cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Xenia grasshoffi Verseveldt 1974
Creators: name: Halász, Anna
name: Mcfadden, Catherine S.
name: Toonen, Robert
name: Benayahu, Yehuda
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Anthozoa
Alcyonacea
Xeniidae
Xenia
Xenia grasshoffi

description: Xenia grasshoffi Verseveldt, 1974
Fig. 8
Xenia grasshoffi; Verseveldt, 1974a: 34–35, Fig. 34
Material. Holotype: SMF 2616, northern Red Sea, Gulf of Aqaba, Eilat, 1968, coll. M. Grasshoff.
Description. The holotype is 28 mm high; its stalk is 23 mm long, 10 mm wide at its base and 25 mm wide at the uppermost part. The polyp body is up to 3 mm long, and the tentacles are up to 2 mm long, featuring four rows of pinnules on each side. The pinnules are relatively short and stout, up to 0.24 mm long and 0.20 mm wide, 15–24 in the outermost row with no gap between adjacent pinnules.
Sclerites are ellipsoid platelets, measuring 0.009 –0.017 X 0.015 –0.023 mm in diameter (Fig. 8 a–d, n=27). Occasionally, a crest is present on the surface of the sclerite (Fig. 8b, d). Rarely, a median waist can be seen (Fig. 8a). They are composed of calcite rods arranged radially, and at the center of the sclerite they are randomly arranged (Fig. 8b, c). Many of the sclerites are fractured (Fig. 8a, b, d). The ethanol-preserved holotype is light cream in color and polyps are almost white.
Remarks. The current findings correspond to the original description of X. grasshoffi (Verseveldt 1974a: four rows and 15–24 pinnules vs. four and occasionally five rows and 16–20 pinnules, respectively). The sclerites were originally described as: "spicules of general xeniid type: round or oval corpuscle" and the current measurements reveal that their size corresponds to the original description (0.009 –0.017 X 0.015 –0.023 vs. 0.024 in the stalk and 0.021 in the tentacles, respectively).
Similar species. Xenia flexibilis n. sp. and X. grasshoffi feature four rows of pinnules and a certain overlap in the number of pinnules in the outermost row (14–32 vs. 15–24). However, the sclerites of X. grasshoffi feature surface crests which are absent in X. flexibilis and thus they should be considered as separate species.
Distribution. Red Sea.
description: Published as part of Halász, Anna, Mcfadden, Catherine S., Toonen, Robert & Benayahu, Yehuda, 2019, Re-description of type material of Xenia Lamarck, 1816 (Octocorallia: Xeniidae), pp. 201-239 in Zootaxa 4652 (2) on page 214, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4652.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3363653
A detailed theoretical exploration on the THR-β binding affinities and antioxidant activity of some halogenated bisphenols
Creators: name: Gheshlaghi, Saman Zare
name: Ebrahimi, Ali
name: Faghih, Zeinab
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Natural halogenated phenolic compounds are unique bioactive structures which share features and physicochemical properties with thyroid hormones, who are essential regulators of neurological development and metabolism processes. Also, these structures can be used as natural antioxidants to minimize the diseases related to oxidative stress. In this work, the binding affinity of 32 natural and synthetic halogenated bisphenols were investigated on thyroid hormone receptor-β (THR-β) using the molecular docking, MM/GBSA, molecular dynamics, and a rigorous three-layer ONIOM ((M06-2X/6-31G*:PM6:AMBER) calculation. The desirable potency is observed for binding of selected compounds to THR-β. The Met313, Asn331, and His435 are the main interacting residues in the binding cavity which involved in the hydrogen and halogen bond interactions with the ligands. The most potent candidate on binding to the active site of THR-β is presented with respect to the results of mentioned calculations. Moreover, the antioxidant activity of compounds has been investigated using the quantum mechanical calculations. The electrostatic potential surfaces illustrate well the antioxidant capacity of compounds. The halogen substituents increase the antioxidant activity of the most stable conformers. The position and number of OH groups are crucial factors which affect the activity, whereas two adjacent hydroxyl groups enhance the antioxidant activity of selected compounds. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma
Ising antiferromagnet on the Archimedean lattices
Creators: name: Yu, Unjong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Geometric frustration effects were studied systematically with the Ising antiferromagnet on the 11 Archimedean lattices using the Monte-Carlo methods. The Wang-Landau algorithm for static properties (specific heat and residual entropy) and the Metropolis algorithm for a freezing order parameter were adopted. The exact residual entropy was also found. Based on the degree of frustration and dynamic properties, ground states of them were determined. The Shastry-Sutherland lattice and the trellis lattice are weakly-frustrated and have two-dimensional and one-dimensional long-range-ordered ground states, respectively. The bounce, maple-leaf, and star lattices have the spin ice phase. The spin liquid phase appears in the triangular and kagomé lattices.
description: 4 figures
LA VALUTAZIONE DEL BENESSERE NELLA CAPRA DA LATTE ALLEVATA AL PASCOLO
Creators: name: Renna, Manuela
name: Torsiello, Benedetta
name: Battaglini, Luca
name: Mattiello, Silvana
name: Battini, Monica
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: -

description: Quando parliamo di “benessere animale” ci riferiamo a un concetto di grande interesse per la società, ma anche a una scienza molto complessa (Fraser, 2008). Decenni di studi hanno chiaramente dimostrato l’importanza di garantire agli animali allevati dall’uomo (ad esempio, bovini, pecore, capre, polli, cavalli, ecc.) una buona condizione di benessere: gli animali sono esseri senzienti e, come tali, al pari degli esseri umani, provano emozioni e sentono dolore. Chi li alleva ha, quindi, la responsabilità di farli stare nel miglior modo possibile durante la loro vita, anche se sono destinati a produrre alimenti, quali latte, carne o uova. Continua a leggere...
Using satellite imagery and AI to discern the effects of protected areas in your backyard, while improving the interface between scientists and the digital world (the PARSEC project).
Creators: name: Specht, Alison
name: Stall, Shelley
name: Mouillot, David
name: Mouquet, Nicolas
name: Mabile, Laurence
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: protected areas
data management
scoio-economic effects
deep learning
convolutional neural networks
multidisciplinary
transnational

description: Introductory presentation about the Belmont-funded PARSEC project at the University of Queensland, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, 9th November 2019
description: This research is a product of the PARSEC consortium funded by the Belmont Forum as part of its Collaborative Research Action (CRA) on Science-Driven e-Infrastructures Innovation (SEI) with funding from the Agence Nationale de Research (ANR), France, the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), the Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and the US National Science Foundation (NSF) grant number 1929464, with support from the synthesis centre CESAB of the French Foundation for Research on Biodiversity.
Observing reorientation dynamics with Time-Resolved fluorescence and molecular dynamics in varying periodic boundary conditions
Creators: name: Jas, Gouri S.
name: Childs, Ed W.
name: Middaugh, C. Russell
name: Kuczera, Krzysztof
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: This work presents a combined study of time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy and all-atom molecular dynamics simulation to investigate periodic boundary conditions’ and water models’ influence on the orientation dynamics and translational and rotational diffusion of peptides in solution. We have characterized the effects of solvent box size and water model choice on the dynamics of two peptide systems, NATA and WK5. Computationally, translational, and rotational diffusion and internal fluctuations are investigated through all-atom molecular dynamics simulation with two water models and different box sizes. These results are compared with time-resolved fluorescence anisotropy decay (FAD) measurements. The associated time constant and orientation dynamics from FAD measurement along the 1Lb axis provided baseline data to validate molecular dynamics simulation. The modeling results show that diffusion rates vary roughly in inverse proportion to water model viscosity, as one would expect. Corrections for finite box size are significant for translational diffusion and insignificant for rotational diffusion. This study also finds that internal dynamics described by autocorrelation functions and kinetic network models are relatively insensitive to both box size and water model properties. Our observation suggests that different peptide properties respond differently to a change in simulation conditions. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma
Tunneling magnetoresistance in trilayer structures composed of group-IV ferromagnetic semiconductor Ge1-xFex, MgO, and Fe
Creators: name: Wakabayashi, Yuki K.
name: Okamoto, Kohei
name: Ban, Yoshisuke
name: Sato, Shoichi
name: Tanaka, Masaaki
name: Ohya, Shinobu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Group-IV-based ferromagnetic semiconductor Ge1-xFex (GeFe) is one of the most promising materials for efficient spin injectors and detectors for Si and Ge. Recent first principles calculations (Sakamoto et al., Ref. 9) suggested that the Fermi level is located in two overlapping largely spin-polarized bands formed in the bandgap of GeFe; spin-down d(e) band and spin-up p-d(t2) band. Thus, it is important to clarify how these bands contribute to spin injection and detection. In this study, we show the first successful observation of the tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) in magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) containing a group-IV ferromagnetic semiconductor, that is, in MTJs composed of epitaxially grown Fe/MgO/Ge0.935Fe0.065. We find that the p-d(t2) band in GeFe is mainly responsible for the tunneling transport. Although the obtained TMR ratio is small (0.3%), the TMR ratio is expected to be enhanced by suppressing leak current through amorphous-like crystal domains observed in MgO.
Expert system for noise and vibration troubleshooting in a power hydraulic system
Creators: name: Udugama, Abhaya.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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The effect of radiative feedback on disc fragmentation
Creators: name: Mercer, Anthony
name: Stamatellos, Dimitris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Protostellar discs may become massive enough to fragment producing secondary low-mass objects: planets, brown dwarfs and low-mass stars. We study the effect of radiative feedback from such newly-formed secondary objects using radiative hydrodynamic simulations. We compare the results of simulations without any radiative feedback from secondary objects with those where two types of radiative feedback are considered: (i) continuous, and (ii) episodic. We find that: (i) continuous radiative feedback stabilizes the disc and suppresses further fragmentation, reducing the number secondary objects formed; (ii) episodic feedback from secondary objects heats and stabilises the disc when the outburst occurs, but shortly after the outburst stops, the disc becomes unstable and fragments again. However, fewer secondary objects are formed compared to the the case without radiative feedback. We also find that the mass growth of secondary objects is mildly suppressed due to the effect of their radiative feedback. However, their mass growth also depends on where they form in the disc and on their subsequent interactions, such that their final masses are not drastically different from the case without radiative feedback. We find that the masses of secondary objects formed by disc fragmentation are from a few M$_{\rm J}$ to a few 0.1 M$_{\odot}$. Planets formed by fragmentation tend to be ejected from the disc. We conclude that planetary-mass objects on wide orbits (wide-orbit planets) are unlikely to form by disc fragmentation. Nevertheless, disc fragmentation may be a significant source of free-floating planets and brown dwarfs.
description: 19 pages, 12 figures, 3 tables, accepted by MNRAS
Bifidobello e gli altri microbi dell'intestino
Creators: name: Rosso, Rachele
name: Maglione, Alessandro
name: Branzini, Matteo
name: Rolla, Simona
name: Clerico, Marinella
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: bifidobello, microorganismi, microbiota intestinale

description: Ciao, mi chiamo Bifidobello, sono un piccolo organismo, ma proprio così piccolo che non riesci ad osservarmi ad occhio nudo. La mia casa il tuo intestino, un lungo tubo presente nella tua pancia in cui passa il cibo e vengono filtrate le sostanze nutritive durante la digestione. Per capirci, ci. che non viene filtrato nell’intestino. lo scarto che produci ogni giorno quando ti siedi in bagno, faccio. la cacca. Nell’intestino non sono da solo, ma convivo con altri mille miliardi di batteri; pensa che nel tuo intestino siamo 100 volte di più. di quanta gente c’è sulla terra! Un numero grandissimo! Alcuni di noi sono buoni, altri invece cattivi, e tutti insieme formiamo il microbiota intestinale... Continua a leggere la storia...
Theoretical investigation of the initial coherent phase transformation in the silver doped Al-Mg and Al-Cu alloys
Creators: name: Lim, Shek-Sia.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Bifidobello e gli altri microbi dell'intestino
Creators: name: , Rachele
name: , Alessandro
name: , Matteo
name: , Simona
name: Clerico, Marinella
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: bifidobello, microorganismi, microbiota intestinale

description: Ciao, mi chiamo Bifidobello, sono un piccolo organismo, ma proprio così piccolo che non riesci ad osservarmi ad occhio nudo. La mia casa il tuo intestino, un lungo tubo presente nella tua pancia in cui passa il cibo e vengono filtrate le sostanze nutritive durante la digestione. Per capirci, ci. che non viene filtrato nell’intestino. lo scarto che produci ogni giorno quando ti siedi in bagno, faccio. la cacca. Nell’intestino non sono da solo, ma convivo con altri mille miliardi di batteri; pensa che nel tuo intestino siamo 100 volte di più. di quanta gente c’è sulla terra! Un numero grandissimo! Alcuni di noi sono buoni, altri invece cattivi, e tutti insieme formiamo il microbiota intestinale... Continua a leggere la storia...
Additional file 1 of Simultaneous exercise stress cardiac magnetic resonance and cardiopulmonary exercise testing to elucidate the Fick components of aerobic exercise capacity: a feasibility and reproducibility study and pilot study in hematologic cancer survivors
Creators: name: Canada, Justin M.
name: McCarty, John
name: Jordan, Jennifer H.
name: Trankle, Cory R.
name: DeCamp, Kevin
name: West, Josh D.
name: Reynolds, Mary Ann
name: Myers, Rachel
name: Sweat, Katey
name: McGhee, Virginia
name: Arena, Ross
name: Abbate, Antonio
name: Hundley, W. Gregory
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer

description: Supplementary Material 1
Deleterious single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of human IFNAR2 gene facilitate COVID-19 severity in patients: a comprehensive in silico approach
Creators: name: Akter, Shamima
name: Roy, Arpita Singha
name: Tonmoy, Mahafujul Islam Quadery
name: Islam, Md Sajedul
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: In humans, the dimeric receptor complex IFNAR2-IFNAR1 accelerates cellular response triggered by type I interferon (IFN) family proteins in response to viral infection including Coronavirus infection. Studies have revealed the association of the IFNAR2 gene with severe illness in Coronavirus infection and indicated the association of genomic variants, i.e. single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). However, comprehensive analysis of SNPs of the IFNAR2 gene has not been performed in both coding and non-coding region to find the causes of loss of function of IFNAR2 in COVID-19 patients. In this study, we have characterized coding SNPs (nsSNPs) of IFNAR2 gene using different bioinformatics tools and identified deleterious SNPs. We found 9 nsSNPs as pathogenic and disease-causing along with a decrease in protein stability. We employed molecular docking analysis that showed 5 nsSNPs to decrease binding affinity to IFN. Later, MD simulations showed that P136R mutant may destabilize crucial binding with the IFN molecule in response to COVID-19. Thus, P136R is likely to have a high impact on disrupting the structure of the IFNAR2 protein. GTEx portal analysis predicted 14 sQTLs and 5 eQTLs SNPs in lung tissues hampering the post-transcriptional modification (splicing) and altering the expression of the IFNAR2 gene. sQTLs and eQTLs SNPs potentially explain the reduced IFNAR2 production leading to severe diseases. These mutants in the coding and non-coding region of the IFNAR2 gene can help to recognize severe illness due to COVID 19 and consequently assist to develop an effective drug against the infection. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma
Scaling Properties of Multilayer Random Networks
Creators: name: Méndez-Bermúdez, J. A.
name: de Arruda, Guilherme Ferraz
name: Rodrigues, Francisco A.
name: Moreno, Yamir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Multilayer networks are widespread in natural and manmade systems. Key properties of these networks are their spectral and eigenfunction characteristics, as they determine the critical properties of many dynamics occurring on top of them. In this paper, we numerically demonstrate that the normalized localization length $β$ of the eigenfunctions of multilayer random networks follows a simple scaling law given by $β=x^*/(1+x^*)$, with $x^*=γ(b_{\text{eff}}^2/L)^δ$, $γ,δ\sim 1$ and $b_{\text{eff}}$ being the effective bandwidth of the adjacency matrix of the network, whose size is $L=M\times N$. The reported scaling law for $β$ might help to better understand criticality in multilayer networks as well as to predict the eigenfunction localization properties of them.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures. Submitted for publication
Additional file 2 of Simultaneous exercise stress cardiac magnetic resonance and cardiopulmonary exercise testing to elucidate the Fick components of aerobic exercise capacity: a feasibility and reproducibility study and pilot study in hematologic cancer survivors
Creators: name: Canada, Justin M.
name: McCarty, John
name: Jordan, Jennifer H.
name: Trankle, Cory R.
name: DeCamp, Kevin
name: West, Josh D.
name: Reynolds, Mary Ann
name: Myers, Rachel
name: Sweat, Katey
name: McGhee, Virginia
name: Arena, Ross
name: Abbate, Antonio
name: Hundley, W. Gregory
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer

description: Supplementary Material 2
An Exploration of the "Over-The-Top" Sports Streaming Consumer
Creators: name: Williams, Tyler
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2020

description:
Historically, many sports entities have generated revenue through media rights, which has now become a billion-dollar business with its convergence with technology. As technology advances, cord-cutters have criticized cable television providers based on the high costs of content and the lack of consumer choices. Over-the-top (OTT) platforms have since converted conventional television viewers to OTT platforms serving as a viable force that has altered the existing market. This disruption has created new opportunities for sports properties to exclude traditional media powerhouses and provide their own live and on-demand services to consumers, an opportunity that organizations across all levels of sport are exploring as a means of expanding their revenues and strengthening their reach. As online sports consumption is relevant to OTT, current research does not address the reasons why fans consume sports via digital platforms and their gratification with the product. Despite trends reflecting changes in consumption patterns and the expansion of the profits accumulated from digital sport media rights, there has been limited research exploring the OTT consumer, which would be practical in developing effective marketing strategies. The overarching purpose of this study was to determine the composition of an OTT sports consumer and examine what effect their motives have on their gratification and constant utilization of the platform. An online survey was administered to OTT users (N = 151). Descriptive statistics, cluster analyses, t-test, and MANOVAs revealed characteristics about the users.
The Athletic Department's Role in Racial Justice and the Black Lives Matter Movement: Perceptions of NCAA Student-Athletes
Creators: name: Bunch, Natalie
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2021

description:
In the summer of 2020, after a series of incidents of police brutality, deaths of Black Americans, and protests throughout the world, people flooded social media with their opinions. As people and organizations began to raise their voices on social media about the countrys injustices, sport organizations and athletes also utilized social media to speak out, including college athletics departments.


Framed by critical race theory, researchers have examined how fans (e.g., Frederick et al., 2017) and athletes (e.g., Agyemang et al., 2010; Intosh et al., 2020) feel about athlete activism. However, research on sport organizations activism is limited. At the collegiate level, athletic directors may be concerned with student-athletes perceptions of athletic departments efforts in the racial justice movement, as 18% of NCAA student-athletes are African American, and representation drastically increases in the highest revenue producing sports (Kluch & Wilson, 2020). Researchers have noted that Black student-athletes frequently perceive their institutions as unsupportive (Cooper, 2017). Meanwhile, activism efforts through social media can build community and promote civic engagement (Skoric et al., 2015). The purpose of this study is to explore perceptions of student-athletes based on factors identified by Sappington et al. (2019)namely, student-athletes emotional response to posts (affective response), the impact on the team (perceived conflict), and the role or perceived qualification of the athletics department to post about race relations.


To assess student-athlete perception of college athletics departments involvement in the BLM movement, an online survey was distributed to NCAA student-athletes.  A modified version of the Attitudes Toward Athlete Activism Questionnaire (7-point Likert scale; Sappington et al., 2019) measured the student-athletes response to athletic departments social media activism. In addition, original open-ended questions were asked to gauge specific response and feedback for future practices.


            The findings suggest that overall student-athletes welcome their athletics departments activism efforts, especially in terms of low perceived conflict and affective reaction. Student-athletes were less likely to believe it was their athletics departments role or that they had the proper qualification. The answers to the open-ended questions suggest that athletics departments should work on authenticity, education, and being proactive.
Nonlinear directional coupler
Creators: name: Phạm, Anh Tuấn.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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SPARSE RECOVERY BY NONCONVEX LIPSHITZIAN MAPPINGS
Creators: name: ADAMO, ALESSANDRO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2013

description: In recent years, the sparsity concept has attracted considerable attention in areas of applied mathematics and computer science, especially in signal and image processing fields. The general framework of sparse representation is now a mature concept with solid basis in relevant mathematical fields, such as probability, geometry of Banach spaces, harmonic analysis, theory of computability, and information-based complexity. Together with theoretical and practical advancements, also several numeric methods and algorithmic techniques have been developed in order to capture the complexity and the wide scope that the theory suggests. Sparse recovery relays over the fact that many signals can be represented in a sparse way, using only few nonzero coefficients in a suitable basis or overcomplete dictionary. Unfortunately, this problem, also called `0-norm minimization, is not only NP-hard, but also hard to approximate within an exponential factor of the optimal solution. Nevertheless, many heuristics for the problem has been obtained and proposed for many applications. This thesis provides new regularization methods for the sparse representation problem with application to face recognition and ECG signal compression. The proposed methods are based on fixed-point iteration scheme which combines nonconvex Lipschitzian-type mappings with canonical orthogonal projectors. The first are aimed at uniformly enhancing the sparseness level by shrinking effects, the latter to project back into the feasible space of solutions. In the second part of this thesis we study two applications in which sparseness has been successfully applied in recent areas of the signal and image processing: the face recognition problem and the ECG signal compression problem.
Cognitive Interactions within Sensory Information in Perception
Creators: name: Swann, Jack
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Speech Perception
subject: Sensory Processing
subject: Working Memory
subject: Attention
subject: Perception

description: The dynamics present during early information processing at the sensory level of the auditory system have long been studied, and there are two broad views of this processing. The purely bottom-up view is that sensory information is passed up to higher-level cognitive systems in an automatic process of successive recoding. By contrast, the top-down view is that cognitive processing can interact with sensory processes to modify representations even at the earliest levels of sensation. One way of understanding these interactions is to examine individual differences that are not simply reflective of lower-level sensory systems, especially those under cognitive control such as attention. While findings exist that document a relationship between individual differences in auditory attention and visual working memory (WM; Giuliano et al., 2014), few studies have investigated the relationship between individual differences in auditory attention/WM and early speech processing. The current study was designed to assess the relationship between individual differences in attention/WM and signal detection of speech sounds In addition, the higher-level cognitive attribute of "dissociation"--a feeling of disconnection from the immediate situation--was also measured to approach higher-level differences in attention. We examined how differences in dissociative states relate to attention and signal detection. Participants were presented with a task that served as a measure of auditory working memory (WM) and selective attention, a two-step N-Back (2-Back) task, and a task that served as a measure of participants’ ability to detect speech signals embedded in noise. Survey measures for cognitive dissociation were also collected for each participant. Signal detection and WM task performance were correlated with dissociation survey scores. Additionally, WM and selective attention are correlated with speech signal detection, although primarily in terms of false alarm errors.
Additional file 3 of Simultaneous exercise stress cardiac magnetic resonance and cardiopulmonary exercise testing to elucidate the Fick components of aerobic exercise capacity: a feasibility and reproducibility study and pilot study in hematologic cancer survivors
Creators: name: Canada, Justin M.
name: McCarty, John
name: Jordan, Jennifer H.
name: Trankle, Cory R.
name: DeCamp, Kevin
name: West, Josh D.
name: Reynolds, Mary Ann
name: Myers, Rachel
name: Sweat, Katey
name: McGhee, Virginia
name: Arena, Ross
name: Abbate, Antonio
name: Hundley, W. Gregory
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer

description: Supplementary Material 3
Remdesivir analogs against SARS-CoV-2 RNA-dependent RNA polymerase
Creators: name: Ahmed, Sinthyia
name: Mahtarin, Rumana
name: Islam, Md. Shamiul
name: Das, Susmita
name: Al Mamun, Abdulla
name: Ahmed, Sayeda Samina
name: Ali, Md Ackas
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The COVID-19 pandemic has already taken many lives but is still continuing its spread and exerting jeopardizing effects. This study is aimed to find the most potent ligands from 703 analogs of remdesivir against RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) protein of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus . RdRp is a major part of a multi-subunit transcription complex of the virus, which is essential for viral replication. In clinical trials, it has been found that remdesivir is effective to inhibit viral replication in Ebola and in primary human lung cell cultures; it effectively impedes replication of a broad-spectrum pre-pandemic bat coronaviruses and epidemic human coronaviruses. After virtual screening, 30 most potent ligands and remdesivir were modified with triphosphate. Quantum mechanics-based quantitative structure–activity relationship envisages the binding energy for ligands applying partial least square (PLS) regression. PLS regression remarkably predicts the binding energy of the effective ligands with an accuracy of 80% compared to the value attained from molecular docking. Two ligands (L4:58059550 and L28:126719083), which have more interactions with the target protein than the other ligands including standard remdesivir triphosphate, were selected for further analysis. Molecular dynamics simulation is done to assess the stability and dynamic nature of the drug–protein complex. Binding-free energy results via PRODIGY server and molecular mechanics/Poisson-Boltzmann surface area method depict that the potential and solvation energies play a crucial role. Considering all computational analysis, we recommend the best remdesivir analogs can be utilized for efficacy test through in vitro and in vivo trials against SARS-CoV-2. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma
Quantifying Effects of Perturbation Intensity on Slip Outcome in Young Adults
Creators: name: Shin, Sangwon
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2023

description:
Motorized treadmills have been widely used to examine the reactive balance control of the human body after an external perturbation, like slips or trips, and develop perturbation-based interventions for preventing falls. The treadmill-induced perturbation profile depends on the belts duration, velocity, acceleration, and displacement. The intensity of the perturbation is affected by these interrelated factors. There is a lack of consensus regarding how to choose the perturbation intensity. One prerequisite condition to bridge this knowledge gap is to examine how the perturbation intensity affects its outcome. The purpose of this study was to quantify how the slip intensity, characterized by the belts peak velocity (low intensity: 0.9 m/s; medium intensity: 1.2 m/s, or high intensity: 1.8 m/s), affects the slip outcome (fall or recovery) in young adults while the slip distance is controlled. Specifically, it was hypothesized that, in comparison with a low intensity, a high slip intensity would lead to 1) a greater risk of a slip-fall and 2) a shorter recovery step latency, longer slip distance, and larger hip descent after the slip onset. Thirty-one healthy young adults aged 18 to 45 years were enrolled and randomly assigned into three groups with different peak slip speeds: low (0.9 m/s), medium (1.2 m/s), and high (1.8 m/s). After the warmup, participants stepped on the ActiveStep treadmill. Following five standing trials without slips, all subjects experienced an unexpected slip perturbation induced by the treadmill with the assigned peak slip velocity. The slip displacement was the same for all groups at 0.36 m. A motion capture system collected participants full-body kinematics. The slip outcome (a binary variable: fall or recovery) was determined by the hip descent after the slip onset. The faller rate was the primary outcome variable. The secondary outcome measures included the continuous measurements of the hip descent, dynamic stability, and slip distance at the instant of recovery foot liftoff, and the latency of the recovery step. The outcome measures were compared among groups using ?2 or one-way analysis of variance followed by appropriate post-hoc tests to test the hypotheses. The results overall support the hypotheses. Specifically, individuals in the high-intensity group fell significantly more than the other two groups. Additionally, they were less stable with a longer slip distance at liftoff than their peers in the lower intensity groups. This study could guide the selection of slip profiles for future studies that use perturbation as a test platform or interventional paradigm.
Dynamical Observations of Self-Stabilising Stationary Light
Creators: name: Everett, Jesse L.
name: Campbell, Geoff T.
name: Cho, Young-Wook
name: Vernaz-Gris, Pierre
name: Higginbottom, Daniel B.
name: Pinel, Olivier
name: Robins, Nicholas P.
name: Lam, Ping Koy
name: Buchler, Ben C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Precise control of atom-light interactions is vital to many quantum information protocols. In particular, atomic systems can be used to slow and store light to form a quantum memory. Optical storage can be achieved via stopped light, where no optical energy remains in the atoms, or as stationary light, where some optical energy remains resent during storage. In this work, we demonstrate a form of self-stabilising stationary light. From any initial state, our atom-light system evolves to a stable configuration that is devoid of coherent emission from the atoms, yet may contain bright optical excitation. This phenomenon is verified experimentally in a cloud of cold Rb87 atoms. The spinwave in our atomic cloud is imaged from the side allowing direct comparison with theoretical predictions.
Novel approach to measure the leptonic eta(')->mu+mu- decays via charmed meson decays
Creators: name: Huong, Nguyen Thu
name: Kou, Emi
name: Viaud, Benoit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article, we propose a novel approach to measure the branching ratios of the leptonic eta(')-> mu+mu- decays by using charmed meson decays, namely, D+(s)->pi+ eta(')(->mu+mu-) and D0->K-pi+eta(')(->mu+mu-). We advocate that the data available at LHCb can already yield a new measurement of Br(eta->mu+mu-) with accuracy competitive with the current world average. We also estimate that using the data collected by LHCb between 2015 and 2018 in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.0/fb, the relative uncertainties to this branching ratio can be reduced down to ~10%. We also show that the first observation of Br(eta'->mu+mu-) may be possible with the Upgrade of the LHCb experiment.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures
ONLINE HIERARCHICAL MODELS FOR SURFACE RECONSTRUCTION
Creators: name: BELLOCCHIO, FRANCESCO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: Applications based on three-dimensional object models are today very common, and can be found in many fields as design, archeology, medicine, and entertainment. A digital 3D model can be obtained by means of physical object measurements performed by using a 3D scanner. In this approach, an important step of the 3D model building process consists of creating the object's surface representation from a cloud of noisy points sampled on the object itself. This process can be viewed as the estimation of a function from a finite subset of its points. Both in statistics and machine learning this is known as a regression problem. Machine learning views the function estimation as a learning problem to be addressed by using computational intelligence techniques: the points represent a set of examples and the surface to be reconstructed represents the law that has generated them. On the other hand, in many applications the cloud of sampled points may become available only progressively during system operation. The conventional approaches to regression are therefore not suited to deal efficiently with this operating condition. The aim of the thesis is to introduce innovative approaches to the regression problem suited for achieving high reconstruction accuracy, while limiting the computational complexity, and appropriate for online operation. Two classical computational intelligence paradigms have been considered as basic tools to address the regression problem: namely the Radial Basis Functions and the Support Vector Machines. The original and innovative aspect introduced by this thesis is the extension of these tools toward a multi-scale incremental structure, based on hierarchical schemes and suited for online operation. This allows for obtaining modular, scalable, accurate and efficient modeling procedures with training algorithms appropriate for dealing with online learning. Radial Basis Function Networks have a fast configuration procedure that, operating locally, does not require iterative algorithms. On the other side, the computational complexity of the configuration procedure of Support Vector Machines is independent from the number of input variables. These two approaches have been considered in order to analyze advantages and limits of each of them due to the differences in their intrinsic nature.
Spalling of high strength concrete in fire
Creators: name: Stocks, Lawrence John.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Additional file 4 of Simultaneous exercise stress cardiac magnetic resonance and cardiopulmonary exercise testing to elucidate the Fick components of aerobic exercise capacity: a feasibility and reproducibility study and pilot study in hematologic cancer survivors
Creators: name: Canada, Justin M.
name: McCarty, John
name: Jordan, Jennifer H.
name: Trankle, Cory R.
name: DeCamp, Kevin
name: West, Josh D.
name: Reynolds, Mary Ann
name: Myers, Rachel
name: Sweat, Katey
name: McGhee, Virginia
name: Arena, Ross
name: Abbate, Antonio
name: Hundley, W. Gregory
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer

description: Supplementary Material 4
INDEXAR, um meio de acesso ao conhecimento
Creators: name: Moreira, João Mendes
name: Carvalho, Paula Seguro de
name: Lopes, Paulo
name: Meireles, Paula
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Apresentação realizada na sessão "Pecha Kucha I" da 14ª Conferência Lusófona de Ciência Aberta, Natal Brasil, de 18 a 21 de setembro de 2023.
Zonal structure of unbounded external-flow and aerodynamics
Creators: name: Liu, Luoqin
name: Kang, Linlin
name: Wu, Jiezhi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper starts from the far-field behaviours of velocity field in externally-unbounded flow. We find that the well-known algebraic decay of disturbance velocity as derived kinematically is too conservative. Once the kinetics is taken into account by working on the fundamental solutions of far-field linearized Navier-Stokes equations, it is proven that the furthest far-field zone adjacent to the uniform fluid at infinity must be unsteady, viscous and compressible, where all disturbances degenerate to sound waves that decay exponentially. But this optimal rate does not exist in some commonly used simplified flow models, such as steady flow, incompressible flow and inviscid flow, because they actually work in true subspaces of the unbounded free space, which are surrounded by further far fields of different nature. This finding naturally leads to a zonal structure of externally-unbounded flow field. The significance of the zonal structure is demonstrated by its close relevance to existing theories of aerodynamic force and moment in external flows, including the removal of the difficulties or paradoxes inherent in the simplified models.
description: 24 pages, 1 figure
Remdesivir analogs against SARS-CoV-2 RNA-dependent RNA polymerase
Creators: name: Ahmed, Sinthyia
name: Mahtarin, Rumana
name: Islam, Md. Shamiul
name: Das, Susmita
name: Mamun, Abdulla Al
name: Ahmed, Sayeda Samina
name: Ali, Md Ackas
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The COVID-19 pandemic has already taken many lives but is still continuing its spread and exerting jeopardizing effects. This study is aimed to find the most potent ligands from 703 analogs of remdesivir against RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) protein of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus . RdRp is a major part of a multi-subunit transcription complex of the virus, which is essential for viral replication. In clinical trials, it has been found that remdesivir is effective to inhibit viral replication in Ebola and in primary human lung cell cultures; it effectively impedes replication of a broad-spectrum pre-pandemic bat coronaviruses and epidemic human coronaviruses. After virtual screening, 30 most potent ligands and remdesivir were modified with triphosphate. Quantum mechanics-based quantitative structure–activity relationship envisages the binding energy for ligands applying partial least square (PLS) regression. PLS regression remarkably predicts the binding energy of the effective ligands with an accuracy of 80% compared to the value attained from molecular docking. Two ligands (L4:58059550 and L28:126719083), which have more interactions with the target protein than the other ligands including standard remdesivir triphosphate, were selected for further analysis. Molecular dynamics simulation is done to assess the stability and dynamic nature of the drug–protein complex. Binding-free energy results via PRODIGY server and molecular mechanics/Poisson-Boltzmann surface area method depict that the potential and solvation energies play a crucial role. Considering all computational analysis, we recommend the best remdesivir analogs can be utilized for efficacy test through in vitro and in vivo trials against SARS-CoV-2. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma
Characteristics of the trapezoidal free overfall : a theoretical and experimental study
Creators: name: Walters, Darryl F.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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