cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A scheme for radiation pressure and photon diffusion with the M1 closure in RAMSES-RT
Creators: name: Rosdahl, J.
name: Teyssier, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe and test an updated version of radiation-hydrodynamics (RHD) in the RAMSES code, that includes three new features: i) radiation pressure on gas, ii) accurate treatment of radiation diffusion in an unresolved optically thick medium, and iii) relativistic corrections that account for Doppler effects and work done by the radiation to first order in v/c. We validate the implementation in a series of tests, which include a morphological assessment of the M1 closure for the Eddington tensor in an astronomically relevant setting, dust absorption in a optically semi-thick medium, direct pressure on gas from ionising radiation, convergence of our radiation diffusion scheme towards resolved optical depths, correct diffusion of a radiation flash and a constant luminosity radiation, and finally, an experiment from Davis et al. of the competition between gravity and radiation pressure in a dusty atmosphere, and the formation of radiative Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities. With the new features, RAMSES-RT can be used for state-of-the-art simulations of radiation feedback from first principles, on galactic and cosmological scales, including not only direct radiation pressure from ionising photons, but also indirect pressure via dust from multi-scattered IR photons reprocessed from higher-energy radiation, both in the optically thin and thick limits.
description: 25 pages, 13 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS. Revised to match published version
Spiritualität in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts
Creators: name: Schmied, Wieland
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 12 Nr. 1 (1983): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 12, Heft 1
Die Schwarze Muttergottes von Tschenstochau
Creators: name: Świdziński, Stanislaus
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 12 Nr. 1 (1983): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 12, Heft 1
การเพิ่มความคงตัวของแอนโทไซยานินจากกระชายดําโดยการใช้วิธีโคพิกเมนเทชั่น
Creators: name: กาญจนา นาคประสม
Publisher: name: กองบริหารการวิจัย
Year: 2563
Subjects: โคพิกเมนเทชั่น
แอนโทไซยานินจากกระชายดํา
ฟีนอลิกจากเมล็ดมะเกี๋ยง
วิธีไมโครเวฟร่วมในการสกัด

description: วารสารวิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี, 28, 10, 1834-1844
A strong coupling critique of spin fluctuation driven charge order in underdoped cuprates
Creators: name: Mishra, Vivek
name: Norman, M. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Charge order has emerged as a generic feature of doped cuprates, leading to important questions about its origin and its relation to superconductivity. Recent experiments on two classes of hole doped cuprates indicate a novel d-wave symmetry for the order. These were motivated by earlier spin fluctuation theoretical studies based on an expansion about hot spots in the Brillouin zone that indicated such order would be competitive with d-wave superconductivity. Here, we reexamine this problem by solving strong coupling equations in the full Brillouin zone. Our results find that bond-oriented order, as seen experimentally, is strongly suppressed, indicating that the charge order must have a different origin.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures plus Supplemental materials
Book of abstracts of the side session of the international Plant Health Conference on 'International plant health research partnership to address global challenges'
Creators: name: Cousseau-Suhard, Pascaline
name: Walker, Don
name: Teulon, David
name: Avila, Gonzalo
name: Romazzi, Gianfranco
name: Luck, Jo
name: Boutigny, Anne-Laure
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Euphresco, B3, PBRI, plant health, conference, diagnostics, pest management, taxonomy, biological control, basic substances

description: The success of Euphresco as an international network for phytosanitary research coordination and funding has set the ground for discussions on the development of initiative(s) to address the needs of other regions of the world and on global phytosanitary research coordination. A vision on a global network whose objective is to facilitate international research collaboration and coordination on regulated and emerging pests was published in Nature Plants in 2020 (Giovani et al., 2020), co-authored by representatives of plant health research funding, policy making and research organizations worldwide. Discussions are ongoing within Euphresco on the role that the network should come to play in the future and on its expansion, both geographically and in terms of missions of its members. A side session is organised during the international Plant Health Conference (London, 2022-09-21/23) by B3, Euphresco and PBRI on 'International plant health research partnership to address global challenges'. The event is an opportunity to learn about the diversity of research activities commissioned through Euphresco, to know more about their impact on plant health, from policy to operations in the field, and to discuss how to strengthen international research partnership.
description: Event organized by Better Border Biosecurity (B3), the Euphresco network for phytosanitary research coordination and funding and the Plant Biosecurity Research Initiative (PBRI)
Three-Peak GRBs and Their Implications for Central Engines
Creators: name: Méndez, Enrique Moreno
name: Fraija, Nissim
name: Patricelli, Barbara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: GRB 110709B presented a peculiar three-peak lightcurve; this burst twice triggered the BAT detector onboard Swift. The two triggers were separated by $\sim 10$ minutes. In order to explain such an event, we unify into a single description the millisecond (ms) protomagnetar and the collapsar central-engine models. We find that such a scenario could produce GRBs with three peaks. One for the ms-protomagnetar stage, a second one for the BH-formation event and a third one for the collapsar phase. We show that the three peaks for GRB 110709B originate from different phases of the same collapsing object. We estimate the energies and timescales of the different episodes of this burst using our model and compare with previous results as well as with a reanalysis we perform on the data. We show that not only the light curve, but also the photon index evolution and the delay between the prompt emission and the afterglow of the second central-engine activity phase point towards a model like the one proposed here. We find that, with reasonable assumptions, our model correctly describes the activity in GRB 110709B. We further suggest careful study of future GRBs lightcurves which may help show the validity of our model. If our model is correct, this would be the first time that the formation of a BH from a core-collapse event is observed unimpededly.
description: 13 pages, 2 figures. Accepted in New Astronomy
True or false? Cognitive load when reading COVID-19 news headlines: an eye-tracking study
Creators: name: Shi, Li
name: Bhattacharya, Nilavra
name: Das, Anubrata
name: Gwizdka, Jacek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Misinformation is an important topic in the Information Retrieval (IR) context and has implications for both system-centered and user-centered IR. While it has been established that the performance in discerning misinformation is affected by a person's cognitive load, the variation in cognitive load in judging the veracity of news is less understood. To understand the variation in cognitive load imposed by reading news headlines related to COVID-19 claims, within the context of a fact-checking system, we conducted a within-subject, lab-based, quasi-experiment (N=40) with eye-tracking. Our results suggest that examining true claims imposed a higher cognitive load on participants when news headlines provided incorrect evidence for a claim and were inconsistent with the person's prior beliefs. In contrast, checking false claims imposed a higher cognitive load when the news headlines provided correct evidence for a claim and were consistent with the participants' prior beliefs. However, changing beliefs after examining a claim did not have a significant relationship with cognitive load while reading the news headlines. The results illustrate that reading news headlines related to true and false claims in the fact-checking context impose different levels of cognitive load. Our findings suggest that user engagement with tools for discerning misinformation needs to account for the possible variation in the mental effort involved in different information contexts.
description: In ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR 23), March 19-23, 2023, Austin, TX, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 10 pages
Unter dem Geheimnis der Barmherzigkeit
Creators: name: Barth, Hilarius M.
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 12 Nr. 1 (1983): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 12, Heft 1
Local universality in biorthogonal Laguerre ensembles
Creators: name: Zhang, Lun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider $n$ particles $0\leq x_1-1,~~ θ>0, $$ where $Z_n$ is the normalization constant. This distribution arises in the context of modeling disordered conductors in the metallic regime, and can also be realized as the distribution for squared singular values of certain triangular random matrices. We give a double contour integral formula for the correlation kernel, which allows us to establish universality for the local statistics of the particles, namely, the bulk universality and the soft edge universality via the sine kernel and the Airy kernel, respectively. In particular, our analysis also leads to new double contour integral representations of scaling limits at the origin (hard edge), which are equivalent to those found in the classical work of Borodin. We conclude this paper by relating the correlation kernels to those appearing in recent studies of products of $M$ Ginibre matrices for the special cases $θ=M\in\mathbb{N}$.
description: 25 pages, 3 figures, revised version according to the suggestions of the anonymous referees. To appear in Journal of Statistical Physics
The Application Of A Microprocessor To The Automation Of A Chemical Analyser
Creators: name: Gary, Evans
Publisher: name: London South Bank University
Year: 1980

description: This dissertation presents the design of an automatic chemical analyser used to monitor pollutants in the earth's atmosphere, The automation is achieved by use of a microprocessor—based control and acquisition system. The system digitizes and stores qualitative and quantitative measurements of the pollutants and some environmental variables. The design allows the analyser to run unattended for up to a week, after which the accumulated data is fed into a minicomputer for storage, analysis and display, A software design aid package was proposed and implemented, on the minicomputer, to help construct the required system software for the project, An overview of this package is presented in the last section of the ‘dissertation,
FACTORS INFLUENCING PROSTATE CANCER SCREENING UPTAKE AMONG AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW
Creators: name: Samuel, Benjamin Harris
Publisher: name: kEITH jOURNAL
Year: 2025
Subjects: Prostate cancer, screening uptake, African American men, health disparities, early detection

description: Prostate cancer (PCa) remains one of the most prevalent cancers worldwide, contributing significantly to male cancer-related mortality. Early detection through screening is crucial for improving prognosis and reducing mortality rates, particularly among high-risk populations such as African American men. Despite the availability of screening methods like prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing, digital rectal exams (DRE), and imaging techniques, uptake of these screenings among African American men remains disproportionately low. This study systematically reviews literature on the multifaceted factors influencing prostate cancer screening participation within this group. It identifies key individual-level determinants, including knowledge, awareness, psychological barriers, and cultural and socioeconomic factors, which influence screening decisions. The study also explores how systemic and institutional factors contribute to the disparities in screening uptake. It underscores the need for targeted interventions that address these factors, with an emphasis on culturally sensitive approaches that consider the unique challenges faced by African American men. By synthesizing evidence-based insights, this study proposes comprehensive strategies aimed at improving prostate cancer screening rates and reducing health disparities, ultimately leading to better health outcomes for African American men
Post-acquisition image based compensation for thickness variation in microscopy section series
Creators: name: Hanslovsky, Philipp
name: Bogovic, John A.
name: Saalfeld, Stephan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Serial section Microscopy is an established method for volumetric anatomy reconstruction. Section series imaged with Electron Microscopy are currently vital for the reconstruction of the synaptic connectivity of entire animal brains such as that of Drosophila melanogaster. The process of removing ultrathin layers from a solid block containing the specimen, however, is a fragile procedure and has limited precision with respect to section thickness. We have developed a method to estimate the relative z-position of each individual section as a function of signal change across the section series. First experiments show promising results on both serial section Transmission Electron Microscopy (ssTEM) data and Focused Ion Beam Scanning Electron Microscopy (FIB-SEM) series. We made our solution available as Open Source plugins for the TrakEM2 software and the ImageJ distribution Fiji.
L'ordine del discorso sul cinema
Creators: name: De Gaetano, Roberto
Publisher: name: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies
Year: 2020

description: The lack of strong epistemological bases has led film disciplines to acquire knowledge and models from heterogeneous sources. The ‘fragility’ of the epistemological bases may be – if well managed – an opportunity for enriching and reformulate existing knowledge. For this reason, for the scientific community the issue does not concern control and regulation of forms of the discourse, identifying profiles of relevance, but its productivity: The order of the discourse about cinema will not be the order of the objects’ control, identification and perimetration, nor the order of knowledge, but it will be more properly the order of the problems that will be let arise.
description: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies, Vol 1 (2011): Performance e Performatività
Drive Right: Promoting Autonomous Vehicle Education Through an Integrated Simulation Platform
Creators: name: Qiao, Zhijie
name: Loeb, Helen
name: Gurrla, Venkata
name: Lebermann, Matt
name: Betz, Johannes
name: Mangharam, Rahul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are being rapidly introduced into our lives. However, public misunderstanding and mistrust have become prominent issues hindering the acceptance of these driverless technologies. The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a driving simulator to help the public gain an understanding of AVs and build trust in them. To achieve this aim, we built an integrated simulation platform, designed various driving scenarios, and recruited 28 participants for the experiment. The study results indicate that a driving simulator effectively decreases the participants' perceived risk of AVs and increases perceived usefulness. The proposed methodologies and findings of this study can be further explored by auto manufacturers and policymakers to provide user-friendly AV design.
The Metagalactic Ionizing Background: A Crisis in UV Photon Production or Incorrect Galaxy Escape Fractions?
Creators: name: Shull, J. Michael
name: Moloney, Joshua
name: Danforth, Charles W.
name: Tilton, Evan M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent suggestions of a "photon underproduction crisis" (Kollmeier \etal\ 2014) have generated concern over the intensity and spectrum of ionizing photons in the metagalactic ultraviolet background (UVB). The balance of hydrogen photoionization and recombination determines the opacity of the low-redshift intergalactic medium (IGM). We calibrate the hydrogen photoionization rate ($Γ_{\rm H}$) by comparing {\it Hubble Space Telescope} spectroscopic surveys of the low-redshift column density distribution of \HI\ absorbers and the observed ($z < 0.4$) mean \Lya\ flux decrement, $D_A = (0.014)(1+z)^{2.2}$, to new cosmological simulations. The distribution, $f(N_{\rm HI}, z) \equiv d^2 {\cal N} / d(\log N_{\rm HI}) dz$, is consistent with an increased UVB that includes contributions from both quasars and galaxies. Our recommended fit, $Γ_{\rm H}(z) = (4.6 \times 10^{-14}$ s$^{-1})(1+z)^{4.4}$ for $0 < z < 0.47$, corresponds to unidirectional LyC photon flux $Φ_0 \approx 5700$~cm$^{-2}$~s$^{-1}$ at $z = 0$. This flux agrees with observed IGM metal ionization ratios (\CIII/\CIV\ and \SiIII/\SiIV) and suggests a 25-30\% contribution of \Lya\ absorbers to the cosmic baryon inventory. The primary uncertainties in the low-redshift UVB are the contribution from massive stars in galaxies and the LyC escape fraction ($f_{\rm esc}$), a highly directional quantity that is difficult to constrain statistically. We suggest that both quasars and low-mass starburst galaxies are important contributors to the ionizing UVB at $z < 2$. Their additional ionizing flux would resolve any crisis in photon underproduction.
description: Accepted to Astrophysical Journal, additional tables and figures
I testimoni e lo storico. Jerzy Grotowski: tradizione, eredità, trasmissione (appunti e provocazioni in occasione dell'anno grotowskiano)
Creators: name: De Marinis, Marco
Publisher: name: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies
Year: 2020

description: Grotowski has created one of the few living traditions in the contemporary theater. This essay, conceived during the grotowskian year (2009), reflects on the paradoxical aspects of the grotowskian tradition, and on its originality in comparison with those resulted from others masters of the Twentieth century theater. It poses a methodological problem, crucial for the future grotowskian studies, that will be possible with the contribution of the ‘actors’ operating for the transmission of Grotowski’s work
description: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies, Vol 1 (2011): Performance e Performatività
Gründet Katechese auf Glauben und/oder Theologie?
Creators: name: Balthasar, Hans Urs Von
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 12 Nr. 1 (1983): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 12, Heft 1
Oralità/Performatività (da Estetica della letteratura, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2009)
Creators: name: Fusillo, Massimo
Publisher: name: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies
Year: 2020

description: If we deploy a long-term historical perspective, we notice that most of the ages have established a steady mix of orality and writing, beginning with the Omero’s poems. The sharp dichotomy between orality and writing, one of the ‘binarisms’ on which the Western culture was built, has long been abandoned: in our age there is, more than anything else, a convergence of different communication channels, a sensorial synaesthetic cooperation, or, again, an hybridization. Due to this continuous interaction between the two levels, in literature we find often a mimesis of orality, which can configure itself, from time to time, as nostalgia for a lost origin, evocation, or pure performative effect.
description: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies, Vol 1 (2011): Performance e Performatività
Nucleation versus percolation: Scaling criterion for failure in disordered solids
Creators: name: Biswas, Soumyajyoti
name: Roy, Subhadeep
name: Ray, Purusattam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the major factors governing the mode of failure in disordered solids is the effective range $R$, over which the stress field is modified following a local rupture event. In random fiber bundle model, considered as a prototype of disordered solids, we show that the failure mode is nucleation dominated in the large system size limit, as long as $R$ scales slower than $L^ζ$, with $ζ=2/3$. For a faster increase in $R$, the failure properties are dominated by the mean-field critical point, where the damages are uncorrelated in space. In that limit, the precursory avalanches of all sizes are obtained even in the large system size limit. We expect these results to be valid for systems with finite (normalizable) disorder.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Induced and Complete Multinets
Creators: name: Bartz, Jeremiah
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Multinets are certain configurations of lines and points with multiplicities in the complex projective plane $\mathbb{P}^2$. They appear in the study of resonance and characteristic varieties of complex hyperplane arrangement complements and cohomology of Milnor fibers. In this paper, two properties of multinets, inducibility and completeness, and the relationship between them are explored with several examples presented. Specializations of multinets plays an integral role in our findings. The main result is the classification of complete 3-nets.
description: 16 pages, 2 figures. Corrected minor typos, added subsection 2.3, Theorem 4.5, and Problem 4
New measurement of the diffusion of carbon dioxide on non-porous amorphous solid water
Creators: name: He, Jiao
name: Rickert, Paula Caroline Pérez
name: Suhasaria, Tushar
name: Sohier, Orianne
name: Bäcker, Tia
name: Demertzi, Dimitra
name: Vidali, Gianfranco
name: Henning, Thomas K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The diffusion of molecules on interstellar grain surfaces is one of the most important driving forces for the molecular complexity in the interstellar medium. Due to the lack of laboratory measurements, astrochemical modeling of grain surface processes usually assumes a constant ratio between the diffusion energy barrier and the desorption energy. This over-simplification inevitably causes large uncertainty in model predictions. We present a new measurement of the diffusion of CO$_2$ molecules on the surface of non-porous amorphous solid water (np-ASW), an analog of the ice mantle that covers cosmic dust grains. A small coverage of CO$_2$ was deposited onto an np-ASW surface at 40~K, the subsequent warming of the ice activated the diffusion of CO$_2$ molecules, and a transition from isolated CO$_2$ to CO$_2$ clusters was seen in the infrared spectra. To obtain the diffusion energy barrier and pre-exponential factor simultaneously, a set of isothermal experiments were carried out. The values for the diffusion energy barrier and pre-exponential factor were found to be $1300\pm110$~K and $10^{7.6\pm0.8}$~s$^{-1}$. A comparison with prior laboratory measurements on diffusion is discussed.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures
Performatività e arti visive: modi di conoscenza o processi mentali? Appunti naturalistici sulla bioestetica della fotografia
Creators: name: Pennisi, Antonino
Publisher: name: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies
Year: 2020

description: This essay suggests the possibility of an approach capable of identifying the more radically naturalistic profile of photographic performativity, and, thus, of its ontological specificity: a bio-aesthetics of photography. By assuming that forms of knowledge and human mental processes are always the common background common for any cognitive activity, the specificity of this proposal is developed through an evolutionary hypothesis of functional cognitive ergonomics. In this perspective, arts are not the gradual development of media technologies and photography – in which all modern visual media productions are included –, can be considered the more complex evolution of media technologies applied to symbolic needs.
description: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies, Vol 1 (2011): Performance e Performatività
Messa in scena e ripetizione dell'identico: l'attesa d'amore come performance
Creators: name: Abignente, Elisabetta
Publisher: name: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies
Year: 2020

description: In literature as well as in everyday life, love waiting is an act, a play, a theatre monologue, a performance. For the waiting lover, the rhythm of his waiting is measured by an almost ritual repetition of thoughts, acts, conjectures, tics, manias. Independently of its duration or extent – it may be the long waiting for the beloved’s homecoming as well as the agitated ‘micro-waiting’ for the post or phone ring – love waiting is a continuous repetition, although customised from time to time, of the identical process. Consciously or not, the lover seems to conform to a sort of ‘play script’ of love waiting which is carved in the emotional heritage of humanity and is always played, with infinitely many small variations, in literature. Following the definition of love waiting proposed by Roland Barthes in Fragments d’un discours amoureux, the paper aims to detect and define the performative elements of love waiting and to verify their real presence in some XX century and contemporary pieces and novels that represent this particular kind of waiting.
description: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies, Vol 1 (2011): Performance e Performatività
Evaluating the effect of pregnancy on hepatic CYP3A4 expression and metabolism in humanized mice and human volunteers
Creators: name: Laboy Collazo, Valeria
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: Pregnancy is associated with various physiologic changes that affect drug disposition. Studies have shown that CYP3A4 metabolism and clearance of CYP3A4 metabolized drug substrates increase during pregnancy in humans. However, the presence and magnitude of changes in hepatic CYP3A4 expression and function during pregnancy remain unclear and require further study. Given the challenges and risks associated with conducting pharmacokinetic studies of drug substrates in pregnant individuals, there is also a need to develop validated experimental models and find alternative measures (i.e., endogenous biomarkers) to characterize gestational changes in hepatic CYP3A4 expression and function in vivo. We conducted a translational study evaluating CYP3A4 metabolism change during pregnancy in human volunteers and in an in vivo humanized mouse preclinical model. In contrast to the trend of higher CYP3A4 metabolism observed in pregnant human volunteers, hepatic CYP3A4 expression and CYP3A4-mediated metabolism of the probe substrate midazolam were decreased in pregnant humanized mice compared to non-pregnant and post-partum mice. This humanized mouse model does not appear to be an accurate preclinical model to study pregnancy-associated changes in hepatic CYP3A4 expression and metabolism that are representative of observed increases in CYP3A4-mediated metabolism during human pregnancy.
Characterization of antihypertensive medication use during pregnancy in a cohort from two academic medical centers
Creators: name: Garcia, Julian E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Introduction: Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) are rising in prevalence and associated with adverse maternal and infant health outcomes. Current guidelines recommend labetalol, nifedipine, and methyldopa as acceptable first-line agents to treat HDP. However, the best practices regarding antihypertensive medication usage and selection remain unclear due to a lack of clinical trial evidence comparing the safety and effectiveness of different treatment strategies.

Methods: A retrospective, observational cohort study was conducted in 1641 women with a physician diagnosis of HDP who delivered at Duke University or the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2014-2017. Use of any antihypertensive medication, and the agent selected, at any encounter during pregnancy and/or on the delivery date was collected from the electronic health record. Antihypertensive medication use and frequencies were compared across HDP diagnosis (eclampsia/severe preeclampsia, chronic hypertension with superimposed preeclampsia, preeclampsia, gestational hypertension) by Chi-square tests and multivariable logistic regression.

Results: The mean (±SD) age of the population was 30.5 ± 6.5 years, 41.0% and 15.7% self-identified as Black and Hispanic, respectively, and 30.5% had a pre-pregnancy hypertension history. Antihypertensive medications were used during pregnancy or on the date of delivery in 1276 (77.8%) patients overall. Labetalol (74.9%) was the most frequently used medication followed by nifedipine (29.6%) and hydralazine (20.5%). HDP type was the strongest independent factor associated with the decision to use an antihypertensive agent. Relative to gestational hypertension, antihypertensive use was significantly more likely (odds ratio [95% CI]) in patients with severe preeclampsia (5.94 [3.85-9.16], P<0.001), chronic hypertension with superimposed preeclampsia (4.99 [3.46-7.19], P<0.001), and preeclampsia (2.13 [1.61-2.82], P<0.001).

Conclusion: In a real-world setting, antihypertensive medication use among HDP patients was common; labetalol, nifedipine, and hydralazine were the most commonly selected agents, and HDP severity was strongly associated with a higher likelihood of antihypertensive use. Future studies comparing medication effectiveness in pregnant patients with distinct HDP diagnoses are needed.
Multi-epoch study of the gamma-ray emission within the M87 magnetosphere model
Creators: name: Vincent, Stephane
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: M87 is a nearby radio galaxy that has been detected at energies ranging from radio to very high energy (VHE) gamma-rays. Its proximity and its jet, misaligned from the line of sight allow detailed morphological studies. The imaging atmospheric Cherenkov technique (from 100 GeV to 10 TeV) provides insufficient angular resolution (few arc-minutes) to resolve the M87 emission region. However, the short time scale variability observed by MAGIC, HESS and VERITAS suggests the TeV emission is coming from a very small region, most likely close to the core. We propose that the variable TeV emission may be produced in a pair-starved region of the central black hole (BH) magnetosphere, i.e. a region where the density of the electron-positron plasma is not sufficient to completely screen the accelerating electric field. The funnel, a low density and magnetically dominated region around the poles, appears as a favourable site of low-density where a Blandford-Znajek process may explain the main properties of the TeV $γ$-ray emission from M87. We produce a broadband spectral energy distribution (SED) of the resulting radiation and compare the model with the observed fluxes from the nucleus of M87, for both low and high $γ$-ray activities. We finish with a brief discussion on the connection between the accretion rate and the intermittence in the formation of gaps in the magnetosphere.
description: matches version accepted for publication in JCAP
Additional file 1: of Medicinal plants as therapeutic options for topical treatment in canine dermatology? A systematic review
Creators: name: Tresch, Milena
name: Mevissen, Meike
name: Ayrle, Hannah
name: Melzig, Matthias
name: Roosje, Petra
name: Walkenhorst, Michael
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Protocol of the systematic review. (DOCX 27 kb)
MOESM1 of Long-term slow slip event detected beneath the Shima Peninsula, central Japan, from GNSS data
Creators: name: Kobayashi, Akio
name: Tsuyuki, Takahiro
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Displacements in the direction S55 Â°E (top) and correlation coefficients between the displacement and the ramp function at a point (bottom). Displacement is the mean of displacements of stations (red dots) within the 100 km Ă  50 km rectangle on the inset map.
Sul problema del personaggio alla luce dei Performance Studies: un'esemplificazione su The Unnamable di Samuel Beckett e una prospettiva intersemiotica
Creators: name: Bellini, Federico
Publisher: name: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies
Year: 2020

description: According to Michail Bachtin, the characters of a novel are always thought and perceived as ‘others’, that is, as bodies in principle external to both reader and writer. The concept of ‘performance’, when applied to the act of reading, shows the limitation of this theory as it deconstructs the relationship between otherness and identity. In Samuel Beckett’s novel The Unnamamable the main character cannot be considered as an ‘other’ in Bachtin’s sense, and requires a different theory of character as an always changing ‘becomingother’ in the process of reading. A similar dynamic interaction between the representation and the presence of the character can be eventually detected in the ‘reverse trompe l’oeil’ technique adopted by the young American artist Alexa Meade.
description: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies, Vol 1 (2011): Performance e Performatività
2019 AARP Wisconsin Caregiving Survey
Creators: name: AARP
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2022

description: Adult family caregiving experience (1); age of and relationship to person cared for (2); caregiving activities provided (10); employment, workplace flexibility (10); finances and caregiving (19); effects of caregiving on physical, mental health (9); positive effects of caregiving (5); moving into assisted living facility, nursing home (2); likelihood of caregiving in future (1); caregiver support (9); respite care (1); tax credit (2); independent living (3).
Irishness troubles: trasformazioni dell'identità irlandese nella Field Day Theatre Company
Creators: name: Bernardini, Manfredi
Publisher: name: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies
Year: 2020

description: This paper analyzes the Field Day Theatre Company’s performances wondering whether we are confronted with an experience in a genuinely innovative way of looking at national identity or, rather, this is yet another way to state a different, but little hybrid, representation of Irishness.
description: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies, Vol 1 (2011): Performance e Performatività
A.MU.C., Archivio Multimediale del Contemporaneo: il caso Anita Sieff: Ordine di senso
Creators: name: Bianco, Angela
Publisher: name: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies
Year: 2020

description: The Multimedia Archive of Contemporary Art (A.Mu.C) is one of the experimental projects of my PhD research, which among its objectives aims to identify new professional skills and improving the means of fruition of the cultural assets in contemporary Venice .The project was developed for educational-outreach purposes, but it was proven to have a transversal nature, because it deals with sensitive aspects of many disciplines in several research areas. For the occasion, I will focus on the educational aspect of the project: inclusion of audio visual materials within the temporary exhibitions, using as an example the experience of the solo exhibition of Anita Sieff, Ordine di Senso curated by Chiara Bertola at Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice, Anita Sieff. Creazione di Senso. A.Mu.C aims to document, present and then edit an appropriate selection of the shot material, and ultimately filing in archives, the “making of” process of the exhibition.
description: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies, Vol 1 (2011): Performance e Performatività
A Statistical Fields Theory underlying the Thermodynamics of Ricci Flow and Gravity
Creators: name: Luo, M. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The paper proposes a statistical fields theory of quantum reference frame underlying the Perelman's analogies between his formalism of the Ricci flow and the thermodynamics. The theory is based on a d=4-ε quantum non-linear sigma model, interpreted as a quantum reference frame system which a to-be-studied quantum system is relative to. The statistic physics and thermodynamics of the quantum frame fields is studied by the density matrix obtained by the Gaussian approximation. The induced Ricci flow of the frame fields and the Ricci-DeTurck flow of the frame fields associated with the density matrix is deduced. In this framework, the diffeomorphism anomaly of the theory has a deep thermodynamic interpretation. The trace anomaly is related to a Shannon entropy in terms of the density matrix, which monotonically flows and achieves its maximal value at the flow limit, called the Gradient Shrinking Ricci Soliton (GSRS), corresponding to a thermal equilibrium state of spacetime. A relative Shannon entropy w.r.t. the maximal entropy gives a statistical interpretation to Perelman's partition function, which is also monotonic and gives an analogous H-theorem to the statistical frame fields system. A temporal static 3-space of a GSRS 4-spacetime is also a GSRS in lower 3-dimensional, we find that it is in a thermal equilibrium state, and Perelman's analogies between his formalism and the thermodynamics of the frame fields in equilibrium can be explicitly given in the framework. Extending the validity of the Equivalence Principle to the quantum level, the quantum frame fields theory at low energy gives an effective theory of gravity, a scale dependent Einstein-Hilbert action plus a cosmological constant is recovered. As a possible underlying microscopic theory of gravity, the theory is also applied to understand the thermodynamics of the Schwarzschild black hole.
description: 26 pages, 2 tables. Version to appear in Int. J. Mod. Phys. D. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2112.00218
Topological matchings and amenability
Creators: name: Schneider, Friedrich Martin
name: Thom, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: General Topology (math.GN)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We establish a characterization of amenability for general Hausdorff topological groups in terms of matchings with respect to finite uniform coverings. Furthermore, we prove that it suffices to just consider two-element uniform coverings. We also show that extremely amenable as well as compactly approximable topological groups satisfy a perfect matching property condition -- the latter even with regard to arbitrary uniform coverings. Finally, we prove that the automorphism group of a Fraïssé limit of a metric Fraïssé class is amenable if and only if the considered metric Fraïssé class has a certain Ramsey-type matching property.
description: v2 completely rewritten, 32 pages, no figures
Spark plasma sintering synthesis of ReB2-type medium-entropy diboride (W1/3Re1/3Ru1/3)B2 with high hardness
Creators: name: Yang, Wuzhang
name: Xiao, Guorui
name: Ren, Zhi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new medium-entropy diboride (MEDB) (W1/3Re1/3Ru1/3)B2 has been synthesized by spark plasma sintering of elemental powders at 1600 oC. Despite the dissimilar structures of WB2, ReB2 and RuB2, the sintered MEDB consists of a single hexagonal ReB2-type phase (space group P63/mmc) with a relative density of 94.2% and an average grain size of 6.8 $\pm$ 2.2 um. Structural refinement and electron microscopy measurements show that the W, Re, and Ru atoms occupy the same crystallographic site and are distributed uniformly in the lattice. The (W1/3Re1/3Ru1/3)B2 MEDB has Vickers hardnesses of 30.7 GPa at a load of 0.49 N and 20.5 GPa at a load of 9.8 N, which are comparable or higher than those reported for individual binary counterparts.
description: 16 pages, 6 figures
MOESM2 of Long-term slow slip event detected beneath the Shima Peninsula, central Japan, from GNSS data
Creators: name: Kobayashi, Akio
name: Tsuyuki, Takahiro
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Fault parameters of the short-term slow slip events.
Una riscrittura tempestosa: da Emily Brontë a Beppe Fenoglio passando per Wyler
Creators: name: Broccio, Emanuele
Publisher: name: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies
Year: 2020

description: La Voce Nella Tempesta, Bebbe Fenoglio’s theatrical rewrite, puts itself in the center of a cultural crossroads because it uses different literary kinds and several communication languages. It unmistakably indicates its “hypotext” in the novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. In addition, it also delineates its own identity in the elaborate contamination that the author/performer realizes between the narrative adapted text and the homonymous film directed by Wyler. The analysis of the pièce is outside of the exclusive use of analytic categories that are only inherent in the literary kind. Therefore, it puts itself into a tight dialogism of artistic languages that becomes a tool for the writer to transfer a conversational plurality into his work. The pièce is characterized in a performative way because of this relationship. The purpose of this essay is to revalue the creative ingenuity of this theatrical text by analyzing it in a more heterogeneous and multi-perspective vision of tout court. It blends and readdresses the primary observations of immediate and sectorial analysis about Beppe Fenoglio’s brief dramatic artwork.
description: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies, Vol 1 (2011): Performance e Performatività
L''ékphrasis' oltre l''ékphrasis': due ragionamenti sul saggismo di Roberto Longhi
Creators: name: Cadoni, Alessandro
name: Fichera, Gabriele
Publisher: name: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies
Year: 2020

description: The idea of the paper is that Roberto Longhi’s ékphrasis goes beyond the usual limits and forms of this kind of writing, but without altering the statutes and all purposes. This need originates from a basic problem: the unbridgeable gap between image and word that describes it.
description: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies, Vol 1 (2011): Performance e Performatività
Uncertainty-aware Self-training for Low-resource Neural Sequence Labeling
Creators: name: Wang, Jianing
name: Wang, Chengyu
name: Huang, Jun
name: Gao, Ming
name: Zhou, Aoying
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Neural sequence labeling (NSL) aims at assigning labels for input language tokens, which covers a broad range of applications, such as named entity recognition (NER) and slot filling, etc. However, the satisfying results achieved by traditional supervised-based approaches heavily depend on the large amounts of human annotation data, which may not be feasible in real-world scenarios due to data privacy and computation efficiency issues. This paper presents SeqUST, a novel uncertain-aware self-training framework for NSL to address the labeled data scarcity issue and to effectively utilize unlabeled data. Specifically, we incorporate Monte Carlo (MC) dropout in Bayesian neural network (BNN) to perform uncertainty estimation at the token level and then select reliable language tokens from unlabeled data based on the model confidence and certainty. A well-designed masked sequence labeling task with a noise-robust loss supports robust training, which aims to suppress the problem of noisy pseudo labels. In addition, we develop a Gaussian-based consistency regularization technique to further improve the model robustness on Gaussian-distributed perturbed representations. This effectively alleviates the over-fitting dilemma originating from pseudo-labeled augmented data. Extensive experiments over six benchmarks demonstrate that our SeqUST framework effectively improves the performance of self-training, and consistently outperforms strong baselines by a large margin in low-resource scenarios
description: 11 pages, 3 figures