cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Does colour matter? Preference of mice for different colours of the house mouse igloo: an observational study
Creators: name: Gjendal, Karen
name: Lund Ottesen, Jan
name: Sørensen, Dorte Bratbo
Publisher: name: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences
Year: 2018

description: It is argued that mice have poor colour vision and are insensitive to the colour red, which they in theory perceive as dark. Therefore, the red tinted Bio-Serv Mouse Igloo® is used to provide mice with a dark shelter while enabling humans to monitor the animals through the shelter without disturbing them. However, we do not know if mice like the colour red. Therefore, this study investigated whether mice prefer an amber or blue igloo over a red igloo, still making it possible for humans to see through the igloos. A preference test consisting of 3 cages each containing a different coloured igloo, connected to a barren central cage, was conducted for 11 h 20 min in 32 female B6 mice. The results showed that some female B6 mice did not like to use the Bio-Serv Mouse Igloo® as a shelter, regardless of colour. Almost half of the mice chose to stay outside the igloos, but when choosing an igloo the mice preferred the blue or amber igloo over the red igloo.
description: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences, Vol. 44 (2018)
Additional file 2 of The COVID-19 pandemic preparedness simulation tool: CovidSIM
Creators: name: Schneider, Kristan A.
name: Ngwa, Gideon A.
name: Schwehm, Markus
name: Eichner, Linda
name: Eichner, Martin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2 Mathematical description of derived quantities
Conservative, Proportional and Optimistic Contextual Discounting in the Belief Functions Theory
Creators: name: Kurdej, Marek
name: Cherfaoui, Véronique
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Information discounting plays an important role in the theory of belief functions and, generally, in information fusion. Nevertheless, neither classical uniform discounting nor contextual cannot model certain use cases, notably temporal discounting. In this article, new contextual discounting schemes, conservative, proportional and optimistic, are proposed. Some properties of these discounting operations are examined. Classical discounting is shown to be a special case of these schemes. Two motivating cases are discussed: modelling of source reliability and application to temporal discounting.
description: 7 pages
NFFA-Digital Infrastructure (NFFA-DI)
Creators: name: Africh, Cristina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Presentation of NANOSCIENCE FOUNDRIES AND FINE ANALYSIS – DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE (NFFA-DI) project, one of the two PNRR projects supporting the Pilot training course MDMC. 

NFFA-DI has been funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU  - Missione 4, “Istruzione e Ricerca” – Componente 2, “Dalla ricerca all'impresa” – Linea di investimento 3.1,“Fondo per la realizzazione di un sistema integrato di infrastrutture di ricerca e innovazione” – Azione 3.1.1, “Creazione di nuove IR o potenziamento di quelle esistenti che concorrono agli obiettivi di Eccellenza Scientifica di Horizon Europe e costituzione di reti”.
Data Management Challenges in Paediatric Information Systems
Creators: name: McClatchey, Richard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: There is a compelling demand for the data integration and exploitation of heterogeneous biomedical information for improved clinical practice, medical research, and personalised healthcare across the EU. The area of paediatric information integration is particularly challenging since the patients physiology changes with growth and different aspects of health being regularly monitored over extended periods of time. Paediatricians require access to heterogeneous data sets, often collected in different locations with different apparatus and over extended timescales. Using a Grid platform originally developed for physics at CERN and a novel integrated semantic data model the Health-e-Child project has developed an integrated healthcare platform for European paediatrics, providing seamless integration of traditional and emerging sources of biomedical data. The long-term goal of the project was to provide uninhibited access to universal biomedical knowledge repositories for personalised and preventive healthcare, large-scale information-based biomedical research and training, and informed policy making. The project built a Grid-enabled european network of leading clinical centres that can share and annotate paediatric data, can validate systems clinically, and diffuse clinical excellence across Europe by setting up new technologies, clinical workflows, and standards. The Health-e-Child project highlights data management challenges for the future of European paediatric healthcare and is the subject of this chapter.
description: 16 pages, 4 figures, 1 table. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:0812.2874, arXiv:cs/0603036, arXiv:0707.0763
Additional file 1 of Molecular forms of Anopheles subpictus and Anopheles sundaicus in the Indian subcontinent
Creators: name: Ankita Sindhania
name: Das, Manoj K.
name: Sharma, Gunjan
name: Surendran, Sinnathamby N.
name: B. R. Kaushal
name: Himanshu P. Lohani
name: Singh, Om P.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. Alignment of rDNA sequences (ITS2 to D3 domain of 28S) of different molecular forms of An. subpictus s.l., and An. sundaicus complex s.l.
Bayes-enhanced Multi-view Attention Networks for Robust POI Recommendation
Creators: name: Xia, Jiangnan
name: Yang, Yu
name: Wang, Senzhang
name: Yin, Hongzhi
name: Cao, Jiannong
name: Yu, Philip S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: POI recommendation is practically important to facilitate various Location-Based Social Network services, and has attracted rising research attention recently. Existing works generally assume the available POI check-ins reported by users are the ground-truth depiction of user behaviors. However, in real application scenarios, the check-in data can be rather unreliable due to both subjective and objective causes including positioning error and user privacy concerns, leading to significant negative impacts on the performance of the POI recommendation. To this end, we investigate a novel problem of robust POI recommendation by considering the uncertainty factors of the user check-ins, and proposes a Bayes-enhanced Multi-view Attention Network. Specifically, we construct personal POI transition graph, the semantic-based POI graph and distance-based POI graph to comprehensively model the dependencies among the POIs. As the personal POI transition graph is usually sparse and sensitive to noise, we design a Bayes-enhanced spatial dependency learning module for data augmentation from the local view. A Bayesian posterior guided graph augmentation approach is adopted to generate a new graph with collaborative signals to increase the data diversity. Then both the original and the augmented graphs are used for POI representation learning to counteract the data uncertainty issue. Next, the POI representations of the three view graphs are input into the proposed multi-view attention-based user preference learning module. By incorporating the semantic and distance correlations of POIs, the user preference can be effectively refined and finally robust recommendation results are achieved. The results of extensive experiments show that BayMAN significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art methods in POI recommendation when the available check-ins are incomplete and noisy.
Optimal breeding strategy for mouse mutant strains
Creators: name: Grannec, Gaël
name: Nosten-Bertrand, Marika
Publisher: name: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences
Year: 2018

description: Despite the published recommendations after the Banbury Conference in 1997 to maintain a mutation on controlled genetic backgrounds, maintenance of mutant strains and production of experimental groups are still too often hampered by constraints of time, space, and cost. We propose here a simple and rigorous method that allows not only the efficient production of animals, but especially the precise control of the genetic background and the generation of appropriate control groups, guaranteeing stable and reproducible observations. This method is flexible and allows optimization and adaptation of the production according to the experimental needs, thus reducing the final cost. In addition, the work of the Animal Care technicians is simplified and animal welfare is improved.
description: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences, Vol. 44 (2018)
Sudden End of X-Ray Outbursts around Periastron of Circinus X-1 Observed with MAXI
Creators: name: Asai, Kazumi
name: Mihara, Tatehiro
name: Matsuoka, Masaru
name: Sugizaki, Mutsumi
name: Nakahira, Satoshi
name: Negoro, Hitoshi
name: Nakajima, Motoki
name: Okazaki, Atsuo T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: MAXI/GSC observed 21 outbursts from Circinus X-1 between 2009 August and 2013 December. Although 14 outbursts showed ordinary gradual decays, in 7 outbursts we found sudden luminosity decrease in a time scale of a few hours around the periastron, and then the outbursts terminated. These sudden decreases started at the estimated luminosity of a few times $10^{37}$ erg s$^{-1}$ and reached to $\lesssim3\times10^{36}$ erg s$^{-1}$. We propose three interpretations for the sudden luminosity decrease: (1) the end of the outburst during the dip, (2) the propeller effect, and (3) the stripping effect by the stellar wind of the companion star. It is difficult to explain the phenomenon with any of these interpretations alone. The interpretation of (1) is possible for only two outbursts assuming rapid decay. The propeller effect (2) is expected to occur at a constant luminosity, which is incompatible with the observed facts. In wind stripping effect (3), the ram pressure of a typical stellar wind is not sufficient to blow out most of the accretion disk. In this paper, we discuss a possibility of a modified effect of (3) assuming other additional conditions such as wind clumping and disk instability.
description: 13 pages, 7 figures
Determination of iohexol in canine plasma – strong correlation between enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, high-performance liquid chromatography, and neutron activation analysis
Creators: name: Ortín-Piqueras, V
name: Spillmann, T
name: Pöytäkangas, M
name: Vaccaro, D.E.
name: Frías, R
Publisher: name: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences
Year: 2018

description: Iohexol is a non-radioactive, iodinated, water-soluble radiographic contrast medium that is widely used in detection imaging for both clinical and scientific purposes. It has also been used as a marker for glomerular filtration rate (GFR) and intestinal permeability (IP) in both humans and animals, such as dogs, rats and cats. Currently, iohexol is determined mainly by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) methods which limit its use in veterinary clinical practice. The aim of this study was to validate an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and its accuracy for the measurement of iohexol in canine plasma by comparison with HPLC and neutron activation analysis (NAA). Blank and iohexol-containing blood samples (n=100) from Beagle dogs were collected from the jugular vein in lithium heparin tubes before and after intravenous application of 3.0 g iohexol/dog via the cephalic vein. The results of this study show that the correlation coefficients when comparing ELISA vs. HPLC (r=0.99), ELISA vs. NAA (r=0.99) and HPLC vs. NAA (r=0.98) are all excellent. In conclusion, the measurement of iohexol from canine plasma using ELISA is as reproducible and reliable as using HPLC or NAA. However, using ELISA for measuring iohexol may be more practical, economical and useful for clinical practice and research than using HPLC or NAA.
description: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences, Vol. 44 (2018)
5GZORRO_D5.3: Business models and Validation of 5GZORRO security & trust framework
Creators: name: Shuaib Siddiqui, Miguel Catalán-Cid
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Deliverable D5.3 aims at giving an overall feasibility analysis of 5GZORRO platform from various perspectives: technical, legal and economic. It encompasses work from tasks T5.1, T5.2 and T5.3 (for the technical validation of the three Use Cases - UCs) and from task T5.4 (for the legal and economic validation of the platform).
description: EC approval: 10/02/2023
Effects of exogenous sex hormones on mouse estrous cycle, vaginal microbiota and immune cells
Creators: name: De Gregorio,
name: Salva, Susana
name: Juárez Tomás, María Silvina
name: Nader-Macías, María Elena Fátima
Publisher: name: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences
Year: 2018

description: Sex hormones are often administered to mice in vaginal microbial studies in order to synchronize estrous. Our objective was to evaluate the effect of estradiol-hemisuccinate (EH) or medroxyprogesterone-acetate (MPA) administration on estrous cycle, vaginal microbiota, and immune cell populations of various organs in a murine model. Two-month-old female BALB/c mice were intramuscularly injected with EH (day -2) or MPA (day -5) to induce estrous (E) or diestrous (DE), respectively. On sampling days (Sd) 0, 2, 6 and 8, vaginal washings (v.w.), vagina, blood, spleen and bone marrow (BM) samples were taken. Most of the animals remained in E or DE states until Sd 6 after EH or MPA administration, respectively. The number of cultivable vaginal bacteria was not modified by hormonal treatments; higher quantities were detected in mice in E. Only EH administration modified serum sex hormone levels, increasing serum estradiol on Sd 0. In v.w., myeloid population was dominant while lymphoid populations were not detected. Only MPA administration induced a reduction in myeloid cells on Sd 0. Hormonal treatments did not affect myeloid populations in BM but caused a slight decrease in T and B cells. In spleen, hormonal administration did not affect B or T population size while an increase in mature B cells and a decrease in immature B cells were observed in MPA-treated mice compared with EH-treated mice. Thus, although both hormonal treatments induced slight changes in some of the parameters evaluated compared to control animals, adequately standardized and consistent experimental protocols were established for further studies.
description: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences, Vol. 44 (2018)
PET radioligand injection for pig neuroimaging
Creators: name: Alstrup, Aage KO
name: Munk, Ole L
name: Landau, Anne M
name: Lillethorup, Thea P
Publisher: name: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences
Year: 2018

description: Pigs are useful models in neuroimaging studies with positron emission tomography (PET). Radiolabeled ligands are injected intravenously at the start of the scan and in pigs the most easily accessible route of administration is the ear vein. However, in brain studies the short distance between the brain and ear vein can be problematic as both are localized inside the field of view and, as a consequence, tracer residues in the catheter may influence the outcome of the scan. Here, we discuss options to avoid this problem. The femoral vein can be used in studies where repeated arterial blood sampling is needed because surgical incision has to be performed to allow access to the artery. When a non-invasive technique is preferred, the ear vein is a good alternative although it is recommended to dilute the tracer sufficiently in saline (20-50 mL) prior to injection. In addition, the tracer can be injected through an extension tube (filled with saline before injection), which is removed together with the syringe immediately after tracer injection. This avoids placing the syringe with tracer inside the PET gantry while injecting. By applying these simple techniques, it is our experience that it is possible to obtain high-quality images without exposing pigs to invasive procedures.
description: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences, Vol. 44 (2018)
Formation of silicon oxide grains at low temperature
Creators: name: Krasnokutski, S. A.
name: Rouille, G.
name: Jager, C.
name: Huisken, F.
name: Zhukovska, S.
name: Henning, Th.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The formation of grains in the interstellar medium, i.e., at low temperature, has been proposed as a possibility to solve the lifetime problem of cosmic dust. This process lacks a firm experimental basis, which is the goal of this study. We have investigated the condensation of SiO molecules at low temperature using neon matrix and helium droplet isolation techniques. The energies of SiO polymerization reactions have been determined experimentally with a calorimetric method and theoretically with calculations based on the density functional theory. The combined experimental and theoretical values have revealed the formation of cyclic (SiO)$_k$ ($k$ = 2--3) clusters inside helium droplets at $T$ = 0.37 K. Therefore, the oligomerization of SiO molecules is found to be barrierless and is expected to be fast in the low-temperature environment of the interstellar medium on the surface of dust grains. The incorporation of numerous SiO molecules in helium droplets leads to the formation of nanoscale amorphous SiO grains. Similarly, the annealing and evaporation of SiO-doped Ne matrices lead to the formation of solid amorphous SiO on the substrate. The structure and composition of the grains were determined by infrared absorption spectroscopy, transmission electron microscopy, and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy. Our results support the hypothesis that interstellar silicates \textbf{can be formed} in the low temperature regions of the interstellar medium by accretion through barrierless reactions.
Insulin dosing affects plasma levels of biochemical parameters in a time-dependent manner in Sprague-Dawley rats
Creators: name: Jensen, Vivi Flou Hjorth
name: Bartelt, Stine
name: Mølck, Anne-Marie
name: Andersen, Lene
name: Andersen, Søren
name: Bøgh, Ingrid Brück
Publisher: name: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences
Year: 2018

description: Changes in levels of various biochemical blood parameters are used as indicators of metabolic effects or potential toxicity when performing non-clinical safety studies of new drug candidates in rats. Additionally, since biochemical blood parameters are often affected during safety testing of new insulin analogues the effect of insulin dosing on these parameters was investigated. Non-diabetic rats were dosed with either vehicle or insulin once daily for 28 days. On Day 28, biochemical blood parameters as well as insulin exposure were measured, at two hour intervals during a 24 h period, to investigate time-dependent as well as time-independent changes. Insulin dosing lowered plasma glucose level for 4 h, corresponding to the peak plasma insulin level. Chronic insulin dosing increased food consumption and bodyweights. Additionally, plasma urea as well as CK and LDH levels increased. Hyperphagia was most likely driven by hypoglycaemia thereby also increasing body weight through insulin-stimulated fatty acid uptake into adipose tissue. Increased urea, CK and LDH levels, suggests that the return to normoglycaemia was driven mainly by increased hepatic gluconeogenesis, as reflected by increased ureagenesis and skeletal muscle proteolysis (increased CK and LDH). A better understanding of insulin-induced changes to biochemical blood parameters may aid the interpretation of changes in these parameters in non-clinical safety studies with new drugs
description: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences, Vol. 44 (2018)
Local infusion of Staphylococcus aureus into the porcine internal carotid artery as a model of sepsis-related brain abscesses – a pilot study
Creators: name: Astrup, Lærke B
name: Iburg, Tine M
name: Agerholm, Jørgen S
name: Aalbæk, Bent
name: Nielsen, Ole L
name: Leifsson, Pall S
Publisher: name: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences
Year: 2017

description: Brain pathology is an important aspect of human sepsis but is difficult to study in human patients. Therefore, animal models of sepsis-related brain pathology are needed. As pigs mirror multiple aspects of sepsis-related brain pathology in humans, this makes the pig a potentially suitable model. Unfortunately, models of sepsis in pigs are difficult to manage due to the accompanying massive systemic inflammatory response. To overcome these difficulties we designed a model in pigs of brain bacteremia established by local brain infusion in order to evaluate if this approach could reduce the systemic responses but still reflect the brain pathology of sepsis in humans. As a pilot study to obtain basic knowledge, we evaluated two methods of local infusion: long term infusion (60 minutes) of Staphylococcus aureus suspended in saline and, short-term infusion (10 minutes) of S. aureus embedded in autologous microthrombi. The study revealed: 1) bacteria suspended in saline as well as embedded in microthrombi can pass through the rete mirabile and thereby cause local brain bacteremia; 2) despite the high dose of S. aureus used for infusion, only mild clinical signs developed; and 3) despite the mild clinical signs, one pig had developed a brain microabscess by 48 h after infusion. The brain pathology present in this pig thereby reflected human cases of S. aureus-sepsis with microabscess formation as the predominant lesion. In addition, the abscess morphology mirrored previously observed microabscesses in experimental porcine S. aureus sepsis models.
description: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences, Vol. 43 (2017)
Case Study: Mouse Parvovirus Outbreak Likely Caused by a Contaminated Commercial Lyophilized Antibody Powder
Creators: name: Jensen, Eric S
name: Agle, Kimberle
name: Livingston, Robert
name: Thulin, Joseph D
Publisher: name: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences
Year: 2017

description: An MPV-contaminated lyophilized antibody product obtained from a commercial vendor was the probable cause of an outbreak of mouse parvovirus (MPV) in an academic research institution. The outbreak was initially discovered by the seroconversion of the mouse sentinels receiving soiled bedding from the affected cage(s). After further investigation, a suspected antibody product was submitted to a diagnostic laboratory and the sample tested positive for MPV via polymerase chain reaction (PCR). To confirm administration of this product to mice could produce MPV infection, we inoculated the MPV-positive antibody product into experimental mice (n=5). We collected faecal pellets at Days 0, 5, 9, 12, and 14 post-inoculation. At the end of the experimental period, we collected mesenteric lymph nodes (mLN) and submitted both mLN and faecal pellets for MPV analysis via PCR. While all faecal pellets were negative for MPV, we were able to detect MPV in mLN from one of the five mice, thus replicating the likely method of transmission and the cause of the MPV outbreaks.
description: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences, Vol. 43 (2017)
Lactobacillus acidophilus: effects on the pharmacokinetics of marbofloxacin in rats
Creators: name: Birhanu, BT
name: Park, N-H
name: Park, J-Y
name: Lee, J-J
name: Lee, S-P
name: Suh, J-W
name: Park, S-C
Publisher: name: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences
Year: 2017

description: Background: Probiotics are currently produced commercially and widely used for improving human and animal health. They modulate the gut environment through secretion and production of different molecules and enzymes. Hence, they play a major role in changing the pharmacokinetics of an orally administered drug. Purpose: To determine the effect of Lactobacillus acidophilus (KCTC 3140) on the pharmacokinetics of marbofloxacin. Materials and Methods: Five male and five female 8-week old healthy Sprague Dawley rats were treated with 109 CFU/ml of L. acidophilus daily for seven days via the intra-gastric route. Marbofloxacin (20 mg/kg) was administered orally at the beginning and the end of the experiment. The plasma concentration of marbofloxacin was measured using high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). Results: The area under the curve (AUC) of marbofloxacin declined from 5.78 µg.h/ml to 2.57 µg.h/ml after treatment with L. acidophilus. Similarly, the maximum plasma concentration (Cmax) of the drug decreased from 2.4 µg/ml to 1.2 µg/ml and the Tmax increased from 0.54 to 0.73 h. The elimination half-lives of marbofloxacin before and after treatment with L. acidophilus were 1.19 h and 0.69 h, respectively. The study was conducted by separating the male and female rats; no significant difference was observed between the sexes. Conclusion: The treatment of rats with L. acidophilus decreased the plasma AUC and Cmax after oral administration of marbofloxacin. Hence, studying the interaction of a probiotic with an antibiotic drug is essential prior to co-administration of the probiotic with the oral antibiotic.
description: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences, Vol. 43 (2017)
Carbonated Drinks Impact Follicle Development, Expression of Ovarian FSHR and Serum Caspase-3 in Mice
Creators: name: Wei, SC
name: Gong, ZD
name: Lu, HN
name: Liang, HQ
name: Lai, LJ
Publisher: name: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences
Year: 2017

description: Objectives: The present study aimed to assess the effects of Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola on the development of ovaries and follicles, and on the reproduction of animals.
description: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences, Vol. 43 (2017)
Scalable Spin Squeezing for Quantum-Enhanced Magnetometry with Bose-Einstein Condensates
Creators: name: Muessel, W.
name: Strobel, H.
name: Linnemann, D.
name: Hume, D. B.
name: Oberthaler, M. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A major challenge in quantum metrology is the generation of entangled states with macroscopic atom number. Here, we demonstrate experimentally that atomic squeezing generated via non-linear dynamics in Bose Einstein condensates, combined with suitable trap geometries, allows scaling to large ensemble sizes. We achieve a suppression of fluctuations by 5.3(5) dB for 12300 particles, which implies that similar squeezing can be achieved for more than 10$^7$ atoms. With this resource, we demonstrate quantum-enhanced magnetometry by swapping the squeezed state to magnetically sensitive hyperfine levels that have negligible nonlinearity. We find a quantum-enhanced single-shot sensitivity of 310(47) pT for static magnetic fields in a probe volume as small as 90 $μ$m$^3$.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures
Cosmological evolutions of $F(R)$ nonlinear massive gravity
Creators: name: Wu, De-Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently a new extended nonlinear massive gravity model has been proposed which includes the $F(R)$ modifications to dRGT model.We follow the $F(R)$ nonlinear massive gravity and study its implications on cosmological evolutions. We derive the critical points of the cosmic system and study the corresponding kinetics by performing the phase-plane analysis.
description: 25 pages
Enhancing Understanding of Digital Traces
Creators: name: Geyer, Kristoffer
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2022

description: “How did Galileo demonstrate the veracity of the copernican view of the sun centred universe? Well, the main advances were incremental in their ability to refine glass into lenses, not very sexy, except he could use that to make his own telescopes and see the moons of Jupiter.” - Dr Steven Hyman. (Cahalan, 2019, p 283) Technological advances have repeatedly provided new tools for psychologists to conduct scientific inquiry. Theories regarding cognition, perception and behaviour have been more rigorously falsified or at least tested thanks to computers, electroencephalographs and associated big data sets. Smartphones are among the latest technologies being used for psychological research. Portable devices like these could provide unparalleled access into peoples’real-world behaviour via highly ecologically valid data. However, there are significant obstacles for psychologists to overcome before the potential of smartphones can be fully realised. Part one of this thesis documents multiple newmethodsthat concern the development of smartphone apps for psychological research and provides guidance to ensure subsequent research is compliant with open science practices while maintaining participant privacy.In part two, developed apps are used in research designsthat reveal inconsistencies between objective and self-report assessments ofsmartphone usage. Specifically, objective methodsof measuring smartphone usage reduce the associations to almost zero between ‘screen time’ and health when compared with subjective estimates. Thisfurther demonstrates how the interdisciplinary application ofsmartphone technology can transform applied psychology or at least increase the methodological rigor.
Scleritoderma SOLLAS 1888
Creators: name: Schuster, Astrid
name: Cárdenas, Paco
name: Pisera, Andrzej
name: Pomponi, Shirley A.
name: Kelly, Michelle
name: Wörheide, Gert
name: Erpenbeck, Dirk
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Porifera
Demospongiae
Tetractinellida
Scleritodermidae
Scleritoderma

description: GENUS SCLERITODERMA SOLLAS, 1888
Emended diagnosis: Scleritodermidae with ectosomal acanthostrongyles or acanthorhabds, occasionally with ectosomal tylostyles, and sigmaspires as microscleres (modified after Pisera & Lévi, 2002c).
Remarks: Our new species has all the characters of typical Scleritoderma, for example, rhizoclone desmas, sigmaspire microscleres occurring in the choanosome; however, this is the first time tylostyles have been observed. Careful analysis demonstrated, that these are clearly not a contamination (see remarks below). The occurrence of tylostyles resulted in the emended diagnosis.
description: Published as part of Schuster, Astrid, Cárdenas, Paco, Pisera, Andrzej, Pomponi, Shirley A., Kelly, Michelle, Wörheide, Gert & Erpenbeck, Dirk, 2018, Seven new deep-water Tetractinellida (Porifera: Demospongiae) from the Galápagos Islands - morphological descriptions and DNA barcodes, pp. 273-303 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 184 on page 297
Novel Bedding Material Results in Poor Pregnancy Rate with CD-1 Female Mice Used as Fosters for Producing Transgenic Mice
Creators: name: Helppi, Jussi
name: Naumann, Ronald
name: Asikainen, Marianne
name: Mononen, Jaakko
name: Zierau, Oliver
Publisher: name: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences
Year: 2017

description: The impact of a novel bedding material (cotton cloth) on the reproductive performance (pregnancy rate and production of off spring) was studied in foster females used for producing transgenic mice. Embryos injected with DNA were transferred to pseudo-pregnant foster females housed under standard conditions (aspen bedding and nesting material). Aft er embryo transfer, mice were divided between the experimental group (AGREBE cotton cloth) and control group (aspen bedding and nesting material). Pregnant mice were observed at day 15 after the transfer and the number of off spring was recorded on post-natal days 3 and 21. Altogether 116 foster mice were used as embryo recipients. Significantly more pregnancies were observed in the control group versus the experimental group: 43% and 19% of foster mice, respectively. Informal interviews with animal caretakers revealed a general dislike towards the cotton cloth (dirtier cages, mice often found on the plastic cage surface, difficult husbandry routines). The cotton cloth showed major signs of wear and tear after only a few weeks of usage. In conclusion, this study with female mice demonstrated that a cotton cloth cannot be recommended as a sole replacement for bedding and nesting material.
description: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences, Vol. 43 (2017)
Additional file 1 of Pathogen burden and leukocyte telomere length in the United States
Creators: name: Noppert, Grace A.
name: Feinstein, Lydia
name: Dowd, Jennifer B.
name: Stebbins, Rebecca C.
name: Zang, Emma
name: Needham, Belinda L.
name: Meier, Helen C. S.
name: Simanek, Amanda
name: Aiello, Allison E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1.
Dynamical charging of interstellar dust particles in the heliosphere
Creators: name: Godenko, E. A.
name: Izmodenov, V. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Interstellar dust (ISD) particles penetrate the solar system due to the relative motion of the Sun and the local interstellar cloud. Before entering the heliosphere, they pass through the heliospheric interface - the region of the solar wind interaction with the interstellar plasma. The size distribution and number density of dust grains are modified in the interface essentially. The modification depends on the charging of the dust particles along their trajectories. In this paper, we present modeling results of the charging of ISD particles passing through the heliospheric interface. The main physical processes responsible for the charging within the heliospheric conditions are the sticking of primary plasma particles, secondary electron emission, photoemission, and the effects of cosmic ray electrons. We consider two methods to calculate the electric charge of ISD particles based on (1) the classic steady-state assumption that the charge depends only on local plasma and radiation conditions and (2) the dynamical computation of charge along the particle trajectory. We demonstrate that the steady-state assumption is quite justified to model trajectories and number density distributions of relatively big ISD grains (radius of 100 nm and larger) penetrating the heliosphere. The estimates show that ISD grains of these sizes require less than 0.25 years (distance of ~ 1 au) after transition from the LISM into the heliosphere to reach an equilibrium. For small particles (radius of 10 nm), the dynamical computation of charge influences the trajectories and modifies the number density substantially. The dust density accumulations are distributed within a more elongated region along the heliopause in case of dynamically changed charge as compared with the use of a steady-state charge approximation.
description: 17 pages, 12 figures
Inspecting Job Hiring Discrimination Against Men Entering Female-Dominated Occupations
Creators: name: Weaver, Cole
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: discrimination

description: This thesis uses an audit study field experiment to examine potential hiring discrimination against male job candidates entering traditionally female-dominated fields. The experiment revealed evidence of discrimination against male candidates in some female-dominated fields, but for male candidates in others. Notably, the descriptive findings suggest that occupations emphasizing manual labor may exhibit a preference for male candidates. However, it is important to note that these descriptive findings are purely observational in nature and require further analysis to establish causal relationships. Furthermore, the study contributes to the literature by shedding light on the nuanced heterogeneity within specific occupations regarding responses to male candidates. While the research does not delve into the underlying causes or mechanisms driving such discrimination, it emphasizes the presence of bias in hiring practices. These findings underscore the need for further investigation into the complex dynamics influencing gender-based employment disparities in traditionally female-dominated sectors.
Dark matter halo assembly bias: environmental dependence in the non-Markovian excursion set theory
Creators: name: Zhang, Jun
name: Ma, Chung-Pei
name: Riotto, Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the standard excursion set model for the growth of structure, the statistical properties of halos are governed by the halo mass and are independent of the larger scale environment in which the halos reside. Numerical simulations, however, have found the spatial distributions of halos to depend not only on their mass but also on the details of their assembly history and environment. Here we present a theoretical framework for incorporating this "assembly bias" into the excursion set model. Our derivations are based on modifications of the path integral approach of Maggiore & Riotto (2010) that models halo formation as a non-Markovian random walk process. The perturbed density field is assumed to evolve stochastically with the smoothing scale and exhibits correlated walks in the presence of a density barrier. We write down conditional probabilities for multiple barrier crossings, and derive from them analytic expressions for descendant and progenitor halo mass functions and halo merger rates as a function of both halo mass and the linear overdensity of the larger-scale environment of the halo. Our results predict a higher halo merger rate and higher progenitor halo mass function in regions of higher overdensity, consistent with the behavior seen in N-body simulations.
description: 13 pages, 1 figure, ApJ in press
Additional file 1 of Food labour, consumption hierarchies, and diet decision-making in Sri Lankan households: a qualitative study
Creators: name: Renzella, J.
name: S. Fernando
name: B. Kalupahana
name: P. Scarborough
name: M. Rayner
name: N. Townsend
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1.
5GZORRO_D6.1 Dissemination, Communication and Standardization Plan
Creators: name: Pedro Diogo, Marta Lima
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: This deliverable contains the initial dissemination plan that will be used as guideline during the project to achieve impact in terms of dissemination, communication and standardization. The document also contains a report of the first actions that have been undertaken in the first months of the project to generate awareness, and those planned for implementation in short term, i.e. during the first year of the project. All the activities listed in this document have been discussed with all partners of the Consortium, who have contributed at different levels to: (i) identification of scientific and industrial events, (ii) selection of the most appropriate standardisation bodies and open-source communities and projects to which the Consortium can contribute, (iii) individual dissemination plans.
description: EC approval: 30/08/2021
The Bidual of a Radical Operator algebra can be Semisimple
Creators: name: Read, Charles John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46H05, 47L50

description: The paper of S. Gulick [Sidney (Denny) L. Gulick, Commutativity and ideals in the biduals of topological algebras, Pacific J. Math 18 No. 1, 1966] contains some good mathematics, but it also contains an error. It claims that for a Banach algebra A, the intersection of the Jacobson radical of A** with A is precisely the radical of A (this is claimed for either of the Arens products on A** - in itself a reasonable claim, because A is always contained in the topological centre of A**, so a fixed a in A lies in the radical of A** with the first Arens product, if and only if it lies in the radical of A** when that Banach space is given the second Arens product, if and only if ab is quasinilpotent for every b in A**). In this paper we begin with a simple counterexample to that claim, in which A is a radical operator algebra, but not every element of A lies in the radical of A**. We then develope a more complicated example A which, once again, is a radical operator algebra, but A** is semisimple. So rad A** $\cap$ A is zero, but rad A=A. We conclude by examining the uses Gulick's paper has been put to since 1966 (at least 8 subsequent papers refer to it), and we find that most authors have used the correct material from that paper, and avoided using the wrong result. We reckon, then, that we are not the first to suspect that the result rad A** $\cap$ A=rad A was wrong; but we believe we are the first to provide "neat" counterexamples as described.
description: This paper has been submitted to the Pacific Journal of Mathematics
Determination of Body Surface Area in Japanese White Rabbits
Creators: name: Bai, L
name: Huang, B
name: Chen, Y
name: Fan, J
name: Liu, E
Publisher: name: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences
Year: 2017

description: Accurate calculation of body surface area (BSA) is essential for many biomedical applications and conversion of drug doses among various species. In this study, forty Japanese white rabbits with a body weight of 2.5-3.0 kg were used to determine a precise formula and practical method for BSA calculation. Rabbit BSA was measured two ways: by coating with a kraft paper or by skin stripping, followed by calculation of the surface area planometrically. We compared the BSA data from these two methods and found there was no difference. The BSA data were subsequently entered into the Meeh
description: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences, Vol. 43 (2017)
A Comparative study Between Fuzzy Clustering Algorithm and Hard Clustering Algorithm
Creators: name: Bora, Dibya Jyoti
name: Gupta, Dr. Anil Kumar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Data clustering is an important area of data mining. This is an unsupervised study where data of similar types are put into one cluster while data of another types are put into different cluster. Fuzzy C means is a very important clustering technique based on fuzzy logic. Also we have some hard clustering techniques available like K-means among the popular ones. In this paper a comparative study is done between Fuzzy clustering algorithm and hard clustering algorithm
description: Data Clustering,6 pages,6 figures,Published with International Journal of Computer Trends and Technology (IJCTT)
Additional file 1 of Prenatal prediction of neonatal haemodynamic adaptation after maternal hyperoxygenation
Creators: name: McHugh, Ann
name: Breatnach, Colm
name: Neidin Bussmann
name: Franklin, Orla
name: El-Khuffash, Afif
name: Breathnach, Fionnuala M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table S1. Intraobserver and Interobserver Repeatability of Pulmonary Artery Doppler Measurements
A modified technique for thymectomy in adult mouse with no ventilation support
Creators: name: Zhao, Chenchen
name: Zeng, Hui
name: Yu, Zhengya
Publisher: name: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences
Year: 2017

description: Thymectomy in adult mice, a method to eliminate newly produced na
description: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences, Vol. 43 (2017)
Unique optical characteristics of a Fabry-Perot resonator with embedded PT-symmetrical grating
Creators: name: Kulishov, Mykola
name: Kress, Bernand
name: Jones, H. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the optical properties of a Fabry-Perot resonator with an embedded Parity-Time (PT) symmetrical grating. This PT-symmetrical grating is non diffractive (transparent) when illuminated from one side and diffracting (Bragg reflection) when illuminated from the other side, thus providing a unidirectional reflective functionality. The incorporated PT-symmetrical grating forms a resonator with two embedded cavities. We analyze the transmission and reflection properties of these new structures through a transfer matrix approach. Depending on the resonator geometry these cavities can interact with different degrees of coherency: fully constructive interaction, partially constructive interaction, partially destructive interaction, and finally their interaction can be completely destructive. A number of very unusual (exotic) nonsymmetrical absorption and amplification behaviors are observed. The proposed structure also exhibits unusual lasing performance. Due to the PT-symmetrical grating, there is no chance of mode hopping; it can lase with only a single longitudinal mode for any distance between the distributed reflectors.
description: 16 pages, 8 figures
5GZORRO_D6.2 Intermediate Dissemination and Communication Report
Creators: name: Pedro Diogo, Marta Lima
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: This Deliverable D6.2 contains the report of dissemination, communication, and standardization activities covering the first eighteen months of the 5GZORRO project (from Nov 2019 to Apr 2021). The document provides evidence on the achieved impact along different core activity streams, namely: production of contributions for scientific conferences and journals; participations to events (most of which in virtual mode due to pandemic); communication through the website, the social channels and various other means like blogposts, newsletters and press releases; contributions to standards and to open-source communities.
description: EC approval: 26/07/2021
Evaluating the effectiveness of moxidectin treatment in mite-infested mice and development of an in-house PCR assay for detecting Myobia musculi DNA.
Creators: name: Portis, M
name: Floyd, AD
name: Perez, CJ
name: Huskey, PS
name: Weiss, DA
name: Coghlan, LG
name: Benavides, F
Publisher: name: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences
Year: 2016

description: Detection and eradication of fur mite infestations in mouse colonies can present a challenge to a laboratory animal facility.
description: Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences, Vol. 42 (2016)