cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Women’s appraisal, interpretation and help-seeking for possible symptoms of breast and cervical cancer in South Africa: a qualitative study
Creators: name: Harries, Jane
name: Scott, Suzanne E.
name: Walter, Fiona M.
name: Mwaka, Amos D.
name: Moodley, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Research Article
Women's public health issues
Breast cancer
Cervical cancer
Qualitative research methods
South Africa
Symptom appraisal
Help-seeking

description: Funder: South African Medical Research Council; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001322
description: Funder: University of Cape Town; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100007112
description: Funder: Cancer Association of South Africa
description: Funder: UK Medical Research Council
description: Abstract: Background: In South Africa, breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer and cervical cancer the leading cause of cancer mortality. Most cancers are diagnosed at a late-stage and following symptomatic presentation. The overall purpose of the study was to inform interventions aimed at improving timely diagnosis of breast and cervical cancer. Methods: In-depth interviews were conducted with women with potential breast or cervical cancer symptoms from urban and rural South Africa. Participants were recruited from a community-based cross-sectional study on breast and cervical cancer awareness. Data were analysed using a thematic analysis approach. Results: Eighteen women were interviewed (10 urban, 8 rural): the median age was 34.5 years (range 22–58). Most were unemployed, and five were HIV positive. Themes included impact and attribution of bodily changes; influence of social networks and health messaging in help-seeking; management of symptoms and help-seeking barriers. Breast changes were often attributed to manual activities or possible cancer. Women were often unsure how to interpret vaginal symptoms, attributing them to HIV, hormonal contraceptives, or partner infidelity. Concerns about cancer were based on health information from the radio, social networks, or from primary care providers. Prompt care seeking was triggered by impact of symptoms on personal lives. Rural women, especially with possible symptoms of cervical cancer, experienced challenges during help-seeking including judgmental attitudes of clinic staff. Most participants were skeptical of traditional medicine. Conclusions: This is the first study exploring interpretation of possible breast and cervical cancer symptoms at a community level in South Africa. The process of interpreting bodily changes, symptom attribution and help-seeking is complex and influenced by women’s everyday life experiences. Timely diagnosis interventions should not only include cancer symptom awareness but also address individual, structural and health systems related barriers to care.
Evaluation of a Concept Mapping Task Using Named Entity Recognition and Normalization in Unstructured Clinical Text
Creators: name: Trivedi, Sapna
name: Gildersleeve, Roger
name: Franco, Sandra
name: Kanter, Andrew S.
name: Chaudhry, Afzal
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Research Article
Natural language processing
Named entity recognition
Clinical letters
Gold standard
Text mining
Annotation

description: Abstract: In this pilot study, we explore the feasibility and accuracy of using a query in a commercial natural language processing engine in a named entity recognition and normalization task to extract a wide spectrum of clinical concepts from free text clinical letters. Editorial guidance developed by two independent clinicians was used to annotate sixty anonymized clinic letters to create the gold standard. Concepts were categorized by semantic type, and labels were applied to indicate contextual attributes such as negation. The natural language processing (NLP) engine was Linguamatics I2E version 5.3.1, equipped with an algorithm for contextualizing words and phrases and an ontology of terms from Intelligent Medical Objects to which those tokens were mapped. Performance of the engine was assessed on a training set of the documents using precision, recall, and the F1 score, with subset analysis for semantic type, accurate negation, exact versus partial conceptual matching, and discontinuous text. The engine underwent tuning, and the final performance was determined for a test set. The test set showed an F1 score of 0.81 and 0.84 using strict and relaxed criteria respectively when appropriate negation was not required and 0.75 and 0.77 when it was. F1 scores were higher when concepts were derived from continuous text only. This pilot study showed that a commercially available NLP engine delivered good overall results for identifying a wide spectrum of structured clinical concepts. Such a system holds promise for extracting concepts from free text to populate problem lists or for data mining projects.
Evaluating the Mean-Gini Approach to Portfolio Selection
Creators: name: Shalit, Haim
name: Yitzhaki, Shlomo
name: Shalit, Haim
name: Yitzhaki, Shlomo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1985
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Portfolio theory
subject: optimal portfolio selection
subject: mean-Gini analysis
subject: mean-extended Gini
subject: mean variance portfolio

description: This paper evaluates the empirical properties of the mean-Gini (MG) and the mean-extended Gini (MEG) efficient sets by comparing their performance to the mean-variance (MV) portfolio selection. The analysis focuses on the similarities and differences existing between the MV, the MG, and the various MEG efficient sets. In addition, the risk parameter for which the MEG efficient set is best supported by the market data is estimated. The analysis is carried out with respect to the Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange to present empirically a new approach to portfolio selection.
Listronotus nebulosus LeConte 1876
Creators: name: Morrone, Juan J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Listronotus
Listronotus nebulosus

description: Listronotus nebulosus LeConte, 1876
 Listronotus sulcirostris LeConte, 1876: 132 (type locality: USA: Georgia; type material: S: 2 MCZ); Henderson, 1940: 301 (= L. nebulosus).
 Listronotus nebulosus LeConte, 1876: 133 (type locality: USA: Missouri; type material: H: MCZ).
 Distribution. USA (O’Brien and Wibmer, 1982).
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 43, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3119.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5246257
Homogeneous fluxes, branes and a maximally supersymmetric solution of M-theory
Creators: name: Figueroa-O'Farrill, Jose
name: Papadopoulos, George
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We find M-theory solutions with homogeneous fluxes for which the spacetime is a lorentzian symmetric space. We show that generic solutions preserve sixteen supersymmetries and that there are two special points in their moduli space of parameters which preserve all thirty-two supersymmetries. We calculate the symmetry superalgebra of all these solutions. We then construct various M-theory and string theory branes with homogeneous fluxes and we also find new homogeneous flux-brane solutions.
description: 25 pages, no figures (v2: minor typos corrected and one reference added)
MDC1 PST-repeat region promotes histone H2AX-independent chromatin association and DNA damage tolerance
Creators: name: Salguero, Israel
name: Belotserkovskaya, Rimma
name: Coates, Julia
name: Sczaniecka-Clift, Matylda
name: Demir, Mukerrem
name: Jhujh, Satpal
name: Wilson, Marcus D.
name: Jackson, Stephen P.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Article
/631/80
/631/337
/13/31
/13/106
/13/109
/14/19
/14/34
/14/63
/42/35
/42/41
/42/44
/42/109
article

description: Abstract: Histone H2AX and MDC1 are key DNA repair and DNA-damage signalling proteins. When DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) occur, H2AX is phosphorylated and then recruits MDC1, which in turn serves as a docking platform to promote the localization of other factors, including 53BP1, to DSB sites. Here, by using CRISPR-Cas9 engineered human cell lines, we identify a hitherto unknown, H2AX-independent, function of MDC1 mediated by its PST-repeat region. We show that the PST-repeat region directly interacts with chromatin via the nucleosome acidic patch and mediates DNA damage-independent association of MDC1 with chromatin. We find that this region is largely functionally dispensable when the canonical γH2AX-MDC1 pathway is operative but becomes critical for 53BP1 recruitment to DNA-damage sites and cell survival following DSB induction when H2AX is not available. Consequently, our results suggest a role for MDC1 in activating the DDR in areas of the genome lacking or depleted of H2AX.
Listronotus novellus
Creators: name: Morrone, Juan J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Listronotus
Listronotus novellus

description: Listronotus novellus (Blatchley, 1916)
 Hyperodes novellus Blatchley, 1916: 174 (type locality: USA: Florida, Dunedin and Sarasota; type material: L, 5 PL: PURC); Blatchley, 1930: 40.
 Listronotus novellus; O’Brien and Wibmer, 1982: 69.
 Distribution. USA: Florida (O’Brien and Wibmer, 1982; Anderson, 1992).
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 43, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3119.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5246257
Listronotus ornatipennis
Creators: name: Morrone, Juan J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Listronotus
Listronotus ornatipennis

description: Listronotus ornatipennis (Blanchard, 1851)
 Phytonomus ornatipennis Blanchard, 1851: 371 (type locality: Chile: Coquimbo; type material: type material: H: MNHN).
 Hyperodes ornatipennis; Kuschel, 1950: 14.
 Listronotus ornatipennis; O’Brien, 1979: 267.
 Distribution. Chile (Wibmer and O'Brien, 1986).
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 44, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3119.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5246257
Two Secreted Proteoglycans, Activators of Urothelial Cell–Cell Adhesion, Negatively Contribute to Bladder Cancer Initiation and Progression
Creators: name: Papadaki, Vasiliki
name: Asada, Ken
name: Watson, Julie K.
name: Tamura, Toshiya
name: Leung, Alex
name: Hopkins, Jack
name: Dellett, Margaret
name: Sasai, Noriaki
name: Davaapil, Hongorzul
name: Nik-Zainal, Serena
name: Longbottom, Rebecca
name: Nakakido, Makoto
name: Torii, Ryo
name: Veerakumarasivam, Abhi
name: Kaneko, Syuzo
name: Sagoo, Mandeep S.
name: Murphy, Gillian
name: Mitani, Akihisa
name: Tsumoto, Kohei
name: Kelly, John D.
name: Hamamoto, Ryuji
name: Ohnuma, Shin-Ichi
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: OMD
PRELP
tumor suppression gene
bladder cancer initiation
tight junction
partial EMT

description: Osteomodulin (OMD) and proline/arginine-rich end leucine repeat protein (PRELP) are secreted extracellular matrix proteins belonging to the small leucine-rich proteoglycans family. We found that OMD and PRELP were specifically expressed in umbrella cells in bladder epithelia, and their expression levels were dramatically downregulated in all bladder cancers from very early stages and various epithelial cancers. Our in vitro studies including gene expression profiling using bladder cancer cell lines revealed that OMD or PRELP application suppressed the cancer progression by inhibiting TGF-β and EGF pathways, which reversed epithelial−mesenchymal transition (EMT), activated cell−cell adhesion, and inhibited various oncogenic pathways. Furthermore, the overexpression of OMD in bladder cancer cells strongly inhibited the anchorage-independent growth and tumorigenicity in mouse xenograft studies. On the other hand, we found that in the bladder epithelia, the knockout mice of OMD and/or PRELP gene caused partial EMT and a loss of tight junctions of the umbrella cells and resulted in formation of a bladder carcinoma in situ-like structure by spontaneous breakdowns of the umbrella cell layer. Furthermore, the ontological analysis of the expression profiling of an OMD knockout mouse bladder demonstrated very high similarity with those obtained from human bladder cancers. Our data indicate that OMD and PRELP are endogenous inhibitors of cancer initiation and progression by controlling EMT. OMD and/or PRELP may have potential for the treatment of bladder cancer.
Scale-independent mixing angles
Creators: name: Espinosa, J. R.
name: Navarro, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A radiatively-corrected mixing angle has to be independent of the choice of renormalization scale to be a physical observable. At one-loop in MS-bar, this only occurs for a particular value, p*, of the external momentum in the two-point functions used to define the mixing angle: p*^2=(M1^2+M2^2)/2, where M1, M2 are the physical masses of the two mixed particles. We examine two important applications of this to the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model: the mixing angle for a) neutral Higgs bosons and b) stops. We find that this choice of external momentum improves the scale independence (and therefore provides a more reliable determination) of these mixing angles.
description: 14 pages, 11 ps figures Version to appear in PRD
Additional file 2 of Fasciola gigantica tegumental calcium-binding EF-hand protein 4 exerts immunomodulatory effects on goat monocytes
Creators: name: Ehsan, Muhammad
name: Rui-Si Hu
name: Hou, Jun-Ling
name: Elsheikha, Hany M.
name: Li, Xiao-Dong
name: Pan-Hong Liang
name: Zhu, Xing-Quan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 2: Figure S1. N-terminal signal peptide prediction. The amino acid sequences of Fg-CaBP4 (GenBank: JN604670.1) was used to predict N-terminal signal peptides by the SignalP 4.1 Server. Figure S2. Fg-CaBP4 (GenBank: JN604670.1) was used to identify N-glycosylation sites. The consecutive amino acids in the sequence of Asn-Xaa-Ser/Thr are shown in blue. Asn predicted to be N-glycosylated is shown in red. Proteins without signal peptides are unlikely to be exposed to the N-glycosylation machinery and thus may not be glycosylated, even though they contain potential motifs. Figure S3. Transmembrane domain prediction using TMHMM Server v.2.0. The amino acid sequences of Fg-CaBP4 (GenBank: JN604670.1) was analyzed to predict transmembrane domain structure. There were no transmembrane domains predicted in this protein structure. Figure S4. Prediction of B cell epitopes for Fg-CaBP4. Protein sequence (GenBank: JN604670.1) was used for B cell epitope prediction using Bepipred Linear Epitope Prediction 2.0, which revealed 7 peptides of B cell epitopes. Figure S5. Protein sequence of Fg-CaBP4 (GenBank: JN604670.1) was used for prediction of T cell motifs. This analysis identified 12 potential epitopes in the target sequence.
Chandra Observation of a 300 kpc Hydrodynamic Instability in the Intergalactic Medium of the Merging Cluster of Galaxies A3667
Creators: name: Mazzotta, Pasquale
name: Fusco-Femiano, Roberto
name: Vikhlinin, Alexey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results from the combination of two Chandra pointings of the central region of the cluster of galaxies A3667. From the data analysis of the first pointing Vikhlinin et al. reported the discovery of a prominent cold front which is interpreted as the boundary of a cool gas cloud moving through the hotter ambient gas. Vikhlinin et al. discussed the role of the magnetic fields in maintaining the apparent dynamical stability of the cold front over a wide sector at the forward edge of the moving cloud and suppressing transport processes across the front. In this Letter, we identify two new features in the X-ray image of A3667: i) a 300 kpc arc-like filamentary X-ray excess extending from the cold gas cloud border into the hotter ambient gas; ii) a similar arc-like filamentary X-ray depression that develops inside the gas cloud. The temperature map suggests that the temperature of the filamentary excess is consistent with that inside the gas cloud while the temperature of the depression is consistent with that of the ambient gas. We suggest that the observed features represent the first evidence for the development of a large scale hydrodynamic instability in the cluster atmosphere resulting from a major merger. This result confirms previous claims for the presence of a moving cold gas cloud into the hotter ambient gas. Moreover it shows that, although the gas mixing is suppressed at the leading edge of the subcluster due to its magnetic structure, strong turbulent mixing occurs at larger angles to the direction of motion. We show that this mixing process may favor the deposition of a nonnegligible quantity of thermal energy right in the cluster center, affecting the development of the central cooling flow.
description: Replaced to match version accepted for publication in ApJL; some changes on text. 4 pages, 3 color figures and 2 BW figures, emulateapj5
Dynamic Behavior of Dengue and Zika viruses NS1 protein reveals monomer-monomer interaction mechanisms and insights to rational drug design
Creators: name: Gonçalves, Ricardo Lemes
name: Menezes, Gabriela De Lima
name: Sussuchi, Luciane
name: Moreli, Marcos Lázaro
name: Mottin, Melina
name: Andrade, Carolina Horta
name: Maristela Pereira
name: Silva, Roosevelt Alves Da
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Dynamic Behavior of Dengue and Zika viruses NS1 protein reveals monomer-monomer interaction mechanisms and insights to rational drug design
Additional file 1 of The impact of a ‘milking the COW’ campaign in a regional hospital in Singapore
Creators: name: Pada, Surinder Kaur M. S.
name: Poh Lishi
name: Ng, Kim Sim
name: Sarathamani Rethenam
name: Alenton, Lilibeth Silagan
name: Poh Ling Chee
name: Guo, Wilma
name: Hsann, Yin Maw
name: Cheng, Carmen Wan Rong
name: Chiou Horng Ong
name: Ratnayake Lasantha
name: Chan, Douglas
name: Tambyah, Paul Anantharajah
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Summary of studies investigating the levels of contamination on electronic devices
MAVSec: Securing the MAVLink Protocol for Ardupilot/PX4 Unmanned Aerial Systems
Creators: name: Allouch, Azza
name: Cheikhrouhou, Omar
name: Koubaa, Anis
name: Khalgui, Mohamed
name: Abbes, Tarek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The MAVLink is a lightweight communication protocol between Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and ground control stations (GCSs). It defines a set of bi-directional messages exchanged between a UAV (aka drone) and a ground station. The messages carry out information about the UAV's states and control commands sent from the ground station. However, the MAVLink protocol is not secure and has several vulnerabilities to different attacks that result in critical threats and safety concerns. Very few studies provided solutions to this problem. In this paper, we discuss the security vulnerabilities of the MAVLink protocol and propose MAVSec, a security-integrated mechanism for MAVLink that leverages the use of encryption algorithms to ensure the protection of exchanged MAVLink messages between UAVs and GCSs. To validate MAVSec, we implemented it in Ardupilot and evaluated the performance of different encryption algorithms (i.e. AES-CBC, AES-CTR, RC4, and ChaCha20) in terms of memory usage and CPU consumption. The experimental results show that ChaCha20 has a better performance and is more efficient than other encryption algorithms. Integrating ChaCha20 into MAVLink can guarantee its messages confidentiality, without affecting its performance, while occupying less memory and CPU consumption, thus, preserving memory and saving the battery for the resource-constrained drone.
description: The paper is accepted in the International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC) in Morocco, June 2019
Multiple-Trace Operators and Non-Local String Theories
Creators: name: Aharony, Ofer
name: Berkooz, Micha
name: Silverstein, Eva
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose that a novel deformation of string perturbation theory, involving non-local interactions between strings, is required to describe the gravity duals of field theories deformed by multiple-trace operators. The new perturbative expansion involves a new parameter, which is neither the string coupling nor the coefficient of a vertex operator on the worldsheet. We explore some of the properties of this deformation, focusing on a special case where the deformation in the field theory is exactly marginal.
description: 21 pages, harvmac big. v2: references added; larger branch of QFT moduli space included; comments on graviton scattering added
Additional file 2 of Fasting blood glucose-to-glycated hemoglobin ratio and all-cause mortality among Chinese in-hospital patients with acute stroke: a 12-month follow-up study
Creators: name: Cai, Zhong-ming
name: Zhang, Man-man
name: Feng, Ren-qian
name: Zhou, Xu-dong
name: Chen, Hao-man
name: Liu, Zhi-peng
name: Wu, Yan-zhi
name: Lin, Qun-li
name: Ye, Sheng-lie
name: Liao, Cheng-wei
name: Huang, Xue-rong
name: Sun, Le-qiu
name: Yang, Bo
name: Zhu, Bei-lei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Science Policy
Mental Health
Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2. Logistic regression of outcomes according to FBG/HbA1c quartiles in nondiabetic patients.
Detecting Ghostwriters in High Schools
Creators: name: Stavngaard, Magnus
name: Sørensen, August
name: Lorenzen, Stephan
name: Hjuler, Niklas
name: Alstrup, Stephen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Students hiring ghostwriters to write their assignments is an increasing problem in educational institutions all over the world, with companies selling these services as a product. In this work, we develop automatic techniques with special focus on detecting such ghostwriting in high school assignments. This is done by training deep neural networks on an unprecedented large amount of data supplied by the Danish company MaCom, which covers 90% of Danish high schools. We achieve an accuracy of 0.875 and a AUC score of 0.947 on an evenly split data set.
description: Presented at ESANN 2019
The Use of Agent-Based Modelling to Establish a Link between Agricultural Policy Reform and Structural Change
Creators: name: Happe, Kathrin
name: Balmann, Alfons
name: Kellermann, Konrad
name: Sahrbacher, Christoph
name: Happe, Kathrin
name: Balmann, Alfons
name: Kellermann, Konrad
name: Sahrbacher, Christoph
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: policy analysis
subject: simulation
subject: agent-based modelling
subject: structural change
subject: efficiency

description: This paper motivates the use of agent-based modelling to study policy impacts on systems of heterogeneous, individually acting agents, such as agricultural structures. The paper presents the model AgriPoliS and an application to a region in southwest Germany. The policies considered in the simulation experiments aim at increasing the efficient allocation of production factors. Results show that policies providing incentives for small farms to leave the sector speed up structural change and increase efficiency. The paper ends with an extensive discussion of model results, and the approach.
Testing the New World: early modern chemistry and mineral prospection at colonial Jamestown, 1607–1610
Creators: name: Veronesi, Umberto
name: Rehren, Thilo
name: Straube, Beverly
name: Martinón-Torres, Marcos
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Original Paper
Archaeometallurgy
Jamestown
Fire assay
Colonial archaeology
Early modern

description: Abstract: The paper presents new research on an assemblage of metallurgical crucibles used in the assay of minerals at colonial Jamestown. The aim of the study is to explore the range of chemical operations carried out at the site of the first permanent British settlement in America, for which little is known in the documents. The results show that the colonists used high-quality Hessian crucibles to perform tests on different types of complex polymetallic sulphides. This was done to (1) prospect for potential silver and copper ores and (2) to find suitable sources of zinc and tin to be alloyed into brass and bronze through cementation with imported copper offcuts. This study makes a relevant contribution to the growing field of the archaeology of early chemistry and mineral prospection as well as the archaeology of early European colonies in the New World. In particular, material culture can shed fresh light on how European settlers reacted to the many challenges of a new and unfamiliar natural environment and how they tried to make sense and exploit it for financial profit.
Additional file 2 of The impact of a ‘milking the COW’ campaign in a regional hospital in Singapore
Creators: name: Pada, Surinder Kaur M. S.
name: Poh Lishi
name: Ng, Kim Sim
name: Sarathamani Rethenam
name: Alenton, Lilibeth Silagan
name: Poh Ling Chee
name: Guo, Wilma
name: Hsann, Yin Maw
name: Cheng, Carmen Wan Rong
name: Chiou Horng Ong
name: Ratnayake Lasantha
name: Chan, Douglas
name: Tambyah, Paul Anantharajah
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Table S1. Organisms categorised as pathogenic, environmental, skin flora and commensals
Disentangling ‘ecosystem services’ and ‘nature’s contributions to people’
Creators: name: Kadykalo, Andrew N.
name: López-Rodriguez, María D.
name: Ainscough, Jacob
name: Droste, Nils
name: Hyeonju Ryu
name: Ávila-Flores, Giovanni
name: Clec’h, Solen Le
name: Muñoz, Marcia C.
name: Nilsson, Lovisa
name: Sakshi Rana
name: Sarkar, Priyanka
name: Sevecke, Katharina J.
name: Harmáčková, Zuzana V.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: People depend on functioning ecosystems, which provide benefits that support human existence and wellbeing. The relationship between people and nature has been experienced and conceptualized in multiple ways. Recently, ecosystem services (ES) concepts have permeated science, government policies, multi-national environmental agreements, and science–policy interfaces. In 2017, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) introduced a new and closely related concept – Nature’s Contributions to People (NCP). The introduction of NCP has sparked some lively discussion and confusion about the distinguishing characteristics between ES and NCP. In order to clarify their conceptual relation, we identify eleven specific claims about novel elements from the latest NCP literature and analyze how far ES research has already contributed to these corresponding conceptual claims in the existing ES literature. We find a mixed-picture, where on six specific conceptual claims (culture, social sciences and humanities, indigenous and local knowledge, negative contributions of nature, generalizing perspective, non-instrumental values and valuation) NCP does not differ greatly from past ES research, but we also find five conceptual claims (diverse worldviews, context-specific perspective, relational values, fuzzy and fluid reporting categories and groups, inclusive language and framing) where NCP provides novel conceptualizations of people and nature relations.
Listronotus pallidus O'Brien 1981
Creators: name: Morrone, Juan J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Listronotus
Listronotus pallidus

description: Listronotus pallidus O’Brien, 1981
 Listronotus pallidus O’Brien, 1981: 108 (type locality: USA: Texas, Cameron County, Brownsville; type material: H: CWOB and P: 1 CWOB and 1 TAMU).
 Distribution. USA: Texas (O’Brien, 1981).
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 44, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3119.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5246257
Observation of the Magneto-Optic Voigt Effect in a Paramagnetic Diamond Membrane
Creators: name: El-Ella, Haitham A. R.
name: Rasmussen, Kristian H.
name: Huck, Alexander
name: Andersen, Ulrik L.
name: Radko, Ilya P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The magneto-optic Voigt effect is observed in a synthetic diamond membrane with a substitutional nitrogen defect concentration in the order of 200 ppm and a nitrogen-vacancy defect sub-ensemble generated through neutron irradiation and annealing. The measured polarisation rotation in the reflected light is observed to be quadratically proportional to the applied magnetic field and to the incident reflection angle. Additionally, it is observed to be modifiable by illuminating the diamond with a 532 nm laser. Spectral analysis of the reflected light under 532 nm illumination shows a slow narrowing of the spectral distribution, indicating a small increase in the overall magnetisation, as opposed to magnetisation degradation caused by heating. Further analysis of the optical power dependence suggest this may be related to a shift in the spin ensembles charge state equilibrium and, by extension, the resulting ensemble magnetisation.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
Supplemental Tables.docx
Creators: name: Jihang Zhang
name: Shen, Yang
name: Huang, Lan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplemental Table S1 shows the distribution of SNPs in EGLN3, HIF1A and HIF1AN genes among subjects. The 35 SNPs have no association with AMS, and detailed results were exhibited in supplemental Table S2. Supplemental Table S3 shows the associations between AMS-related headache and SNPs. Supplemental Table S4 shows the associations between AMS-related dizziness/light-headedness and SNPs. Supplemental Table S5 shows the associations between AMS-related gastrointestinal symptoms and SNPs. Supplemental Table S6 shows the associations between AMS-related fatigue and SNPs. Binary logistic regression was chosen to briefly show the correlativity between SNPs and AMS-related symptoms. These tables include distribution of SNP’s allele/genotype, results under dominant and recessive model.
A Holographic Theory for the Phase Transitions Between Fermionic Symmetry-protected Topological States
Creators: name: Tsui, Lokman
name: Huang, Yen-Ta
name: Lee, Dung-Hai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In an earlier work we developed a holographic theory for the phase transition between bosonic symmetry-protected topological (SPT) states. This paper is a continuation of it. Here we present the holographic theory for fermionic SPT phase transitions. We show that in any dimension $ d $, the critical states of fermionic SPT phase transitions has an emergent $Z_2^T$ symmetry and can be realized on the boundary of a $ d+1 $-dimensional bulk SPT with an extra $Z_2^T$ symmetry.
description: 35 pages, 10 figures
Yoda1 and phosphatidylserine exposure in red cells from patients with sickle cell anaemia
Creators: name: Wadud, R.
name: Hannemann, A.
name: Rees, D. C.
name: Brewin, J. N.
name: Gibson, J. S.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Article
/631/443
/631/443/592
/631/443/592/75
/631/443/592/75/593/1920
article

description: Abstract: Phosphatidylserine (PS) exposure is increased in red cells from sickle cell anaemia (SCA) patients. Externalised PS is prothrombotic and attractive to phagocytes and activated endothelial cells and thus contributes to the anaemic and ischaemic complications of SCA. The mechanism of PS exposure remains uncertain but it can follow increased intracellular Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i). Normally, [Ca2+]i is maintained at very low levels but in sickle cells, Ca2+ permeability is increased, especially following deoxygenation and sickling, mediated by a pathway sometimes called Psickle. The molecular identity of Psickle is also unclear but recent work has implicated the mechanosensitive channel, PIEZO1. We used Yoda1, an PIEZO1 agonist, to investigate its role in sickle cells. Yoda1 caused an increase in [Ca2+]i and PS exposure, which was inhibited by its antagonist Dooku1 and the PIEZO1 inhibitor GsMTx4, consistent with functional PIEZO1. However, PS exposure did not necessitate an increase in [Ca2+]i. Two PKC inhibitors were also tested, chelerytherine chloride and calphostin C. Both reduced PS exposure whilst chelerytherine chloride also reduced Yoda1-induced increases in [Ca2+]i. Findings are therefore consistent with the presence of PIEZO1 in sickle cells, able to mediate Ca2+ entry but that PKC was also involved in both Ca2+ entry and PS exposure.
Freezing of Moduli with Fluxes in Three Dimensions
Creators: name: Argurio, Riccardo
name: Campos, Vanicson L.
name: Ferretti, Gabriele
name: Heise, Rainer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study warped compactifications to three dimensions, realized as an orientifold of type IIA string theory on T^7. By turning on 3- and 4-form fluxes on the torus in a supersymmetric way, we generate a potential for the moduli fields. We present various flux configurations with N=1,2,3,4,5,6 supersymmetries and count the number of moduli in each case. In particular, we show that there are N=1 configurations where all but one of the moduli are frozen.
description: 20 pages, LaTeX
Trends in Farm Size and Potential Demand for Farm Management Association Services
Creators: name: Paulson, Nicholas D.
name: Kuethe, Todd H.
name: Paulson, Nicholas D.
name: Kuethe, Todd H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: Farm Management

description: According to the 2012 Census of Agriculture, the number of farm operations in the United States has declined by more than 4.3 percent since 2007. This supports the common notion that US farms are consolidating and increasing in size. A key issue facing the professional farm management industry is how the changing structure of US agriculture might impact future demand for their services. This article uses farm-level data from Illinois and from various years of the US Census of Agriculture to look at this issue more closely, focusing on the services offered by farm management associations. Farm types or sizes which are more likely to be members of a management association are identified, and trends in the number of these farm operations are examined at regional and national scales. The data suggests that the number of farms across the US who are more likely to ,demand services from farm management associations is likely increasing, but these changes are highly regional in nature.
Reach, Recruitment, Dose, and Intervention Fidelity of the GoActive School-Based Physical Activity Intervention in the UK: A Mixed-Methods Process Evaluation
Creators: name: Jong, Stephanie T.
name: Croxson, Caroline H. D.
name: Foubister, Campbell
name: Brown, Helen Elizabeth
name: Guell, Cornelia
name: Lawlor, Emma R.
name: Wells, Emma K.
name: Wilkinson, Paul O.
name: Wilson, Edward C. F.
name: Van Sluijs, Esther M. F.
name: Corder, Kirsten
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: school-based intervention
process evaluation
fidelity
mixed-methods
physical activity

description: School-based multi-component physical activity (PA) promotion is advocated; however, research has indicated that a multi-component approach may not always be effective at increasing adolescent PA. Evaluation of the GoActive 12-week multi-component school-based intervention showed no effect on adolescent PA. A mixed-methods process evaluation was embedded to facilitate greater understanding of the results, to elicit subgroup perceptions, and to provide insight into contextual factors influencing intervention implementation. This paper presents the reach, recruitment, dose, and fidelity of GoActive, and identifies challenges to implementation. The process evaluation employed questionnaires (1543 Year 9s), individual interviews (16 Year 9s; 7 facilitators; 9 contact teachers), focus groups (48 Year 9s; 58 mentors), alongside GoActive website analytics and researcher observations. GoActive sessions reached 39.4% of Year 9s. Intervention satisfaction was relatively high for mentors (87.3%) and facilitators (85.7%), but lower for Year 9s (59.5%) and teachers (50%). Intervention fidelity was mixed within and between schools. Mentorship was the most implemented component. Factors potentially contributing to low implementation included ambiguity of the roles subgroups played within intervention delivery, Year 9 engagement, institutional support, and further school-level constraints. Multiple challenges and varying contextual considerations hindered the implementation of GoActive in multiple school sites. Methods to overcome contextual challenges to implementation warrant in-depth consideration and innovative approaches.
Listronotus palustris Blatchley 1916
Creators: name: Morrone, Juan J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Listronotus
Listronotus palustris

description: Listronotus palustris Blatchley, 1916
 Listronotus palustris Blatchley, 1916: 161 (type locality: USA: Florida, Dunedin; type material: L: PURC); Blatchley 1930: 39.
 Distribution. USA (O’Brien and Wibmer, 1982).
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 44, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3119.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5246257
Economic Returns and Risk Analysis of Forage Wrapping Technologies
Creators: name: Lacy, R. Curt
name: Pruitt, J. Ross
name: Hancock, Dennis W.
name: Lacy, R. Curt
name: Pruitt, J. Ross
name: Hancock, Dennis W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: Agribusiness
Livestock Production/Industries
Risk and Uncertainty

description: Using stochastic simulation, we evaluated the cost savings a cow-calf operation may experience by adopting high-moisture baleage with an in-line wrapper. The results of this analysis indicate the baleage technology is economically viable for high-quality forages such as winter annuals, alfalfa or legumes, especially at higher feed prices. Break-even herd size is between 50 and 150 cows, depending on a producer’s current machinery complement. There is no apparent economic advantage to purchasing baleage equipment strictly based on reducing storage or feeding losses for beef cattle producers.
Listronotus pampaensis
Creators: name: Morrone, Juan J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Listronotus
Listronotus pampaensis

description: Listronotus pampaensis (Voss, 1954)
 Hyperodes pampaensis Voss, 1954: 259 (type locality: Peru: southern Peru, Pampa de Cangallo, 3450 m; type material: S: DEI).
 Listronotus pampaensis; O’Brien, 1979: 267.
 Distribution. Peru (Wibmer and O'Brien, 1986).
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 44, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3119.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5246257
Association of CFI, IL-8, TF and TFR2 Genetic Polymorphisms with Age-Related Macular Degeneration in a Northeastern Chinese Population
Creators: name: Xu, Zhi-Yu
name: Gao, Jing-Fan
name: Zhang, Lu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Purpose: To explore the relationship between single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in complement factor I (CFI), interleukin-8 (IL-8), transferrin (TF), and transferrin receptor 2 (TFR2) and age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in a northeastern Chinese population. Methods: A total of 400 AMD patients (200 wet AMD and 200 dry AMD) and 200 controls were enrolled in this study, and genetic polymorphisms in the above genes were detected by polymerase chain reaction–restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR–RFLP). The χ2 test was used to compare differences in allele frequencies in each group, and the associations of genotype frequencies with AMD were determined by multivariate logistic regression analysis. Results: Our research shows that CFI rs141853578, IL-8 rs2227543, TF rs8177178 and TFR2 rs2075674 are associated with the incidence of AMD. In wet AMD, allele T of CFI rs141853578, IL-8 rs2227543 and TFR2 rs2075674 may be a risk factor. Allele A of TF rs8177178 may increase the risk of dry AMD. Conclusions: CFI rs141853578, IL-8 rs2227543, TF rs8177178 and TFR2 rs2075674 genetic polymorphisms are associated with the occurrence of AMD in a northeastern Chinese population, especially wet AMD.
Additional file 3 of The impact of a ‘milking the COW’ campaign in a regional hospital in Singapore
Creators: name: Pada, Surinder Kaur M. S.
name: Poh Lishi
name: Ng, Kim Sim
name: Sarathamani Rethenam
name: Alenton, Lilibeth Silagan
name: Poh Ling Chee
name: Guo, Wilma
name: Hsann, Yin Maw
name: Cheng, Carmen Wan Rong
name: Chiou Horng Ong
name: Ratnayake Lasantha
name: Chan, Douglas
name: Tambyah, Paul Anantharajah
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Questions asked for staff survey on ease of use
Unconventional low-energy SUSY from warped geometry
Creators: name: Casas, J.
name: Espinosa, J. R.
name: Navarro, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Supersymmetric models with a warped fifth spatial dimension can solve the hierarchy problem, avoiding some shortcomings of non-supersymmetric constructions, and predict a plethora of new phenomena at typical scales Lambda not far from the electroweak scale (Lambda ~ a few TeV). In this paper we derive the low-energy effective theories of these models, valid at energies below Lambda. We find that, in general, such effective theories can deviate significantly from the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) or other popular extensions of it, like the NMSSM: they have non-minimal Kaehler potentials (even in the Mp -> \infty limit), and the radion is coupled to the visible fields, both in the superpotential and the Kaehler potential, in a non-trivial (and quite model-independent) fashion. The corresponding phenomenology is pretty unconventional, in particular the electroweak breaking occurs in a non-radiative way, with tan beta \simeq 1 as a quite robust prediction, while the mass of the lightest Higgs boson can be as high as ~ 700 GeV.
description: 53 pages, 2 ps figures
Additional file 4 of The impact of a ‘milking the COW’ campaign in a regional hospital in Singapore
Creators: name: Pada, Surinder Kaur M. S.
name: Poh Lishi
name: Ng, Kim Sim
name: Sarathamani Rethenam
name: Alenton, Lilibeth Silagan
name: Poh Ling Chee
name: Guo, Wilma
name: Hsann, Yin Maw
name: Cheng, Carmen Wan Rong
name: Chiou Horng Ong
name: Ratnayake Lasantha
name: Chan, Douglas
name: Tambyah, Paul Anantharajah
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 4: Table S3. Colony forming units and pathogens isolated from individual computer keyboards over the study period