cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Harnessing the open access version of ChatGPT for enhanced clinical opinions
Creators: name: Tenner, Zachary M.
name: Cottone, Michael C.
name: Chavez, Martin R.
Publisher: name: PRIME
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 420302
subject: Digital health

description: AbstractWith the advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, the integration of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) into clinical medicine is becoming increasingly feasible. This study aimed to evaluate the ability of the freely available ChatGPT-3.5 to generate complex differential diagnoses, comparing its output to case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). Forty case records were presented to ChatGPT-3.5, prompting it to provide a differential diagnosis and then narrow it down to the most likely diagnosis. The results indicated that the final diagnosis was included in ChatGPT-3.5's original differential list in 42.5% of the cases. After narrowing, ChatGPT correctly determined the final diagnosis in 27.5% of the cases, demonstrating a decrease in accuracy compared to previous studies using common chief complaints. These findings emphasize the necessity for further investigation into the capabilities and limitations of LLMs in clinical scenarios while highlighting the potential role of GAI as an augmented clinical opinion. Anticipating the growth and enhancement of GAI tools like ChatGPT, physicians and other healthcare workers will likely find increasing support in generating differential diagnoses. However, continued exploration and regulation are essential to ensure the safe and effective integration of GAI into healthcare practice. Future studies may seek to compare newer versions of ChatGPT or investigate patient outcomes with physicians integrating this GAI technology. Understanding and expanding GAI's capabilities, particularly in differential diagnosis, may foster innovation and provide additional resources, especially in underserved areas in the medical field.
Characteristic expression of wheat PR5 gene in response to infection by the leaf rust pathogen, Puccinia triticina
Creators: name: Li, Xiao-Ying
name: Gao, Lin
name: Zhang, Wei-Hong
name: Liu, Jing-Kun
name: Zhang, Yan-Jun
name: Wang, Hai-Yan
name: Liu, Da-Qun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Biochemistry

description: TaLr35PR5 gene was obtained from the gDNA and cDNA of TcLr35 wheat. It was induced by Puccinia triticina, ABA and SA, but TaLr35PR5 was induced earlier and its expression level was higher in the incompatible interaction than that in the compatible interaction. In addition, the accumulations of TaLr35PR5 increased stably and showed significant peak challenged by P. triticina at different growth and development periods of TcLr35 wheat while it maintained similar level and changed little in mock inoculated. Western blottings were conducted to confirm that TaLr35PR5 be induced by P. triticina infection at the protein expression level. Similar to the expression patterns of TaLr35PR5 at RNA levels, the accumulations of TaLr35PR5 protein were weak in the seedling stage, then increased to the peak and kept constant levels at the mature stage which is consistent with the expression feature of Lr35 gene as an adult plant resistance gene.
Approach to Predicting News -- A Precise Multi-LSTM Network With BERT
Creators: name: Chen, Chia-Lin
name: Huang, Pei-Yu
name: Huang, Yi-Ting
name: Lin, Chun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) is a new approach to conceptualizing and measuring democracy and politics. It has information for 200 countries and is one of the biggest databases for political science. According to the V-Dem annual democracy report 2019, Taiwan is one of the two countries that got disseminated false information from foreign governments the most. It also shows that the "made-up news" has caused a great deal of confusion in Taiwanese society and has serious impacts on global stability. Although there are several applications helping distinguish the false information, we found out that the pre-processing of categorizing the news is still done by human labor. However, human labor may cause mistakes and cannot work for a long time. The growing demands for automatic machines in the near decades show that while the machine can do as good as humans or even better, using machines can reduce humans' burden and cut down costs. Therefore, in this work, we build a predictive model to classify the category of news. The corpora we used contains 28358 news and 200 news scraped from the online newspaper Liberty Times Net (LTN) website and includes 8 categories: Technology, Entertainment, Fashion, Politics, Sports, International, Finance, and Health. At first, we use Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) for word embeddings which transform each Chinese character into a (1,768) vector. Then, we use a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) layer to transform word embeddings into sentence embeddings and add another LSTM layer to transform them into document embeddings. Each document embedding is an input for the final predicting model, which contains two Dense layers and one Activation layer. And each document embedding is transformed into 1 vector with 8 real numbers, then the highest one will correspond to the 8 news categories with up to 99% accuracy.
description: Accepted by The 25th International Conference on Information Management & Practice (IMP) 2019
Modulation of antioxidant systems by subchronic exposure to the aqueous extract of leaves from Achillea millefolium L. in rats
Creators: name: Cristiane Hatsuko Baggio
name: Mesia-Vela, Sonia
name: Gláucia De Martini Otofuji
name: Freitas, Cristina Setim
name: Mayer, Bárbara
name: Marques, Maria Consuelo Andrade
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: Science Policy
Biological Sciences
Chemistry
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Biotechnology
Pharmacology
Biochemistry

description: We determined the effects of subchronic exposure to aqueous extract of leaves from Achillea millefolium (AE) on enzyme- and non-enzyme-dependent antioxidant systems in rats. Seven days treatment with AE (1 g/kg/twice a day, p.o.) altered the reduced glutathione (GSH) levels and antioxidant enzyme activities in several organs of the animals. Amount of GSH in uterus was increased (73%) while in kidneys it was decreased (23%). Besides, NAD(P)H quinone oxidoreductase 1 (NQO1) activity was increased in forestomach (26%) and in liver (64%), while glutathione S-transferase activity was decreased in the forestomach (32%) and increased in the liver (41%), kidney (35%) and uterus (37%). In preliminary experiments targeting the interaction of AE with acetaminophen (600 mg/kg, p.o.), we observed augmentation of acetaminophen-induced increase of the plasmatic alanine aminotransaminase, aspartate aminotransaminase and lactate dehydrogenase. Overall, the results indicate a potential toxic interaction of AE compounds with xenobiotics that use the glutathione pathway.
Gasterosteus aculeatus Linnaeus 1758
Creators: name: Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz
name: Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Gasterosteiformes
Gasterosteidae
Gasterosteus
Gasterosteus aculeatus

description: 298. Gasterosteus aculeatus Linnaeus, 1758
Common name. Three-spined stickleback
Taxonomy: Original description: Gasterosteus aculeatus Linnaeus, 1758: 295 [Europe; syntypes: ZSL 29 (left half-skin), 30-31 (2, right half-skins)].
Revisions. None.
Illustrations. Kottelat & Freyhof (2007: 492, fig.).
Distribution in Iran. —Distribution in River Basin: Caspian Sea, Hari River, Dasht-e Kavir.—Distribution in Ecoregions: 434-Kura-South Caspian Drainages, 448-Kavir & Lut Deserts, 450-Turan Plain, 631-Upper Amu Darya.
Status in Iran. [Exotic].—Mahi-e sekhare.—Listed in previous checklists from Iran by Esmaeili et al. (2017 a, 2018); Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020) and Eagderi et al. (2022).—Iran material: ZM-CBSU.
Conservation. —IUCN: LC.
description: Published as part of Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz & Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, 2024, Freshwater lamprey and fishes of Iran: Reappraisal and updated checklist with a note on Eagderi et al. (2022), pp. 1-99 in Zootaxa 5402 (1) on page 92, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5402.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10524097
Expedient Strategy for the Synthesis of 5-Acylethynylpyrrole-2-carbaldehydes
Creators: name: Tomilin, Denis N.
name: Sobenina, Lyubov N.
name: Markova, Marina V.
name: Gotsko, Maxim D.
name: Ushakov, Igor A.
name: Smirnov, Vladimir I.
name: Vaschenko, Alexander V.
name: Mikhaleva, Albina I.
name: Trofimov, Boris A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Chemistry
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Cell Biology

description: GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT
Sander marinus
Creators: name: Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz
name: Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Perciformes
Percidae
Sander
Sander marinus

description: 297. Sander marinus (Cuvier, 1828)
Common name. Estuarine perch
Taxonomy. Original description: Lucioperca marina Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1828: 120 [Black Sea; Sea of Azov. No types known].
Revisions. None.
Illustrations. Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020: 283, fig. 516).
Distribution in Iran. —Distribution in River Basin: Caspian Sea.—Distribution in Ecoregions: 434-Kura-South Caspian Drainages, 450-Turan Plain.
Status in Iran. [Native].—Soof mahi-e daryayi.—Listed in previous checklists from Iran by Esmaeili et al. (2017 a, 2018); Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020) and Eagderi et al. (2022).—Iran material: ZM-CBSU.
Conservation. —IUCN: LC.
description: Published as part of Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz & Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, 2024, Freshwater lamprey and fishes of Iran: Reappraisal and updated checklist with a note on Eagderi et al. (2022), pp. 1-99 in Zootaxa 5402 (1) on page 91, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5402.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10524097
Effects of Clicker Use on Calculus Students’ Mathematics Anxiety
Creators: name: Batchelor, John
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: This paper reports the results of a survey study of clicker use and mathematics anxiety among students enrolled in an undergraduate calculus course during the Fall 2013 semester. Students in two large lecture sections of calculus completed surveys at the beginning and end of the course. One class used clickers, while the other class was taught without clickers. The purpose of the study is to determine what relationship, if any, exists between clicker use and mathematics anxiety among students enrolled in an undergraduate calculus course.
title: Factors Influencing the Growth and Nutritional Status of Infants and Young Children in Rural Jordan (2 Volumes)
Creators: name: Hijazi, SS
Publisher: name: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Year: 1976

description: This cross-sectional study describes the clinical, anthropometric and haematological findings of 3,734 Jordanian infants and young children in the rural port of Amman. The birth dates were known from the birth registry. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the growth and nutrition of= children ten years after a previous survey, since during the interval there have been dramatic social, economic and political changes in this area. Detailed tables and graphs for the following anthropometric measurements were constructed for children during the first year of life at one month intervals and for the whole group (0-5 years) at three month intervals: weight, height, weight/height ratio, head circumference, arm circumference and skinfold thickness (triceps, biceps, subscapular and suprailiac). The mothers' weights were also recorded and showed some significant relation to the children’s nutritional status. In addition, weight and height of birth of more than 700 new-borns from the lower middle class section of Amman were analysed; they were live born, normal, healthy singletons : they were recorded as a reference. Using Waterlow's public health classification the children of the main sample were divided into two major groups: the well-nourished and the malnourished. In each group a statistical examination was made of more than 80 variables, which covered a wide range of social, economic and environmental factors believed to contribute to the state of failure to thrive and malnutrition in this community. Many of these factors considered responsible for growth retardation and under nutrition in other communities in the developing world did not seem responsible in this community; however, there are some other variables which were found to be unique and specific to Jordan. They are described and discussed in some detail. lnfant feeding in this community is also witnessing some important changes; especially in respect to weaning age and the introduction of solids. Milk (other than mothers' milk) because it is prepared in unhygienic and unsanitary ways, is becoming a factor responsible for growth failure and under-nutrition. The introduction of solid foods together with breast feeding proved to be very efficient in growth promotion. The disease pattern of these children showed o high prevalence of diarrhoeal and upper respiratory tract diseases. Measles was an important predisposing factor to malnutrition. Measles vaccination proved its efficiency in protecting the children from malnutrition, unlike the other routinely used vaccines.
A new species of Longipedia Claus, 1863 (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Longipediidae) from Caribbean mesophotic reefs with remarks on the phylogenetic affinities of Polyarthra
Creators: name: Schizas, Nikolaos V.
name: Hans-Uwe Dahms
name: Pawana Kangtia
name: Corgosinho, Paulo H. C.
name: Estronza, Alexandra M. Galindo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Cell Biology

description: Mesophotic coral reefs are largely unexplored nearshore habitats. We present illustrations of both sexes of a new copepod species of the family Longipediidae Sars, 1903 collected via scuba-diving with tri-mix rebreathers from mesophotic coral reefs in Puerto Rico as an example of the rich fauna encountered in these habitats. The new species, Longipedia gonzalezi, displays a conservative morphology that characterizes the genus by having a robust body, first pedigers fused to the cephalosome, P4 exp-2 with only 1 medial seta, number of enp-1 medial setae of P1–P4 = 1:1:1:1, number of enp-2 medial setae of P1–P4 = 1:1:2:1, and caudal rami of cylindrical shape about twice as long as wide. The new species belongs to the helgolandica species-group and is morphologically similar to L. helgolandica and L. americana. Species distinction within the genus Longipedia based on morphological characters is challenging because of the conservative morphology of the genus, so we provide the first DNA sequences (28S gene) for future comparisons within the genus. The phylogenetic position of the Polyarthra (a taxon consisting of the families Longipediidae and Canuellidae, whose affinities with Harpacticoida have been questioned) is discussed within Copepoda and other Crustacea. The 28S DNA analysis confirms that Polyarthra are very closely related and are included in the strongly supported Copepoda clade. Polyarthra were not found within the Harpacticoida, which, therefore, remained not as a monophyletic, but as a paraphyletic taxon. Therefore, our 28S data indicate that the claim by Dahms and previous authors for the exclusion of Polyarthra from the Harpacticoida may be valid, and warrants further investigation.http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:51728F35-A981-4E4A-BEE2-701ABCDBC123
A comprehensive review on topological superconducting materials and interfaces
Creators: name: Sharma, M. M.
name: Sharma, Prince
name: Karn, N. K.
name: Awana, V. P. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Superconductivity in topological materials has drawn a significant interest of the scientific community as these materials provide a hint of the existence of Majorana fermions conceived from the quantized thermal conductivity, a zero-biased conduction peak and the anomalous Josephson effect. In this review, we make a systematic study of recent advances in the field of topological superconductivity. The article comprises of both bulk systems as well as heterostructures. A brief description of Majorana fermions and their relationship with topological superconductors and heterostructures is also carried out. Also, this review consists of details of key experimental techniques to characterize candidates of topological superconductivity. Moreover, we summarize the potential material candidate that may demonstrate topological superconductivity. We also consider some intrinsic odd-parity superconductors, non-centrosymmetric, centrosymmetric superconductors, doped topological insulators, doped topological crystalline insulators and some other materials that are expected to show superconductivity along with topological non-trivial states in bulk from. The effect of pressure, emergence of superconductivity in topological materials and Muon Spin Rotation studies are also summarized in this article.
description: 79 Pages Text + Figs: Accepted. Superconductor Science & Technology
Characteristic expression of wheat PR5 gene in response to infection by the leaf rust pathogen, Puccinia triticina
Creators: name: Li, Xiao-Ying
name: Gao, Lin
name: Zhang, Wei-Hong
name: Liu, Jing-Kun
name: Zhang, Yan-Jun
name: Wang, Hai-Yan
name: Liu, Da-Qun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Biochemistry

description: TaLr35PR5 gene was obtained from the gDNA and cDNA of TcLr35 wheat. It was induced by Puccinia. triticina, ABA and SA, but TaLr35PR5 was induced earlier and its expression level was higher in the incompatible interaction than that in the compatible interaction. In addition, the accumulations of TaLr35PR5 increased stably and showed significant peak challenged by P. triticina at different growth and development periods of TcLr35 wheat while it maintained similar level and changed little in mock inoculated. Western blottings were conducted to confirm that TaLr35PR5 be induced by P. triticina infection at the protein expression level. Similar to the expression patterns of TaLr35PR5 at RNA levels, the accumulations of TaLr35PR5 protein were weak in the seedling stage, then increased to the peak and kept constant levels at the mature stage which is consistent with the expression feature of Lr35 gene as an adult plant resistance (APR) gene.
Instance-Specific Feature Propagation for Referring Segmentation
Creators: name: Liu, Chang
name: Jiang, Xudong
name: Ding, Henghui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Referring segmentation aims to generate a segmentation mask for the target instance indicated by a natural language expression. There are typically two kinds of existing methods: one-stage methods that directly perform segmentation on the fused vision and language features; and two-stage methods that first utilize an instance segmentation model for instance proposal and then select one of these instances via matching them with language features. In this work, we propose a novel framework that simultaneously detects the target-of-interest via feature propagation and generates a fine-grained segmentation mask. In our framework, each instance is represented by an Instance-Specific Feature (ISF), and the target-of-referring is identified by exchanging information among all ISFs using our proposed Feature Propagation Module (FPM). Our instance-aware approach learns the relationship among all objects, which helps to better locate the target-of-interest than one-stage methods. Comparing to two-stage methods, our approach collaboratively and interactively utilizes both vision and language information for synchronous identification and segmentation. In the experimental tests, our method outperforms previous state-of-the-art methods on all three RefCOCO series datasets.
description: TMM
Améliorer son projet ANR grâce à la Science Ouverte
Creators: name: Féret, Romain
name: Bracco, Laetitia
name: Cheviron, Stéphanie
name: Lehoux, Elise
name: Arènes, Cécile
name: Li, Ling
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: open science
grant proposals
funders
research data management
open access

description: Depuis 2019, l’ANR a mis en place des obligations Science Ouverte (libre accès et Plan de Gestion des Données) pour les projets financés dans le cadre des appels à projets 2019 et ultérieurs[i]. Ces obligations font partie de la stratégie nationale française pour la Science Ouverte, initiée avec le Plan National pour la Science Ouverte[ii] en 2018. Si les projets financés ont des obligations, les porteurs de projets peuvent les anticiper dès la phase de montage de leur projet, lors de la rédaction de leur proposition détaillée. Cela leur permet d’améliorer la faisabilité de leur projet en identifiant des services supports et les moyens nécessaire pour mettre en œuvre une stratégie Science Ouverte ambitieuse. Anticiper ces aspects peut aussi faciliter les collaborations au sein des équipes et des consortiums pour que la Science Ouverte soit une opportunité plutôt qu’une contrainte. Ce guide a une visée pratique pour accompagner les chercheurs dans la prise en compte des enjeux de la Science Ouverte dans chacune des sections de leur proposition détaillée, mais il n’est pas : Un recueil de phrases ou paragraphes tout rédigés, à copier-coller dans les propositions des projets. Un document à appliquer dans son intégralité sans considération pour les spécificités des projets. Un document validé par l’ANR qui remplace ou contredit la politique et les règles présentées par l’ANR dans ses documents officiels. [i] https://anr.fr/fr/lanr-et-la-recherche/engagements-et-valeurs/la-science-ouverte/ [ii] https://www.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/cid132531/plan-national-pour-la-science-ouverte-discours-de-frederique-vidal.html
description: This technical note has been produced by the Working Group on Research Data of Couperin: https://www.couperin.org/services-et-prospective/open-access/gtao An English version of this note is available at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3769971
Molecular mechanism of the eukaryotic replicative helicase
Creators: name: Kose, Hazal Busra
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2018

description: In eukaryotes, the replicative helicase CMG (Cdc45/Mcm2-7/GINS) complex separates the two strands of the double helix during DNA replication. A number of models have been proposed to explain how CMG translocates on DNA during unwinding. To differentiate among different models and to understand the way CMG deals with protein barriers on DNA, we performed DNA unwinding assays using purified CMG and various DNA substrates containing site specific protein adducts. We showed that CMG can unwind a DNA substrate containing a protein barrier on the lagging-strand template, and that unwinding is blocked by a protein adduct on the leading-strand template. We also show that inhibition of lagging strand roadblock bypass only occurs when CMG binding is impaired. Furthermore, we found that while a DNA-protein crosslink that exclusively interacts with the lagging-strand template does not affect translocation kinetics of CMG, methyltransferase enzyme crosslinked to the lagging-strand template stabilizes duplex DNA and leads to a delay in unwinding. Using electron microscopy, we visualized CMG bound to a fork DNA substrate and found that the helicase is oriented with the N-terminal domains of Mcm2-7 facing the fork junction. Importantly, high-resolution cryo-EM structure of Drosophila melanogaster CMG (DmCMG) bound to fork DNA substrate revealed that DmCMG partially encircles duplex DNA at the fork junction. Strikingly, capture of the excluded strand with a complementary oligonucleotide or RPA stimulates DNA unwinding, implying that engagement of CMG with duplex DNA at the fork junction impairs its helicase activity. We propose that duplex engagement at the fork junction does not reflect translocating state of CMG, rather paused state of CMG. Together, our data indicate that two Mcm2-7 hexamers, encircling duplex DNA at origins, are remodeled to completely exclude one strand from the ring channel and engagement with the duplex DNA after helicase activation impairs translocation.
Lipids and lipid-mixtures in boundary layers: from hydration lubrication to osteoarthritis
Creators: name: Cao, Yifeng
name: Klein, Jacob
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The hydration layer surrounding the phosphocholine headgroups of single-component phosphatidylcholine (PC) lipids, or of lipid-mixtures, assembled at an interface greatly modifies the interfacial properties and interactions. As water molecules within the hydration layer are held tightly by the headgroup but are nonetheless very fluid upon shear, the boundary lipid layers, exposing the highly hydrated headgroup arrays, can provide efficient boundary lubrication when sliding against an opposing surface, at physiologically-high contact pressures. Additionally, any free lipids in the surrounding liquid can heal defects which may form during sliding on the boundary PC layer. Similar boundary lipid layers contribute to the lubricating, pressure-bearing, and wear-protection functions of healthy articular joints. This review presents a survey of the relationship between the molecular composition of the interfacial complex and the lubrication behavior of the lipid-based boundary layers, which could be beneficial for designing boundary lubricants for intra-articular injection for the treatment of early OA.
United Central Asia: Obstacles, Opportunities, Prospects - Kazakhstan
Creators: name: Central Asia Barometer
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2024

description: Economy in Kazakhstan (1); direction of the country (1); employment (2); cost of living (2); economic policy (1); social policy (1); foreign policy (1); life satisfaction (1), inflation (3); travel in Central Asia (5); tourism (5); access to food (3); personal financial situation (3); access to basic services (5); religious observance (3); most important issue facing the country (1); favorable/unfavorable opinion of foreign countries (10); economic relationships with China/Russia/United States/European Union (5); terrorism (3); healthcare (5); human rights and democracy (5); quality of life (5).
Améliorer les chances de succès de son projet ANR grâce à la Science Ouverte
Creators: name: Féret, Romain
name: Bracco, Laetitia
name: Cheviron, Stéphanie
name: Lehoux, Elise
name: Arènes, Cécile
name: Li, Ling
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: open science
grant proposals
funders
research data management
open access

description: Depuis 2019, l’ANR a mis en place des obligations Science Ouverte (libre accès et Plan de Gestion des Données) pour les projets financés dans le cadre des appels à projets 2019 et ultérieurs[i]. Ces obligations font partie de la stratégie nationale française pour la Science Ouverte, initiée avec le Plan National pour la Science Ouverte[ii] en 2018. Si les projets financés ont des obligations, les porteurs de projets peuvent les anticiper dès la phase de montage de leur projet, lors de la rédaction de leur proposition détaillée. C’est un bon moyen de convaincre les évaluateurs de leur projet (CES et experts scientifiques) qu’ils ont pris conscience de cette nouvelle politique. Cela leur permet aussi d’améliorer la faisabilité de leur projet en identifiant des acteurs-ressources ou des moyens nécessaire pour mettre en œuvre une stratégie Science Ouverte ambitieuse. Anticiper ces aspects peut aussi faciliter les collaborations au sein des équipes et des consortiums pour que la Science Ouverte soit une opportunité plutôt qu’une contrainte. Ce guide a une visée pratique pour accompagner les chercheurs dans la prise en compte des enjeux de la Science Ouverte dans chacune des sections de leur proposition détaillée, mais il n’est pas : Un recueil de phrases ou paragraphes tout rédigés, à copier-coller dans les propositions des projets. Un document à appliquer dans son intégralité sans considération pour les spécificités des projets. Un document validé par l’ANR qui remplace ou contredit la politique et les règles présentées par l’ANR dans ses documents officiels. [i] https://anr.fr/fr/lanr-et-la-recherche/engagements-et-valeurs/la-science-ouverte/ [ii] https://www.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/cid132531/plan-national-pour-la-science-ouverte-discours-de-frederique-vidal.html
description: This technical note has been produced by the Working Group on Research Data of Couperin: https://www.couperin.org/services-et-prospective/open-access/gtao The English version of this note is available at: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3749577
Intent and outcomes from the Retrofit for the Future programme: key lessons
Creators: name: Rajat Gupta
name: Gregg, Matt
name: Passmore, Stephen
name: Stevens, Geoffrey
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: Science Policy
Biological Sciences
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Molecular Biology
Engineering

description: The Retrofit for the Future programme, sponsored by UK government's Technology Strategy Board (TSB) from 2009 to 2013, demonstrated innovative approaches to deep retrofitting of social housing, using a whole-house approach for achieving an 80% CO2 reduction target. The intent and outcomes of this programme (in which all authors participated) are critically examined through a cross-project meta-study of the primary data, substantiated by insights from secondary sources. Given that only three (out of 45) projects met the expected CO2 target in reality, despite generous funding and professional expertise, it suggests that decarbonizing existing housing will not be particularly easy. Important lessons are found in this initiative's formulation, target setting, monitoring and evaluation procedures, and feedback mechanisms. These lessons can inform the formulation, delivery and effectiveness of future national energy retrofit programmes. Furthermore, to support the ‘scaling up’ of effective retrofit programmes and reduce the gap between intent and outcome, it is recommended that attention be moved from what level of CO2 reductions are to be achieved to how (delivery models) these radical reductions can be achieved and by whom (supply chain). Such alternative delivery models to the ‘whole house’ approach include retrofit over time, city-scale retrofit and community-based energy retrofits.
Interactions Between Bilayers of Phospholipids Mixture Extracted from Human Osteoarthritic Synovial Fluid
Creators: name: Cao, Yifeng
name: Kampf, Nir
name: Kosinska, Marta Krystyna
name: Steinmeyer, Juergen
name: Klein, Jacob
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Duncan Dowson, whom this issue commemorates, was a world leader in the field of biotribology, with prolific contributions both in fluid-based and boundary lubrication of biological tissues, in particular articular cartilage, a central issue in biotribology due to its importance for joint homeostasis. Here we explore further the issue of cartilage boundary lubrication, which has been attributed to phospholipid (PL)-exposing layers at the cartilage surface in part. A surface force balance (SFB) with unique sensitivity is used to investigate the normal and frictional interactions of the boundary layers formed by PLs extracted from osteoarthritic (OA) human synovial fluid (hSF). Our results reveal that vesicles of the OA-hSF lipids rupture spontaneously to form bilayers on the mica substrate (which, like the in-vivo articular cartilage surface in synovial joints, is negatively-charged) which then undergo hemifusion at quite low pressures in the SFB, attributed to the large heterogeneity of the hSF lipids. Nanometric friction measurements reveal friction coefficients mu = ca. 0.03 across the hemi-fused bilayer of these lipids, indicating residual hydration lubrication at the lipid-headgroup vs. substrate interface. Addition of calcium ions causes an increase in friction to mu = ca. 0.2, attributed either to calcium-bridging attraction of lipid headgroups to the negatively-charged substrate, or a shift of the slip plane to the more dissipative hydrophobic-tail vs. hydrophobic-tail interface. Our results suggest that the heterogeneity and composition of the OA-hSF lipids may be associated with higher friction at the cartilage boundary layers, and thus a connection with greater wear and degradation, due to hemifusion of the exposed lipid bilayers.
Optimised isolation of polysaccharides from Lentinula edodes strain NCBI JX915793 using response surface methodology and their antibacterial activities
Creators: name: Sharma, Shivani
name: P.K. Khanna
name: S. Kapoor
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Chemistry
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Biochemistry

description: Mycelial growth in a defined medium by submerged fermentation is a rapid and alternative method for obtaining fungal biomass of consistent quality. Biomass, exopolysaccharides (EPS) and intracellular polysaccharides (IPS) production were optimised by response surface methodology in Lentinula edodes strain LeS (NCBI JX915793). The optimised conditions were pH 5.0, temperature 26°C, incubation period of 25 days and agitation rate of 52 r/min for L. edodes strain LeS. Under the calculated optimal culture conditions, biomass production (5.88 mg mL− 1), EPS production (0.40 mg mL− 1) and IPS production (12.45 mg g− 1) were in agreement with the predicted values for biomass (5.93 mg mL− 1), EPS (0.55 mg mL− 1) and IPS production (12.64 mg g− 1). Crude lentinan exhibited highest antibacterial effects followed by alcoholic, crude and aqueous extracts. The results obtained may be useful for highly effective yield of biomass and bioactive metabolites.
Novel Synthesis of Isoquinoline Derivatives Derived from (Z)-4-(1,3-Diphenylpyrazol-4-yl)isochromene-1,3-dione
Creators: name: Mahmoud, Mahmoud R.
name: El-Shahawi, Manal M.
name: Abou-Elmagd, Wael S. I.
name: Hekal, Mohamed H.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biochemistry

description: A series of isoquinoline derivatives were synthesized via the reaction of the (Z)-4-(1,3-diphenylpyrazol-4-yl)isochromene-1,3-dione with different hydrazides, primary amines, diamines, 2-aminothiophenol, 2-aminobenzoic acid, p-aminoacetophenone, and ethyl 2-amino-4,5,6,7-tetrahydrobenzo-[b]thiophene-3-carboxylate. All the synthesized compounds were characterized by infrared, 1H NMR, and mass spectra besides the analytical data.
Pungitius platygaster
Creators: name: Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz
name: Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Gasterosteiformes
Gasterosteidae
Pungitius
Pungitius platygaster

description: 299. Pungitius platygaster (Kessler, 1859)
Common name. Ukrainian stickleback
Taxonomy. Original description: Gasterosteus platygaster Kessler, 1859: 202 [Odessa and side arm of Dnieper River in Aleschki, Ukraine; Syntypes: BMNH 1897.7.5.2 [ex ZIN] (2), ZIN 2350-51 (6, 6+)].
Revisions. Esmaeili et al. (2023).
Illustrations. Esmaeili et al. (2023: 6, fig. 2).
Distribution in Iran. —Distribution in River Basin: Caspian Sea.—Distribution in Ecoregions: 434-Kura-South Caspian Drainages.
Status in Iran. [Native].—Mahi-e nohkhare.—Listed in previous checklists from Iran by Esmaeili et al. (2017 a, 2018); Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020) and Eagderi et al. (2022).—Iran material: ZM-CBSU.
Conservation. —IUCN: LC.
description: Published as part of Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz & Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, 2024, Freshwater lamprey and fishes of Iran: Reappraisal and updated checklist with a note on Eagderi et al. (2022), pp. 1-99 in Zootaxa 5402 (1) on page 92, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5402.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10524097
A simple and highly efficient solvent- and catalyst-free synthesis of novel N-sulfamoyl imines
Creators: name: Abderrehmane Djemili
name: Lakrout, Salah
name: Zinelaabidine Cheraiet
name: Berredjem, Malika
name: Aouf, Nour-Eddine
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biochemistry

description: The reaction of aldehydes with primary sulfonamides under solvent- and catalyst-free conditions is described. This method affords the N-sulfamoyl imines in short reaction times and high yields. Mild conditions, simplicity, inexpensive and easily available reagents, and absence of any auxiliary substances are some other advantages of this procedure.
Identification of 4-substituted 2-(4-x-2,5-dimethoxyphenyl)-N-[(2-methoxyphenyl)methyl]ethanamine (25X-NBOMe) and analogues by gas chromatography–mass spectrometry analysis of heptafluorobutyric anhydride (HFBA) derivatives
Creators: name: Lum, Benny J.
name: Brophy, Joseph J.
name: D. Brynn Hibbert
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Physics
subject: Biochemistry

description: Gas chromatograms and E.I. mass spectra of the parent compounds and seven heptafluorobutyric anhydride derivatised, 4-substituted 2-(4-x-2,5-dimethoxyphenyl)-N-[(2-methoxyphenyl)methyl]ethanamines (25X-NBOMe), (x = Br, Cl, Me, Et, I, NO2,SMe; X = B, C, D, E, I, N, T2), 2-(2,5-dimethoxyphenyl)-N-[(2-methoxyphenyl)methyl]ethanamine (25H-NBOMe) and six other analogues are reported. Derivatisation allows determination of the mass of the molecular ion, and observation of characteristic fragmentation patterns. All the NBOMe compounds studied showed a McLafferty rearrangement in the E.I. mass spectrum that is diagnostic of a hydrogen atom that is six atoms removed from a π-bonded hetero-atom. The ease of this protocol makes this an important tool for the routine analysis of appropriately-structured new psychoactive substances in crime laboratories.
Acanthopagrus arabicus Iwatsuki 2013
Creators: name: Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz
name: Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Perciformes
Sparidae
Acanthopagrus
Acanthopagrus arabicus

description: 300. Acanthopagrus arabicus Iwatsuki, 2013
Common name. Arabian yellowfin seabream
Taxonomy. Original description: Acanthopagrus arabicus Iwatsuki, 2013: 83, fig. 4 (b) [Western Coast of Qatar (market specimen); holotype: MUFS 33840].
Revisions. None.
Illustrations. Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020: 280, fig. 510).
Distribution in Iran. —Distribution in River Basin: Tigris, Persis, Hormuz.—Distribution in Ecoregions: 441- Lower Tigris & Euphrates, 442-Upper Tigris & Euphrates, 451-Northern Hormuz Drainages.
Status in Iran. [Native].—Shanak mahi-e Arabi.—Listed in previous checklists from Iran by Esmaeili et al. (2017 a, 2018); Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020) and Eagderi et al. (2022).—Iran material: ZM-CBSU.
Conservation. —IUCN: LC.
description: Published as part of Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz & Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, 2024, Freshwater lamprey and fishes of Iran: Reappraisal and updated checklist with a note on Eagderi et al. (2022), pp. 1-99 in Zootaxa 5402 (1) on page 92, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5402.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10524097
Bias-Variance Decompositions for Margin Losses
Creators: name: Wood, Danny
name: Mu, Tingting
name: Brown, Gavin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We introduce a novel bias-variance decomposition for a range of strictly convex margin losses, including the logistic loss (minimized by the classic LogitBoost algorithm), as well as the squared margin loss and canonical boosting loss. Furthermore, we show that, for all strictly convex margin losses, the expected risk decomposes into the risk of a "central" model and a term quantifying variation in the functional margin with respect to variations in the training data. These decompositions provide a diagnostic tool for practitioners to understand model overfitting/underfitting, and have implications for additive ensemble models -- for example, when our bias-variance decomposition holds, there is a corresponding "ambiguity" decomposition, which can be used to quantify model diversity.
description: Supplementary material included
Landscape Prediction and Mapping of Game Fish Biomass, an Ecosystem Service of Michigan Rivers
Creators: name: Esselman, Peter C.
name: R. Jan Stevenson
name: Lupi, Frank
name: Riseng, Catherine M.
name: Wiley, Michael J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences

description: The increased integration of ecosystem service concepts into natural resource management places renewed emphasis on prediction and mapping of fish biomass as a major provisioning service of rivers. The goals of this study were to predict and map patterns of fish biomass as a proxy for the availability of catchable fish for anglers in rivers and to identify the strongest landscape constraints on fish productivity. We examined hypotheses about fish responses to total phosphorus (TP), as TP is a growth-limiting nutrient known to cause increases (subsidy response) and/or decreases (stress response) in fish biomass depending on its concentration and the species being considered. Boosted regression trees were used to define nonlinear functions that predicted the standing crops of Brook Trout Salvelinus fontinalis, Brown Trout Salmo trutta, Smallmouth Bass Micropterus dolomieu, panfishes (seven centrarchid species), and Walleye Sander vitreus by using landscape and modeled local-scale predictors. Fitted models were highly significant and explained 22–56% of the variation in validation data sets. Nonlinear and threshold responses were apparent for numerous predictors, including TP concentration, which had significant effects on all except the Walleye fishery. Brook Trout and Smallmouth Bass exhibited both subsidy and stress responses, panfish biomass exhibited a subsidy response only, and Brown Trout exhibited a stress response. Maps of reach-specific standing crop predictions showed patterns of predicted fish biomass that corresponded to spatial patterns in catchment area, water temperature, land cover, and nutrient availability. Maps illustrated predictions of higher trout biomass in coldwater streams draining glacial till in northern Michigan, higher Smallmouth Bass and panfish biomasses in warmwater systems of southern Michigan, and high Walleye biomass in large main-stem rivers throughout the state. Our results allow fisheries managers to examine the biomass potential of streams, describe geographic patterns of fisheries, explore possible nutrient management targets, and identify habitats that are candidates for species management.Received May 20, 2014; accepted November 6, 2014
Solid Phase Recrystallization in Arsenic Ion-Implanted Silicon-On-Insulator by Microsecond UV Laser Annealing
Creators: name: Tabata, Toshiyuki
name: Rozé, Fabien
name: Alba, Pablo Acosta
name: Halty, Sebastien
name: Raynal, Pierre-Edouard
name: Karmous, Imen
name: Kerdilés, Sébastien
name: Mazzamuto, Fulvio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: UV laser annealing (UV-LA) enables surface-localized high-temperature thermal processing to form abrupt junctions in emerging monolithically stacked devices, where the applicable thermal budget is restricted. In this work, UV-LA is performed to regrow a silicon-on-insulator wafer partially amorphized by arsenic ion implantation as well as to activate the dopants. In a microsecond scale ( 10^-6 s to 10^-5 s) UV-LA process, monocrystalline solid phase recrystallization and dopant activation without junction deepening are evidenced, thus opening various applications in low thermal budget integration flows. However, some concerns remain. First, the surface morphology is degraded after the regrowth, possibly because of the non-perfect uniformity of the used laser beam and/or the formation of defects near the surface involving the excess dopants. Second, many of the dopants are inactive and seem to form deep levels in the Si band gap, suggesting a further optimization of the ion implantation condition to manage the initial crystal damage and the heating profile to better accommodate the dopants into the substitutional sites.
description: ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT for IEEE Journal of the Electron Devices Society. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2111.07577