cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Positive Associations of Dietary Intake and Plasma Concentrations of Vitamin E with Skeletal Muscle Mass, Heel Bone Ultrasound Attenuation and Fracture Risk in the EPIC-Norfolk Cohort
Creators: name: Mulligan, Angela A.
name: Hayhoe, Richard P. G.
name: Luben, Robert N.
name: Welch, Ailsa A.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: sarcopenia
frailty
skeletal muscle
bone density status
fracture risk
vitamin E

description: The prevalence of sarcopenia, frailty and fractures is increasing. Prevention options are limited, but dietary factors including vitamin E have the potential to confer some protection. This study investigated cross-sectional associations between dietary and plasma concentrations of vitamin E with indices of skeletal muscle mass (SMM) (n = 14,179 and 4283, respectively) and bone density (n = 14,694 and 4457, respectively) and longitudinal fracture risk (n = 25,223 and 7291, respectively) in European Prospective Investigation Into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC)-Norfolk participants, aged 39−79 years at baseline. Participants completed a health and lifestyle questionnaire, a 7-day diet diary (7dDD) and had anthropometric measurements taken. Fat-free mass (as a SMM proxy) was measured using bioimpedance and bone density was measured using calcaneal broadband ultrasound attenuation (BUA) and incident fractures over 18.5 years of follow-up. Associations between indices of SMM, BUA and fracture risk were investigated by quintiles of dietary vitamin E intake or plasma concentrations. Positive trends in SMM indices and BUA were apparent across dietary quintiles for both sexes, with interquintile differences of 0.88%−1.91% (p 0.001), and protective trends for total and hip fracture risk. Circulating plasma α- and γ-tocopherol results matched the overall dietary findings. Dietary vitamin E may be important for musculoskeletal health but further investigation is required to fully understand the relationships of plasma tocopherols.
The Micro-Jansky Sky at 8.4 GHz
Creators: name: Fomalont, E. B.
name: Kellermann, K. I.
name: Partridge, R. B.
name: Windhorst, R. A.
name: Richards, E. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results from two radio integrations at 8.4 GHz using the VLA. One of the fields, at 13h,+43d (SA13 field), has an rms noise level of 1.49 microJy and is the deepest radio image yet made. Thirty-four sources in a complete sample were detected above 7.5 microJy and 25 are optically identified to a limit of I=25.8, using our deep HST and ground-based images. The radio sources are usually located within 0.5" (typically 5 kpc) of a galaxy nucleus, and generally have a diameter less than 2.5". The second field at 17h, +50d (Hercules Field) has an rms noise of 35 microJy and contains 10 sources. We have also analyzed a complete flux density-limited sample at 8.4 GHz of 89 sources from five deep radio surveys, including the Hubble deep field. Half of all the optical counterparts are with galaxies brighter than I=23 mag, but 20% are fainter than I=25.5 mag. We confirm the tendency for the micro-Jansky radio sources to prefer multi-galaxy systems. The distribution of the radio spectral index between 1.4 and 8.4 GHz peaks at alpha = -0.75~ with a median value of -0.6. The average spectral index becomes steeper (lower values) for sources below 35 microJy, and for sources identified with optical counterparts fainter than I=25.5 mag. The differential radio count between 7.5 and 1000 microJy has a slope of -2.11 +/-0.13 and a surface density of 0.64 sources per square-arcmin with flux density greater than $7.5 microJy.
description: 21 pages, 8 figures
Nestrius laqueorum Kuschel 1964
Creators: name: Morrone, Juan J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Nestrius
Nestrius laqueorum

description: Nestrius laqueorum Kuschel, 1964
 Nestrius laqueorum Kuschel, 1964: 469 (type locality: New Zealand: Snares Island; type material: H: NZAC and P: 1 NZAC).
 Distribution. New Zealand: Snares Island (Kuschel, 1964).
description: Published as part of Morrone, Juan J., 2011, Annotated checklist of the tribe Listroderini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cyclominae) 3119, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3119 (1) on page 52, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3119.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5246257
Additional file 7 of Identification, characterization and functional analysis of gonadal long noncoding RNAs in a protogynous hermaphroditic teleost fish, the ricefield eel (Monopterus albus)
Creators: name: He, Zhi
name: Ye, Lijuan
name: Yang, Deying
name: Ma, Zhijun
name: Deng, Faqiang
name: He, Zhide
name: Hu, Jiaxiang
name: Chen, Hongjun
name: Zheng, Li
name: Pu, Yong
name: Jiao, Yuanyuan
name: Chen, Qiqi
name: Gao, Kuo
name: Xiong, Jinxin
name: Lai, Bolin
name: Gu, Xiaobin
name: Huang, Xiaoli
name: Yang, Shiyong
name: Zhang, Mingwang
name: Yan, Taiming
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 7: Fig. S3. KEGG enrichment analysis of DE-lncRNA trans-target genes.
Learning and Generalisation of Primitives Skills Towards Robust Dual-arm Manipulation
Creators: name: Pairet, Èric
name: Ardón, Paola
name: Broz, Frank
name: Mistry, Michael
name: Petillot, Yvan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Robots are becoming a vital ingredient in society. Some of their daily tasks require dual-arm manipulation skills in the rapidly changing, dynamic and unpredictable real-world environments where they have to operate. Given the expertise of humans in conducting these activities, it is natural to study humans' motions to use the resulting knowledge in robotic control. With this in mind, this work leverages human knowledge to formulate a more general, real-time, and less task-specific framework for dual-arm manipulation. The proposed framework is evaluated on the iCub humanoid robot and several synthetic experiments, by conducting a dual-arm pick-and-place task of a parcel in the presence of unexpected obstacles. Results suggest the suitability of the method towards robust and generalisable dual-arm manipulation.
Protected Operators in N=2,4 Supersymmetric Theories
Creators: name: Maggiore, N.
name: Tanzini, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The anomalous dimension of single and multi-trace composite operators of scalar fields is shown to vanish at all orders of the perturbative series. The proof hold for theories with N=2 supersymmetry with any number of hypermultiplets in a generic representation of the gauge group. It then applies to the finite N=4 theory as well as to non conformal N=2 models.
description: 17 pages, no figures; some misprints corrected, references added
Mechanisms of differentiation therapy response and relapse in acute myeloid leukaemia
Creators: name: Ngo, Steven
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: 111201 Cancer Cell Biology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111203 Cancer Genetics
subject: 111204 Cancer Therapy (excl. Chemotherapy and Radiation Therapy)

description: Differentiation therapy is a highly successful therapy in AML that transforms cancer cells into mature blood cells. Despite its success, some AML patients treated with this therapy still succumb to disease relapse. From my PhD, we found that when cancer cells are transformed into mature blood cells, they turn into multiple different blood cell types. Most cancer cells turn into short living neutrophils, however some cancer cells transform into eosinophil-like cells. These cells are more difficult to clear, persist longer, and are therefore likely to seed relapse. Consequently, preventing AML cells from transforming into eosinophils resulted in a significant reduction in relapse following differentiation therapy.
Transaction Costs, Capabilities, and Grape Procurement Strategies in U.S. Emerging Wine Regions
Creators: name: Miranda, Bruno
name: Chaddad, Fabio
name: Miranda, Bruno
name: Chaddad, Fabio
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Wine industry
subject: organizational economics

description: What are the drivers of grape procurement strategies in U.S. emerging wine regions? Are these choices constrained by the same factors as in established wine areas? This paper uses a mixed-methods approach to discuss the "make-or-buy" decisions of small American wineries from five states: Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, New York and Vermont. Departing from the existing empirical literature on grape procurement strategies in the wine industry, we argue that the study of organizational decisions in American nascent clusters has to consider both their structural characteristics and the features of their participants. Based on semi-structured interviews with Missouri winery owners, we argue that, given the heterogeneity in the bundles of capabilities and resources owned by firms from emerging areas, a rationale exclusively inspired by Oliver Williamson's transaction cost economics is insufficient to explain grape procurement strategies. The evidence presented here is consistent with the view that knowledge plays a decisive role in boundary decisions. Also, the results point out to the importance of informal ties in the governance of the transactions carried out by the wineries in the sample. In special, trust appears to be an essential supporting mechanism in the governance of less coordinated exchanges, reflecting the constraints faced by many firms to devise complex formal arrangements.
From Transcriptomics to Treatment in Inherited Optic Neuropathies
Creators: name: Gilhooley, Michael James
name: Owen, Nicholas
name: Moosajee, Mariya
name: Yu Wai Man, Patrick
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: transcriptomics
RNA-seq
neuroprotection
DOA
OPA1
LHON
gene-therapy
mitochondrial
optic neuropathies

description: Inherited optic neuropathies, including Leber Hereditary Optic Neuropathy (LHON) and Dominant Optic Atrophy (DOA), are monogenetic diseases with a final common pathway of mitochondrial dysfunction leading to retinal ganglion cell (RGC) death and ultimately loss of vision. They are, therefore, excellent models with which to investigate this ubiquitous disease process—implicated in both common polygenetic ocular diseases (e.g., Glaucoma) and late-onset central nervous system neurodegenerative diseases (e.g., Parkinson disease). In recent years, cellular and animal models of LHON and DOA have matured in parallel with techniques (such as RNA-seq) to determine and analyze the transcriptomes of affected cells. This confluence leaves us at a particularly exciting time with the potential for the identification of novel pathogenic players and therapeutic targets. Here, we present a discussion of the importance of inherited optic neuropathies and how transcriptomic techniques can be exploited in the development of novel mutation-independent, neuroprotective therapies.
Public and Private Preferences for Urban Forest Ecosystem Services
Creators: name: Soto, José
name: Escobedo, Francisco
name: Adams, Damian
name: Soto, José
name: Escobedo, Francisco
name: Adams, Damian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Urban Forest
subject: Ecosystem Services
subject: Best-Worst Choice
subject: Best-Worst Scaling
subject: Discrete-Choice Experimentation
subject: Willingness-to-Pay

description: Ecosystem services are important for Floridians as they are directly related to water quality, clean air, property values and overall quality of life. A few studies have valued the economic benefits of these services from forests and Floridian’s willingness to pay for ornamental attributes and control of invasives. This study collected survey data from 1,052 Florida homeowners to elicit consumer preferences for key urban forest attributes and their ecosystem services and disservices. We use existing plot field data, conjoint analysis, best-worst scaling surveys, and econometric modeling to identify attributes and tradeoffs between urban forest structure and ecosystem service/disservice. The integration of these approaches is novel and can better assess the value of ecosystem services of Florida’s urban forests. This method can also be used to identify the preferences of public policy-makers and private homeowners. From the attributes considered in this study, our findings indicate that Property Value has the highest impact on urban forest preferences, followed by Tree Condition and Tree Shade. To increase participation in efforts that generate urban forest ecosystem services, at the public or private level, policymakers may need to design programs that cost less than $7.00 per month, while maintaining good condition trees that provide high shade.
Criação para cinema fulldome e tecnologias computacionais de código aberto
Creators: name: Valentim, Victor
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 130201 Creative Arts, Media and Communication Curriculum and Pedagogy
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 80602 Computer-Human Interaction
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 80306 Open Software
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The immersive potential of cinema for planetariums and the poetic possibilities through the development of free computational technologies for sound and visual composition, 3D modeling and digital projection has instigated the development of a production chain and a chain of specific festivals and research centers to create fulldome worldwide. The development and expansion of access to the various softwares and libraries developed in global communities of programmers are forging a new specific phase of accessibility for artists who are engaged in the construction of a creative scene with free technologies. This research analyzes new tools and techniques for poetic intersections between sounds and images in the creation for cinema fulldome.
Minimal Flavour Mixing of Quarks and Leptons
Creators: name: Chkareuli, J. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Present situation in the flavour mixing of quarks and leptons is briefly reviewed and a new approach called the Minimal Flavour Mixing (MFM) is considered in detail. According to MFM the whole of the flavour mixing is basically determined by the physical mass generation of the first family of fermions. So, in the chiral symmetry limit when the masses of the lightest quarks, u and d, vanish, all the weak mixing angle vanish. This minimal pattern is shown to fit extremely well the already established CKM matrix elements and to give fairly distinctive predictions for the as yet poorly known ones. Remarkably, together with generically small quark mixing it also leads to the large neutrino mixing thus giving adequate solution to the solar and athmospheric neutrino oscillation problem. The possible origin of this approach in the MSSM extended by the high-scale $SU(3)_{F}$ chiral family symmetry is discussed.
description: 12 pages, LaTex, no figures; some typos corrected, references added. Plenary talk given at SUSY'01 (held in JINR, Dubna, Russia, 11-17 June 2001), to appear in the Proceedings
Nestrius prolixus Broun 1917
Creators: name: Morrone, Juan J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Nestrius
Nestrius prolixus

description: Nestrius prolixus Broun, 1917
 Nestrius prolixus Broun, 1917: 438 (type locality: New Zealand; type material: S: BMNH).
 Distribution. New Zealand (Schenkling and Marshall, 1929).
description: Published as part of Morrone, Juan J., 2011, Annotated checklist of the tribe Listroderini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cyclominae) 3119, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3119 (1) on page 52, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3119.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5246257
title: Línea base ambiental preliminar del bloque de exploración de hidrocarburos Guajira OFFSHORE 3 en el Caribe Colombiano
Creators: name: Garcia, A; Polanco, A; Merchan-Cepeda, A; Becerra, C; Cedeño, C; Montoya-Cadavid,E; Escarria, E; Dorado, F;  Gutierrez, J; Garrido-Linares,M; Suarez-Mozo, N; Martinez-Duarte, P; Yepez-Narvaez,V
Publisher: name: INVEMAR
Year: 2014

description: Resultado de tres campañas de investigación al bloque de exploración GUA OFF3 ubicado entre los departamentos Magdalena y Guajira, con el fin de crear una base ambiental preliminar del conocimiento físico, biológico y de recursos pesqueros de los sistemas marinos presentes en el bloque con miras a su conservación y manejo frente al sector de hidrocarburos del país. En cuanto a la caracterización física realizada, el área de estudio es una cuenca con una extensión aproximada de 949350 ha que presenta variaciones batimétricas en un rango desde los 1300 hasta los 4050 metros de profundidad. Se caracteriza por tener siete unidades geomorfológicas, cuenca, montículo o colina, valle submarino, falda, escarpe, cresta submarina y un cañón submarino. La caracterización biológica encontró una comunidad planctónica típica de la provincia oceánica con influencia de la región costera, el fitoplancton estuvo constituido rincipalmente por dinoflagelados y diatomeas quienes mostraron un aumento de sus abundancias con respecto a la profundidad; el zooplancton se caracterizó por pertenecer en su mayoría al grupo de los copépodos, siendo las familias Paracalanidae, Clausocalanidae, Corycaeidae y Oncaeidae las más importantes presentando diferencias en la composición con respecto a la profundidad. Los recursos pesqueros encontrados estuvieron conformados por organismos pelágicos de interés comercial como el tiburón azul (Prionace glauca), el atún aleta amarilla (Thunnus albacares), el marlin (Makaira nigricans), el dorado (Coryphaena hippurus), la barracuda (Sphyraena barracuda), el pez espada (Xiphias gladius), la sierra o wahoo (Acanthocybium solandri) y el tiburón tigre (Galeocerdo cuvier); la detección hidroacústica y las estimaciones de abundancias procedentes de la pesca exploratoria encontraron diferencias en cuanto a la distribución de los organismos, siendo la región noreste y suroeste del bloque, donde se concentró la mayor abundancia de peces pelágicos.
Dressed States Approach to Quantum Systems
Creators: name: Flores-Hidalgo, G.
name: Malbouisson, A. P. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the non-perturbative method of {\it dressed} states previously introduced in JPhysA, we study effects of the environment on a quantum mechanical system, in the case the environment is modeled by an ensemble of non interacting harmonic oscillators. This method allows to separate the whole system into the {\it dressed} mechanical system and the {\it dressed} environment, in terms of which an exact, non-perturbative approach is possible. When applied to the Brownian motion, we give explicit non-perturbative formulas for the classical path of the particle in the weak and strong coupling regimes. When applied to study atomic behaviours in cavities, the method accounts very precisely for experimentally observed inhibition of atomic decay in small cavities PhysLA, physics0111042.
The Ecology of Nipah Virus in Bangladesh: A Nexus of Land-Use Change and Opportunistic Feeding Behavior in Bats
Creators: name: McKee, Clifton D.
name: Islam, Ausraful
name: Luby, Stephen P.
name: Salje, Henrik
name: Hudson, Peter J.
name: Plowright, Raina K.
name: Gurley, Emily S.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: zoonotic disease
spillover
one health
urbanization
Pteropus

description: Nipah virus is a bat-borne paramyxovirus that produces yearly outbreaks of fatal encephalitis in Bangladesh. Understanding the ecological conditions that lead to spillover from bats to humans can assist in designing effective interventions. To investigate the current and historical processes that drive Nipah spillover in Bangladesh, we analyzed the relationship among spillover events and climatic conditions, the spatial distribution and size of Pteropus medius roosts, and patterns of land-use change in Bangladesh over the last 300 years. We found that 53% of annual variation in winter spillovers is explained by winter temperature, which may affect bat behavior, physiology, and human risk behaviors. We infer from changes in forest cover that a progressive shift in bat roosting behavior occurred over hundreds of years, producing the current system where a majority of P. medius populations are small (median of 150 bats), occupy roost sites for 10 years or more, live in areas of high human population density, and opportunistically feed on cultivated food resources—conditions that promote viral spillover. Without interventions, continuing anthropogenic pressure on bat populations similar to what has occurred in Bangladesh could result in more regular spillovers of other bat viruses, including Hendra and Ebola viruses.
Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Diseases Predict Different COVID-19 Outcomes: A UK Biobank Study
Creators: name: Yu, Yizhou
name: Travaglio, Marco
name: Popovic, Rebeka
name: Leal, Nuno Santos
name: Martins, Luis Miguel
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: COVID-19
Parkinson’s disease
Alzheimer’s disease
SARS-CoV-2

description: In December 2019, a coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began infecting humans, causing a novel disease, coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19). This was first described in the Wuhan province of the People’s Republic of China. SARS-CoV-2 has spread throughout the world, causing a global pandemic. To date, thousands of cases of COVID-19 have been reported in the United Kingdom, and over 45,000 patients have died. Some progress has been achieved in managing this disease, but the biological determinants of health, in addition to age, that affect SARS-CoV-2 infectivity and mortality are under scrutiny. Recent studies show that several medical conditions, including diabetes and hypertension, increase the risk of COVID-19 and death. The increased vulnerability of elderly individuals and those with comorbidities, together with the prevalence of neurodegenerative diseases with advanced age, led us to investigate the links between neurodegeneration and COVID-19. We analysed the primary health records of 13,338 UK individuals tested for COVID-19 between March and July 2020. We show that a pre-existing diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease predicts the highest risk of COVID-19 and mortality among elderly individuals. In contrast, Parkinson’s disease patients were found to have a higher risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection but not mortality from COVID-19. We conclude that there are disease-specific differences in COVID-19 susceptibility among patients affected by neurodegenerative disorders.
2025 Camden Show: A Photographic Journey
Creators: name: Willis, Ian
Publisher: name: Ian Willis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: New South Wales

description: This blog post is a photographic essay that captures the vibrant atmosphere of the 2025 Camden Show, showcasing a range of activities, displays, and exhibitions. Highlights include the Woolworths produce pavilion, enthusiastic attendance from parents at performances, and contributions from local services such as the Rural Fire Service, NSW Fire Brigade, and police, which enrich the community experience.
questionnaire of otolaryngologic and neurotologic symptoms of COVID-19 positive health care workers
Creators: name: Celis-Aguilar, Erika
name: Espinoza-Valdez, Alejandra
name: Francelia Torres-Gerardo
name: López, Edgar Dehesa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 110315 Otorhinolaryngology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: TO UNDERSTAND THE OTOLARYNGOLOGIC AND NEUROTOLOGIC SYMPTOMS OF COVID-19
Social Functioning as a Mediator between Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) and Emotional Problems in Adolescents
Creators: name: Forrest, Claire L.
name: Gibson, Jenny L.
name: St Clair, Michelle C.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: developmental language disorder
adolescents
peer problems
emotional problems
mediation
developmental pathways

description: Adolescents with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) are at risk for increased feelings of anxiety and depression compared to their typically developing (TD) peers. However, the underlying pathways involved in this relationship are unclear. In this initial study of the ‘social mediation hypothesis’, we examine social functioning as a mediator of emotional problems in a cross-sectional sample of adolescents with DLD and age- and sex-matched controls. Preliminary data from twenty-six participants with DLD and 27 participants with typical language development (TLD, 11−17 years) were compared on self- and parent-reported measures of social functioning and emotional outcomes. There was little evidence of group differences in self-reported social functioning and emotional outcomes, but parent-report of SDQ Peer Problems and Emotional Problems in the DLD group was significantly higher than in the TLD group. Parent-reported peer problems mediated parent-reported emotional problems, accounting for 69% of the relationship between DLD status and emotional problems. Parents of adolescents with DLD, but not adolescents themselves, report significantly higher peer and emotional problems compared to TLD peers. The hypotheses generated from these novel data suggest further investigation into adolescents’ perceptions of socioemotional difficulties and friendships should be examined.
COP 21 and Economic Theory: Taking Stock
Creators: name: Tulkens, Henry
name: Tulkens, Henry
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Economic and Game Theory Concepts
subject: International Climate Agreements
subject: Voluntary Cooperation
subject: Greenhouse Gas Emissions
subject: Transfers

description: The texts of the COP 21 Decision and its Annex are scrutinized from the particular point of view of the extent to which economic theoretic concepts can be considered to inspire them. While this is shown to be partially the case in some of the intentions, the texts themselves contain more diplomatically formulated promises than implementation of mainstream well established economic concepts.
Spermatogonia Loss Correlates with LAMA 1 Expression in Human Prepubertal Testes Stored for Fertility Preservation
Creators: name: Kurek, Magdalena
name: Åkesson, Elisabet
name: Yoshihara, Masahito
name: Oliver, Elizabeth
name: Cui, Yanhua
name: Becker, Martin
name: Alves-Lopes, João Pedro
name: Bjarnason, Ragnar
name: Romerius, Patrik
name: Sundin, Mikael
name: Norén Nyström, Ulrika
name: Langenskiöld, Cecilia
name: Vogt, Hartmut
name: Henningsohn, Lars
name: Petersen, Cecilia
name: Söder, Olle
name: Guo, Jingtao
name: Mitchell, Rod T.
name: Jahnukainen, Kirsi
name: Stukenborg, Jan-Bernd
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: germ cells
basal membrane
stem cell niche
seminiferous tubules
infertility
late effects
spermatogonia
Sertoli cells

description: Fertility preservation for male childhood cancer survivors not yet capable of producing mature spermatozoa, relies on experimental approaches such as testicular explant culture. Although the first steps in somatic maturation can be observed in human testicular explant cultures, germ cell depletion is a common obstacle. Hence, understanding the spermatogonial stem cell (SSC) niche environment and in particular, specific components such as the seminiferous basement membrane (BM) will allow progression of testicular explant cultures. Here, we revealed that the seminiferous BM is established from 6 weeks post conception with the expression of laminin alpha 1 (LAMA 1) and type IV collagen, which persist as key components throughout development. With prepubertal testicular explant culture we found that seminiferous LAMA 1 expression is disrupted and depleted with culture time correlating with germ cell loss. These findings highlight the importance of LAMA 1 for the human SSC niche and its sensitivity to culture conditions.
Nestrius zenoscelis Broun 1921
Creators: name: Morrone, Juan J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Nestrius
Nestrius zenoscelis

description: Nestrius zenoscelis Broun, 1921
 Nestrius zenoscelis Broun, 1921: 555 (type locality: New Zealand: Glenhope and Kiwi Bush, near Nelson; type material: S: 8 BMNH).
 Distribution. New Zealand (Schenkling and Marshall, 1929).
description: Published as part of Morrone, Juan J., 2011, Annotated checklist of the tribe Listroderini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cyclominae) 3119, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3119 (1) on page 52, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3119.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5246257
DAMA/LIBRA annual modulation and Axion Quark Nugget Dark Matter Model
Creators: name: Zhitnitsky, Ariel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The DAMA/LIBRA experiment shows $9.5 σ$ evidence for an annual modulation in the $(1-6)~ {\rm keV}$ energy range, strongly suggesting that the observed modulation has the dark matter origin. However, the conventional interpretation in terms of WIMP-nucleon interaction is excluded by other experiments. We propose an alternative source of modulation in the form of neutrons, which have been liberated from surrounding material. Our computations are based on the so-called Axion Quark Nugget (AQN) dark matter model, which was originally invented long ago to explain the similarity between the dark and visible cosmological matter densities, i.e. $ Ω_{\rm dark} \sim Ω_{\rm visible}$. In our proposal the annual modulation is shown to be generated in keV energy range which is consistent with DL observation in $(1-6)~ {\rm keV}$ range. This keV energy scale in our proposal is mostly determined by spectral properties of the neutrinos emitted by the AQN dark matter particles, while the absence of the modulation with energies above 6 keV is explained by a sharp cutoff in the neutrino's energy spectrum at $\sim 15$ MeV. This proposal can be directly tested by COSINE-100, ANAIS-112, CYGNO and other similar experiments. It can be also tested by studying the correlations between the signals from these experiments and the signatures from drastically different detectors designed for studies of the infrasonic or seismic events using such instruments as Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS).
description: matches the published version (Phys Rev D). added: new refs and Section VD on search for the correlations between the DL signals and the signatures from infrasonic or seismic events using such instruments as Distributed Acoustic Sensing
Distributional and Welfare Impacts of Renewable Subsidies in Italy
Creators: name: Distante, Roberta
name: Verdolini, Elena
name: Tavoni, Massimo
name: Distante, Roberta
name: Verdolini, Elena
name: Tavoni, Massimo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Energy Taxes
subject: Consumer Demand System
subject: Welfare Effects
subject: Equity

description: We empirically assess the distributional impacts and welfare effects of policies to incentivize renewable electricity production for the case of Italy. We use data from the Household Budget Survey between 2000 and 2010 to estimate a demand system in which energy goods' shares of expenditure are modelled using different empirical approaches. We show that the general Exact Affine Stone Index (EASI) demand system provides more robust estimates of price elasticities of each composite good than the commonly used Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS). The estimated coefficients are used to perform a welfare analysis of the Italian renewable electricity production incentive policy. We show that different empirical approaches give rise to significantly different estimates of price elasticities and that methodological choices are the reasons for the very high elasticities of substitutions estimated using similar data by previous contributions. We find no evidence of regressivity of the incidence of the Italian renewable incentive scheme in the period under consideration. The renewable subsidies act as a middle-class tax, with the higher welfare losses experienced by households in the second to fourth quintiles of the expenditure distribution.
SED, Metallicity and Age of Halo Globular Clusters in M33
Creators: name: Ma, Jun
name: Zhou, Xu
name: Chen, Jiansheng
name: Wu, Hong
name: Jiang, Zhaoji
name: Xue, Suijian
name: Zhu, Jin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we study the properties of ten halo globular clusters in the nearby spiral galaxy M33. CCD images of M33 were obtained as a part of the BATC Colour Survey of the sky in 13 intermediate-band filters from 3800 to 10000Å. By aperture photometry, we obtain the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of these globular clusters. We estimate the ages of our sample clusters by comparing the photometry of each object with theoretical stellar population synthesis models for different values of metallicity. Our results suggest that eight of the ten sample halo globular clusters have ``intermediate'' ages, i.e. between 1 and 8 Gyrs.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures, has been accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Clinical Features, Inpatient Trajectories and Frailty in Older Inpatients with COVID-19: A Retrospective Observational Study
Creators: name: Osuafor, Christopher N.
name: Davidson, Catriona
name: Mackett, Alistair J.
name: Goujon, Marie
name: Van Der Poel, Lelane
name: Taylor, Vince
name: Preller, Jacobus
name: Goudie, Robert J. B.
name: Keevil, Victoria L.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: atypical presentation
COVID-19
frailty
mortality
older patients

description: Introduction: We describe the clinical features and inpatient trajectories of older adults hospitalized with COVID-19 and explore relationships with frailty. Methods: This retrospective observational study included older adults admitted as an emergency to a University Hospital who were diagnosed with COVID-19. Patient characteristics and hospital outcomes, primarily inpatient death or death within 14 days of discharge, were described for the whole cohort and by frailty status. Associations with mortality were further evaluated using Cox Proportional Hazards Regression (Hazard Ratio (HR), 95% Confidence Interval). Results: 214 patients (94 women) were included of whom 142 (66.4%) were frail with a median Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) score of 6. Frail compared to nonfrail patients were more likely to present with atypical symptoms including new or worsening confusion (45.1% vs. 20.8%, p 0.001) and were more likely to die (66% vs. 16%, p = 0.001). Older age, being male, presenting with high illness acuity and high frailty were independent predictors of death and a dose–response association between frailty and mortality was observed (CFS 1–4: reference; CFS 5–6: HR 1.78, 95% CI 0.90, 3.53; CFS 7–8: HR 2.57, 95% CI 1.26, 5.24). Conclusions: Clinicians should have a low threshold for testing for COVID-19 in older and frail patients during periods of community viral transmission, and diagnosis should prompt early advanced care planning.
On spherical harmonics for fuzzy spheres in diverse dimensions
Creators: name: Ramgoolam, Sanjaye
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct spherical harmonics for fuzzy spheres of even and odd dimensions, generalizing the correspondence between finite matrix algebras and fuzzy two-spheres. The finite matrix algebras associated with the various fuzzy spheres have a natural basis which falls in correspondence with tensor constructions of irreducible representations of orthogonal groups SO(n). This basis is useful in describing fluctuations around various D-brane constructions of fuzzy spherical objects. The higher fuzzy spheres are non-associative algebras that appear as projections of associative algebras related to Matrices. The non-associativity (as well as the non-commutativity) disappears in the leading large $N$ limit, ensuring the correct classical limit. Some simple aspects of the combinatorics of the fuzzy four-sphere can be accounted by a heuristic picture of giant fractional instantons.
description: 33 pages (Harvmac big), 1 figure v2: added footnote clarifying radius of fuzzy odd spheres, v3 : fixed minor typo in eq. 6.2
The education of children in residential care: A systematic review of the enablers and barriers of educational attainment.
Creators: name: McCormick, Caoimhe
name: McCafferty, Paul
name: Hayes, David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 440999
subject: Social work not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 390407
subject: Inclusive education

description: Article 28 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) (UNCRC) states that children have the right to an education and that education should be provided to all on an equal opportunity basis. While looked after children have consistently been underachieving educationally (Evans et al., 2017), children in residential care have the lowest educational outcomes of all children in care and this can be seen on a global scale (Sebba et al., 2015). For example, in Northern Ireland, 50% of children in residential care aged 16-18, have no qualifications (Department of Health, 2024).The aim of this systematic review is to:Highlight the barriers and enablers faced by young people in residential care regarding their educational attainment.Gain the perspectives of residential staff in supporting young people in residential care with education.To ascertain the extent to which current literature covers these issues.
Ellsberg Re-revisited: An Experiment Disentangling Model Uncertainty and Risk Aversion
Creators: name: Berger, Loic
name: Bosetti, Valentina
name: Berger, Loic
name: Bosetti, Valentina
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Ambiguity Aversion
subject: Model Uncertainty
subject: Reduction of Compound Lotteries
subject: Non-expected Utility
subject: Subjective Probabilities
subject: Decreasing Absolute Ambiguity Aversion

description: The results of an experiment extending Ellsberg's setup demonstrate that attitudes towards ambiguity and compound uncertainty are closely related. However, this association is much stronger when the second layer of uncertainty is subjective than when it is objective. Provided that the compound probabilities are simple enough, we find that most subjects, consisting of both students and policy makers, (1) reduce compound objective probabilities, (2) do not reduce compound subjective probabilities, and (3) are ambiguity non-neutral. By decomposing ambiguity into risk and model uncertainty, and jointly eliciting the attitudes individuals manifest towards these two types of uncertainty, we characterize individuals' degree of ambiguity aversion. Our data provides evidence of decreasing absolute ambiguity aversion and constant relative ambiguity aversion.
Unintegrated parton densities applied to heavy quark production in the CCFM approach
Creators: name: Jung, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The application of k_t - factorization supplemented with the CCFM small-x evolution equation to heavy quark production is discussed. The b-b_bar production cross sections at the TEVATRON can be consistently described using the k_t-factorization formalism together with the unintegrated gluon density obtained within the CCFM evolution approach from a fit to HERA F_2 data. Special attention is drawn to the comparison with measured visible cross sections. The visible measured cross sections at HERA are compared to the hadron level Monte Carlo generator CASCADE.
description: Presented at the Ringberg Workshop on ``New Trends in HERA Physics 2001'', 17-22 June 2001, 12 pages, Fig. 2 replaced
Palaechthus C. O. Waterhouse 1884
Creators: name: Morrone, Juan J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Palaechthus

description: Palaechthus C. O. Waterhouse, 1884
 Palaechthus C. O. Waterhouse, 1884: 277 (type species: P. glabratus Waterhouse, 1884, subsequent designation by Brinck, 1948: 48).
 Palaechtus Brinck, 1948: 47 (lapsus).
description: Published as part of Morrone, Juan J., 2011, Annotated checklist of the tribe Listroderini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cyclominae) 3119, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3119 (1) on page 52, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3119.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5246257
Beyond COVID-19: network science and sustainable exit strategies
Creators: name: Bell, J
name: Bianconi, G
name: Butler, D
name: Crowcroft, J
name: Davies, P C W
name: Hicks, C
name: Kim, H
name: Kiss, I Z
name: Di Lauro, F
name: Maple, C
name: Paul, A
name: Prokopenko, M
name: Tee, P
name: Walker, S
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: Perspective
network epidemiology
network science
COVID-19
epidemic containment strategy

description: Abstract: On May 28th and 29th, a two day workshop was held virtually, facilitated by the Beyond Center at ASU and Moogsoft Inc. The aim was to bring together leading scientists with an interest in network science and epidemiology to attempt to inform public policy in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Epidemics are at their core a process that progresses dynamically upon a network, and are a key area of study in network science. In the course of the workshop a wide survey of the state of the subject was conducted. We summarize in this paper a series of perspectives of the subject, and where the authors believe fruitful areas for future research are to be found.
Hybrid Robot-assisted Frameworks for Endomicroscopy Scanning in Retinal Surgeries
Creators: name: Li, Zhaoshuo
name: Shahbazi, Mahya
name: Patel, Niravkumar
name: Sullivan, Eimear O'
name: Zhang, Haojie
name: Vyas, Khushi
name: Chalasani, Preetham
name: Deguet, Anton
name: Gehlbach, Peter L.
name: Iordachita, Iulian
name: Yang, Guang-Zhong
name: Taylor, Russell H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: High-resolution real-time intraocular imaging of retina at the cellular level is very challenging due to the vulnerable and confined space within the eyeball as well as the limited availability of appropriate modalities. A probe-based confocal laser endomicroscopy (pCLE) system, can be a potential imaging modality for improved diagnosis. The ability to visualize the retina at the cellular level could provide information that may predict surgical outcomes. The adoption of intraocular pCLE scanning is currently limited due to the narrow field of view and the micron-scale range of focus. In the absence of motion compensation, physiological tremors of the surgeons' hand and patient movements also contribute to the deterioration of the image quality. Therefore, an image-based hybrid control strategy is proposed to mitigate the above challenges. The proposed hybrid control strategy enables a shared control of the pCLE probe between surgeons and robots to scan the retina precisely, with the absence of hand tremors and with the advantages of an image-based auto-focus algorithm that optimizes the quality of pCLE images. The hybrid control strategy is deployed on two frameworks - cooperative and teleoperated. Better image quality, smoother motion, and reduced workload are all achieved in a statistically significant manner with the hybrid control frameworks.
description: Accepted in IEEE TMRB
Sharing Skills and Needs between Providers and Users of Climate Information to Create Climate Services: Lessons from the Northern Adriatic Case Study
Creators: name: Giannini, Valentina
name: Bellucci, Alessio
name: Torresan, Silvia
name: Giannini, Valentina
name: Bellucci, Alessio
name: Torresan, Silvia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Decision Making
subject: Climate Products
subject: Climate Services
subject: Risk Assessment
subject: Northern Adriatic
subject: Participatory Process
subject: CLIM-RUN

description: The need to cope with the expected impacts of climate change on socio-ecological systems calls for a closer dialogue between climate scientists and the community of climate information users (e.g. decision makers belonging to public institutions). We describe an interactive process designed to bridge this gap by establishing a two-way communication, based on mutual learning. We analyse the need of climate information for the integrated assessment of climate change impacts on the coastal zone of the Northern Adriatic Sea, which is considered to be particularly vulnerable to several climate-related phenomena, e.g. heavy rainfall events, pluvial flood, and sea-level rise, causing potentially high damages to coastal eco-systems and urban areas (e.g. acqua alta in the Venice Lagoon). A participatory process is designed engaging representatives from both the scientific and local stakeholders communities, and facilitated by a boundary organization, embodied by the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change.