cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Coronal Heating, Weak MHD Turbulence and Scaling Laws
Creators: name: Rappazzo, A. F.
name: Velli, M.
name: Einaudi, G.
name: Dahlburg, R. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Long-time high-resolution simulations of the dynamics of a coronal loop in cartesian geometry are carried out, within the framework of reduced magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD), to understand coronal heating driven by motion of field lines anchored in the photosphere. We unambiguously identify MHD anisotropic turbulence as the physical mechanism responsible for the transport of energy from the large scales, where energy is injected by photospheric motions, to the small scales, where it is dissipated. As the loop parameters vary different regimes of turbulence develop: strong turbulence is found for weak axial magnetic fields and long loops, leading to Kolmogorov-like spectra in the perpendicular direction, while weaker and weaker regimes (steeper spectral slopes of total energy) are found for strong axial magnetic fields and short loops. As a consequence we predict that the scaling of the heating rate with axial magnetic field intensity $B_0$, which depends on the spectral index of total energy for given loop parameters, must vary from $B_0^{3/2}$ for weak fields to $B_0^{2}$ for strong fields at a given aspect ratio. The predicted heating rate is within the lower range of observed active region and quiet Sun coronal energy losses.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures, uses emulateapj, complies with published version
Additional file 2 of A critique of the English national policy from a social determinants of health perspective using a realist and problem representation approach: the ‘Childhood Obesity: a plan for action’ (2016, 2018, 2019)
Creators: name: Griffin, Naomi
name: Phillips, Sophie M.
name: Hillier-Brown, Frances
name: Wistow, Jonathan
name: Fairbrother, Hannah
name: Holding, Eleanor
name: Powell, Katie
name: Summerbell, Carolyn
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2: Supplementary Table S2. Examples of problem representations using Bacchi’s (2009) ‘What’s the problem represented to be?’ approach to analyse The Policy
An optimal home energy management system for modulating heat pumps and photovoltaic systems
Creators: name: Langer, Lissy
name: Volling, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Efficient residential sector coupling plays a key role in supporting the energy transition. In this study, we analyze the structural properties associated with the optimal control of a home energy management system and the effects of common technological configurations and objectives. We conduct this study by modeling a representative building with a modulating air-sourced heat pump, a photovoltaic (PV) system, a battery, and thermal storage systems for floor heating and hot-water supply. In addition, we allow grid feed-in by assuming fixed feed-in tariffs and consider user comfort. In our numerical analysis, we find that the battery, naturally, is the essential building block for improving self-sufficiency. However, in order to use the PV surplus efficiently grid feed-in is necessary. The commonly considered objective of maximizing self-consumption is not economically viable under the given tariff structure; however, close-to-optimal performance and significant reduction in solution times can be achieved by maximizing self-sufficiency. Based on optimal control and considering seasonal effects, the dominant order of PV distribution and the target states of charge of the storage systems can be derived. Using a rolling horizon approach, the solution time can be reduced to less than 1 min (achieving a time resolution of 1 h per year). By evaluating the value of information, we find that the common value of 24 h for the prediction and control horizons results in unintended but avoidable end-of-horizon effects. Our input data and mixed-integer linear model developed using the Julia JuMP programming language are available in an open-source manner.
description: 32 pages, 10 figures, for model code and interactive figures see: https://github.com/lilanger/SHEMS/tree/master/single_building
Innovative enzymes for bioethanol production from lignocellulosic materials
Creators: name: Marcolongo, Loredana
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Year: 2015

description: The general aim of this work was to add new knowledge on novel hemicellulolytic enzymes involved in the hydrolysis of lignocellulosic materials, considered as a key process for the bioethanol production.
Therefore, it is not only focused on (hemi)cellulolytic enzymes from mesophilic fungi and bacteria but also on newly isolated and characterized xylanase and β-xylosidase from the thermophilic bacteria Geobacillus thermodenitrificans A333 and Anoxybacillus sp. 3M, respectively.
The covered fields involved the production and purification of the novel thermo-alkali tolerant hemicellulases and the characterization of these enzymes by their activity, substrate specificity and hydrolytic potential. The present work was also focused on the definition of enzymatic cocktails through the identification of the enzyme components of bacterial and fungal origin most useful for improving the complete hydrolysis of lignocelluloses and the exploration of the possible synergies among them.
In order to convert lignocellulosic materials from agro-residues into reducing sugars, pretreatments and enzymatic hydrolysis of the biomasses has been performed. Different enzyme cocktails composition were defined by using various commercial and in house developed cellulases, xylanases, β-xylosidases and arabinosidases, to obtain the efficient hydrolysis of Arundo donax, corn cobs and BSG. Since each biomass responds differently to pretreatment methods, an appropriate chemical pretreatment method was used for BSG and two different pretreatments involving chemical and physical methods were tested for their efficiency on A. donax.
Though research about the conversion of biomass to ethanol is vast and this productive process is since long time known, its commercialization is restricted by the elevated costs and the limited efficiency. This research intends to demonstrate that using agro-residues as substrates, high yields of reducing sugars are possible, using the appropriate pretreatments and enzyme cocktails. The removal of the limitation imposed by poor yields after the enzymatic hydrolysis, would result in an increased efficiency for ethanol production, which is a key stepping stone to its commercialization. Also, increasing the recovery of the co-product of (hemi)celluloses hydrolysis, as xylose and arabinose, would also allow an effective utilization of this resource.
Estimation of a Structural Break Point in Linear Regression Models
Creators: name: Baek, Yaein
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: This study proposes a point estimator of the break location for a one-time structural break in linear regression models. If the break magnitude is small, the least-squares estimator of the break date has two modes at the ends of the finite sample period, regardless of the true break location. To solve this problem, I suggest an alternative estimator based on a modification of the least-squares objective function. The modified objective function incorporates estimation uncertainty that varies across potential break dates. The new break point estimator is consistent and has a unimodal finite sample distribution under small break magnitudes. A limit distribution is provided under an in-fill asymptotic framework. Monte Carlo simulation results suggest that the new estimator outperforms the least-squares estimator. I apply the method to estimate the break date in U.S. and U.K. stock return prediction models.
Spontaneously ordered motion of self-propelled particles
Creators: name: Czirok, Andras
name: Stanley, H. Eugene
name: Vicsek, Tamas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a biologically inspired, inherently non-equilibrium model consisting of self-propelled particles. In the model, particles move on a plane with a velocity of constant magnitude; they locally interact with their neighbors by choosing at each time step a velocity direction equal to the average direction of their neighbors. Thus, in the limit of vanishing velocities the model becomes analogous to a Monte-Carlo realization of the classical XY ferromagnet. We show by large-scale numerical simulations that, unlike in the equilibrium XY model, a long-range ordered phase characterized by non-vanishing net flow $ϕ$ emerges in this system in a phase space domain bordered by a critical line along which the fluctuations of the order parameter diverge. The corresponding phase diagram as a function of two parameters, the amplitude of noise $η$ and the average density of the particles $\varrho$ is calculated and is found to have the form $η_c(\varrho)\sim \varrho^{1/2}$. We also find that $ϕ$ scales as a function of the external bias $h$ (field or ``wind'') according to a power law $ϕ\sim h^{0.9}$. In the ordered phase the system shows long-range correlated fluctuations and $1/f$ noise.
Additional file 1 of Assessing the quality of deliberative stakeholder consultations involving allied health professionals in pediatric palliative care and hematology/oncology in Canada
Creators: name: Rahimzadeh, Vasiliki
name: Longo, Cristina
name: Gagnon, Justin
name: Fernandez, Conrad
name: Bartlett, Gillian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Evaluation of democratic deliberation session. An English language copy of the post-deliberation questionnaire adapted from De Vries and colleagues (2011) is provided in Additional File 1.
Efficacy of the Radial Pair Potential Approximation for Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Dense Plasmas
Creators: name: Stanek, Lucas J.
name: Clay, Raymond C.
name: Dharma-wardana, M. W. C.
name: Wood, Mitchell A.
name: Beckwith, Kristian R. C.
name: Murillo, Michael S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Macroscopic simulations of dense plasmas rely on detailed microscopic information that can be computationally expensive and is difficult to verify experimentally. In this work, we delineate the accuracy boundary between microscale simulation methods by comparing Kohn-Sham density functional theory molecular dynamics (KS-MD) and radial pair potential molecular dynamics (RPP- MD) for a range of elements, temperature, and density. By extracting the optimal RPP from KS-MD data using force-matching, we constrain its functional form and dismiss classes of potentials that assume a constant power law for small interparticle distances. Our results show excellent agreement between RPP-MD and KS-MD for multiple metrics of accuracy at temperatures of only a few electron volts. The use of RPPs offers orders of magnitude decrease in computational cost and indicates that three-body potentials are not required beyond temperatures of a few eV. Due to its efficiency, the validated RPP-MD provides an avenue for reducing errors due to finite-size effects that can be on the order of $\sim20\%$.
LA RICOSTRUZIONE DELLE FRATTURE DEL PAVIMENTO ORBITARIO CON L'UTILIZZO DELLE MEMBRANE RIASSORBIBILI DI COLLAGENE
Creators: name: Bonavolontà, Paola
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Year: 2015

description: Le fratture del pavimento orbitario sono ole fratture più comuni del massiccio facciale. Il goal della riparazione delle fratture dell'orbita è di liberare i tessuti incarcerati nella rima di frattura e di colmare il deficit con un impianto per ripristinare la corretta anatomia orbitaria. Non esiste un consenso sul materiale ideale da utilizzare. Nel nostro studio  abbiamo valutato per la prima volta l'efficacia e le complicanze della membrana riassorbibile di collagene nella riparazione delle fratture del pavimento dell'orbita. Sulla base dei nostri dati riteniamo che la membrana riassorbibile di collagene sia sicura ed efficace per la ricostruzione delle fratture del pavimento dell'orbita di tipo small (<3cm2).
Additional file 2 of Minnesota peat viromes reveal terrestrial and aquatic niche partitioning for local and global viral populations
Creators: name: ter Horst, Anneliek M.
name: Santos-Medellín, Christian
name: Sorensen, Jackson W.
name: Zinke, Laura A.
name: Wilson, Rachel M.
name: Johnston, Eric R.
name: Trubl, Gareth
name: Pett-Ridge, Jennifer
name: Blazewicz, Steven J.
name: Hanson, Paul J.
name: Chanton, Jeffrey P.
name: Schadt, Christopher W.
name: Kostka, Joel E.
name: Emerson, Joanne B.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary figure 1: Sampling locations for all SPRUCE samples. Sampling locations within the S1 Bog at the Marcell Experimental Forest in Northern Minnesota, USA, including the five transect samples and the samples from the SPRUCE experimental chambers. Numbers next to the brackets show how many and what kinds of metagenomes were derived from each part of the bog. Supplementary figure 2: A: Network of shared predicted protein content between recovered SPRUCE viruses (n = 4,326), and RefSeq prokaryotic viral genomes (n = 37). Colored nodes represent vOTUs, nodes are colored by the dataset(s) from which they were recovered, and the shared edges represent shared predicted protein content. B: Distribution of vOTUs into VCs, recovered from each of the three extraction methods and collection dates. Numbers represent number of VCs that contain vOTUs from the extraction method(s) listed. Supplementary Figure 3: Taxonomic classification of soil vOTUs in PIGEON. Taxonomic classifications were based on vConTACT2.0 clustering with RefSeq prokaryotic viral genomes. Percentages at the top of each graph indicate the proportion of vOTUs that were taxonomically classified, n represents the total number of vOTUs that could be taxonomically classified. Supplementary figure 4: Comparison of vOTU recovery from five paired viromes and total soil metagenomes from the SPRUCE transect. A: Distribution of vOTUs recovered by each of the two extraction methods, based on read mapping to the PIGEON database, including all vOTUs recovered from SPRUCE. B: Accumulation curves of distinct vOTUs recovered as sampling increases for each extraction method; 100 permutations of sample order are depicted as open circles, and averages are shown as a line. C: Similar to panel B, but only the accumulation curve of distinct vOTUs recovered from total soil metagenomes is shown, with a smaller y-axis maximum to better show the trend. Supplementary figure 5: Comparison of the five viromes from the transect. A: Dendrogram depicting sample similarity according to viral community composition (left) and heatmap (right) of vOTUs detected (green = detected, white = not detected) in the five SPRUCE transect viromes. B:Comparison of vOTU recovery from the SPRUCE-2 sample compared to the four other virome samples.
Poisson Quasi-Nijenhuis Manifolds
Creators: name: Stienon, Mathieu
name: Xu, Ping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce the notion of Poisson quasi-Nijenhuis manifolds generalizing the Poisson-Nijenhuis manifolds of Magri-Morosi. We also investigate the integration problem of Poisson quasi-Nijenhuis manifolds. In particular, we prove that, under some topological assumption, Poisson (quasi)-Nijenhuis manifolds are in one-one correspondence with symplectic (quasi)-Nijenhuis groupoids. As an application, we study generalized complex structures in terms of Poisson quasi-Nijenhuis manifolds. We prove that a generalized complex manifold corresponds to a special class of Poisson quasi-Nijenhuis structures. As a consequence, we show that a generalized complex structure integrates to a symplectic quasi-Nijenhuis groupoid recovering a theorem of Crainic.
description: 18 pages, title changed, introduction rewritten, order of sections changed, references added, minor changes to body text, to appear in Comm. Math. Phys
Non-inertial effects on CP-violating systems
Creators: name: Silveira, V. M. G.
name: Vasconcellos, C. A. Z.
name: Luna, E. G. S.
name: Hadjimichef, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An analysis of accelerated kaon decays based on the Unruh effect shows a slight decrease in a CP-violation parameter for very high accelerations, as a consequence of the previously know increase in decay rates for non-inertial systems. Its consequences on the understanding of the relation between thermal and non-inertial phenomena are briefly discussed.
description: 4 pages, 1 table, 2 figures, to be published in Astronomische Nachrichten. Contribution to the Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Astronomy and Relativistic Astrophysics, Mexico City, Mexico, 6-12 September, 2020
Low Frequency Cointegrating Regression with Local to Unity Regressors and Unknown Form of Serial Dependence
Creators: name: Hwang, Jungbin
name: Valdés, Gonzalo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: This article develops new t and F tests in a low-frequency transformed triangular cointegrating regression when one may not be certain that the economic variables are exact unit root processes. We first show that the low-frequency transformed and augmented OLS (TA-OLS) method exhibits an asymptotic bias term in its limiting distribution. As a result, the test for the cointegration vector can have substantially large size distortion, even with minor deviations from the unit root regressors. To correct the asymptotic bias of the TA-OLS statistics for the cointegration vector, we develop modified TA-OLS statistics that adjust the bias and take account of the estimation uncertainty of the long-run endogeneity arising from the bias correction. Based on the modified test statistics, we provide Bonferroni-based tests of the cointegration vector using standard t and F critical values. Monte Carlo results show that our approach has the correct size and reasonable power for a wide range of local-to-unity parameters. Additionally, our method has advantages over the IVX approach when the serial dependence and the long-run endogeneity in the cointegration system are important.
Van der Waals and Casimir interactions between atoms and carbon nanotubes
Creators: name: Klimchitskaya, G. L.
name: Blagov, E. V.
name: Mostepanenko, V. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The van der Waals and Casimir interactions of a hydrogen atom (molecule) with a single-walled and a multiwalled carbon nanotubes are compared. It is shown that the macroscopic concept of graphite dielectric permittivity is already applicable for nanotubes with only two or three walls. The absorption of hydrogen atoms by a nanotube at separations below one nanometer is considered. The lateral force due to exchange repulsion moves the atom to a position above the cell center, where it is absorbed by the nanotube because the repulsive force cannot balance the van der Waals attraction.
description: 9 pages, 2 figures, Proceedings of QFEXT07, to appear in J. Phys. A
Bayesian nonparametric panel Markov-switching GARCH models
Creators: name: Casarin, Roberto
name: Costantini, Mauro
name: Osuntuyi, Anthony
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: This paper proposes Bayesian nonparametric inference for panel Markov-switching GARCH models. The model incorporates series-specific hidden Markov chain processes that drive the GARCH parameters. To cope with the high-dimensionality of the parameter space, the paper assumes soft parameter pooling through a hierarchical prior distribution and introduces cross sectional clustering through a Bayesian nonparametric prior distribution. An MCMC posterior approximation algorithm is developed and its efficiency is studied in simulations under alternative settings. An empirical application to financial returns data in the US is offered with a portfolio performance exercise based on forecasts. A comparison shows that the Bayesian nonparametric panel Markov-switching GARCH model provides good forecasting performances and economic gains in optimal asset allocation.
L'anatomia endoscopica del basicranio esplorata attraverso il corridoio transnasale
Creators: name: Solari, Domenico
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Year: 2015

description: L'approccio endoscopico endonasale e' una moderna metodica neurochirurgica in continua evoluzione, che richiede una dettagliata conoscenza dell'anatomia, abilita' tecniche e lo studio dettagliato della patologia da trattare.
Attualmente rappresenta una tecnica di chirurgia mini-invasiva per il trattamento di differenti lesioni del basicranio, offrendo una migliore, ravvicinata ed orientabile visione del sito chirurgico e delle strutture anatomiche viciniori.
La visione più ampia ed orientabile dell'endoscopio ha contribuito all'espansione degli orizzonti di questa chirurgia, portando alla definizione di modificazioni di questa metodica, tali da consentire l'esplorazione di una vasta gamma di aree della base cranica, dalla crista galli alla giunzione cranio-cervicale, dal seno cavernoso alla regione petroclivale.
L'approccio endoscopico endonasale rappresenta una via chirurgica diretta e minimamente invasiva per raggiungere le aree soprasellare, retrosellare e retroclivale senza necessità di retrazione cerebrale, con una visione eccellente e ravvicinata, che garantisce un miglior risultato chirurgico con un minor tasso di morbidità e mortalità. D'altra parte, va considerato che la tecnica endoscopica endonasale richiede abilità specifiche ed una strumentazione dedicata: l'endoscopio, la videocamera, la sorgente luminosa, il sistema di registrazione devono funzionare in maniera sincrona, come in un meccanismo d'orologio, per ottenere la perfetta riuscita della procedura.
Production experiment, subject P2
Creators: name: Lau-Preechathammarach, Raksit Tyler
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: kdt

description: Target and distractor stimuli embedded in carrier sentences. Subject is a 24-year-old male. Piloting the experiment. Carried out in a quiet room in the temple of Wat Nakharin in Ban Khi Nak.
Transients from Initial Conditions in Cosmological Simulations
Creators: name: Crocce, M.
name: Pueblas, S.
name: Scoccimarro, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the impact of setting initial conditions in numerical simulations using the standard procedure based on the Zel'dovich approximation (ZA). As it is well known from perturbation theory, ZA initial conditions have incorrect second and higher-order growth and therefore excite long-lived transients in the evolution of the statistical properties of density and velocity fields. We also study the improvement brought by using more accurate initial conditions based on second-order Lagrangian perturbation theory (2LPT). We show that 2LPT initial conditions reduce transients significantly and thus are much more appropriate for numerical simulations devoted to precision cosmology. Using controlled numerical experiments with ZA and 2LPT initial conditions we show that simulations started at redshift z_i=49 using the ZA underestimate the power spectrum in the nonlinear regime by about 2,4,8 % at z=0,1,3 respectively, whereas the mass function of dark matter halos is underestimated by 5% at m=10^15 M_sun/h (z=0) and 10% at m=2x10^14M_sun/h (z=1). The clustering of halos is also affected to the few percent level at z=0. These systematics effects are typically larger than statistical uncertainties in recent mass function and power spectrum fitting formulae extracted from numerical simulations. At large scales, the measured transients in higher-order correlations can be understood from first principle calculations based on perturbation theory.
description: 14 pages, 14 figures, code to generate 2LPT initial conditions available at http://cosmo.nyu.edu/roman/2LPT . Typos corrected, Fig.13 symbols consistent with Fig.11,12
ROLE OF EPICARDIAL ADIPOSE TISSUE IN THE PATHOGENESIS OF CALCIFIC AORTIC STENOSIS
Creators: name: Parisi, Valentina
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Year: 2015

description: Background. The pathophysiologic mechanisms leading to aortic stenosis (AS) are characterized by early atherosclerosis and inflammation. Epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) represents a source of several pro-atherogenic inflammatory mediators involved in coronary atherogenesis. EAT thickness and inflammatory profile are increased in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). Since the well recognized similarities between AS and CAD pathogenesis, we aimed to evaluate whether anatomic characteristics and pro-inflammatory profile of EAT are also modified in patients with severe isolated AS. Methods and Results. We measured EAT thickness by echocardiography in 95 patients with isolated AS and 44 controls matched for age, gender and body mass index (BMI). In patients referred to aortic valve replacement, plasma, EAT and subcutaneous adipose tissue (SCAT) were collected and analyzed by human cytokine 27 multiplex immunoassay for the assessment of systemic and local inflammatory status. EAT thickness was significantly increased in patients with AS compared to controls. Overall, EAT showed a markedly increased inflammatory profile respect to SCAT. There was a significant relationship between EAT thickness and levels of EAT secreted inflammatory mediators.
Conclusions. Our results provide the first demonstration of EAT increased thickness and inflammatory status in patients with severe AS. Overall, these data raise the hypothesis of a potential role of EAT in AS pathogenesis.
Additional file 4 of Minnesota peat viromes reveal terrestrial and aquatic niche partitioning for local and global viral populations
Creators: name: ter Horst, Anneliek M.
name: Santos-Medellín, Christian
name: Sorensen, Jackson W.
name: Zinke, Laura A.
name: Wilson, Rachel M.
name: Johnston, Eric R.
name: Trubl, Gareth
name: Pett-Ridge, Jennifer
name: Blazewicz, Steven J.
name: Hanson, Paul J.
name: Chanton, Jeffrey P.
name: Schadt, Christopher W.
name: Kostka, Joel E.
name: Emerson, Joanne B.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology

description: Additional file 3. Supplemental discussion and methods
Slow-light switching in nonlinear Bragg-grating coupler
Creators: name: Ha, Sangwoo
name: Sukhorukov, Andrey A.
name: Kivshar, Yuri S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study propagation and switching of slow-light pulses in nonlinear couplers with phase-shifted Bragg gratings. We demonstrate that power-controlled nonlinear self-action of light can be used to compensate dispersion-induced broadening of pulses through the formation of gap solitons, to control pulse switching in the coupler, and to tune the propagation velocity.
description: 3 pages, 4 figures
The Role of Working Memory in Program Tracing
Creators: name: Crichton, Will
name: Agrawala, Maneesh
name: Hanrahan, Pat
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Program tracing, or mentally simulating a program on concrete inputs, is an important part of general program comprehension. Programs involve many kinds of virtual state that must be held in memory, such as variable/value pairs and a call stack. In this work, we examine the influence of short-term working memory (WM) on a person's ability to remember program state during tracing. We first confirm that previous findings in cognitive psychology transfer to the programming domain: people can keep about 7 variable/value pairs in WM, and people will accidentally swap associations between variables due to WM load. We use a restricted focus viewing interface to further analyze the strategies people use to trace through programs, and the relationship of tracing strategy to WM. Given a straight-line program, we find half of our participants traced a program from the top-down line-by-line (linearly), and the other half start at the bottom and trace upward based on data dependencies (on-demand). Participants with an on-demand strategy made more WM errors while tracing straight-line code than with a linear strategy, but the two strategies contained an equal number of WM errors when tracing code with functions. We conclude with the implications of these findings for the design of programming tools: first, programs should be analyzed to identify and refactor human-memory-intensive sections of code. Second, programming environments should interactively visualize variable metadata to reduce WM load in accordance with a person's tracing strategy. Third, tools for program comprehension should enable externalizing program state while tracing.
description: To appear at CHI 2021
SU(2) Yang-Mills quantum mechanics of spatially constant fields
Creators: name: Pavel, H. -P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As a first step towards a strong coupling expansion of Yang-Mills theory, the SU(2) Yang-Mills quantum mechanics of spatially constant gauge fields is investigated in the symmetric gauge, with the six physical fields represented in terms of a positive definite symmetric (3 x 3) matrix S. Representing the eigenvalues of S in terms of elementary symmetric polynomials, the eigenstates of the corresponding harmonic oscillator problem can be calculated analytically and used as orthonormal basis of trial states for a variational calculation of the Yang-Mills quantum mechanics. In this way high precision results are obtained in a very effective way for the lowest eigenstates in the spin-0 sector as well as for higher spin. Furthermore I find, that practically all excitation energy of the eigenstates, independently of whether it is a vibrational or a rotational excitation, leads to an increase of the expectation value of the largest eigenvalue , whereas the expectation values of the other two eigenvalues, and , and also the component = g of the magnetic field, remain at their vacuum values.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
Additional file 2 of Minnesota peat viromes reveal terrestrial and aquatic niche partitioning for local and global viral populations
Creators: name: ter Horst, Anneliek M.
name: Santos-Medellín, Christian
name: Sorensen, Jackson W.
name: Zinke, Laura A.
name: Wilson, Rachel M.
name: Johnston, Eric R.
name: Trubl, Gareth G.
name: Pett-Ridge, Jennifer
name: Blazewicz, Steven J.
name: Hanson, Paul J.
name: Chanton, Jeffrey P.
name: Schadt, Christopher W.
name: Kostka, Joel E.
name: Emerson, Joanne B.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary figure 1: Sampling locations for all SPRUCE samples. Sampling locations within the S1 Bog at the Marcell Experimental Forest in Northern Minnesota, USA, including the five transect samples and the samples from the SPRUCE experimental chambers. Numbers next to the brackets show how many and what kinds of metagenomes were derived from each part of the bog. Supplementary figure 2: A: Network of shared predicted protein content between recovered SPRUCE viruses (n = 4,326), and RefSeq prokaryotic viral genomes (n = 37). Colored nodes represent vOTUs, nodes are colored by the dataset(s) from which they were recovered, and the shared edges represent shared predicted protein content. B: Distribution of vOTUs into VCs, recovered from each of the three extraction methods and collection dates. Numbers represent number of VCs that contain vOTUs from the extraction method(s) listed. Supplementary Figure 3: Taxonomic classification of soil vOTUs in PIGEON. Taxonomic classifications were based on vConTACT2.0 clustering with RefSeq prokaryotic viral genomes. Percentages at the top of each graph indicate the proportion of vOTUs that were taxonomically classified, n represents the total number of vOTUs that could be taxonomically classified. Supplementary figure 4: Comparison of vOTU recovery from five paired viromes and total soil metagenomes from the SPRUCE transect. A: Distribution of vOTUs recovered by each of the two extraction methods, based on read mapping to the PIGEON database, including all vOTUs recovered from SPRUCE. B: Accumulation curves of distinct vOTUs recovered as sampling increases for each extraction method; 100 permutations of sample order are depicted as open circles, and averages are shown as a line. C: Similar to panel B, but only the accumulation curve of distinct vOTUs recovered from total soil metagenomes is shown, with a smaller y-axis maximum to better show the trend. Supplementary figure 5: Comparison of the five viromes from the transect. A: Dendrogram depicting sample similarity according to viral community composition (left) and heatmap (right) of vOTUs detected (green = detected, white = not detected) in the five SPRUCE transect viromes. B:Comparison of vOTU recovery from the SPRUCE-2 sample compared to the four other virome samples.
Creating Value for New Zealand Agri-food Exports: Moving from supply chains to value chains
Creators: name: McIntyre, Tiffany
name: Dalziel, Paul
name: Saunders, Caroline
name: Reid, John
name: Tamepo, Reina
name: Tapuke, Sylvia
name: Brehaut, Marie-Claire
Publisher: name: AgResearch
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 3801
subject: Applied economics

description: This Research Briefing presents results of research that identifies nine key elements of successful agri-food value chains from New Zealand. The research team worked with four private sector enterprises who were engaged in creating a new value chain for a land-based product sourced from New Zealand. This work produced a final list of nine key characteristics:
1. Collective values
2. Consumer focus
3. Product quality
4. Chain leadership
5. Value co-creation
6. Information
7. Incentives
8. Scale
9. Risk
Further work organised these key characteristics into a diagram that we are calling the Value Chain Compass.
The Value Chain Compass offers a guide for enterprises wanting to create a new value chain, or to transform an existing supply chain into a value chain. AERU Research Briefing 22-02 (May 2022)
Studio dell'affidabilità degli azionamenti elettrici basati su motori brushless nell'ambito dei carrelli di atterraggio
Creators: name: Manzo, Ida
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Year: 2015

description: Considerando l'ipotesi di un sistema avente una architettura modulare,sono stati realizzati dei modelli, a reti di Petri p/t, per simulare il comportamento logico di alcuni dei componenti presenti in
un sistema per l'azionamento di carrelli di atterraggio basato su motori elettrici.
title: Fragebogen zur Absolvent:innenstudie 2023 - Studiengang Informationsmanagement berufsbegleitend
Creators: name: Bertram, Jutta
name: Wittich, Anke
Publisher: name: Hochschule Hannover
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 020 Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft

description: Der Fragebogen stellt das Erhebungsinstrument einer Absolvent:innenstudie des Bachelorstudiengangs „Informationsmanagement – berufsbegleitend“ der Hochschule Hannover dar, die im Februar 2023 als Onlinebefragung durchgeführt wurde. In dem Studiengang werden Fachangestellte für Medien- und Informationsdienste (FaMIS) für höhere Aufgaben im Bibliotheksbereich qualifiziert. Gegenstand der Untersuchung, in die alle 125 Alumni der Jahrgänge 2012 bis 2018 einbezogen wurden, war deren weiterer beruflicher Werdegang und ihre retrospektive Einschätzung des Studiums. Im Einzelnen enthält der Fragebogen Fragekomplexe zu Ausgangssituation, Berufslaufbahn und Berufstätigkeit der Zielgruppe, zu ihrem Feedback auf das Studium sowie zur Unterstützung durch die Arbeitgeber und zu der Vereinbarkeit von Studium und Beruf. Die Ergebnisse der Studie wurden auszugsweise auf dem 111. BiblioCon 2023 in Hannover vorgestellt.
Lepton flavor violating Z boson decays induced by scalar unparticle
Creators: name: Iltan, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We predict the branching ratios of the lepton flavor violating Z boson decays Z\to e^{\pm} μ^{\pm}, Z\to e^{\pm} τ^{\pm} and Z\to μ^{\pm} τ^{\pm} in the case that the lepton flavor violation is carried by the scalar unparticle mediation. We observe that their BRs are strongly sensitive to the unparticle scaling dimension and the branching ratios can reach to the values of the order of 10^{-8}, for the heavy lepton flavor case, for the small values of the scaling dimension.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures, 1 table
The anticonvulsant actions of novel ’broad-spectrum’ Ca2+ channel blockers and low affinity, uncompetitive NMDA receptor antagonists
Creators: name: Thurgur, Claire Helen
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Epilepsy is a prominent neurological disorder. Presently available anticonvulsant drugs however fail to alleviate seizures in approximately 25% of individuals, and are often accompanied by serious side effects. More efficacious and less toxic agents are required. In this study, the effects of a range of structurally dissimilar a site ligands were examined against evoked and spontaneous epileptiform activity induced in rat hippocampal slices by perfusion with Mg2+-free medium. Extracellular recordings were made in the CA1 hippocampal region of epileptiform activity evoked by stimulation of the Schaffer collateral (SC) pathway, and of spontaneous epileptiform activity originating from the CA3 hippocampal region. Evoked and spontaneous epileptiform activity was inhibited by all compounds tested with the rank order (IC5 0 values against evoked epileptiform activity in uM): dextrorphan (2) > ifenprodil (6) > dextromethorphan (10) > l,3-di(2-tolyl)guanidine (15) > loperamide (28) > carbetapentane (38) > caramiphen (46) > opipramol (52). Ifenprodil, loperamide, caramiphen and dextrorphan were also examined for their effects on the input/output (I/O) functions along the SC pathway and on the paired pulse facilitation (PPF) ratio. An effect was observed only in the presence of caramiphen, which showed a decrease in the synaptic transmission I/O function and reduced markedly the PPF ratio. The (micromolar) concentrations required for the anticonvulsant activity of the CT ligands tested suggests that their anticonvulsant actions are not mediated by high affinity (nanomolar) binding to rj binding sites, but rather to blockade of high voltage activated Ca2 + channels and/or NMD A receptors, actions which occur at micromolar concentrations.
Evidence of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Phase in a Frustrated Magnet
Creators: name: Hu, Ze
name: Ma, Zhen
name: Liao, Yuan-Da
name: Li, Han
name: Ma, Chunsheng
name: Cui, Yi
name: Shangguan, Yanyan
name: Huang, Zhentao
name: Qi, Yang
name: Li, Wei
name: Meng, Zi Yang
name: Wen, Jinsheng
name: Yu, Weiqiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) mechanism, building upon proliferation of topological defects in 2D systems, is the first example of phase transition beyond the Landau-Ginzburg paradigm of symmetry breaking. Such a topological phase transition has long been sought yet undiscovered directly in magnetic materials. Here, we pin down two transitions that bound a BKT phase in an ideal 2D frustrated magnet TmMgGaO$_4$, via nuclear magnetic resonance under in-plane magnetic fields, which do not disturb the low-energy electronic states and allow BKT fluctuations to be detected sensitively. Moreover, by applying out-of-plane fields, we find a critical scaling behaviour of the magnetic susceptibility expected for the BKT transition. The experimental findings can be explained by quantum Monte Carlo simulations applied on an accurate triangular-lattice Ising model of the compound which hosts a BKT phase. These results provide a concrete example for the BKT phase and offer an ideal platform for future investigations on the BKT physics in magnetic materials.
description: Version as accepted by Nature Communications, main text: 7 pages, 3 figures; supplementary information: 5 pages, 7 figures
Chiral Gauge Theory for Graphene
Creators: name: Jackiw, R.
name: Pi, S. -Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct a chiral gauge theory to describe fractionalization of fermions in graphene. Thereby we extend a recently proposed model, which relies on vortex formation. Our chiral gauge fields provide dynamics for the vortices and also couple to the fermions.
description: Final PRL version
Improving Road Signs Detection performance by Combining the Features of Hough Transform and Texture
Creators: name: Ayaou, Tarik
name: Boussaid, Mourad
name: Afdel, Karim
name: Amghar, Abdellah
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: With the large uses of the intelligent systems in different domains, and in order to increase the drivers and pedestrians safety, the road and traffic sign recognition system has been a challenging issue and an important task for many years. But studies, done in this field of detection and recognition of traffic signs in an image, which are interested in the Arab context, are still insufficient. Detection of the road signs present in the scene is the one of the main stages of the traffic sign detection and recognition. In this paper, an efficient solution to enhance road signs detection, including Arabic context, performance based on color segmentation, Randomized Hough Transform and the combination of Zernike moments and Haralick features has been made. Segmentation stage is useful to determine the Region of Interest (ROI) in the image. The Randomized Hough Transform (RHT) is used to detect the circular and octagonal shapes. This stage is improved by the extraction of the Haralick features and Zernike moments. Furthermore, we use it as input of a classifier based on SVM. Experimental results show that the proposed approach allows us to perform the measurements precision.
description: 6 pages
Production experiment, subject P1
Creators: name: Lau-Preechathammarach, Raksit Tyler
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: kdt

description: Target and distractor stimuli embedded in carrier sentences. Subject is a 49-year-old female. Piloting the experiment. Carried out in a quiet room in the temple of Wat Nakharin in Ban Khi Nak.
Additional file 4 of Minnesota peat viromes reveal terrestrial and aquatic niche partitioning for local and global viral populations
Creators: name: ter Horst, Anneliek M.
name: Santos-Medellín, Christian
name: Sorensen, Jackson W.
name: Zinke, Laura A.
name: Wilson, Rachel M.
name: Johnston, Eric R.
name: Trubl, Gareth G.
name: Pett-Ridge, Jennifer
name: Blazewicz, Steven J.
name: Hanson, Paul J.
name: Chanton, Jeffrey P.
name: Schadt, Christopher W.
name: Kostka, Joel E.
name: Emerson, Joanne B.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology

description: Additional file 3. Supplemental discussion and methods
title: "Let the children come to me": Pentecostalism and proselytization of children through gospel outreaches in Ibadan, Nigeria
Creators: name: Adedeji, Adebayo
Publisher: name: Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: University of Ibadan
subject: Pentecostalism
subject: 300

description: Religion, Morality and Boko in West Africa: Students Training for a Good Life
Additional file 1 of “The Real Cost” Smokeless campaign: changes in beliefs about smokeless tobacco among rural boys, a longitudinal randomized controlled field trial
Creators: name: Farrelly, Matthew C.
name: Taylor, Nathaniel H.
name: Nonnemaker, James M.
name: Smith, Alexandria A.
name: Delahanty, Janine C.
name: Zhao, Xiaoquan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1.
The Role of Measurement in Quantum Games
Creators: name: Nawaz, Ahmad
name: Toor, A. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The game of Prisoner Dilemma is analyzed to study the role of measurement basis in quantum games. Four different types of payoffs for quantum games are identified on the basis of different combinations of initial state and measurement basis. A relation among these different payoffs is established.
description: 6 pages