGO-FET functionalised with odorant-binding proteins can be used to detect binding events of odorants in real-time. To test the sensor properties and gain more insights in the function of an odorant binding protein, the binding properties of the wild type of the OBPs of a moth are compared to an engineered mutant of this protein. The mutant shifts its anity from pheromones to plant volatiles. Therefore, the binding of a plant volatile and a pheromone to these two proteins are investigated. With the here presented sensor the detection of odorants is possible. However, a shift in the anity of the mutant OBPs could not be detected. This biosensor oers an approach to the easy and safe construction of an electrical smell sensing device. As the described biosensor could be modi ed easily for future investigations using dierent biomolecules immobilised on the sensor as a biorecognition element, the current study may serve as a basis for further steps towards the development of an arti cial nose.
Additional file 4 of Is functional training functional? a systematic review of its effects in community-dwelling older adults
Creators: name: Liu, Chiung-ju
name: Chang, Wen-Pin
name: Shin, Yun Chan
name: Hu, Yi-Ling
name: Morgan-Daniel, Jane
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 1
Contracting Nitrogen Abatement in the Baltic Proper Watershed Under the Risk of Climate Change
Creators: name: Elofsson, Katarina
name: Elofsson, Katarina
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Within the EU, it is agreed that watershed-based management of water quality problems is likely to be more economically efficient compared to existing institutional arrangements. Watershed authorities, assigned under the European Water Framework Directive, do however lack financial resources for policy implementation. EU funding for agri-environmental measures is mainly channeled through CAP via national governments to the farmers. In this paper, a mechanism for allocating international funds to watershed authorities is investigated assuming that there is a risk of moral hazard on behalf of the regional authority. The assumed purpose of the funding is to reduce nitrogen loads to the Baltic Proper, and the implications of uncertainty about the risk of climate change are investigated. Results shows that the risk premium associated with the presence of moral hazard can be high if there is a high likelihood of climate change and marginal damage is increasing rapidly in loads.
Renormalized relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov equations with a zero-range pairing interaction
Creators: name: Niksic, T.
name: Ring, P.
name: Vretenar, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A recently introduced scheme for the renormalization of the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov equations in the case of zero-range pairing interaction is extended to the relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov model. A density-dependent strength parameter of the zero-range pairing is adjusted in such a way that the renormalization procedure reproduces the empirical $^1S_0$ pairing gap in isospin-symmetric nuclear matter. The model is applied to the calculation of ground-state pairing properties of finite spherical nuclei.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in Physical Review C
Additional file 1 of How is autonomy supported for people with dementia living in a nursing home, to what extent and under what circumstances? A realist evaluation
Creators: name: van der Weide, Henny
name: Lovink, Marleen H.
name: Luijkx, Katrien G.
name: Gerritsen, Debby L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Additional file 2 of Evidence of unexplained discrepancies between planned and conducted statistical analyses: a review of randomised trials
Creators: name: Cro, Suzie
name: Forbes, Gordon
name: Johnson, Nicholas A.
name: Kahan, Brennan C.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 2. Supplementary material – contains additional methods and results.
Download by Parachute: Retrieval of Assets from High Altitude Balloons
Creators: name: Sirks, E. L.
name: Clark, P.
name: Massey, R. J.
name: Benton, S. J.
name: Brown, A. M.
name: Damaren, C. J.
name: Eifler, T.
name: Fraisse, A. A.
name: Frenk, C.
name: Funk, M.
name: Galloway, M. N.
name: Gill, A.
name: Hartley, J. W.
name: Holder, B.
name: Huff, E. M.
name: Jauzac, M.
name: Jones, W. C.
name: Lagattuta, D.
name: Leung, J. S. -Y.
name: Li, L.
name: Luu, T. V. T.
name: McCleary, J.
name: Nagy, J. M.
name: Netterfield, C. B.
name: Redmond, S.
name: Rhodes, J. D.
name: Romualdez, L. J.
name: Schmoll, J.
name: Shaaban, M. M.
name: Tam, S. -I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a publicly-available toolkit of flight-proven hardware and software to retrieve 5 TB of data or small physical samples from a stratospheric balloon platform. Before launch, a capsule is attached to the balloon, and rises with it. Upon remote command, the capsule is released and descends via parachute, continuously transmitting its location. Software to predict the trajectory can be used to select a safe but accessible landing site. We dropped two such capsules from the SuperBIT telescope, in September 2019. The capsules took ~37 minutes to descend from ~30 km altitude. They drifted 32 km and 19 km horizontally, but landed within 300 m and 600 m of their predicted landing sites. We found them easily, and successfully recovered the data. We welcome interest from other balloon teams for whom the technology would be useful.
Testing cosmological models and understanding cosmological parameter determinations with metaparameters
Creators: name: Chu, Mike
name: Knox, Lloyd
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cosmological parameters affect observables in physically distinct ways. For example, the baryon density, omega_b, affects the ionization history and also the pressure of the pre-recombination fluid. To investigate the relative importance of different physical effects to the determination of omega_b, and to test the cosmological model, we artificially split omega_b into two `metaparameters': omega_{be} which controls the ionization history and omega_{bp} which plays the role of omega_b for everything else. In our demonstration of the technique we find omega_b = .0229 +/- .0012 (with no parameter splitting), omega_{bp} = .0238 +/- .0021, omega_{be}= .0150 +/- .0034 and omega_{bp}-omega_{be} = .0088 +/- .0039.
description: 5 pages, submitted to ApJ
IMOM AT-TERMIZIYNING ILMIY MEROSI
Creators: name: Boydedayev, Dostonbek
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ushbu maqolada Movarounnahr hududida IX-XII asrlarda yuz bergan renessans davrining yorqin vakillaridan biri, yetuk olim va ulamo, Imom al-Buxoriyning zamondoshi va shogirdi Imom at-Termiziyning hayot yo‘li, ibratli umri, faoliyati, muhaddislikka qo‘shgan hissasi hamda at-Termiziy shaxsiyatiga berilgan ta’riflarga to‘xtalib o‘tiladi.
Half-lives of rp-process waiting point nuclei
Creators: name: Sarriguren, P.
name: Alvarez-Rodriguez, R.
name: de Guerra, E. Moya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We give results of microscopic calculations for the half-lives of various proton-rich nuclei in the mass region A=60-90, which are involved in the astrophysical rp-process, and which are needed as input parameters of numerical simulations in Nuclear Astrophysics. The microscopic formalism consists of a deformed QRPA approach that involves a selfconsistent quasiparticle deformed Skyrme Hartree-Fock basis and residual spin-isospin separable forces in both the particle-hole and particle-particle channels. The strength of the particle-hole residual interaction is chosen to be consistent with the Skyrme effective force and mean field basis, while that of the particle-particle is globally fixed to 0.07 MeV after a judicious choice from comparison to experimental half-lives. We study and discuss the sensitivity of the half-lives to deformation and residual interactions.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, to be published in Eur. Phys. J. A
CAP UNDER FIRE: THE BUDGETARY REVIEW AND THE CAP
Creators: name: Elekes, Andrea
name: Halmai, Peter
name: Elekes, Andrea
name: Halmai, Peter
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: European Union
subject: Common Agricultural Policy
subject: fiscal federalism
subject: budget review

description: During the process of the budgetary review the CAP faces its greatest challenge of its history: not only the (common) financing of the CAP, but the future of the CAP itself is at stake. It is obvious that the reform steps implemented so far – even though they have several forward-looking elements – do not result in a CAP sustainable on the long run. Further changes are inevitable. Basing our analysis on the theories of fiscal federalism and other political economy approaches, we try to answer the following questions. Is common financing of a reformed CAP justified? Can national co-financing be extended? Is it justified to keep the system of commonly financed direct payments?
Ionomycin-induced activation of LFA-1 is independent of calpain-mediated cleavage of talin
Creators: name: Dreolini, Lisa Faye
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Integrins are heterodimeric surface receptors that play a critical role in many cellular processes due to their ability to mediate the interactions between cells as well as between cells and the extracellular matrix. Integrin function can be regulated by conformational changes in their extracellular domains that increase their affinity for their ligand. Inside-out signalling is thought to initiate conformational changes through the binding of cytoplasmic proteins such as talin to integrin cytoplasmic domains. Calpains, calcium-dependent proteases, cleave talin upon activation, generating a free talin head domain that exhibits higher affinity for integrins than the intact talin protein. Therefore, the activation of calpains by receptor-induced calcium fluxes may lead to talin cleavage and could be an important step in the activation of integrins via inside-out signalling. In this study, the effects of the calcium ionophore ionomycin on the activation of LFA-1 in murine T cells were tested. Ionomycin treatment induced LFA-1-mediated adhesion in the helper T cell hybridoma line T28, in in vitro generated cytotoxic T cells, and in primary resting splenic T cells. The calpain inhibitors calpeptin and PD 150606 abrogated LFA-1 activation by ionomycin, implicating calpains in this process. However, calpeptin also inhibited LFA-1 activation by PMA, which did not induce calcium influx, suggesting that calpeptin is not entirely specific to calpains. Additionally, both calpain inhibitors induced the rapid apoptosis of cells treated with ionomycin, indicating that their effects on adhesion are non-specific. In contrast, two other calpain inhibitors, namely ALLN and calpain inhibitor III, did not impair LFA-1 activation by ionomycin. Western blotting did not detect cleavage of talin following ionomycin treatment of T cells, or cleavage of a-spectrin, another well-established substrate of calpains. These findings suggest that ionomycin-induced activation of LFA-1 is independent of the calpain-mediated cleavage of talin.
The Effect of Agricultural Policy Reforms on Income Inequality in Swiss Agriculture - An Analysis for Valley, Hill and Mountain Regions
Creators: name: El Benni, Nadja
name: Finger, Robert
name: El Benni, Nadja
name: Finger, Robert
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Agricultural Finance

description: We analyse the development of income inequality in Swiss agriculture for the period 1990-2009. To this end, Gini coefficients are estimated using FADN data. Furthermore, we estimate concentration ratios and Gini elasticities for market income, direct payments and off-farm income. Our analysis is separated for the three production regions in Swiss agriculture: valley, hill and mountain regions. This study is motivated by the fact that Swiss agricultural policy reforms resulted in dramatic changes of the importance of different income sources in the here considered period. Our results show that household income inequality increased only slightly between 1990 and 2009. Furthermore, agricultural policy reforms affected the income inequality differently in the considered production regions. More specifically, the introduction of area-based direct payments in 1992 mainly affected the valley region. In contrast, the introduction of cross-compliance and abandonment of farm household payments in 1999 had stronger effects for farmers in the hilly and mountainous region. An increase in direct payment income would decrease household income inequality, especially in the mountain and hill regions. Also off-farm income reduces income inequality while market income increases inequality.
Additional file 1 of Evidence of unexplained discrepancies between planned and conducted statistical analyses: a review of randomised trials
Creators: name: Cro, Suzie
name: Forbes, Gordon
name: Johnson, Nicholas A.
name: Kahan, Brennan C.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 1. Protocol and data extraction form – contains protocol and data extraction form used for this study.
Additional file 2 of How is autonomy supported for people with dementia living in a nursing home, to what extent and under what circumstances? A realist evaluation
Creators: name: van der Weide, Henny
name: Lovink, Marleen H.
name: Luijkx, Katrien G.
name: Gerritsen, Debby L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 2.
A junction of three quantum wires: restoring time-reversal symmetry by interaction
Creators: name: Barnabe-Theriault, X.
name: Sedeki, A.
name: Meden, V.
name: Schoenhammer, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate transport of correlated fermions through a junction of three one-dimensional quantum wires pierced by a magnetic flux. We determine the flow of the conductance as a function of a low-energy cutoff in the entire parameter space. For attractive interactions and generic flux the fixed point with maximal asymmetry of the conductance is the stable one, as conjectured recently. For repulsive interactions and arbitrary flux we find a line of stable fixed points with vanishing conductance as well as stable fixed points with symmetric conductance (4/9)(e^2/h).
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett
Herausforderungen und Perspektiven für Forschung und Entwicklung
Creators: name: Heinrich, Martin
name: Klewin, Gabriele
Publisher: name: WE_OS Jahrbuch
Year: 2021

description: Der Forschungs- und Entwicklungsarbeit dieses Jahres ist ebenso wie die im vorangegangenen Jahr durch die Corona-Pandemie geprägt; dennoch soll der Schwerpunkt dieses Forschungs- und Entwicklungsplans nicht allein darauf liegen. Es wird stattdessen ein Überblick über abgeschlossene, laufende und beantragte Forschungs- und Entwicklungsprojekte gegeben, und die Kooperationen der Wissenschaftlichen Einrichtung Oberstufen-Kolleg werden beschrieben. Die relevanten übergeordneten Themen und die daraus resultierenden Arbeitsschwerpunkte fließen ein in den Ausblick auf das Jahr 2022. This year’s research and development work, like that of the previous year, has been shaped by the Corona pandemic, yet the focus of this research and development plan is not intended to zoom in on this issue alone. Instead, an overview of completed, ongoing and proposed research and development projects is given and the cooperations of the scientific institution Oberstufen-Kolleg are described. The relevant overarching themes and the resulting focal points of work are included in the outlook for the year 2022.
description: WE_OS Jahrbuch, Bd. 4 Nr. 1 (2021): Herausforderungen und Perspektiven für die Oberstufe
Exkurs über das (nächste) Fremde
Creators: name: Herzig, Niels
Publisher: name: WE_OS Jahrbuch
Year: 2021

description: Die Antike als das nächste Fremde zu bezeichnen, ist ein wiederkehrendes Phänomen in der Altphilologie. In diesem Kontext wird das zu erwerbende Verständnis für die Differenz, die aus der zeitlichen Distanz erwächst, als Argument für die Reflexion der Gegenwart formuliert. Dieser essayistische Exkurs offenbart, dass die Fremde, die in der lateinischen Literatur verhandelt wird, über die Reflexion der zeitlichen Distanz hinausgehende Argumente für die Reflexion des Begriffs Fremde per se bietet. Mittels einer interdisziplinären Zugangsweise wird ausgehend von Simmels soziologisch-philosophischer Deutung des Fremden diese mit der Latinistik dahingehend verknüpft, schulische Praxis zu reflektieren. So wird – exemplarisch an Caesars Germanenbild und Senecas commutatio loci – klar, dass die lateinische Literatur konkrete Anknüpfungspunkte ausweist, die vor allem in Inklusion betreffenden Aspekten praxisrelevant sind: die Deutung der Fremde aus dem Blickwinkel derjenigen Gruppe, welche die kulturellen Eigenheiten der als fremd beschriebenen Menschen für sich als wertvolle Erfahrungen schätzen lernen kann; und die durch Migration erworbenen Fähigkeiten im Sinne selbstreflexiver Erfahrungen, die gleichsam als Qualitäten bestehende Lerngruppen in vielfältiger Hinsicht bereichern können. Referring to antiquity as close strangeness is a recurring phenomenon in classical philology. In this context, the understanding to be acquired of the difference that arises from temporal distance is formulated as an argument for reflecting on the present. This essayistic excursus reveals that the strangeness negotiated in Latin literature offers arguments for the reflection of the concept of strangeness per se that goes beyond the reflection of temporal distance. Using an interdisciplinary approach based on Simmel’s sociological-philosophical interpretation of the stranger, this is linked with Latin studies to reflect on school practice. In this way, it becomes clear – using Caesar’s image of Germanic peoples and Seneca’s commutatio loci as examples – that Latin literature has concrete points of contact that are relevant to practice, especially in aspects relating to inclusion: the interpretation of strangeness from the perspective of the group who can learn to appreciate the cultural peculiarities of the people described as strange as valuable experiences for themselves, and the skills acquired through migration in the sense of self-reflective experiences that can enrich existing learning groups as qualities in many ways.
description: WE_OS Jahrbuch, Bd. 4 Nr. 1 (2021): Herausforderungen und Perspektiven für die Oberstufe
The HST Cosmos Project: Contribution from the Subaru Telescope
Creators: name: Taniguchi, Yoshiaki
name: Scoville, N. Z.
name: Sanders, D. B.
name: Mobasher, B.
name: Aussel, H.
name: Capak, P.
name: Ajiki, M.
name: Murayama, T.
name: Miyazaki, S.
name: Komiyama, Y.
name: Shioya, Y.
name: Nagao, T.
name: Sasaki, S.
name: Sumiya, R.
name: Koda, J.
name: Heinlein, L.
name: Hatakeyama, Y.
name: Karoji, H.
name: Team, the COSMOS
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS) is a Hubble Space Telescope (HST) treasury project.The COSMOS aims to perform a 2 square degree imaging survey of an equatorial field in $I$(F814W) band, using the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). Such a wide field survey, combined with ground-based photometric and spectroscopic data, is essential to understand the interplay between large scale structure, evolution and formation of galaxies and dark matter. In 2004, we have obtained high-quality, broad band images of the COSMOS field ($B, V, r^\prime, i^\prime,$ and $ z^\prime$) using Suprime-Cam on the Subaru Telescope, and we have started our new optical multi-band program, COSMOS-21 in 2005. Here, we present a brief summary of the current status of the COSMOS project together with contributions from the Subaru Telescope. Our future Subaru program, COSMOS-21, is also discussed briefly.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of the 6th East Asian Meeting on Astronomy, JKAS, 39, in press
title: Introduction to the German Tax System: A Review of Case Law and Literature Relating to Real Estate Including Real Estate Valuation
Creators: name: Schmallowsky, Prof.
name: Schmallowsky, Prof.
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 340

description: The article refers to the case law and literature on real estate law and its taxation. Among other things, it discusses real estate valuation. But also the tax component such as the taxation of real estate on sale is considered. It also deals with the real estate tax and the real estate transfer tax. The article is intended to give an overview of the German tax system and the taxable business assets.
Wie durch Perspektiven aus Problemen Herausforderungen werden!
Creators: name: Heinrich, Martin
name: Klewin, Gabriele
Publisher: name: WE_OS Jahrbuch
Year: 2021

description: Der Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über die Themenfelder, die im Jahrbuch 2021 der Wissenschaftlichen Einrichtung Oberstufen-Kolleg behandelt werden. Ausgehend von Reflexionen zu den besonderen pädagogischen Herausforderungen von Oberstufenunterricht in Zeiten der Pandemie werden Studien zum Fremden und zum Umgang mit dem Fremden in der Oberstufe skizziert sowie weitere Themen der Schulreform wie beispielsweise die Flexibilisierung der Oberstufe und der Projektunterricht adressiert. This article provides an overview of the topics covered in the 2021 yearbook of the Wissenschaftliche Einrichtung Oberstufen-Kolleg. Starting with reflections on the special pedagogical challenges of upper secondary school teaching in times of the pandemic, studies on the foreign and on dealing with the foreign in the upper secondary school are outlined; further topics of school reform such as the flexibilisation of the upper secondary school and project teaching are addressed.
description: WE_OS Jahrbuch, Bd. 4 Nr. 1 (2021): Herausforderungen und Perspektiven für die Oberstufe
Additional file 3 of How is autonomy supported for people with dementia living in a nursing home, to what extent and under what circumstances? A realist evaluation
Creators: name: van der Weide, Henny
name: Lovink, Marleen H.
name: Luijkx, Katrien G.
name: Gerritsen, Debby L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 3.
Exact renormalization group and many-fermion systems
Creators: name: Krippa, B.
name: Birse, M. C.
name: McGovern, J. A.
name: Walet, N. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The exact renormalization group methods is applied to many fermion systems with short-range attractive force. The strength of the attractive fermion-fermion interaction is determined from the vacuum scattering length. A set of approximate flow equations is derived including fermionic and bosonic fluctuations. The numerical solutions show a phase transition to a gapped phase. The inclusion of bosonic fluctuations is found to be significant only in the small-gap regime.
description: Talk, given by B. Krippa on the International Workshop "Meson2004", Cracow, Poland, 3 pages
Mobilitätsforschung an den Versuchsschulen im Lockdown?!
Creators: name: Gold, Johanna
name: Voß, Ian
name: Fiedler-Ebke, Wiebke
name: Matthias, Alexander
Publisher: name: WE_OS Jahrbuch
Year: 2021

description: Praxisforschungsprojekte an den Bielefelder Versuchsschulen zeichnen sich durch eine enge Zusammenarbeit zwischen Lehrkräften der Schulen und Mitarbeiter*innen der Wissenschaftlichen Einrichtungen aus. Durch die Verortung in den Schulen sind die Forschungstätigkeiten auf den Ablauf des Schuljahres abgestimmt und nehmen die Belange und Bedarfe der Schüler*innen sehr ernst. Durch die weltweite COVID-19-Pandemie und die weitreichenden Kontaktbeschränkungen und Schulschließungen mussten in der Forschungsarbeit neue Wege gefunden werden, da diese wertvollen Arbeitsstrukturen zeitweise nicht umgesetzt werden konnten. Dieser Beitrag zeichnet nach, welche Zugänge und Arbeitsformen eine Praxisforschungsgruppe in dieser Zeit gefunden hat, die genau den Umstand erforschte, der in Pandemie-Zeiten eigentlich nicht mehr beobachtbar war: die Mobilität von Schüler*innen. Practitioner research projects at the experimental schools in Bielefeld are characterised by close cooperation between teachers at the schools and staff at the scientific institutions. By being located in the schools, the research activities are coordinated with the course of the school year and take the concerns and needs of the pupils very seriously. Due to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic and the far-reaching contact restrictions including school closures, new ways had to be found in the research work, as these valuable working structures could not be implemented at times. This article traces the approaches and forms of work that a practitioner research group found during this time, researching precisely the circumstance that was actually no longer observable in pandemic times: the mobility of pupils.
description: WE_OS Jahrbuch, Bd. 4 Nr. 1 (2021): Herausforderungen und Perspektiven für die Oberstufe
Additional file 1 of Complement activating ABO anti-A IgM/IgG act synergistically to cause erythrophagocytosis: implications among minor ABO incompatible transfusions
Creators: name: Pandey, Priyanka
name: Anani, Waseem Q.
name: Pugh, Tina
name: Gottschall, Jerome L.
name: Denomme, Gregory A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Monocyte suspension assay supplemental Figures S1–S4.
CHAOS V: Recombination Line Carbon Abundances in M101
Creators: name: Skillman, Evan D.
name: Berg, Danielle A.
name: Pogge, Richard W.
name: Moustakas, John
name: Rogers, Noah S. J.
name: Croxall, Kevin V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The CHAOS project is building a large database of LBT H II region spectra in nearby spiral galaxies to use direct abundances to better determine the dispersion in metallicity as a function of galactic radius. Here, we present CHAOS LBT observations of C II $λ$4267 emission detected in 10 H II regions in M 101, and, using a new photoionization model based ionization correction factor, we convert these measurements into total carbon abundances. A comparison with M101 C II recombination line observations from the literature shows excellent agreement, and we measure a relatively steep gradient in log(C/H) of -0.37 +/- 0.06 dex/R_e. The C/N observations are consistent with a constant value of log(C/N) = 0.84 with a dispersion of only 0.09 dex, which, given the different nucleosynthetic sources of C and N, is challenging to understand. We also note that when plotting N/O versus O/H, all of the H II regions with detections of CII $λ$4267 present N/O abundances at the minimum of the scatter in N/O at a given value of O/H. If the high surface brightness necessary for the detection of the faint recombination lines is interpreted as an indicator of H II region youth, then this may point to a lack of nitrogen pollution in the youngest H II regions. In the future, we anticipate that the CHAOS project will significantly increase the total number of C II $λ$4267 measurements in extragalactic H II regions.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal
Electronic transport in disordered graphene superlattices with scale-free correlated barrier spacements
Creators: name: Barbosa, Anderson L. R.
name: Lima, Jonas R. F.
name: Bezerra, Ícaro S. F.
name: Lyra, Marcelo L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A transfer matrix approach is used to study the electronic transport in graphene superlattices with long-range correlated barrier spacements. By considering the low-energy electronic excitations as massless Dirac fermions, we compute by transmission spectra of graphene superlattices with potential barriers having spacements randomly distributed with long-range correlations governed by a power-law spectral density $S(k)\propto 1/k^α$. We show that at large incidence angles, the correlations in the disorder distribution do not play a significant role in the electronic transmission. However, long-range correlations suppress the Anderson localization as normal incidence is approached and a band of transmitting modes sets up reminiscent of Klein tunneling.