cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Edessa strigulosa
Creators: name: Grazia, Jocélia
name: Campos, Luiz A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Edessa
Edessa strigulosa

description: Edessa strigulosa. Unpublished name = Edessa Fabricius, 1803. Material examined. One female in fairly good condition. Green label: “ Edessa strigulosa, m. n. sp., Cayenna”. Box 13 (13-14).
description: Published as part of Grazia, Jocélia & Campos, Luiz A., 2010, Neotropical Pentatomidae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of the collection of Massimiliano Spinola preserved in the " Museo Regionale de Scienze Naturali " ̡ Turin ̡ Italy, pp. 413-424 in Zoologia 27 (3) on page 417, DOI: 10.1590/S1984-46702010000300014, http://zenodo.org/record/3968672
Towards the Complete Relational Graph of Fundamental Circuit Elements
Creators: name: Shang, Dashan
name: Chai, Yisheng
name: Cao, Zexian
name: Lu, Jun
name: Sun, Young
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A complete and harmonized fundamental circuit relational graph with four linear and four memory elements is constructed based on newly defined elements, which provides a guide to developing novel circuit functionalities in the future. In addition to resistor, capacitor and inductor which are defined in terms of a linear relationship between the charge q, the current i, the voltage v, and the magnetic flux, Chua proposed in 1971 the fourth linear circuit element to directly relate magnetic flux and charge. A non-linear resistive device defined in memory i-v relation and dubbed memristor, was later attributed to such an element and has been realized in various material structures. Here we clarify that the memristor is not the true fourth fundamental circuit element but the memory extension to the concept of resistor, in analogy to the extension of memcapacitor to capacitor and meminductor to inductor. Instead, a two-terminal device employing the linear magnetoelectric effects, termed transtor, possesses the function of relating directly flux and charge and should take the position of the fourth linear element. Moreover, its memory extension, termed memtranstor, is proposed and analyzed here.
description: 16 pages, 3 figures
Dissipative effects on quarkonium spectral functions
Creators: name: Buyukdag, Yusuf
name: Young, Clint
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quarkonium at finite temperature is described as an open quantum system whose dynamics are determined by a potential $V_R({\bf x})$ and drag coefficient $η$, using a path integral with a non-local term. Path-integral Monte Carlo calculations determine the Euclidean Green function for this system to an accuracy greater than one part in a thousand and the maximum entropy method is used to determine the spectral function; challenges facing any kind of deconvolution are discussed in detail with the aim of developing intuition for when deconvolution is possible. Significant changes to the quarkonium spectral function in the $1S$ channel are found, suggesting that any description of quarkonium at finite temperature, using a potential, must also carefully consider the effect of dissipation.
description: 13 pages, 7 figures, This is the version accepted for publication in Physical Review C
Case study 9: Sensibilities and vulnerabilities of small and medium enterprises in the Upper Rhine Region - Impacts and adaptation of the Rhine transport system. Lessons learned. (D3.4.9 report with french summary)
Creators: name: Julie, Gobert
name: Florence, Rudolf
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: low water
adaptation pathways
collaborative methodology
agenda setting
impact chain
inland river transport

description: In 2018, the Rhine transport sector experienced an unprecedented low-water crisis, during which large cargo vessels were no longer able to navigate on certain sections of the river. This led to a major disruption in the inland waterway transport. The severity of this crisis, which was the result of several months of drought, reinforced by heat waves and low rainfall over the same period, caused a major disruption in the inland navigation sector. Some of the traffic was absorbed by other intermodal providers and the wagon load rail system but it was not sufficient. This report presents the results of a study where researchers and river transport stakeholders have striven to find sustainable adaptation pathways and how the mixed methodology combining semi-directive interviews and collective brainstorming with the help of a collaborative methodology (particularly deployed into engineering design processes based on the use of a specific software (TRIZ) could help to integrate nuances. This could consequently allow stakeholders to write stronger collaborative narratives for adaptation pathways and to apprehend the impact chain concept.
Anorthoneis tenuis Hustedt 1955
Creators: name: Pennesi, Chiara
name: Majewska, Roksana
name: Sterrenburg, Frithjof A. S.
name: Totti, Cecilia
name: Stefano, Mario De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Chromista
Ochrophyta
Bacillariophyceae
Achnanthales
Cocconeidaceae
Anorthoneis
Anorthoneis tenuis

description: Anorthoneis tenuis Hustedt 1955: 15 (Figs 97–111)
 References:— Hustedt (1955), p. 15, pl. 2 fig. 5, pl. 5 figs 14–15; Simonsen (1987), p. 405, pl. 603, figs 15–20.
 Description: — Valves elliptic to broadly elliptic (Figs 104, 109). Apical axis: 8.5–14.5 μm, transapical axis: 7.5–9.5 μm.
  SV:—  Externally, valve face concave to convex close to the short mantle terminating in a hyaline marginal area (Fig. 103). Sternum slightly asymmetrical, narrow, terminating in subcircular terminal areas (Fig. 103). Central area very small (Fig. 103). Transapical striae uniseriate, 18–22 in 10 μm, slightly radiate throughout the whole valve surface. Uniseriate stria composed of small circular areolae (20–22 in 10 μm) internally occluded by hymenes (Figs 105, 106). Close to the valve margin, areolae appear to be smaller and transapically elongated (Fig. 105) Internally, sternum asymmetrical, wide, clearly thickened and raised, expanding centrally into large asymmetrical subcircular central area and distally into roundish to subtriangular terminal areas, distant from the valve margin (104, 107). Other valve structures are similar to the external ones.
  RSV:—  Valves lightly silicified. Externally. Valve face almost flat, becoming concave close to the very short and shallow mantle (Figs 109, 110). Raphe-sternum apically asymmetric, very narrow, linear, terminating close to the valve face-mantle junction (Figs 109, 110). Central and terminal areas very small, hardly discernible (Figs 108, 111). Striae uniseriate, 30 in 10 μm, becoming biseriate on the mantle (Figs 109, 111). Areolae small, roundish, 35 in 10 μm, occluded by hymenes ultrastructurally similar to those in the SV. The low level of silicification and the small dimensions of areolae give the valve face almost hyaline appearance (Fig 109). Both the central and the distal raphe endings are expanded, pore-like (Figs 108, 115), the latter terminating somewhat distant from the valve margin (Fig. 111). Valvocopula open, with a smooth inner margin (Fig. 109).
description: Published as part of Pennesi, Chiara, Majewska, Roksana, Sterrenburg, Frithjof A. S., Totti, Cecilia & Stefano, Mario De, 2018, Taxonomic revision and morphological cladistics analysis of the diatom genus Anorthoneis (Cocconeidaceae), with description of Anorthoneis arthus-bertrandii sp. nov., pp. 201-238 in Phytotaxa 336 (3) on pages 225-227, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.336.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13720104
Supplementary material for paper titled "Preventable COVID-19 cases and deaths by alternative vaccination and non-pharmacological interventions policies in Brazil
Creators: name: For Double-Blind Review
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Epidemiological Model
COVID-19
non-pharmacological interventions
Vaccines
Health planning

description: One key issue in the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic concerns understanding the impact of the vaccination program and non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) in cases and deaths. The lack of comprehension of the vaccination program and NPIs strategies compromises their effectiveness in the future. Thus, this work aims to estimate the avoidable COVID-19 cases and deaths with the anticipation of vaccination, additional doses, and effective NPIs in Brazil. To this end, an experimental study applying a susceptible-exposed-infectious-recovered-susceptible model with parameters adjusted in a timeline using historical records from the Brazilian Unified Health of the Brazilian states estimates the number of cases and deaths for different vaccination program and NPIs scenarios in Brazil (from 2020 March 8 until 2022 June 5). The model-based estimate shows that 1.3 months of vaccination anticipation, additional vaccine doses, and a higher level the NPIs would reduce and delay the pandemic peak. There would be 17,121,749 fewer COVID-19 cases and 391,647 avoidable deaths in the country. Finally, our results suggest that if 80% of the Brazilian population had been vaccinated by May 2021, there would 59.83% of death avoided in Brazil.
Timing of HIV Seroreversion Among HIV-Exposed, Breastfed Infants in Malawi: Type of HIV Rapid Test Matters
Creators: name: Nelson, Julie A. E.
name: Wheeler, Stephanie
name: Smith, Emily R.
name: Hudgens, Michael
name: Sheahan, Anna D.
name: Dube, Queen
name: Miller, William C.
name: Van Rie, Annelies
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Introduction Rapid HIV serological tests are a cost-effective, point-of-care test among HIV exposed infants but cannot distinguish between maternal and infant antibodies. The lack of data on the timing of decay of maternal antibodies in young infants hinders the potential use of rapid tests in exposed infants. We aimed to determine the time to seroreversion for two commonly used rapid tests in a prospective cohort of HIV-exposed breastfeeding infants ages 3-18 months of life. Methods We collected data on the performance of two commonly used rapid tests (Determine and Unigold) in Malawi between 2008 and 2012 or at the University of North Carolina between 2014 and 2015. Time to seroreversion was estimated for both rapid tests using the Kaplan-Meier product limit estimator which allows for interval censored data. Results At 3 months of age, 3 % of infants had seroreverted according to Determine and 7 % had seroreverted according to Unigold. About one in four infants had achieved seroreversion by 4 months using Unigold, but only about one in twelve infants by 4 months when using Determine. More than 95 % of all infants had seroverted by 7 months according to Unigold and by 12 months according to the Determine assay. Discussion We show that the time of seroreversion depends greatly on the type of test used. Our results highlight the need for recommendations to specify the timing and type of test used in the context of infant HIV detection in resource-poor settings, and base the interpretation of test result on knowledge of time to seroreversion of the selected test.
Subvacuum effects in Quantum Critical Theories from Holographic Approach
Creators: name: Yeh, Chen-Pin
name: Lee, Da-Shin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Subvacuum phenomena on a massive particle induced by a squeezed vacuum state of strongly coupled critical fields with a dynamical scaling $z$ are studied by employing the holographic approach. The corresponding dual description is the string moving in the 4+1-dimensional Lifshitz geometry. The squeezed vacuum state is constructed from the Bogoliubov transformations of the creation and annihilation operators of the pure vacuum state as a result from the perturbed geometry. Then the influence on particle's velocity dispersion from the squeezed vacuum is studied. With appropriate choices of squeezing parameters, the velocity dispersion is found smaller than the value caused by the normal vacuum fluctuations. This leads to a subvacuum effect. We find that the reduction in the velocity dispersion is suppressed by a large coupling constant of quantum critical fields, but is in principle observable. We then investigate the effect of the squeezed vacuum to the decoherence dynamics of a quantum particle. It is found possible for this decoherence to be below the level from the pure vacuum, rendering another subvacuum phenomenon of recoherence. We make some estimates of the degree of recoherence, and show that, in contrary to the velocity dispersion, the recoherence effect is proportional to the large coupling constant, and can potentially be observed. Finally we make a comparison with the effect on the particle influenced by a relativistic free field with the dynamical scaling $z=1$.
description: This is the version (v2) published in PRD
Epipedus histrio Spinola, L. H. Rolston 1986
Creators: name: Grazia, Jocélia
name: Campos, Luiz A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Epipedus
Epipedus histrio

description: Epipedus histrio Spinola ̡ 1837: 315-316 Material examined. Two females, one in poor condition and the other in fairly good condition. White label: “ Epipedus histrio Spin., D. Buquet Brésil (cotype)”. Red label: “ Lectotype Epipedus histrio Spinola, L. H. Rolston 1986 ”. Green label: “ Epipedus histrio, Spin., D. Buquet Brésil ”. Box 19 (19).
description: Published as part of Grazia, Jocélia & Campos, Luiz A., 2010, Neotropical Pentatomidae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of the collection of Massimiliano Spinola preserved in the " Museo Regionale de Scienze Naturali " ̡ Turin ̡ Italy, pp. 413-424 in Zoologia 27 (3) on page 417, DOI: 10.1590/S1984-46702010000300014, http://zenodo.org/record/3968672
Synergistic In Vitro Anticancer Toxicity of Pulsed Electric Fields and Glutathione
Creators: name: Wolff, Christina M.
name: Bekeschus, Sander
Publisher: name: Basel : Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI)
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: apoptosis
subject: ECT
subject: electrochemotherapy
subject: GSH
subject: leukemia
subject: melanoma
subject: reactive oxygen species
subject: SCC
subject: skin cancer
subject: squamous cell carcinoma
subject: 570
subject: 540

description: Despite continuous advancement in skin cancer therapy, the disease is still fatal in many patients, demonstrating the need to improve existing therapies, such as electrochemotherapy (ECT). ECT can be applied in the palliative or curative setting and is based on the application of pulsed electric fields (PEF), which by themselves exerts none to low cancer toxicity but become potently toxic when combined with low-dosed chemotherapeutics such as bleomycin and cisplatin. Albeit their favorable side-effect profiles, not all patients respond to standard ECT, and some responders experience tumor recurrence. To identify potential adjuvant or alternative agents to standard electrochemotherapy, we explored the possibility of combining PEF with a physiological compound, glutathione (GSH), to amplify anticancer toxicity. GSH is an endogenous antioxidant and is available as a dietary supplement. Surprisingly, neither GSH nor PEF mono treatment but GSH + PEF combination treatment exerted strong cytotoxic effects and declined metabolic activity in four skin cancer cell lines in vitro. The potential applicability to other tumor cells was verified by corroborating results in two leukemia cell lines. Strikingly, GSH + PEF treatment did not immediately increase intracellular GSH levels, while levels 24 h following treatment were enhanced. Similar tendencies were made for intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels, while extracellular ROS increased following combination treatment. ROS levels and the degree of cytotoxicity could be partially reversed by pre-incubating cells with the NADPH-oxidase (NOX) inhibitor diphenyleneiodonium (DPI) and the H2O2-degrading enzyme catalase. Collectively, our findings suggest a promising new “endogenous” drug to be combined with PEF for future anticancer research approaches.
Verified modeling of a low pressure hydrogen plasma generated by electron cyclotron resonance
Creators: name: Sigeneger, F.
name: Ellis, J.
name: Harhausen, J.
name: Lang, N.
name: Van Helden, J.H.
Publisher: name: Bristol : IOP Publ.
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: ECR
subject: fluid model
subject: hydrogen
subject: plasma
subject: TALIF
subject: 530

description: A self-consistent fluid model has been successfully developed and employed to model an electron cyclotron resonance driven hydrogen plasma at low pressure. This model has enabled key insights to be made on the mutual interaction of microwave propagation, power density, plasma generation, and species transport at conditions where the critical plasma density is exceeded. The model has been verified by two experimental methods. Good agreement with the ion current density and floating potential—as measured by a retarding energy field analyzer—and excellent agreement with the atomic hydrogen density—as measured by two-photon absorption laser induced fluorescence—enables a high level of confidence in the validity of the simulation.
Factors associated with early growth in Egyptian infants: implications for addressing the dual burden of malnutrition
Creators: name: Kavle, Justine A.
name: Salah, Farouk
name: Hafez, Seham
name: Galloway, Rae
name: Ramzy, Magda
name: Abdelmegeid, Ali
name: Flax, Valerie L.
name: Hamed, Doaa
name: Saleh, Gulsen
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Optimal nutrition is critical to the attainment of healthy growth, human capital and sustainable development. In Egypt, infants and young children face overlapping forms of malnutrition, including micronutrient deficiencies, stunting and overweight. Yet, in this setting, little is known about the factors associated with growth during the first year of life. A rise in stunting in Lower Egypt from 2005 to 2008 prompted this implementation research study, which followed a longitudinal cohort of infants from birth to 1 year of age within the context of a USAID-funded maternal and child health integrated programme. We sought to determine if growth patterns and factors related to early growth differed in Lower and Upper Egypt, and examined the relationship between weight loss and subsequent stunting at 12 months of age. Growth patterns revealed that length-for-age z-score (LAZ) decreased and weight-for-length z-score (WLZ) increased from 6 to 12 months of age in both regions. One-quarter of infants were stunted and nearly one-third were overweight by 12 months of age in lower Egypt. Minimum dietary diversity was significantly associated with WLZ in Lower Egypt (β = 0.22, P < 0.05), but not in Upper Egypt. Diarrhoea, fever and programme exposure were not associated with any growth outcome. Weight loss during any period was associated with a twofold likelihood of stunting at 12 months in Lower Egypt, but not Upper Egypt. In countries, like Egypt, facing the nutrition transition, infant and young child nutrition programmes need to address both stunting and overweight through improving dietary quality and reducing reliance on energy-dense foods.
Combined toxicity of indirubins with cold physical plasma in skin cancer cells in vitro
Creators: name: Berner, Julia
name: Bekeschus, Sander
Publisher: name: Bristol : IOP Publ.
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: plasma medicine
subject: reactive oxygen species
subject: ROS
subject: 530

description: Cold physical plasma is a partially ionized gas that generates various components identified as potential anticancer compounds. Due to its topical application, cold plasmas are suitable, especially in dermatological applications. We, therefore, tested the cold plasma effects in skin cancer cells in vitro. An atmospheric pressure argon plasma jet was used as the plasma source. The plasma exposure alone reduced the metabolic activity and induced lethal effects in a treatment time-dependent fashion in both cell lines investigated. This was accompanied by executioner caspases 3 and 7, cleavage indicative of apoptosis and reduced cell migration and proliferation. Recent research also indicated roles of novel indirubin derivatives with potent anticancer effects. Three candidates were tested, and reduced metabolic activity and viability in a dose-dependent manner were found. Strikingly, one compound exerted notable synergistic toxicity when combined with plasma in skin cancer cells, which may be promising for future in vivo experiments.
Different Radial Modification Profiles Observed on APPJ-Treated Polypropylene Surfaces according to the Distance between Plasma Outlet and Target
Creators: name: Do Nascimento, Fellype
name: Silva Leal, Bruno
name: Quade, Antje
name: Kostov, Konstantin Georgiev
Publisher: name: Basel : MDPI
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: DBD plasma
subject: plasma jets
subject: plasma treatment
subject: polymer treatment
subject: transferred plasma
subject: 540

description: The plasma jet transfer technique relies on a conductive wire at floating potential, which, upon entering in contact with a primary discharge, is capable of igniting a small plasma plume at the distal end of a long flexible plastic tube. In this work, two different long tube configurations were employed for the surface modification of polypropylene (PP) samples using argon as the working gas. One of the jet configurations has a thin copper (Cu) wire, which was installed inside the long tube. In the other configuration, the floating electrode is a metallic mesh placed between two plastic tubes in a coaxial arrangement. In the first case, the tip of the Cu wire is in direct contact with the working gas at the plasma outlet, whereas, in the second, the inner plastic tube provides an additional dielectric barrier that prevents the conductor from being in contact with the gas. Water contact angle (WCA) measurements on treated PP samples revealed that different surface modification radial profiles are formed when the distance (d) between the plasma outlet and target is changed. Moreover, it was found that the highest WCA reduction does not always occur at the point where the plasma impinges the surface of the material, especially when the d value is small. Through X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) analysis, it was confirmed that the WCA values are directly linked to the oxygen-functional groups formed on the PP surfaces after the plasma treatment. An analysis of the WCA measurements along the surface, as well as their temporal evolution, together with the XPS data, suggest that, when the treatment is performed at small d values, the plasma jet removes some functional groups at the point where the plasma hits the surface, thus leading to peculiar WCA profiles.
Loxa flavicollis
Creators: name: Grazia, Jocélia
name: Campos, Luiz A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Loxa
Loxa flavicollis

description: Loxa flavicollis (Drury̡ 1773) Material examined. Two females, one in very good condition and one in fairly good condition. Two females in very poor condition. White label: “ Loxa flavicollis, var. virescens, Brasilia ”. Green label: “ Loxa flavicollisi, (Cimex) Drury et Dall. – Chlorocoris virescens m. oliva, Brasilia”. Box 19 (19).
description: Published as part of Grazia, Jocélia & Campos, Luiz A., 2010, Neotropical Pentatomidae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of the collection of Massimiliano Spinola preserved in the " Museo Regionale de Scienze Naturali " ̡ Turin ̡ Italy, pp. 413-424 in Zoologia 27 (3) on page 417, DOI: 10.1590/S1984-46702010000300014, http://zenodo.org/record/3968672
Group cell phones are feasible and acceptable for promoting optimal breastfeeding practices in a women's microcredit program in Nigeria
Creators: name: Bentley, Margaret E.
name: Ibrahim, Alawiyatu Usman
name: Negerie, Mekebeb
name: Yakubu, Danjuma
name: Leatherman, Sheila
name: Flax, Valerie L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: As part of a breastfeeding promotion intervention trial in Nigeria, we provided one cell phone per group of 5-7 microcredit clients, and instructed the group's cell phone recipient to share weekly breastfeeding voice and text messages with group members. We measured the feasibility and acceptability of using group cell phones by conducting semi-structured exit interviews with 195 microcredit clients whose babies were born during the intervention (target group), in-depth interviews with 8 phone recipients and 9 non-phone recipients, and 16 focus group discussions (FGDs) with other microcredit clients. Women in the target group said the group phone worked well or very well (64%). They were motivated to try the recommended practices because they trusted the information (58%) and had support from others (35%). Approximately 44% of target women reported that their groups met and shared messages at least once a week. Women in groups that met at least weekly had higher odds of exclusive breastfeeding up to 6 months (OR 5.6, 95% CI 1.6, 19.7) than women in groups that never met. In-depth interviews and FGDs indicated that non-phone recipients had positive feelings toward phone recipients, the group phone met participants’ needs, and messages were often shared outside the group. In conclusion, group cell phone messaging to promote breastfeeding among microcredit clients is feasible and acceptable, and can be part of an effective behavior change package.
Cosmological evolution of thermal relic particles in $f(R)$ gravity
Creators: name: Capozziello, S.
name: Galluzzi, V.
name: Lambiase, G.
name: Pizza, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By considering $f(R)$ gravity models, the cosmic evolution is modified with respect to the standard $Λ$CDM scenario. In particular, the thermal history of particles results modified. In this paper, we derive the evolution of relics particles (WIMPs) assuming a reliable $f(R)$ cosmological solution and taking into account observational constraints. The connection to the PAMELA experiment is also discussed. Results are consistent with constraints coming from BICEP2 and PLANCK experiments.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
Ubaldino Peruzzi a Luigi Ridolfi (15 dicembre 1856)
Creators: name: Peruzzi, Ubaldino
name: Ridolfi, Luigi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Accademia dei Georgofili
Peruzzi, Ubaldino
Ridolfi, Luigi
Lettera
Letter
Carteggio
Correspondence
1856

description: Lettera di Ubaldino Peruzzi a Luigi Ridolfi del 15 dicembre 1856. Segnatura dell’unità documentale: Archivio storico dell’Accademia dei Georgofili, Carteggio, Busta 32, 3259. Natura: manoscritto. Consistenza: cc. 2
description: Digitalizzato come parte della Mostra virtuale: Ubaldino Peruzzi : un percorso in rete : in occasione del bicentenario della nascita https://www.georgofili.it/contenuti/ubaldino-peruzzi-un-percorso-in-rete/17485
Wide band gap CZTGSe devices above 8% efficiency by in-process vapor phase incorporation of Germanium
Creators: name: Khonsor, Talat
name: Nowak, David
name: Pareek, Devendra
name: Gütay, Levent
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: 11th Kesterite Workshop Presentation, Talat Khonsor
Relation between the strength and dimensionality of defect-free carbon crystals
Creators: name: Kotrechko, Sergey
name: Timoshevskii, Andrey
name: Kolyvoshko, Eugene
name: Matviychuk, Yuriy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: On the basis of ab-initio simulations, the value of strength of interatomic bonds in one-, two- and three-dimensional carbon crystals is obtained. It is shown that decreasing in dimensionality of crystal gives rise to nearly linear increase in strength of atomic bonds. It is ascertained that growth of strength of the crystal with a decrease in it dimensionality is due to both a reduction in coordination number of atom and increase in the angle between the directions of atomic bonds. Based on these data, it is substantiated that the one-dimensional crystals have maximum strength, and strength of carbyne is the absolute upper limit of strength of materials
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
Macropygium atrum Spinola
Creators: name: Grazia, Jocélia
name: Campos, Luiz A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Macropygium
Macropygium atrum

description: Macropygium atrum Spinola ̡ 1837: 288. = Macropygium reticulare (Fabricius, 1803); DALLAS (1851: 150, 158-159). Material examined. One female in fairly good condition; three males, two in good condition and one in poor condition, lacking the pygophore. Green label: “ Macropygium atrum Spin. ♂ ♀, D. Buquet Brésil ”. Remarks. SPINOLA (1837: 288) described M. atrum based on one male collected by M. Dupont in Brazil and stated that the female of the species was unknown. Box 18 (18).
description: Published as part of Grazia, Jocélia & Campos, Luiz A., 2010, Neotropical Pentatomidae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of the collection of Massimiliano Spinola preserved in the " Museo Regionale de Scienze Naturali " ̡ Turin ̡ Italy, pp. 413-424 in Zoologia 27 (3) on page 417, DOI: 10.1590/S1984-46702010000300014, http://zenodo.org/record/3968672
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Improved error thresholds for measurement-free error correction
Creators: name: Crow, Daniel
name: Joynt, Robert
name: Saffman, Mark
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by limitations and capabilities of neutral atom qubits, we examine whether measurement-free error correction can produce practical error thresholds. We show that this can be achieved by extracting redundant syndrome information, giving our procedure extra fault tolerance and eliminating the need for ancilla verification. The procedure is particularly favorable when multi-qubit gates are available for the correction step. Simulations of the bit-flip, Bacon-Shor, and Steane codes indicate that coherent error correction can produce threshold error rates that are on the order of $10^{-3}$ to $10^{-4}$---comparable with or better than measurement-based values, and much better than previous results for other coherent error correction schemes. This indicates that coherent error correction is worthy of serious consideration for achieving protected logical qubits.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures
A Novel Multiobjective Quantum-Behaved Particle Swarm Optimization Based on the Ring Model
Creators: name: Jiang, Bin
name: Zhou, Di
name: Wang, Jun
name: Li, Yajun
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Due to its fast convergence and population-based nature, particle swarm optimization (PSO) has been widely applied to address the multiobjective optimization problems (MOPs). However, the classical PSO has been proved to be not a global search algorithm. Therefore, there may exist the problem of not being able to converge to global optima in the multiobjective PSO-based algorithms. In this paper, making full use of the global convergence property of quantum-behaved particle swarm optimization (QPSO), a novel multiobjective QPSO algorithm based on the ring model is proposed. Based on the ring model, the position-update strategy is improved to address MOPs. The employment of a novel communication mechanism between particles effectively slows down the descent speed of the swarm diversity. Moreover, the searching ability is further improved by adjusting the position of local attractor. Experiment results show that the proposed algorithm is highly competitive on both convergence and diversity in solving the MOPs. In addition, the advantage becomes even more obvious with the number of objectives increasing.
Gas Plasma Protein Oxidation Increases Immunogenicity and Human Antigen-Presenting Cell Maturation and Activation
Creators: name: Clemen, Ramona
name: Arlt, Kevin
name: Von Woedtke, Thomas
name: Bekeschus, Sander
Publisher: name: Basel : MDPI
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: antigen uptake
subject: APCs
subject: dendritic cells
subject: kINPen
subject: monocytes
subject: plasma medicine
subject: reactive oxygen species
subject: ROS
subject: 610

description: Protein vaccines rely on eliciting immune responses. Inflammation is a prerequisite for immune responses to control infection and cancer but is also associated with disease onset. Reactive oxygen species (ROSs) are central during inflammation and are capable of inducing non-enzymatic oxidative protein modifications (oxMods) associated with chronic disease, which alter the functionality or immunogenicity of proteins that are relevant in cancer immunotherapy. Specifically, antigen-presenting cells (APCs) take up and degrade extracellular native and oxidized proteins to induce adaptive immune responses. However, it is less clear how oxMods alter the protein’s immunogenicity, especially in inflammation-related short-lived reactive species. Gas plasma technology simultaneously generates a multitude of ROSs to modify protein antigens in a targeted and controlled manner to study the immunogenicity of oxMods. As model proteins relevant to chronic inflammation and cancer, we used gas plasma-treated insulin and CXCL8. We added those native or oxidized proteins to human THP-1 monocytes or primary monocyte-derived cells (moDCs). Both oxidized proteins caused concentration-independent maturation phenotype alterations in moDCs and THP-1 cells concerning surface marker expression and chemokine and cytokine secretion profiles. Interestingly, concentration-matched H2O2-treated proteins did not recapitulate the effects of gas plasma, suggesting sufficiently short diffusion distances for the short-lived reactive species to modify proteins. Our data provide evidence of dendric cell maturation and activation upon exposure to gas plasma- but not H2O2-modified model proteins. The biological consequences of these findings need to be elucidated in future inflammation and cancer disease models.
Hydrogen peroxide production of underwater nanosecond-pulsed streamer discharges with respect to pulse parameters and associated discharge characteristics
Creators: name: Rataj, Raphael
name: Werneburg, Matthias
name: Below, Harald
name: Kolb, Juergen F.
Publisher: name: Bristol : IOP Publ.
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: hydrogen peroxide
subject: nanosecond-pulsed streamer
subject: plasma chemistry
subject: plasma in liquids
subject: pulsed power
subject: 530

description: Abstract Pulsed streamer discharges submerged in water have demonstrated potential in a number of applications. Especially the generation of discharges by short high-voltage pulses in the nanosecond range has been found to offer advantages with respect to efficacies and efficiencies. The exploited plasma chemistry generally relies on the initial production of short-lived species, e.g. hydroxyl radicals. Since the diagnostic of these transient species is not readily possible, a quantification of hydrogen peroxide provides an adequate assessment of underlying reactions. These conceivably depend on the characteristics of the high-voltage pulses, such as pulse duration, pulse amplitude, as well as pulse steepness. A novel electrochemical flow-injection system was used to relate these parameters to hydrogen peroxide concentrations. Accordingly, the accumulated hydrogen peroxide production for streamer discharges ignited in deionized water was investigated for pulse durations of 100 ns and 300 ns, pulse amplitudes between 54 kV and 64 kV, and pulse rise times from 16 ns to 31 ns. An independent control of the individual pulse parameters was enabled by providing the high-voltage pulses with a Blumlein line. Applied voltage, discharge current, optical light emission and time-integrated images were recorded for each individual discharge to determine dissipated energy, inception statistic, discharge expansion and the lifetime of a discharge. Pulse steepness did not affect the hydrogen peroxide production rate, but an increase in amplitude of 10 kV for 100 ns pulses nearly doubled the rate to (0.19 ± 0.01) mol l−1 s−1, which was overall the highest determined rate. The energy efficiency did not change with pulse amplitude, but was sensitive to pulse duration. Notably, production rate and efficiency doubled when the pulse duration decreased from 300 ns to 100 ns, resulting in the best peroxide production efficiency of (9.2 ± 0.9) g kWh−1. The detailed analysis revealed that the hydrogen peroxide production rate could be described by the energy dissipation in a representative single streamer. The production efficiency was affected by the corresponding discharge volume, which was comprised by the collective volume of all filaments. Hence, dissipating more energy in a filament resulted in an increased production rate, while increasing the relative volume of the discharge compared to its propagation time increased the energy efficiency.
Low-Cost Laser-Acoustic PVC Identification System Based on a Simple Neural Network
Creators: name: Timmermann, Eric
name: Geißler, Philip
name: Bansemer, Robert
Publisher: name: Basel : MDPI
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: laser acoustic
subject: laser cutting
subject: neural network
subject: plastics
subject: polymer classification
subject: safety
subject: sorting
subject: 620

description: Desktop laser cutters are an affordable and flexible rapid-prototyping tool, but some materials cannot be safely processed. Among them is polyvinyl chloride (PVC), which users usually cannot distinguish from other, unproblematic plastics. Therefore, an identification system for PVC applicable in a low-cost laser cutter has been developed. For the first time, this approach makes use of the laser-ablative sound generated by a low-power laser diode. Using a capacitor microphone, a preprocessing algorithm and a very simple neural network, black PVC could be detected with absolute reliability under ideal conditions. With ambient noise, the accuracy dropped to 80%. A different color of the material did not influence the accuracy to detect PVC, but a susceptibility of the method against a color change was found for other materials. The ablation characteristics for different materials were recorded using a fast-framing camera to get a better insight into the mechanisms behind the investigated process. Although there is still potential for improvements, the presented method was found to be promising to enhance the safety of future desktop laser cutters.
The “Scope” of Post-ERCP Pancreatitis
Creators: name: Parekh, Parth J.
name: Sikka, Sanjay K.
name: Baron, Todd H.
name: Majithia, Raj
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: AbstractPancreatitis is the most common adverse event of endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography, with the potential for clinically significant morbidity and mortality. Several patient and procedural risk factors have been identified that increase the risk of post–endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography pancreatitis (PEP). Considerable research efforts have identified several pharmacologic and procedural interventions that can drastically affect the incidence of PEP. This review article addresses the underlying mechanisms at play for the development of PEP, identifying patient and procedural risk factors and meaningful use of risk-stratification information, and details current interventions aimed at reducing the risk of this complication.
Ochlerus cinctus Spinola 1837
Creators: name: Grazia, Jocélia
name: Campos, Luiz A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Ochlerus
Ochlerus cinctus

description: Ochlerus cinctus Spinola ̡ 1837: 295 (Figs 8 ̡ 19) Material examined. Two females in fairly good condition. Green label: “ Ochlerus cinctus var., D. Buquet Brasilia”. Remarks. One female is here designated LECTOTYPE, considering there are two females under the same green label and to assign a single specimen of this species as the namebearer. SPINOLA (1837: 295) mentioned a female and a male in his description; however, the male has not been located. Box 18 (18).
description: Published as part of Grazia, Jocélia & Campos, Luiz A., 2010, Neotropical Pentatomidae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of the collection of Massimiliano Spinola preserved in the " Museo Regionale de Scienze Naturali " ̡ Turin ̡ Italy, pp. 413-424 in Zoologia 27 (3) on pages 417-419, DOI: 10.1590/S1984-46702010000300014, http://zenodo.org/record/3968672
description: {"references": ["SPINOLA, M. 1837. Essai sur les genres d'insectes appartenants a l'ordre des Hemipteres, Lin. ou Rhyngotes, Fab. et a la section des Heteropteres, Dufour. Genoa, Yves Graviers, 383 p."]}
Maximal Stochastic Transport in the Lorenz Equations
Creators: name: Agarwal, Sahil
name: Wettlaufer, J. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We calculate the stochastic upper bounds for the Lorenz equations using an extension of the background method. In analogy with Rayleigh-Bénard convection the upper bounds are for heat transport versus Rayleigh number. As might be expected, the stochastic upper bounds are larger than the deterministic counterpart of \citet{Doering15}, but their variation with noise amplitude exhibits interesting behavior. Below the transition to chaotic dynamics the upper bounds increase monotonically with noise amplitude. However, in the chaotic regime this monotonicity depends on the number of realizations in the ensemble; at a particular Rayleigh number the bound may increase or decrease with noise amplitude. The origin of this behavior is the coupling between the noise and unstable periodic orbits, the degree of which depends on the degree to which the ensemble represents the ergodic set. This is confirmed by examining the close returns plots of the full solutions to the stochastic equations and the numerical convergence of the noise correlations. The numerical convergence of both the ensemble and time averages of the noise correlations is sufficiently slow that it is the limiting aspect of the realization of these bounds. Finally, we note that the full solutions of the stochastic equations demonstrate that the effect of noise is equivalent to the effect of chaos.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
An analogue of the Littlewood-Paley theorem for orthoprojectors onto wavelet subspaces
Creators: name: Kudryavtsev, S. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 42B25, 42C40

description: The article proves an assertion analogous to the Littlewood-Paley theorem for the orthoprojectors onto wavelet subspaces corresponding to the nonisotropic multiresolution analysis generated as tensor product of smooth scaling single-variable functions sufficiently rapidly vanishing at infinity.
description: 93 pages, in Russian
Case study 9: Sensibilities and vulnerabilities of small and medium enterprises in the Upper Rhine Region - Impacts and adaptation of the Rhine transport system. Internal note issued to local stakeholders (D3.1.9)
Creators: name: Gobert, Julie
name: Rudolf, Florence
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Présentation du projet de recherche aux acteurs pour les impliquer dans le processus méthodologique. Short presentation of the research objectives in order to involve them in the methodological process.
A Spatial Layout and Scale Invariant Feature Representation for Indoor Scene Classification
Creators: name: Hayat, Munawar
name: Khan, Salman H.
name: Bennamoun, Mohammed
name: An, Senjian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Unlike standard object classification, where the image to be classified contains one or multiple instances of the same object, indoor scene classification is quite different since the image consists of multiple distinct objects. Further, these objects can be of varying sizes and are present across numerous spatial locations in different layouts. For automatic indoor scene categorization, large scale spatial layout deformations and scale variations are therefore two major challenges and the design of rich feature descriptors which are robust to these challenges is still an open problem. This paper introduces a new learnable feature descriptor called "spatial layout and scale invariant convolutional activations" to deal with these challenges. For this purpose, a new Convolutional Neural Network architecture is designed which incorporates a novel 'Spatially Unstructured' layer to introduce robustness against spatial layout deformations. To achieve scale invariance, we present a pyramidal image representation. For feasible training of the proposed network for images of indoor scenes, the paper proposes a new methodology which efficiently adapts a trained network model (on a large scale data) for our task with only a limited amount of available training data. Compared with existing state of the art, the proposed approach achieves a relative performance improvement of 3.2%, 3.8%, 7.0%, 11.9% and 2.1% on MIT-67, Scene-15, Sports-8, Graz-02 and NYU datasets respectively.