cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Efficacy of dupilumab in real-life settings: a STROBE study
Creators: name: Michel, J
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Abstract

Background

Dupilumab, a monoclonal antibody targeting IL-4 and IL-13, has demonstrated its efficacy in several clinical trials. However, to date, real-life data remains limited.

Objective

The aim of our study was to assess the real-life impact of dupilumab on patients with severe and uncontrolled chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP) quality of life.

Materials and methods

This was a retrospective, monocentric, observational, real-life study, conducted in accordance with the STROBE guidelines. The following parameters were collected before treatment and at 1, 4, and 12 months: Sino-Nasal Outcome Test-22 (SNOT-22), nasal polyp score (NPS), Sniffin' Sticks-16 (SST-16), visual analog scale (VAS) for loss of smell, nasal congestion score (NCS), gustatory VAS, asthma control, oral corticosteroid usage, surgery rates, and occurrence of side effects.

Results

The study included 47 patients. SNOT-22 scores decreased from 52.4 ± 24.3 to 12.7 ± 10.5 at 12 months (p < 0.001). NPS decreased from 6.15 ± 1.71 to 1.57 ± 1.40 at 12 months (p < 0.001). SST-16 scores increased from 1.6 ± 2.83 to 9.1 ± 5.4 at 12 months (p < 0.001). NCS decreased from 2.45 ± 0.72 to 0.38 ± 0.63 at 12 months (p < 0.001). Prior to treatment, 72.3% were using oral corticosteroids, compared to 17.0% at 12 months (p < 0.01). Two patients required additional surgery, and 17% reported completely uncontrolled asthma, compared to 0% at 12 months (p < 0.01).

Conclusion

Our real-life results confirm the efficacy of Dupilumab in the treatment of severe and uncontrolled CRSwNP.
Additional file 6: of Exosomal miR-196a derived from cancer-associated fibroblasts confers cisplatin resistance in head and neck cancer through targeting CDKN1B and ING5
Creators: name: Qin, Xing
name: Guo, Haiyan
name: Wang, Xiaoning
name: Zhu, Xueqin
name: Yan, Ming
name: Wang, Xu
name: Xu, Qin
name: Shi, Jianbo
name: Lu, Eryi
name: Chen, Wantao
name: Zhang, Jianjun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Virology

description: Table S7. Primary antibodies used in this study. (DOC 58 kb)
Dip-coating of suspensions
Creators: name: Gans, A.
name: Dressaire, E.
name: Colnet, B.
name: Saingier, G.
name: Bazant, M. Z.
name: Sauret, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Withdrawing a plate from a suspension leads to the entrainment of a coating layer of fluid and particles on the solid surface. In this article, we study the Landau-Levich problem in the case of a suspension of non-Brownian particles at moderate volume fraction $10\% < ϕ< 41\%$. We observe different regimes depending on the withdrawal velocity $U$, the volume fraction of the suspension $ϕ$, and the diameter of the particles $2\,a$. Our results exhibit three coating regimes. (i) At small enough capillary number $Ca$, no particles are entrained, and only a liquid film coats the plate. (ii) At large capillary number, we observe that the thickness of the entrained film of suspension is captured by the Landau-Levich law using the effective viscosity of the suspension $η(ϕ)$. (iii) At intermediate capillary numbers, the situation becomes more complicated with a heterogeneous coating on the substrate. We rationalize our experimental findings by providing the domain of existence of these three regimes as a function of the fluid and particles properties.
title: Arrow 2: Conditions for break specification
Creators: name: Hollenberg, P.
Publisher: name: Avro Aircraft Limited (Canada). Technical Department
Year: 1958
Subjects: subject: Avro Arrow
subject: Avro Arrow
subject: Avro Canada
subject: A.V. Roe Canada
subject: Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow
subject: CF-105
subject: Canada supersonic jet
subject: avion à réaction supersonique du Canada
subject: delta-winged supersonic interceptor
subject: intercepteur supersonique à ailes delta

description: Distributed online by the National Research Council of Canada
description: Distribué en ligne par le Conseil national de recherches du Canada
Description générale de la Chine WF00002A
Creators: name: Admin, Textcourt
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 430301
subject: Asian history

description: Launched on 1 October 2019 at the University of Oxford, TEXTCOURT: Linking the Textual Worlds of Chinese Court Theater, ca. 1600-1800 is a five-year research project that has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 819953).
title: Europeanization subverted?
title: The European Union’s promotion of good governance and the fight against corruption in the Southern Caucasus
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Börzel, Tanja A.
name: Pamuk, Yasemin
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::320 Politikwissenschaft

description: 1\. Introduction 5 2\. The Dark Side of Europeanization 6 2.1 The Power to Transform (EU Push) 6 2.2 The Disposition to Perform (Domestic Pull) 7 3\. External Push and Domestic Pull in the Southern Caucasus 8 3.1 High Misfit, Prohibitive Costs and Limited EU Push 8 3.2. Weak Pull and Strategic Elites 11 4\. Fighting Corruption in the Southern Caucasus 12 4.1 Introducing Institutional Change 12 4.2 Azerbaijan: Settling Internal Power Struggles 14 4.3 Armenia: Pleasing External Donors 16 4.4 Georgia: Consolidating New Power Structures 17 5\. Conclusions 19 Literature 21
description: In order to foster peace, stability and prosperity in its near abroad, the European Union has invoked the European Neighbourhood Policy that seeks to transform the domestic structures of the Newly Independent States in the post- Soviet space thus building a “ring of friends” that share European norms and principles of democracy, rule of the law, market economy, and good governance. Empirical evidence, however, suggests that the EU’s capacity to hit across its borders and to realize its reform agenda seems limited. Moreover, most neighborhood countries appear to be stuck in transition and suffer from serious problems of both weak state capacity and defect democracy. Hence, EU efforts may also bear the danger of unintended and negative effects on the domestic structures of states, as its policies and institutions do not only empower liberal reform coalitions, to the extent that they exist in the first place, but can also bolster the power of incumbent authoritarian and corrupt elites. This paper intends to capture this “dark side of Europeanization” (Schimmelfennig 2007). It thus conceptualizes ENP as a political opportunity structure that provides opportunities and constraints to both supporters and opponents of the European Union’s reform agenda. Which of the two ultimately get empowered depends not only on the EU’s capacity to push for reforms but also on the pull of domestic actors.
Philautus kaikatti M Kaikatti BNHS
Creators: name: Biju, S. D.
name: Bossuyt, Franky
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Rhacophoridae
Philautus
Philautus kaikatti

description: Philautus kaikatti M Kaikatti BNHS 4557 (HT) 24.2 9.5 9.5 2.8 1.9 3.6 3.7 5.4 sp. nov. M Kaikatti BNHS 4465 (PT) 26.3 9.7 9.7 3.2 2.6 3.6 4.1 5.8
M Kaikatti BNHS 4417 (PT) 25.4 9.8 9.7 3.3 2.4 3.6 3.8 4.9
M Kaikatti BNHS 4466 (PT) 25.8 10.1 9.9 3.1 2.8 3.9 3.7 5.5
M Kaikatti SDB 541 22.8 8.9 8.9 2.8 1.9 3.6 3.8 5.2
 Average 24.9 9.6 9.5 3.0 2.3 3.7 3.8 5.4
 Standard deviation 1.4 0.4 0.4 0.2 0.4 0.1 0.2 0.3
 8.0 8.4 8.1 6.5 7.4 6.8 7.5 0.8
 7.3 8.1 7.3 8.4 6.9 7.6 0.6 13.0 13.3 14.7 14.8 14.5 14.5 12.1 12.0 12.4 12.3
 11.9 12.0 13.1 13.2
 1.2 1.3
12.5 12.7 13.8 13.6 12.7 11.9
 11.5 11.6 12.0 11.8 12.5 12.3
 0.9 0.8 11.2 11.6 11.6
9.4 10.5
 9.4 10.6
 1.0
10.0 10.8 10.1 10.4
 9.5 10.2
 0.5
2 2 2 2 2 2
2 2 2 2 2
  Philautus kani sp.  M Chathankod BNHS 4467 (HT) 20.0 7.6 8.1 2.4 2.0 4.0 3.0 4.7 nov. M Chathankod BNHS 4468 (PT) 21.4 7.2 7.9 2.6 2.1 3.6 3.0 4.3 M Chathankod BNHS 4469 (PT) 18.1 6.6 7.2 2.4 1.9 2.9 2.3 3.7 M Chathankod BNHS 4470 (PT) 21.4 7.0 8.0 2.4 2.0 3.0 3.1 4.7 M Chathankod BNHS 4471 (PT) 19.7 7.2 8.1 2.3 1.7 3.6 2.4 4.7 M Chathankod BNHS 4472 (PT) 22.9 7.7 8.8 2.3 2.2 3.8 3.2 5.1 M Palode BNHS 4473 (PT) 21.0 7.0 7.9 2.7 1.7 2.9 2.4 4.4
5.8 6.4 5.3 5.6 5.2 6.0 5.8 10.6 10.2
9.8 10.2
9.6 11.1 10.6 10.6 10.2
9.9 10.3
9.7 11.0 11.5 8.0 8.5 7.6 8.1 7.5 9.4 8.1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
 Average 20.6 7.2 8.0 2.4 1.9 3.4 2.8 4.5 5.7 Standard deviation 1.5 0.4 0.5 0.2 0.2 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.4 F Chathankod BNHS 4474 (PT) 24.4 8.7 10.2 2.2 2.1 3.6 3.0 5.1 6.4
 Philautus M Kirundadu BNHS 4191 (HT) 27.9 10.0 10.6 3.5 2.5 3.6 3.7 6.1 7.5 luteolus M Kudremukh BNHS 4476 25.6 9.4 9.7 3.5 2.2 3.8 3.7 5.6 7.4 M Kudremukh BNHS 4477 26.4 9.8 9.7 3.2 2.0 4.1 3.5 5.8 7.4 M Mercara BNHS 4478 27.3 9.6 10.1 3.2 2.1 4.2 3.7 5.7 7.3 M Muthodi BNHS 4479 23.8 8.6 8.6 2.8 2.0 3.6 2.9 5.1 6.7 M Sakleshpur BNHS 4480 27.9 9.8 10.0 3.7 2.4 4.2 4.0 5.4 7.0 M Jog falls BNHS 4532 28.6 9.8 10.4 3.1 2.4 4.3 3.3 6.0 8.0 Average 26.8 9.6 9.9 3.3 2.2 4.0 3.5 5.7 7.3 Standard deviation 1.7 0.5 0.7 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.3 0.4
description: Published as part of Biju, S. D. & Bossuyt, Franky, 2009, Systematics and phylogeny of Philautus Gistel, 1848 (Anura, Rhacophoridae) in the Western Ghats of India, with descriptions of 12 new species, pp. 374-444 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 155 (2) on pages 388-389, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00466.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5445358
Description générale de la Chine WF00002B
Creators: name: Admin, Textcourt
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 430301
subject: Asian history

description: Launched on 1 October 2019 at the University of Oxford, TEXTCOURT: Linking the Textual Worlds of Chinese Court Theater, ca. 1600-1800 is a five-year research project that has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 819953).
A Burge tree of Virasoro-type polynomial identities
Creators: name: Foda, Omar
name: Lee, Keith S. M.
name: Welsh, Trevor A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Using a summation formula due to Burge, and a combinatorial identity between partition pairs, we obtain an infinite tree of q-polynomial identities for the Virasoro characters χ^{p, p'}_{r, s}, dependent on two finite size parameters M and N, in the cases where: (i) p and p' are coprime integers that satisfy 0 < p < p'. (ii) If the pair (p', p) has a continued fraction (c_1, c_2, ... , c_{t-1}, c_t+2), where t >= 1, then the pair (s, r) has a continued fraction (c_1, c_2, ... , c_{u-1}, d), where 1 =< u =< t, and 1 =< d =< c_{u}. The limit M -> infinity, for fixed N, and the limit N -> infinity, for fixed M, lead to two independent boson-fermion-type q-polynomial identities: in one case, the bosonic side has a conventional dependence on the parameters that characterise the corresponding character. In the other, that dependence is not conventional. In each case, the fermionic side can also be cast in either of two different forms. Taking the remaining finite size parameter to infinity in either of the above identities, so that M -> infinity and N -> infinity, leads to the same q-series identity for the corresponding character.
description: 47 pages, LaTex, epsf required for single eps file
Accuracy of an estimated core temperature algorithm for agricultural workers
Creators: name: Egbert, Jared
name: Krenz, Jennifer
name: Sampson, Paul D.
name: Jung, Jihoon
name: Calkins, Miriam
name: Zhang, Kai
name: Palmández, Pablo
name: Faestel, Paul
name: Spector, June T.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: There is a substantial burden of occupational health effects from heat exposure. We sought to assess the accuracy of estimated core body temperature (CBTest) derived from an algorithm that uses sequential heart rate and initializing CBT,1 compared with gastrointestinal temperature measured using more invasive ingestible sensors (CBTgi), among outdoor agricultural workers. We analyzed CBTest and CBTgi data from Washington State, USA, pear and apple harvesters collected across one work shift in 2015 (13,413 observations, 35 participants) using Bland Altman methods. The mean (standard deviation, range) CBTgi was 37.7 (0.4, 36.5–39.4)°C. Overall CBT bias (limits of agreement) was −0.14 (±0.76)°C. Biases ranged from −0.006 to −0.75 °C. The algorithm, which does not require the use of ingestible sensors, may be a practical tool in research among groups of workers for evaluating the effectiveness of interventions to prevent adverse occupational heat health effects.
Additional file 3: of Exosomal miR-196a derived from cancer-associated fibroblasts confers cisplatin resistance in head and neck cancer through targeting CDKN1B and ING5
Creators: name: Qin, Xing
name: Guo, Haiyan
name: Wang, Xiaoning
name: Zhu, Xueqin
name: Yan, Ming
name: Wang, Xu
name: Xu, Qin
name: Shi, Jianbo
name: Lu, Eryi
name: Chen, Wantao
name: Zhang, Jianjun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Table S2. Gene ontology analysis revealed 12 candidate genes for miR-196a whose altered expression could contribute to the chemoresistant phenotype. (DOC 40 kb)
Accelerated Schemes for the $L_1/L_2$ Minimization
Creators: name: Wang, Chao
name: Yan, Ming
name: Rahimi, Yaghoub
name: Lou, Yifei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we consider the $L_1/L_2 $ minimization for sparse recovery and study its relationship with the $L_1$-$ αL_2 $ model. Based on this relationship, we propose three numerical algorithms to minimize this ratio model, two of which work as adaptive schemes and greatly reduce the computation time. Focusing on two adaptive schemes, we discuss their connection to existing approaches and analyze their convergence. The experimental results demonstrate the proposed approaches are comparable to the state-of-the-art methods in sparse recovery and work particularly well when the ground-truth signal has a high dynamic range. Lastly, we reveal some empirical evidence on the exact $L_1$ recovery under various combinations of sparsity, coherence, and dynamic ranges, which calls for theoretical justification in the future.
description: 10 pages
Fedosov Deformation Quantization as a BRST Theory
Creators: name: Grigoriev, M. A.
name: Lyakhovich, S. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The relationship is established between the Fedosov deformation quantization of a general symplectic manifold and the BFV-BRST quantization of constrained dynamical systems. The original symplectic manifold $\mathcal M$ is presented as a second class constrained surface in the fibre bundle ${{\mathcal T}^*_ρ}{\mathcal M}$ which is a certain modification of a usual cotangent bundle equipped with a natural symplectic structure. The second class system is converted into the first class one by continuation of the constraints into the extended manifold, being a direct sum of ${{\mathcal T}^*_ρ}{\mathcal M}$ and the tangent bundle $T {\mathcal M}$. This extended manifold is equipped with a nontrivial Poisson bracket which naturally involves two basic ingredients of Fedosov geometry: the symplectic structure and the symplectic connection. The constructed first class constrained theory, being equivalent to the original symplectic manifold, is quantized through the BFV-BRST procedure. The existence theorem is proven for the quantum BRST charge and the quantum BRST invariant observables. The adjoint action of the quantum BRST charge is identified with the Abelian Fedosov connection while any observable, being proven to be a unique BRST invariant continuation for the values defined in the original symplectic manifold, is identified with the Fedosov flat section of the Weyl bundle. The Fedosov fibrewise star multiplication is thus recognized as a conventional product of the quantum BRST invariant observables.
description: Latex2e, 20 pages, minor corrections, references added
La Chine ouverte: aventures dun Fan-Kouei dans le pays de Tsin WF00006A
Creators: name: Admin, Textcourt
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 430301
subject: Asian history

description: Launched on 1 October 2019 at the University of Oxford, TEXTCOURT: Linking the Textual Worlds of Chinese Court Theater, ca. 1600-1800 is a five-year research project that has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 819953).
Monogenic Functions and Representations of Nilpotent Lie Groups in Quantum Mechanics
Creators: name: Cnops, Jan
name: Kisil, Vladimir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 46E20; 22E27, 30G35, 30H05, 46E22, 81R05, 81R30

description: We describe several different representations of nilpotent step two Lie groups in spaces of monogenic Clifford valued functions. We are inspired by the classic representation of the Heisenberg group in the Segal-Bargmann space of holomorphic functions. Connections with quantum mechanics are described. Keywords: Segal-Bargmann space, Heisenberg group, coherent states, wavelet transform, reproducing kernel, nilpotent Lie group, monogenic functions, Dirac operator, Clifford algebra, (second) quantization, quantum field theory.
description: 27 pages; LaTeX2e; no pictures
Additional file 11: of Genetic and morphological divergence at a biogeographic break in the beach-dwelling brooder Excirolana hirsuticauda Menzies (Crustacea, Peracarida)
Creators: name: Haye, Pilar
name: Nicolรกs Segovia
name: Varela, Andrea
name: Rojas, Rodrigo
name: Rivadeneira, Marcelo
name: Thiel, Martin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Data of samples used for body length and morphometric analysis. (DOCX 62 kb)
Availability and Influence of Electronic Resources Usage on Job Satisfaction among Publishing Staff in South-west Nigeria.
Creators: name: Babafemi, Adebayo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Library and Information Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: This study established the extent to which first generation publishing houses in South-west Nigeria have integrated modern electronic resources into the industry. Further, it investigated the degree of usage of electronic resources among the two major production staff in publishing houses. It also correlated the availability of electronic resources with job satisfaction among the staff. The outcome of the study revealed that the level of electronic resources availability was rated high at 130(86.7%) and 118(78.7%) through internet access and search engines respectively. It also revealed that the level of e-information use by staff in publishing firms is rated high at 96(64.0%) and 82(54.7%), in the areas of content pages in electronic journals and content pages of new pages in the e-library respectively. Finally, it established the level of job satisfaction among staff in publishing firms in South-west, Nigeria as follows; 78(52.0%), 27(36.0%) and 80(53.3%), which are ratings for being able to do the job without feeling its morally wrong, the chance for other workers to look to me for direction and being able to do things that don’t go against my conscience very satisfied, respectively. This research recommends that publishers must understand that using new technologies can give companies an edge. New technologies can result in employees “working smarter” as well as providing high-quality products and more efficient services to customers. Also, work, training, programmes and reward systems often need to be reconfigured to support employees’ use of new technology, hence, improving satisfaction in their jobs.
Quantum phases of SrCu2(BO3)2 from high-pressure thermodynamics
Creators: name: Guo, Jing
name: Sun, Guangyu
name: Zhao, Bowen
name: Wang, Ling
name: Hong, Wenshan
name: Sidorov, Vladimir A.
name: Ma, Nvsen
name: Wu, Qi
name: Li, Shiliang
name: Meng, Zi Yang
name: Sandvik, Anders W.
name: Sun, Liling
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report heat capacity measurements of SrCu$_2$(BO$_3$)$_2$ under high pressure along with simulations of relevant quantum spin models and map out the $(P,T)$ phase diagram of the material. We find a first-order quantum phase transition between the low-pressure quantum dimer paramagnet and a phase with signatures of a plaquette-singlet state below T = $2$ K. At higher pressures, we observe a transition into a previously unknown antiferromagnetic state below $4$ K. Our findings can be explained within the two-dimensional Shastry-Sutherland quantum spin model supplemented by weak inter-layer couplings. The possibility to tune SrCu$_2$(BO$_3$)$_2$ between the plaquette-singlet and antiferromagnetic states opens opportunities for experimental tests of quantum field theories and lattice models involving fractionalized excitations, emergent symmetries, and gauge fluctuations.
description: 6 pages + 8 pages supplemental information
Additional file 1: of Cultural beliefs about breast cancer in Vietnamese women
Creators: name: Kim, Jong
name: Hong, Hye
name: Hyeonkyeong Lee
name: Ferrans, Carol
name: Kim, Eun-Mi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Breast Cancer Cultural Beliefs Scale. (DOCX 16 kb)
Computation of Light Scattering in Young Stellar Objects
Creators: name: Lucas, P. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A Monte Carlo light scattering code incorporating aligned non-spherical particles is described. The major effects on the flux distribution, linear polarisation and circular polarisation are presented, with emphasis on the application to Young Stellar Objects (YSOs). The need for models with non-spherical particles in order to successfully model polarisation data is reviewed. The ability of this type of model to map magnetic field structure in embedded YSOs is described. The possible application to the question of the origin of biomolecular homochirality via UV circular polarisation in star forming regions is also briefly discussed.
description: Accepted by The Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer. Replaced version corrects an error in the definition of the sense of Cpol in the published version and other minor errors found at the proof stage
Adaptive Hierarchical Down-Sampling for Point Cloud Classification
Creators: name: Nezhadarya, Ehsan
name: Taghavi, Ehsan
name: Razani, Ryan
name: Liu, Bingbing
name: Luo, Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: While several convolution-like operators have recently been proposed for extracting features out of point clouds, down-sampling an unordered point cloud in a deep neural network has not been rigorously studied. Existing methods down-sample the points regardless of their importance for the output. As a result, some important points in the point cloud may be removed, while less valuable points may be passed to the next layers. In contrast, adaptive down-sampling methods sample the points by taking into account the importance of each point, which varies based on the application, task and training data. In this paper, we propose a permutation-invariant learning-based adaptive down-sampling layer, called Critical Points Layer (CPL), which reduces the number of points in an unordered point cloud while retaining the important points. Unlike most graph-based point cloud down-sampling methods that use $k$-NN search algorithm to find the neighbouring points, CPL is a global down-sampling method, rendering it computationally very efficient. The proposed layer can be used along with any graph-based point cloud convolution layer to form a convolutional neural network, dubbed CP-Net in this paper. We introduce a CP-Net for $3$D object classification that achieves the best accuracy for the ModelNet$40$ dataset among point cloud-based methods, which validates the effectiveness of the CPL.
The deformed Virasoro algebra at roots of unity
Creators: name: Bouwknegt, P.
name: Pilch, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss some aspects of the representation theory of the deformed Virasoro algebra $\virpq$. In particular, we give a proof of the formula for the Kac determinant and then determine the center of $\virpq$ for $q$ a primitive N-th root of unity. We derive explicit expressions for the generators of the center in the limit $t=qp^{-1}\to \infty$ and elucidate the connection to the Hall-Littlewood symmetric functions. Furthermore, we argue that for $q=\sqrtN{1}$ the algebra describes `Gentile statistics' of order $N-1$, i.e., a situation in which at most $N-1$ particles can occupy the same state.
description: 51 pages, TeX (with amssym.def)
Absorption of Axion Dark Matter in a Magnetized Medium
Creators: name: Berlin, Asher
name: Trickle, Tanner
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Detection of axion dark matter heavier than a meV is hindered by its small wavelength, which limits the useful volume of traditional experiments. This problem can be avoided by directly detecting in-medium excitations, whose $\sim \text{meV} - \text{eV}$ energies are decoupled from the detector size. We show that for any target inside a magnetic field, the absorption rate of electromagnetically-coupled axions into in-medium excitations is determined by the dielectric function. As a result, the plethora of candidate targets previously identified for sub-GeV dark matter searches can be repurposed as broadband axion detectors. We find that a $\text{kg} \cdot \text{yr}$ exposure with noise levels comparable to recent measurements is sufficient to probe parameter space currently unexplored by laboratory tests. Noise reduction by only a few orders of magnitude can enable sensitivity to the QCD axion in the $\sim 10 \ \text{meV} - 10 \ \text{eV}$ mass range.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures
Does information form(at) matter? Consumer response to mortgage disclosures
Creators: Phan, Minh Q.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Finance
Economics
Consumer protection--Information services
Mortgage loans
Credit cards

description: On October 3rd, 2015, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau changed the presentation of information within mortgage disclosures such that monthly payments and upfront costs are more salient. Using proprietary bank account data, I document that after closing on the mortgage, treated consumers receiving the re-designed disclosures log in more into their liquid checking accounts, spend less on debit cards and cash, but spend more on credit cards. I argue that the more salient disclosures caused consumers to prioritize having funds to make monthly obligations. Accordingly, I find that liquidity constrained consumers reallocate more of their debit card and cash spending to credit card spending. Other channels related to underestimation of mortgage costs, financial advice, and regulatory enforcement cannot fully explain the results. The reform beneﬁts consumers as they do not accumulate credit card charges despite making more timely mortgage payments. The results collectively demonstrate that modifying information presentation is a low-cost way to change consumers’ behaviors.
ReeFRAME: Reeb Graph based Trajectory Analysis Framework to Capture Top-Down and Bottom-Up Patterns of Life
Creators: name: Gudavalli, Chandrakanth
name: Zhang, Bowen
name: Levenson, Connor
name: Lore, Kin Gwn
name: Manjunath, B. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we present ReeFRAME, a scalable Reeb graph-based framework designed to analyze vast volumes of GPS-enabled human trajectory data generated at 1Hz frequency. ReeFRAME models Patterns-of-life (PoL) at both the population and individual levels, utilizing Multi-Agent Reeb Graphs (MARGs) for population-level patterns and Temporal Reeb Graphs (TERGs) for individual trajectories. The framework's linear algorithmic complexity relative to the number of time points ensures scalability for anomaly detection. We validate ReeFRAME on six large-scale anomaly detection datasets, simulating real-time patterns with up to 500,000 agents over two months.
description: GeoAnomalies Workshop @ ACM Sigspatial 2024
Solar supergranulation as a wavelike phenomenon
Creators: name: Gizon, L.
name: Duvall, T. L.
name: Schou, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Supergranulation on the surface of the Sun is an organized cellular flow pattern with a characteristic scale of 30 Mm. It is superficially similar to the well understood granulation that operates at the 1.5 Mm natural scale of convection, which has led to the conventional view that supergranulation has its origin in the convective motion of cells of gas, though this does not explain the observation that the supergranulation pattern appears to move faster around the Sun than the bulk of its surface. A wave origin has been proposed for supergranulation that may explain the superrotation, but it has never had much support. Here we report that the supergranulation pattern has oscillatory components with periods of 5-10 days, for which the best explanation is a spectrum of traveling waves. We show that there is excess power in the prograde and equatorward directions, which explains the observation of superrotation.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
title: Arrow 2 maintenance instructions: jacking the Arrow 2
Creators: name: Brockie, W. M.
Publisher: name: Avro Aircraft Limited (Canada)
Year: 1958
Subjects: subject: Avro Arrow
subject: Avro Arrow
subject: Avro Canada
subject: A.V. Roe Canada
subject: Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow
subject: CF-105
subject: Canada supersonic jet
subject: avion à réaction supersonique du Canada
subject: delta-winged supersonic interceptor
subject: intercepteur supersonique à ailes delta
subject: maintenance and repair
subject: entretien et réparation

description: Distributed online by the National Research Council of Canada
description: Distribué en ligne par le Conseil national de recherches du Canada
title: Model specification for Arrow 2 airframe and government supplied material installations (serial no. 25206)
Creators: name: Avro Aircraft Limited (Canada). Model Specifications Section. Project Management Services
Publisher: name: Avro Aircraft Limited (Canada). Model Specifications Section. Project Management Services
Year: 1959
Subjects: subject: Avro Arrow
subject: Avro Arrow
subject: Avro Canada
subject: A.V. Roe Canada
subject: Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow
subject: CF-105
subject: Canada supersonic jet
subject: avion à réaction supersonique du Canada
subject: delta-winged supersonic interceptor
subject: intercepteur supersonique à ailes delta
subject: design and construction
subject: conception et construction

description: Distributed online by the National Research Council of Canada
description: Distribué en ligne par le Conseil national de recherches du Canada
Additional file 1: of MicroRNA expression profile of HCT-8 cells in the early phase of Cryptosporidium parvum infection
Creators: name: Wang, Chenrong
name: Liu, Limin
name: Zhu, Huili
name: Zhang, Lu
name: Wang, Rongjun
name: Zhang, Zhenjie
name: Huang, Jianying
name: Zhang, Sumei
name: Jian, Fuchun
name: Ning, Changshen
name: Zhang, Longxian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Figure S1. GO analysis of targets of differentially expressed miRNAs involved in the regulation of apoptotic processes and the immune response. (PDF 521 kb)
Does government favor high end housing development around a representative TOD project
Creators: Wang, Qihao
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Transit-oriented development
City planning
City planning--Transportation
Housing development--Costs
Local transit--Planning

description: Facing the constraints on land use, energy resource and environment, Shenzhen has employed Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) for over a decade, with an expectation to transform its development pattern, including establishing efficient urban morphology with low cost, enhancing economic benefits of land use, preventing unreasonable urban sprawl, and encouraging public transit use. One particular pattern of TOD in Shenzhen is to bring up surrounding land development by urban rail transit. However, a representative TOD project - the first phase of Shenzhen NO.2 metro line which is one of the earliest TOD project in Shenzhen is underperforming owing to current lower ridership in several representative TOD stations than expected. But comparatively, residents in the nearby densely populated neighborhoods don't have easy accesses to rail transit like NO.2 metro line. The objective of the thesis is to explore why government planned a speculative TOD rail transit line through a reclamation zone and whether the government favors high end housing development around the project while not improving transit accesses to the densely populated neighborhoods nearby.
Relevant planning documents of the project and the study area are reviewed to summarize the key guidelines and expectations for TOD of the study area. Moreover, based on Shenzhen TOD Guide and Standard, built environment of several TOD represented stations are evaluated quantitatively. Social demographics data are collected and analyzed by descriptive statistics, in order to define and assess transit equity in the research. Interviews of a government official from transportation department and a practitioner who led the projects are conducted so as to further understand the initial purpose of the TOD project, institutional and transit equity issues of the study area. Conclusions are drawn as what expectations of the TOD project are, what factors that result in high end housing development are, considerations for transit equity in study region, and what lessons the relevant agencies should learn with regard to the issues.
title: Arrow 1. Function test procedure: utility hydraulic system
Creators: name: Moors, J.
Publisher: name: Avro Aircraft Limited (Canada). Technical Department
Year: 1957
Subjects: subject: Avro Arrow
subject: Avro Arrow
subject: Avro Canada
subject: A.V. Roe Canada
subject: Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow
subject: CF-105
subject: Canada supersonic jet
subject: avion à réaction supersonique du Canada
subject: delta-winged supersonic interceptor
subject: intercepteur supersonique à ailes delta

description: Distributed online by the National Research Council of Canada
description: Distribué en ligne par le Conseil national de recherches du Canada
Relativistic wave equations with fractional derivatives and pseudo-differential operators
Creators: name: Zavada, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The class of the free relativistic covariant equations generated by the fractional powers of the D'Alambertian operator $(\square^{1/n})$ is studied. Meanwhile the equations corresponding to n=1 and 2 (Klein-Gordon and Dirac equations) are local in their nature, the multicomponent equations for arbitrary n>2 are non-local. It is shown, how the representation of generalized algebra of Pauli and Dirac matrices looks like and how these matrices are related to the algebra of SU(n) group. The corresponding representations of the Poincaré group and further symmetry transformations on the obtained equations are discussed. The construction of the related Green functions is suggested.
description: 29 pages, Tex. In the corrected version a small bug in cross-references to some equations is removed. Minor text corrections are done and some references are added
Real-Time Quality Assessment of Pediatric MRI via Semi-Supervised Deep Nonlocal Residual Neural Networks
Creators: name: Liu, Siyuan
name: Thung, Kim-Han
name: Lin, Weili
name: Yap, Pew-Thian
name: Shen, Dinggang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we introduce an image quality assessment (IQA) method for pediatric T1- and T2-weighted MR images. IQA is first performed slice-wise using a nonlocal residual neural network (NR-Net) and then volume-wise by agglomerating the slice QA results using random forest. Our method requires only a small amount of quality-annotated images for training and is designed to be robust to annotation noise that might occur due to rater errors and the inevitable mix of good and bad slices in an image volume. Using a small set of quality-assessed images, we pre-train NR-Net to annotate each image slice with an initial quality rating (i.e., pass, questionable, fail), which we then refine by semi-supervised learning and iterative self-training. Experimental results demonstrate that our method, trained using only samples of modest size, exhibit great generalizability, capable of real-time (milliseconds per volume) large-scale IQA with near-perfect accuracy.
Canonical Basis and Macdonald Polynomials
Creators: name: Beck, Jonathan
name: Frenkel, Igor
name: Jing, Naihuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 17B, 05

description: In the basic representation of $U_q(\hat{sl}(2))$ realized via the algebra of symmetric functions we compare the canonical basis with the basis of Macdonald polynomials with $q=t^2$. We show that the Macdonald polynomials are invariant with respect to the bar involution defined abstractly on the representations of quantum groups. We also prove that the Macdonald scalar product coincides with the abstract Kashiwara form. This implies, in particular, that the Macdonald polynomials form an intermediate basis between the canonical basis and the dual canonical basis, and the coefficients of the transition matrix are necessarily bar invariant. We also discuss the positivity and integrality of these coefficients. For level $k$, we expect a similar relation between the canonical basis and Macdonald polynomials with $q^2=t^{k}.$
description: 25 pages, Latex2e. Advances in Math, to appear
An Efficient and effective image decolorization algorithm based on cumulative distribution function
Creators: name: Wu, Tirui
name: Eising, Ciarán
name: Glavin, Martin
name: Jones, Edward
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 40
subject: Engineering

description: Abstract: Image decolorization is an image pre-processing step which is widely used in image analysis, computer vision, and printing applications. The most commonly used methods give each color channel (e.g., the R component in RGB format, or the Y component of an image in CIE-XYZ format) a constant weight without considering image content. This approach is simple and fast, but it may cause significant information loss when images contain too many isoluminant colors. In this paper, we propose a new method which is not only efficient, but also can preserve a higher level of image contrast and detail than the traditional methods. It uses the information from the cumulative distribution function (CDF) of the information in each color channel to compute a weight for each pixel in each color channel. Then, these weights are used to combine the three color channels (red, green, and blue) to obtain the final grayscale value. The algorithm works in RGB color space directly without any color conversion. In order to evaluate the proposed algorithm objectively, two new metrics are also developed. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can run as efficiently as the traditional methods and obtain the best overall performance across four different metrics
title: Arrow I antenna tests: report on background & progress
title: Arrow I antenna test: report on background and progress
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Avro Aircraft Limited (Canada)
Publisher: name: Avro Aircraft Limited (Canada)
Year: 1958
Subjects: subject: Avro Arrow
subject: Avro Arrow
subject: Avro Canada
subject: A.V. Roe Canada
subject: Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow
subject: CF-105
subject: Canada supersonic jet
subject: avion à réaction supersonique du Canada
subject: delta-winged supersonic interceptor
subject: intercepteur supersonique à ailes delta

description: Corporate author and publisher are assumed to be "Avro Aircraft Limited (Canada)" by the National Research Council of Canada.
description: L'auteur et l'éditeur sont présumé d'être « Avro Aircraft Limited (Canada) » par le Conseil national de recherches du Canada.
description: Distributed online by the National Research Council of Canada
description: Distribué en ligne par le Conseil national de recherches du Canada
An ultrastable and robust single-photon emitter in hexagonal boron nitride
Creators: name: Liu, Wei
name: Wang, Yi-Tao
name: Li, Zhi-Peng
name: Yu, Shang
name: Ke, Zhi-Jin
name: Meng, Yu
name: Tang, Jian-Shun
name: Li, Chuan-Feng
name: Guo, Guang-Can
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum emitters in van der Waals (vdW) materials have attracted lots of attentions in recent years, and shown great potentials to be fabricated as quantum photonic nanodevices. Especially, the single photon emitter (SPE) in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) emerges with the outstanding room-temperature quantum performances, whereas the ubiquitous blinking and bleaching restrict its practical applications and investigations critically. The blister in vdW materials possessing stable structure can modify the local bandgap by strains on nanoscale, which is supposed to have the ability to fix this photostability problem. Here we report a blister-induced high-purity SPE in hBN under ambient conditions showing stable quantum-emitting performances, and no evidence of blinking and bleaching for one year. Remarkably, we observe the nontrivial successive activating and quenching dynamical process of the fluorescent defects at the SPE region under low pressures for the first time, and the robust recoverability of the SPE after turning back to the atmospheric pressure. The pressure-tuned performance indicates the SPE origins from the lattice defect isolated and activated by the strain induced from the blister, and sheds lights on the future high-performance quantum sources based on hBN.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures
Additional file 5: of Directed Repeats Co-occur with Few Short-Dispersed Repeats in Plastid Genome of a Spikemoss, Selaginella vardei (Selaginellaceae, Lycopodiopsida)
Creators: name: Zhang, Hong-Rui
name: Zhang, Xian-Chun
name: Xiang, Qiao-Ping
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Figure S5. Screened PacBio reads of S. tamariscina showing evidence of the existence of subgenomes in plastomes with DR. a: the simplified plastome structure of S. tamariscina based on Xu et al. (2018); b, c: the simplified subgenome structure of plastomes with DR, supported by the screened PacBio reads of S. tamariscina plastome as listed. (PDF 29 kb)
Deep Convolutional Neural Network and Sparse Least Squares Migration
Creators: name: Liu, Zhaolun
name: Chen, Yuqing
name: Schuster, Gerard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We recast the forward pass of a multilayered convolutional neural network (CNN) as the solution to the problem of sparse least squares migration (LSM). The CNN filters and feature maps are shown to be analogous, but not equivalent, to the migration Green's functions and the quasi-reflectivity distribution, respectively. This provides a physical interpretation of the filters and feature maps in deep CNN in terms of the operators for seismic imaging. Motivated by the connection between sparse LSM and CNN, we propose the neural network version of sparse LSM. Unlike the standard LSM method that finds the optimal reflectivity image, neural network LSM (NNLSM) finds both the optimal quasi-reflectivity image and the quasi-migration Green's functions. These quasi-migration-Green's functions are also denoted as the convolutional filters in a CNN and are similar to migration Green's functions. The advantage of NNLSM over standard LSM is that its computational cost is significantly less and it can be used for denoising coherent and incoherent noise in migration images. Its disadvantage is that the NNLSM quasi-reflectivity image is only an approximation to the actual reflectivity distribution. However, the quasi-reflectivity image can be used as a superresolution attribute image for high-resolution delineation of geologic bodies.
description: 25 pages, 13 figures