Assessment of a power capping strategy in a multilayer network with a variable number of green nodes

In this paper I propose a network theory of attitudes where attitude agreements and disagreements forge a multilayer network structure that simultaneously binds people into groups (via attitudes) and attitudes into clusters (via people who share them). This theory proposes that people have a range of possible attitudes (like cards in a hand) but these only become meaningful when expressed (like a card played). Attitudes are expressed with sensitivity to their potential audiences and are socially performative: when we express attitudes, or respond to those expressed by others, we tell people who we are, what groups we might belong to and what to think of us. Agreement and disagreement can be modelled as a bipartite network that provides a psychological basis for perceived ingroup similarity and outgroup difference and, more abstractly, group identity. Opinion-based groups and group-related opinions are therefore co-emergent dynamic phenomena. Dynamic fixing occurs when particular attitudes become associated with specific social identities. The theory provides a framework for understanding identity ecosystems in which social group structure and attitudes are co-constituted. The theory describes how attitude change is also identity change. This has broad relevance across disciplines and applications concerned with social influence and attitude change.

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Faculty Opinions recommendation of Both polymorphic variable number of tandem repeats and autoimmune regulator modulate differential expression of insulin in human thymic epithelial cells.

Faculty Opinions – Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature ◽

10.3410/f.7921958.8280057 ◽

2011 ◽

Author(s):

David Serreze

Keyword(s):

Epithelial Cells ◽

Differential Expression ◽

Tandem Repeats ◽

Variable Number ◽

Thymic Epithelial Cells ◽

Autoimmune Regulator

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Multilayer Network Valuation with Equity Conversions

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.3225943 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Matias Puig ◽

Christoph Siebenbrunner

Keyword(s):

Multilayer Network

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Dopaminergic Genes Polymorphisms and Prefrontal Cortex Efficiency Among Obese People - Whether Gender is a Differentiating Factor?

Current Molecular Medicine ◽

10.2174/1566524019666190424143653 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 19 (6) ◽

pp. 405-418

Author(s):

Maciej Bieliński ◽

Natalia Lesiewska ◽

Roman Junik ◽

Anna Kamińska ◽

Andrzej Tretyn ◽

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Keyword(s):

Prefrontal Cortex ◽

Executive Functions ◽

Tandem Repeats ◽

Wisconsin Card Sorting Test ◽

Variable Number ◽

Card Sorting ◽

Obese People ◽

Perseverative Errors ◽

Wisconsin Card Sorting ◽

Sorting Test

Background:Obesity is a chronic condition associated with poorer cognitive functioning. Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) is a useful tool for evaluating executive functions. In this study, we assessed the association between dopaminergic gene polymorphisms: DAT1 (SLC6A3), COMTVal158Met, DRD4 (48-bp variable number of tandem repeats - VNTR) and WCST parameters to investigate the functions of the frontal lobes in obese individuals.Objective:To find the significant correlations between polymorphisms of DAT1, COMTVal158Met, DRD4 and executive functions in obese subjects.Methods:The analysis of the frequency of individual alleles was performed in 248 obese patients (179 women, 69 men). Evaluation of the prefrontal cortex function (operating memory and executive functions) was measured with the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST). Separate analyzes were performed in age subgroups to determine different activities and regulation of genes in younger and older participants.Results:Scores of WCST parameters were different in the subgroups of women and men and in the age subgroups. Regarding the COMT gene, patients with A/A and G/A polymorphisms showed significantly better WCST results in WCST_P, WCST_CC and WCST_1st. Regarding DAT1 men with L/L and L/S made less non-perseverative errors, which was statistically significant. In DRD4, significantly better WCST_1st results were found only in older women with S allele.Conclusion:Obtained results indicate the involvement of dopaminergic transmission in the regulation of prefrontal cortex function. Data analysis indicates that prefrontal cortex function may ensue, from different elements such as genetic factors, metabolic aspects of obesity, and hormonal activity (estrogen).

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Antifúngicos poliénicos. Mecanismo de acción y aplicaciones

Studies in the Economic History of Southern Africa ◽

10.22201/fm.24484865e.2020.63.2.02 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 63 (2) ◽

pp. 7-17

Author(s):

Evelyn Rivera-Toledo ◽

Alan Uriel Jiménez-Delgadillo ◽

Patricia Manzano-Gayosso

Keyword(s):

Antifungal Activity ◽

Key Words ◽

Secondary Metabolism ◽

Amphotericin B ◽

Antifungal Agents ◽

Fungal Infections ◽

Variable Number ◽

Therapeutic Failure ◽

Morbidity And Mortality ◽

Clinical Use

The first compounds with specific antifungal activity were identified in the middle of the last century as a product of the secondary metabolism of bacteria of the order Actinomycetales, and their clinical use significantly diminished the morbidity and mortality associated with severe fungal infections. Many of such biosynthetic compounds are characterized by a chemical polygenic structure, with a variable number of carbon-carbon double bonds. Currently, besides polygenic antimycotics, there are other antifungal agents, such as the azole compounds, that have less toxicity in patients; however, cases of therapeutic failure with such compounds have been documented, therefore, the use of polygenics is still the best alternative in such cases. This review presents data about the properties and applications of antifungal-polygenic compounds using amphotericin B as a model. Key words: Amphotericin B; antifungal polyenes; ergosterol

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Diffusion

10.1093/oso/9780198753919.003.0014 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Ginestra Bianconi

Keyword(s):

Random Walks ◽

Spectral Properties ◽

Diffusion Constant ◽

Network Structures ◽

Multilayer Networks ◽

Multilayer Network ◽

Lévy Walk ◽

Number Of Layers ◽

Levy Walk ◽

Speed Up

This chapter addresses diffusion, random walks and congestion in multilayer networks. Here it is revealed that diffusion on a multilayer network can be significantly speed up with respect to diffusion taking place on its single layers taken in isolation, and that sometimes it is possible also to observe super-diffusion. Diffusion is here characterized on multilayer network structures by studying the spectral properties of the supra-Laplacian and the dependence on the diffusion constant among different layers. Random walks and its variations including the Lévy Walk are shown to reflect the improved navigability of multilayer networks with more layers. These results are here compared with the results of traffic on multilayer networks that, on the contrary, point out that increasing the number of layers could be detrimental and could lead to congestion.

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Centrality Measures

10.1093/oso/9780198753919.003.0009 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Ginestra Bianconi

Keyword(s):

State Of The Art ◽

Centrality Measures ◽

Eigenvector Centrality ◽

Multilayer Networks ◽

Comprehensive Description ◽

Multilayer Network ◽

Suitable Definition ◽

Katz Centrality ◽

Pagerank Centrality

Defining the centrality of nodes and layers in multilayer networks is of fundamental importance for a variety of applications from sociology to biology and finance. This chapter presents the state-of-the-art centrality measures able to characterize the centrality of nodes, the influences of layers or the centrality of replica nodes in multilayer and multiplex networks. These centrality measures include modifications of the eigenvector centrality, Katz centrality, PageRank centrality and Communicability to the multilayer network scenario. The chapter provides a comprehensive description of the research of the field and discusses the main advantages and limitations of the different definitions, allowing the readers that wish to apply these techniques to choose the most suitable definition for his or her case study.

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Characterisation of Plasticity Response for Reciprocating Sliding Wear Test of Ti-6Al-4V under Variables Number of Cycles

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.773-774.168 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 773-774 ◽

pp. 168-172

Author(s):

D. Harun ◽

D. Nalatambi ◽

Ramdziah Md. Nasir ◽

Abdul Latif Mohd Tobi

Keyword(s):

Plastic Deformation ◽

Titanium Alloy ◽

Sliding Wear ◽

Wear Track ◽

Wear Test ◽

Optical Microscope ◽

Variable Number ◽

Reciprocating Sliding ◽

Number Of Cycles ◽

Reciprocating Sliding Wear

Reciprocating sliding wear test of uncoated titanium alloy, Ti-6Al-4V is investigated using pin-on-flat contact arrangement of Ti-6Al-4V/Ti-6Al-4V pair under variable number of cycles at low number of cycles. The worn surfaces of the titanium alloy specimens were analyzed with the use of optical microscope (2D and 3D OM) and Vickers Hardness analysis was carried on. The pattern of the wear scar characteristics determined and the finding at the end of wear track had been focus through the presence at the end of wear track. It is suggesting an evidence of plastic deformation with the increasing in hardness value. The increase in hardness value at the end of wear track indicates increase in the plastic deformation with increasing number of cycles.

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