cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Characteristics and clinical outcomes of patients undergoing fertility treatment by double gamete donation
Creators: name: Blázquez, Anna
name: Vassena, Rita
name: Rodríguez, Amelia
name: Figueras, Francesc
name: Vernaeve, Valerie
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: The number of women receiving in vitro fertilization cycles with both oocyte and sperm donation (double donation; DD) has grown globally in the last decade. The aim of this retrospective study, which included 1139 DD cycles, was to describe the characteristics of patients receiving DD and the outcomes of this assisted reproductive treatment. A cluster analysis identified couple ‘status’ as the main variable in dividing patients into categories. Three such status groups were identified for further analysis: (i) single women (SW), that is women without a partner either male or female; (ii) women with a male partner (MP); (iii) women with a female partner (FP). SW were significantly older (43.9) than patients with a MP (40.4) and a FP (41.3). Women with a male or FP comprised fewer patients with no previous assisted reproductive technology cycles (18.4% and 25.7%, respectively) compared to SW (43.5%). The proportion of patients without children before treatment was significantly different between SW (94.7%) and women with a MP (87.2%). There were no differences in clinical outcomes among the three groups studied. Biochemical pregnancy rate was 58.2% in SW, 58.4% in women with a MP and 64.9% in women with a FP. For the same groups, clinical pregnancy rates were 50.2%, 49.4% and 55.4%, while ‘take-home baby’ rates were 36.6%, 38.9% and 40.3%. Multiple birth and caesarean section rates were not different among the groups, with twinning rates 21.1%, 30.4% and 36%, and caesarean section rates 25.6%, 24% and 26.4% for SW, women with MP and women with FP, respectively.
Prospects of charge signal analyses in liquid xenon TPCs with proportional scintillation in the liquid phase
Creators: name: Kuger, Fabian
name: Dierle, Julia
name: Fischer, Horst
name: Schumann, Marc
name: Toschi, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As liquid xenon TPCs increase in target mass while pursuing the direct detection of WIMP dark matter, the technical challenges arising due to their size call for new solutions and open the discussion on alternative detector concepts. Proportional scintillation in liquid xenon allows for a single-phase design evading all problems related to the liquid-gas interface and the precise gas gap required in a dual-phase TPC. Aside from a different scintillation mechanism, the successful detection- and analysis scheme of state-of-the-art experiments is maintained in this approach. We study the impact on charge signal analysis in a single-phase detector of DARWIN dimensions, where the fast timing of the proportional scintillation signal allows for the precise identification of the single electrons in the ionisation signal. Such a discrete electron-counting approach leads to a better signal resolution for low energies when compared to the classical dual-phase continuous method. The absence of the liquid-gas interface further benefits the S2-only energy resolution significantly. This reduces the uncertainties from the scintillation and signal-detection process to a level significantly below the irreducible fluctuation in the primary ionisation. Exploiting the precise electron time information further allows for a powerful single vs.~multiple site interaction discrimination with 93% rejection efficiency and 98% signal acceptance. This outperforms the design goal of the DARWIN observatory by a reduction factor of 4.2 in non-rejected multiple site neutron events.
Detecting and visualizing the knowledge structure of AI ethics in Wikipedia data
Creators: name: Wei, Mengyi
name: Chen, Chuan
name: Zuo, Chenyu
name: Meng, Liqiu
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2023
Subjects: Community detection
Map equation
Wikipedia
AI ethics

description: Abstracts of the ICA, 6
description: ISSN:2570-2106
Electron correlation and confinement effects in quasi-one-dimensional quantum wires at high density
Creators: name: Girdhar, Ankush
name: Ashokan, Vinod
name: Drummond, N. D.
name: Morawetz, Klaus
name: Pathak, K. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the ground-state properties of ferromagnetic quasi-one-dimensional quantum wires using the quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) method for various wire widths $b$ and density parameters $r_\text{s}$. The correlation energy, pair-correlation function, static structure factor, and momentum density are calculated at high density, $r_\text{s}=0.5$. It is observed that the peak in the static structure factor at $k=2k_\text{F}$ grows as the wire width decreases. We obtain the Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid parameter $K_ρ$ from the momentum density. It is found that $K_ρ$ increases by about $10$\% between wire widths $b=0.01$ and $b=0.5$. We also obtain ground-state properties of finite thickness wires theoretically using the first-order random phase approximation (RPA) with exchange and self-energy contributions, which is exact in the high-density limit. Analytical expressions for the static structure factor and correlation energy are derived for $b \ll r_\text{s}<1$. It is found that the correlation energy varies as $b^2$ for $b \ll r_\text{s}$ from its value for an infinitely thin wire. It is observed that the correlation energy depends significantly on the wire model used (harmonic versus cylindrical confinement). The first-order RPA expressions for the structure factor, pair-correlation function, and correlation energy are numerically evaluated for several values of $b$ and $r_\text{s} \leq 1$. These are compared with the QMC results in the range of applicability of the theory.
Vacuum (meta-)stability in the $μν$SSM
Creators: name: Biekötter, Thomas
name: Heinemeyer, Sven
name: Weiglein, Georg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform an analysis of the vacuum stability of the neutral scalar potential of the $μ$-from-$ν$ Supersymmetric Standard Model ($μν$SSM). As an example scenario, we discuss the alignment-without-decoupling limit of the $μν$SSM, for which the required conditions on the Higgs sector are derived. We demonstrate that in this limit large parts of the parameter space feature unphysical minima that are deeper than the electroweak minimum. In order to estimate the lifetime of the electroweak vacuum, we calculate the rates for the tunneling process into each unphysical minimum. We find that in many cases the resulting lifetime is longer than the age of the universe, such that the considered parameter region is not excluded. On the other hand, we also find parameter regions in which the electroweak vacuum is short-lived. We investigate how the different regions of stability are related to the presence of light right-handed sneutrinos. Accordingly, a vacuum stability analysis that accurately takes into account the possibility of long-lived metastable vacua is crucial for a reliable assessment of the phenomenological viability of the parameter space of the $μν$SSM and its resulting phenomenology at the (HL)-LHC.
description: 35 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables, v2: References added, matches published version
A sonic boom in bubble wall friction
Creators: name: Dorsch, Glauber C.
name: Huber, Stephan J.
name: Konstandin, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit the computation of bubble wall friction during a cosmological first-order phase transition, using an extended fluid Ansatz to solve the linearized Boltzmann equation. A singularity is found in the fluctuations of background species as the wall approaches the speed of sound. Using hydrodynamics, we argue that a discontinuity across the speed of sound is expected on general grounds, which manifests itself as the singularity in the solution of the linearized system. We discuss this result in comparison with alternative approaches proposed recently, which find a regular behaviour of the friction for all velocities.
A Late Bronze Age barbed spearhead and other recent finds from Priory Park, Reigate
Creators: name: Williams, David
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2002

description: Surrey Archaeological Collections, 83, 234-237
description: Reports on a spearhead found by metal detector in 1993. Further investigation proved negative, but in 1994 tree clearance enabled a further metal-detector survey that recovered a socketed axe, a socketed gouge, fragments of copper `cake', and Roman pendant (see 97/544).
Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay via Light Neutralinos in R-Parity Violating Supersymmetry
Creators: name: Bolton, Patrick D.
name: Deppisch, Frank F.
name: Dev, P. S. Bhupal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a study of neutrinoless double beta ($0νββ$) decay mediated by the lightest neutralino of arbitrary mass in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) under the presence of R-parity violating trilinear interactions. In this scenario, the exchange of the lightest neutralino can result in $0νββ$ decay of either long-range or short-range behaviour, depending on the neutralino mass. Using nuclear matrix elements calculated in the Interacting Boson Model, we use an interpolation between the long- and short-range behaviours with an approximate formula. The non-observation of $0νββ$ decay is then used to place constraints on the supersymmetry parameter space, compatible with constraints from collider experiments. We compare these constraints to bounds from pion decays, CKM unitarity and Big Bang Nucleosynthesis.
description: 33 pages, 8 figures
Connecting steady-states of driven-dissipative photonic lattices with spontaneous collective emission phenomena
Creators: name: González-Tudela, Alejandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent experimental advances enable the fabrication of photonic lattices in which the light propagates with non-trivial energy dispersions. When interfaced with quantum emitters, such systems yield strong collective spontaneous emission phenomena, such as perfect sub-radiance, in which the decay into the bath is completely suppressed, forming bound-states-in-the-continuum. Since such photonic lattices are generally lossy, an alternative way of probing them consists in coherently driving them to an steady-state from which photoluminescence can be extracted. Here, we formalize connections between these two seemingly different situations and use that intuition to predict the formation of non-trivial photonic steady-states in one and two dimensions. In particular, we show that subradiant emitter configurations are linked to the emergence of steady-state light-localization in the driven-dissipative setting, in which the light features the same form than the spontaneously formed bound-states-in-the-continuum. Besides, we also find configurations which leads to the opposite behaviour, an anti-localization of light, that is, it distributes over all the system except for the region defined between the driving lasers. These results shed light on the recently reported optically-defined cavities in polaritonic lattices, and can guide further experimental studies.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures. Closed to published version
Profiling of adhesive-related genes in the freshwater cnidarian Hydra magnipapillata by transcriptomics and proteomics
Creators: name: Rodrigues, Marcelo
name: Ostermann, Thomas
name: Kremeser, Leopold
name: Lindner, Herbert
name: Beisel, Christian
name: Berezikov, Eugene
name: Hobmayer, Bert
name: Ladurner, Peter
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: The differentiated ectodermal basal disc cells of the freshwater cnidarian Hydra secrete proteinaceous glue to temporarily attach themselves to underwater surfaces. Using transcriptome sequencing and a basal disc-specific RNA-seq combined with in situ hybridisation a highly specific set of candidate adhesive genes was identified. A de novo transcriptome assembly of 55,849 transcripts (>200 bp) was generated using paired-end and single reads from Illumina libraries constructed from different polyp conditions. Differential transcriptomics and spatial gene expression analysis by in situ hybridisation allowed the identification of 40 transcripts exclusively expressed in the ectodermal basal disc cells. Comparisons after mass spectrometry analysis of the adhesive secretion showed a total of 21 transcripts to be basal disc specific and eventually secreted through basal disc cells. This is the first study to survey adhesion-related genes in Hydra. The candidate list presented in this study provides a platform for unravelling the molecular mechanism of underwater adhesion of Hydra.
Evaluating Data Processing Datacenter Applications in Serverless Environments
Creators: name: Moro, Gianluca
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2023
Subjects: Serverless
Data Processing

description: Serverless platforms provide a high degree of elasticity and fine-grained billing. Even though the serverless programming model is very popular for short-lived, event-driven applications, it is ill-suited for distributed data center applications because of restrictions like the lack of direct communication between individual serverless functions. Boxer is a system developed to overcome these limitations and provides an environment in real-world serverless platforms that is compatible with existing data center applications. Boxer enables the use of existing unmodified query engines in commercially available serverless offerings (e.g., AWS Lambda), and thus, allowing us to take advantage of the elasticity properties of serverless platforms without the need to re-design the applications to fit the serverless programming model. This offers the ability to instantiate data center clusters on a per-request granularity and therefore reducing resource over-provisioning. 
In this thesis, we study the requirements, feasibility and performance of using Boxer to run existing data processing applications in a serverless environment. We show how to instantiate whole query engine clusters in serverless functions on a per-request granularity and present experimental results of the TPC-H benchmark using Apache Spark and Apache Drill query engines running in AWS Lambda serverless functions. We evaluate the query engine cluster initialization time, query execution time, as well as monetary costs, and compare them to results gathered from the same experiments performed in Amazon EC2 virtual machine clusters.
The hoard of Iron Age class II potin coins from New Addington, Surrey: an addendum
Creators: name: Fitzpatrick, Andrew P
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2002

description: Surrey Archaeological Collections, 83, 238-239
description: A brief numismatic report is based on records of the hoard, because the coins had been stolen from a private collection. Associated pottery sherds are also described: they may be from vessels that contained the hoard. See also 91/1238.
A $d^8$ anti-Hund's Singlet Insulator in an Infinite-layer Nickelate
Creators: name: Jin, Hyo-Sun
name: Pickett, W. E.
name: Lee, K. -W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The status of nickelate superconductors in relation to cuprate high temperature superconductors is one of the concepts being discussed in high temperature superconductivity in correlated transition metal oxides. New additions to the class of infinite layer nickelates can provide essential input relating to connections or distinctions. A recently synthesized compound \bnoas, which contains isolated `infinite layer' NiO$_2$ planes, may lead to new insights. Our investigations have discovered that, at density functional theory mean field level, the ground state consists of an unusual $e_g$ singlet on the Ni$^{2+}$ ion arising from large but separate Mott insulating gaps in both $e_g$ orbitals, but with different, anti-Hund's, spin directions of their moments. This textured singlet incorporates at the least new physics, and potentially a new platform for nickelate superconductivity, which might be of an unconventional form for transition metal oxides due to the unconventional undoped state. We include in this paper a comparison of electronic structure parameters of Ba$_2$NiO$_2$(AgSe)$_2$ with a better characterized infinite layer nickelate LaNiO$_2$. We provide more analysis of the $d^8$ anti-Hund's singlet that emerges in this compound, and consider a minimally correlated wavefunction for this singlet in an itinerant background, and begin discussion of excitations -- real or virtual -- that may figure into new electronic phases.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures
Two Roman phallic pendants from Surrey
Creators: name: Alexander, Mary
name: Bird, Joanna
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2002

description: Surrey Archaeological Collections, 83, 245-246
description: Describes two copper-alloy metal-detector finds, respectively from the Hog's Back, near Puttenham, and Priory Park, Reigate (see also 97/441).
Tailoring Drug Mobility by Photothermal Heating of Graphene Plasmons
Creators: name: Phan, Anh D.
name: Ngan, Nguyen K.
name: Nga, Do T.
name: Le, Nam B.
name: Ha, Chu Viet
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a theoretical approach to quantitatively determine the photothermally driven enhancement of molecular mobility of graphene-indomethacin mixtures under infrared laser irradiation. Graphene plasmons absorb incident electromagnetic energy and dissipate them into heat. The absorbed energy depends on optical properties of graphene plasmons, which are sensitive to structural parameters, and concentration of plasmonic nanostructures. By using theoretical model, we calculate temperature gradients of the bulk drug with different concentrations of graphene plasmons. From these, we determine the temperature dependence of structural molecular relaxation and diffusion of indomethacin and find how the heating process significantly enhances the drug mobility.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in Rapid Research Letters
Jahrbuch 2017. DARCH, ETH Zürich: Yearbook 2017. DARCH, ETH Zurich
Creators: name: Departement Architektur, ETH Zürich
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Architecture
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: Teaching
subject: Research
subject: info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/720

description: ISBN:978-3-85676-374-9
Novel Plant-Associated Brevibacillus and Lysinibacillus Genomospecies Harbor a Rich Biosynthetic Potential of Antimicrobial Compounds
Creators: name: Jähne, Jennifer
name: Le Thi, Thanh Tam
name: Blumenscheit, Christian
name: Schneider, Andy
name: Pham, Thi Luong
name: Le Thi, Phuong Thao
name: Blom, Jochen
name: Vater, Joachim
name: Schweder, Thomas
name: Lasch, Peter
name: Borriss, Rainer
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Lysinibacillus
subject: Brevibacillus
subject: genomic islands
subject: phylogenomics
subject: taxonomy
subject: ANI
subject: average nucleotide identity
subject: dDDH
subject: DNA-DNA hybridization: biocontrol
subject: nematicidal activity
subject: plant growth promotion
subject: secondary metabolites
subject: 570 Biologie

description: We have previously reported the draft genome sequences of 59 endospore-forming Gram-positive bacterial strains isolated from Vietnamese crop plants due to their ability to suppress plant pathogens. Based on their draft genome sequence, eleven of them were assigned to the Brevibacillus and one to the Lysinibacillus genus. Further analysis including full genome sequencing revealed that several of these strains represent novel genomospecies. In vitro and in vivo assays demonstrated their ability to promote plant growth, as well as the strong biocontrol potential of Brevibacilli directed against phytopathogenic bacteria, fungi, and nematodes. Genome mining identified 157 natural product biosynthesis gene clusters (BGCs), including 36 novel BGCs not present in the MIBiG data bank. Our findings indicate that plant-associated Brevibacilli are a rich source of putative antimicrobial compounds and might serve as a valuable starting point for the development of novel biocontrol agents.
Unprecedented thermal stability of inherently metastable titanium aluminum nitride by point defect engineering
Creators: name: Baben, Moritz To
name: Hans, Marcus
name: Primetzhofer, Daniel
name: Evertz, Simon
name: Ruess, Holger
name: Schneider, Jochen M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: Extreme cooling rates during physical vapor deposition (PVD) allow growth of metastable phases. However, we propose that reactive PVD processes can be described by a gas–solid paraequilibrium defining chemical composition and thus point defect concentration. We show that this notion allows for point defect engineering by controlling deposition conditions. As example we demonstrate that thermal stability of metastable (Ti,Al)Nx, the industrial benchmark coating for wear protection, can be increased from 800°C to unprecedented 1200°C by minimizing the vacancy concentration. The thermodynamic approach formulated here opens a pathway for thermal stability engineering by point defects in reactively deposited thin films. IMPACT STATEMENT A novel thermodynamic methodology to predict stoichiometry of coatings is utilized to increase thermal stability of today’s industrial benchmark hard coating TiAlN from 800°C to 1200°C by point defect engineering.
Two-body weak currents in heavy nuclei
Creators: name: Ney, E. M.
name: Engel, J.
name: Schunck, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In light and medium-mass nuclei, two-body weak currents from chiral effective field theory account for a significant portion of the phenomenological quenching of Gamow-Teller transition matrix elements. Here we examine the systematic effects of two-body axial currents on Gamow-Teller strength and $β$-decay rates in heavy nuclei within energy-density functional theory. Using a Skyrme functional and the charge-changing finite amplitude method, we add the contributions of two-body currents to the usual one-body linear response in the Gamow-Teller channel, both exactly and though a density-matrix expansion. The two-body currents, as expected, usually quench both summed Gamow-Teller strength and decay rates, but by an amount that decreases as the neutron excess grows. In addition, they can enhance individual low-lying transitions, leading to decay rates that are quite different from those that an energy-independent quenching would produce, particularly in neutron-rich nuclei. We show that both these unexpected effects are related to changes in the total nucleon density as the number of neutrons increases.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures
Mapping out the internal space in AdS/BCFT with Wilson loops
Creators: name: Coccia, Lorenzo
name: Uhlemann, Christoph F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study Wilson loops in string theory realizations of AdS/BCFT and wedge holography. The field theories are based on 3d $\mathcal N=4$ long quiver gauge theories engineered by D3, D5 and NS5 branes, and on BCFTs involving 4d $\mathcal N=4$ SYM coupled to such 3d theories. The holographic duals have geometry $AdS_4\times S^2\times S^2$ warped over a strip. We identify the holographic representation of antisymmetric Wilson loops associated with individual 3d gauge nodes in terms of probe D5-branes. The expectation values obtained holographically are matched to supersymmetric localization computations. Our results yield an identification of regions in the internal space with individual 3d gauge nodes. Connecting to bottom-up braneworld models, this gives a concrete notion of which parts of the 10d solutions correspond to the end-of-the-world brane and which to the remaining bulk. We also construct supersymmetric Janus on the brane embeddings in AdS$_5\times$S$^5$, which describe surface defects with boundaries and interfaces in $\mathcal N=4$ SYM.
description: 57 pages, 15 figures; v2: minor edits, expanded references
Assessing biodiversity and regulatory ecosystem services in urban water bodies which serve as aqua-Nature-based Solutions
Creators: name: Martín Muñoz, Silvia
name: Schoelynck, Jonas
name: Tetzlaff, Doerthe
name: Debbaut, Robrecht
name: Warter, Maria
name: Staes, Jan
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: ecosystem services
subject: nature-based solutions
subject: biodiversity
subject: climate change
subject: urban ponds
subject: urban planning
subject: water regulation
subject: hydroperiod
subject: 333.7 Landflächen, Naturräume für Freizeit und Erholung, Naturreservate, Energie
subject: 570 Biologie

description: In sight of a growing urban population and intensified extreme weather events, cities must integrate in their urban planning elements to both reduce their impact (i.e., air and water pollution, degradation of habitats, loss of biodiversity) and increase their resilience to climate change. In contrast to engineering solutions, which normally not only fail to adequately address these issues but often also exacerbate them, Nature-based Solutions are an efficient strategy which can help cities become more sustainable. Aqua-Nature-based Solutions (aNBS) tackle water-related hazards by enhancing water regulation and mitigating flood and drought impacts. However, under a warming climate, aNBS are expected to often dry-out, changing biodiversity and the ecosystem services they support. The aim of this study is to compare the biodiversity of temporarily and permanently wet urban waterbodies which function as aNBS. We selected two pond complexes with different hydroperiod (i.e., different duration, amplitude and frequency of inundation) and studied the riparian vegetation and aquatic macroinvertebrate biodiversity. The Multimetric Macroinvertebrate Index of Flanders was used to determine the macroinvertebrate biodiversity and to assess water quality of the ponds. Using water stable isotopes and piezometers, the hydrological dynamics were studied in order to identify the water regulating ecosystem services these ponds deliver. The results showed that the selected pond complexes have a high plant biodiversity, particularly in temporary ponds. Water quality ranged from moderate to poor and macroinvertebrate biodiversity tended to be greater in permanent ponds. Plant and macroinvertebrate alien species were also found in the aNBS. Regarding water regulating ecosystem services, the pond complexes enhanced infiltration and groundwater recharge, providing resilience to both flooding and drought. Our findings corroborate previous studies on the need of diversifying urban ponds’ hydroperiod to support biodiversity. Thus, integrating well-designed aNBS into urban planning might be a way to make cities more resilient to water climate-related hazards while enhancing biodiversity.
Modular flavor symmetry and vector-valued modular forms
Creators: name: Liu, Xiang-Gan
name: Ding, Gui-Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit the modular flavor symmetry from a more general perspective. The scalar modular forms of principal congruence subgroups are extended to the vector-valued modular forms, then we have more possible finite modular groups including $Γ_N$ and $Γ'_N$ as the flavor symmetry. The theory of vector-valued modular forms provide a method of differential equation to construct the modular multiplets, and it also reveals the simple structure of the modular invariant mass models. We review the theory of vector-valued modular forms and give general results for the lower dimensional vector-valued modular forms. The general finite modular groups are listed up to order 72. We apply the formalism to construct two new lepton mass models based on the finite modular groups $A_4\times Z_2$ and $GL(2,3)$.
description: 37 pages
Nonperturbative light-front effective potential for static sources in quenched scalar Yukawa theory
Creators: name: Chabysheva, Sophia S
name: Hiller, John R
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute an effective potential between two fixed sources in light-front quantization of a quenched scalar Yukawa theory that models the interaction of complex scalar fields through the exchange of a neutral scalar. Despite the breaking of explicit rotational symmetry by the use of light-front coordinates, the effective potential is rotationally symmetric and matches the standard Yukawa potential for scalar exchange. The neutral scalar field is represented by a coherent state, which is obtained nonperturbatively as an eigenstate of our model Hamiltonian, with the eigenenergy determining the effective potential. The sources are represented by wave packets that are fixed with respect to ordinary time, but move in light-front coordinates. The theory is quenched, to remove pair-production processes that would otherwise cause the spectrum to be unbounded from below.
description: 17 pages, 1 figure; RevTeX 4.2
Bradysia ascenda Rudzinski 1994
Creators: name: Heller, Kai
name: Hippa, Heikki
name: Vilkamaa, Pekka
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Sciaridae
Bradysia
Bradysia ascenda

description: Bradysia ascenda Rudzinski, 1994
Fig. 1 A–D
Material examined
SWEDEN: Torne Lappmark, Kiruna, Abisko, 68°20’ N, 18°52’ E, north slope, 440 m, edge of birch forest, white pan trap, 13– 17 Sep. 1991, v. Tschirnhaus, 3 ♂♂, PWMP.
Redescription (male)
HEAD. Dark brown, antenna unicolorous pale brown; maxillary palpus very pale brown. Eye bridge 2–3 facets wide. Face with 10–12 scattered longer and shorter setae. Clypeus with 1–4 setae. Maxillary palpus with 3 segments; segment 3 longer than segment 1, segment 2 shortest; segment 1 with 3–4 setae, with dorsal pit of sensilla; antennal flagellomeres with slightly rough surface, body of flagellomere 4 2.15–2.4× as long as wide, neck shorter than broad, longest setae longer than width of flagellomere.
THORAX. Dark brown, setae pale. Anterior pronotum with 6–12 setae. Episternum 1 with 13–15 setae. Scutum with long dorsocentrals, with some longer and shorter laterals, scutellum with 2 longer and some short setae.
WING. Fumose. Length 1.8–1.9 mm. Width/length 0.40. Veins distinct. R1/R 0.65. c/ w 0.70 –0.75. r-m shorter than bM, r-m with 1 seta, bM non-setose.
LEGS. Pale brown. Coxal setae pale. Front tibial organ with pale vestiture forming a row. Front tibial spur longer than tibial width. Claws without teeth.
ABDOMEN. Pale brown, setae pale.
HYPOPYGIUM (Fig. 1 A–D). Brown, concolorous with abdomen.
GONOCOXA. Narrow, longer than gonostylus, mesial margin with normal setosity.
GONOSTYLUS. Narrow, rather straight, slightly thickened at middle, slightly narrowed towards apex, with mesial side not impressed; with dense apical setosity, without apical tooth, with 8–9 apical-subapical megasetae; megasetae subequal in size, slightly curved and sharp. Tegmen conical, apically truncate, with straight lateral sides, with indistinct basolateral corners, laterally sclerotized, with area of aedeagal teeth. Aedeagal apodeme long.
Remarks
Bradysia ascenda was described on the basis of three males from the Austrian Alps (Rudzinski 1994). In having its setae pale and in having a distinct sensory pit in the maxillary palpus, it belongs to the Bradysia tilicola group of Menzel & Mohrig (2000).
description: Published as part of Heller, Kai, Hippa, Heikki & Vilkamaa, Pekka, 2015, Taxonomy of Bradysia Winnertz (Diptera, Sciaridae) in the Northern Holarctic, with the description of four new species, pp. 1-15 in European Journal of Taxonomy 122 (122) on pages 2-3, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2015.122, http://zenodo.org/record/3780186
Characterizing nonlocal correlations through various $n$-locality inequlities in quantum network
Creators: name: Munshi, Sneha
name: Pan, A. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The multipartite quantum networks feature multiple independent sources, in contrast to the conventional multipartite Bell experiment involving a single source. So far, network nonlocality has been explored when each source produces a two-qubit entangled state. In this work, we demonstrate the network nonlocality when each party performs a black-box measurement, and the dimension of the system remains unspecified. In an interesting work, by considering each source produces two-qubit entangled states in the conventional bilocal scenario, Gisin \emph{et. al.} in https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.96.020304] demonstrated a correspondence between the violations of bipartite Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Halt inequality and the bilocality inequality. We introduce a variant of the sum-of-squares approach to reproduce their results without assuming the dimension of the system. We then generalize the argument for network nonlocality in star-network topology. Further, we propose a new set of $n$-locality inequalities in star-network configuration where each of the $n$ parties performs an arbitrary number of dichotomic measurements and demonstrate the above correspondence between the quantum violations of the $n$-locality inequalities and the chained Bell inequalities. A similar correspondence is demonstrated based on a recently formulated family of $n$-locality inequalities whose optimal quantum violation cannot be obtained when each source emits a two-qubit entangled state and requires multiple copies of two-qubit entangled states. Throughout this paper, each party in the network performs black-box measurements, and the dimension of the system remains unspecified.
Early diagnosis of persons with von Willebrand disease using a machine learning algorithm and real-world data
Creators: name: Sidonio, Robert F.
name: Lu, Anan
name: Hale, Sarah
name: Caicedo, Jorge
name: Bullano, Mike
name: Xing, Shan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Von Willebrand disease (VWD) is underdiagnosed, often delaying treatment. VWD claims coding is limited and includes no severity qualifiers; improved identification methods for VWD are needed. The aim of this study is to identify and characterize undiagnosed symptomatic persons with VWD in the US from medical insurance claims using predictive machine learning (ML) models. Diagnosed and potentially undiagnosed VWD cohorts were defined using Komodo longitudinal US claims data (January 2015-March 2020). ML models were built using key characteristics predictive of VWD diagnosis from the diagnosed cohort. Two ML models predicted VWD diagnosis with the highest accuracy in females (random forest; 84%) and males (gradient boosting machine; 85%). Undiagnosed persons suspected to have VWD were identified using an 80% cutoff probability; profiles of key characteristics were constructed. The trained ML models were applied to the undiagnosed cohort (28,463 females; 20,439 males) with suspected VWD. Fifty-two percent of undiagnosed females had heavy menstrual bleeding, a key pre-diagnosis symptom. Undiagnosed males tended to have more frequent medical procedures, hospitalizations, and emergency room visits compared with undiagnosed females. ML algorithms successfully identified potentially undiagnosed symptomatic people with VWD, although many may remain undiagnosed and undertreated. External validation of the algorithms is recommended.
Comparison of methods for building pangenome graphs
Creators: name: Crysnanto, Danang
name: Leonard, Alexander
name: Pausch, Hubert
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2022

description: Graph-based pangenomes could mitigate the bias from the use of a single reference genome. However, the impact of different pangenome integration approaches on the properties of the resulting graph remains unknown. In this study, we compared three methods for building pangenome graphs from multiple genome assemblies. Minigraph performs an approximate mapping of assemblies to a backbone genome to construct the pangenome. In contrast, Cactus and pggb apply reference-free base level alignment to build pangenome graphs. Our results show that pangenome graphs constructed via base-level alignment contain 40% more small variations than the minigraph pangenome. Cactus, pggb, and minigraph uncover an almost identical set of structural variations. However, the breakpoints and allelic paths inferred from minigraph’s approximate mapping tend to be less precise than graphs constructed via base- level alignment. Taken together, our study informs on the optimal strategy for building informative pangenome graphs that are now being conducted for many species.
description: Proceedings of the 12th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production (WCGALP)
description: ISBN:978-90-8686-940-4
eQTL mapping in Brown Swiss bulls to identify variants associated with male fertility
Creators: name: Mapel, Xena Marie
name: Hiltpold, Maya
name: Lloret i Villas, Audald
name: Pausch, Hubert
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2022

description: Fertility is an essential component of the livestock industry. In cattle, numerous QTL for male reproductive success fall within regulatory regions. However, the effects of these loci have not been investigated in detail or on a large scale. Here, we assemble a sizeable cohort of mature bulls to detect expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) and assess their effects on fertility-related genes. To do this, we sequenced genomes and total RNA from the testes of 72 bulls. We recovered 13,185,795 DNA sequence variants with minor allele frequency >5%, an average of 283,587,831 clean RNA reads per sample and 18,528 testis-expressed genes (TPM>0.2 in 75% of samples). In total, 2,178 genes had significant cis-eQTL at a false discovery rate of 5% (11.76% of expressed genes). Several genes associated with fertility, including SPATA4 and SPATA22 (which are responsible for reproductive processes), had significant cis-eQTL and variation in transcript abundance across genotypes.
description: Proceedings of the 12th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production (WCGALP)
description: ISBN:978-90-8686-940-4
OPE of line defects in 5d $E_n$ SCFT
Creators: name: Oh, Jihwan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: 5d ray index is the 5d superconformal index in the presence of a ray-like defect. An elementary ray defect flows to a fundamental Wilson ray in IR gauge theory. In 5d $\mathcal{N}=1$ superconformal field theory(SCFT) with $E_n$ global symmetry, we compute the ray index associated with an adjoint Wilson ray. We show that the operators that appear in the index are non-trivially charged under the center of the global symmetry $E_n$. The charge under the center being twice compared with the center charge carried by the elementary ray operator indicates a non-trivial OPE between the ray-like defects in the UV SCFT.
description: 22 pages
Two lead weights from Surrey
Creators: name: Williams, David
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2002

description: Surrey Archaeological Collections, 83, 247-248
description: The first object was found at Wiggie, Redhill, in 1991 -- it has an eight-petalled flower motif. The second is from a field near South Park moat, Grayswood and it bears a possible fleur-de-lys design. The finds are probably medieval -- a Late Saxon date ascribed to similar finds from Winchester is disputed.
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Creators: name: เจษฎา รัตนวุฒิ
Publisher: name: คณะเทคโนโลยีการเกษตร มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏมหาสารคาม
Year: 2024
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description: วารสารเกษตรพระวรุณ, 21, 1, 130-135
A new patchoulane-type sesquiterpenoid glycoside from the roots of Croton crassifolius
Creators: name: Yuan, Qing-Qing
name: Song, Wei-Bin
name: Wen-Qiong Wang
name: Xuan, Li-Jiang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: A new patchoulane-type sesquiterpenoid glycoside (1), together with five known sesquiterpenoids (2–6), was isolated from the roots of Croton crassifolius. Their structures were elucidated on the basis of spectroscopic methods. This is the first report about the sesquiterpenoid glycoside from C. crassifolius. All the isolated compounds 1–6 were evaluated for their cytotoxic activities against human tumour cell lines HL-60 and A549, but none showed significant activity.
Pangenomes of haplotype-resolved assemblies enable population-scale genotyping of cattle structural variation
Creators: name: Leonard, Alexander
name: Pausch, Hubert
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2022

description: Haplotype-resolved, long read assemblies provide access to previously unresolved complex structural variation and enable pangenomic approaches to analyse diversity across multiple cattle breeds. We assess structural variation present in pangenomes integrating 12 HiFi-based haplotype-resolved and 4 older taurine cattle assemblies. Pangenomes produce approximately 15% more structural variants than linear reference-guided calling from sequencing reads and is especially beneficial for detection of variants larger than 50 Kb (238 compared to 75). We leverage population-scale short read data to investigate the prevalence of selected structural variants across multiple breeds. We find good consensus between the read-to-graph alignment approach of minigraph and the k-mer approach of Pangenie. We characterize structural variants within PRDM9 and at QTL for mammary gland morphology and carcass traits nearby TBX3 and ENSBTAT00000082324 that might contribute to complex trait variation.
description: Proceedings of the 12th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production (WCGALP)
description: ISBN:978-90-8686-940-4
Markhor-derived introgression of PAPSS2 confers high-altitude adaptability in Tibetan goats
Creators: name: Li, C.
name: Wu, Y.
name: Chen, B.
name: Cai, Y.
name: Guo, J.
name: Kalds, Peter
name: Chen, Y.
name: Pausch, Hubert
name: Han, J.
name: Jiang, Y.
name: Wang, X.
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2022

description: Understanding the genetic mechanism of how animals adapt to extreme environments is fundamental to unriddle the relationship between molecular evolution and continuous climate change. After domestication, goats have developed strong adaptation to various environments, including harsh conditions at high-altitudes with low temperature and reduced oxygen concentrations. Here, we utilized 331 genomes of goats living at varying altitudes (high >3,000 m above sea level and low <1,200 m) as well as wild caprid species to precisely dissect genetic determinants underlying the adaptation to high altitudes on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP). Population genomic analyses combined with genome-wide association testing revealed that the PAPSS2 locus confers adaptability to high altitudes in Tibetan goats. Additionally, this gene harbours significant signatures of interspecies introgression from a wild caprid species, markhor (Capra falconeri). We further demonstrated a functional role for PAPSS2 in response to hypoxia using PAPSS2-deficient cells. In conclusion, our results suggest a hitherto unknown contribution of PAPSS2 to high-altitude adaptation and showed that interspecific introgression contributed to the adaptation of goats to the harsh conditions at the Tibetan Plateau.
description: Proceedings of the 12th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production (WCGALP)
description: ISBN:978-90-8686-940-4
Conserved non-coding elements of the bovine genome
Creators: name: Kadri, Naveen Kumar
name: Pausch, Hubert
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2022

description: Conserved non-coding elements (CNEs) are common in the eukaryotic lineage. These sequences with unknown function are conserved over millions of years of evolutionary divergence. We compared bovine and human non-coding sequences and identified 23,401 unique CNEs with a median size of 226 bp (up to 1,884 bp) spanning 6.37 mb of the bovine genome. Most CNEs were found in the intergenic region and were spread non randomly in clusters across bovine autosomes. Most intergenic CNEs and their spatially associated genes were conserved in syntenic blocks across the two genomes. The associated genes were significantly enriched for ‘developmental process’ and ‘anatomical structure development’. Further, these elements showed strong evolutionary constraint compared to their surrounding sequences and overall harboured 32% less variation than the protein coding sequences. These observations suggest that the CNEs detected are enriched for functional elements that may be essential for processes that are evolutionarily conserved across species.
description: Proceedings of the 12th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production (WCGALP)
description: ISBN:978-90-8686-940-4