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    On the Brauer groups of symmetries of abelian Dijkgraaf-Witten theories

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    Symmetries of three-dimensional topological field theories are naturally defined in terms of invertible topological surface defects. Symmetry groups are thus Brauer-Picard groups. We present a gauge theoretic realization of all symmetries of abelian Dijkgraaf-Witten theories. The symmetry group for a Dijkgraaf-Witten theory with gauge group a finite abelian group AA, and with vanishing 3-cocycle, is generated by group automorphisms of AA, by automorphisms of the trivial Chern-Simons 2-gerbe on the stack of AA-bundles, and by partial e-m dualities. We show that transmission functors naturally extracted from extended topological field theories with surface defects give a physical realization of the bijection between invertible bimodule categories of a fusion category and braided auto-equivalences of its Drinfeld center. The latter provides the labels for bulk Wilson lines; it follows that a symmetry is completely characterized by its action on bulk Wilson lines.Comment: 21 pages, 9 figures. v2: Minor changes, typos corrected and references added. v3: Typos correcte

    Building Infrastructure Distributed Database in CV. Cipta Solusi Sejahtera

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    Sistem basis data terdistribusi merupakan suatu bentuk arsitektur sistem dimana komputer-komputer yang berdiri secara otonom dapat saling berkomunikasi dan berbagi resource tanpa memperdulikan dimana komputer itu berada dan platform yang digunakan. Masalah atau kendala yang dialami karena keterbatasan ruang disk pada komputer client dapat mengakibatkan ketidak efisien-an kinerja karyawan pada Perusahaan saat penyimpanan data. Sehingga untuk mengatasinya diperlukan suatu sistem basis data dan suatu modular yang memungkinkan administrator dapat mengatur quota untuk memenuhi kebutuhan ruang disk dalam penyimpanan data. Administrator dapat mengendalikan pemanfaatan ruang disk pada tingkat volume dengan menetapkan batas-batas untuk ruang disk yang dialokasikan pada setiap client

    Hubungan Antara Hasil Pemeriksaan Darah Lengkap Dengan Derajat Klinik Infeksi Dengue Pada Pasien Dewasa Di Rsup Dr. Kariadi Semarang

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    Background: Complete blood count which is usually done to screen patients suspected dengue infection is through the examination including platelet count, leukocyte count, hematocrit, and hemoglobin levels. The existence of an exact value of the result of blood test for each grade of dengue infection is expected to greatly assist medical officers in order to more easily classify and manage patients based on the clinical grade.Aim: To determine the correlation between platelet count, leukocyte count, hematocrit, and hemoglobin levels with clinical dengue grade infection.Methods: This was retrospective observational analytic research with cross sectional approach. Samples were taken from medical records of patients admitted to adult dengue infection in Dr. Kariadi Hospital. Data that taken from medical records were age, sex, platelet count, leukocyte count, hematocrit, hemoglobin levels, and the degree of dengue infection according to WHO 2009 criteria. The statistical analysis used descriptive analysis and hypothesis test by using Spearman correlation with SPSS for Windows 18.Results: 114 adult dengue infection patients were included in this research. The analysis by Spearman correlation test found a significant weak negative correlation between platelet count with clinical dengue grade infection (p<0.001 ; r=-0.341), a significant weak positive correlation between leukocyte count with clinical dengue grade infection (p=0.033 ; r=0.2), there was no significant correlation between hematocrit with clinical dengue grade infection (p=0.606 ; r=0.049), and there was no significant correlation between hemoglobin levels with clinical dengue grade infection (p=0.759 ; r=0.029).Conclusions: There was a significant correlation between platelet count and leukocyte count with clinical dengue grade infection, so that platelet count and leukocyte count may be considered to help determine the clinical grade of dengue infection. There was no significant correlation between hematocrit and hemoglobin levels with clinical dengue grade infection

    Soluble gC1qR is an autocrine signal that induces B1R expression on endothelial cells

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    Bradykinin (BK) is one of the most potent vasodilator agonists known and belongs to the kinin family of proinflammatory peptides. BK induces its activity via two G protein-coupled receptors: BK receptor 1 (B1R) and BK receptor 2. Although BK receptor 2 is constitutively expressed on endothelial cells (ECs), B1R is induced by IL-1β. The C1q receptor, receptor for the globular heads of C1q (gC1qR), which plays a role in BK generation, is expressed on activated ECs and is also secreted as soluble gC1qR (sgC1qR). Because sgC1qR can bind to ECs, we hypothesized that it may also serve as an autocrine/paracrine signal for the induction of B1R expression. In this study, we show that gC1qR binds to ECs via a highly conserved domain consisting of residues 174-180, as assessed by solid-phase binding assay and deconvolution fluorescence microscopy. Incubation of ECs (24 h, 37°C) with sgC1qR resulted in enhancement of B1R expression, whereas incubation with gC1qR lacking aa 174-180 and 154-162 had a diminished effect. Binding of sgC1qR to ECs was through surface-bound fibrinogen and was inhibited by anti-fibrinogen. In summary, our data suggest that, at sites of inflammation, sgC1qR can enhance vascular permeability by upregulation of B1R expression through de novo synthesis, as well as rapid translocation of preformed B1R

    Measurements of the effect of collisions on transverse beam halo diffusion in the Tevatron and in the LHC

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    Beam-beam forces and collision optics can strongly affect beam lifetime, dynamic aperture, and halo formation in particle colliders. Extensive analytical and numerical simulations are carried out in the design and operational stage of a machine to quantify these effects, but experimental data is scarce. The technique of small-step collimator scans was applied to the Fermilab Tevatron collider and to the CERN Large Hadron Collider to study the effect of collisions on transverse beam halo dynamics. We describe the technique and present a summary of the first results on the dependence of the halo diffusion coefficient on betatron amplitude in the Tevatron and in the LHC.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures. Submitted to the Proceedings of the ICFA Mini-Workshop on Beam-beam Effects in Hadron Colliders (BB2013), Geneva, Switzerland, 18-22 March 201

    van der Waals density functionals built upon the electron-gas tradition: Facing the challenge of competing interactions

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    The theoretical description of sparse matter attracts much interest, in particular for those ground-state properties that can be described by density functional theory (DFT). One proposed approach, the van der Waals density functional (vdW-DF) method, rests on strong physical foundations and offers simple yet accurate and robust functionals. A very recent functional within this method called vdW-DF-cx [K. Berland and P. Hyldgaard, Phys. Rev. B 89, 035412] stands out in its attempt to use an exchange energy derived from the same plasmon-based theory from which the nonlocal correlation energy was derived. Encouraged by its good performance for solids, layered materials, and aromatic molecules, we apply it to several systems that are characterized by competing interactions. These include the ferroelectric response in PbTiO3_3, the adsorption of small molecules within metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), the graphite/diamond phase transition, and the adsorption of an aromatic-molecule on the Ag(111) surface. Our results indicate that vdW-DF-cx is overall well suited to tackle these challenging systems. In addition to being a competitive density functional for sparse matter, the vdW-DF-cx construction presents a more robust general purpose functional that could be applied to a range of materials problems with a variety of competing interactions

    Beam halo dynamics and control with hollow electron beams

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    Experimental measurements of beam halo diffusion dynamics with collimator scans are reviewed. The concept of halo control with a hollow electron beam collimator, its demonstration at the Tevatron, and its possible applications at the LHC are discussed.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, in Proceedings of the 52nd ICFA Advanced Beam Dynamics Workshop on High-Intensity and High-Brightness Hadron Beams (HB2012), Beijing, China, 17-21 September 201

    Passive galaxies as tracers of cluster environments at z~2

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    Even 10 billion years ago, the cores of the first galaxy clusters are often found to host a characteristic population of massive galaxies with already suppressed star formation. Here we search for distant cluster candidates at z~2 using massive passive galaxies as tracers. With a sample of ~40 spectroscopically confirmed passive galaxies at 1.3<z<2.1, we tune photometric redshifts of several thousands passive sources in the full 2 sq.deg. COSMOS field. This allows us to map their density in redshift slices, probing the large scale structure in the COSMOS field as traced by passive sources. We report here on the three strongest passive galaxy overdensities that we identify in the redshift range 1.5<z<2.5. While the actual nature of these concentrations is still to be confirmed, we discuss their identification procedure, and the arguments supporting them as candidate galaxy clusters (likely mid-10^13 M_sun range). Although this search approach is likely biased towards more evolved structures, it has the potential to select still rare, cluster-like environments close to their epoch of first appearance, enabling new investigations of the evolution of galaxies in the context of structure growth.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures; A&A Letters, in pres

    High-Quality Draft Genome Sequence of Vagococcus lutrae Strain LBD1, Isolated from the Largemouth Bass Micropterus salmoides

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    Vagococci are usually isolated from marine hosts and occasionally from endodontic infections. Using 16S rRNA gene comparison, the closest relatives are members of the genera Enterococcus and Carnobacterium. A draft sequence of Vagococcus lutrae was generated to clarify the relationship of Vagococcus to these and other related low-G+C Gram-positive bacteria
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