cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Corporate Responsibility in the Food Chain: The Criteria and Indicators
Creators: name: Heikkurinen, Pasi
name: Jalkanen, Lotta
name: Jarvela, Katja
name: Jarvinen, Maija
name: Katajajuuri, Juha-Matti
name: Koistinen, Laura
name: Kotro, Jaana
name: Makela, Johanna
name: Pesonen, Hanna-Leena
name: Riipi, Inkeri
name: Ulvila, Kukka-Maaria
name: Forsman-Hugg, Sari
name: Heikkurinen, Pasi
name: Jalkanen, Lotta
name: Jarvela, Katja
name: Jarvinen, Maija
name: Katajajuuri, Juha-Matti
name: Koistinen, Laura
name: Kotro, Jaana
name: Makela, Johanna
name: Pesonen, Hanna-Leena
name: Riipi, Inkeri
name: Ulvila, Kukka-Maaria
name: Forsman-Hugg, Sari
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Corporate responsibility
subject: food chain
subject: social
subject: environmental
subject: economic
subject: criteria
subject: indicators
subject: measuring
subject: definition

description: Corporate responsibility (CR) is becoming a key issue in the food chain. In order to make sense of this phenomenon, a seminal aper by Maloni and Brown (2006) called for further empirical investigation on the criteria of responsibility in the food supply chain. The purpose of this paper is to answer the call by identifying the criteria for defining CR and develop indicators for measuring the responsibility performance of the food chain. The study was based on interactive and participatory stakeholder dialogues with diverse experts, corporate representatives and other stakeholders, including non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and governmental bodies. Through an iterative research process we identified the criteria and developed the indicators. Our findings enable business leaders to evaluate and manage their operations towards more responsible business praxis
On analyticity of static vacuum metrics at non-degenerate horizons
Creators: name: Chrusciel, Piotr T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that static metrics solving vacuum Einstein equations (possibly with a cosmological constant) are one-sided analytic at non-degenerate Killing horizons. We further prove analyticity in a two-sided neighborhood of "bifurcate horizons". It is a pleasure to dedicate this work to Prof. Staruszkiewicz, on the occasion of his 65th birthday.
description: latex2e, 9 pages in A4, minor wording improvements
Additional file 2 of Chloroplast genomic insights into adaptive evolution and rapid radiation in the genus Passiflora (Passifloraceae)
Creators: name: Cauz-Santos, Luiz Augusto
name: da Costa, Zirlane Portugal
name: Sader, Mariela Analía
name: van den Berg, Cássio
name: Vieira, Maria Lucia Carneiro
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology

description: Supplementary Material 2.
The performance of Plusoptix A09 in detection of Refractive Amblyopia Risk Factors
Creators: name: Lemos, José Alberto
name: Gonçalves, Rita
name: Ribeiro, Isabel
name: Mota, Ágata
name: Mateus, Catarina
name: Vieira, Bruna
name: Tenedório, Paula
Publisher: name: Revista Sociedade Portuguesa de Oftalmologia
Year: 2016

description: Purpose: To assess the accuracy of the Plusoptix A09 noncycloplegic photorefraction for detection of refractive amblyopia risk factors (RARFs) in children and determine cutoff points. Methods: This study included 402 children observed in Pediatric Ophthalmology Clinic between June and December 2014. All children underwent initially photorefraction using Plusoptix A09 followed by cycloplegic retinoscopy (obtained during a complete ophthalmologic examination). Patients were considered to have RARFs based on American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus 2013 guidelines. Considering cycloplegic retinoscopy as the gold standard, accuracy parameters of noncycloplegic photorefraction were calculated for detection of RARFs. Results: RARFs were found in 148 (36.8%) and 151 (37.6%) cases by cycloplegic retinoscopy and photorefraction, respectively. Plusoptix showed an overall 85.1% sensitivity for 90% specificity, 83.4% positive predictive value and 91.2% negative predictive value for detection of RARFs. Plusoptix had good specificity for detection of all specific types of RARFs (between 93.0 and 98.1%), and good sensitivity for detection of myopia (96.6%) and astigmatism (91.0%), however its sensitivity for detecting hyperopia RARFs was only 48.9%. Using a cutoff point of +1,5D for hyperopia instead of +3.5D (in children > 48 months), sensitivity can be improved to 88.6% in this group. Conclusions: The Plusoptix A09 is a useful, portable and accurate tool for the detection of RARFs in pediatric populations. However, in hyperopic RARFs an alternative cutoff value should be used.
description: Revista Sociedade Portuguesa de Oftalmologia, Vol. 40 N.º 2 (2016)
Fluctuations of Lyapunov Exponents in homogeneous and isotropic turbulence
Creators: name: Ho, Richard
name: Armua, Andres
name: Berera, Arjun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the context of the analysis of the chaotic properties of homogeneous and isotropic turbulence, direct numerical simulations are used to study the fluctuations of the finite time Lyapunov exponent (FTLE) and its relation to Reynolds number, lattice size and the choice of the steptime used to compute the Lyapunov exponents. The results show that using the FTLE method produces Lyapunov exponents that are remarkably stable under the variation of the steptime and lattice size. Furthermore, it reaches such stability faster than other characteristic quantities such as energy and dissipation rate. These results remain even if the steptime is made arbitrarily small. A discrepancy is also resolved between previous measurements of the dependence on the Reynolds number of the Lyapunov exponent. The signal produced by different variables in the steady state is analyzed and the self decorrelation time is used to determine the run time needed in the simulations to obtain proper statistics for each variable. Finally, a brief analysis on MHD flows is also presented, which shows that the Lyapunov exponent is still a robust measure in the simulations, although the Lyapunov exponent scaling with Reynolds number is significantly different from that of magnetically neutral hydrodynamic fluids.
description: 22 pages, 22 figures
Chocolate Brands’ Communication of Corporate Social Responsibility in Germany
Creators: name: Langen, Nina
name: Hartmann, Monika
name: Langen, Nina
name: Hartmann, Monika
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: CSR
subject: communication
subject: consumers
subject: chocolate
subject: web analysis

description: Signalling CSR activities by firms have gained considerable relevance over the last decade with enterprises having a large variety of instruments to design their CSR communication. Different communication means can complement one another as the information distributed refers to different elements of the overall CSR concept. Some information provided by firms relates more to a single (selected) product(s) of the firm (e.g. product labels) while other presents the firm’s overall involvement regarding CSR (e.g. websites, CSR reports). Among the many potential communication channels that allow disseminating information about a (food) company’s CSR involvement to consumers (certified) labels on product packages are the ones most easily visible and accessible for consumers while information on websites addresses, in addition, and in many cases primarily, other key stakeholders such as employees and NGOs. Chocolate is one of the most favoured luxury foods in Germany. Cacao, the main ingredient of chocolate is largely produced in the Ivory Coast. There, child labour, non-sustainable producer wages etc. are serious deficits in the field of cacao production. Chocolate manufacturers are seen to have responsibility for these issues as their business practices influence producers’ livelihood. Given this background, the form and extent of CSR communication of chocolate brands is addressed in this paper. CSR related communication was investigated by two means. In December 2011 a market study was conducted regarding CSR related information on chocolate products in several food stores and content analyses of the websites of chocolate manufacturers were carried out. Results indicate that all retail stores but Aldi offer some chocolate bars with CSR related information. The relevance of chocolate bars with CSR labels in the overall chocolate assortment, however, considerably differs between the stores under investigation. The findings also reveal that most companies in the chocolate sector do communicate their CSR involvement in the internet, often to a considerable extent, though in many cases only in foreign languages such as English.
Pseudoscalar Mesons in Nuclear Medium
Creators: name: Tatsumi, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The behavior of pseudoscalar mesons in nuclear medium is reviewed with an emphasis on the possibility of their Bose-Einstein condensation in dense matter. In particular pion condensation is reexamined in detail, stimulated by recent theoretical and observational developments.
description: Invited talk at the Workshop "MEDIUM02", Kyushu, Oct.25 - 26, 2002
Additional file 1 of Evaluation of the efficiency of genomic versus pedigree predictions for growth and wood quality traits in Scots pine
Creators: name: Calleja-Rodriguez, Ainhoa
name: Pan, Jin
name: Funda, Tomas
name: Chen, Zhiqiang
name: Baison, John
name: Isik, Fikret
name: Abrahamsson, Sara
name: Wu, Harry X.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1 Supplementary information. The additional file contains detailed information about the initially performed spatial analysis and the Table S1 (prediction efficiencies for different tree species).
MOESM1 of Process of implementing and delivering the Prevention of Delirium system of care: a mixed method preliminary study
Creators: name: Godfrey, Mary
name: Green, John
name: Smith, Jane
name: Cheater, Francine
name: Inouye, Sharon
name: Hurst, Keith
name: Young, John
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
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: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Staff Workload.
Paths to Stability in Two-sided Matching with Uncertainty
Creators: name: Lazarova, Emiliya A.
name: Dimitrov, Dinko
name: Lazarova, Emiliya A.
name: Dimitrov, Dinko
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Consistent Outcomes
subject: One-to-One Uncertainty
subject: Many-to-One Uncertainty
subject: Paths to Stability
subject: Two-Sided Matching

description: We consider one-to-one matching problems under two modalities of uncertainty that differ in the way types are assigned to agents. Individuals have preferences over the possible types of the agents from the opposite market side and initially know the “name” but not the ”type” of the other players. Learning occurs via matching and using Bayes’ rule. We introduce the notion of a stable and consistent outcome, and show how the interaction between blocking and learning behavior shapes the existence of paths to stability in each of the uncertainty environments. Existence of stable and consistent outcomes then follows as a side result.
Avaliação multimodal de drusen do disco ótico
Creators: name: Couceiro, Rita
name: Barata, André
name: Pinto Ferreira, Nuno
name: Campos, Fátima
name: Pinto, Filomena
Publisher: name: Revista Sociedade Portuguesa de Oftalmologia
Year: 2016

description: Objetivos: O objetivo deste trabalho foi estudar a estrutura, limites e localização dos drusen do disco ótico (DDO) e a sua relação com a estrutura do disco ótico, recorrendo a uma avaliação multimodal. Material e Métodos: 22 olhos de 12 doentes com DDO confirmados por ecografia oftálmica foram submetidos a avaliação do disco ótico com tomografia de coerência ótica de domínio espectral (SD-OCT) em modo enhanced depth imaging (EDI-OCT) e autofluorescência do fundo (AFF). A análise estatística foi realizada com o software STATA v. 13.0. Resultados: O EDI-OCT mostrou DDO de diversos tamanhos (média de altura: 446,9 ± 116,5 μm). DDO de diferentes alturas (≥500 μm/<500 μm) apresentavam localizações distintas relativamente à membrana de Bruch (p
description: Revista Sociedade Portuguesa de Oftalmologia, Vol. 40 N.º 2 (2016)
Additional file 1 of miR-200c inhibition and catalase accelerate diabetic wound healing
Creators: name: D’Agostino, Marco
name: Sileno, Sara
name: Lulli, Daniela
name: De Luca, Naomi
name: Scarponi, Claudia
name: Teson, Massimo
name: Torcinaro, Alessio
name: De Santa, Francesca
name: Cirielli, Corrado
name: Furgiuele, Sergio
name: Morrell, Chris H.
name: Dellambra, Elena
name: Odorisio, Teresa
name: Lakatta, Edward G.
name: Avitabile, Daniele
name: Capogrossi, M. C.
name: Magenta, Alessandra
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 1
QARAQALPAQ HÁM TÚRK TILINDEGI KELBETLIK JASAWSHÍ QOSÍMTALARDÍŃ VARIANTLÍLÍǴÍ
Creators: name: Orazbaeva, Nazenayím
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Kelbetlik- ózine tán leksika-semantikalıq hám gramatikalıq ózgesheliklerge iye sóz shaqabı. Túrk hám qaraqalpaq tilinde dórendi kelbetlikler, tiykarınan atlıq, almasıq hám feyillerge sóz jasaytuǵın qosımtalar qosıw jolı menen jasaladı. Túrk tilinde házirgi qaraqalpaq tiline salıstırǵanda kelbetlik sóz shaqabın jasawshı qosımtalardıń variantları kóbirek ushırasadı.
The convergence of the Generalized Lanczos Trust-Region Method for the Trust-Region Subproblem
Creators: name: Jia, Zhongxiao
name: Wang, Fa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 90C20, 90C30, 65K05, 65F10

description: Solving the trust-region subproblem (TRS) plays a key role in numerical optimization and many other applications. The generalized Lanczos trust-region (GLTR) method is a well-known Lanczos type approach for solving a large-scale TRS. The method projects the original large-scale TRS onto a $k$ dimensional Krylov subspace, whose orthonormal basis is generated by the symmetric Lanczos process, and computes an approximate solution from the underlying subspace. There have been some a-priori error bounds for the optimal solution and the optimal objective value in the literature, but no a-priori result exists on the convergence of Lagrangian multipliers involved in projected TRS's and the residual norm of approximate solution. In this paper, a general convergence theory of the GLTR method is established, and a-priori bounds are derived for the errors of the optimal Lagrangian multiplier, the optimal solution, the optimal objective value and the residual norm of approximate solution. Numerical experiments demonstrate that our bounds are realistic and predict the convergence rates of the three errors and residual norms accurately.
description: 28 pages, 5 figures
MOESM1 of Purification and characterization of fat body lipase from the greater wax moth, Galleria mellonella (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)
Creators: name: Rahma Mahdy
name: Moâ€™Men, Shaimaa
name: Marah Abd El-Bar
name: Barakat, Emad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 1. Screenshots of the abbreviation of the chemicals; supplementary materials for Figs. 7 and 8.
title: Effective theories for incompressible magnetoelastic shallow shells
Creators: name: Unterberger, Tobias
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Magnetoelasticity
subject: shallow shells
subject: Gamma-convergence
subject: Dimension reduction

description: This thesis is dedicated to rigorously deriving a reduced two-dimensional model for incompressible magnetoelastic shallow shells. To be precise, we characterize the asymptotic behaviour, in the sense of Gamma-convergence, of a thin magnetoelastic shallow shell as the thickness of the shell goes to zero. This is achieved by following the customary approach for Gamma-convergence. We first show compactness of states with equibounded energies, identify a uniform lower bound for the energies and finally prove the existence of a recovery sequence, thus showing the optimality of the lower bound.The energy of the magnetoelastic shallow shell is the sum of elastic energy, exchange energy and magnetostatic energy and depends on the elastic deformation and magnetization of the material. The elastic energy is defined on the original configuration of the material, whereas the exchange energy and magnetostatic energy are defined on the deformed configuration. As such, the problem presents a mixed Euler-Lagrangian variational structure, and calls for novel techniques. The compactness is achieved up to rigid motions. For deformations, it relies on an approximation by rigid movements, whereasfor magnetizations it is based on a careful consideration of the geometry of the deformed domain. The proof of the lower bound is performed seperately for elastic and exchange energy using the established compactness. Convergence of the magnetostatic energy is shown using an existence result for minimizers and establishing a suitable compactness.Then, the existence of a smooth recovery sequence is constructively shown and combined with a density argument. The result is obtained by a combination of variational methods(Gamma-convergence) with degree theory, fixed-point and geometrical arguments.The proof strategy relies on an adaptation of an analogous result for incompressible magnetoelastic plates from M. Bresciani [1] and an application of some results by I.Velcic on elastic shallow shells [2].
Variation of metal-insulator transition and formation of bipolarons by the Cd-doping in the thiospinel system of Cu$_{1-x}$Cd$_{x}$Ir$_{2}$S$_{4}$
Creators: name: Cao, Guanghan
name: Kitazawa, Hideaki
name: Matsumoto, Takehiko
name: Feng, Chunmu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The pseudo-binary thiospinel system Cu$_{1-x}$Cd$_{x}$Ir$_{2}$S$_{4}$ was investigated by the x-ray diffraction, electrical resistivity, magnetic susceptibility and specific heat measurements. It was shown that the system exhibits a miscibility-gap behavior for the Cd substitution, however, nearly monophasic samples was obtained by quenching at 1373 K, except for $0.4< x \leqslant 0.6$. With increasing the Cd concentration, the room-temperature electrical conductivity and Pauli susceptibility decrease monotonically, consistent with the hole-filling picture. The first-order metal-insulator transition at about 230 K in the parent compound CuIr$_{2}$S$_{4}$ is changed into a second-order transition around 185 K when $x\sim$ 0.25, whereafter the second-order transition disappears at $x\sim 0.8$. No superconductivity was observed down to 1.8 K. The end-member compound CdIr$_{2}$S$_{4}$ is shown as an insulator with a band-gap of 0.3 eV. Analysis for the data of magnetic susceptibility and electrical resistivity suggests the formation of bipolarons below 185 K for $0.25
description: 7 pages, 9 figures
Additional file 2 of miR-200c inhibition and catalase accelerate diabetic wound healing
Creators: name: D’Agostino, Marco
name: Sileno, Sara
name: Lulli, Daniela
name: De Luca, Naomi
name: Scarponi, Claudia
name: Teson, Massimo
name: Torcinaro, Alessio
name: De Santa, Francesca
name: Cirielli, Corrado
name: Furgiuele, Sergio
name: Morrell, Chris H.
name: Dellambra, Elena
name: Odorisio, Teresa
name: Lakatta, Edward G.
name: Avitabile, Daniele
name: Capogrossi, M. C.
name: Magenta, Alessandra
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 2
An uncatalogued optical HII region at the outskirts of the Galaxy
Creators: name: Temporin, S.
name: Weinberger, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present NOT optical observations of a clump (l = 127.9435 deg, b = +1.8298 deg), embedded in an extended, irregularly shaped, diffuse optical nebula. This condensation shows an emission-line spectrum typical of classic HII regions. Although its location on the sky coincides with a nearby extended photoionized region recently identified by Cichowolski et al. (2003) in radio data from the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey (CGPS), the systemic velocity of this ~ 1 arcmin-sized HII region, V_LSR = -71$\pm$12 km/s, poses it far out in the Galaxy, beyond the Perseus arm. The location of this region in the Galaxy is supported by HI structures visible at comparable radial velocity on CGPS data. We argue that this HII region might belong to an outer Galactic arm. The emission line ratios of the surrounding extended nebula, whose radial velocity is consistent with that of the small HII region, are typical of photoionized gas in the low density limit. Smaller clumps of comparable surface brightness are visible within the optical boundaries of the extended, faint nebula. After comparison of the optical data with far infrared and radio observations, we conclude that this nebula is an HII region, ~ 70 pc in size, probably photoionized by an association of OB stars and surrounded by a ring of neutral hydrogen.
description: 8 pages, 9 figures (some of which degraded due to size constraints), accepted on 2004/02/12 for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Chasing candidate Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients in the 1,000 orbits INTEGRAL/IBIS catalog
Creators: name: Sguera, V.
name: Sidoli, L.
name: Bird, A. J.
name: Paizis, A.
name: Bazzano, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report results from an investigation at hard X-rays (above 18 keV) and soft X-rays (below 10 keV) of a sample of X-ray transients located on the Galactic plane and detected with the bursticity method, as reported in the latest 1,000 orbits INTEGRAL/IBIS catalog. Our main aim has been to individuate those with X-rays characteristics strongly resembling Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients (SFXTs). As a result, we found four unidentified fast X-ray transients which now can be considered good SFXT candidates. In particular, three transients (IGR J16374-5043, IGR J17375-3022 and IGR J12341-6143) were very poorly studied in the literature before the current work, and our findings largely improved the knowledge of their X-ray characteristics. The other transient (XTE J1829-098) was previously studied in detail only below 10 keV, conversely the current work provides the first detailed study in outburst above 18 keV. In addition we used archival infrared observations of the transients to pinpoint, among the field objects, their best candidate counterpart. We found that their photometric properties are compatible with an early type spectral classification, further supporting our proposed nature of SFXTs. Infrared spectroscopy is advised to confirm or disprove our interpretation. The reported findings allowed a significant increase of the sample of candidate SFXTs known to date, effectively doubling their number.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. 12 pages, 10 figures, 4 tables
A schematic model for QCD I: Low energy meson states
Creators: name: Lerma, S.
name: Jesgarz, S.
name: Hess, P. O.
name: Civitarese, O.
name: Reboiro, M.
name: .
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A simple model for QCD is presented, which is able to reproduce the meson spectrum at low energy. The model is a Lipkin type model for quarks coupled to gluons. The basic building blocks are pairs of quark-antiquarks coupled to a definite flavor and spin. These pairs are coupled to pairs of gluons with spin zero. The multiplicity problem, which dictates that a given experimental state can be described in various manners, is removed when a particle-mixing interaction is turned on. In this first paper of a series we concentrates on the discussion of meson states at low energy, the so-called zero temperature limit of the theory. The treatment of baryonic states is indicated, also.
description: 29 pages, 6 figures. submitted to Phys. Rev. C
Estado Refrativo em Crianças com Retinopatia da Prematuridade Tratada com Laser e/ou Bevacizumab
Creators: name: Ramalho, Mario
Publisher: name: Revista Sociedade Portuguesa de Oftalmologia
Year: 2016

description: Objetivo: Relatar o estado refrativo em prematuros que desenvolveram retinopatia da prematuridade em estadio 3+ e que foram tratados na nossa instituição. Material e Métodos: Estudo retrospetivo com 24 prematuros em que o tratamento foi de monoterapia LASER, monoterapia Bevacizumab ou combinação de LASER + Bevacizumab. Em nove prematuros o tratamento num olho foi com monoterapia LASER e no outro olho foi com monoterapia Bevacizumab. Obteve-se a refração por esquiascopia após cicloplegia. Resultados: Nos olhos tratados com monoterapia LASER (n=11) o equivalente esférico foi de - 4.55 D ± 5.68, nos olhos tratados com monoterapia Bevacizumab (n=24) o equivalente esférico foi de +0.92 D ± 1.86, nos olhos tratados com combinação de LASER e Bevacizumab (n=10) o equivalente esférico foi de -7.70 D ± 3.16. A diferença média do equivalente esférico entre a monoterapia LASER e a monoterapia Bevacizumab foi de 5.46 D (p < 0.01). A diferença média do equivalente esférico entre a combinação de LASER e Bevacizumab e a monoterapia Bevacizumab foi de 8.62 D (p < 0.01). Nos 9 prematuros com monoterapia LASER num olho e monoterapia Bevacizumab no outro olho, verificou-se que no olho que fez tratamento com LASER o equivalente esférico foi de -3.89 D ± 5.71 e no olho que fez tratamento com Bevacizumab o equivalente esférico foi de +0.39 D ± 2.42, diferença média de 4.28 D (p=0.55). Conclusões: Nos olhos que receberam tratamento com LASER verificou-se maior prevalência de miopia e alta miopia do que nos olhos tratados com Bevacizumab.
description: Revista Sociedade Portuguesa de Oftalmologia, Vol. 40 N.º 2 (2016)
title: Estimating the effect of mid-frequency active sonar on the population health of Blainville's beaked whales (Mesoplodon densirostris) in the Tongue of the Ocean
Creators: name: Moretti, David
Publisher: name: University of St Andrews
Year: 2019

description: Passive acoustic methods were used to study the effect of mid-frequency active sonar (MFAS) on a population of Blainville’s beaked whales (Mesoplodon densirostris, Md) at the U.S. Navy Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Centre (AUTEC), Bahamas. AUTEC contains an array of bottom-mounted hydrophones that can detect Md echolocation clicks. Methods to estimate abundance, the risk of behavioural disruption, and the population level effect of repeated MFAS exposure are presented. A passive acoustic abundance estimation method, a parametric equation that predicts the probability of foraging dive disruption as a function of MFAS received level and an Md bioenergetics model were developed. The effect of changes in energy flow on the demographic characteristics of an Md population were explored. Passive acoustic data from AUTEC were used to estimate the behavioural disturbance resulting from sonar operations; combined with the bioenergetic model, this suggested that the effect of sonar operations could cause an increase in a female’s age at maturity, a longer inter-calf-interval, calf survival rate and probability of giving birth that could in turn result in a declining population. Model results were also compared to those from an expert elicitation study. A power analysis for predicting abundance via passive acoustic and visual monitoring were used to inform recommendations for a long-term monitoring plan that includes passive acoustic monitoring of Md abundance combined with a photo-identification study at both AUTEC and a reference site (Abaco) to improve demographic rate estimates.
Additional file 1 of HIF1α controls steroidogenesis under acute hypoxic stress
Creators: name: Ariyeloye, Stephen
name: Watts, Deepika
name: Jaykar, Mangesh T.
name: Ermis, Cagdas
name: Krüger, Anja
name: Kaden, Denise
name: Stepien, Barbara K.
name: Alexaki, Vasileia Ismini
name: Peitzsch, Mirko
name: Bechmann, Nicole
name: Mirtschink, Peter
name: El-Armouche, Ali
name: Wielockx, Ben
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Supplementary Material 1
Evaluation of the environmental impact of magnetic nanostructured materials at different trophic levels
Creators: name: Valerio-García, Roberto Carlos
name: Medina-Ramírez, Iliana E.
name: Arzate-Cardenas, Mario A.
name: Carbajal-Hernández, Ana Laura
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: Safety on the use of magnetic nanomaterials (MNMs) has become an active topic of research given all the recent applications of these materials in various fields. It is known that the toxicity of MNMs depends on size, shape, and surface functionalization. In this study, we evaluate the biocompatibility with different aquatic organisms of engineered MNMs-CIT with excellent aqueous dispersion and long-term colloidal stability. Primary producers (the alga Pseudokirchneriella subcapitata), primary consumers (the rotifer Lecane papuana), and predators (the fish, Danio rerio) interacted with these materials in acute and sub-chronic toxicity tests. Our results indicate that P. subcaptita was the most sensitive taxon to MNMs-CIT. Inhibition of their population growth (IC50 = 22.84 mg L−1) elicited cell malformations and increased the content of photosynthetic pigments, likely due to inhibition of cell division (as demonstrated in AFM analysis). For L. papuana, the acute exposure to MNMs shows no significant mortality. However, adverse effects such as decreased rate of population and altered swimming patterns arise after chronic interaction with MNMs. For D. rerio organisms on early life stages, their exposure to MNMs results in delayed hatching of eggs, diminished survival of larvae, altered energy resources allocation (measured as the content of total carbohydrates, lipids, and protein), and increased glucose demand. As to our knowledge, this is the first study that includes three different trophic levels to assess the effect of MNMs in aquatic organisms; furthermore, we demonstrated that these MNMs pose hazards on aquatic food webs at low concentrations (few mgL−1).
Direct determination of cosmic string loop density from simulations
Creators: name: Blanco-Pillado, Jose J.
name: Olum, Ken D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We determine the distribution of cosmic string loops directly from simulations, rather than determining the loop production function and inferring the loop distribution from that. For a wide range of loop lengths, the results agree well with a power law exponent -2.5 in the radiation era and -2 in the matter era, the universal result for any loop production function that does not diverge at small scales. Our results extend those of Ringeval, Sakellariadou, and Bouchet: we are able to run for 15 times longer in conformal time and simulate a volume 300-2400 times larger. At the times they reached, our simulation is in general agreement with the more negative exponents they found, -2.6 and -2.4. However, our simulations show that this was a transient regime; at later times the exponents decline to the values above. This provides further evidence against models with a rapid divergence of the loop density at small scales, such as ``model 3'' used to analyze LIGO data and predict LISA sensitivity.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures
Microwave Photoconductivity in Two-Dimensional Electron Systems due to Photon-Assisted Interaction of Electrons with Leaky Interface Phonons
Creators: name: Ryzhii, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the contribution of the photon-assisted interaction of electrons with leaky interface phonons to the dissipative dc photoconductivity of a two-dimensional electron system in a magnetic field. The calculated photoconductivity as a function of the frequency of microwave radiation and the magnetic field exhibits pronounced oscillations. The obtained oscillation structure is different from that in the case of photon-assisted interaction with impurities. We demonstrate that at a sufficiently strong microwave radiation in the certain ranges of its frequency (or in certain ranges of the magnetic field) this mechanism can result in the absolute negative conductivity.
description: 3 pages, 1 figure
Beginning Farmers and Ranchers At A Glance 2013 Edition
Creators: name: Ahearn, Mary Clare
name: Ahearn, Mary Clare
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Farm Management
subject: Beginning farmers
subject: beginning ranchers
subject: Agricultural Resource Management Survey
subject: ARMS
subject: USDA programs
subject: farmland

description: Beginning farmers and ranchers have some unique characteristics, including more education and more off-farm jobs, compared with established farmers and ranchers.
MOESM2 of Exome sequencing reveals a high prevalence of BRCA1 and BRCA2 founder variants in a diverse population-based biobank
Creators: name: Abul-Husn, Noura
name: Soper, Emily
name: Odgis, Jacqueline
name: Sinead Cullina
name: Bobo, Dean
name: Moscati, Arden
name: Rodriguez, Jessica
name: Loos, Ruth
name: Cho, Judy
name: Belbin, Gillian
name: Suckiel, Sabrina
name: Kenny, Eimear
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Banner Author Lists and Contribution Statements. The Charles Bronfman Institute of Personalized Medicine (CBIPM) Genomics Team Banner Author List and Contribution Statements. Regeneron Genetics Center Banner Author List and Contribution Statements.
Additional file 8 of Transcriptional response of Bacillus megaterium FDU301 to PEG200-mediated arid stress
Creators: name: Zhao, Lei
name: Zhou, Yanjun
name: Li, Jianbei
name: Xia, Yucheng
name: Wang, Weiyun
name: Luo, Xiuqi
name: Yin, Juan
name: Zhong, Jiang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 8: Table S5. Primers used in this study.
D3-branes on the Coulomb branch and instantons
Creators: name: Green, Michael B.
name: Stahn, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The relative coefficients of higher derivative interactions of the IIB effective action of the form C^4, (D F_5)^4, F_5^8, ... (where C is the Weyl tensor and F_5 is the five-form field strength) are motivated by supersymmetry arguments. It is shown that the classical supergravity solution for N parallel D3-branes is unaltered by this combination of terms. The non-vanishing of \zeroC^2 in this background (where \zero C is the background value of the Weyl tensor) leads to effective O(1/alpha') interactions, such as C^2 and Lambda^8 (where Lambda is the dilatino). These contain D-instanton contributions in addition to tree and one-loop terms. The near horizon limit of the N D3-brane system describes a multi-AdS_5xS^5 geometry that is dual to \calN=4 SU(N) Yang-Mills theory spontaneously broken to S(U(M_1)x...xU(M_r)). Here, the N D3-branes are grouped into r coincident bunches with M_r in each group, with M_r/N = m_r fixed as N goes to infinity. The boundary correlation function of eight Lambda's is constructed explicitly. The second part of the paper considers effects of a constrained instanton in this large-N Yang-Mills theory by an extension of the analysis of Dorey, Hollowood and Khoze of the one-instanton measure at finite N. This makes precise the correspondence with the supergravity D-instanton measure at leading order in the 1/N expansion. However, the duality between instanton-induced correlation functions in Yang-Mills theory and the dual supergravity is somewhat obscured by complications relating to the structure of constrained instantons.
description: 30 pages, JHEP style. Typos corrected and minor clarifications added
Two Applications of Deep Learning in the Physical Layer of Communication Systems
Creators: name: Björnson, Emil
name: Giselsson, Pontus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Deep learning has proved itself to be a powerful tool to develop data-driven signal processing algorithms for challenging engineering problems. By learning the key features and characteristics of the input signals, instead of requiring a human to first identify and model them, learned algorithms can beat many man-made algorithms. In particular, deep neural networks are capable of learning the complicated features in nature-made signals, such as photos and audio recordings, and use them for classification and decision making. The situation is rather different in communication systems, where the information signals are man-made, the propagation channels are relatively easy to model, and we know how to operate close to the Shannon capacity limits. Does this mean that there is no role for deep learning in the development of future communication systems?
description: Published as lecture note in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 12 pages, 4 figures
Determination of the orbital moment and crystal field splitting in LaTiO$_{3}$
Creators: name: Haverkort, M. W.
name: Hu, Z.
name: Tanaka, A.
name: Ghiringhelli, G.
name: Roth, H.
name: Cwik, M.
name: Lorenz, T.
name: Schuessler-Langeheine, C.
name: Streltsov, S. V.
name: Mylnikova, A. S.
name: Anisimov, V. I.
name: de Nadai, C.
name: Brookes, N. B.
name: Hsieh, H. H.
name: Lin, H. -J.
name: Chen, C. T.
name: Mizokawa, T.
name: Taguchi, Y.
name: Tokura, Y.
name: Khomskii, D. I.
name: Tjeng, L. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Utilizing a sum-rule in a spin-resolved photoelectron spectroscopic experiment with circularly polarized light, we show that the orbital moment in LaTiO$_3$ is strongly reduced both below and above the Néel temperature. Using Ti $L_{2,3}$ x-ray absorption spectroscopy as a local probe, we found that the crystal field splitting in the $t_{2g}$ subshell is about 0.12-0.30 eV. This large splitting does not facilitate the formation of an orbital liquid.
A schematic model for QCD II: finite temperature regime
Creators: name: Jesgarz, S.
name: Lerma, S.
name: Hess, P. O.
name: Civitarese, O.
name: Reboiro, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A schematic model for QCD, developed in a previous paper, is applied to calculate meson properties in the high temperature (up to 0.5 GeV) regime. It is a Lipkin model for quark-antiquark pairs coupled to gluon pairs of spin zero. The partition function is constructed with the obtained meson spectrum and several thermodynamical observables are calculated, like: the energy density, heat capacity, as well as relative production rates of mesons and absolute production rates for pions and kaons. The model predictions show a qualitative agreement with data. Based on these results we advocate the use of the model as a toy model for QCD.
description: LateX, 28 pages, 12 figures. submitted to Physical Review C
Chrysina tecunumani
Creators: name: Sierra, José Monzón
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Rutelidae
Chrysina
Chrysina tecunumani

description: Chrysina tecunumani (Cano and Morón, 1995)
(Figure 11, 12, 20, 28, 38)
 Female description. Length 28.8 mm; width at elytral humeri 14.0 mm; maximum width (middle of elytra) 15.0 mm. Color of dorsum shiny yellowish green; anterior and lateral margins of clypeus including ocular canthi yellow; antennal club brown, antennal segments dark brown except half of first and scape with iridescent yellowish brown; pronotal margins yellow, lateral and anterior margins reddish; scutellum yellowish green with margins reddish yellow; elytral margins reddish yellow and striae yellowish green; pygidium darker green. Color of venter mostly darker green with some yellow reflections; labium and ventral surface of mandibles greenish gold; trochanter, coxae and legs green with yellow and golden reflections, external side of tibia and apical femora pinkish brown; tarsi golden green; mesometasternal protrusion gold. Clypeus (Fig. 20) free margins semiparabolic in dorsal view, free margins slightly reflexed; surface with fine moderately sparse punctures; interocular distance 2.0 times wider than antennal club length. Mentum (Fig. 28) subquadrate; anterior depression wider and irregular; lateral depressions wide; posterior depression long and deep; surface with scattered setigerous punctures. Pronotum at base 2.2 times as wide as interocular distance; sculpture similar to frons. Lateral margin completely beaded, effaced between inner border of eyes and in front of scutellum. Elytra punctate striate; punctures in striae moderate in size; intervals convex. Elytron 19.5 long and 3.0 times as long as pronotum; lateral margin with bead complete. Pygidium completely rugose, apical margin with long sparse golden setae; surface convex and prominent towards apex. Venter with mesometasternal protrusion long, and thin, apex sharp and slightly depressed. Metasternum sides setigerously punctate; punctures small and moderately deep; setae abundant, slender, long and pale. Legs with protibia clearly tridentate, with a longitudinal row of deep, wide setigerous punctures; setae long and pale. Inferior genital plates (Fig. 38) conspicuously inverted anchor shape.
 Material examined. One female with the following data: “ GUATEMALA, El Progreso, Cerro Pinalon, Cabañas, 2568 mnm., 1 MAYO 2009, 15.084070 -89.942770, Col. Monzón y Camposeco”.
 Remarks: Chrysina tecunumani is similar to C. quiche (Morón), even the female inferior genital plates have the same strange and unique inverted anchor shape. It can be differentiated mainly by the male genitalia which in C. tecunumani has only one apical tooth while C. quiche has two.
description: Published as part of Sierra, José Monzón, 2010, Three new species of Chrysina Kirby (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae; Rutelinae) from Guatemala and Mexico, pp. 1-12 in Insecta Mundi 2010 (143) on pages 11-12, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5165122
Ambiguities in statistical calculations of nuclear fragmentation
Creators: name: Samaddar, S. K.
name: De, J. N.
name: Bonasera, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The concept of freeze out volume used in many statistical approaches for disassembly of hot nuclei leads to ambiguities. The fragmentation pattern and the momentum distribution (temperature) of the emanated fragments are determined by the phase space at the freeze-out volume where the interaction among the fragments is supposedly frozen out. However, to get coherence with the experimental momentum distribution of the charged particles, one introduces Coulomb acceleration beyond this freeze-out. To be consistent, we investigate the effect of the attractive nuclear force beyond this volume and find that the possible recombination of the fragments alters the physical observables significantly casting doubt on the consistency of the statistical model.
description: 11 pages+3 figures