cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Evaluation of hepatitis E antigen kinetics and its diagnostic utility for prediction of the outcomes of hepatitis E virus genotype 1 infection
Creators: name: El-Mokhtar, Mohamed A.
name: Ramadan, Haidi Karam-Allah
name: Hameed, Muhamad R. Abdel
name: Kamel, Ayat M.
name: Mandour, Sahar A.
name: Ali, Maha
name: Abdel-Malek, Mohamed A. Y.
name: El-Kareem, Doaa M. Abd
name: Adel, Sara
name: Salama, Eman H.
name: Khalaf, Khaled Abo Bakr
name: Sayed, Ibrahim M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: HEV-Ag ELISA assay is a reliable diagnostic test in resource-limited areas. HEV genotype 1 (HEV-1) infections are either self-limited or progress to fulminant hepatic failure (FHF) and death if anti-HEV therapy is delayed. Limited data is available about the diagnostic utility of HEV Ag on HEV-1 infections. Herein we aimed to study the kinetics of HEV Ag during HEV-1 infections at different stages, i.e., acute HEV infection, recovery, and progression to FHF. Also, we evaluated the diagnostic utility of this marker to predict the outcomes of HEV-1 infections. Plasma of acute hepatitis E (AHE) patients were assessed for HEV RNA by RT-qPCR, HEV Ag, and anti-HEV IgM by ELISA. The kinetics of HEV Ag was monitored at different time points; acute phase of infection, recovery, FHF stage, and post-recovery. Our results showed that the level of HEV Ag was elevated in AHE patients with a significantly higher level in FHF patients than recovered patients. We identified a plasma HEV Ag threshold that can differentiate between self-limiting infection and FHF progression with 100% sensitivity and 88.89% specificity. HEV Ag and HEV RNA have similar kinetics during the acute phase and self-limiting infection. In the FHF stage, HEV Ag and anti-HEV IgM have similar patterns of kinetics which could be the cause of liver damage. In conclusion, the HEV Ag assay can be used as a biomarker for predicting the consequences of HEV-1 infections which could be diagnostically useful for taking the appropriate measures to reduce the complications, especially for high-risk groups.
Role of intestinal extracellular matrix-related signaling in porcine epidemic diarrhea virus infection
Creators: name: Li, Yuchen
name: Li, Jianda
name: Wang, Xiuyu
name: Wu, Qingxin
name: Yang, Qian
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) is emerging as a major threat to the global swine industry. Clinical PEDV infection is associated with severe intestinal lesions, resulting in absorptive dysfunction and high mortality rates in suckling piglets. The extracellular matrix (ECM) is an important component of intestinal tissue, providing a structural framework and conveying tissue-specific signals to nearby enterocytes. In this study, we investigated the extensive ECM remodeling observed in intestinal epithelial cells infected with PEDV and elucidated the associated activated ECM receptor-related pathways. Protein-protein interaction network analysis revealed two significantly differentially expressed genes (cluster of differentiation 44 [CD44] and serpin family E member 1 [SERPINE1]) associated with the ECM. At the transcriptional level, both genes exhibited significant positive correlation with the extent of PEDV replication. Similarly, the expression of CD44 and PAI-1 (encoded by SERPINE1) was also increased in the intestines of piglets during viral infection. Furthermore, CD44 exhibited antiviral activity by enhancing the expression of antiviral cytokines (e.g., interleukin [IL]-6, IL-18, IL-11, and antimicrobial peptide beta-defensin 1) by activating nuclear factor-κB signaling. Conversely, PAI-1 was found to promote the release of progeny virions during PEDV infection, despite a decreased intracellular viral load. Nevertheless, the underlying mechanisms are still unclear. Taken together, our results highlighted the biological roles of specific ECM-regulated genes, i.e., CD44 and SERPINE1 in suppressing and promoting PEDV infection, thereby providing a theoretical foundation for the role of the ECM in intestinal infections and identifying potential therapeutic targets for PEDV.
ALMA survey of massive cluster progenitors from ATLASGAL. Limited fragmentation at the early evolutionary stage of massive clumps
Creators: name: Csengeri, T.
name: Bontemps, S.
name: Wyrowski, F.
name: Motte, F.
name: Menten, K. M.
name: Beuther, H.
name: Bronfman, L.
name: Commercon, B.
name: Chapillon, E.
name: Duarte-Cabral, A.
name: Fuller, G. A.
name: Henning, Th.
name: Leurini, S.
name: Longmore, S.
name: Palau, A.
name: Peretto, N.
name: Schuller, F.
name: Tan, J. C.
name: Testi, L.
name: Traficante, A.
name: Urquhart, J. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The early evolution of massive cluster progenitors is poorly understood. We investigate the fragmentation properties from 0.3 pc to 0.06 pc scales of a homogenous sample of infrared-quiet massive clumps within 4.5 kpc selected from the ATLASGAL survey. Using the ALMA 7m array we detect compact dust continuum emission towards all targets, and find that fragmentation, at these scales, is limited. The mass distribution of the fragments uncovers a large fraction of cores above 40 $M_\odot$, corresponding to massive dense cores (MDCs) with masses up to ~400 $M_\odot$. 77 % of the clumps contain at most 3 MDCs per clump, and we also reveal single clumps/MDCs. The most massive cores are formed within the more massive clumps, and a high concentration of mass on small scales reveals a high core formation efficiency. The mass of MDCs highly exceeds the local thermal Jeans-mass, and observational evidence is lacking for a sufficiently high level of turbulence or strong enough magnetic fields to keep the most massive MDCs in equilibrium. If already collapsing, the observed fragmentation properties with a high core formation efficiency are consistent with the collapse setting in at parsec scales.
description: accepted by A&A Letters
Additional file 2: of Data-driven quality improvement in low-and middle-income country health systems: lessons from seven years of implementation experience across Mozambique, Rwanda, and Zambia
Creators: name: Wagenaar, Bradley
name: Hirschhorn, Lisa
name: Henley, Catherine
name: Gremu, Artur
name: Ntazana Sindano
name: Chilengi, Roma
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Before and after comparisons of data completeness on key indicators for patient care amongst 42 primary health clinics undergoing BHOMA intervention from 2011 to 2015. (DOCX 27Â kb) (DOCX 26Â kb)
Estimating nonlinear effects in forward dijet production in ultra-peripheral heavy ion collisions at the LHC
Creators: name: Kotko, P.
name: Kutak, K.
name: Sapeta, S.
name: Stasto, A. M.
name: Strikman, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the framework that interpolates between the leading power limit of the Color Glass Condensate and the High Energy (or $k_{T}$) factorization we calculate the direct component of the forward dijet production in ultra-peripheral $\mathrm{Pb}$-$\mathrm{Pb}$ collisions at CM energy $5.1\,\mathrm{TeV}$ per nucleon pair. The formalism is applicable when the average transverse momentum of the dijet system $P_{T}$ is much bigger than the saturation scale $Q_{s}$, $P_{T}\gg Q_{s}$, while the imbalance of the dijet system can be arbitrary. The cross section is uniquely sensitive to the Weizsäcker-Williams (WW) unintegrated gluon distribution, which is far less known from experimental data than the most common dipole gluon distribution appearing in inclusive small-$x$ processes. We have calculated cross sections and nuclear modification ratios using WW gluon distribution obtained from the dipole gluon density through the Gaussian approximation. The dipole gluon distribution used to get WW was fitted to the inclusive HERA data with the nonlinear extension of unified BFKL+DGLAP evolution equation. The saturation effects are visible but rather weak for realistic $p_{T}$ cut on the dijet system, reaching about $20\%$ with the cut as low as $6\,\mathrm{GeV}$. We find that the LO collinear factorization with nuclear leading twist shadowing predicts quite similar effects.
description: 20 pages, 9 figures
Additional file 2: of Purification of nanogram-range immunoprecipitated DNA in ChIP-seq application
Creators: name: Zhong, Jian
name: Zhenqing Ye
name: Lenz, Samuel
name: Clark, Chad
name: Bharucha, Adil
name: Gianrico Farrugia
name: Robertson, Keith
name: Zhiguo Zhang
name: Ordog, Tamas
name: Jeong-Heon Lee
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Microcentrifuge tubes tested in this study. (PDF 88Â kb)
title: ADCO, Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome I, Cart. 185 (11 H 70), f. 0137r
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: cartulaire
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge

description: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome I, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 185 (11 H 70), f. 0137r, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome I, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 185 (11 H 70), f. 0137r, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
Bordetella bronchiseptica promotes adherence, colonization, and cytotoxicity of Streptococcus suis in a porcine precision-cut lung slice model
Creators: name: Vötsch, Désirée
name: Willenborg, Maren
name: Baumgärtner, Wolfgang
name: Rohde, Manfred
name: Valentin-Weigand, Peter
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Bordetella (B.) bronchiseptica and Streptococcus (S.) suis are major pathogens in pigs, which are frequently isolated from co-infections in the respiratory tract and contribute to the porcine respiratory disease complex (PRDC). Despite the high impact of co-infections on respiratory diseases of swine (and other hosts), very little is known about pathogen-pathogen-host interactions and the mechanisms of pathogenesis. In the present study, we established a porcine precision-cut lung slice (PCLS) model to analyze the effects of B. bronchiseptica infection on adherence, colonization, and cytotoxic effects of S. suis. We hypothesized that induction of ciliostasis by a clinical isolate of B. bronchiseptica may promote subsequent infection with a virulent S. suis serotype 2 strain. To investigate this theory, we monitored the ciliary activity by light microscopy, measured the release of lactate dehydrogenase, and calculated the number of PCLS-associated bacteria. To study the role of the pore-forming toxin suilysin (SLY) in S. suis-induced cytotoxicity, we included a SLY-negative isogenic mutant and the complemented mutant strain. Furthermore, we analyzed infected PCLS by histopathology, immunofluorescence microscopy, and field emission scanning electron microscopy. Our results showed that pre-infection with B. bronchiseptica promoted adherence, colonization, and, as a consequence of the increased colonization, the cytotoxic effects of S. suis, probably by reduction of the ciliary activity. Moreover, cytotoxicity induced by S. suis is strictly dependent on the presence of SLY. Though the underlying molecular mechanisms remain to be fully clarified, our results clearly support the hypothesis that B. bronchiseptica paves the way for S. suis infection.
Investigating the social sustainability reporting in finance and mining sectors in Australia
Creators: name: Kosari, Hamid
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: In the contemporary era, the challenges of sustainability have received increasing scholarly attention, as has the role of Human Resource Management in organisational sustainability. However, the extent to which Australian organisations are embracing sustainable human resource management practices, in particular practices pertaining to social and individual sustainability, has captured limited research interest. Thus, of six randomly selected Australian organisations from the finance and mining sectors during 2014 - 16 through documentary research and utilising Leximancer as text analytical software. The study found that, despite the growing number of Corporate Social Responsibility reporting quantitatively over the years, the report review analysis suggests relatively insignificant attention to social practices by most of the organisations and additionally the software analysis supports the report review conclusion by illustrating concept maps that affirms an inadequate portion of the reports consider social sustainability, with even weaker attention to individual sustainability
On the nature of the azimuthal asymmetry of protoplanetary disks observed pole-on. The case LkHa 101
Creators: name: Demidova, Tatiana
name: Grinin, Vladimir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: J.2.3
subject: 85-04

description: The model of a protoplanetary disk of a star with a low-mass companion ($M_2:M_1 \le 0.1$), moving on a circular orbit, which slightly inclined to the disk plane ($\le 10^{\circ}$), is considered. The SPH-method is used to calculate gas-dynamic ows. The motion of the companion on the orbit leads to the inhomogeneous distribution of the matter in the disk: there are a cleared gap, density waves and streams of matter. Because of the disturbances the inner part of the disk is tilted to its periphery and also do not coincides with the orbit plane of the companion. It leads to anisotropic illumination of the disk by the star and, as a consequence, to the appearance of large-scale inhomogeneity on the disk image: it has a bright area in the form of a \horseshoe" and a small shadow zone located asymmetric with respect to the line of nodes. The asymmetry of the disk image is clearly visible even if it is observed pole-on. The motion of the companion on the orbit does not lead to the synchronous movement of the shadow and bright areas: they only make small oscillations relative to the some direction. By using the proposed model we an fairly accurately reproduce the asymmetric image of the disk of star LkH$α$ 101, observed almost pole-on. The study of such asymmetric disks opens up new opportunity for searching massive bodies around young stars.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures
Transmembrane domains of type III-secreted proteins affect bacterial-host interactions in enteropathogenic E. coli
Creators: name: Jenia, Gershberg
name: Dor, Braverman
name: Neta, Sal-Man
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Many bacterial pathogens utilize a specialized secretion system, termed type III secretion system (T3SS), to translocate effector proteins into host cells and establish bacterial infection. The T3SS is anchored within the bacterial membranes and contains a long needle/filament that extends toward the host-cell and forms, at its distal end, a pore complex within the host membrane. The T3SS pore complex consists of two bacterial proteins, termed SctB and SctE, which have conflicting targeting indications; a signal sequence that targets to secretion to the extracellular environment via the T3SS, and transmembrane domains (TMDs) that target to membrane localization. In this study, we investigate whether the TMD sequences of SctB and SctE have special features that differentiate them from classical TMDs and allow them to escape bacterial membrane integration. For this purpose, we exchanged the SctB and SctE native TMDs for alternative hydrophobic sequences and found that the TMD sequences of SctB and SctE dictate membrane destination (bacterial versus host membrane). Moreover, we examined the role of the SctB TMD sequence in the activity of the full-length protein, post secretion, and found that the TMD does not serve only as a hydrophobic segment, but is also involved in the ability of the protein to translocate itself and other proteins into and across the host cell membrane.
Additional file 1 of Positive correlation between snoring and dyslipidemia in adults: results from NHANES
Creators: name: Tian, Ying
name: Li, Dongna
name: Mu, Huijuan
name: Wei, Sining
name: Guo, Dong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
Large-Scale Structure Topology in Non-Standard Cosmologies: Impact of Dark Sector Physics
Creators: name: Watts, Andrew L.
name: Elahi, Pascal J.
name: Lewis, Geraint F.
name: Power, Chris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Even as our measurements of cosmological parameters improve, the physical nature of the dark sector of the universe largely remains a mystery. Many effects of dark sector models are most prominent at very large scales and will rely on future galaxy surveys to elucidate. In this paper we compare the topological properties of the large scale dark matter distribution in a number of cosmological models using hydrodynamical simulations and the cosmological genus statistic. Genus curves are computed from z = 11 to z = 0 for ΛCDM, Quintessence and Warm Dark Matter models, over a scale range of 1 to 20 Mpc/h. The curves are analysed in terms of their Hermite spectra to describe the power contained in non-Gaussian deformations to the cosmological density field. We find that the ΛCDM and ΛWDM models produce nearly identical genus curves indicating no topological differences in structure formation. The Quintessence model, which differs solely in its expansion history, produces significant differences in the strength and redshift evolution of non-Gaussian modes associated with higher cluster abundances and lower void abundances. These effects are robust to cosmic variance and are characteristically different from those produced by tweaking the parameters of a ΛCDM model. Given the simplicity and similarity of the models, detecting these discrepancies represents a promising avenue for understanding the effect of non-standard cosmologies on large-scale structure.
description: 11 pages, 9 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Additional file 2: of Lifetime prevalence of suicidal ideation among men who have sex with men: a meta-analysis
Creators: name: Zhenzhou Luo
name: Tiejian Feng
name: Hanlin Fu
name: Tubao Yang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Quality of the eligible studies. Description of data: details about the quality of the eligible studies. (DOCX 17Â kb)
Environment mapping using wireless channel state information and deep learning
Creators: name: Donarski, Adrian
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Situational awareness is becoming ubiquitous with modern communication technologies. Traditionally, user requirements for location based services have evolved from being driven only by government legislation for improved emergency response, to that of social and market based pressures including social-networking, geo-marketing and augmented reality. Not only do these applications necessitate improved localisation, they must also include awareness of the surrounding environment. Furthermore, recent years have seen a marked explosion in Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning and deep learning. Such tools enable inference to be drawn from complex data when traditional mathematical techniques cannot. This thesis explores the use of AI and wireless Channel State Information (CSI) for obtaining situational awareness through environment mapping. Several deep learning algorithms are developed that permit estimation of interior room dimensions using wireless Channel Impulse Responses (CIRs). Moreover the physical effects that bandwidth and received signal power incur on a CIR, and hence on room dimension prediction, is investigated yielding results with greater than 90% accuracy. This demonstrates that existing consumer wireless systems with similar physical constraints, should be capable of accurately estimating room dimensions given multiple CIR measurements from multiple receiver locations -- abstract.
Topological view of quantum tunneling coherent destruction
Creators: name: Bernardini, Alex E.
name: Chinaglia, Mariana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum tunneling of the ground and first excited states in a quantum superposition driven by a novel analytical configuration of a double-well (DW) potential is investigated. Symmetric and asymmetric potentials are considered as to support quantum mechanical zero mode and first excited state analytical solutions. Reporting about a symmetry breaking that supports the quantum conversion of a zero-mode stable vacuum into an unstable tachyonic quantum state, two inequivalent topological scenarios are supposed to drive stable tunneling and coherent tunneling destruction respectively. A complete prospect of the Wigner function dynamics, vector field fluxes and the time dependence of stagnation points is obtained for the analytical potentials that support stable and tachyonic modes.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures. Based on a poster presentation at DICE 2016 Spacetime - Matter - Quantum Mechanics ... news on missing links, 12th - 16th September 2016, Castiglioncello, Italy
Additional file 1 of Fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21) is a sensitive marker of osteoporosis in haemodialysis patients: a cross-sectional observational study
Creators: name: Zhu, Lili
name: Li, Min
name: Zha, Qianqian
name: Yang, Min
name: Yu, Jirong
name: Pan, Mingming
name: Yin, Qing
name: Jiang, Liqiong
name: Xia, Meixia
name: Liu, Bi-Cheng
name: Wang, Bin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
Additional file 1 of Infestation risk of the intermediate snail host of Schistosoma japonicum in the Yangtze River Basin: improved results by spatial reassessment and a random forest approach
Creators: name: Zheng, Jin-Xin
name: Xia, Shang
name: Lv, Shan
name: Zhang, Yi
name: Bergquist, Robert
name: Zhou, Xiao-Nong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Variation of random forest parameters in relation to spatial distance. Table S2. Variable importance of RF model with spatial distance in 5 km.
The influence of audit committee characteristics on voluntary corporate social responsibility disclosure: Australian evidence
Creators: name: Tashakor, Shamim
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Recent regulatory changes due to high profile corporate collapses have attempted to rebuild confidence in corporate governance systems by enhancing voluntary disclosure. This study examines the influence of audit committee characteristics on voluntary corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure. Drawing on agency theory, the study develops hypotheses about relationships between voluntary CSR disclosure and audit committee characteristics such as the size of the committee, frequency of audit committee meetings, audit committee independence, financial expertise and gender representation. The study uses multiple regression analysis on data collected from the corporate annual reports of 181 listed companies in Australia. The findings indicate that audit committee characteristics such as the proportion of audit committee independent members, frequency of audit committee meetings, and size of the audit committee bear a significant positive influence on the level of CSR disclosure. However, there is no evidence that audit committee characteristics such as the presence of an independent chair, financial expertise and the presence of females on the audit committee have a significant effect on CSR disclosure. The findings of this study should be of particular interest to regulators, shareholders, investment analysts and managers in Australia.
A Minimum Mass Nebula for M Dwarfs
Creators: name: Gaidos, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently revealed differences in planets around M dwarf vs. solar-type stars could arise from differences in their primordial disks, and surveys of T Tauri stars find a correlation between stellar mass and disk mass. "Minimum" disks have been reconstructed for the Solar System and solar-type stars and here this exercise is performed for M dwarfs using Kepler-detected planets. Distribution of planet mass between current orbits produces a disk with total mass of ~0.009Msun and a power-law profile with index 2.2. Disk reconstruction from the output of a forward model of planet formation indicates that the effect of detection bias on disk profile is slight and that the observed scatter in planet masses and semi-major axes is consistent with a universal disk profile. This nominal M dwarf disk is more centrally concentrated than those inferred around the solar-type stars observed by Kepler, and the mass surface density beyond 0.02 AU is sufficient for in situ accretion of planets as single embryos. The mass of refractory solids within 0.5 AU is 5.6Mearth compared to 4Mearth for solar-type stars, in contrast with the trend with total disk mass. The total solids beyond 0.5 AU is sufficient for the core of at least one giant planet.
description: MNRAS, in press
Additional file 3: Table S3. of Investigation and identification of functional post-translational modification sites associated with drug binding and protein-protein interactions
Creators: name: Su, Min-Gang
name: Weng, Julia
name: Hsu, Justin
name: Kai-Yao Huang
name: Yu-Hsiang Chi
name: Tzong-Yi Lee
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Number of PTM sites located in protein-protein interaction regions. (PDF 155 kb)
title: ADCO, Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome V, Cart. 189 (11 H 74), 316 folios, f. 0206v
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: cartulaire
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome V, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 189 (11 H 74), 316 folios, f. 0206v, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome V, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 189 (11 H 74), 316 folios, f. 0206v, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
Chemical enrichment of giant planets and discs due to pebble drift
Creators: name: Booth, Richard A.
name: Clarke, Cathie J.
name: Madhusudhan, Nikku
name: Ilee, John D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Chemical compositions of giant planets provide a means to constrain how and where they form. Traditionally, super-stellar elemental abundances in giant planets were thought to be possible due to accretion of metal-rich solids. Such enrichments are accompanied by oxygen-rich compositions (i.e. C/O below the disc's value, assumed to be solar, C/O=0.54). Without solid accretion the planets are expected to have sub-solar metallicity, but high C/O ratios. This arises because the solids are dominated by oxygen-rich species, e.g. H$_2$O and CO$_2$, which freeze out in the disk earlier than CO, leaving the gas metal poor but carbon-rich. Here we demonstrate that super-solar metallicities can be achieved by gas accretion alone when growth and radial drift of pebbles are considered in protoplanetary discs. Through this mechanism planets may simultaneously acquire super-solar metallicities and super-solar C/O ratios. This happens because the pebbles transport volatile species inward as they migrate through the disc, enriching the gas at snow lines where the volatiles sublimate. Furthermore, the planet's composition can be used to constrain where it formed. Since high C/H and C/O ratios cannot be created by accreting solids, it may be possible to distinguish between formation via pebble accretion and planetesimal accretion by the level of solid enrichment. Finally, we expect that Jupiter's C/O ratio should be near or above solar if its enhanced carbon abundance came through accreting metal rich gas. Thus Juno's measurement of Jupiter's C/O ratio should determine whether Jupiter accreted its metals from carbon rich gas or oxygen rich solids.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. 20 pages. Key figures are Figs. 2 and 11
PIDs for Open Data - How GRID PIDs are enabling the Linked Open Data platform SN SciGraph
Creators: name: Kujath, Alexander
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Organisational Identifier
GRID
Linked Open Data
Affiliation
Disambiguation

description: Slides from the session at PIDapalooza2020, January 29th 2020, Lisbon, Portugal
Normal stress effects in the gravity driven flow of granular materials
Creators: name: Wu, Wei-Tao
name: Aubry, Nadine
name: Antaki, James F.
name: Massoudi, Mehrdad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we study the fully developed gravity-driven flow of granular materials between two inclined planes. We assume that the granular materials can be represented by a modified form of the second-grade fluid where the viscosity depends on the shear rate and volume fraction and the normal stress coefficients depend on the volume fraction. We also propose a new isotropic (spherical) part of the stress tensor which can be related to the compactness of the (rigid) particles. This new term ensures that the rigid solid particles cannot be compacted beyond a point, namely when the volume fraction has reached the critical/maximum packing value. The numerical results indicate that the newly proposed stress tensor has an obvious and physically meaningful effects on both the velocity and the volume fraction fields.
description: This manuscript has been submitted to the International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics
Additional file 1: of Data-driven quality improvement in low-and middle-income country health systems: lessons from seven years of implementation experience across Mozambique, Rwanda, and Zambia
Creators: name: Wagenaar, Bradley
name: Hirschhorn, Lisa
name: Henley, Catherine
name: Gremu, Artur
name: Ntazana Sindano
name: Chilengi, Roma
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Areas of focus, interventions conducted, and findings of the Rwanda PHIT project to increase data-driven quality improvement. (DOCX 27Â kb)
The design of a coughing and sneezing machine
Creators: name: Scrivener, Joshua
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Virus transmission is an imminent threat to humans and animals. Influenza primarily spreads from an infected host via means of direct contact, but also airborne mediums such as coughing and sneezing. Currently there is very limited factual and numerical information that exists regarding airborne virus transmission. In this project, a novel machine is designed and constructed to accurately simulate human respiratory actions and physiological variables. Having the ability to accurately and repeatedly simulate human respiratory actions will allow physiological variables such as velocity, viscosity, droplet size and dispersed fluid volume to be analysed for their contribution to virus transmissibility. This thesis paper provides all work involved in designing, constructing and testing the machine prototype. This thesis project will be particularly useful for Macquarie University's industry partner, World Health Organisation.
High-power frequency comb source tunable from 2.7 to 4.2 μm based on difference frequency generation pumped by an Yb-doped fiber laser
Creators: name: Sobon, Grzegorz
name: Martynkien, Tadeusz
name: Mergo, Pawel
name: Rutkowski, Lucile
name: Foltynowicz, Aleksandra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate a broadband mid-infrared (MIR) frequency comb source based on difference frequency generation (DFG) in periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN) crystal. Mid-infrared radiation is obtained via mixing of the output of a 125 MHz repetition rate Yb-doped fiber laser with Raman-shifted solitons generated from the same source in a highly nonlinear fiber. The resulting idler is tunable in the range of 2.7 - 4.2 μm with average output power reaching 237 mW, and pulses as short as 115 fs. The coherence of the MIR comb is confirmed by spectral interferometry and heterodyne beat measurements. Applicability of the developed DFG source for laser spectroscopy is demonstrated by measuring absorption spectrum of acetylene at 3.0 - 3.1 μm.
Additional file 1: of Purification of nanogram-range immunoprecipitated DNA in ChIP-seq application
Creators: name: Zhong, Jian
name: Zhenqing Ye
name: Lenz, Samuel
name: Clark, Chad
name: Bharucha, Adil
name: Gianrico Farrugia
name: Robertson, Keith
name: Zhiguo Zhang
name: Ordog, Tamas
name: Jeong-Heon Lee
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: DNA purification reagents vary in their ability to recover low amounts of DNA. a Recovered DNA amount by different DNA purification reagents from de-crosslinked chromatin. De-crosslinked chromatin estimated to include 5, 10, 50 ng range of DNA in ChIP elution buffer was purified following the manufacturer’s instructions as described in Fig. 1a. The data were generated from triplicate DNA samples derived from three independent preparations. b Recovery rates of nanogram-range DNA by different DNA purification reagents. DNAs were adjusted to final 1 ng, 5 ng, 10 ng and 50 ng in 100 μL ChIP elution buffer and were purified by purification reagents following the manufacturer’s instructions. Percent recovery was calculated from DNA amounts before and after purification. The data were generated from triplicate DNA samples derived from three independent preparations. (PDF 105 kb)
Spectral data for simply-periodic solutions of the sinh-Gordon equation
Creators: name: Klein, Sebastian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53A10, 58E12 (Primary), 14H40, 14H51, 30D10, 30E15, 30F99, 34E05, 35J15, 35P05, 35R30, 40A05, 40A10, 40A20, 46B03, 46C05, 46E15, 46E20, 46E35 (Secondary)

description: This note summarizes results that were obtained by the author in his habilitation thesis (arXiv:1607.08792) concerning the development of a spectral theory for simply periodic, 2-dimensional, complex-valued solutions of the sinh-Gordon equation. Spectral data for such solutions are defined for periodic Cauchy data on a line (following Hitchin and Bobenko) and the space of spectral data is described by an asymptotic characterization. Using methods of asymptotic estimates, the inverse problem for the spectral data of such Cauchy data is answered. Finally a Jacobi variety for the spectral curve is constructed, and this is used to study the asymptotic behavior of the spectral data corresponding to actual simply periodic solutions of the sinh-Gordon equation on strips of positive height.
description: 24 pages
N=2 Chern-Simons-Matter Theories Without Vortices
Creators: name: Russo, J. G.
name: Schaposnik, F. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study ${\cal N}=2$ Chern-Simons-matter theories with gauge group $U_{k_1}(1)\times U_{k_2}(1)$. We find that, when $k_1+k_2=0$, the partition function computed by localization dramatically simplifies and collapses to a single term. We show that the same condition prevents the theory from having supersymmetric vortex configurations. The theories include mass-deformed ABJM theory with $U(1)_{k}\times U_{-k}(1)$ gauge group as a particular case. Similar features are shared by a class of CS-matter theories with gauge group $U_{k_1}(1)\times \cdots \times U_{k_N}(1)$.
description: 17 pages
Change-point detection in an AR(1) process via the cross-entropy method
Creators: name: Ma, Lijing
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: In time series analysis, it is essential to check whether the observations are obtained by one or by several different mechanisms of data generation. In recent years, this problem, which is known as a change-point or break-point detection problem, has become a question of renewed interest for many researchers. Problems of this type arise in a wide range of applications, including financial time series analysis (e.g. changing volatility), signal processing (e.g.structural analysis of EEG signals), geology data analysis (e.g. analysis of volcanic eruption series) and environmental applications (e.g. detecting changes in ecological systems due to climatic conditions crossing some critical thresholds). This thesis focuses on detecting the changes in the mean level of autoregressive processes. We develop the Cross Entropy method for estimating the locations of change-points as well as parameters of the process in each segment. In order to identify the number of change-points, we use the Minimum Description Length information criterion. We apply the proposed method to simulated and real data to illustrate the usefulness of the approach.
Polyphagous shot-hole borer in Western Australia – emergency response at the urban interface
Creators: name: Ireland, Kylie
Publisher: name: OSF
Year: 2020

description: Seminar presented on 27 September 2022 11:00 AEST https://openplantpathology.org/posts/2022-10-07-polyphagous-shot-hole-borer-in-western-australia-emergency-response-at-the-urban-interface.

Abstract:
Polyphagous shot-hole borer (PSHB; Euwallacea fornicatus) was detected in August 2021 by the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) in the Perth metropolitan area of Western Australia (WA). PSHB is an agricultural and environmental pest, with a wide host range (>400 amenity, fruit and nut tree species). The beetle bores into living mature trees and can cause limb dieback and tree death. PSHB lives in close association with a symbiotic fungus, an ambrosia clade Fusarium species (Fusarium sp. [AF-18] in WA), that it farms as a food source. A Quarantine Area has been established to prevent spread of the pest and DPIRD is actively managing infested trees. The response has impacted residents, local governments, green-waste operators and numerous plant and wood-based industries. This presentation will summarise PSHB biology and DPIRD response activities and explore some of the challenges and opportunities present at the urban forest- residential interface. Kylie will also speak to what it is like to work as a subject matter expert during a plant pest incursion.
High resolution multispectral image and machine learning algorithms for saltmarsh classification and biomass modelling
Creators: name: Rasel, Sikdar Mohammad Marnes
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Saltmarsh is one of the important vegetation of wetlands. Due to a range of pressures, it has been declared as an Endangered Ecological Community (EEC) in Australia. Therefore, monitoring and mapping of the distribution of saltmarshes species are important to wetland management, conservation and distribution. This rigorous task requires intensive fieldwork and collection of ancillary data that are time-consuming. Remote Sensing offers a practical and economic means of plant sciences classification and biomass modelling. However, selecting suitable remote sensing systems and their data are important for mapping saltmarshes. Hyperspectral remote sensing can be used to monitor this endangered community. However, there are some crucial limitations of hyperspectral data that have been found in the current study area and discussed in the introduction. To overcome these limitations, Worldview-2 with its higher spatial (1.84 m) resolution is seen as a trade-off between the advantages of multispectral resolution satellite data and hyperspectral data. In this thesis, imagery acquired by three different sensors were used to compare the performance of machine learning classification methods and biomass regression models. Maximum Likelihood Classifier (MLC) and two advanced algorithms, Random Forest (RF) and Support Vector Machine (SVM) were used for classification. These two algorithms were also tested to develop a biomass model for Sporobolus virginicus species using multispectral Worldview-2 data. Reflectance and NDVI based vegetation indices derived from 8 bands of Worldview-2 multispectral data were used for four experiments to develop the biomass model. Proportional reduction of sample size (100 % to 33%) was focused to test the potentiality of both algorithms. RF showed significant changes in overall accuracy when the sample size was reduced from 100 % to 33%. Conversely, there were no significant changes in the accuracy for SVM when the sample size equally dropped from 100 % to 33%. When biomass model for RF (R2 =0.72, RMSE = 0.166 kg/m2) and SVR (R2 = 0.66, RMSE = 0.200 kg/m2) were compared, there was a significant (p =< 0.0001) difference was observed. Further research is crucial to explore the sensitivity of this method with the spatial autocorrelation of the training samples for random forest application in saltmarsh monitoring.