cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Water spectral pattern as a marker for studying apple sensory texture
Creators: name: Vanoli, Maristella
name: Lovati, Fabio
name: Grassi, Maurizio
name: Buccheri, Marina
name: Zanella, Angelo
name: Cattaneo, Tiziana
name: Rizzolo, Anna
Publisher: name: Advances in Horticultural Science
Year: 2018

description: Aquaphotomics is a scientific discipline which investigates the water-light interactions in biological systems by using NIR spectroscopy and multivariate analysis to relate water absorption patterns to bio-functionalities. This work aimed at evaluating the feasibility of Aquaphotomics to study apple fruit sensory texture. ‘Braeburn’, ‘Gala’ and ‘Kanzi®’ apples were analyzed by a MicroNIR spectrometer and for mechanical, structural and texture sensory characteristics. Cluster analysis on sensory texture attributes showed four different profiles for each cultivar having different water spectral patterns (WASP). On average, the WASP of mealy apples showed the highest absorbance values at 1364, 1372 and 1382 nm and the lowest in the 1438-1492 nm range suggesting a preponderance of water structures with weak-hydrogen bonds; the opposite was found in crispy and juicy apples indicating the presence of more organized water structures with medium-strong hydrogen bonds. This WASP difference could be due to a different softening rate: apples clustered as firm/crispy/juicy had the highest firmness and the lowest intercellular spaces, while mealy apples had low firmness and high intercellular spaces indicating a more advanced softening. The chemical changes due to the pectin hydrolyzation could affect the water structures. The Aquaphotomics approach could be a useful tool for studying the sensory texture of fruits as water structures actually change in apples with different textural characteristics whatever the cultivars.
description: Advances in Horticultural Science, Vol 32 No 3 (2018): Special issue on Postharvest
Parallel Wavelet Tree Construction
Creators: name: Shun, Julian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present parallel algorithms for wavelet tree construction with polylogarithmic depth, improving upon the linear depth of the recent parallel algorithms by Fuentes-Sepulveda et al. We experimentally show on a 40-core machine with two-way hyper-threading that we outperform the existing parallel algorithms by 1.3--5.6x and achieve up to 27x speedup over the sequential algorithm on a variety of real-world and artificial inputs. Our algorithms show good scalability with increasing thread count, input size and alphabet size. We also discuss extensions to variants of the standard wavelet tree.
description: This is a longer version of the paper that appears in the Proceedings of the IEEE Data Compression Conference, 2015
Ascorbic acid content and senescence in blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum L.) during storage.
Creators: name: Spinardi, Anna
name: Mignani, Ilaria
Publisher: name: Advances in Horticultural Science
Year: 2018

description: Blueberry consumption increases because its health properties linked to antioxidants, easy cultivation and profitability. The ability to preserve fruits in controlled atmosphere (CA) allows extending the marketing calendar. The work evaluates parameters linked to the cellular redox state of blueberry fruits, cv. Brigitta, stored at 0°C at different atmosphere regimes (CA1= 10% CO2, 4% O2 and CA2= 9% CO2, 2% O2, compared to air as control). During storage, quality was assessed by the content of ascorbic acid (AA), antioxidant and index of fruit metabolic status, and of malondialdehyde (MDA), cell membranes oxidative stress and senescence marker; soluble solids content, titratable acidity and dry matter were also determined. Storage in CA increases the blueberries shelf life, particularly at the intermediate times; after 2 months there is a drastic lowering in AA levels and differences among treatments are no longer detectable. Ascorbate is confirmed to be an excellent index of oxidative stress in fruit senescence processes. In control, along with the AA decrease, there is a higher MDA content, in particular up to the intermediate dates. CA2 proves to be the most suitable atmosphere for delaying the senescence process. Titratable acidity and soluble solids remain constant in all samples throughout storage.
description: Advances in Horticultural Science, Vol 32 No 3 (2018): Special issue on Postharvest
INHERITANCE AND VARIABILITY OF SOME MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERS IN ECOLOGICALLY AND GEOGRAPHICALLY DISTANT G' OZA HYBRIDS
Creators: name: Raupova, Iroda
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This in the article valuable economic features learning results given simple and complicated hybrids second generation medium fibrous cotton varieties different water under the circumstances . Learned productivity coefficients to the genotype dependence percent consists of of the sign legacy and the environment conditions .
Additional file 5 of Genomic profile of MYCN non-amplified neuroblastoma and potential for immunotherapeutic strategies in neuroblastoma
Creators: name: Eunjin Lee
name: Lee, Ji Won
name: Boram Lee
name: Kyunghee Park
name: Joonho Shim
name: Yoo, Keon Hee
name: Koo, Hong Hoe
name: Sung, Ki Woong
name: Woong-Yang Park
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 5. Result of GSVA analysis.
Colouring of plane graphs with unique maximal colours on faces
Creators: name: Wendland, Alex
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The Four Colour Theorem asserts that the vertices of every plane graph can be properly coloured with four colors. Fabrici and Göring conjectured the following stronger statement to also hold: the vertices of every plane graph can be properly coloured with the numbers 1,...,4 in such a way that every face contains a unique vertex coloured with the maximal color appearing on that face. They proved that every plane graph has such a colouring with the numbers 1,...,6. We prove that every plane graph has such a colouring with the numbers 1,...,5 and we also prove the list variant of the statement for lists of sizes seven.
description: 10 pages, 10 figures
Computing the Rates of Measurement-Induced Quantum Jumps
Creators: name: Bauer, Michel
name: Bernard, Denis
name: Tilloy, Antoine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Small quantum systems can now be continuously monitored experimentally which allows for the reconstruction of quantum trajectories. A peculiar feature of these trajectories is the emergence of jumps between the eigenstates of the observable which is measured. Using the Stochastic Master Equation (SME) formalism for continuous quantum measurements, we show that the density matrix of a system indeed shows a jumpy behavior when it is subjected to a tight measurement (even if the noise in the SME is Gaussian). We are able to compute the jump rates analytically for any system evolution, i.e. any Lindbladian, and we illustrate how our general recipe can be applied to two simple examples. We then discuss the mathematical, foundational and practical applications of our results. The analysis we present is based on a study of the strong noise limit of a class of stochastic differential equations (the SME) and as such the method may be applicable to other physical situations in which a strong noise limit plays a role.
description: 9 pages, 2 figures, close to the published version. The text has been profoundly rewritten. The concept of "quantum spikes" is no longer discussed and will be studied in a subsequent article
The monitoring program of grapevine phytoplasmas in Tuscany (Italy): results of a four year survey
Creators: name: Rizzo, Domenico
name: Materazzi, Alberto
name: Stefani, L.
name: Panattoni, Alessandra
name: Pierro, Roberto
name: Marchi, Guido
name: Cinelli, Tamara
name: De Bellis, Luigi
name: Luvisi, Andrea
Publisher: name: Advances in Horticultural Science
Year: 2018

description: Quantitative PCR protocols for phytoplasma detection were used to monitor grapevine yellows (GY) in 373 vineyards located in nine Tuscan districts. Among more than 70,000 plants visually monitored, 1.867 plants were sampled and “flavescence dorée” phytoplasmas (FD) were detected in 122 plants and mainly identified as trains belonging to 16SrV-C subgroup. The “bois noir” (BN) phytoplasma was found in 734 samples, with prevalence of tufB type-b strains. The 2013–2015 monitoring program was strongly influenced by the first survey (2012) in which FD was found consistently in the North West (15 samples), whereas only a few cases were observed in the East territory (2 samples). Both areas were thoroughly monitored in the following years: few foci were found in the East (2 in 2014, 1 in 2015), while several infected areas were found in the North West (6, 10 and 22 foci in 2013, 2014 and 2015, respectively). Definitely, the novel FD foci detected in the survey (17, 6, 12 and 23 in each year of survey) and the widespread of BN, suggest a dangerous distribution of GY in Tuscany.
description: Advances in Horticultural Science, Vol 32 No 2 (2018)
EOSC-Life Final EOSC-LS Cloud Observatory Report
Creators: name: Newhouse, Steven
name: Wagener, Harald
name: Dieckmann, Marius
name: Niewielska, Ania
name: Clark-Casey, Justin
name: Insua, Santiago
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Life science research infrastructures
Cloud technologies
Sensitive data hosting
Policy framework processing
Managed platform for data analysis

description: This report details the evolution of the support mechanisms available to the Biological and Medical ESFRI research infrastructures (BMS RIs) and how the allocated cloud resources have been used at this stage of the EOSC-Life project by the BMS Host Institutions (BMS HIs). We analyse the activities carried on to date within the Work Package 7 (WP7) tasks: T.7.1 Cloud Resource Planning and Integration T.7.2 Cloud Training Programme T.7.3 Sensitive Data Hosting and Processing Policy Framework T.7.4 Managed Platforms for Data Analysis T.7.5 Operations and Support Helpdesk and provide our point of view on how the WP7 work will evolve during the remaining months of the project. In general this deliverable does not repeat reporting of activities already reported in the initial version of the Cloud Observatory Report (D7.11), except where is needed to provide context. Our observations within WP7 from the first 3 years of the project are: There is a considerable need for upskilling. Cloud technologies are still complex and require substantial understanding of IT infrastructure basics to set up and operate. A recent shift to container technologies unifies and simplifies distribution of applications and services, but requires additional skills from operators and scientists. A similar effect can be seen in the shift between traditional file and directory based storage and object storage for modern, cloud-native applications and services. An alternate approach is the use of services and tools that abstract away the need to understand how the underlying infrastructure works. This bears a concrete risk that Life Scientists and their Institutions lose the ability to develop, run, and operate their own infrastructures because there will be a lack of organic specialisation from within Life Sciences domain to facilitate future development of infrastructure and workflow management development. All approaches still face challenges in the appropriate storage and handling of sensitive data. While service-based workflow offerings allow ease of access, they make reasoning about (transient) data storage more difficult.
Comparative analysis of Volatile Compounds (potential aromatic ability) in the fruit of 15 olive Italian cultivars
Creators: name: Taiti, Cosimo
name: Redwan, Mirvat
name: Marone, Elettra
name: Atzori, Giulia
name: Azzarello, Elisa
name: Mancuso, Stefano
Publisher: name: Advances in Horticultural Science
Year: 2018

description: Virgin olive oils (VOOs) are characterized by peculiar flavors appreciated by the consumers all over the world. Their organoleptic characteristics depend on the aromatic properties of the fruits of the different cultivars, which will originate the final products. VOCs spectra of fifteen certified Italian olive cultivars of the University of Florence Germplasm collection, chosen as their different geographical origin, diffusion, and product purpose, were acquired using a Proton Transfer Reaction Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer (PTR-ToF-MS). The VOCs analyses highlighted a great variability among the fifteen cultivars, mostly due to compounds (C6 and C5) deriving from polyunsaturated fatty acids through the LOX pathway. The early identification in the olive fruit of these compounds which are considered among the major contributors to the positive VOOs attributes, would be useful to produce high quality olive oils, and get useful information to individuate the best parents for the genetic improvement.
description: Advances in Horticultural Science, Vol 32 No 1 (2018)
Volatile compounds from different fruit parts of two cultivars of Cydonia oblonga
Creators: name: Taiti, Cosimo
name: Giordani, Edgardo
name: Palm, Emily
name: Petrucci, Antonio William
name: Bennati, Giuseppe
name: Gestri, Giovanni
name: Marone, Elettra
name: Azzarello, Elisa
name: Mancuso, Stefano
Publisher: name: Advances in Horticultural Science
Year: 2018

description: Quince is characterized as a fragrant fruit which, unlike other pomes (apple, pear), is not used for fresh consumption due to its astringency and compactness, but only in its processed form (jams, jelly, distillery products, and nutraceutical compounds). As a consequence, there is little knowledge currently available concerning the characteristics of the fruit, and in particular its aromatic and chemotaxonomic patterns. In this work, carpometric, chemometric and spectrophotometric measurements were performed on quince fruits. VOCs emitted by different tissues or parts of the fruit were studied to describe its aromatic profile. The study was carried out on the fruits of an old, well-known cultivar (‘Gigante di Wranja’, commonly called ‘Wranja’) and a new Tuscan accession. Intact, halved and solely pulp (cubed) samples were evaluated for each individual fruit. Data obtained from VOC analysis through Proton Transfer Reaction Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer (PTR-ToF-MS) were evaluated by multivariate statistical analysis. The spectra obtained from the intact fruit samples showed a higher amount of masses corresponding to terpenes or terpenoid compounds, which fundamentally characterize the aroma of this type of fruit; these substances were found to be much less present in the VOCs emitted by the pulp, where high values of masses linked to the maturation processes were instead found.
description: Advances in Horticultural Science, Vol 32 No 1 (2018)
New Astrometric Solution Aus2024a, Geoscience Australia
Creators: name: Titov, Oleg
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014

description: Herewith we present new Celestial Reference Frame (CRF) solutionproduced by Geoscience Australia (Aus2024a.crf). A 30-year set of geodetic VLBI observations was processed with self-calibrating of the wet troposphere delays and gradients and reference clock offset variations. Theformal accuracy of all astrometric parameters improved by a factor ofthree with respect to the standard solution. We analysed more than 15million individual group delays and provided high-precision coordinatesof 5428 radio sources with the best formal positional error of about 2 µas.Additionally, the negative parallax effect with an amplitude of -15.8+/- 0.5 µas was detected. Independent estimate of this effect by the Gaiaoptical mission (EDR3 release) is -17 µas. We tend to think that thenegative parallax effect could be caused by a real physical reason ratherthan instrumental problems.
Nonlinear Bias of Cosmological Halo Formation in the Early Universe
Creators: name: Ahn, Kyungjin
name: Iliev, Ilian T.
name: Shapiro, Paul R.
name: Srisawat, ChaiChalit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present estimates of the nonlinear bias of cosmological halo formation, spanning a wide range in the halo mass from $\sim 10^{5} M_\odot$ to $\sim 10^{12} M_\odot$, based upon both a suite of high-resolution cosmological N-body simulations and theoretical predictions. The halo bias is expressed in terms of the mean bias and stochasticity as a function of local overdensity ($δ$), under different filtering scales, which is realized as the density of individual cells in uniform grids. The sampled overdensities span a range wide enough to provide the fully nonlinear bias effect on the formation of haloes. A strong correlation between $δ$ and halo population overdensity $δ_h$ is found, along with sizable stochasticity. We find that the empirical mean halo bias matches, with good accuracy, the prediction by the peak-background split method based on the excursion set formalism, as long as the empirical, globally-averaged halo mass function is used. Consequently, this bias formalism is insensitive to uncertainties caused by varying halo identification schemes, and can be applied generically. We also find that the probability distribution function of biased halo numbers has wider distribution than the pure Poisson shot noise, which is attributed to the sub-cell scale halo correlation. We explicitly calculate this correlation function and show that both overdense and underdense regions have positive correlation, leading to stochasticity larger than the Poisson shot noise in the range of haloes and halo-collapse epochs we study.
description: 18 pages, 8 figures, in press for publication in MNRAS; supplementary material (additional 16 figures) separately supplied (supplement.pdf) as a part of source files
BASIC PROBLEMS THAT STUDENTS FACE WHILE PRODUCING SPEAKING
Creators: name: Turg'unboyeva, Shakhnoza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Nowadays, it is fact that effectively learning English is becoming more and more popular for EFL learners. This is because language plays a leading role in different attitudes between all countries around the world. Choosing the best way for this process is very important for us. Because there are a lot of books, gadgets, and technologies for learning a language, sometimes we do not know which is the most suitable for our position. It can be easily said that speaking is a more essential skill for learners. Even though it is easy to learn, a big part of learners come across some difficulties during improving their speaking ability. So, in this article, it can be mentioned that, some problems which are appeared in our speech, their reasons and some recommendations.
title: Schwierigkeiten und Potenzial von Werbetexten für DaZ-Lernende
Creators: name: Kohl, Amalia Maria
Year: 2022

description: Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit den sprachlichen Besonderheiten der Werbesprache sowie den daraus resultierenden Herausforderungen und Chancen für DaZ-Lernende. Dazu wurden 2020 bis 2022 in Österreich verwendete Werbeaussagen gesammelt, kategorisiert und hinsichtlich ihrer Stilmittel analysiert. Davon ausgehend erfolgte eine Online-Befragung von DaZ-Lernenden, die gebeten wurden, ausgewählte Werbesprüche einzuschätzen und insbesondere die Verständlichkeit zu beurteilen. Ergänzend fand auch die Perspektive der Werbebranche Berücksichtigung; hierfür wurden qualitative Experteninterviews geführt. Es konnte festgestellt werden, dass sehr viele Werbesprüche mit Wortspielen arbeiten, die sich nicht jedem DaZ-Lernenden mühelos erschließen, was aber umgekehrt die Chance bietet, im DaZ-Unterricht über Sprache zu reflektieren und zu sprechen. In der Werbebranche besteht für die Herausforderungen, die Werbesprache für DaZ-Lernende mit sich bringen kann, nur wenig Verständnis. Die Werbeaussagen werden primär nach anderen Gesichtspunkten konzipiert und zielen gar nicht darauf ab, von allen verstanden zu werden.
description: This master-thesis deals with the linguistic peculiarities of advertising language and with their challenges and opportunities for DaZ learners. For this purpose, advertising statements used in Austria between 2020 and 2022 have been collected, categorized and analyzed with regard to their stylistic devices. On this bases, an online survey of DaZ learners was carried out, who were asked to assess selected advertising slogans and, in particular, to assess their comprehensibility. In addition, the perspective of the advertising industry was also considered; for this purpose qualitative expert interviews were conducted. A lot of advertising slogans work with word games that not every DaZ learner easily understands, but which, conversely, offers the opportunity to reflect and speak about language in DaZ lessons. There is little understanding in the advertising industry for the challenges of advertising language for DaZ learners. The advertising statements are primarily designed according to other points of view and do not aim to be understood by everyone.
Contentious Entry: LGBTQ Refuge and Asylum
Creators: name: Langson, Kevin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016

description: LGBTQ refugees and asylum seekers form a particularly vulnerable group. They face threats in their countries of origin and barriers to entering Western countries that accept refugees and grant asylum. Some of these barriers come via the individuals tasked with determining who is allowed to enter or remain in the country and others in the limited help they receive from family, community, and LGBTQ groups and organizations. This article explores the problems with processes such as adjudication and suggests there are ways to improve the treatment of LGBTQ individuals throughout the resettlement process.
Additional file 6 of Genomic profile of MYCN non-amplified neuroblastoma and potential for immunotherapeutic strategies in neuroblastoma
Creators: name: Eunjin Lee
name: Lee, Ji Won
name: Boram Lee
name: Kyunghee Park
name: Joonho Shim
name: Yoo, Keon Hee
name: Koo, Hong Hoe
name: Sung, Ki Woong
name: Woong-Yang Park
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 6. Result of Mutational signature analysis.
Monitoring in real time the changes in VOCS emission in sunflower and extra virgin olive oil upon heating by PTR-TOF-MS
Creators: name: Sabbatini, Leonardo
name: Taiti, Cosimo
name: Redwan, Mirvat
name: Azzarello, Elisa
name: Marone, Elettra
name: Mancuso, Stefano
Publisher: name: Advances in Horticultural Science
Year: 2018

description: In this work the emission of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) upon the heating process of an extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) and a high oleic sunflower oil (SFO) was evaluated in real time by spectrometry. Two tests were carried out, in the first VOCs emitted from both kinds of oil were measured at room temperatures (not heated, NH) and at 180°C; in the second test, VOCs emission for selected masses were monitored under increasing temperatures over time: at room temperature not heated oils (NH), 60, 90, 120, 150, and 180°C, respectively. The spectra were acquired using a Proton Transfer Reaction Time of Flight Mass Spectrometer (PTR-ToF-MS). The total VOCs emission increased at 180°C, determined both by the rise of the amount of compounds present in the NH samples and by the formation of new masses generated by oxidative chemical reaction from triglycerides and fatty acids. From the set of results it is evident that a good control of the temperatures can be useful in reducing the quantities of masses potentially harmful to health in human food.
description: Advances in Horticultural Science, Vol 32 No 1 (2018)
Additional file 4 of Genomic profile of MYCN non-amplified neuroblastoma and potential for immunotherapeutic strategies in neuroblastoma
Creators: name: Eunjin Lee
name: Lee, Ji Won
name: Boram Lee
name: Kyunghee Park
name: Joonho Shim
name: Yoo, Keon Hee
name: Koo, Hong Hoe
name: Sung, Ki Woong
name: Woong-Yang Park
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4. Result of DEG analysis.
SARS-CoV-2: Understanding, Applying and Communicating Science
Creators: name: Homer-Drummond, Sharon
Publisher: name: QUBES Educational Resources
Year: 2023

description: The ability to integrate process of science training with necessary skills in applying and communicating core theories in biological science and biology quantification, has been brought into focus by the COVID-19 pandemic. Students from high school up through graduate school, have made it clear that they do not comprehend how science is done, why it is done, and how to assess and communicate scientific claims. While the overwhelming 'noise' coming out of the pandemic may seem daunting, it also presents us with an opportunity to develop open educational resources that help learners improve their biological science and quantification skills, as well as their ability to sort through claims and communicate findings. To those ends, we developed a series of linked, OER learning modules, applicable from the high school and community education through the graduate and professional school levels, addressing microbiology, physiology, pharmacology, genetics, and proteomics through the lens of SARS-CoV-2. Students learn about the process of science, appropriate to their educational level, how scientists assess claims, and how to communicate findings.
Exploring the quantum critical behaviour in a driven Tavis-Cummings circuit
Creators: name: Feng, M.
name: Zhong, Y. P.
name: Liu, T.
name: Yan, L. L.
name: Yang, W. L.
name: Twamley, J.
name: Wang, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum phase transitions play an important role in many-body systems and have been a research focus in conventional condensed matter physics over the past few decades. Artificial atoms, such as superconducting qubits that can be individually manipulated, provide a new paradigm of realising and exploring quantum phase transitions by engineering an on-chip quantum simulator. Here we demonstrate experimentally the quantum critical behaviour in a highly-controllable superconducting circuit, consisting of four qubits coupled to a common resonator mode. By off-resonantly driving the system to renormalise the critical spin-field coupling strength, we have observed a four-qubit non-equilibrium quantum phase transition in a dynamical manner, i.e., we sweep the critical coupling strength over time and monitor the four-qubit scaled moments for a signature of a structural change of the system's eigenstates. Our observation of the non-equilibrium quantum phase transition, which is in good agreement with the driven Tavis-Cummings theory under decoherence, offers new experimental approaches towards exploring quantum phase transition related science, such as scaling behaviours, parity breaking and long-range quantum correlations.
description: Main text with 3 figures
EOSC-Life Access and User Management System for Life Science – the blueprint update
Creators: name: Linden, Mikael
name: Bucik, Dominik Frantisek
name: Gormanns, Philipp
name: Haley, Natalie
name: Heikkinen, Jani
name: Holub, Petr
name: Kankaanpää, Pasi
name: Kouril, Daniel
name: Kuba, Martin
name: Licehammer, Slavek
name: Matyska, Ludek
name: Nyrönen, Tommi
name: Prochazka, Michal
name: Reihs, Robert
name: Romano, Paolo
name: Shigaval, Athresh
name: Povey, Marcus
name: Tedds, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Life science research infrastructures
authentication and authorisation service

description: This deliverable is the updated blueprint of the Life Science AAI (LS AAI), a common authentication and authorisation service for the European life science research infrastructures. The Life Science AAI provides a way to coordinate how user identity and access is managed in research services in the (community-specific) federated Infrastructure. The Life Science AAI was launched on 11 April 2022 and the users of ELIXIR AAI were migrated to it. The Life Science AAI service is managed by the life sciences community and operated by the einfrastructures, including GEANT and EGI. This deliverable is the second update to the deliverable D5.1 “Access and User Management System for Life Science – the blueprint” [LIND19] that laid the ground for the production deployment with einfrastructures. D5.1 was updated for the first time in March 2021 by deliverable D5.3 “Access and User Management System for Life Science – the blueprint update” [LIND21]. In this deliverable and its appendices, only those sections of D5.3 are updated where the requirements have changed or become clearer, while the rest of the document remains unchanged. This deliverable can be read as an independent document, without reading D5.1 or D5.3 first. This deliverable and its appendices first introduce the technical and non-technical requirements for the AAI service, including the components operated by the e-infrastructures, and further clarify how that relates to and integrates to the AAI service components operated by the life sciences research infrastructures. Relevant external work, including the EOSC AAI, is then introduced. Finally, the deliverable provides an overview of Life Science AAI’s potential relying services within the EOSC-Life project and beyond.
Quality and nutraceutical properties of mango fruit: influence of cultivar and biological age assessed by Time‐resolved Reflectance Spectroscopy
Creators: name: Vanoli, Maristella
name: Grassi, Maurizio
name: Spinelli, Lorenzo
name: Torricelli, Alessandro
name: Rizzolo, Anna
Publisher: name: Advances in Horticultural Science
Year: 2018

description: The content and composition of the main antioxidants in the pulp of mangoes depend also on cultivar and maturity degree, the latter being non-destructively evaluated by the absorption coefficient measured by Time-resolved Reflectance Spectroscopy (TRS) at 540 nm (µa540). Aiming at evaluating the levels of antioxidants [carotenoids (CAR), phenols (TPC), ascorbic acid (AA)] and antioxidant capacity (TAC) in relation to µa540 maturity class, selected ‘Haden’ and ‘Palmer’ mangoes were measured for µa540 by TRS, classified based on µa540 value as less (LeM), medium (MeM) and more (MoM) mature and analyzed for pulp firmness, pulp color (a*, h°, Yellowness Index), CAR (total and composition by HPLC-DAD), TPC, AA and TAC. ‘Palmer’ fruit had higher TPC, AA and TAC than ‘Haden’ mangoes. On average MoM fruit showed higher TPC, total CAR, total all‐trans‐violaxanthin esters and all‐trans‐β‐carotene than MeM and LeM fruit. LeM fruit did not have compounds belonging to the 9‐cis‐violaxanthin group, while cis‐β‐cryptoxanthin was approx. 19% of total carotenoids. In MoM mangoes the main carotenoid was all‐trans‐β-carotene (53%), followed by total all‐trans‐violaxanthin esters (30%), 9‐cis‐violaxanthin group (8%) and cis‐β‐cryptoxanthin (6%). The µa540 significantly correlated (r=0.78‐0.94) with total CAR, all‐trans‐β‐carotene, all‐trans‐violaxanthin no.3 (both cultivars), TPC, all‐trans‐violaxanthin no.1, no.2, no.6 (‘Haden’), and 9‐cis‐violaxanthin no.2, no.3 (‘Palmer’). Our results indicate that TRS is suitable to non-destructively measure the pulp color of mangoes and to sort fruit with different ripening degree and nutraceutical properties.
description: Advances in Horticultural Science, Vol 32 No 3 (2018): Special issue on Postharvest
Presentation of affine Kac-Moody groups over rings
Creators: name: Allcock, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20G44

description: Tits has defined Steinberg groups and Kac-Moody groups for any root system and any commutative ring R. We establish a Curtis-Tits-style presentation for the Steinberg group St of any rank > 2 irreducible affine root system, for any R. Namely, St is the direct limit of the Steinberg groups coming from the 1- and 2-node subdiagrams of the Dynkin diagram. This leads to a completely explicit presentation. Using this we show that St is finitely presented if the rank is > 3 and R is finitely generated as a ring, or if the rank is 3 and R is finitely generated as a module over a subring generated by finitely many units. Similar results hold for the corresponding Kac-Moody groups when R is a Dedekind domain of arithmetic type.
description: Major revision: section 2 is new. Theorem and equation numbering changed. Case 4 in section 5 rewritten. Many other minor changes, and additional references
Quasihomogeneous three-dimensional real analytic Lorentz metrics do not exist
Creators: name: Dumitrescu, Sorin
name: Melnick, Karin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53A55, 53B30, 53C50

description: We show that a germ of a real analytic Lorentz metric on ${\bf R}^3$ which is locally homogeneous on an open set containing the origin in its closure is necessarily locally homogeneous. We classifiy Lie algebras that can act quasihomogeneously---meaning they act transitively on an open set admitting the origin in its closure, but not at the origin---and isometrically for such a metric. In the case that the isotropy at the origin of a quasihomogeneous action is semisimple, we provide a complete set of normal forms of the metric and the action.
description: 23 pp. Took the place of "Quasihomogeneous three-dimensional real analytic Lorentz metrics" (arXiv:1401.6272), which was withdrawn by the first author. Revised version incorporates several minor corrections, including those suggested by the referee
title: The Criminalisation of Mental Distress
title: An Exploration of Section 136 Processes
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Erlam, Jayne
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2022
Subjects: S136; Mental Distress; Mental Health Act; Criminalisation; Place of Safety; Policing

description: In England and Wales, the increase in adult Section 136 (S136) police detentions under the Mental Health Act is well established; however, there are equally concerning rises in detentions of children and young people (CYP): 753 detentions in the year ending March 2014 (Home Affairs Committee, 2015), rising to 1,561 detentions in the year to March 2020 (Home Office, 2020a). This rise in police interaction with people who experience mental distress (MD) in public spaces suggests a failure in health and social care support provision, places greater demands upon police resources and raises concerns about the impact that police involvement has on people who are experiencing MD. This thesis explores whether the current reliance on police to assist in situations of acute MD is criminalising. This mixed-methods research analyses primary and secondary data pertaining to S136 detentions of adults and CYP. It hears the perspective of front-line police officers (n=12) and adults with experience of S136 detentions (n=5) and analyses an NHS administrative dataset (n=4,211) containing all S136 detentions over a 40-month period (December 2017 to April 2021) in one county in the North of England. I found that police officers play a significant role in the care of persons experiencing an episode of MD and that this is perceived and experienced as criminalising. The lack of available inpatient beds is key: correlation is found between discharge after a bed request fails to result in admission and repeated detention, and that S136 suites being rendered inaccessible due to detainees awaiting admission results in an overuse of Accident and Emergency departments, where detained persons are supervised and controlled by police officers. There is no parity of service provision for CYP. Proportionally, CYP have less access to S136 suites, experience more repeated detentions and spend longer under police supervision and control than adults do.
Effect of wounding intensity on physiological and quality changes of strawberry fruit
Creators: name: Solomon, Mulugheta
name: Piazzolla, Francesca
name: De Chiara, Maria Lucia Valeria
name: Amodio, Maria Luisa
name: Colelli, Giancarlo
Publisher: name: Advances in Horticultural Science
Year: 2018

description: Wounding makes fresh-cut product more perishable than whole fruit. The effect of wounding intensity on respiration rate and nutritional quality of fresh-cut ‘Candonga’ strawberries was investigated. Fruit were submitted to six levels of cutting intensity - whole fruit (WHO), 4, 16, 64, and 128 pieces and chopped (CHO) samples. Respiration rate, and the main nutritional parameters were evaluated at the processing day and after 2 days of storage at 5°C. Results showed that wounding intensity significantly influenced respiration rate, ascorbic and dehydroascorbic acids, total phenolic content, and antioxidant capacity. Respiration rate increased with wounding intensity up to the level of 64 pieces (10.01 µg kg-1 s-1) compared to WHO (5.5 µg kg-1 s-1) and then decreased in the CHO samples (2.81 µg kg-1 s-1). At Day 2, the stress caused by the high intensity of cutting (64 pieces and CHO) induced a higher degradation of ascorbic acid, phenolic compounds, and antioxidant capacity. Stress-related changes decrease when the wounding damage was so high that it completely compromises the functionality of the cells (from 64 pieces up). These results should be considered for processing and packaging optimization of minimally processed strawberries-based products.
description: Advances in Horticultural Science, Vol 32 No 3 (2018): Special issue on Postharvest
Transcript of Rightscon 2023 session "Crying shame: The supply chain of non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII)"
Creators: name: Lakshané, Rohini
Publisher: name: Factor Daily
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Sexual violence
subject: Image-based sexual abuse
subject: IBSA
subject: NCII
subject: TFGBV
subject: GBV
subject: VAW
subject: image-based abuse
subject: vita activa
subject: non-consensual intimate images

description: This is an edited and redacted version of a transcript of the video of the online session titled "Crying shame: The supply chain of non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII)" held at Rightscon 2023. 

Date: 8 June 2023

Facilitator: Becky Faith (Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex)

Speakers: Rohini Lakshané (Factor Daily), Erika Smith (Association of Progressive Communications), Luisa Ortiz Pérez, Ph.D (Vita Activá).

Session details and URL: https://rightscon.summit.tc/t/rightscon-costa-rica-2023/events/crying-shame-the-supply-chain-of-non-consensual-intimate-imagery-ncii-azTJKk1gEkgvy3wKf8Pgiz (Accessible to registered participants of Rightscon 2023)

Rohini’s slide deck from the session: https://zenodo.org/records/12701227

The transcript was generated automatically from the video recording of the session. It has been edited for fixing mis-transcribed words, spelling, punctuation, grammar and for removing superfluous words. 

The names of session participants who asked questions have been redacted in this transcript. This is because an announcement was made at the start of the session that it was being videographed but will not be made publicly available. So, we do not have explicit consent from the participants to include their names or other identifying information in this transcript.
On subgroups of right angled Artin groups with few generators
Creators: name: Minasyan, Ashot
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20F36, 20F05, 20E06, 20E05

description: For each natural number $d$ we construct a $3$-generated group $H_d$, which is a subdirect product of free groups, such that the cohomological dimension of $H_d$ is $d$. Given a group $F$ and a normal subgroup $N \lhd F$ we prove that any right angled Artin group containing the special HNN-extension of $F$ with respect to $N$ must also contain $F/N$. We apply this to construct, for every $d \in \mathbb{N}$, a $4$-generated group $G_d$, embeddable into a right angled Artin group, such that the cohomological dimension of $G_d$ is $2$ but the cohomological dimension of any right angled Artin group, containing $G_d$, is at least $d$. These examples are used to show the non-existence of certain "universal" right angled Artin groups. We also investigate finitely presented subgroups of direct products of limit groups. In particular we show that for every $n\in \mathbb{N}$ there exists $δ(n) \in \mathbb{N}$ such that any $n$-generated finitely presented subgroup of a direct product of finitely many free groups embeds into the $δ(n)$-th direct power of the free group of rank $2$. As another corollary we derive that any $n$-generated finitely presented residually free group embeds into the direct product of at most $δ(n)$ limit groups.
description: v4: accepted in this format for publication in Intern. J. Algebra and Comput.; 12 pages
Yield, quality and antioxidants of peeled tomato as affected by genotype and industrial processing in southern Italy
Creators: name: De Sio, F.
name: Rapacciuolo, M.
name: De Giorgi, A.
name: Trifirò, A.
name: Giuliano, B.
name: Vitobello, L.
name: Cuciniello, A.
name: Caruso, Gianluca
Publisher: name: Advances in Horticultural Science
Year: 2018

description: Research was carried out on processing tomato in San Severo (Tavoliere delle Puglie, Foggia, Italy) in order to compare four long-type fruit hybrids oriented to peeled produce (Abbundo, Umex, Superpeel, Taylor), using a randomized complete block design with three replicates. The hybrid Superpeel reached the highest marketable yield due to the highest fruit number and mean weight; along the peeling chain, Umex and Taylor showed the highest processing efficiency. Titratable acidity and sodium were highest in Taylor fruits, whereas the highest fiber content was detected in Abbundo fruits. Compared to pre-processing fruits, peeled tomatoes showed increased values of total and soluble solids as well as reducing sugars, but decreased sugar ratio and colour. The highest concentrations of antioxidants in processed fruits were recorded in Umex for lycopene and in Superpeel for β-carotene. Compared to pre-processing fruits, in peeled tomatoes lycopene and β-carotene concentrations remained stable and polyphenols increased referring to fresh weight. The hybrids examined did not show univocal trends in terms of sensorial features.
description: Advances in Horticultural Science, Vol 32 No 3 (2018): Special issue on Postharvest
Postharvest control of Aspergillus niger in mangos by means of essential oils
Creators: name: Javadpour, Sedigheh
name: Golestani, Atefeh
name: Rastegar, Somayeh
name: Dastjer, Majid
Publisher: name: Advances in Horticultural Science
Year: 2018

description: The use of essential oil as an alternative mean to synthetic fungicides has been considered in the past years for management of the postharvest decay of fruits in order to ensure more safe and long storage life of these perishable commodities. Aspergillus niger is one of the most dangerous fungal pathogen which can cause postharvest diseases in fresh mangos. The aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness of essential oil from four aromatic plants (Thymus vulgaris, Salvia mirzayanii, Artemisa persica, and Rosmarinus officinalis) in comparison to fungicide ‘Mancozeb’ against A. niger under in vitro and in vivo conditions. After inoculation of mango fruits with an isolate of A. niger followed by curative treatments with essential oil, the main physical and chemical attributes of mangoes were determined under postharvest condition. The in vitro results showed that colonies of A. niger were totally inhibited by application of essential oil of T. vulgaris (at all the tested concentrations) and A. persica (1500 μl/l). While, S. mirzayanii showed the lowest effect at 1000 μl/l if compared with the other essential oils. The results of the in vivo experiments showed that treatments with T. vulgaris and S. mirzayanii essential oil had significant (P<0.05) effects in preventing fruit decay at 1000 μl/l after 10 days of storage, while, R. officinalis essential oil significantly (P<0.05) reduced deterioration of mango fruits at 500 μl/l, followed by A. persica. Rosemary also showed the highest fruit firmness in comparison with other treatments. Also, the essential oils maintained higher chlorophyll content. The results of this work showed that application of essential oil on mangos assurance both a significant preservation on their quality attributes by controlling, at the same time, decaying caused by A. niger during the postharvest phase.
description: Advances in Horticultural Science, Vol 32 No 3 (2018): Special issue on Postharvest
Postharvest application of hydrogen peroxide and salicylic acid differently affects the quality and vase life of cut rose (Rosa hybrida L.) petals and leaves
Creators: name: Cocetta, Giacomo
name: Ferrante, Antonio
Publisher: name: Advances in Horticultural Science
Year: 2018

description: Rose represents an important product in the market of cut flowers. Its quality is related to visual appearance and is affected by oxidative stress and senescence. To maintain the quality and extend the product vase life, innovative technical solutions to be applied in postharvest are needed. In this work the effectiveness of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and salicylic acid (SA), was assessed on cut rose leaves and petals. Several physiological indicators of quality were studied, including chlorophyll content, chlorophyll a fluorescence, color, lipid peroxidation, phenolic compounds and anthocyanins. After 7 days of vase life 73.33% of untreated roses were not marketable anymore, while the percentage was lower in response to treatments (47.06% in SA and 25.53% in H2O2). The application of H2O2 induced a reduction in leaf chlorophyll and in the performance index which, at the end of the vase life decrease by 76% and 49% respectively. Consistently, the lipid peroxidation in leaves treated with H2O2 increased by a 53%. After 4 days of vase life, SA allowed maintaining higher levels of anthocyanins in petals compared to H2O2 and to controls. The results obtained allowed individuating different responses, depending on the treatment applied as well as on the plant organ.
description: Advances in Horticultural Science, Vol 32 No 3 (2018): Special issue on Postharvest