cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Self-evaporation dynamics of quantum droplets in a 41K-87Rb mixture
Creators: name: Fort, Chiara
name: Modugno, Michele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically investigate the self-evaporation dynamics of quantum droplets in a 41K-87Rb mixture, in free-space. The dynamical formation of the droplet and the effects related to the presence of three-body losses are analyzed by means of numerical simulations. We identify a regime of parameters allowing for the observation of the droplet self-evaporation in a feasible experimental setup.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures; submitted to the Special Issue "Quantum Degenerate Atomic Mixtures"
Luciobarbus conocephalus
Creators: name: Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz
name: Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Cypriniformes
Cyprinidae
Luciobarbus
Luciobarbus conocephalus

description: 138. Luciobarbus conocephalus (Kessler, 1872)
Common name. Turkestan barbel
Taxonomy. Original description: Barbus conocephalus Kessler, 1872: 50 [6], pl. 6, fig. 6, pl. 7, figs. 7-8 [Zeravshan River, Uzbekistan; syntypes: (6) ZMMU P-1513 (2), P-1518 (1)].
Revisions. Berg (1949: 700) as Barbus capito conocephalus.
Illustrations. Kessler (1872: pl. 6, fig. 6, pl. 7, figs. 7-8) as Barbus concephalus.
Distribution in Iran. —Distribution in River Basin: Hari River.—Distribution in Ecoregions: 631-Upper Amu Darya.
Status in Iran. [Native].—Zarde par-e Harirud.—Listed in previous checklists from Iran by Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020) and Eagderi et al. (2022).—Iran material: None.
Conservation. —IUCN: NE.
description: Published as part of Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz & Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, 2024, Freshwater lamprey and fishes of Iran: Reappraisal and updated checklist with a note on Eagderi et al. (2022), pp. 1-99 in Zootaxa 5402 (1) on page 47, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5402.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10524097
Biologically Inspired Hexagonal Deep Learning for Hexagonal Image Generation
Creators: name: Schlosser, Tobias
name: Beuth, Frederik
name: Kowerko, Danny
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Whereas conventional state-of-the-art image processing systems of recording and output devices almost exclusively utilize square arranged methods, biological models, however, suggest an alternative, evolutionarily-based structure. Inspired by the human visual perception system, hexagonal image processing in the context of machine learning offers a number of key advantages that can benefit both researchers and users alike. The hexagonal deep learning framework Hexnet leveraged in this contribution serves therefore the generation of hexagonal images by utilizing hexagonal deep neural networks (H-DNN). As the results of our created test environment show, the proposed models can surpass current approaches of conventional image generation. While resulting in a reduction of the models' complexity in the form of trainable parameters, they furthermore allow an increase of test rates in comparison to their square counterparts.
description: Accepted for: 2020 27th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP). arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1911.11251
Fermion Mass Hierarchies, Large Lepton Mixing and Residual Modular Symmetries
Creators: name: Novichkov, P. P.
name: Penedo, J. T.
name: Petcov, S. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In modular-invariant models of flavour, hierarchical fermion mass matrices may arise solely due to the proximity of the modulus $τ$ to a point of residual symmetry. This mechanism does not require flavon fields, and modular weights are not analogous to Froggatt-Nielsen charges. Instead, we show that hierarchies depend on the decomposition of field representations under the residual symmetry group. We systematically go through the possible fermion field representation choices which may yield hierarchical structures in the vicinity of symmetric points, for the four smallest finite modular groups, isomorphic to $S_3$, $A_4$, $S_4$, and $A_5$, as well as for their double covers. We find a restricted set of pairs of representations for which the discussed mechanism may produce viable fermion (charged-lepton and quark) mass hierarchies. We present two lepton flavour models in which the charged-lepton mass hierarchies are naturally obtained, while lepton mixing is somewhat fine-tuned. After formulating the conditions for obtaining a viable lepton mixing matrix in the symmetric limit, we construct a model in which both the charged-lepton and neutrino sectors are free from fine-tuning.
description: 32 pages + appendices, 5 figures, 13 tables; comments and references added; matches version published in JHEP
Transmembrane START domain proteins: in silico identification, characterization and expression analysis under stress conditions in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.)
Creators: name: Viswanathan Satheesh
name: Chidambaranathan, Parameswaran
name: Prasanth Tejkumar Jagannadham
name: Vajinder Kumar
name: Jain, Pradeep K.
name: Viswanathan Chinnusamy
name: Shripad R. Bhat
name: R. Srinivasan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Steroidogenic acute regulatory related transfer (StART) proteins that are involved in transport of lipid molecules, play a myriad of functions in insects, mammals and plants. These proteins consist of a modular START domain of approximately 200 amino acids which binds and transfers the lipids. In the present study we have performed a genome-wide search for all START domain proteins in chickpea. The search identified 36 chickpea genes belonging to the START domain family. Through a phylogenetic tree reconstructed with Arabidopsis, rice, chickpea, and soybean START proteins, we were able to identify four transmembrane START (TM-START) proteins in chickpea. These four proteins are homologous to the highly conserved mammalian phosphatidylcholine transfer proteins. Multiple sequence alignment of all the transmembrane containing START proteins from Arabidopsis, rice, chickpea, and soybean revealed that the amino acid residues to which phosphatidylcholine binds in mammals, is also conserved in all these plant species, implying an important functional role and a very similar mode of action of all these proteins across dicots and monocots. This study characterizes a few of the not so well studied transmembrane START superfamily genes that may be involved in stress signaling. Expression analysis in various tissues showed that these genes are predominantly expressed in flowers and roots of chickpea. Three of the chickpea TM-START genes showed induced expression in response to drought, salt, wound and heat stress, suggesting their role in stress response.
Nonlinear magneto-optical rotation in rubidium vapor excited with blue light
Creators: name: Pustelny, S.
name: Busaite, L.
name: Auzinsh, M.
name: Akoulchine, Alexandre
name: Leefer, N.
name: Budker, D.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We present experimental and numerical studies of nonlinear magneto-optical rotation (NMOR) in rubidium vapor excited with resonant light tuned to the 52S1/2→62P1/2 absorption line (421 nm). Contrary to the experiments performed to date on the strong D1 or D2 lines, in this case, the spontaneous decay of the excited state 62P1/2 may occur via multiple intermediate states, affecting the dynamics, magnitude, and other characteristics of NMOR. Comparing the experimental results with the results of modeling based on Auzinsh et al. [Phys. Rev. A 80, 053406 (2009)], we demonstrate that despite the complexity of the structure, NMOR can be adequately described with a model, where only a single excited-state relaxation rate is used.
Revealing spatial spillover effect in high-tech industry agglomeration from a high-skilled labor flow network perspective
Creators: name: Wang, Chen
name: Wang, Lu
name: Xue, Yanbo
name: Li, Ruiqi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Understanding the high-tech industrial agglomeration from a spatial-spillover perspective is essential for cities to gain economic and technological competitive advantages. Along with rapid urbanization and the development of fast transportation networks, socioeconomic interactions between cities have been ever-increasing, traditional spatial metrics are not enough to describe actual inter-city connections. High-skilled labor flow between cities strongly influences the high-tech industrial agglomeration, yet receives less attention. By exploiting unique large-scale datasets and tools from complex network and data mining, we construct an inter-city high-skilled labor flow network, which was integrated into spatial econometric models. Our regression results indicate that spatial-spillover effects exist in the development of high-tech industries in the Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration region. Moreover, the spatial-spillover effects are stronger among cities with a higher volume of high-skilled labor flows than among cities with just stronger geographic connections. Additionally, we investigate the channels for the spillover effects and discover that inadequate local government expenses on science and technology likely hamper the high-tech industrial agglomeration, so does the inadequate local educational provision. The increasing foreign direct investments in one city likely encourages the high-tech industrial agglomeration in other cities because of the policy inertia toward traditional industries.
An Analytic Hybrid Halo + Perturbation Theory Model for Small-scale Correlators: Baryons, Halos, and Galaxies
Creators: name: Sullivan, James M.
name: Seljak, Uros
name: Singh, Sukhdeep
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We update Halo Zeldovich Perturbation Theory (HZPT), an analytic model for the two-point statistics of dark matter, to describe halo and galaxy clustering, and galaxy-matter cross-correlation on nonlinear scales. The model correcting Zeldovich has an analytic Fourier transform, and therefore is valid in both configuration space and Fourier space. The model is accurate at the $2\%$-level or less for $P_{mm}$ (k < 1 h/Mpc), $P_{hm}$ (k < 1 h/Mpc), $P_{hh}$ (k < 2 h/Mpc), $P_{gm}$ (k < 1 h/Mpc), $P_{gg}$ (k < 1 h/Mpc), $ξ_{mm}$ (r > 1 Mpc/h), $ξ_{hm}$ (r > 2 Mpc/h), $ξ_{hh}$ (r > 2 Mpc/h), $ξ_{gm}$ (r > 1 Mpc/h), $ξ_{gg}$ (r > 2 Mpc/h), for LRG-like mock galaxies. We show that the HZPT model for matter correlators can account for the effects of a wide range of baryonic feedback models and provide extended dark matter models which are of $1\% ~(3\%)$ accuracy for k < 10 (8) h/Mpc. We explicitly model the non-perturbative features of halo exclusion for the halo-halo and galaxy-galaxy correlators, as well as the presence of satellites for galaxy-matter and galaxy-galaxy correlation functions. We perform density estimation using N-body simulations and a wide range of HOD galaxy mocks to obtain correlations of model parameters with the cosmological parameters $Ω_{m}$ and $σ_{8}$. HZPT can provide a fast, interpretable, and analytic model for combined-probe analyses of redshift surveys using scales well into the non-linear regime.
description: 46 pages, 21 figures, (including appendices). Published version
Data vs. Physics: The Apparent Pareto Front of Physics-Informed Neural Networks
Creators: name: Rohrhofer, Franz M.
name: Posch, Stefan
name: Gößnitzer, Clemens
name: Geiger, Bernhard C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have emerged as a promising deep learning method, capable of solving forward and inverse problems governed by differential equations. Despite their recent advance, it is widely acknowledged that PINNs are difficult to train and often require a careful tuning of loss weights when data and physics loss functions are combined by scalarization of a multi-objective (MO) problem. In this paper, we aim to understand how parameters of the physical system, such as characteristic length and time scales, the computational domain, and coefficients of differential equations affect MO optimization and the optimal choice of loss weights. Through a theoretical examination of where these system parameters appear in PINN training, we find that they effectively and individually scale the loss residuals, causing imbalances in MO optimization with certain choices of system parameters. The immediate effects of this are reflected in the apparent Pareto front, which we define as the set of loss values achievable with gradient-based training and visualize accordingly. We empirically verify that loss weights can be used successfully to compensate for the scaling of system parameters, and enable the selection of an optimal solution on the apparent Pareto front that aligns well with the physically valid solution. We further demonstrate that by altering the system parameterization, the apparent Pareto front can shift and exhibit locally convex parts, resulting in a wider range of loss weights for which gradient-based training becomes successful. This work explains the effects of system parameters on MO optimization in PINNs, and highlights the utility of proposed loss weighting schemes.
description: 11 pages
Luciobarbus esocinus Heckel 1843
Creators: name: Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz
name: Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Cypriniformes
Cyprinidae
Luciobarbus
Luciobarbus esocinus

description: 139. Luciobarbus esocinus Heckel, 1843
Common name. Pike barbel
Taxonomy. Original description: Luciobarbus esocinus Heckel, 1843: 1054 [64] [Tigris River, Mosul, Iraq; syntypes: NMW 54088 (2), 54091-92 (1, 1); SMF 454 (ex NMW) (1), 6785 (ex NMW) (1)].
Revisions. None.
Illustrations. Heckel (1843: pl. 4, fig. 2); Esmaeili (2021:307, fig. 17.9).
Distribution in Iran. —Distribution in River Basin: Tigris, Zohreh.—Distribution in Ecoregions: 441-Lower Tigris & Euphrates, 442-Upper Tigris & Euphrates.
Status in Iran. [Native].—Song.—Listed in previous checklists from Iran by Esmaeili et al. (2017 a, 2018); Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020) and Eagderi et al. (2022).—Iran material: ZM-CBSU.
Conservation. —IUCN: VU.
description: Published as part of Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz & Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, 2024, Freshwater lamprey and fishes of Iran: Reappraisal and updated checklist with a note on Eagderi et al. (2022), pp. 1-99 in Zootaxa 5402 (1) on page 47, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5402.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10524097
Evaluation of the soil response of different types of pruning of chestnut tree
Creators: name: Anzilotti, Solaria
name: Vittori Antisari, Livia
name: Scotti, Carla Paola
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Forest adaptation to climate change
biodiversity and nature management
soil management/functionality
landscape/land management

description: The Castagni Parlanti project aims to evaluate the environmental impact of restoring chestnut groves for fruit cultivation in mixed forests in the Italian Apennines.
Standardizing serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D data from four Nordic population samples using the Vitamin D Standardization Program protocols: Shedding new light on vitamin D status in Nordic individuals
Creators: name: Lamberg-Allardt, Christel
name: Koskinen, Seppo
name: Sundvall, Jouko
name: Linneberg, Allan
name: Thuesen, Betina
name: Husemoen, Lise Lotte N.
name: Meyer, Haakon E.
name: Holvik, Kristin
name: Tetens, Inge
name: Andersen, Rikke
name: Cashman, Kevin D.
name: Dowling, Kirsten G.
name: Škrabáková, Zuzana
name: Mairead Kiely
name: Durazo-Arvizu, Ramon A.
name: Sempos, Christopher T.
name: Lundqvist, Annamari
name: Grønborg, Ida M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Medicine

description: Knowledge about the distributions of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) concentrations in representative population samples is critical for the quantification of vitamin D deficiency as well as for setting dietary reference values and food-based strategies for its prevention. Such data for the European Union are of variable quality making it difficult to estimate the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency across member states. As a consequence of the widespread, method-related differences in measurements of serum 25(OH)D concentrations, the Vitamin D Standardization Program (VDSP) developed protocols for standardizing existing serum 25(OH)D data from national surveys around the world. The objective of the present work was to apply the VDSP protocols to existing serum 25(OH)D data from a Danish, a Norwegian, and a Finnish population-based health survey and from a Danish randomized controlled trial. A specifically-selected subset (n 100–150) of bio-banked serum samples from each of the studies were reanalyzed for 25(OH)D by LC-MS/MS and a calibration equation developed between old and new 25(OH)D data, and this equation was applied to the entire data-sets from each study. Compared to estimates based on the original serum 25(OH)D data, the percentage vitamin D deficiency (< 30 nmol/L) decreased by 21.5% in the Danish health survey but by only 1.4% in the Norwegian health survey; but was relatively unchanged (0% and 0.2%) in the Finish survey or Danish RCT, respectively, following VDSP standardization. In conclusion, standardization of serum 25(OH)D concentrations is absolutely necessary in order to compare serum 25(OH)D concentrations across different study populations, which is needed to quantify and prevent vitamin D deficiency.
A novel technique to assess agile systems for stability
Creators: name: Healy, Robert
name: DEY, TAPAJIT
name: Conboy, Kieran
name: FITZGERALD, BRIAN
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 4612
subject: Software engineering

description: Agile systems, like the Kanban and Scrum frameworks, are built on assumptions of sustainability and stability, however, there is little empirical evidence on whether such systems are stable in practice or not. Therefore, in this study we aim to inspect the stability of Agile systems by leveraging the concept of stability described in Queueing Theory. We define a novel metric, the Stability Metric, as a way of assessing queueing systems, especially Agile systems. We inspect 926 Jira projects in 14 organizations with over 1.6 million product backlog items using this metric. The analysis showed that 72.89% of these Jira projects were not stable and stable systems, on average, had product backlog sizes 10 times shorter than unstable ones. These results suggest that while the goal of Agile is to create a sustainable, stable way of working, this is not guaranteed, and a better understanding of systems and queues may be required to help design, create, coach, and maintain optimal Agile systems.
Transmembrane START Domain Proteins: In silico Identification, Characterization and Expression Analysis under Stress Conditions in Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.)
Creators: name: Viswanathan Satheesh
name: Chidambaranathan, Parameswaran
name: Prasanth Tejkumar Jagannadham
name: Vajinder Kumar
name: Jain, Pradeep K.
name: Viswanathan Chinnusamy
name: Shripad R. Bhat
name: R Srinivasan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: Steroidogenic acute regulatory related transfer (StART) proteins that are involved in transport of lipid molecules, play a myriad of functions in insects, mammals and plants. These proteins consist of a modular START domain of approximately 200 amino acids which binds and transfers the lipids. In the present study we have performed a genome-wide search for all START domain proteins in chickpea. The search identified 36 chickpea genes belonging to the START domain family. Through a phylogenetic tree reconstructed with Arabidopsis, rice, chickpea, and soybean START proteins, we were able to identify four transmembrane START proteins in chickpea. These four proteins are homologous to the highly conserved mammalian phosphatidylcholine transfer proteins. The multiple sequence alignment of all the transmembrane containing START proteins from Arabidopsis, rice, chickpea, and soybean revealed that the amino acid residues to which phosphatidylcholine binds in mammals, is also conserved in all these plant species, implying an important functional role and a very similar mode of actionof all these proteins across dicots and monocots. This study characterises a few of the not so well studied transmembrane START superfamily genes that may be involved in stress signalling.The expression analysis in various tissues showed that these genes are predominantly expressed in flowers and roots of chickpea. Three of the chickpea TM START genes showed induced expression in response to drought, salt, wound and heat stress, suggesting their role in stress respopnse.
Investigating the IPv6 teredo tunnelling capability and performance of internet clients
Creators: name: Zander, Sebastian
name: Andrew, Lachlan L.H.
name: Armitage, Grenville
name: Huston, Geoff
name: Michaelson, George
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The Teredo auto-tunnelling protocol allows IPv6 hosts behind IPv4 NATs to communicate with other IPv6 hosts. It is enabled by default on Windows Vista and Windows 7. But Windows clients are self-constrained: if their only IPv6 access is Teredo, they are unable to resolve host names to IPv6 addresses. We use web-based measurements to investigate the (latent) Teredo capability of Internet clients, and the delay introduced by Teredo. We compare this with native IPv6 and 6to4 tunnelling capability and delay. We ﬁnd that only 6-7% of connections are from fully IPv6-capable clients, but an additional 15-16% of connections are from clients that would be IPv6-capable if Windows Teredo was not constrained. However, Teredo increases the median latency to fetch objects by 1-1.5 seconds compared to IPv4 or native IPv6, even with an optimally located Teredo relay. Furthermore, in many cases Teredo fails to establish a tunnel.
Dehn quandles of groups and orientable surfaces
Creators: name: Dhanwani, Neeraj K.
name: Raundal, Hitesh
name: Singh, Mahender
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 2020: Primary 57K10, 57K20, Secondary 57K12

description: Unifying various constructions of quandles including Coxeter quandles, free quandles, knot quandles of prime knots and Dehn quandles of orientable surfaces, we introduce Dehn quandles of groups with respect to their subsets. It turns out that Dehn quandles are precisely the ones that embed naturally into their enveloping groups. We prove that the enveloping group of the Dehn quandle of a given group with respect to its generating set is a central extension of that group, and that enveloping groups of Dehn quandles of Artin groups and link groups with respect to their standard generating sets are the groups themselves. We discuss orderability of Dehn quandles and prove that free involutory quandles are left orderable, whereas certain generalised Alexander quandles are bi-orderable. Specialising to surfaces, we give generating sets for Dehn quandles of orientable surfaces with punctures and compute their automorphism groups. As applications, we recover a result of Niebrzydowski and Przytycki proving that the knot quandle of the trefoil knot is isomorphic to the Dehn quandle of the torus and also extend a result of Yetter on epimorphisms of Dehn quandles of orientable surfaces onto certain involutory homological quandles.
description: 25 pages, 4 figures
Luciobarbus kersin
Creators: name: Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz
name: Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Cypriniformes
Cyprinidae
Luciobarbus
Luciobarbus kersin

description: 140. Luciobarbus kersin (Heckel, 1843)
Common name. Kersin barbel
Taxonomy. Original description: Barbus kersin Heckel, 1843a: 1049 [59] [Syria; syntypes: NMW 54212-13 (1, 4), 54215 (1); SMF 610 (1), ZMB 3237 (1)].
Revisions. None.
Illustrations. Esmaeili (2021: 306, fig. 17.8).
Distribution in Iran. —Distribution in River Basin: Tigris, Zohreh.—Distribution in Ecoregions: 441-Lower Tigris & Euphrates, 442-Upper Tigris & Euphrates.
Status in Iran. [Native].—Dabe dogh, Berzom pahn.—Listed in previous checklists from Iran by Esmaeili et al. (2017 a, 2018); Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020) and Eagderi et al. (2022).—Iran material: ZM-CBSU.
Conservation. —IUCN: DD.
description: Published as part of Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz & Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, 2024, Freshwater lamprey and fishes of Iran: Reappraisal and updated checklist with a note on Eagderi et al. (2022), pp. 1-99 in Zootaxa 5402 (1) on pages 47-48, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5402.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10524097
AutoScore-Survival: Developing interpretable machine learning-based time-to-event scores with right-censored survival data
Creators: name: Xie, Feng
name: Ning, Yilin
name: Yuan, Han
name: Goldstein, Benjamin Alan
name: Ong, Marcus Eng Hock
name: Liu, Nan
name: Chakraborty, Bibhas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Scoring systems are highly interpretable and widely used to evaluate time-to-event outcomes in healthcare research. However, existing time-to-event scores are predominantly created ad-hoc using a few manually selected variables based on clinician's knowledge, suggesting an unmet need for a robust and efficient generic score-generating method.
 AutoScore was previously developed as an interpretable machine learning score generator, integrated both machine learning and point-based scores in the strong discriminability and accessibility. We have further extended it to time-to-event data and developed AutoScore-Survival, for automatically generating time-to-event scores with right-censored survival data. Random survival forest provides an efficient solution for selecting variables, and Cox regression was used for score weighting. We illustrated our method in a real-life study of 90-day mortality of patients in intensive care units and compared its performance with survival models (i.e., Cox) and the random survival forest.
 The AutoScore-Survival-derived scoring model was more parsimonious than survival models built using traditional variable selection methods (e.g., penalized likelihood approach and stepwise variable selection), and its performance was comparable to survival models using the same set of variables. Although AutoScore-Survival achieved a comparable integrated area under the curve of 0.782 (95% CI: 0.767-0.794), the integer-valued time-to-event scores generated are favorable in clinical applications because they are easier to compute and interpret.
 Our proposed AutoScore-Survival provides an automated, robust and easy-to-use machine learning-based clinical score generator to studies of time-to-event outcomes. It provides a systematic guideline to facilitate the future development of time-to-event scores for clinical applications.
High potassium level during pregnancy is associated with future cardiovascular morbidity
Creators: name: Wolak, Talya
name: Shoham-Vardi, Ilana
name: Sergienko, Ruslan
name: Sheiner, Eyal
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology

description: Objective: The present study was aimed to determine whether high potassium level during pregnancy is an independent risk factor for future atherosclerotic morbidity.Patients and methods: A case–control study was conducted including women who delivered between the years 2000–2012 and subsequently developed atherosclerotic morbidity after their last delivery (n = 653) and matched controls (n = 4101). The mean follow-up duration was 57.7 ± 36.5 and 78.5 ± 42.3 months, respectively. The cases were further divided into: major events (severe atherosclerotic morbidity; n = 363), minor events (i.e. cardiovascular risk factors; n = 201) and cardiovascular evaluation tests (n = 89). The Cox proportional hazards models were used to estimate the adjusted hazard ratios (HR) for hospitalizations while controlling for confounders.Results: A Cox proportional hazard model, controlling for confounders such as gestational hypertension, gestational diabetes mellitus, obesity, maternal age, creatinine level and gestational week at index pregnancy showed that K+ ≥ 5.0 mEq/L during pregnancy was significantly associated with hospitalizations due to severe atherosclerotic morbidity (adjusted HR = 1.55; 95% CI 1.02–2.35; p = 0.039). A non-significant trend was also noted with long-term total hospitalizations for atherosclerotic (adjusted HR = 1.39; 95% CI 0.99–1.94; p = 0.052).Conclusion: High potassium level during pregnancy is associated with a significant risk for severe atherosclerotic morbidity, as it might be an indication for occult metabolic and renal dysfunction.
Islam and other Religions: An Analysis
Creators: name: Adamu Musa K.
Publisher: name: gjrpublication
Year: 2024

description: The paper argued that the religion of all Prophets and Messengers was Islam, as a total submission and obedience to Allah alone. Also, it indicates that all other religions beside Islam are manufactured or man-made religions, and are ceased with the advent of Prophet Muhammad’صلى الله عليه وسلمs mission. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to look at the position of Islam in relation to other religions, with special reference to the clarification of the meaning of some verses of the Qur’an, misinterpreted by some people to validate the continuity and authenticity of some religions (especially Judaism and Christianity) in simultaneous way and cognizant to Islam or what is known as ‘religious pluralism’ in the modern language.
High dose rate and flattening filter free irradiation can be safely implemented in clinical practice
Creators: name: Dubois, Ludwig
name: Biemans, Rianne
name: Reniers, Brigitte
name: Bosmans, Geert
name: Trani, Daniela
name: Podesta, Mark
name: Kollaard, Robert
name: Rouschop, Kasper Ma
name: Theys, Jan
name: Vooijs, Marc
name: Pruschy, Martin
name: Verhaegen, Frank
name: Lambin, Philippe
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: Cancer
Biological Sciences
Molecular Biology
Cell Biology
Medicine
Physics
Biophysics

description: Purpose: We hypothesize that flattening filter free (FFF) high dose rate irradiation will decrease cell survival in normal and cancer cells with more pronounced effects in DNA repair deficient cells. Additionally, we hypothesize that removal of the flattening filter will result in an enhanced relative biological effectiveness independent of the dose rate.Materials and methods: Clonogenic survival was assessed after exposure to dose rates of 4 or 24 Gy/min (FFF 10 megavolt [MV] photon beam) using a Varian TrueBeam accelerator. Additionally, cells were exposed to 4 Gy/min with or without flattening filter. Relative biological effectiveness estimations were performed comparing the different beam photon spectra.Results: Cell survival in tumor and normal cell lines was not influenced by high dose rate irradiation. The intrinsic radiation sensitivity of DNA repair deficient cells was not affected by high dose rate compared to normal dose rate. Furthermore, the relative biological effectiveness was not significantly different from unity in any of the cell lines for both FFF and conventional flattened beam exposures.Conclusions: High dose rate irradiation did not affect long-term survival and DNA repair for cell lines of different tissues. This suggests that high dose rate does not influence treatment outcome or treatment toxicity and could be safely implemented in clinical routine.
Luciobarbus mursa
Creators: name: Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz
name: Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Cypriniformes
Cyprinidae
Luciobarbus
Luciobarbus mursa

description: 141. Luciobarbus mursa (Güldenstädt, 1773)
Common name. Mursa
Taxonomy. Original description: Cyprinus mursa Güldenstädt, 1773: 513, pl. 9 [Kura River at Tiflis [= Tbilisi], Transcaucasia; syntypes: whereabouts unknown].
Revisions. None.
Illustrations. Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020: 85, fig. 151).
Distribution in Iran. —Distribution in River Basin: Caspian Sea, Lake Orumiyeh.—Distribution in Ecoregions: 434-Kura-South Caspian Drainages, 445-Orumiyeh.
Status in Iran. [Native].—Sas mahi lab koloft.—Listed in previous checklists from Iran by Esmaeili et al. (2017 a, 2018); Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020) and Eagderi et al. (2022).—Iran material: ZM-CBSU.
Conservation. —IUCN: LC.
description: Published as part of Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz & Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, 2024, Freshwater lamprey and fishes of Iran: Reappraisal and updated checklist with a note on Eagderi et al. (2022), pp. 1-99 in Zootaxa 5402 (1) on page 48, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5402.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10524097
Characterization of a novel thiosulfate dehydrogenase from a marine acidophilic sulfur-oxidizing bacterium, Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans strain SH
Creators: name: Sharmin, Sultana
name: Yoshino, Eriko
name: Kanao, Tadayoshi
name: Kamimura, Kazuo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Microbiology
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: A marine acidophilic sulfur-oxidizing bacterium, Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans strain SH, was isolated to develop a bioleaching process for NaCl-containing sulfide minerals. Because the sulfur moiety of sulfide minerals is metabolized to sulfate via thiosulfate as an intermediate, we purified and characterized the thiosulfate dehydrogenase (TSD) from strain SH. The enzyme had an apparent molecular mass of 44 kDa and was purified 71-fold from the solubilized membrane fraction. Tetrathionate was the product of the TSD-oxidized thiosulfate and ferricyanide or ubiquinone was the electron acceptor. Maximum enzyme activity was observed at pH 4.0, 40 °C, and 200 mM NaCl. To our knowledge, this is the first report of NaCl-stimulated TSD activity. TSD was structurally different from the previously reported thiosulfate-oxidizing enzymes. In addition, TSD activity was strongly inhibited by 2-heptyl-4-hydroxy-quinoline N-oxide, suggesting that the TSD is a novel thiosulfate:quinone reductase.
Heterogeneous Condensation of Water Vapor on Nanoparticles in a Membrane-Based High-Flow Process Monitored by a New In-Situ Measuring Cell
Creators: name: Niklas, Jens
name: Haller, Felix
name: Pitz, Michael
name: Hellmann, Albert
name: Ripperger, Siegfried
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Physics
subject: Engineering
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: This paper presents a membrane-based process to improve separation efficiency of airborne particles by heterogeneous condensation of water vapor. A plant was set up in laboratory scale to control the supersaturated state of water vapor in air accurately. Droplet growth due to heterogeneous condensation is investigated experimentally and supersaturation is calculated by solving the differential equations for heat and mass transfer in a laminar gas flow. The apparatus is based on a water condensation particle counter (WCPC). It operates with several growth tubes in parallel thereby allowing higher aerosol throughput. The increase of particle size based on heterogeneous condensation is detected by an in-situ measuring system. Therefore a new measuring cell was operated with well-defined test aerosols differing in wetting abilities and initial nuclei size. First results of particle activation and condensational droplet growth are presented.
On generalized exponential transformations for proportions
Creators: name: Waqas Ahmed Malik
name: Hans-Peter Piepho
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Transformation of the response is a popular method to meet the usual assumptions of statistical methods based on linear models such as ANOVA and t-test. In this paper, we introduce new families of transformations for proportions or percentage data. Most of the transformations for proportions require 0 < x < 1 (where x denotes the proportion), which is often not the case in real data. The proposed families of transformations allow x = 0 and x = 1. We study the properties of the proposed transformations, as well as the performance in achieving normality and homoscedasticity. We analyze three real data sets to empirically show how the new transformation performs in meeting the usual assumptions. A simulation study is also performed to study the behavior of new families of transformations.
Heterogeneous Condensation of Water Vapor on Nanoparticles in a Membrane-Based High-Flow Process Monitored by a New In Situ Measuring Cell
Creators: name: Niklas, Jens
name: Haller, Felix
name: Pitz, Michael
name: Hellmann, Albert
name: Ripperger, Siegfried
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Physics
subject: Engineering
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: This article presents a membrane-based process to improve separation efficiency of airborne particles by heterogeneous condensation of water vapor. A plant was set up in laboratory scale to control the supersaturated state of water vapor in air accurately. Droplet growth due to heterogeneous condensation is investigated experimentally and supersaturation is calculated by solving the differential equations for heat and mass transfer in a laminar gas flow. The apparatus is based on a water condensation particle counter (WCPC). It operates with several growth tubes in parallel thereby allowing higher aerosol throughput. The increase of particle size based on heterogeneous condensation is detected by an in situ measuring system. Therefore a new measuring cell was operated with well-defined test aerosols differing in wetting abilities and initial nuclei size. First results of particle activation and condensational droplet growth are presented.Copyright 2015 American Association for Aerosol Research
Bose-Einstein condensation on a permanent-magnet atom chip
Creators: name: Sinclair, C. D.J.
name: Curtis, E. A.
name: Garcia, I. Llorente
name: Retter, J. A.
name: Hall, Brenton
name: Eriksson, S.
name: Sauer, B. E.
name: Hinds, E. A.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We have produced a Bose-Einstein condensate on a permanent-magnet atom chip based on periodically magnetized videotape. We observe the expansion and dynamics of the condensate in one of the microscopic waveguides close to the surface. The lifetime for atoms to remain trapped near this dielectric material is significantly longer than above a metal surface of the same thickness. These results illustrate the suitability of microscopic permanent-magnet structures for quantum-coherent preparation and manipulation of cold atoms.
Disorder in cellular packing can alter proliferation dynamics to regulate growth
Creators: name: Kuyyamudi, Chandrashekar
name: Menon, Shakti N.
name: Casares, Fernando
name: Sinha, Sitabhra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Tissues and Organs (q-bio.TO)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Controlling growth via cell division is crucial in the development of higher organisms, and yet the mechanisms through which this is achieved, e.g., in epithelial tissue, is not yet fully understood. We show that by coupling the cell cycle oscillator governing cell division to signals that encode inter-cellular contacts, this phenomenon can be seen as a collective dynamical transition in a system of coupled oscillators in lattices with changing degree of disorder. As the distribution of cellular morphological characteristics become more homogeneous over the course of development, the contact-induced signals to the cells increase beyond a critical value to trigger coordinated cessation of oscillations, eventually leading to growth arrest. Our results suggest that the global phenomenon of growth rate reduction as a tissue approaches its appropriate size is causally related to the increasingly regular geometry of local cell-cell contact interfaces.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures + 6 pages Supplementary Information
Characterization and Exposure Measurement for Indium Oxide Nanofibers Generated as Byproducts in the LED Manufacturing Environment
Creators: name: Choi, Kwang-Min
name: Hee-Chul An
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Engineering
subject: Biochemistry

description: ABSTRACTThe present study aimed to elucidate the physicochemical characteristics and exposure concentration of powder and airborne particles as byproducts generated from indium tin oxide thin film process by an electron beam evaporation method during maintenance in light emitting diode manufacturing environment. The chemical composition, size, shape, and crystal structure of powder and airborne particles as byproducts were investigated using a scanning electron microscope equipped with energy dispersive spectrometer, and an X-ray diffractometer. The number and mass concentration measurements of airborne particles were performed by using an optical particle counter of direct-reading aerosol monitor and an inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry after sampling, respectively. The airborne particles are composed of oxygen and indium. On the other hand, the powder byproducts consist mostly of oxygen and indium, but tin was found as a minor component. The shapes of the airborne and powder byproducts were fiber type. The length and diameter of fibrous particles were approximately 500-2,000 nm and 30-50 nm, respectively. The powder byproducts indicated indium oxide nanofibers with a rhombohedral structure. On the other hand, the indium oxide used as a source material in the preparation of ITO target showed spherical morphology with a body centered cubic structure, and it was the same as that of the pure crystalline indium oxide powder. During maintenance, the number concentrations ranged from 350 to 75,693 particles/ft3, and arithmetic mean±standard deviation and geometric mean±geometric standard deviation were 11,624±15,547 and 4,846±4.12 particles/ft3, respectively. Meanwhile, under the same conditions, the airborne mass concentrations of the indium based on respirable particle size (3.5 µm cut-point 50%) were 0.09-0.19 µg/m3. Physicochemical characteristics of nanoparticle can affect toxicity so the fact that shape and crystal structure have changed is important. Thus, nanoparticle occupational toxicology greatly needs observations like this.
On Generalized Exponential Transformations for Proportions
Creators: name: Waqas Ahmed Malik
name: Hans-Peter Piepho
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Transformation of the response is a popular method to meet the usual assumptions of statistical methods based on linear models such as ANOVA and t-test. In this paper, we introduce new families of transformations for proportions or percentage data. Most of the transformations for proportions require 0 < x < 1 (where x denotes the proportion), which is often not the case in real data. The proposed families of transformations allow x = 0 and x = 1. We study the properties of the proposed transformations, as well as the performance in achieving normality and homoscedasticity. We analyse three real data sets to empirically show how the new transformation performs in meeting the usual assumptions. A simulation study is also performed to study the behaviour of new families of transformations.