cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Christian Palestinians in Britain
Creators: name: Shakkour, Suha
Publisher: name: University of St Andrews
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/02wn5qz54
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2010

description: This study seeks to address a gap in the literature with regard to the Christian Palestinians. As members of a very small minority, they are often overlooked by the media and the academic community. While this is changing to some extent for Christian Palestinians in the Middle East, there is scant literature that considers their lives in the ‘West’ and almost none on their experiences in Britain. This thesis considers how Christian Palestinians have adapted to life in London, including an analysis of the individual experiences of both Christian Palestinians and Muslim Palestinians. Interviews with respondents focused on their English language abilities, educational achievements, attitudes to intermarriage, and their sense of belonging. These aspects were chosen because they offer an insight into respondents’ private and public lives, a distinction that is particularly important in the study of integration and assimilation. Through the assessment of these attributes, this research seeks to redefine the way that assimilation has been viewed and argues that a more comprehensive study of assimilation must include not only an analysis of whether migrants have adopted a characteristic of the host nation’s population, but also an analysis of whether they have adopted the sentiments their native born counterparts have attached to them.
Paul is Dead: The Clash of Beatles Music, Drugs, and Conspiracy Theories in the Chaotic 1960s
Creators: name: Perez, Adriana
Publisher: name: University of Notre Dame
Year: 2023

description: From Introduction: 'After their beginnings in the late 1950s, the English band the Beatles came of age during the 1960s, a decade when psychedelic frenzy, Cold War paranoia, and anti-establishment sentiment had ripened American consciousness enough for unbelievable conspiracy theories to take hold (1). These came to include a rumor that Paul McCartney, one of the four Beatles, had died in a car accident and been replaced by a lookalike on November 9, 1966. In 2009, Time magazine included the “Paul is dead” rumor in a list of the world’s most enduring ten conspiracy theories (2). This theory took off as the band went through a rough patch and its members started consuming drugs, particularly LSD. The lyrics and form of their initially carefree music had begun to change to include darker, frenzied undertones, and even senseless words. Against a backdrop of paranoia-inducing McCarthyism and the Red Scare of the 1940s and 1950s, speculation about John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963, and new Illuminati conspiracies in the 1960s, Beatlemaniacs were led down a speculative path. In the band’s album covers and songs, Beatles fans frantically searched for clues that supposedly confirmed Paul’s death. The chaotic influence of drugs in songs during the 1960s and an anti-establishment sentiment combined to have an immense impact on the popular American consciousness that was more eager than ever to hold on to just about anything, as evidenced by the widespread belief that one of the most famous people in the world had died and was being impersonated.'
The role of bandstructure in the thermodynamic properties of itinerant metamagnets
Creators: name: Berridge, A. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is known that itinerant metamagnetic transitions can be driven by features in the electronic density of states. We study the signatures of these transitions in the entropy and specific heat for a variety of different cases, identifying the key features which differ from naive expectations, such as enhanced critical fields and non-Fermi liquid temperature dependencies. We begin with the generic case of a logarithmically divergent density of states, as caused by a two dimensional van Hove singularity. We then study a specific model for the bandstructure of Sr3Ru2O7, a material with a well-studied metamagnetic transition and quantum critical endpoint. We consider how far the behaviour of the system can be explained by the density of states rather than quantum fluctuations, and the distinctive features of this mechanism. One of the characteristic features of Sr3Ru2O7 is an unusual phase with a higher entropy than its surroundings, we consider how this may arise in the context of a density of states picture and find that we can reproduce the thermodynamic behaviour and first-order phase transitions.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures
TERIME: An improved RIME algorithm with enhanced exploration and exploitation for robust parameter extraction of photovoltaic models
Creators: name: Chen, Shi-Shun
name: Jiang, Yu-Tong
name: Chen, Wen-Bin
name: Li, Xiao-Yang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Parameter extraction of photovoltaic (PV) models is crucial for the planning, optimization, and control of PV systems. Although some methods using meta-heuristic algorithms have been proposed to determine these parameters, the robustness of solutions obtained by these methods faces great challenges when the complexity of the PV model increases. The unstable results will affect the reliable operation and maintenance strategies of PV systems. In response to this challenge, an improved RIME algorithm with enhanced exploration and exploitation is proposed for robust and accurate parameter identification for various PV models. Specifically, the differential evolution mutation operator is integrated in the exploration phase to enhance the population diversity. Meanwhile, a new exploitation strategy incorporating randomization and neighborhood strategies simultaneously is developed to maintain the balance of exploitation width and depth. The improved RIME algorithm is applied to estimate the optimal parameters of the single-diode model (SDM), double-diode model (DDM), and triple-diode model (TDM) combined with the Lambert-W function for three PV cell and module types including RTC France, Photo Watt-PWP 201 and S75. According to the statistical analysis in 100 runs, the TEIMRE achieves more accurate and robust parameter estimations than other techniques to various PV models in varying environmental conditions. All of our source codes are publicly available at https://github.com/dirge1/TERIME.
Novius ruficollis, comb. nov
Creators: name: Pang, Hong
name: Tang, Xue-Fei
name: Booth, Roger G.
name: Vandenberg, Natalia
name: Forrester, Juanita
name: Mchugh, Joseph
name: Ślipiński, Adam
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Novius
Novius ruficollis

description: ruficollis (Mulsant) comb. nov Rodolia ruficollis Mulsant, 1850: 903. Distribution: India, Pakistan, Thailand, Vietnam.
description: Published as part of Pang, Hong, Tang, Xue-Fei, Booth, Roger G., Vandenberg, Natalia, Forrester, Juanita, Mchugh, Joseph & Ślipiński, Adam, 2020, Revision Of The Australian Coccinellidae (Coleoptera). Genus Novius Mulsant Of Tribe Noviini, pp. 1-24 in Annales Zoologici 70 (1) on page 20, DOI: 10.3161/00034541ANZ2020.70.1.001, http://zenodo.org/record/3776582
description: {"references": ["Mulsant, E. 1850. Species des Coleopteres Trimeres Securipalpes. Annales des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles, d'Agriculture et d'Industrie, publiees par la Societe nationale d'Agriculture, etc., de Lyon, Deuxieme Serie, 2: xv + 1 - 1104 pp."]}
THREE-DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL STUDY OF AERODYNAMIC PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT AROUND A SPIROID WINGLET
Creators: name: ZINEB HEMMAMI
name: AZZEDDINE HAMMAMI
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Spiroid Winglet, Aerodynamic, Drag, Lift, CFD, Finite Volume.

description: Abstract

This study investigates the aerodynamic performance enhancement of a spiroid winglet utilizing the NACA 2412 airfoil through three-dimensional numerical simulations. Winglets are a well-established technology for improving the aerodynamic efficiency of aircraft wings by reducing induced drag. However, conventional winglet designs can still experience significant vortex shedding and flow separation, limiting their efficacy. The spiroid winglet geometry, inspired by the theoretical minimum induced drag shape, shows promise in mitigating these issues. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analyses were conducted using a finite volume method to solve the Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes equations coupled with a Shear Stress Transport turbulence model. The wing-winglet model incorporated a spiroid winglet design based on the NACA 2412 airfoil. Simulations were performed at angles of attack ranging from 0° to 25° to assess the winglet's performance over the operational envelope. Results demonstrate that the spiroid winglet configuration significantly reduces induced drag compared to the baseline wing without a winglet, with drag reductions of up to 23.8% at the design cruise condition of 2° angle of attack. Furthermore, the wingtip vortices are found to be more diffuse with lower peak vorticity magnitudes, indicating mitigation of strong tip vortex formation. The spiroid winglet delays flow separation up to higher angles of attack compared to conventional winglets. Detailed flow visualizations and surface pressure distributions elucidate the fluid dynamic mechanisms behind the performance gains. Overall, the numerical study validates the merits of spiroid winglets and provides insights for optimizing future aerodynamic designs.
Высшее и среднее образование донских казаков в контексте эпохи: время Великих реформ
Creators: name: Юрьевич, Перетятько Артем
name: Эльдарович, Зульфугарзаде Теймур
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: history
law
History of Education
Don Cossacks

description: Статья посвящена особенностям высшего и среднего образования донских казаков в 1850-1860 гг. и влиянию этих особенностей на общественную дискуссию «прогрессистов» и «казакоманов».
Revealing the high-energy electronic excitations underlying the onset of high-temperature superconductivity in cuprates
Creators: name: Giannetti, Claudio
name: Cilento, Federico
name: Conte, Stefano Dal
name: Coslovich, Giacomo
name: Ferrini, Gabriele
name: Molegraaf, Hajo
name: Raichle, Markus
name: Liang, Ruixing
name: Eisaki, Hiroshi
name: Greven, Martin
name: Damascelli, Andrea
name: van der Marel, Dirk
name: Parmigiani, Fulvio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In strongly-correlated systems the electronic properties at the Fermi energy (EF) are intertwined with those at high energy scales. One of the pivotal challenges in the field of high-temperature superconductivity (HTSC) is to understand whether and how the high energy scale physics associated with Mott-like excitations (|E-E$_{F}$|>1 eV) is involved in the condensate formation. Here we show the interplay between the many-body high-energy CuO2 excitations at 1.5 and 2 eV and the onset of HTSC. This is revealed by a novel optical pump supercontinuum-probe technique, which provides access to the dynamics of the dielectric function in Bi$_2$Sr$_2$Ca$_{0.92}$Y$_{0.08}$Cu$_2$O$_{8+δ}$ over an extended energy range, after the photoinduced suppression of the superconducting pairing. These results unveil an unconventional mechanism at the base of HTSC both below and above the optimal hole concentration required to attain the maximum critical temperature (T$_c$).
description: Text and Supplementary Information
Eigenstate Correlations in Dual-Unitary Quantum Circuits: Partial Spectral Form Factor
Creators: name: Fritzsch, Felix
name: Kieler, Maximilian F. I.
name: Bäcker, Arnd
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: While the notion of quantum chaos is tied to random matrix spectral correlations, also eigenstate properties in chaotic systems are often assumed to be described by random matrix theory. Analytic insights into eigenstate correlations can be obtained by the recently introduced partial spectral form factor. Here, we study the partial spectral form factor in chaotic dual-unitary quantum circuits in the thermodynamic limit. We compute the latter for a finite subsystem in a brickwork circuit coupled to an infinite complement. For initial times, shorter than the subsystem's size, spatial locality and (dual) unitarity implies a constant partial spectral form factor, clearly deviating from the linear ramp of the random matrix prediction. In contrast, for larger times we prove, that the partial spectral form factor follows the random matrix result up to exponentially suppressed corrections. We supplement our exact analytical results by semi-analytic computations performed in the thermodynamic limit as well as with numerics for finite-size systems.
description: 27 pages, 3 figures
Pope Francis’s Encyclical Laudato Si’ and global environmental sustainability: a theoretical and empirical assessment
Creators: name: Zagonari, Fabio
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2019
Subjects: SECS-P/02 Politica economica

description: This paper examines the approach suggested by the Pope Francis’s Encyclical Laudato Si’ (i.e., an inter-disciplinary perspective that combines science and ethics), and theoretically and empirically assesses its scientific and ethical statements in terms of their ability to achieve global environmental sustainability. Scientific statements are shown to be empirically infeasible (e.g., personal fulfillment without population reduction), vague, obvious (e.g., climate as a common good, ecological debt of developed countries), and not novel (e.g., markets and environment in the a-growth paradigm, slowdown of production and consumption in the de-growth paradigm, ecosystem values independent of usefulness in the deep-ecology paradigm). Some ethical statements in the Encyclical are theoretically inconsistent with scientific disciplines (e.g., inter-generational solidarity vs. equity, individual organisms vs. whole species), vague, obvious (e.g., universal communion, happiness as limiting needs), or unnecessary (e.g., cruelty undermines human dignity, animals should not suffer or die needlessly), and thus, contribute little to achieving global sustainability; some other ethical statements are useful, but not novel (e.g., they have been proposed by Eastern Orthodoxy, Judaism, or Buddhism), late, or empirically unreliable (e.g., a contemplative lifestyle, the liberation provided by sobriety). In summary, Laudato Si’ is unsuccessful from a scientific perspective, and is inadequate from an ethical perspective.
Fast and slow two-fluid magnetic reconnection
Creators: name: Malyshkin, Leonid M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a two-fluid magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) model of quasi-stationary, two-dimensional magnetic reconnection in an incompressible plasma composed of electrons and ions. We find two distinct regimes of slow and fast reconnection. The presence of these two regimes can provide a possible explanation for the initial slow build up and subsequent rapid release of magnetic energy frequently observed in cosmic and laboratory plasmas.
description: 16 pages, 2 figures, 1 table
Novius rufipennis, comb. nov
Creators: name: Pang, Hong
name: Tang, Xue-Fei
name: Booth, Roger G.
name: Vandenberg, Natalia
name: Forrester, Juanita
name: Mchugh, Joseph
name: Ślipiński, Adam
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Novius
Novius rufipennis

description: rufipennis (Pic) comb. nov Macronovius rufipennis Pic, 1926: 230. Distribution: North Africa (Egypt, Libya), Iran.
description: Published as part of Pang, Hong, Tang, Xue-Fei, Booth, Roger G., Vandenberg, Natalia, Forrester, Juanita, Mchugh, Joseph & Ślipiński, Adam, 2020, Revision Of The Australian Coccinellidae (Coleoptera). Genus Novius Mulsant Of Tribe Noviini, pp. 1-24 in Annales Zoologici 70 (1) on page 20, DOI: 10.3161/00034541ANZ2020.70.1.001, http://zenodo.org/record/3776582
description: {"references": ["Pic, M. 1926. Coleopteres nouveaux. Bulletin de la Societe Royale Entomologique d'Egypt, 18 (1925): 227 - 231."]}
A Mid-Infrared Census of Star Formation Activity in Bolocam Galactic Plane Survey Sources
Creators: name: Dunham, Miranda K.
name: Robitaille, Thomas P.
name: Evans, Neal J.
name: Schlingman, Wayne M.
name: Cyganowski, Claudia J.
name: Urquhart, James
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of a search for mid-infrared signs of star formation activity in the 1.1 mm sources in the Bolocam Galactic Plane Survey (BGPS). We have correlated the BGPS catalog with available mid-IR Galactic plane catalogs based on the Spitzer Space Telescope GLIMPSE legacy survey and the Midcourse Space Experiment (MSX) Galactic plane survey. We find that 44% (3,712 of 8,358) of the BGPS sources contain at least one mid-IR source, including 2,457 of 5,067 (49%) within the area where all surveys overlap (10 deg < l < 65 deg). Accounting for chance alignments between the BGPS and mid-IR sources, we conservatively estimate that 20% of the BPGS sources within the area where all surveys overlap show signs of active star formation. We separate the BGPS sources into four groups based on their probability of star formation activity. Extended Green Objects (EGOs) and Red MSX Sources (RMS) make up the highest probability group, while the lowest probability group is comprised of "starless" BGPS sources which were not matched to any mid-IR sources. The mean 1.1 mm flux of each group increases with increasing probability of active star formation. We also find that the "starless" BGPS sources are the most compact, while the sources with the highest probability of star formation activity are on average more extended with large skirts of emission. A subsample of 280 BGPS sources with known distances demonstrates that mass and mean H_2 column density also increase with probability of star formation activity.
description: 20 pages, 12 figures, 3 tables. Accepted for publication in ApJ. Full Table 2 will be available online through ApJ
Structural phase transitions in Ruddlesden-Popper phases of strontium titanate: {\em ab initio} and inhomogeneous Ginzburg-Landau approaches
Creators: name: Lee, Jeehye
name: Arias, Tomás A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first systematic {\em ab initio} study of anti-ferrodistortive (AFD) order in Ruddlesden-Popper (RP) phases of strontium titanate, Sr$_{1+n}$Ti$_n$O$_{3n+1}$, as a function of both compressive epitaxial strain and phase number $n$. We find all RP phases to exhibit AFD order under a significant range of strains, recovering the bulk AFD order as $\sim 1/n^2$. A Ginzburg-Landau Hamiltonian generalized to include inter-octahedral interactions reproduces our {\em ab initio} results well, opening a pathway to understanding other nanostructured perovskite systems.
title: Final Report: Planning for Parramatta’s Cultural Infrastructur
Creators: name: Cmielewski, Cecelia
name: Hilder, Cecilia
name: van den Nouwelant, Ryan
name: Rowe, David
name: Stevenson, Deborah
name: Magee, Liam
name: Ang, Ien
Publisher: name: Western Sydney University
Year: 2020

description: The "Cultural Infrastructure and Investment Strategy 2021-2040" was Commissioned by the City of Parramatta.
The Strategy is designed to:
*Identify priorities for future cultural infrastructure that will consolidate Parramatta as a desirable destination to live, work and play;
*Assist with a strategic and coordinated approach within Council to advance the delivery of cultural infrastructure within the City;
*Direct sound decision making about planning, funding, delivering and negotiating for cultural infrastructure over the next 20 years;
*Capitalise on the growth and development underway in the City of Parramatta, and to advocate more effectively during planning proposal negotiations for cultural facilities aligned with community needs; and
*Investigate selected precincts and industrial lands across the City for their potential to support cultural infrastructure, and to review planning regulations and building controls with a view to removing existing barriers to cultural uses.

The Strategy explores a range of funding options and priorities for investment in cultural infrastructure.  It centres on Parramatta CBD and North Parramatta and several ‘precincts of Parramatta’ which include: Westmead; Sydney Olympic Park; Camellia; Harris Park; Epping; Rydalmere; North Rocks and Silverwater.
Novius rufocinctus Lewis 1896, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Pang, Hong
name: Tang, Xue-Fei
name: Booth, Roger G.
name: Vandenberg, Natalia
name: Forrester, Juanita
name: Mchugh, Joseph
name: Ślipiński, Adam
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Novius
Novius rufocinctus

description: rufocinctus (Lewis) comb. nov. Rodolia rufocincta Lewis, 1896: 40. Distribution: Japan. China (Beijing), South Korea.
description: Published as part of Pang, Hong, Tang, Xue-Fei, Booth, Roger G., Vandenberg, Natalia, Forrester, Juanita, Mchugh, Joseph & Ślipiński, Adam, 2020, Revision Of The Australian Coccinellidae (Coleoptera). Genus Novius Mulsant Of Tribe Noviini, pp. 1-24 in Annales Zoologici 70 (1) on page 20, DOI: 10.3161/00034541ANZ2020.70.1.001, http://zenodo.org/record/3776582
description: {"references": ["Lewis, G. 1896. On the Coccinellidae of Japan. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 17: 23 - 41."]}
Prognostic Value of Serum Interleukin-37 in Patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
Creators: name: Lu, Zhaohui
name: Yang, Jie
name: Liu, Xiaoguang
name: Wang, Juan
name: Pan, Youjun
name: Zhong, Jinjin
name: Su, Xin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is prominently characterized by uncontrolled inflammation and high mortality. The effect of interleukin-37 (IL-37) on the prognosis of ARDS remains unclear. This prospective cohort study detected and analyzed serum IL-37 levels on day 1 (baseline) in 128 patients with ARDS and 40 healthy controls, and on day 7 in patients with ARDS. Clinical and laboratory parameters were assayed. Survival status was tracked within 28-d of enrollment. BaselineIL-37 concentration was lower in non-survivors (135.00 [87.75, 198.75] pg/mL) than in survivors (250.50 [173.25, 382.75] pg/mL) (p < .05). Non-survivors displayed a greater reduction in IL-37 levels from day 1–7 than survivors (49.87% vs. 40.09%) (p < .05). Baseline IL-37 levels were negatively associated with C-reactive protein, procalcitonin, and IL-6 levels. The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of the baseline level and percentage decline in IL-37 was 0.755 and 0.809, respectively, for predicting 28-d mortality. Combining IL-37 with the acute physiology and chronic health evaluation II score further improved mortality prediction capability. Patients with ARDS with low IL-37 concentrations (<143.00 pg/mL) or a high percentage decline (≥44.76%) had a poorer survival rate than those with a high concentration or low percentage decline. The baseline IL-37 level and percentage decline independently predicted mortality in a univariate Cox regression model (p < .05). A low IL-37 level or significantly declining rate predicts higher 28-d mortality in patients with ARDS, indicating that IL-37 may be a promising prognostic biomarker.
NK Cell Exosomes Alleviate PD-L1 Expression and Facilitate Tumor Immunity by Repressing PI3K-AKT-mTOR Signaling
Creators: name: Xie, Hang
name: Wu, Yujie
name: Huang, Jingyao
name: Shen, Quan
name: Li, Xiaoyan
name: Wang, Lili
name: Lin, Junqing
name: Chi, Zhen
name: Ke, Kun
name: Lin, Xin
name: Chen, Rong
name: Liao, Rihua
name: Li, Yong
name: Huang, Ning
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Liver cancer (LC) is a deadly malignancy with limited therapeutic options in recent years. Natural killer cell-derived exosomes (NK-exo), as an important bridge of information transmission between cells, also have a certain killing effect on tumor cells. On this basis, this study investigated the specific regulatory mechanism of NK-exo on LC cells. NK-exo was collected by differential centrifugation. The diameter and size distribution were characterized by dynamic light scattering (DLS), respectively. Western Blot (WB) assay detected the expression levels of exosome marker protein, PD-L1, and PI3K-AKT-mTOR signal-related proteins. The effect of NK-exo treatment on LC cell viability was measured by the CCK-8. With the use of CFDA·SE, we assessed the proliferation ability of CD8+T cells in direct co-culture with LC cells. The content of cytokines secreted by CD8+T cells in each treatment group was determined by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) kits. We employed flow cytometry to analyze the expression of PD-L1 protein on the surface of LC cells and CD8 level in mice tumor tissues. CCK-8 assay demonstrated that NK-exo repressed the cell viability of LC cells. WB uncovered that the protein expressions of PD-L1, p-AKT, and p-mTOR in NK-exo treated LC cells were decreased, which was returned to the control level after the addition of PI3K agonist. When NK-exo-treated LC cells were directly co-cultivated with CD8+T cells, the proliferation ability and cytokine secretion content of T cells were considerably elevated, and the expression of PD-L1 on LC cell surface was considerably reduced. However, these effects were restored to control levels by PI3K agonists.The in vivo experiments also confirmed that NK-exo could effectively inhibit the progression of LC, and the PI3K agonist could restore this effect to the level of the control group. This study provided the first evidence that exosomes derived from NK cells inhibited the PI3K-AKT-mTOR signaling pathway in LC cells, and reduced PD-L1 expression, thereby promoting tumor immunity. In comparison to traditional immune checkpoint inhibitors, NK-exo possessed unique mechanisms of action and potential advantages. NK-exo holds the promise of becoming an innovative immunotherapy for the treatment of LC.
Uniqueness in Law for the Allen-Cahn SPDE via Change of Measure
Creators: name: Allouba, Hassan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 60H15 (Primary), 35A02 (Secondary)

description: We start by first using change of measure to prove the transfer of uniqueness in law among pairs of parabolic SPDEs differing only by a drift function, under an almost sure $L^2$ condition on the drift/diffusion ratio. This is a considerably weaker condition than the usual Novikov one, and it allows us to prove uniqueness in law for the Allen-Cahn SPDE driven by space-time white noise with diffusion function $a(t,x,u)=Cu^γ$, $1/2\leγ\le1$ and $C\ne0$. The same transfer result is also valid for ordinary SDEs and hyperbolic SPDEs.
description: 6 pages, 1/9 papers of my 2000-2006 collection (preprint version)
Novius rufopilosus Mulsant 1850, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Pang, Hong
name: Tang, Xue-Fei
name: Booth, Roger G.
name: Vandenberg, Natalia
name: Forrester, Juanita
name: Mchugh, Joseph
name: Ślipiński, Adam
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Novius
Novius rufopilosus

description: rufopilosus (Mulsant) comb. nov. Rodolia rufopilosa Mulsant, 1850: 903. Rodolia rowlandi Crotch, 1874: 281. Distribution: China (Shannxi, Gansu, Xizang, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Hong Kong), Vietnam, Myanmar, India, Philippine, Sumatra, Oriental Region.
description: Published as part of Pang, Hong, Tang, Xue-Fei, Booth, Roger G., Vandenberg, Natalia, Forrester, Juanita, Mchugh, Joseph & Ślipiński, Adam, 2020, Revision Of The Australian Coccinellidae (Coleoptera). Genus Novius Mulsant Of Tribe Noviini, pp. 1-24 in Annales Zoologici 70 (1) on page 20, DOI: 10.3161/00034541ANZ2020.70.1.001, http://zenodo.org/record/3776582
description: {"references": ["Mulsant, E. 1850. Species des Coleopteres Trimeres Securipalpes. Annales des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles, d'Agriculture et d'Industrie, publiees par la Societe nationale d'Agriculture, etc., de Lyon, Deuxieme Serie, 2: xv + 1 - 1104 pp.", "Crotch, G. R. 1874. A Revision of the Coleopterous Family Coccinellidae. London: E. W. Janson, xv + 311 pp."]}
Competitive Accretion in Sheet Geometry and the Stellar IMF
Creators: name: Hsu, Wen-hsin
name: Hartmann, Lee
name: Heitsch, Fabian
name: Gómez, Gilberto C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a set of numerical experiments aimed at addressing the applicability of competitive accretion to explain the high-mass end of the stellar initial mass function in a sheet geometry with shallow gravitational potential, in contrast to most previous simulations which have assumed formation in a cluster gravitational potential. Our flat cloud geometry is motivated by models of molecular cloud formation due to large-scale flows in the interstellar medium. The experiments consisted of SPH simulations of gas accretion onto sink particles formed rapidly from Jeans-unstable dense clumps placed randomly in the finite sheet. These simplifications allow us to study accretion with a minimum of free parameters, and to develop better statistics on the resulting mass spectra. We considered both clumps of equal mass and gaussian distributions of masses, and either uniform or spatially-varying gas densities. In all cases, the sink mass function develops a power law tail at high masses, with $dN/dlog M \propto M^{-Γ}$. The accretion rates of individual sinks follow $\dot{M} \propto M^2$ at high masses; this results in a continual flattening of the slope of the mass function towards an asymptotic form $Γ\sim 1$ (where the Salpeter slope is $Γ= 1.35$). The asymptotic limit is most rapidly reached when starting from a relatively broad distribution of initial sink masses. In general the resulting upper mass slope is correlated with the maximum sink mass; higher sink masses are found in simulations with flatter upper mass slopes. Although these simulations are of a highly idealized situation, the results suggest that competitive accretion may be relevant in a wider variety of environments than previously considered, and in particular that the upper mass distribution may generally evolve towards a limiting value of $Γ\sim 1$.
description: 20 pages, 12 figures
Novius senegalensis, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Pang, Hong
name: Tang, Xue-Fei
name: Booth, Roger G.
name: Vandenberg, Natalia
name: Forrester, Juanita
name: Mchugh, Joseph
name: Ślipiński, Adam
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Novius
Novius senegalensis

description: senegalensis (Weise) comb. nov. Rodolia senegalensis Weise, 1913: 226. Distribution: Senegal.
description: Published as part of Pang, Hong, Tang, Xue-Fei, Booth, Roger G., Vandenberg, Natalia, Forrester, Juanita, Mchugh, Joseph & Ślipiński, Adam, 2020, Revision Of The Australian Coccinellidae (Coleoptera). Genus Novius Mulsant Of Tribe Noviini, pp. 1-24 in Annales Zoologici 70 (1) on page 20, DOI: 10.3161/00034541ANZ2020.70.1.001, http://zenodo.org/record/3776582
description: {"references": ["Weise, J. 1913. Synonymische Mitteilungen. Wiener Entomologische Zeitung, 32, pp. 218 - 220."]}
The usefulness of inter-institutional collaboration (teleconsultation, eHealth) in the management of placenta accreta
Creators: name: Nieto-Calvache, Albaro José
name: López-Girón, María Camila
name: Nieto-Calvache, Alejandro Solo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: The availability of interdisciplinary groups trained in morbidly adherent placenta (MAP) is limited. Telemedicine can be a useful strategy to bring patients affected by MAP to institutions specialized in its management. We sought to assess how useful an informal teleconsultation is for MAP cases among users who contacted a reference center for this pathology in a low middle-income country. Likert-type surveys were conducted among specialist physicians who carried out teleconsultation with a MAP experienced institution, for assessing how useful the remote assistance was. In 15-month period, 21 teleconsultations associated with MAP were recorded. Teleconsultation was considered “very useful” by 100% of obstetricians. Among the physicians, 90.5% said they would “definitely use the service again” if they had a new case of MAP and 85.7% said that they would “always recommend” the service to other groups of specialists. Teleconsultation in MAP cases is perceived by service users as a useful tool in the management of affected patients. In a context with few specialized centers in the management of this condition, telemedicine must be taken into account when designing comprehensive care strategies for this rare and highly morbid disease.
A Potentiality and Conceptuality Interpretation of Quantum Physics
Creators: name: Aerts, Diederik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81-XX, 81Pxx

description: We elaborate on a new interpretation of quantum mechanics which we introduced recently. The main hypothesis of this new interpretation is that quantum particles are entities interacting with matter conceptually, which means that pieces of matter function as interfaces for the conceptual content carried by the quantum particles. We explain how our interpretation was inspired by our earlier analysis of non-locality as non-spatiality and a specific interpretation of quantum potentiality, which we illustrate by means of the example of two interconnected vessels of water. We show by means of this example that philosophical realism is not in contradiction with the recent findings with respect to Leggett's inequalities and their violations. We explain our recent work on using the quantum formalism to model human concepts and their combinations and how this has given rise to the foundational ideas of our new quantum interpretation. We analyze the equivalence of meaning in the realm of human concepts and coherence in the realm of quantum particles, and how the duality of abstract and concrete leads naturally to a Heisenberg uncertainty relation. We illustrate the role played by interference and entanglement and show how the new interpretation explains the problems related to identity and individuality in quantum mechanics. We put forward a possible scenario for the emergence of the reality of macroscopic objects.
description: 20 pages, 1 figure
The in silico macrophage: toward a better understanding of inflammatory disease
Creators: name: Ghazal, Peter
name: Watterson, Steven
name: Robertson, Kevin
name: Kluth, David C
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cell Behavior (q-bio.CB)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Macrophages function as sentinel, cell-regulatory hubs capable of initiating, perpetuating and contributing to the resolution of an inflammatory response, following their activation from a resting state. Highly complex and varied gene expression programs within the macrophage enable such functional diversity. To investigate how programs of gene expression relate to the phenotypic attributes of the macrophage, the development of in silico modeling methods is needed. Such models need to cover multiple scales, from molecular pathways in cell-autonomous immunity and intercellular communication pathways in tissue inflammation to whole organism response pathways in systemic disease. Here, we highlight the potential of in silico macrophage modeling as an amenable and important yet under-exploited tool in aiding in our understanding of the immune inflammatory response. We also discuss how in silico macrophage modeling can help in future therapeutic strategies for modulating both the acute protective effects of inflammation (such as host defense and tissue repair) and the harmful chronic effects (such as autoimmune diseases).
description: 7 pages plus 1 figure
The Role of Exosomes in Central Immune Tolerance and Myasthenia Gravis
Creators: name: Zhang, Hanlu
name: Luan, Siyuan
name: Wang, Fuqiang
name: Yang, Lin
name: Chen, Sicheng
name: Li, Zhiyang
name: Wang, Xuyang
name: Wang, Wen-Ping
name: Chen, Long-Qi
name: Wang, Yun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Immune homeostasis plays a crucial role in immunology andis dependent on both central and peripheral tolerance. Centraltolerance and peripheral tolerance occur in the thymus and thesecondary lymphoid tissues, respectively. Tolerance breakdown andimmune regulation defects can lead to autoimmune disorders. In thisreview article, we aimed to describe the role of exosomes inregulating central tolerance and provide a summary of their effectson the pathogenesis, diagnosis, and therapeutic potential inmyasthenia gravis (MG). Articles for this review wereidentified using the PubMed database. As the primarylymphoid organ, the thymus is responsible for building an immunecompetent, yet self-tolerant of T-cell population. Thymic statesinclude thymoma, thymic hyperplasia, and thymic atrophy, which canexert a significant influence on the central immune tolerance andrepresent specific characteristics of MG. Previous studies have foundthat exosomes derived from human thymic epithelial cells carryantigen-presenting molecules and a wide range of tissue restrictedantigens, which may indicate a vital role of thymic exosomes in MG.Besides, exosomal miRNAs and lncRNAs may also play a critical role inthe pathophysiology of MG. This review provides thetherapeutic and diagnostic potential of exosomes in MG patients.
Novius seabrai, comb. nov
Creators: name: Pang, Hong
name: Tang, Xue-Fei
name: Booth, Roger G.
name: Vandenberg, Natalia
name: Forrester, Juanita
name: Mchugh, Joseph
name: Ślipiński, Adam
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Novius
Novius seabrai

description: seabrai (Sicard) comb. nov Rodolia seabrai Sicard, 1921: 5. Distribution: São Tomé.
description: Published as part of Pang, Hong, Tang, Xue-Fei, Booth, Roger G., Vandenberg, Natalia, Forrester, Juanita, Mchugh, Joseph & Ślipiński, Adam, 2020, Revision Of The Australian Coccinellidae (Coleoptera). Genus Novius Mulsant Of Tribe Noviini, pp. 1-24 in Annales Zoologici 70 (1) on page 20, DOI: 10.3161/00034541ANZ2020.70.1.001, http://zenodo.org/record/3776582
description: {"references": ["Sicard, A. 1921 (1920). Descriptions d'especes et varieties nouvelles de Coccinellides de San Thome. Bulletin de la Socis de Cocciaise des Sciences Naturelles, 8 (3): 211 - 214."]}
Fates of duplicated genes : sub-localization, intracellular gene transfer, and concerted evolution
Creators: name: Qiu, Yichun
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: Gene duplication is a major contributor to genome evolution. There are several evolutionary fates of duplicated genes, such as retention with redundancy, subfunctionalization and neofunctionalization. I proposed and characterized examples of three new models here. The first is duplication of an alternatively spliced gene with dual-targeted products, followed by partitioning of the splice forms between the duplicates so that the products of each duplicate are sub-localized. I report the plastid ascorbate peroxidase (cpAPX) genes as an example of sub-localization. I show angiosperms typically have one cpAPX gene that generates both thylakoidal tAPX and stromal sAPX through alternative splicing. I then identified several independent, lineage-specific sub-localization events with paralogs of specialized tAPX and sAPX. I determined that the sub-localization happened through two types of sequence evolution patterns. Second, I show an unreported type of duplicative intracellular transfer: transfer of a nuclear gene to the mitochondrial genome and transcription of the gene. The transcribed orf164 gene in the mitochondrial genome of several Brassicaceae species is derived from a nuclear gene that codes for an auxin responsive protein. Third, I studied POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX2 (PRC2) in Brassicaceae to demonstrate concerted divergence of simultaneously duplicated genes whose products function in the same complex. The VERNALIZATION (VRN)-PRC2 complex contains VRN2 and SWINGER (SWN), and both genes were duplicated during a whole-genome duplication to generate FERTILIZATION INDEPENDENT SEED2 (FIS2) and MEDEA (MEA), which function in the Brassicaceae-specific FIS-PRC2 complex that regulates reproductive development. I found that FIS2 and MEA have correlated reproductive-specific expression patterns that are derived from the broadly expressed VRN2 and SWN. In vegetative tissues of Arabidopsis thaliana, repressive methylation marks are enriched in FIS2 and MEA, whereas active marks are associated with their paralogs. I detected comparable accelerated amino acid substitution rates in FIS2 and MEA but not in their paralogs. These lines of evidence indicate that FIS2 and MEA have diverged in concert, resulting in functional divergence of the PRC2 complexes in Brassicaceae. Overall, the three projects provide new insights into the retention and divergence of duplicated genes.
Decay of Rabi oscillations induced by magnetic dipole interactions in diluted paramagnetic solids
Creators: name: Baibekov, E. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Decay of Rabi oscillations of equivalent spins diluted in diamagnetic solid matrix and coupled by magnetic dipole interactions is studied. It is shown that these interactions result in random shifts of spin transient nutation frequencies and thus lead to the decay of the transient signal. Averaging over random spatial distribution of spins within the solid and over their spectral positions within magnetic resonance line, we obtain analytical expressions for the decay of Rabi oscillations. The rate of the decay in the case when the half-width of magnetic resonance line exceeds Rabi frequency is found to depend on the intensity of resonant microwave field and on the spin concentration. The results are compared with the literature data for E1' centers in glassy silica and [AlO4] centers in quartz.
description: 14 pages, 3 figures
Quantitative predictions on auxin-induced polar distribution of PIN proteins during vein formation in leaves
Creators: name: Alim, Karen
name: Frey, Erwin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Tissues and Organs (q-bio.TO)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Cell Behavior (q-bio.CB)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dynamic patterning of the plant hormone auxin and its efflux facilitator the PIN protein are the key regulator for the spatial and temporal organization of plant development. In particular auxin induces the polar localization of its own efflux facilitator. Due to this positive feedback auxin flow is directed and patterns of auxin and PIN arise. During the earliest stage of vein initiation in leaves auxin accumulates in a single cell in a rim of epidermal cells from which it flows into the ground meristem tissue of the leaf blade. There the localized auxin supply yields the successive polarization of PIN distribution along a strand of cells. We model the auxin and PIN dynamics within cells with a minimal canalization model. Solving the model analytically we uncover an excitable polarization front that triggers a polar distribution of PIN proteins in cells. As polarization fronts may extend to opposing directions from their initiation site we suggest a possible resolution to the puzzling occurrence of bipolar cells, such we offer an explanation for the development of closed, looped veins. Employing non-linear analysis we identify the role of the contributing microscopic processes during polarization. Furthermore, we deduce quantitative predictions on polarization fronts establishing a route to determine the up to now largely unknown kinetic rates of auxin and PIN dynamics.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, supplemental information included, accepted for publication in Eur. Phys. J. E
Tomographie aux rayons X pour évaluer la composition corporelle des carcasses de porcs ibériques
Creators: name: FONT-I-FURNOLS, Maria
name: BRUN, Albert
name: GISPERT, Marina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Computed tomography to assess body composition of Iberian pig carcasses

Iberian pigs are an autochthonous breed with a higher fat content than commercial white pigs. Computed tomography scanning allows non-destructive evaluation of carcass composition. The aim of this study was to assess, using computed tomography, the carcass composition of pure Iberian pigs and crossbreeds of Iberian pigs and white pigs to visualize differences in the distribution of fat and muscle in the anatomical regions of the ham and the loin. For this purpose, two 100% Iberian pig carcasses and four carcasses of crossbreeds of Iberian pigs (50%) were scanned with computed tomography equipment. The scanning procedure was helical, at 140 kV, 145 mA, a 512 × 512 matrix, and 10 mm thickness. Additionally, information on more than 120 carcasses of white pigs was used to obtain mean values. Images were analysed with a program purpose-built in Matlab and with VisualPork software. Results show both visually and quantitatively differences in the distribution of the volume of fat and of muscle in the three pig genotypes. The 100% Iberian carcasses had much more fat than lean. Fat and lean percentages were similar for the 50% Iberian carcasses. Finally, white pig carcasses had much less fat than lean. It can be concluded that carcass composition depends greatly on genotype and that computed tomography can visualize these differences without needing to cut carcasses.