550 research outputs found
Electrojet control of ambient ionization near the crest of the equatorial anomaly in the Indian zone
Acculturation preferences and perceived (dis)loyalty of Muslims in the U.K.: Two vignette-based experimental studies
Muslims in the U.K. who maintain their religious culture are often viewed as a suspect community. This pre-registered experimental research examined the mediating role of perceived (dis)loyalty as underlying process and the moderating role of acculturation expectations. A total of 334 non-Muslim White British participants in Study 1 and 810 in Study 2 were asked to indicate their acculturation expectations towards Muslims. They were then randomly assigned to read a text that described Muslims in a fictional town as either (a) maintaining their religious culture or (b) adopting the mainstream British culture, or they read (c) a neutral control text. As expected, in Study 1, when Muslims were presented as maintaining their religious culture, trust decreased compared to the control group. Conversely, when described as adopting the mainstream culture, trust increased while support for surveillance of Muslims decreased. Both effects were mediated by the perception of Muslims being disloyal or loyal to the U.K in both studies, respectively. Perceived loyalty to their religious group did not significantly mediate any effect. We replicated these findings in Study 2. Moreover, we showed that describing Muslims as maintaining their religious culture decreased trust and increased support for surveillance especially among participants who expected Muslims to give up their religious culture. Moderated mediation analysis showed that these effects were partly mediated by perceived loyalty to the U.K. We discuss the societal implications of the findings for policymakers and Muslim leaders along with recommendations for future research.publishedVersio
Coevolution of Glauber-like Ising dynamics on typical networks
We consider coevolution of site status and link structures from two different
initial networks: a one dimensional Ising chain and a scale free network. The
dynamics is governed by a preassigned stability parameter , and a rewiring
factor , that determines whether the Ising spin at the chosen site flips
or whether the node gets rewired to another node in the system. This dynamics
has also been studied with Ising spins distributed randomly among nodes which
lie on a network with preferential attachment. We have observed the steady
state average stability and magnetisation for both kinds of systems to have an
idea about the effect of initial network topology. Although the average
stability shows almost similar behaviour, the magnetisation depends on the
initial condition we start from. Apart from the local dynamics, the global
effect on the dynamics has also been studied. These parameters show interesting
variations for different values of and , which helps in determining
the steady-state condition for a given substrate.Comment: 8 pages, 10 figure
Oral ether lipid therapy in patients with peroxisomal disorders
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/42493/1/10545_2005_Article_BF01811415.pd
Size limiting in Tsallis statistics
Power law scaling is observed in many physical, biological and
socio-economical complex systems and is now considered as an important property
of these systems. In general, power law exists in the central part of the
distribution. It has deviations from power law for very small and very large
step sizes. Tsallis, through non-extensive thermodynamics, explained power law
distribution in many cases including deviation from the power law, both for
small and very large steps. In case of very large steps, they used heuristic
crossover approach. In real systems, the size is limited and thus, the size
limiting factor is important. In the present work, we present an alternative
model in which we consider that the entropy factor q decreases with step size
due to the softening of long range interactions or memory. This explains the
deviation of power law for very large step sizes. Finally, we apply this model
for distribution of citation index of scientists and examination scores and are
able to explain the entire distribution including deviations from power law.Comment: 22 pages, 8 figure
Plasma distribution around comet 67P in the last month of the Rosetta mission
After accompanying comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on its journey around the Sun and observing the evolution of its induced magnetosphere throughout the comet's life-cycle, the Rosetta operations concluded at the end of September 2016 with a controlled impact on the cometary nucleus. At that time, the comet was located more than 3.8 AU from the Sun, but the data still show clear indications of a small but well developed plasma environment around the nucleus. Rosetta observed this fading cometary magnetosphere along multiple recurring elliptical orbits, which allow us to investigate its properties and spatial structure. We examined the measured electron densities along these consecutive orbits, from which we were able to determine the structure of the plasma distribution using a simple latitude and longitude dependent model
Use of [1 or 3-3H, U-14c]glucose to estimate the synthesis of glycerolipids via acyl dihydroxyacetone phosphate
SummaryBHK-21-cl3 fibroblasts were incubated with [1-3H, U-14c]glucose or [3-3H, U-14c]glucose to produce intracellular [3H]NADPH via the phosphogluconate pathway. 3H and 14C were then determined at the three positions of glycerol in glycerol phosphate, saponifiable glycerolipids, alkyl ether glycerolipids and plasmalogens. The 3H/14C ratio at C-2 in glycerol of saponifiable glycerolipids is 2-10 fold greater than in glycerol phosphate and approaches the ratio found in ether-containing glycerolipids. This suggests that a significant fraction of the glycerolipids in BHK-21-cl3 fibroblasts is synthesized via acyl dihydroxyacetone phosphate.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/22025/1/0000441.pd
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