cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
From arteries to boreholes: Steady-state response of a poroelastic cylinder to fluid injection
Creators: name: Auton, Lucy C.
name: MacMinn, Christopher W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The radially outward flow of fluid into a porous medium occurs in many practical problems, from transport across vascular walls to the pressurisation of boreholes. As the driving pressure becomes non-negligible relative to the stiffness of the solid structure, the poromechanical coupling between the fluid and the solid has an increasingly strong impact on the flow. For very large pressures or very soft materials, as is the case for hydraulic fracturing and arterial flows, this coupling can lead to large deformations and, hence, to strong deviations from a classical, linear-poroelastic response. Here, we study this problem by analysing the steady-state response of a poroelastic cylinder to fluid injection. We consider the qualitative and quantitative impacts of kinematic and constitutive nonlinearity, highlighting the strong impact of deformation-dependent permeability. We show that the wall thickness (thick vs. thin) and the outer boundary condition (free vs. constrained) play a central role in controlling the mechanics.
Some significant implications of the imagery of eating and drinking in the poetry of John Keats
Creators: name: Chatfield, H. J. .
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Peak-height formula for higher-order breathers of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation on non-uniform backgrounds
Creators: name: Chin, Siu A.
name: Ashour, Omar A.
name: Nikolić, Stanko N.
name: Belić, Milivoj R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Given any background (or seed) solution of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation, the Darboux transformation can be used to generate higher-order breathers with much greater peak intensities. The Darboux transformation is generic in iterating a pair of generating solutions of the Lax-pair equation which preserves the solution of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation as a consistency condition. The Darboux transformation itself knows nothing about the background solution except through the initial pair of Lax solutions. Because of this, in this work, we can prove in an unified manner, and without knowing the analytical form of the background solution, that the peak-height of a high-order breather, is just a sum of peak-heights of first-order breathers plus that of the background, {\it irrespective} of the specific choice of the background. Detailed results are verified for breathers on a cnoidal background. Generalizations to more extended nonlinear Schrödinger equations are also indicated.
description: 19 pages and 6 figures, revised to include "Pythagorean triplet" of rogue waves
Synthesis and computational investigation of molecularly imprinted nanospheres for selective recognition of alpha-tocopherol succinate
Creators: name: Piacham, Theeraphon
name: Nantasenamat, Chanin
name: Isarankura-Na-Ayudhya, Chartchalerm
name: Prachayasittikul, Virapong
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: molecular imprinting
subject: molecularly imprinted polymer
subject: anti-cancer
subject: tocopherol succinate
subject: computational chemistry
subject: 610

description: Molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) are macromolecular matrices that can mimic the functional properties of antibodies, receptors and enzymes while possessing higher durability. As such, these polymers are interesting materials for applications in biomimetic sensor, drug synthesis, drug delivery and separation. In this study, we prepared MIPs and molecularly imprinted nanospheres (MINs) as receptors with specific recognition properties toward tocopherol succinate (TPS) in comparison to tocopherol (TP) and tocopherol nicotinate (TPN). MIPs were synthesized using methacrylic acid (MAA) as functional monomer, ethylene glycol dimethacrylate (EGDMA) as crosslinking agent and dichloromethane or acetronitrile as porogenic solvent under thermal-induced polymerization condition. Results indicated that imprinted polymers of TPS-MIP, TP-MIP and TPN-MIP all bound specifically to their template molecules at 2 folds greater than the non-imprinted polymers. The calculated binding capacity of all MIP was approximately 2 mg per gram of polymer when using the optimal rebinding solvent EtOH:H2O (3:2, v/v). Furthermore, the MINs toward TPS and TP were prepared by precipitation polymerization that yielded particles that are 200-400 nm in size. The binding capacities of MINs to their templates were greater than that of the non-imprinted nanospheres when using the optimal rebinding solvent EtOH:H2O (4:1, v/v). Computer simulation was performed to provide mechanistic insights on the binding modalities of template-monomer complexes. In conclusion, we had successful prepared MIPs and MINs for binding specifically to TP and TPS. Such MIPs and MINs have great potential for industrial and medical applications, particularly for the selective separation of TP and TPS.
description: EXCLI Journal ; Vol. 12, 2013
Gaseous air pollutants and DNA methylation in a methylome-wide association study of an ethnically and environmentally diverse population of U.S. adults
Creators: name: Guan, W.
name: Gondalia, R.
name: Holliday, K.M.
name: Whitsel, E.A.
name: Wilson, R.
name: Peters, A.
name: Conneely, K.N.
name: Assimes, T.L.
name: North, K.E.
name: Yanosky, J.D.
name: Stewart, J.D.
name: Baccarelli, A.A.
name: Liao, D.
name: Wolf, K.
name: Lee, M.
name: Bressler, J.
name: Cyrys, J.
name: Justice, A.E.
name: Waldenberger, M.
name: Fornage, M.
name: Vonk, J.M.
name: Baldassari, A.
name: Vokonas, P.S.
name: Jordahl, K.M.
name: Ward-Caviness, C.K.
name: Sayols-Baixeras, S.
name: Bhatti, P.
name: Hou, L.
name: Li, Y.
name: Boezen, H.M.
name: Pankow, J.S.
Publisher: name: Academic Press Inc.
Year: 2022

description: Epigenetic mechanisms may underlie air pollution-health outcome associations. We estimated gaseous air pollutant-DNA methylation (DNAm) associations using twelve subpopulations within Women's Health Initiative (WHI) and Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) cohorts (n = 8397; mean age 61.3 years; 83% female; 46% African-American, 46% European-American, 8% Hispanic/Latino). We used geocoded participant address-specific mean ambient carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen oxides (NO2; NOx), ozone (O3), and sulfur dioxide (SO2) concentrations estimated over the 2-, 7-, 28-, and 365-day periods before collection of blood samples used to generate Illumina 450 k array leukocyte DNAm measurements. We estimated methylome-wide, subpopulation- and race/ethnicity-stratified pollutant-DNAm associations in multi-level, linear mixed-effects models adjusted for sociodemographic, behavioral, meteorological, and technical covariates. We combined stratum-specific estimates in inverse variance-weighted meta-analyses and characterized significant associations (false discovery rate; FDR<0.05) at Cytosine-phosphate-Guanine (CpG) sites without among-strata heterogeneity (PCochran's Q > 0.05). We attempted replication in the Cooperative Health Research in Region of Augsburg (KORA) study and Normative Aging Study (NAS). We observed a −0.3 (95% CI: −0.4, −0.2) unit decrease in percent DNAm per interquartile range (IQR, 7.3 ppb) increase in 28-day mean NO2 concentration at cg01885635 (chromosome 3; regulatory region 290 bp upstream from ZNF621; FDR = 0.03). At intragenic sites cg21849932 (chromosome 20; LIME1; intron 3) and cg05353869 (chromosome 11; KLHL35; exon 2), we observed a −0.3 (95% CI: −0.4, −0.2) unit decrease (FDR = 0.04) and a 1.2 (95% CI: 0.7, 1.7) unit increase (FDR = 0.04), respectively, in percent DNAm per IQR (17.6 ppb) increase in 7-day mean ozone concentration. Results were not fully replicated in KORA and NAS. We identified three CpG sites potentially susceptible to gaseous air pollution-induced DNAm changes near genes relevant for cardiovascular and lung disease. Further harmonized investigations with a range of gaseous pollutants and averaging durations are needed to determine the effect of gaseous air pollutants on DNA methylation and ultimately gene expression.
Cell-based therapies for glioblastoma: Promising tools against tumor heterogeneity
Creators: name: Maingi S.M
name: Woodell A.S
name: Hingtgen S.D
name: Nehama D
name: Dotti G
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press
Year: 2023

description: Glioblastoma (GBM) is a highly aggressive tumor with a devastating impact on quality-of-life and abysmal survivorship. Patients have very limited effective treatment options. The successes of targeted small molecule drugs and immune checkpoint inhibitors seen in various solid tumors have not translated to GBM, despite significant advances in our understanding of its molecular, immune, and microenvironment landscapes. These discoveries, however, have unveiled GBM's incredible heterogeneity and its role in treatment failure and survival. Novel cellular therapy technologies are finding successes in oncology and harbor characteristics that make them uniquely suited to overcome challenges posed by GBM, such as increased resistance to tumor heterogeneity, modularity, localized delivery, and safety. Considering these advantages, we compiled this review article on cellular therapies for GBM, focusing on cellular immunotherapies and stem cell-based therapies, to evaluate their utility. We categorize them based on their specificity, review their preclinical and clinical data, and extract valuable insights to help guide future cellular therapy development.
title: Engels in Love - Schwerpunkt "Heimat - Wuppertal und anderswo"
title: Unterrichtsmaterialien Geschichte und/oder Deutsch der Sekundarstufe I (9./10. Klasse)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Marci-Boehncke, Gudrun
name: Wulf, Corinna
name: Dette, Thorsten
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Archiv
subject: Schule
subject: Kooperation
subject: Engels
subject: Wuppertal
subject: Medien
subject: Heimat
subject: 370
subject: 430
subject: Engels, Friedrich
subject: Wuppertal
subject: Sozialgeschichte
subject: Familiengeschichte

description: Bei dem Projekt „Engels in Love" handelt es sich um ein Netzwerkangebot mit Beteiligten aus dem Stadtarchiv Wuppertal, einer Realschule (Schüler/-innen der 9. Jahrgangsstufe) und Lehramtsstudenten/-innen der TU Dortmund. Ziel des Projekts war die Entwicklung eines virtuellen Stadtrundgangs, der Themen in Bezug auf den Gesellschaftstheoretiker und Revolutionär Friedrich Engels aufgreift und der von interessierten Bürger/-innen mit Hilfe von mobilen Geräten (Smartphone, Tablet) und der Generierung von QR-Codes kostenlos durchgeführt werden kann. Die einzelnen Stationen des Rundgangs sind dabei multimedial zu verschiedenen Schwerpunktthemen von den Schüler/-innen und Lehramtsstudierenden aufbereitet. Der Projektzeitraum belief sich dabei von Oktober 2013 – Juli 2014. Bei dieser Veröffentlichung handelt es sich um die modifizierten Arbeitsmaterialen (Lehrerbegleitmaterialien und Schülermaterialien für eine Unterrichtseinheit), die zur Erarbeitung der Themen im Projekt genutzt wurden. Die folgende Veröffentlichung beinhaltet die Gruppenergebnisse aus dem Schwerpunkt "Heimat - Wuppertal und anderswo", als einer von vier Schwerpunktthemen aus dem Projekt.
BlackHoleCam: fundamental physics of the Galactic center
Creators: name: Goddi, C.
name: Falcke, H.
name: Kramer, M.
name: Rezzolla, L.
name: Brinkerink, C.
name: Bronzwaer, T.
name: Deane, R.
name: De Laurentis, M.
name: Desvignes, G.
name: Davelaar, J. R. J.
name: Eisenhauer, F.
name: Eatough, R.
name: Fraga-Encinas, R.
name: Fromm, C. M.
name: Gillessen, S.
name: Grenzebach, A.
name: Issaoun, S.
name: Janßen, M.
name: Konoplya, R.
name: Krichbaum, T. P.
name: Laing, R.
name: Liu, K.
name: Lu, R. -S.
name: Mizuno, Y.
name: Moscibrodzka, M.
name: Müller, C.
name: Olivares, H.
name: Porth, O.
name: Pfuhl, O.
name: Ros, E.
name: Roelofs, F.
name: Schuster, K.
name: Tilanus, R.
name: Torne, P.
name: van Bemmel, I.
name: van Langevelde, H. J.
name: Wex, N.
name: Younsi, Z.
name: Zhidenko, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Einstein's General Theory of Relativity (GR) successfully describes gravity. The most fundamental predictions of GR are black holes (BHs), but in spite of many convincing BH candidates in the Universe, there is no conclusive experimental proof of their existence using astronomical observations in the electromagnetic spectrum. Are BHs real astrophysical objects? Does GR hold in its most extreme limit or are alternatives needed? The prime target to address these fundamental questions is in the center of our own Galaxy, which hosts the closest and best-constrained supermassive BH candidate in the Universe, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). Three different types of experiments hold the promise to test GR in a strong-field regime using observations of Sgr A* with new-generation instruments. The first experiment aims to image the relativistic plasma emission which surrounds the event horizon and forms a "shadow" cast against the background, whose predicted size (~50 microarcseconds) can now be resolved by upcoming VLBI experiments at mm-waves such as the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). The second experiment aims to monitor stars orbiting Sgr A* with the upcoming near-infrared interferometer GRAVITY at the Very Large Telescope (VLT). The third experiment aims to time a radio pulsar in tight orbit about Sgr A* using radio telescopes (including the Atacama Large Millimeter Array or ALMA). The BlackHoleCam project exploits the synergy between these three different techniques and aims to measure the main BH parameters with sufficient precision to provide fundamental tests of GR and probe the spacetime around a BH in any metric theory of gravity. Here, we review our current knowledge of the physical properties of Sgr A* as well as the current status of such experimental efforts towards imaging the event horizon, measuring stellar orbits, and timing pulsars around Sgr A*.
description: review paper, 36 pages, 12 figures (v2 is the published version)
Disparities in Fatal Occupational Injury Rates in North Carolina, 1978-2017: Comparing Nonmanagerial Employees to Managers
Creators: name: Marshall S.W
name: Ranapurwala S.I
name: Cantrell J
name: Nocera M
name: McClure E.S
name: Martin A.T
name: Cole S.R
name: Richardson D.B
Publisher: name: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
Year: 2023

description: We examined fatal occupational injuries among private-sector workers in North Carolina during the 40-year period 1978-2017, comparing the occurrence of fatal injuries among nonmanagerial employees to that experienced by managers. Methods: We estimated a standardized fatal occupational injury ratio by inverse probability of exposure weighting, taking nonmanagerial workers as the target population. When this ratio measure takes a value greater than unity it signals settings in which nonmanagerial employees are not provided as safe a work environment as that provided for managers. Results: Across all industries, nonmanagerial workers in North Carolina experienced fatal occupational injury rates 8.2 (95% CI = 7.0, 10.0) times the rate experienced by managers. Disparities in fatal injury rates between managers and the employees they supervise were greatest in forestry, rubber and metal manufacturing, wholesale trade, fishing and extractive industries, and construction. Conclusions: The results may help focus discussion about workplace safety between labor and management upon equity, with a goal of providing a work environment for nonmanagerial employees as safe as the one provided for managers.
Impact of carrier particle surface properties on drug nanoparticle attachment
Creators: name: Bergillos-Ruiz, Marta
name: Kumar, Ajay
name: HODNETT, KIERAN
name: DAVERN, PETER
name: Rasmuson, Åke
name: HUDSON, SARAH
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 34
subject: Chemical sciences
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Hypothesis: The stabilization and isolation to dryness of drug nanoparticles has always been a challenge for nano-medicine production. In the past, the use of montmorillonite (MMT) clay carrier particles to adsorb drug nanoparticles and maintain their high surface area to volume ratio after isolation to dryness has proven to be effective. We hypothesise that the distribution of hydrophilic and hydrophobic patches on the clay’s surface as well as its porosity/roughness, hinder the agglomeration of the drug nanoparticles to the extent that they retain their high surface area to volume ratio and display fast dissolution profiles.Experiments: In this work, the distribution of hydrophobicity and hydrophilicity, and the porosity/roughness, of the surface of selected silica carrier particles were varied and the impact of these variations on drug nanoparticle attachment to the carrier particle and subsequent dissolution profiles was studied.Findings: The fastest dissolution profiles at the highest drug nanoparticle loadings were obtained with a periodic mesoporous organosilane carrier particle which had a homogeneous distribution of hydrophobic and hydrophilic surface properties. Carrier particles with rough/porous surfaces and a combination of hydrophobic and hydrophilic patches resulted in nanocomposite powders with faster dissolution behaviour than carrier particles with predominantly either a hydrophobic or hydrophilic surface, or with non-porous/smoother surfaces.
(202363) Mary Sarah Potts
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Scalar-tensor linear inflation
Creators: name: Artymowski, Michal
name: Racioppi, Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate two approaches to non minimally coupled gravity theories which present linear inflation as attractor solution: a) the scalar-tensor theory approach, where we look for a scalar-tensor theory that would restore results of linear inflation in the strong coupling limit for any form of the non-minimal coupling to gravity of the form of $f(φ)R/2$; b) the particle physics approach, where we motivate the form of the Jordan frame potential by the loop corrections to the inflaton field. In both cases the Jordan frame potentials are modifications of the induced inflation, but instead of the Starobinsky attractor they lead to the linear inflation in the strong coupling limit.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures. Matches the published version on JCAP
Synthesis of novel antimicrobial aryl himachalene derivatives from naturally occurring himachalenes
Creators: name: Chaudhary, Abha
name: Sood, Swati
name: Das, Pralay
name: Kaur, Pushpinder
name: Mahajan, Isha
name: Gulati, Arvind
name: Singh, Bikram
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: himachalenes
subject: Cedrus deodara
subject: essential oil
subject: antimicrobial activity
subject: 610

description: Five new 2,9,9-trimethyl-6,7,8,9-tetrahydro-benzocyclohepten-5-ylidene-amine derivatives (16a-16e) were synthesized from α-dehydro-ar-himachalene (11) that was originally prepared from an isomeric mixture of α, β and γ himachalenes (10), the abundant sesquiterpenes of Cedrus deodara essential oil. In addition, different aryl himachalenes derivatives (9, 12, 14 and 15) were also formed from 11. The structures of the synthesized compounds were confirmed on the basis of their NMR, IR and mass spectral data. The prepared compounds were tested against a group of sixteen organisms including gram positive and gram negative bacterial and fungal strains. The introduction of a series of substituted imine groups into aryl himachalenes at 5th position (16a-16e) enhanced antimicrobial activity as compared to the aromatized derivatives (9, 12, 14 and 15) against gram-positive bacteria Bacillus subtilis, Micrococcus luteus and Staphylococcus aureus, and mycotoxigenic fungi Aspergillus parasiticus, A. ochraceous and A. sydowii.
description: EXCLI Journal ; Vol. 13, 2014
Functional Clones and Expressibility of Partition Functions
Creators: name: Bulatov, Andrei
name: Goldberg, Leslie Ann
name: Jerrum, Mark
name: Richerby, David
name: Živný, Stanislav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We study functional clones, which are sets of non-negative pseudo-Boolean functions (functions $\{0,1\}^k\to\mathbb{R}_{\geq 0}$) closed under (essentially) multiplication, summation and limits. Functional clones naturally form a lattice under set inclusion and are closely related to counting Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSPs). We identify a sublattice of interesting functional clones and investigate the relationships and properties of the functional clones in this sublattice.
description: 42 pages, 6 figures; minor corrections
Additional file 3 of What fuels suboptimal care of peripheral intravenous catheter-related infections in hospitals? A qualitative study of decision-making among Spanish nurses
Creators: name: Blanco-Mavillard, Ian
name: Castro-Sánchez, Enrique
name: Parra-García, Gaizka
name: Rodríguez-Calero, Miguel Ángel
name: Bennasar-Veny, Miquel
name: Fernández-Fernández, Ismael
name: Lorente-Neches, Harri
name: de Pedro-Gómez, Joan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3. List of Themes and codes
The rural basis of Fijian communal politics
Creators: name: Nation, John.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Praemonitus praemunitus: can we forecast and prepare for future viral disease outbreaks?
Creators: name: Phares T
name: Alves V.M
name: Baric R
name: Li M
name: Bobrowski T
name: Sessions Z
name: Martin H.-J
name: Beasley J.O.-M.T
name: Scotti M.T
name: Kothari A
name: Moorman N.J
name: Muratov E.N
name: Tropsha A
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press
Year: 2023

description: Understanding the origins of past and present viral epidemics is critical in preparing for future outbreaks. Many viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, have led to significant consequences not only due to their virulence, but also because we were unprepared for their emergence. We need to learn from large amounts of data accumulated from well-studied, past pandemics and employ modern informatics and therapeutic development technologies to forecast future pandemics and help minimize their potential impacts. While acknowledging the complexity and difficulties associated with establishing reliable outbreak predictions, herein we provide a perspective on the regions of the world that are most likely to be impacted by future outbreaks. We specifically focus on viruses with epidemic potential, namely SARS-CoV-2, MERS-CoV, DENV, ZIKV, MAYV, LASV, noroviruses, influenza, Nipah virus, hantaviruses, Oropouche virus, MARV, and Ebola virus, which all require attention from both the public and scientific community to avoid societal catastrophes like COVID-19. Based on our literature review, data analysis, and outbreak simulations, we posit that these future viral epidemics are unavoidable, but that their societal impacts can be minimized by strategic investment into basic virology research, epidemiological studies of neglected viral diseases, and antiviral drug discovery.
Smoking, genetic polymorphisms of glutathione S-transferases and biological indices of inflammation and cellular adhesion in the STANISLAS study
Creators: name: Bolt, Hermann M.
name: Habdous, Mohammed
name: Haddy, Nadia
name: Herbeth, Bernard
name: Lambert, Daniel
name: Ponthieux, Anne
name: Siest, Gérard
name: Thier, Ricarda
name: Visvikis, Sophie
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: adhesion
subject: glutathione S-transferase polymorphism
subject: inflammation
subject: molecule
subject: smoking
subject: 610

description: A recent clinical study has focused on: 1- the interaction between genetic variants of glutathione S-transferases M1 and T1 (GSTM1 and GSTT1) and smoking on the risk of cardiovascular diseases, 2- the potential capacity of GSTM1 and T1 genotypes in modifying the effect of smoking on inflammation and endothelial function. In this study, we investigated whether carriage of these 2 polymorphisms altered the smoking impact on biological indices of inflammation and cellular adhesion. White blood cell count (WBC), albumin, C-reactive protein (CRP), interleukine-6 (IL-6), tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-a), L-selectin, E-selectin, P-selectin and intracellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) were measured in 189 non-smokers and 76 smokers (aged 20-55 years) genotyped for the GSTM1 and T1 polymorphisms. Accounting for age and sex, smokers lacking GSTM1 had a higher WBC count, CRP and ICAM-1 levels as compared to the other groups; interaction term between smoking and genotype being significant (p=0.05). Conversely, non-smokers lacking GSTM1 had a higher levels of TNF-a; the test for interaction being significant (p=0.05). No significant interaction was found between smoking and GSTT1 genotypes, considering the 9 biological indices. However, significantly lower levels of IL-6 were noticed for non-smokers with GSTT1-0 null allele (p=0.05). Our study confirms previous results showing that GSTM1 polymorphism could modulate the interrelationships between smoking and biological markers of inflammation and endothelial function.
description: EXCLI Journal ; Vol. 3, 2004
Single-loop multiple-pulse nonadiabatic holonomic quantum gates
Creators: name: Herterich, Emmi
name: Sjöqvist, Erik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nonadiabatic holonomic quantum computation provides the means to perform fast and robust quantum gates by utilizing the resilience of non-Abelian geometric phases to fluctuations of the path in state space. While the original scheme [New J. Phys. {\bf 14}, 103035 (2012)] needs two loops in the Grassmann manifold (i.e., the space of computational subspaces of the full state space) to generate an arbitrary holonomic one-qubit gate, we propose single-loop one-qubit gates that constitute an efficient universal set of holonomic gates when combined with an entangling holonomic two-qubit gate. Our one-qubit gate is realized by dividing the loop into path segments, each of which is generated by a $Λ$-type Hamiltonian. We demonstrate that two path segments are sufficient to realize arbitrary single-loop holonomic one-qubit gates. We describe how our scheme can be implemented experimentally in a generic atomic system exhibiting a three-level $Λ$-coupling structure, by utilizing carefully chosen laser pulses.
description: Some amendments; journal reference added
An Experience-based Direct Generation approach to Automatic Image Cropping
Creators: name: Christensen, Casper
name: Vartakavi, Aneesh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Automatic Image Cropping is a challenging task with many practical downstream applications. The task is often divided into sub-problems - generating cropping candidates, finding the visually important regions, and determining aesthetics to select the most appealing candidate. Prior approaches model one or more of these sub-problems separately, and often combine them sequentially. We propose a novel convolutional neural network (CNN) based method to crop images directly, without explicitly modeling image aesthetics, evaluating multiple crop candidates, or detecting visually salient regions. Our model is trained on a large dataset of images cropped by experienced editors and can simultaneously predict bounding boxes for multiple fixed aspect ratios. We consider the aspect ratio of the cropped image to be a critical factor that influences aesthetics. Prior approaches for automatic image cropping, did not enforce the aspect ratio of the outputs, likely due to a lack of datasets for this task. We, therefore, benchmark our method on public datasets for two related tasks - first, aesthetic image cropping without regard to aspect ratio, and second, thumbnail generation that requires fixed aspect ratio outputs, but where aesthetics are not crucial. We show that our strategy is competitive with or performs better than existing methods in both these tasks. Furthermore, our one-stage model is easier to train and significantly faster than existing two-stage or end-to-end methods for inference. We present a qualitative evaluation study, and find that our model is able to generalize to diverse images from unseen datasets and often retains compositional properties of the original images after cropping. Our results demonstrate that explicitly modeling image aesthetics or visual attention regions is not necessarily required to build a competitive image cropping algorithm.
description: Published in IEEE Access
Additional file 1 of Computer-aided molecular modeling and structural analysis of the human centromere protein–HIKM complex
Creators: name: Uzoeto, Henrietta Onyinye
name: Cosmas, Samuel
name: Ajima, Judith Nnedimkpa
name: Arazu, Amarachukwu Vivian
name: Didiugwu, Chizoba Maryann
name: Ekpo, Daniel Emmanuel
name: Ibiang, Glory Omini
name: Durojaye, Olanrewaju Ayodeji
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary Figures S1–S13.
A Malay peasant village in Upper Perak : a study on integration and transformation
Creators: name: Hashim Haji Wan Teh, Wan.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Kinematic formulas on the quaternionic plane
Creators: name: Bernig, Andreas
name: Solanes, Gil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C65, 52A22

description: We introduce different bases for the vector space of $\mathrm{Sp}(2)\mathrm{Sp}(1)$-invariant, translation invariant continuous valuations on the quaternionic plane and determine a complete set of kinematic formulas.
description: 35 pages
Sensitivity Analyses for Means or Proportions with Missing Outcome Data
Creators: name: Shook-Sa B.E
name: Hudgens M.G
name: Cole S.R
name: Edwards J.K
name: Zivich P.N
Publisher: name: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
Year: 2023

description: We describe an approach to sensitivity analysis introduced by Robins et al (1999), for the setting where the outcome is missing for some observations. This flexible approach focuses on the relationship between the outcomes and missingness, where data can be missing completely at random, missing at random given observed data, or missing not at random. We provide examples from HIV that include the sensitivity of the estimation of a mean and proportion under different missingness mechanisms. The approach illustrated provides a method for examining how the results of epidemiologic studies might shift as a function of bias due to missing data.
Präparation und Charakterisierung neuer Halogenopalladate mit besonderem Schwergewicht bezüglich mehrkerniger Halogenopalladatgruppen
Creators: name: Schüpp, Barbara
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Halogenopalladate
subject: Ternäre Verbindungen
subject: Solvothermalsynthese
subject: Kristallstruktur
subject: Mehrkernige Halogenopalladatgruppen
subject: Druckinduzierte Redoxreaktion
subject: halogenopalladates
subject: ternary compounds
subject: solvothermal synthesis
subject: crystal structure
subject: polynuclear halogenopalladate groups
subject: pressure induced redox-reaction
subject: 540

description: Diese Dissertation beschäftigt sich mit der Präparation und Charakterisierung neuer ternärer Halogenopalladate und den Verknüpfungsprinzipien von ([PdX4]2-)-Baugruppen (X = Cl, Br, I) zu neuartigen mehrkernigen komplexen Anionen. Die Kristallstrukturen der größtenteils durch Solvothermalsynthese dargestellten Verbindungen wurden mittels Röntgenbeugungsuntersuchungen an Pulvern und Einkristallen ermittelt. Die weitere Charakterisierung der Halogenopalladate erfolgte mit schwingungsspektroskopischen und thermoanalytischen Methoden. Als mehrkernige Halogenopalladatgruppen wurden [Pd2X6]2- (X = Cl, Br), [Pd3X8]2- (X = Br, I), sowie [(PdCl2Cl2/2)4]4- erhalten. Besonders hervorzuheben sind die Ergebnisse in den Systemen CsI/PdI2 und RbI/PdI2. Durch Bildung von Verbindungen mit gleichen Summenformeln - M2PdI4 · I2 und M2PdI6 (M = Rb, Cs) - stellen diese Modellsysteme zum Studium von Redoxreaktionen im Festkörper dar. Energiedispersive Röntgenbeugungsuntersuchungen mit Synchrotronstrahlung zeigen den Reaktion von Cs2PdI4 · I2 durch Anwendung von Druck zu Cs2PdI6.
description: This PhD-thesis reports on the preparation and characterization of new ternary halogenopalladates and the connectivity principles of ([PdX4]2-)-building units to novel polynuclear complex anions. The compounds were mainly obtained by solvothermal syntheses and their crystal structures determined via X-ray diffraction on powders and single crystals. For the further characterization spectroscopic and thermal analytic techniques were employed. The polynuclear halogenopalladate anions obtained were [Pd2X6]2- (X = Cl, Br), [Pd3X8]2- (X = Br, I), and [(PdCl2Cl2/2)4]4-. Remarkable are the results on the systems CsI/PdI2 and RbI/PdI2. Compounds with identical formula sums - M2PdI4 · I2 and M2PdI6 (M = Rb, Cs) - are utilized as models to study redox reactions in solid state. Energy disperse X-ray diffraction with synchrotron radiation proves the pressure induced reaction of Cs2PdI4 · I2 to Cs2PdI6.
A Fine-Grained Vehicle Detection (FGVD) Dataset for Unconstrained Roads
Creators: name: Khoba, Prafful Kumar
name: Parikh, Chirag
name: Saluja, Rohit
name: Sarvadevabhatla, Ravi Kiran
name: Jawahar, C. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The previous fine-grained datasets mainly focus on classification and are often captured in a controlled setup, with the camera focusing on the objects. We introduce the first Fine-Grained Vehicle Detection (FGVD) dataset in the wild, captured from a moving camera mounted on a car. It contains 5502 scene images with 210 unique fine-grained labels of multiple vehicle types organized in a three-level hierarchy. While previous classification datasets also include makes for different kinds of cars, the FGVD dataset introduces new class labels for categorizing two-wheelers, autorickshaws, and trucks. The FGVD dataset is challenging as it has vehicles in complex traffic scenarios with intra-class and inter-class variations in types, scale, pose, occlusion, and lighting conditions. The current object detectors like yolov5 and faster RCNN perform poorly on our dataset due to a lack of hierarchical modeling. Along with providing baseline results for existing object detectors on FGVD Dataset, we also present the results of a combination of an existing detector and the recent Hierarchical Residual Network (HRN) classifier for the FGVD task. Finally, we show that FGVD vehicle images are the most challenging to classify among the fine-grained datasets.
Gutiérrez, Gustavo, Von Gott sprechen in Unrecht und Leid-Ijob
Creators: name: Düren, Sabine
Publisher: name: Forum Katholische Theologie
Year: 1970

description: Forum Katholische Theologie, Bd. 6 Nr. 2 (1990): Forum Katholische Theologie, Band 6, Heft 2
Depth and thickness of tectonic tremor in the northeastern Olympic Peninsula
Creators: name: Ducellier, Ariane
name: Creager, Kenneth C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Tectonic tremor has been explained as a swarm of low-frequency earthquakes, which are located on a narrow fault at the plate boundary. However, due to the lack of clear impulsive phases in the tremor signal, it is difficult to determine the depth of the tremor source with great precision. The thickness of the tremor region is also not well constrained. The tremor may be located on a narrow fault as the low-frequency earthquakes appear to be, or distributed over a few kilometers wide low shear-wave velocity layer in the upper oceanic crust, which is thought to be a region with high pore-fluid pressure. Lag times of peaks in the cross-correlation of the horizontal and vertical components of tremor seismograms, recorded by small-aperture arrays in the Olympic Peninsula, Washington, are interpreted to be S minus P times. Tremor depths are estimated from these S minus P times using epicenters from a previous study using a multibeam backprojection method. The tremor is located close to the plate boundary in a region no more than 2-3 kilometers thick and is very close to the depths of low-frequency earthquakes. The tremor is distributed over a wider depth range than the low-frequency earthquakes. However, due to the uncertainty on the depth, it is difficult to conclude whether the source of the tremor is located at the top of the subducting oceanic crust, in the lower continental crust just above the plate boundary, or in a narrow zone at the plate boundary.
description: This paper appeared in Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 127 (1), e2021JB022708
Optimierung und Charakterisierung des Free Electron Lasers am Speicherring DELTA
Creators: name: Huck, Holger
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Beschleunigerphysik
subject: DELTA
subject: Synchrotronstrahlung
subject: FEL
subject: Free Electron Laser
subject: Optisches Klystrom
subject: Ressieri-Limit
subject: Energiebreite
subject: Boussard-Kriterium
subject: Optischer Resonator
subject: 530

description: Free Electron Laser erzeugen hochbrillante, ultrakurze Laserpulse variabler Wellenlänge und kombinieren somit die Vorteile von Synchrotronstrahlung und Laser. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wurde der FEL-Oszillator am Speicherring DELTA hinsichtlich Geschwindigkeit und Reproduzierbarkeit der gesamten Justageprozedur optimiert, um einen stabilen FEL-Betrieb für beschleunigerphysikalische Experimente zu etablieren. Damit war erstmalig die Messung und Untersuchung der Zusammenhänge zwischen Gain, Ausgangsleistung und Pulsstruktur des Lasers, und des Strahlstroms, der Energiebreite und der longitudinalen Dynamik des Elektronenstrahls bei DELTA möglich. Zu diesem Zweck wurden neue Spiegelkammern und Spiegelsteuerungen für den optischen Resonator konstruiert. Der FEL konnte erfolgreich wieder in Betrieb genommen werden, so dass im zweiten Teil dieser Arbeit eine weitreichende Charakterisierung der erzeugten Laserstrahlung im sichtbaren Bereich erfolgte. Lasing wurde mit unterschiedlichen Füllstrukturen im Speicherring und unterschiedlichen Laserpulsstrukturen erzielt. Mithilfe des optischen Klystrons wurde die Energiebreite des Elektronenstrahls direkt, unabhängig von der Bunchlänge gemessen. Der Gain und die Leistung des FELs wurden gemessen und mit den theoretischen Modellen, insbesondere dem Low-Gain-Modell und dem Renieri-Limit, verglichen. Hierdurch konnte gezeigt werden, dass das Einsetzen des FEL-Prozesses eine dämpfende Wirkung auf die Energiebreite des Elektronenstrahls hat; die turbulente Bunchverlängerung wird ganz oder zum Teil außer Kraft gesetzt.
British journals and British-German relations, 1936-1939
Creators: name: Morath, John A.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Fisher perceptions of Belize's Managed Access program reveal overall support but need for improved enforcement
Creators: name: Kramer, Randall A.
name: Alves, Catherine L.
name: Garcia, Olga Denise
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2022

description: A major challenge facing global fisheries is gaining support for sustainable management, which is vital for ensuring the longevity of coastal resources for livelihood and ecosystem benefits. Territorial User Rights for Fishing (TURFs) have emerged as a possible solution to overfishing by requiring fishers to report their catch, color-code their vessels, and fish in designated areas. Belize was the first country in the Caribbean to implement TURFs - in a program called "Managed Access" - with two pilot sites opening in 2011 and seven sites added in 2016. This study evaluates the knowledge, attitudes and perceptions of fishers in the Managed Access program, comparing responses between 2014 and 2019. We collaborated with the Belize Fisheries Department and two local conservation organizations to administer surveys to 362 fishers in 2014 and 123 fishers in 2019, from ten communities in southern Belize. Overall, fishers in both years understood the requirements for acquiring and renewing their licenses, but in 2019, significantly more fishers understood the logbook reporting requirement and the benefits of having tenure rights than those in 2014. 69% of respondents from 2019 support the program in the long run, but 62% report observing illegal fishing behavior. These data suggest a need to educate fishers about the benefits of accurate catch reporting, improve enforcement, and develop fisher empowerment programs, while also guiding management decisions on a national scale. Although the Managed Access program in Belize is fairly new, the lessons learned can be applied to other small-scale fisheries contexts.
Semiclassics for matrix Hamiltonians: The Gutzwiller trace formula and applications to the graphene-type systems
Creators: name: Vogl, M.
name: Pankratov, O.
name: Shallcross, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have extended the semi-classical theory to include a general account of matrix valued Hamiltonians, i.e. those that describe quantum systems with internal degrees of freedoms, based on a generalization of the Gutzwiller trace formula for a $n\times n$ dimensional Hamiltonian $H(\hat{\boldsymbol p},\hat{\boldsymbol q})$. The classical dynamics is governed by $n$ Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) equations, that act in a phase space endowed with a classical Berry curvature encoding anholonomy in the parallel transport of the eigenvectors of $H(\hat{\boldsymbol p}\to\boldsymbol p,\hat{\boldsymbol q}\to\boldsymbol q)$, which describe the internal structure of the semi-classical particles. This Berry curvature is a fully classical object and is, in that sense, as fundamental to the semi-classical theory of matrix Hamiltonians as the Hamilton-Jacobi equations. At the $\mathcal{O}(\hbar^1)$ level, it results in an additional semi-classical phase composed of (i) a Berry phase and (ii) a dynamical phase resulting from the classical particles "moving through the Berry curvature". We show that the dynamical part of this semi-classical phase will, generally, only be zero only for the case in which the Berry phase is topological (i.e. depends only on the winding number). We illustrate the method by calculating the Landau spectrum for monolayer graphene, the four-band model of AB bilayer graphene, and for a more complicated matrix Hamiltonian describing the silicene band structure. Finally we apply our method to an inhomogeneous system consisting of a strain engineered one dimensional moiré in bilayer graphene, finding localized states near the Dirac point that arise from electron trapping in a semi-classical moiré potential. The semi-classical density of states of these localized states we show to be in perfect agreement with an exact quantum mechanical calculation of the density of states.
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Cycloneda patagonica Gonzalez & Vandenberg 2006
Creators: name: Gonzalez, Guillermo
name: Cotoras, Darko D.
name: Grez, Audrey A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Cycloneda
Cycloneda patagonica

description: Cycloneda patagonica González & Vandenberg, 2006 (Fig. 3g).
Examined material: 1 ex. (paratype) “Tierra del Fuego, NosePeak, 14-19.1.05. R. Crawshay 1906-230” (BMNH); 1 ex. (paratype) “Tierra del Fuego. Useless Bay, Dec. 1904, R. Crawshay, 1906–230/573 [black underline] FCC-683” (BMNH); 1 ex. “Tierra del Fuego—Chile, Bahía Azul, 4-XI-2009, coll. A. Zúñiga” (CPAZ); 3 exx. “ Chile, Tierra del Fuego, Porvenir, 25-01-2017, leg. A. Lüer, en pastizal [on grass]” (CALH).
Original reference: González & Vandenberg (2006): the first two specimens mentioned in the “Examined material” section.
Comments: Similar looking species to C. germainii, but with smaller size and flatten shape. Present in the Chile and Argentinian sides of Tierra del Fuego (González 2006).
description: Published as part of Gonzalez, Guillermo, Cotoras, Darko D. & Grez, Audrey A., 2020, Annotated list of island lady beetles from Chile (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae), pp. 501-526 in Zootaxa 4852 (5) on page 519, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4852.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4410156