Multiparticle Effects in the Spectrum of Collective Excitations of Strongly Interacting Two-Dimensional Electron Systems (Brief Review)

JETP Letters - Extraordinary multiparticle effects in quantizing magnetic fields that are manifested in strongly interacting two-dimensional electron systems in MgZnO/ZnO heterostructures have been...     

General one-loop formulas for $$H\rightarrow f\bar{f}\gamma $$ H → f f ¯ γ and its applications

The European Physical Journal C - Considering supergravity theory is a natural step in the development of gravity models. This paper follows the “algebraic“ path and constructs possible...     

Benchmarking culture in Europe: A data envelopment analysis approach to identify city-specific strengths

Culture is an integral part of a city's quality of life, a driver of urban change, and a genuine economic sector. To support benchmarking of urban culture and facilitate peer learning amongst policymakers, the European Commission has recently created the ‘Cultural and Creative Cities Index’. While this index builds on a standardised method to aggregate 29 indicators for the 155 selected cities, it is explicitly acknowledged that a ‘gold standard’ for a ‘Cultural and Creative City’ does not exist. Instead, different approaches should be allowed for in capturing cities’ cultural and creative vitality. This is the point of departure for this paper, which employs a Benefit-of-the-Doubt (BoD) modelling approach to allow cities to combine such respect for performance diversity with peer learning and benchmarking. Expert-based weights are used to provide expert-consistent bounds for the shares of key dimensions in a city's final BoD index value. We identify three city clusters, amongst which there are large performance differences. Accordingly, we focus on the within-group identification of peer cities and target values, which we illustrate in more detail for Bilbao, Krak?w and Umeå, towards the formulation of fit-for-purpose policy measures that can support culture-led development.     

On a question of Thas on partial 3‐(qn + 1, q + 1, 1) designs

In this note, we answer a question of JA Thas about partial $3$‐ $\left(q^n+1,q+1,1\right)$ designs. We then extend this answer to a result about the embedding of certain partial $3$‐ $\left(q^2+1,q+1,1\right)$ designs into Möbius planes.     

Comprehensive Profiling by Non-targeted Stable Isotope Tracing Capillary Electrophoresis-Mass Spectrometry: A New Tool Complementing Metabolomic Analyses of Polar Metabolites

Mass spectrometry (MS) driven metabolomics is a frequently used tool in various areas of life sciences; however, the analysis of polar metabolites is less commonly included. In general, metabolomic analyses lead to the detection of the total amount of all covered metabolites. This is currently a major limitation with respect to metabolites showing high turnover rates, but no changes in their concentration. Such metabolites and pathways could be crucial metabolic nodes (e.g., potential drug targets in cancer metabolism). A stable-isotope tracing capillary electrophoresis–mass spectrometry (CE-MS) metabolomic approach was developed to cover both polar metabolites and isotopologues in a non-targeted way. An in-house developed software enables high throughput processing of complex multidimensional data. The practicability is demonstrated analyzing [U-¹³C]-glucose exposed prostate cancer and non-cancer cells. This CE-MS-driven analytical strategy complements polar metabolite profiles through isotopologue labeling patterns, thereby improving not only the metabolomic coverage, but also the understanding of metabolism.     

On the Spin Depolarization of a Hall Ferromagnet in the Vicinity of ν = 1 in Two-Dimensional Electron Systems Based on ZnO

JETP Letters - The behavior of the degree of spin polarization and the specific exchange energy near the Hall ferromagnetic state with filling factor ν = 1 in strongly interacting...