cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Il Borgo di rurale di Cerreta S. Nicola
Creators: name: Bascherini, Enrico
Publisher: name: Contesti. Città, territori, progetti
Year: 2021

description: If in recent years the theme of abandonment, the problem of depopulation and as a result of the countless case studies for the physical, social and economic reappropriation of villages and rural areas involved a small group of professionals and communities, today this theme is enlightened by a renewed spirit of interest. This is demonstrated in this sense by the countless initiatives of the media and the scientific community, which are increasingly interested in the issue of abandonment and re-inhabiting smaller places. The article proposes a partial experimentation of a recovery of a village in the Province of Lucca. On the slopes of the Apuan Alps, behind the tourist Versilia, the rural village of Cerreta San Nicola attempts a timid signal of repopulation. A small village on the Versilia hills between 500 and 700 meters above sea level, it represents a typical half- coast village that is not yet a moun- tain and no longer a hill, which like many other villages, in similar orographic conditions, has suffered a slow and unstoppable abandonment. The end of the Second World War kicked off the period of greatest mass depopulation, and today the country is represented by a single inhabitant and the use of second homes at the weekend. A project-program for the recovery of the old rural village is proposed below; today, partly achieved through the restructuring of some real estate units, the activity is continuing through individual private actions which in the future, hopefully not far away, may end with a shared action of definitive recovery.village in the Province of Lucca.
description: Contesti. Città, territori, progetti, Vol. 2 No. 2 (2021): Ruralities
Territorio rurale e comunità progettante
Creators: name: Fiorentini, Giulia
name: Rossi, Maddalena
name: Zetti, Iacopo
Publisher: name: Contesti. Città, territori, progetti
Year: 2021

description: A biological district born on the initiative of a group of local inhabitants and entrepreneurs, an idea taken over by a local administration, a rural landscape of great cultural value and an experience of territorial governance that has always been innovative, these are the elements of the small story told in these pages. Within this story we propose an example of management of rural territory and of protection of an historic landscape, describing a virtuous relationship between a local community, agricultural practices and environmental equilibrium. The connection between the creation of a biological district and urban planning at the level of a Municipality is one of the cornerstones of this experimentation, mainly because the narrated experience was born in an extremely collaborative atmosphere of co- design, where economic players, public administration and citizens were able to meet the challenge of a renewed active citizenship, highlighting the potentialities of a designing community.
description: Contesti. Città, territori, progetti, Vol. 2 No. 2 (2021): Ruralities
Clinical reasoning for acute dyspnoea: comparison between final-year medical students from discipline- and competency-based undergraduate programmes
Creators: name: Czeskleba, Anja
name: Holzhausen, Ylva
name: Peters, Harm
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Clinical reasoning
subject: Final-year clerkship students
subject: Discipline-based medical education
subject: Competency-based medical education
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Abstract: Clinical reasoning for acute dyspnoea: Comparison of final-year medical students from discipline- andcompetency-based undergraduate programmes. Background: The global shift to competency-based medical education aims to improve the performance of itstrainees, including in the key competency domain of clinical reasoning. However, research on whether such educationactually improves clinical reasoning is sparse. The purpose of this study is to compare assessed clinical reasoningperformance in digitally presented cases of acute dyspnoea between final-year medical students from a traditional,discipline-based and those from an integrated, competency-based undergraduate programme. Methods: A total of 60 medical students in their final-year clerkships participated in the study; 30 were from adiscipline-based programme, and 30 were from a competency-based programme of the same faculty. The studentscompleted a knowledge test consisting of 22 single choice items and a computer-based test of clinical reasoning withsix video-based case scenarios with different underlying diseases leading to dyspnoea. The operationalized measures ofclinical reasoning were the number and relevance of the diagnostic tests chosen, time to diagnosis and diagnosticaccuracy. Results: The two groups did not differ in their knowledge of the acute dyspnoea content domain. With regard toclinical reasoning, the selection of relevant tests, time required to make a diagnosis and accuracy of the diagnosisvaried across the six case scenarios in both groups. However, the results from the measures of the clinical reasoningprocess did not differ between the students from the two types of undergraduate medical programmes. No significantdifferences were found with regard to the selection of relevant diagnostic tests (M = 63.8% vs. M = 62.8%), the time toa diagnosis (M = 128.7 s vs. M = 136.4 s) or the accuracy of diagnosis (M = 82.2% vs. M = 77.0%). Conclusions: Key indicators of the clinical reasoning process, when assessed with objectively measured parameters,did not differ between final-year medical students from a traditional, discipline-based and those from an integrated,competency-based undergraduate programme in the domain of acute dyspnoea. The results substantiate and expandthose of previous studies based on subjective assessor ratings that showed limited change in the clinical reasoningperformance of medical students with competency-based undergraduate education.
Approximate Selection with Guarantees using Proxies
Creators: name: Kang, Daniel
name: Gan, Edward
name: Bailis, Peter
name: Hashimoto, Tatsunori
name: Zaharia, Matei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Due to the falling costs of data acquisition and storage, researchers and industry analysts often want to find all instances of rare events in large datasets. For instance, scientists can cheaply capture thousands of hours of video, but are limited by the need to manually inspect long videos to identify relevant objects and events. To reduce this cost, recent work proposes to use cheap proxy models, such as image classifiers, to identify an approximate set of data points satisfying a data selection filter. Unfortunately, this recent work does not provide the statistical accuracy guarantees necessary in scientific and production settings. In this work, we introduce novel algorithms for approximate selection queries with statistical accuracy guarantees. Namely, given a limited number of exact identifications from an oracle, often a human or an expensive machine learning model, our algorithms meet a minimum precision or recall target with high probability. In contrast, existing approaches can catastrophically fail in satisfying these recall and precision targets. We show that our algorithms can improve query result quality by up to 30x for both the precision and recall targets in both real and synthetic datasets.
Additional file 1 of Time course of the triglyceride glucose index accumulation with the risk of cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality
Creators: name: Tian, Xue
name: Chen, Shuohua
name: Zhang, Yijun
name: Zhang, Xiaoli
name: Xu, Qin
name: Wang, Penglian
name: Wu, Shouling
name: Wang, Anxin
name: Luo, Yanxia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Baseline characteristics between included and excluded participants. Table S2. Baseline characteristics according to slope of the TyG index. Table S3. Association of time course of cumTyG accumulation with risk of CVD subtypes. Table S4. Association of cumulative accumulation and slope of the TyG index with CVD subtypes. Table S5. Sensitivity analysis by using competing risk model or excluding CVD event during the follow-up. Table S6. Sensitivity analysis by using 2-lagged analysis (n = 50652). Table S7. Sensitivity analysis by excluding participants were treated with antidiabetic or lipid-lowering agents (n = 46686). Table S8. Sensitivity analysis by excluding participants with abnormal FBG or TG levels (n = 33758). Figure S1. The flowchart of the study. Figure S2. Cumulative TyG index and TyG slope calculated across 3 examinations in 1 participants. Average TyG index between consecutive examinations as A1 and A2. Cumulative TyG index was calculated as (A1 × time06–08 + A2 × time08–10), showed by the dotted area, × year. Figure S3. Kaplan-Meier curve of cardiovascular disease subtypes incidence rate by the combination of cumTyG and time course of TyG index accumulation.
Thermally Condensing Photons into a Coherently Split State of Light
Creators: name: Kurtscheid, Christian
name: Dung, David
name: Busley, Erik
name: Vewinger, Frank
name: Rosch, Achim
name: Weitz, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Techniques to control the quantum state of light play a crucial role in a wide range of fields, from quantum information science to precision measurements. While for electrons in solid state materials complex quantum states can be created by mere cooling, in the field of optics manipulation and control currently builds on non-thermodynamic methods. Using an optical dye microcavity, we have split photon wavepackets by thermalization within a potential with two minima subject to tunnel coupling. Even at room temperature, photons condense into a quantum-coherent bifurcated ground state. Fringe signals upon recombination show the relative coherence between the two wells, demonstrating a working interferometer with the non-unitary thermodynamic beamsplitter. This energetically driven optical state preparation opens up an avenue for exploring novel correlated and entangled optical manybody states.
Vivienda rural afrocaribe: espacialidad, tradición y futuro
Creators: name: Huertas Nadal, Daniel
name: Pinedo Cobos, Carolina
Publisher: name: Contesti. Città, territori, progetti
Year: 2021

description: Traditional Afro housing is the only material heritage element capable of relating the spatial manifestation and cultural identity of Afro-descendant communities. This research reviews the identity roots of Afro-rural housing to propose development strategies that guarantee the differential ethnic focus of new housing policies. It is proposed to overcome the descriptive approaches on vernacular techniques and deepen the manifestation of the intangible heritage that Afro-Caribbean housing represents, to promote housing as a social articulator and guarantee of transmission of values that define the identity of black communities in the construction of the future.
description: Contesti. Città, territori, progetti, Vol. 2 No. 2 (2021): Ruralities
Adaptation of Mamdani Fuzzy Inference System Using Neuro - Genetic Approach for Tactical Air Combat Decision Support System
Creators: name: Tran, Cong
name: Jain, Lakhmi
name: Abraham, Ajith
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 1.2.0

description: Normally a decision support system is build to solve problem where multi-criteria decisions are involved. The knowledge base is the vital part of the decision support containing the information or data that is used in decision-making process. This is the field where engineers and scientists have applied several intelligent techniques and heuristics to obtain optimal decisions from imprecise information. In this paper, we present a hybrid neuro-genetic learning approach for the adaptation a Mamdani fuzzy inference system for the Tactical Air Combat Decision Support System (TACDSS). Some simulation results demonstrating the difference of the learning techniques and are also provided.
Allacma fusca
Creators: name: Thibaud, Jean-Marc
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Collembola
Symphypleona
Sminthuridae
Allacma
Allacma fusca

description: Allacmafusca (Linnaeus, 1758) *
Podura fusca Linnaeus, 1758: 608.
Smynthurus fuscus – Latreille 1802: 82.
Allacmafusca – Börner 1906: 183.
DISTRIBUTION. — Europe. Latreille 1812.
France. Bourlet 1841, 1845. — Finot 1890.
Ardennes et Côte-d’Or. Denis 1921.
Bouches-du-Rhône. Forêtde Cadarache (Rougon & Rougon 1970). — Cadarache (Poinsot-Balaguer 1976d).
Calvados. Brébisson 1827 (S. fuscus).
Corse. Poinsot-Balaguer 1978.
Essonne. Parcdu Laboratoiredu MNHNà Brunoy (Vannier 1972, 1973b, 1979b, 1981; Kilbertus & Vannier 1979; Chauvin & Vannier 1989; Betsch 1991; Chauvat & Ponge 2002). — Parcdu Laboratoire du MNHN à Brunoy et forêt de Sénart (Ponge 1973, 1978, etvar. pustulata, Betsch & Vannier 1977). — Maresde Sénart (Pichard etal. 1989). — Forêtde Sénart (Salmon & Ponge 1999; Ponge etal. 2002).
Eure. Lyons-la-Forêt (Carl 1899).
Hautes-Pyrénées. Montagned’Arize (Deharveng 1996).
Hauts-de-Seine. Maresde Clamart (Pichard etal. 1989).
Île-de-France. Environsde Paris (Geoffroy 1762, P. fusca; Boisduval & Lacordaire 1835, Smynthurus fuscus).
Landes. Roquefort (Jeannenot 1957, S. stachi).
Marne. Environsde Reims? (Lemoine 1883, S. fuscus).
Nièvre. Parcrégionaldu Morvan (Ponge etal. 2003).
Oise. Labosse (D’Haese 2002).
Seine-et-Marne. Forêtde Foljuif (Massoud etal. 1984).
Seine-Maritime. Prairiesnaturelles normandes, La Vielle en Paysde Cauxet Saint-Yonprèsde Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray (Ricou 1959). Sud-Ouest de la France, plaine et moyenne montagne (Cassagnau 1961).
Tarn, Aude. Montagne Noire (Cassagnau 1965).
TAXONOMIE. — Jeannenot 1957 (redescription).
DÉVELOPPEMENT. — Lemoine 1883 (développement embryonnaire). — Betsch & Vannier 1977 (phases juveniles).
PHYSIOLOGIE. — Vannier 1972 (surface corporelle d’évaporation); Vannier 1973b (taille, poids sec/poids frais); Vannier 1981 (eau, jeûne); Chauvin & Vannier 1989 (résistance au froid).
ÉCOLOGIE. — Cassagnau 1965 (écologie, sol); Rougon & Rougon 1970; Ponge 1973, 1978; Poinsot-Balaguer 1976d (irradiation); Kilbertus & Vannier 1979 (régime alimentaire); Vannier 1979b (régime alimentaire, microfloredu sol); Massoud etal. 1984 (piétinement); Pichard et al. 1989; Betsch 1991 (privation de litière); Deharveng 1996 (déboisement, reboisement); Salmon & Ponge 1999; Chauvat & Ponge 2002 (métaux lourds); Ponge etal. 2002 (toxicité, herbicide); Ponge etal. 2003 (bioindicateur).
DONNÉES MOLÉCULAIRES. — D’Haese 2002 (phylogénie).
description: Published as part of Thibaud, Jean-Marc, 2017, Catalogue des collemboles de France, pp. 297-436 in Zoosystema 39 (3) on pages 406-407, DOI: 10.5252/z2017n3a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5496272
LowResourceEval-2019: a shared task on morphological analysis for low-resource languages
Creators: name: Klyachko, Elena
name: Sorokin, Alexey
name: Krizhanovskaya, Natalia
name: Krizhanovsky, Andrew
name: Ryazanskaya, Galina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 68T50

description: The paper describes the results of the first shared task on morphological analysis for the languages of Russia, namely, Evenki, Karelian, Selkup, and Veps. For the languages in question, only small-sized corpora are available. The tasks include morphological analysis, word form generation and morpheme segmentation. Four teams participated in the shared task. Most of them use machine-learning approaches, outperforming the existing rule-based ones. The article describes the datasets prepared for the shared tasks and contains analysis of the participants' solutions. Language corpora having different formats were transformed into CONLL-U format. The universal format makes the datasets comparable to other language corpura and facilitates using them in other NLP tasks.
description: 16 pages, 4 tables, 2 figures, published in the conference proceeding
Searching Towards Creating a Sustainable Integrated Mesonet for the Canadian Prairie Provinces
Creators: name: Jeannine-Marie St-Jacques
name: Aston Chipanshi
name: Hadwen, Trevor
name: Friesen, Allan
name: Sauchyn, David
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: We assess how weather events on the Canadian Prairies during the 2012 growing season were temporally and spatially represented by a high-resolution, non-World Meteorological Organization (WMO) standard private provider network, Earth Networks (EN), relative to the WMO standard climate stations operated by federal and provincial governments. We found that there was a large amount of missing station data in the EN network. We noticed the appearance of two significant patterns. The EN stations had higher hourly temperature values later in the day and higher daily Tmin than their nearest neighbouring governmental stations. The EN stations also recorded less 24-hour and 1-hour precipitation than their nearest neighbouring governmental stations. However, overall, the EN stations and the various governmental stations were complementary, often with one network being dense where the other one was sparse and vice versa, thereby giving a more spatially explicit picture of five storms during the 2012 growing season. Our ultimate objective is to show the benefits of including the high-resolution EN weather data, together with government station data, in a permanent, formally established, integrated mesonet for the Canadian Prairies, with the benefits of both the governmental station data and the private station data.
Additional file 1 of Temporal trends in molecular markers of drug resistance in Plasmodium falciparum in human blood and profiles of corresponding resistant markers in mosquito oocysts in Asembo, western Kenya
Creators: name: Zhou, Zhiyong
name: Gimnig, John E.
name: Sergent, Sheila B.
name: Liu, Ying
name: Abong’o, Bernard
name: Otieno, Kephas
name: Chebore, Winnie
name: Shah, Monica P.
name: Williamson, John
name: ter Kuile, Feiko O.
name: Hamel, Mary J.
name: Kariuki, Simon
name: Desai, Meghna
name: Samuels, Aaron M.
name: Walker, Edward D.
name: Shi, Ya Ping
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Primer sequences and reaction conditions for nested PCRs of Pfdhfr and Pfdhps.
Yanming Lake Town, Henan
Creators: name: Ramondetti, Leonardo
Publisher: name: Contesti. Città, territori, progetti
Year: 2021

description: The contribution discusses the ongoing spatial transformations in the rural areas of inland China, based on the investigation of Yanming Lake Town in Zhongmu County, Henan. This place, considered ‘off the map’ until the last decade, is now subjected to radical changes: new infrastructures are built, new settlements are developed, and new productive activities are promoted. By investigating the ongoing restructuring and the emerging landscape, the paper uses the radicality of Chinese context to question some phenomena which are broadly debated in today’s rural studies. Particularly, two are the main issues: what are the new relations between urban and rural areas, and how they influence the way in which rural spaces are designed.
description: Contesti. Città, territori, progetti, Vol. 2 No. 2 (2021): Ruralities
Abitare la ruralità contemporanea nel Global South
Creators: name: Dall'Orto, Valentina
Publisher: name: Contesti. Città, territori, progetti
Year: 2021

description: This paper aims to provide an interpretation of the indefinite condition of contemporary rurality in Global South through the analysis of domestic architecture and its alterations. The study is specifically addressed to the Andean context of the province of Loja in Ecuador. The house has been chosen as the object of analysis as it embodies the manifestation of the different dynamics of the production of space in rural contexts, often conflictual, evading a unified definition. Starting from a brief review of the approaches, frequently dichotomous, through which the architectural discipline has faced the relationship with what is not urban, and relying on a further study of the spatial practices characterizing this frontier land, the intention is to bring to light some crucial issues for the design of the rural habitat. The ultimate purpose of this reflection is therefore far from providing scientific answers, on the contrary it aims to embrace and accept the variety of forms presented by the Ecuadorian rural context, in order to develop open questions, that allow professionals to experience the different facets of the project.
description: Contesti. Città, territori, progetti, Vol. 2 No. 2 (2021): Ruralities
Reflected planar Brownian motions, intertwining relations and crossing probabilities
Creators: name: Dubedat, Julien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60F17; 60J10; 60J25; 82B43

description: Prompted by an example arising in critical percolation, we study some reflected Brownian motions in symmetric planar domains and show that they are intertwined with one-dimensional diffusions. In the case of a wedge, the reflected Brownian motion is intertwined with the 3-dimensional Bessel process. This implies some simple hitting distributions and sheds some light on the formula proposed by Watts for double-crossing probabilities in critical percolation.
description: 18 pages, 5 figures
Bio-inspired Synthetic Ivory as a Sustainable Material for Piano Keys
Creators: name: Fischer, Dieter
name: Parks, Sarah
name: Mannhart, Jochen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Natural ivory is no longer readily or legally available, as it is obtained primarily from elephant tusks, which now enjoy international protection. Ivory, however, is the best material known for piano keys. We present a hydroxylapatite-gelatin biocomposite that is chemically identical to natural ivory but with functional properties optimized to replace it. As this biocomposite is fabricated from abundant materials in an environmentally friendly process and is furthermore biodegradable, it is a sustainable solution for piano keys with the ideal functional properties of natural ivory.
description: Published in Sustainability, open access
Fingolimod after a first unilateral episode of acute optic neuritis (MOVING) - preliminary results from a randomized, rater-blind, active-controlled, phase 2 trial
Creators: name: Albert, Christian
name: Mikolajczak, Janine
name: Liekfeld, Anja
name: Piper, Sophie K.
name: Scheel, Michael
name: Zimmermann, Hanna G.
name: Nowak, Claus
name: Dörr, Jan
name: Bellmann-Strobl, Judith
name: Chien, Claudia
name: Brandt, Alexander U.
name: Paul, Friedemann
name: Hoffmann, Olaf
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optic neuritis
subject: Fingolimod
subject: Interferon Beta-1b
subject: Remyelination
subject: Multifocal VEP
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background: Neuroprotection and promotion of remyelination represent important therapeutic gaps in multiple sclerosis (MS). Acute optic neuritis (ON) is a frequent MS manifestation. Based on the presence and properties of sphingosine-1-phosphate receptors (S1PR) on astrocytes and oligodendrocytes, we hypothesized that remyelination can be enhanced by treatment with fingolimod, a S1PR modulator currently licensed for relapsing-remitting MS. Methods: MOVING was an investigator-driven, rater-blind, randomized clinical trial. Patients with acute unilateral ON, occurring as a clinically isolated syndrome or MS relapse, were randomized to 6 months of treatment with 0.5 mg oral fingolimod or subcutaneous IFN-β 1b 250 μg every other day. The change in multifocal visual evoked potential (mfVEP) latency of the qualifying eye was examined as the primary (month 6 vs. baseline) and secondary (months 3, 6 and 12 vs. baseline) outcome. In addition, full field visual evoked potentials, visual acuity, optical coherence tomography as well as clinical relapses and measures of disability, cerebral MRI, and self-reported visual quality of life were obtained for follow-up. The study was halted due to insufficient recruitment (n = 15), and available results are reported. Results: Per protocol analysis of the primary endpoint revealed a significantly larger reduction of mfVEP latency at 6 months compared to baseline with fingolimod treatment (n = 5; median decrease, 15.7 ms) than with IFN-β 1b treatment (n = 4; median increase, 8.15 ms) (p < 0.001 for interaction). Statistical significance was maintained in the secondary endpoint analysis. Descriptive results are reported for other endpoints. Conclusion: Preliminary results of the MOVING trial argue in support of a beneficial effect of fingolimod on optic nerve remyelination when compared to IFN-β treatment. Interpretation is limited by the small number of complete observations, an unexpected deterioration of the control group and a difference in baseline mfVEP latencies. The findings need to be confirmed in larger studies. Trial registration: The trial was registered as EUDRA-CT 2011-004787-30 on October 26, 2012 and as NCT01647880 on July 24, 2012.
A review of geological characteristics and time–space distribution of cobalt deposits in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt, Xinjiang, Northwest China
Creators: name: Yang, Fuquan
name: Liu, Guoren
name: Zhang, Hanqing
name: Yang, Chengdong
name: Li, XiaoZhuang
name: Li, Qiang
name: Li, Ning
name: Zhang, Zhenlong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Northern Xinjiang in Northwest China is an important part of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB) and is characterized by Fe, Cu, Ni, Pb, Zn, W, Mo, Au and rare metal deposits. Cobalt is a critical mineral resource and new energy material, but cobalt resources are scarce in China. Many by-product cobalt deposits have been found in the CAOB of Xinjiang. In addition to cobalt-dominant minerals that contain essential Co, cobalt mainly occurs in sulphides, with minor amounts present in arsenic, oxides, and natural metal elements in the form of isomorphic substitutions. Co deposits are mainly distributed in East Tianshan and Beishan, and minor deposits occur in Junggar and West Tianshan. We recognize five types of Co deposits in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt of Xinjiang: magmatic, magmatic-hydrothermal, volcanogenic, skarn, and sedimentary. Of these types, magmatic deposits are the most common. The ore formation in Co deposits can be divided into five mineralization phases: Early Cambrian, Early Silurian, Early Devonian, early Carboniferous, and Early Permian. Among these phases, the Early Permian was the main mineralization phase, in which magmatic-type (Cu–Ni–Co and Ni–Co) and skarn-type (Fe–Co and Ag–Cu–Pb–Zn–Co) deposits formed. The evolution of subduction, collision, and postcollision in the Paleo-Asian oceanic plate resulted in the formation of diverse types of Co deposits.
The vaginal sheet: an innovative form of vaginal film for the treatment of vaginal infections
Creators: name: Machado, Rita Monteiro
name: Tomás, Mariana
name: Palmeira-De-Oliveira, Ana
name: Martinez-De-Oliveira, José
name: Palmeira-De-Oliveira, Rita
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Objective: To develop and characterize a new form of vaginal film. Significance: This formulation is intended to overcome some known limitations of traditional dosage forms. It has an absorptive intention to control symptoms and to improve the treatment of vaginal infections characterized by excessive fluid. The vaginal sheet is a thick drug delivery system easy to manipulate, nontoxic and composed by biocompatible macromolecules and polymers, such as gelatin and chitosan. Methods: The sheets were prepared by formulating gelatin or chitosan based gels isolated or in combination, in association with a plasticizer. Gels were subsequently lyophilized. Different proportions of polymer:plasticizer were tested. Lactose was used as a surrogate to study powder incorporation in the formulation. All formulations were analyzed regarding their organoleptic characteristics, texture (hardness and resilience), in vitro absorption efficiency of vaginal fluid simulant – VFS (pH 4 and 5), pH and acid-buffering capacity. Results: Different properties were obtained by varying polymer and plasticizer proportions. Combinations including gelatin with propylene glycol showed the best organoleptic characteristics. The best proportions were 4:3 and 4:5. Up to 10% of powder was successfully incorporated in the formulation. Hardness and resilience of formulations were largely dependent on the concentration of plasticizer. Absorption of vaginal fluid was found to be highly efficient, especially at pH 5. Buffering capacity, upon dilution in normal saline and VFS, was generally higher for VFS pH 4. Conclusions: The vaginal sheet is a promising solid drug delivery system able to further incorporate drugs to treat vaginal clinical conditions characterized by excessive fluid.
Ruralità come ideologia
Creators: name: Alioni, Marco
Publisher: name: Contesti. Città, territori, progetti
Year: 2021

description: Over the last few decades, the operational and conceptual definitions of rurality have continued to reproduce the same stereotypes and prejudices, that brought to the development of ineffective and problematic policies. The contrasts between the ‘urban’ and the ‘rural’, and between ‘modernity’ and ‘tradition’, led to the development of specific ideologies, which still permeate and produce the existing rural conditions. This article analyzes three dimensions of rurality in its form-as an ideology. The first one deals with the ways in which the ‘rural’ is defined through policy making processes and the scientific literature. The second one considers how the ideologies of rurality, specifically those produced in Italy about the Alps and the city-mountain relations, permeate the experience of Valsaviore. The third one discusses the practices of political resistance implemented by the inhabitants, the roles they play in defining the historical position of the valley, the roles of environmental protection, as well as the internal and external power relations of the territory.
description: Contesti. Città, territori, progetti, Vol. 2 No. 2 (2021): Ruralities
Fast algorithm for detecting community structure in networks
Creators: name: Newman, M. E. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has been found that many networks display community structure -- groups of vertices within which connections are dense but between which they are sparser -- and highly sensitive computer algorithms have in recent years been developed for detecting such structure. These algorithms however are computationally demanding, which limits their application to small networks. Here we describe a new algorithm which gives excellent results when tested on both computer-generated and real-world networks and is much faster, typically thousands of times faster than previous algorithms. We give several example applications, including one to a collaboration network of more than 50000 physicists.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Induced osteogenic differentiation of human smooth muscle cells as a model of vascular calcification
Creators: name: Pustlauk, Wera
name: Westhoff, Timm H.
name: Claeys, Luc
name: Roch, Toralf
name: Geißler, Sven
name: Babel, Nina
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: smooth muscle cells
subject: vascular calcification
subject: atherosclerosis
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Vascular calcification is a severe pathological event in the manifestation of atherosclerosis. Pathogenic triggers mediating osteogenic differentiation of arterial smooth muscle cells (SMC) in humans remain insufficiently understood and are to a large extent investigated in animal models or cells derived thereof. Here, we describe an in vitro model based on SMC derived from healthy and diseased humans that allows to comprehensively investigate vascular calcification mechanisms. Comparing the impact of the commonly used SMC culture media VascuLife, DMEM, and M199, cells were characterised by immunofluorescence, flow cytometry, qPCR, and regarding their contractility and proliferative capacity. Irrespective of the arterial origin, the clinical background and the expansion medium used, all cells expressed typical molecular SMC marker while contractility varied between donors. Interestingly, the ability to induce an osteogenic differentiation strongly depended on the culture medium, with only SMC cultured in DMEM depositing calcified matrix upon osteogenic stimulation, which correlated with increased alkaline phosphatase activity, increased inorganic phosphate level and upregulation of osteogenic gene markers. Our optimized model is suitable for donor-oriented as well as broader screening of potential pathogenic mediators triggering vascular calcification. Translational studies aiming to identify and to evaluate therapeutic targets in a personalized fashion would be feasible.
Trace for the Loewner Equation with Singular Forcing
Creators: name: Kadanoff, Leo P.
name: Berkenbusch, Marko Kleine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The Loewner equation describes the time development of an analytic map into the upper half of the complex plane in the presence of a "forcing", a defined singularity moving around the real axis. The applications of this equation use the trace, the locus of singularities in the upper half plane. This note discusses the structure of the trace for the case in which the forcing function, xi(t), is proportional to (-t)^beta with beta in the interval (0, 1/2). In this case, the trace is a simple curve, gamma(t), which touches the real axis twice. It is computed by using matched asymptotic analysis to compute the trajectory of the Loewner evolution in the neighborhood of the singularity, and then assuming a smooth mapping of these trajectories away from the singularity. Near the t=0 singularity, the trace has a shape given by [ Re(gamma(t)-gamma(0)) ]^(1-beta) ~ [ beta*Im(gamma(t)) ]^beta ~ O(xi(t))^(1-beta). A numerical calculation of the trace provides support for the asymptotic theory.
description: 21 pages, 6 figures, submitted to Nonlinearity
Testing of prototype coils for the NHMFL 32 T superconducting user magnet
Creators: name: H.W.Weijers
name: W.D. Markiewicz
name: D.V. Abraimov
name: H. Bai
name: D.K. Hilton
name: A.V. Gavrilin
name: D.C. Larbalestier
name: J. Lu
name: T. P. Murphy
name: P.D. Noyes
name: A. J. Voran
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014

description: Presentation on Testing of prototype coils for the NHMFL 32 T superconducting user magnet
EvoNF: A Framework for Optimization of Fuzzy Inference Systems Using Neural Network Learning and Evolutionary Computation
Creators: name: Abraham, Ajith
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 1.2.0

description: Several adaptation techniques have been investigated to optimize fuzzy inference systems. Neural network learning algorithms have been used to determine the parameters of fuzzy inference system. Such models are often called as integrated neuro-fuzzy models. In an integrated neuro-fuzzy model there is no guarantee that the neural network learning algorithm converges and the tuning of fuzzy inference system will be successful. Success of evolutionary search procedures for optimization of fuzzy inference system is well proven and established in many application areas. In this paper, we will explore how the optimization of fuzzy inference systems could be further improved using a meta-heuristic approach combining neural network learning and evolutionary computation. The proposed technique could be considered as a methodology to integrate neural networks, fuzzy inference systems and evolutionary search procedures. We present the theoretical frameworks and some experimental results to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed technique.
Integrating Threat Modeling and Automated Test Case Generation into Industrialized Software Security Testing
Creators: name: Marksteiner, Stefan
name: Ramler, Rudolf
name: Sochor, Hannes
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: D.2.4; D.2.5

description: Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) application provide a whole new set of possibilities to drive efficiency of industrial production forward. However, with the higher degree of integration among systems, comes a plethora of newthreats to the latter, as they are not yet designed to be broadly reachable and interoperable. To mitigate these vast amount of new threats, systematic and automated test methods are necessary. This comprehensiveness can be achieved by thorough threat modeling. In order to automate security test, we present an approach to automate the testing process from threat modeling onward, closing the gap between threat modeling and automated test case generation.
description: 3 pages, 1 figure, Central European Cybersecurity Conference 2019 (CECC2019), Munich
Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in critically ill patients: diagnostic reliability of HLH-2004 criteria and HScore
Creators: name: Knaak, Cornelia
name: Nyvlt, Peter
name: Schuster, Friederike S.
name: Spies, Claudia
name: Heeren, Patrick
name: Schenk, Thomas
name: Balzer, Felix
name: Rosée, Paul La
name: Janka, Gritta
name: Brunkhorst, Frank M.
name: Keh, Didier
name: Lachmann, Gunnar
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Diagnosis
subject: HLH-2004 criteria
subject: HScore
subject: Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH)
subject: Hemophagocytic syndrome (HPS)
subject: Intensive care unit (ICU)
subject: Macrophage activation syndrome (MAS)
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background: Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is a rare though often fatal hyperinflammatory syndrome mimicking sepsis in the critically ill. Diagnosis relies on the HLH-2004 criteria and HScore, both of which have been developed in pediatric or adult non-critically ill patients, respectively. Therefore, we aimed to determine the sensitivity and specificity of HLH-2004 criteria and HScore in a cohort of adult critically ill patients. Methods: In this further analysis of a retrospective observational study, patients ≥ 18 years admitted to at least one adult ICU at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin between January 2006 and August 2018 with hyperferritinemia of ≥ 500 μg/L were included. Patients' charts were reviewed for clinically diagnosed or suspected HLH. Receiver operating characteristics (ROC) analysis was performed to determine prediction accuracy. Results: In total, 2623 patients with hyperferritinemia were included, of whom 40 patients had HLH. We found the best prediction accuracy of HLH diagnosis for a cutoff of 4 fulfilled HLH-2004 criteria (95.0% sensitivity and 93.6% specificity) and HScore cutoff of 168 (100% sensitivity and 94.1% specificity). By adjusting HLH-2004 criteria cutoffs of both hyperferritinemia to 3000 μg/L and fever to 38.2 °C, sensitivity and specificity increased to 97.5% and 96.1%, respectively. Both a higher number of fulfilled HLH-2004 criteria [OR 1.513 (95% CI 1.372-1.667); p < 0.001] and a higher HScore [OR 1.011 (95% CI 1.009-1.013); p < 0.001] were significantly associated with in-hospital mortality. Conclusions: An HScore cutoff of 168 revealed a sensitivity of 100% and a specificity of 94.1%, thereby providing slightly superior diagnostic accuracy compared to HLH-2004 criteria. Both HLH-2004 criteria and HScore proved to be of good diagnostic accuracy and consequently might be used for HLH diagnosis in critically ill patients. Clinical trial registration: The study was registered with www.ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT02854943) on August 1, 2016.
The Il ruolo femminile nelle pratiche di resistenza contadina dei territori Diola Kasa
Creators: name: Manzini, Alessandra
Publisher: name: Contesti. Città, territori, progetti
Year: 2021

description: Diola Kasa peasant resistance in Lower Casamance can be described as an unprecedented hybridisation of spirituality, rationality, ecosystem awareness and attention to climatic changes. This paper highlights the centrality of the female role in the Diola culture as a constant and driving force of resistance. Peasant resistances combine 'inertial' factors with new possible interpretations of spatial and social relations. They differ in nature, strategies and social formations. They can at the same time be considered as 'resources' that push towards the change of the status quo and destructive, extractive and homologating dynamics, but they can also become the object of contrast by those in power, local and not local (often combined). Diola's reading of the female role in the process of identity formation highlights its temporal continuity in the succession of epochs (pre-colonial, colonial, post-colonial) and the spatial continuity between rural and urban migration. The feminine has been the guide of an anti-hegemonic identity process that in the contemporary era is connoted with a decolonial orientation. The definition of the ecological transition strategies of the investigated territories is determined around this central role. The paper refers to the Diola Kasa area of the South West bank of the Casamance River and in particular to the village of Mlomp reporting some results of a qualitative field survey. The 'practices of resistance' are taken into consideration for the values and reasons which motivate them, as well as for the spatial implications they draw, but also for the Africa-World rural projects which it is possible to define from their experiences.
description: Contesti. Città, territori, progetti, Vol. 2 No. 2 (2021): Ruralities
Allacma gallica
Creators: name: Thibaud, Jean-Marc
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Collembola
Symphypleona
Sminthuridae
Allacma
Allacma gallica

description: Allacma gallica (Carl, 1899) *
Sminthurus gallicus Carl, 1899: 7.
Allacma gallica – Palissa 1964: 275.
DISTRIBUTION. — Bouches-du-Rhône. Camargue (Poinsot 1973).
Essonne. Parcdu Laboratoiredu MNHNà Brunoyet forêt de Sénart (Ponge 1973, 1993). — Maresde Sénart (Pichard etal. 1989). — Brunoy (Betsch 1991). — Forêtde Sénart (Ponge etal. 2002).
Eure. Lyons-la-Forêt (Carl 1899).
Gers. Fleurance (Cassagnau 1961).
Haute-Garonne. Boisde Preissac (Betsch & Cassagnau 1966). — Gar-Cagire près de Saint-Gaudens (Salmon et al. 2010).
Hautes-Pyrénées. Lannemezan (Cassagnau 1961).
Hauts-de-Seine. Maresde Clamart (Pichard etal. 1989).
Loir-et-Cher. Forêt près de Salbris (Prat & Massoud 1980).
Tarn. Sidobre (Izarra 1969).
ÉCOLOGIE. — Poinsot 1973; Ponge 1973, 1993; Prat & Massoud 1980 (sol forestier); Pichard etal. 1989; Betsch 1991 (privation de litière); Ponge etal. 2002 (toxicité, herbicide); Salmon etal. 2010 (diversité, peuplement, endémisme).
description: Published as part of Thibaud, Jean-Marc, 2017, Catalogue des collemboles de France, pp. 297-436 in Zoosystema 39 (3) on page 407, DOI: 10.5252/z2017n3a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5496272
Methocha keralaensis Hanima & Girish Kumar 2019
Creators: name: Hanima, Raveendran K. P.
name: Kumar, P. Girish
name: Binoy, C.
name: Sureshan, P. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Tiphiidae
Methocha
Methocha keralaensis

description: 1. Methocha keralaensis Hanima & Girish Kumar, 2019
(Figs 1–12)
 Methocha keralaensis Hanima & Girish Kumar (2019): 63 (♀, India: Kerala (ZSIK). Diagnosis. Female. Body length 5 mm. Bases of fl 1 –fl 5 brown; ocelli arranged in acute triangle; mesosoma black; head strongly narrowed behind eyes; POD 1.06 × AOD, 0.47 × OOD; apical margin of clypeal lobe rounded; basal metasomal segments black. Male unknown.
 Distribution. India: Kerala.
description: Published as part of Hanima, Raveendran K. P., Kumar, P. Girish, Binoy, C. & Sureshan, P. M., 2021, A taxonomic study of Methocha Latreille (Hymenoptera: Tiphiidae: Methochinae) from India with description of three new species, pp. 258-272 in Zootaxa 4999 (3) on page 262, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4999.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/5119053
Continuous Hahn functions as Clebsch-Gordan coefficients
Creators: name: Groenevelt, Wolter
name: Koelink, Erik
name: Rosengren, Hjalmar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: An explicit bilinear generating function for Meixner-Pollaczek polynomials is proved. This formula involves continuous dual Hahn polynomials, Meixner-Pollaczek functions, and non-polynomial $_3F_2$-hypergeometric functions that we consider as continuous Hahn functions. An integral transform pair with continuous Hahn functions as kernels is also proved. These results have an interpretation for the tensor product decomposition of a positive and a negative discrete series representation of $\su(1,1)$ with respect to hyperbolic bases, where the Clebsch-Gordan coefficients are continuous Hahn functions.