cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Shenkang injection for the treatment of acute kidney injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Liao, Shengchun
name: Chen, Yurou
name: Wang, Shuting
name: Wang, Chen
name: Ye, Chaoyang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Shenkang injection (SKI) has been widely used in China for many years for the treatment of kidney disease. The objective of this systematic review was to assess the efficacy of Shenkang injection for the treatment of acute kidney injury (AKI). A search was conducted across seven databases, encompassing data from the inception of each database through October 8th, 2023. Randomized controlled trials comparing SKI-treated AKI patients with control subjects were extracted. The main outcome measure was serum creatinine (SCr) levels. Secondary outcomes included blood urea nitrogen (BUN), serum cystatin C (CysC), 24-h urine protein (24 h-Upro) levels, APACHE II score and adverse reactions. This meta-analysis included eleven studies, and the analysis indicated that, compared with the control group, SKI significantly decreased SCr [WMD = −23.31, 95% CI (-28.06, −18.57); p < 0.001]; BUN [WMD = −2.07, 95% CI (-2.56, −1.57); p < 0.001]; CysC [WMD = −0.55, 95% CI (-0.78, −0.32), p < 0.001]; 24-h urine protein [WMD = −0.43, 95% CI (-0.53, −0.34), p < 0.001]; and the APACHE II score [WMD = −3.07, 95% CI (-3.67, −2.48), p < 0.001]. There was no difference in adverse reactions between the SKI group and the control group [RR = 1.32, 95% CI (0.66, 2.63), p = 0.431]. The use of SKI in AKI patients may reduce SCr, BUN, CysC, 24-h Upro levels, and APACHE II scores in AKI patients. The incidence of adverse reactions did not differ from that in the control group. Additional rigorous clinical trials will be necessary in the future to thoroughly evaluate and establish the effectiveness of SKI in the treatment of AKI.
Additional file 1 of Specific exposure of ICU staff to SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity: a wide seroprevalence study in a French city-center hospital
Creators: name: Vivier, Emmanuel
name: Pariset, Caroline
name: Stephane Rio
name: Armand, Sophie
name: Doroszewski, Fanny
name: Richard, Delphine
name: Chardon, Marc
name: Romero, Georges
name: Metral, Pierre
name: Pecquet, Matthieu
name: Didelot, Adrien
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Questionnnaire for participants.
Generating Lie and gauge free differential (super)algebras by expanding Maurer-Cartan forms and Chern-Simons supergravity
Creators: name: de Azcarraga, Jose A.
name: Izquierdo, Jose M.
name: Picon, Moises
name: Varela, Oscar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study how to generate new Lie algebras $\mathcal{G}(N_0,..., N_p,...,N_n)$ from a given one $\mathcal{G}$. The (order by order) method consists in expanding its Maurer-Cartan one-forms in powers of a real parameter $λ$ which rescales the coordinates of the Lie (super)group $G$, $g^{i_p} \to λ^p g^{i_p}$, in a way subordinated to the splitting of $\mathcal{G}$ as a sum $V_0 \oplus ... \oplus V_p \oplus ... \oplus V_n$ of vector subspaces. We also show that, under certain conditions, one of the obtained algebras may correspond to a generalized İnönü-Wigner contraction in the sense of Weimar-Woods, but not in general. The method is used to derive the M-theory superalgebra, including its Lorentz part, from $osp(1|32)$. It is also extended to include gauge free differential (super)algebras and Chern-Simons theories, and then applied to D=3 CS supergravity.
description: 37 pages, Plain Latex, 30-Dec-02
Correlation between ultrafiltration rate and hemoglobin level and erythropoietin response in hemodialysis patients
Creators: name: Cui, Li
name: Zhang, Lili
name: Li, Jing
name: Li, Yuan
name: Hao, Xiaolei
name: Xu, Yan
name: Li, Chunmei
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: This study aimed to investigate the correlation between ultrafiltration rate (UFR) and hemoglobin levels and erythropoietin (EPO) response in patients receiving maintenance hemodialysis (MHD). 225 MHD patients were divided into three groups according to the UFR: < 10 ml/h/kg, 10–13 ml/h/kg, and >13 ml/h/kg. Clinical parameters and prognosis were compared among the groups. Multiple linear correlation and regression analyses were conducted. SPSS 26.0 (IBM, Chicago, IL, USA) was used to analyze all statistics. The UFR < 10 ml/h/kg group was older than the other groups (p < 0.05). The UFR > 13 ml/h/kg group had the highest SpKt/V (p < 0.05), monthly EPO dose/weight (p < 0.001), and EPO resistance index (p < 0.001), as well as the lowest dry weight (p < 0.001), BMI (p < 0.001), hemoglobin (p < 0.001), hematocrit (p < 0.05), and red blood cell count (p < 0.05). Multiple linear regression analysis showed that sex, dry weight, UFR, calcium, phosphorus, albumin, and C-reactive protein levels were associated with hemoglobin levels. Multivariate logistic regression analysis revealed that a higher UFR was associated with lower hemoglobin levels, while male sex and higher levels of calcium and albumin were associated with higher hemoglobin levels. High UFR is associated with more severe anemia and EPO resistance in MHD. This study provides new insights into anemia management in patients undergoing hemodialysis.
Stretchable strain-tolerant soft printed circuit board: a systematic approach for the design rules of stretchable interconnects
Creators: name: Cho, Hyeon
name: Yoontaek Lee
name: Byeongmoon Lee
name: Junghwan Byun
name: Seungjun Chung
name: Yongtaek Hong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Reported herein is a stretchable strain-tolerant soft printed circuit board (SPCB) following optimized circuit design rules. Inkjet-printed interconnects with a wrinkled structure and rigid epoxy patterns allow the outstanding stretchability and strain distribution controllability of the SPCB, respectively. The prototype circuits show reliable operation under various mechanical deformations, even in the 180° folding state and the irregular deformed state with 25% tensile strain. This research paves a promising route for the realization of highly reliable soft printed circuits with a high degree of design freedom, which can thus be used for driver chip mounting or driver board interconnection for the stretchable display applications.
Dynamics of reconfigurable artificial spin ice: towards magnonic functional materials
Creators: name: Gliga, Sebastian
name: Iacocca, Ezio
name: Heinonen, Olle G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: J.2

description: Over the past few years, the study of magnetization dynamics in artificial spin ices has become a vibrant field of study. Artificial spin ices are ensembles of geometrically arranged, interacting magnetic nanoislands, which display frustration by design. These were initially created to mimic the behavior in rare earth pyrochlore materials and to study emergent behavior and frustration using two-dimensional magnetic measurement techniques. Recently, it has become clear that it is possible to create artificial spin ices, which can potentially be used as functional materials. In this Perspective, we review the resonant behavior of spin ices (which is in the GHz frequency range), focusing on their potential application as magnonic crystals. In magnonic crystals, spin waves are functionalized for logic applications by means of band structure engineering. While it has been established that artificial spin ices can possess rich mode spectra, the applicability of spin ices to create magnonic crystals hinges upon their reconfigurability. Consequently, we describe recent work aiming to develop techniques and create geometries allowing full reconfigurability of the spin ice magnetic state. We also discuss experimental, theoretical, and numerical methods for determining the spectral response of artificial spin ices, and give an outlook on new directions for reconfigurable spin ices.
description: 15 pages, 7 figures
Characterising Volunteers' Task Execution Patterns Across Projects on Multi-Project Citizen Science Platforms
Creators: name: Ponciano, Lesandro
name: Pereira, Thiago Emmanuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Citizen science projects engage people in activities that are part of a scientific research effort. On multi-project citizen science platforms, scientists can create projects consisting of tasks. Volunteers, in turn, participate in executing the project's tasks. Such type of platforms seeks to connect volunteers and scientists' projects, adding value to both. However, little is known about volunteer's cross-project engagement patterns and the benefits of such patterns for scientists and volunteers. This work proposes a Goal, Question, and Metric (GQM) approach to analyse volunteers' cross-project task execution patterns and employs the Semiotic Inspection Method (SIM) to analyse the communicability of the platform's cross-project features. In doing so, it investigates what are the features of platforms to foster volunteers' cross-project engagement, to what extent multi-project platforms facilitate the attraction of volunteers to perform tasks in new projects, and to what extent multi-project participation increases engagement on the platforms. Results from analyses on real platforms show that volunteers tend to explore multiple projects, but they perform tasks regularly in just a few of them; few projects attract much attention from volunteers; volunteers recruited from other projects on the platform tend to get more engaged than those recruited outside the platform. System inspection shows that platforms still lack personalised and explainable recommendations of projects and tasks. The findings are translated into useful claims about how to design and manage multi-project platforms.
description: XVIII Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems (IHC'19), October 21-25, 2019, Vit\'oria, ES, Brazil
Off-farm labour participation of Italian farmers, state dependence and the CAP reform
Creators: name: Corsi, Alessandro
name: Salvioni, Cristina
name: Corsi, Alessandro
name: Salvioni, Cristina
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: off-farm work
subject: farm household
subject: state dependence
subject: panel data
subject: CAP reform

description: We analyse the determinants of off-farm labour participation of farmers. For estimation, we use different dynamic models, accounting for both heterogeneity and state dependence, as well as for the initial conditions. Our results suggest that, when keeping into account all these features, the present work state is almost totally explained by the previous state and by idiosyncratic characteristics, which implies a strong persistence. Variables concerning personal characteristics are not found to be significant in the dynamic setting. Finally, the variables related to the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy have little or no statistically significant effect.
MOSQUE IN THE VALLEY: A SPACE FOR SPIRITUAL GATHERING & CULTURAL LEARNING
Creators: name: Iqbal, Nabila
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2015

description: In the history of Architecture, religious structures have always awed people whether a person corresponds to the concerning religion or even he or she is not religious at all. Those structures have been patronized by the riches or the royal highnesses of the time and mostly got the utmost priority regarding planning and construction and the results have been magnificent. By the 16th century when Ottoman Empire (15-20th century) was spreading its dynasty, the world saw the emergence of an overwhelming spread of Islamic architecture as well. Even now one who enters the city of Istanbul or Damascus from the riverside will see series of domes, arches and minarets staggered along the topography. The hierarchical progression of the biggest and most attractive domes among them, which one could hardly miss are of the mosques.
Time to time the social and commercial aspects of life started to redefine urban settlements and demanded for a space for spiritual devotion as well as religious learning and practices in groups. Getting together five times a day as instructed or every Friday for the afternoon where the Imam presents lectures not only on religious matters, contemporary matters and better ways to live in harmony with religious and contemporary concerns. It is the communal gathering of people that demanded for a large hall to pray and communicate with each other afterwards.
The Intention of this thesis is to dig into some of the core aspects of the evolution of mosques, significance of its different parts and features and most importantly how those features as a whole are contributing to behold social and communal construct.
Additional file 3 of Specific exposure of ICU staff to SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity: a wide seroprevalence study in a French city-center hospital
Creators: name: Vivier, Emmanuel
name: Pariset, Caroline
name: Stephane Rio
name: Armand, Sophie
name: Doroszewski, Fanny
name: Richard, Delphine
name: Chardon, Marc
name: Romero, Georges
name: Metral, Pierre
name: Pecquet, Matthieu
name: Didelot, Adrien
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3: Table S1. Stratification of the sample by work area. Table S2. Participation rates according to healthcare workers category.
Appell Functions and the Scalar One-Loop Three-point Integrals in Feynman Diagrams
Creators: name: Cabral-Rosetti, Luis G.
name: Sanchis-Lozano, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The scalar three-point function appearing in one-loop Feynman diagrams is compactly expressed in terms of a generalized hypergeometric function of two variables. Use is made of the connection between such Appell function and dilogarithms coming from a previous investigation. Special cases are obtained for particular values of internal masses and external momenta.
description: LaTex2e Lecture Notes in Computer Science style, 10 pages including 3 figures. Final version to appear in Proceeedings of the Second International Workshop on Graphs, Operads, Logic, Parallel Computational and Mathematical Physics, Cuautitlan, Mexico, May 6 - May 16, 2002. New reference added
Gravitational Collapse of Self-Similar and Shear-free Fluid with Heat Flow
Creators: name: Chan, R.
name: da Silva, M. F. A.
name: da Rocha, Jaime F. Villas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A class of solutions to Einstein field equations is studied, which represents gravitational collapse of thick spherical shells made of self-similar and shear-free fluid with heat flow. It is shown that such shells satisfy all the energy conditions, and the corresponding collapse always forms naked singularities.
description: 34 pages, 9 figures, latex
Additional file 4 of Specific exposure of ICU staff to SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity: a wide seroprevalence study in a French city-center hospital
Creators: name: Vivier, Emmanuel
name: Pariset, Caroline
name: Stephane Rio
name: Armand, Sophie
name: Doroszewski, Fanny
name: Richard, Delphine
name: Chardon, Marc
name: Romero, Georges
name: Metral, Pierre
name: Pecquet, Matthieu
name: Didelot, Adrien
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 4: Table S3. Symptoms associated with SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity in hospital staff.
Kinematical Gravitational Charge Algebra
Creators: name: Freidel, Laurent
name: Livine, Etera R.
name: Pranzetti, Daniele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When formulated in terms of connection and coframes, and in the time gauge, the phase space of general relativity consists of a pair of conjugate fields: the flux 2-form and the Ashtekar connection. On this phase-space, one has to impose the Gauss constraints, the vector, and scalar Hamiltonian constraints. These are respectively generating local SU(2) gauge transformations, spatial diffeomorphisms, and time diffeomorphisms. We write the Gauss and space diffeomorphism constraints as conservation laws for a set of boundary charges, representing spin and momenta, respectively. We prove that these kinematical charges generate a local Poincaré ISU(2) symmetry algebra. This gives strong support to the recent proposal of Poincaré charge networks as a new realm for discretized general relativity [Classical Quantum Gravity 36, 195014 (2019)].
description: version 2, 14 pages, some typos fixed; published version
INVESTIGATING EFFECTS OF THE ANTIBIOTIC CIPROFLOXACIN ON THE DOPAMINERGIC SH-SY5Y CELL LINE
Creators: name: Johnson, Jeffreys N
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2015

description: Ciprofloxacin is a widely prescribed antibiotic which causes idiopathic sensory adverse effects and is known to induce oxidative stress. Dopaminergic cells are known to have intrinsic sensitivity to oxidative stress. To investigate whether ciprofloxacin potentiates cy- totoxicity of dopamine, effects of combined drug treatments on cell viability were assessed by resazurin reduction, and effects on mitochondrial health were assessed by morphology. The cell viability assays suggest that ciprofloxacin significantly potentiates dopamine cytotoxicity at clinically relevant doses, although dopamine possibly interferes with the viability assay. Effects of drug treatments on mitochondrial morphology were inconclusive.
Early referral to nephrological care improves long-term survival and hospitalization after dialysis initiation, independent of optimal dialysis start – a call for harmonization of reimbursement policies
Creators: name: Haarhaus, Mathias
name: Bratescu, Lavinia O.
name: Pana, Nicolae
name: Gemene, Emanuela M.
name: Silva, Eliana M.
name: Araujo, Carla Alexandra R. Santos
name: Macario, Fernando
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Early treatment of kidney disease can slow disease progression and reduce the increased risk of mortality associated with end-stage kidney disease. However, uncertainty exists whether early referral (ER) to nephrological care per se or an optimal dialysis start impacts patient outcome after dialysis initiation. We determined the effect of ER and suboptimal dialysis start on the 3-year mortality and hospitalizations after dialysis initiation. Between January 2015 and July 2018, 349 patients with ≥1 month of follow-up started dialysis at nine Romanian dialysis clinics. After excluding patients with COVID-19 during follow-up, 254 patients (97 ER and 157 late referral) were included in this retrospective study. The observational period was truncated at 3 years, death, or loss to follow-up. Clinical and laboratory data were retrieved from the quality database of the nephrological care providers. Patients were followed for a median (25–75%) of 36 (16–36) months. At dialysis start, ER patients had higher hemoglobin, phosphate, and albumin levels and started dialysis less often via a central dialysis catheter (p < 0.001 for each). Logistic regression analysis demonstrated an independent lower risk for frequent hospitalizations for ER patients (odds ratio 0.22 (95% confidence interval 0.1–0.485), p < 0.001), and Cox regression analysis revealed an improved survival (hazard ratio 0.540 (95% confidence interval 0.325–0.899), p = 0.02), both independent of optimal dialysis start. In conclusion, early referral to nephrological care was associated with improved survival and lower hospitalization rates during the three years after dialysis initiation, independent of optimal dialysis start. These results strongly support the reimbursement of nephrological care before dialysis initiation.
Rejecting Reconstruction after Breast Cancer: Managing Stigmatized Selves
Creators: name: Joyce, Marianne A
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2015

description: After a mastectomy due to breast cancer, a woman faces a choice about whether to undergo cosmetic reconstruction of her breast(s). In choosing reconstruction, women restore not only their bodies but their socially acceptable selves. In spite of this, most choose not to have reconstructive surgery. Though they are in the majority, not much is known about these women, and about what they do to navigate through life with a body that does not meet expectations of femininity. In this project, I use the case of women who choose not to have reconstruction and not to simulate their missing breast(s) to explore the boundaries of the socially acceptable body.
Drawing on interviews with women who did not have reconstruction, examination of depictions of bodies on breast cancer organization web sites, and content analysis of their discussion board postings, I analyze women’s choices not to reconstruct their breasts and place those choices in the context of modern breast cancer culture, which promotes an ideal ‘survivor’ body. I find that these women emphasize concerns about stigma and authenticity and that these concerns are expressed through appearance changes that vary across public and private settings. This research extends our understanding of deviant bodies to understanding the stigma of socially incomprehensible bodies. Further, it makes explicit the assumptions about selfhood that are implied by both current popular perception and sociological work on stigmatization.
Additional file 1 of Bayonet-shaped language development in autism with regression: a retrospective study
Creators: name: Gagnon, David
name: Abderrahim Zeribi
name: Élise Douard
name: Courchesne, Valérie
name: Rodríguez-Herreros, Borja
name: Huguet, Guillaume
name: Jacquemont, Sébastien
name: Loum, Mor Absa
name: Mottron, Laurent
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. List of R packages used for the analyses.
Novel immune cross-talk between inflammatory bowel disease and IgA nephropathy
Creators: name: Yan, Qianqian
name: Zhao, Zihao
name: Liu, Dongwei
name: Li, Jia
name: Pan, Shaokang
name: Duan, Jiayu
name: Liu, Zhangsuo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The mechanisms underlying the complex correlation between immunoglobulin A nephropathy (IgAN) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) remain unclear. This study aimed to identify the optimal cross-talk genes, potential pathways, and mutual immune-infiltrating microenvironments between IBD and IgAN to elucidate the linkage between patients with IBD and IgAN. The IgAN and IBD datasets were obtained from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO). Three algorithms, CIBERSORTx, ssGSEA, and xCell, were used to evaluate the similarities in the infiltrating microenvironment between the two diseases. Weighted gene co-expression network analysis (WGCNA) was implemented in the IBD dataset to identify the major immune infiltration modules, and the Boruta algorithm, RFE algorithm, and LASSO regression were applied to filter the cross-talk genes. Next, multiple machine learning models were applied to confirm the optimal cross-talk genes. Finally, the relevant findings were validated using histology and immunohistochemistry analysis of IBD mice. Immune infiltration analysis showed no significant differences between IBD and IgAN samples in most immune cells. The three algorithms identified 10 diagnostic genes, MAPK3, NFKB1, FDX1, EPHX2, SYNPO, KDF1, METTL7A, RIDA, HSDL2, and RIPK2; FDX1 and NFKB1 were enhanced in the kidney of IBD mice. Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes analysis showed 15 mutual pathways between the two diseases, with lipid metabolism playing a vital role in the cross-talk. Our findings offer insights into the shared immune mechanisms of IgAN and IBD. These common pathways, diagnostic cross-talk genes, and cell-mediated abnormal immunity may inform further experimental studies.
Dissipative effects on quantum glassy systems
Creators: name: Cugliandolo, Leticia F.
name: Grempel, Daniel
name: Lozano, Gustavo
name: Lozza, Homero
name: Santos, Constantino da Silva
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the behavior of a quantum glassy system coupled to a bath of quantum oscillators. We show that the system localizes in the absence of interactions when coupled to a subOhmic bath. When interactions are switched on localization disappears and the system undergoes a phase transition towards a glassy phase. We show that the position of the critical line separating the disordered and the ordered phases strongly depends on the coupling to the bath. For a given type of bath, the ordered glassy phase is favored by a stronger coupling. Ohmic, subOhmic and superOhmic baths lead to different transition lines. We draw our conclusions from the analysis of the partition function using the replicated imaginary-time formalism and from the study of the real-time dynamics of the coupled system using the Schwinger-Keldysh closed time-path formalism.
description: 39 pages, 13 figures, RevTex
Development of Prototypes of a Portable Road Weather Information System
Creators: name: Kainth, Meha
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2015

description: Weather conditions have significant impact on road safety and roadway maintenance operations. Road Weather Information Systems (RWIS) play a significant role in providing weather and surface conditions to transportation agencies to monitor weather events. Fixed installations of RWIS are used for weather and pavement surface monitoring. However, permanent fixture installations may not be feasible due to reasons such as cost, accessibility to the site, siting concerns, and terrain. Portable RWIS provide a cost-effective solution in areas where permanent weather station installation is not possible. This study discusses use and benefits of the portable RWIS and outlines the issues involved in building them.
This thesis presents the system design for building prototypes of two portable RWIS systems to be used by Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT). Portable RWIS consist of weather sensors and pavement sensors installed on a trailer-based platform and operate on solar power. The RWIS equipment mounted on trailers consists of non-invasive pavement sensors, wind sensor, precipitation sensor, atmospheric pressure sensor, humidity and dew point sensor and data logger to transmit data from the sensors to a central server. RWIS equipment from two different manufacturers have been selected. The two systems have been evaluated for their cost, operability, ease- of-use and deployability. A field study of two portable RWIS has been conducted to test accuracy of the data collected by these systems and the results have been evaluated. Characterizing the issues involved in developing such portable systems provide insights into situations where these systems may be most applicable.
An Imprint of the Galactic Magnetic Field in the Diffuse Unpolarized Dust Emission
Creators: name: Hensley, Brandon S.
name: Zhang, Cheng
name: Bock, James J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is well known that aligned, aspherical dust grains emit polarized radiation and that the degree of polarization depends on the angle $ψ$ between the interstellar magnetic field and the line of sight. However, anisotropy of the dust absorption cross sections also modulates the $total\ intensity$ of the radiation as the viewing geometry changes. We report a detection of this effect in the high Galactic latitude $Planck$ data, finding that the 353 GHz dust intensity per $N_{\rm HI}$ is smaller when the Galactic magnetic field is mostly in the plane of the sky and larger when the field is mostly along the line of sight. These variations are of opposite sign and roughly equal magnitude as the changes in polarized intensity per $N_{\rm HI}$ with $ψ$, as predicted. In principle, the variation in intensity can be used in conjunction with the dust polarization angle to constrain the full 3D orientation of the Galactic magnetic field.
description: Submitted to ApJ
Study of the fragmentation of b quarks into B mesons at the Z peak
Creators: name: ALEPH Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The fragmentation of b quarks into B mesons is studied with four million hadronic Z decays collected by the ALEPH experiment during the years 1991-1995. A semi-exclusive reconstruction of B->l nu D(*) decays is performed, by combining lepton candidates with fully reconstructed D(*) mesons while the neutrino energy is estimated from the missing energy of the event. The mean value of xewd, the energy of the weakly-decaying B meson normalised to the beam energy, is found to be mxewd = 0.716 +- 0.006 (stat) +- 0.006 (syst) using a model-independent method; the corresponding value for the energy of the leading B meson is mxel = 0.736 +- 0.006 (stat) +- 0.006 (syst). The reconstructed spectra are compared with different fragmentation models.
description: 21 pages, 5 figures
Inter-Segment Coordination Variability Post Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
Creators: name: Kelly, Devin K.
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2015

description: INTER-SEGMENT COORDINATION VARIABILITY POST ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION
SEPTEMBER 2015
DEVIN K. KELLY, B.S., UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST
M.S., UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST
Directed by: Dr. Joseph Hamill
There is an increased risk for ipsilateral graft rupture and contralateral ACL rupture following ACL reconstruction surgery (ACLR) despite return to sport clearance. The reason for this increased risk is not well understood. Previous literature has shown that decreased coordination variability is indicative of an injured system regardless of the absence of pain. PURPOSE: To quantify inter-segment coordination variability during three portions of the stance phase of gait in athletes at three progressive time points post-surgery compared to the contralateral limb (NI) and healthy controls. METHODS: Three-dimensional kinematic and kinetic data were collected for 10 ACLR and 10 healthy athletes matched for age, gender, and activity level. The ACLR group was measured at 4 weeks, 12 weeks, and when cleared to run post-surgery. Kinematic data were used in a modified vector coding technique to determine inter-segment coordination variability of lower extremity couples of interest. Statistical significance was determined using two factor multivariate ANOVAs (limb x visit) for early (1-33%), mid (34-66%), and late (67-100%) stance with alpha level set at .05. Tukey post-hoc tests were performed where appropriate. RESULTS: ACLR athletes have decreased inter-segment coordination variability of the involved lower extremity during the late stance phase of gait compared to both the contralateral limb and healthy controls at 4 weeks post-surgery. By 12 weeks post-surgery there were improvements in joint function as exemplified by inter-segment coordination variability of the ACLR involved limb becoming similar to the healthy control limb. CONCLUSION: Inter-segment coordination variability during late stance in the present study is not an indication for the increased risk for ipsilateral graft rupture and contralateral ACL rupture in ACLR athletes.
Additional file 2 of Bayonet-shaped language development in autism with regression: a retrospective study
Creators: name: Gagnon, David
name: Abderrahim Zeribi
name: Élise Douard
name: Courchesne, Valérie
name: Rodríguez-Herreros, Borja
name: Huguet, Guillaume
name: Jacquemont, Sébastien
name: Loum, Mor Absa
name: Mottron, Laurent
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Figure S1. Prevalence and relative prevalence of early language regression (ELR) in the original sample.
Hydrodynamical description of Galactic Dark Matter
Creators: name: Cabral-Rosetti, Luis G.
name: Nunez, Dario
name: Sussman, Roberto A.
name: Matos, Tonatiuh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider simple hydrodynamical models of galactic dark matter in which the galactic halo is a self-gravitating and self-interacting gas that dominates the dynamics of the galaxy. Modeling this halo as a sphericaly symmetric and static perfect fluid satisfying the field equations of General Relativity, visible barionic matter can be treated as ``test particles'' in the geometry of this field. We show that the assumption of an empirical ``universal rotation curve'' that fits a wide variety of galaxies is compatible, under suitable approximations, with state variables characteristic of a non-relativistic Maxwell-Boltzmann gas that becomes an isothermal sphere in the Newtonian limit. Consistency criteria lead to a minimal bound for particle masses in the range $30 \hbox{eV} \alt m \alt 60 \hbox{eV}$ and to a constraint between the central temperature and the particles mass. The allowed mass range includes popular supersymmetric particle candidates, such as the neutralino, axino and gravitino, as well as lighter particles ($m\sim$ keV) proposed by numerical N-body simulations associated with self-interactive ``cold'' and ``warm'' dark matter structure formation theories.
description: RevTex4 style, 7 pages including 3 figures. Final version to appear in Proceeedings of the IV Taller de la Division de Gravitacion y Fisica Matematica de la Sociedad Mexicana de Fisica (DGyFM-SMF). Chapala, Jalisco, Mexico November 25 - November 30, 2001
title: KLIMONAS-Ch07-A03 – Relevés et photos des coupes pratiquées dans le comblement des bâtiments du Secteur B, complémentaires de ceux produits dans le corps du Chapitre 7
title: KLIMONAS-Ch07-A03 – Drawings and photos of the sections cut in the building infills of Sector B, complementary to those produced in the body of Chapter 7
Creators: name: ARMAND, Ophélie
name: DUVAL, Jéssie
name: FRANEL, Yodrik
name: HADAD, Rémi
name: KHAWAM, Rana
name: RIGAUD, Solange
name: ROBITAILLE, Jérôme
name: VIGNE, Jean-Denis
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2023

description: Annexe de : Vigne J.-D., Briois F., Guilaine J. (dir.), « Klimonas, un village néolithique pré-céramique ancien à Chypre », Gallia Préhistoire & Paléorient, Supplément international 1,CNRS Éditions, Paris, 2023.
description: Appendix of: Vigne J.-D., Briois F., Guilaine J. (eds.), « Klimonas, an Early Pre-Pottery Neolithic village in Cyprus », Gallia Préhistoire & Paléorient, International Supplement 1, CNRS Éditions, Paris, 2023.
A Real-time Signal Control System to Minimize Emissions at Isolated Intersections
Creators: name: Khalighi, Farnoush
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2015

description: Continuous transportation demand growth in recent years has led to many traffic issues in urban areas. Among the most challenging ones are traffic congestion and the associated vehicular emissions. Efficient design of traffic signal control systems can be a promising approach to address these problems. This research develops a real-time signal control system, which optimizes signal timings at an under-saturated isolated intersection by minimizing total vehicular emissions. A combination of previously introduced analytical models based on traffic flow theory has been used. These models are able to estimate time spent per driving mode (i.e., time spent accelerating, decelerating, cruising, and idling) as a function of demand, vehicle arrival times, saturation flow, and signal control parameters. Information on vehicle activity is used along with the Vehicle Specific Power (VSP) model, which estimates emission rates per time spent in each operating mode to obtain total emissions per cycle. For the evaluation of the proposed method, data from two real-world intersections of Mesogion and Katechaki Avenues located in Athens, Greece and University and San Pablo Avenues, in Berkeley, CA has been used. The evaluation has been performed through both deterministic (i.e. under the assumption of perfect information for all inputs) and stochastic (i.e. without having perfect information for some inputs) arrival tests. The results of evaluation tests have shown that the proposed emission-based signal control system reduces emissions compared to traditional vehicle-based signal control system in most cases.
Oligodon taeniatus sensu Gunther 1864
Creators: name: David, P.
name: Vogel, G.
name: van Rooijen, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Colubridae
Oligodon
Oligodon taeniatus

description: Key to the Oligodon taeniatus -group
These species are better identified on the basis of the number of dorsal rows, then by their dorsal and tail pattern:
 1 19 DSR at neck and at midbody ..................................................................................... Oligodon taeniatus
- 17 DSR at neck and at midbody..................................................................................................................2
 2 Dorsal pattern with 10–14 dark brown or black butterfly-like blotches on the upper surface of body + 2–3 on the tail; no vertebral stripe ........................................................................................... Oligodon barroni
- Dorsal pattern striped, without large blotches on the body.........................................................................3
 3 At least 175 ventrals in females; vertebral and black paravertebral stripes broad and very conspicuous; venter largely dark ........................................................................................... Oligodon moricei spec. nov.
- Not more than 165 ventrals in both sexes; paravertebral stripes weak; venter pale with well defined subrectangular blotches.....................................................................................................................................4
 4 Two conspicuous, large blotches on the tail .................................................................... Oligodon mouhoti
- No, or small blotches on the tail..................................................................................................................5
 5 A narrow, faint vertebral stripe edged with two dark longitudinal paravertebral stripes; a poorly distinct dorsolateral stripe; 14–15 maxillary teeth; presubocular present; 8 supralabials; ratio TaL/TL in males at least 0.20 ............................................................................................ Oligodon pseudotaeniatus spec. nov.
 - A broad vertebral stripe, orange, rusty red or pale yellow, edged with faint paravertebral stripes; dorsolateral stripes reduced to a line of dots; 12–14 maxillary teeth; no presubocular; 7 (very rarely 8) supralabials; ratio TaL/TL in males below 0.175 ............................................................. Oligodon deuvei spec. nov.
description: Published as part of David, P., Vogel, G. & van Rooijen, J., 2008, A revision of the Oligodon taeniatus (Günther, 1861) group (Squamata: Colubridae), with the description of three new species from the Indochinese Region, pp. 1-49 in Zootaxa 1965 on page 47
Modular Orbits at Higher Genus
Creators: name: Robbins, Daniel
name: Vandermeulen, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend the modular orbits method of constructing a two-dimensional orbifold conformal field theory to higher genus Riemann surfaces. We find that partition functions on surfaces of arbitrary genus can be constructed by a straightforward generalization of the rules that one would apply to the torus. We demonstrate how one can use these higher genus objects to compute correlation functions and OPE coefficients in the underlying theory. In the case of orbifolds of free bosonic theories by subgroups of continuous symmetries, we can give the explicit results of our procedure for symmetric and asymmetric orbifolds by cyclic groups.
description: 33 pages; correlation function discussion expanded, references added
Quantifying the Effect of Passive Solar Design in Traditional New England Architecture
Creators: name: Levy, Peter
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2014

description: Passive solar design can be an effective means of reducing conditioning loads in residential buildings by utilizing free solar heat during the heating season, and blocking unwanted solar heat during the cooling season. The objective of this thesis was to use energy modeling software to simulate the effect that incorporating passive solar design strategies into typical New England style houses would have on their energy usage for heating and cooling. The designs that were studied were Capes, Colonials, and Saltboxes. Four versions of increasing energy efficiency were studied for each style. After measuring baseline energy usage for each model, four passive solar variables were incorporated: orientation, allocation of windows to southern façade, shading devices, and thermal mass. After determining the ideal orientation of each building, 300 combinations of window allocation, shading device depth, and amount of thermal mass were simulated for each model. From this pool of simulations, the model with the lowest conditioning costs was selected and compared to its respective baseline design. As a general trend for each style, as the level of energy efficiency decreased, the savings from incorporating passive solar design increased. For the colonial models, the savings ranged from $422-$150. For the Saltbox models, the annual savings ranged from$398-$116. For the Cape models, the savings ranged from $303-$75.
Impulsive waves in electrovac direct product spacetimes with Lambda
Creators: name: Ortaggio, Marcello
name: Podolsky, Jiri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A complete family of non-expanding impulsive waves in spacetimes which are the direct product of two 2-spaces of constant curvature is presented. In addition to previously investigated impulses in Minkowski, (anti-)Nariai and Bertotti-Robinson universes, a new explicit class of impulsive waves which propagate in the exceptional electrovac Plebanski-Hacyan spacetimes with a cosmological constant Lambda is constructed. In particular, pure gravitational waves generated by null particles with an arbitrary multipole structure are described. The metrics are impulsive members of a more general family of the Kundt spacetimes of type II. The well-known pp-waves are recovered for Lambda=0.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure, LaTeX 2e. To appear in Class. Quantum Grav
Additional file 3 of Bayonet-shaped language development in autism with regression: a retrospective study
Creators: name: Gagnon, David
name: Abderrahim Zeribi
name: Élise Douard
name: Courchesne, Valérie
name: Rodríguez-Herreros, Borja
name: Huguet, Guillaume
name: Jacquemont, Sébastien
name: Loum, Mor Absa
name: Mottron, Laurent
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3. Table S1. Socio-demographic data of non-fluent participants with or without ELR.