cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Zirkulierende Monozyten korrelieren mit einem aggressiveren Tumorwachstum des duktalen Adenokarzinom der Bauchspeicheldrüse
Creators: name: Akram, Marina
Publisher: name: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Monozyten; Duktales Adenokarzinom des Pankreas; Grading; Perineurale In-vasion; Tumorwachstum; Prognostischer Marker

description: Einleitung: Das duktale Adenokarzinom der Bauchspeicheldrüse zählt zu den besonders tödlichen Krebserkrankungen und hat im Allgemeinen eine un-günstige Prognose. Obwohl die Immuntherapie die Krebsbehandlung erheb-lich verbessert hat, scheint ihr Nutzen beim Pankreaskarzinom eher begrenzt zu sein. Monozyten werden aufgrund ihrer pro-tumoralen Wirkungen als po-tenzielle Ziele für solche Immuntherapien intensiv erforscht, jedoch ist deren Rolle und klinischer Nutzen im Pankreaskarzinom unklar. Methoden: Daher haben wir die Monozyten im peripheren Blut von 58 Pan-kreaskarzinom-Patienten vor der Operation mit Hilfe der Durchflusszytometrie analysiert und sie mit gesunden Personen und Patienten, die aufgrund einer chronischen Pankreatitis operiert wurden, verglichen. Ergebnisse: Pankreaskarzinom-Patienten wiesen im Vergleich zu Kontroll- und Pankreatitis-Patienten einen signifikant erhöhten Anteil zirkulierender Monozyten auf. Des Weiteren zeigte sich, dass der Prozentsatz der Monozyten mit einem aggressiveren Tumorwachstum bei Pankreaskarzinom-Patienten korrelierte. Zusätzlich wiesen Pankreaskarzinom-Patienten im Vergleich zu gesunden Kontrollen eine erhöhte Expression von CD86 und CD11c auf den Monozyten auf, während die Expression von PDL-1 vermindert war. Interes-santerweise zeigten G3 Karzinome des Pankreas eine gesteigerte Expression von CD86 und CD11c im Vergleich zu G2 Karzinome. Außerdem korrelierte der Prozentsatz der Monozyten signifikant mit den proinflammatorischen Zyto-kinen TNF-α und IL-6 im Plasma der Pankreaskarzinom-Patienten. Abschlie-ßend zeigte die Analyse der Monozyten-Subtypen, dass Pankreaskarzinom-Patienten im Vergleich zu gesunden Kontrollen signifikant mehr intermediäre Monozyten aufwiesen. Dabei wiesen G3 Karzinome einen höheren Anteil zir-kulierender intermediärer Monozyten auf im Vergleich zu G2 Karzinome. Schlussfolgerung: Auf der Grundlage unserer Ergebnisse könnten zirkulie-rende Monozyten einerseits als Diskriminationsfaktor zwischen Pankreaskar-zinom- und Pankreatitis- oder Kontroll-Patienten dienen, andererseits ist auch der Einsatz als prognostischer Biomarker in Pankreaskarzinom-Patienten denkbar. Es sind groß angelegte Studien erforderlich, um die Rolle der Mo-nozyten beim Pankreaskarzinom weiter zu entschlüsseln und ihr Potenzial als therapeutisches Ziel zu untersuchen.
Fabrication of iron oxide nanocolloids using metallosurfactant-based microemulsions: antioxidant activity, cellular, and genotoxicity toward Vitis vinifera
Creators: name: Kaur, Gurpreet
name: Dogra, Varsha
name: Kumar, Rajeev
name: Kumar, Sandeep
name: Singh, Kashmir
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Hematology

description: The present work aims at the fabrication of iron oxide nanocolloids using biocompatible microemulsion and their cytotoxic, genotoxic effect on Vitis vinifera plant has been evaluated. The three iron-based metallosurfactant complexes were synthesized. Nanosuspensions (Ns) were prepared using microemulsion technique and for the purpose, the microemulsion was prepared using oleic acid, butanol, tween 80 and as synthesized iron metallosurfactant. In this technique, no additional capping agent and/or reducing agent was added. Tween 80 which is a biocompatible surfactant acted as a reducing agent as well as stabilizing for the iron oxide Ns. Characterization of Ns’s was done using TEM, FESEM, EDX, XRD, AFM, and zeta potential. Mixed type of iron oxide nanoparticles i.e. magnetite (Fe3O4), and maghemite (Fe2O3) with a size range of 1–16 nm was found to be present in the nanosuspensions prepared from all the three precursors. The antioxidant activity of the Fe Ns was also confirmed using DPPH assay, with order of activity FeDDA > FeCTAC > FeHEXA. The cellular toxicity of Ns was evaluated by observing the morphological changes on V. vinifera plant (petiole) using a light microscope. Further, the interactions of iron oxide Ns with V. vinifera’s DNA (plant-DNA) was assessed using circular dichroism (CD) and gel electrophoresis. For the case of FeCTAC Ns, a decrease in the intensity of bands was observed indicating fragmentation or adduct formation resulting in DNA damage. In the case of FeDDA, a modest decrease in the intensity of bands was observed. However, for FeHEXA Ns, complete neutralization of bands was confirmed implying maximum damage to the plant DNA. CD, gel electrophoresis and antioxidant activity confirmed that FeHEXA Ns were most toxic and FeDDA Ns were safest among the three as-fabricated nanosuspensions.
title: Der Einfluss von zeitlicher Frequenz und Reizgröße auf den relativen Beitrag von Helligkeits- und farbempfindlichen L-/M-Zapfen- Opponenz-Systemen in heterochromatischen Flimmer-ERGs
Creators: name: Popov, Yassen
Publisher: name: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
Year: 2024

description: Purpose To study the effect of stimulus size and temporal frequency on the relative contribution of luminance and L-/M-cone opponent signals in the ERG. Methods In four healthy, color normal subjects, ERG responses to heterochromatic stimuli with sinusoidal, counter-phase modulation of red and green LEDs were measured. By inverse variation of red and green contrasts, we varied luminance contrast while keeping L-/M-cone opponent chromatic contrast constant. The first harmonic components in the full field ERGs are independent of stimulus contrast at 12 Hz, while responses to 36 Hz stimuli vary, reaching a minimum close to isoluminance. It was assumed that ERG responses reflect L-/M-cone opponency at 12 Hz and luminance at 36 Hz. In this study, we modeled the influence of temporal frequency on the relative contribution of these mechanisms at intermediate frequencies, measured the influence of stimulus size on model parameters, and analyzed the second harmonic component at 12 Hz. Results The responses at all frequencies and stimulus sizes could be described by a linear vector addition of luminance and L-/M-cone opponent reflecting ERGs. The contribution of the luminance mechanism increased with increasing temporal frequency and with increasing stimulus size, whereas the gain of the L-/M-cone opponent mechanism was independent of stimulus size and was larger at lower temporal frequencies. Thus, the luminance mechanism dominated at lower temporal frequencies with large stimuli. At 12 Hz, the second harmonic component reflected the luminance mechanism. Conclusions The ERGs to heterochromatic stimuli can be fully described in terms of linear combinations of responses in the (magnocellular) luminance and the (parvocellular) L-/M-opponent retino-geniculate pathways. The non-invasive study of these pathways in human subjects may have implications for basic research and for clinical research.
Gelechia basipunctella Herrich-Schaffer 1854
Creators: name: Junnilainen, Jari
name: Karsholt, Ole
name: Nupponen, Kari
name: Kaitila, Jari-Pekka
name: Nupponen, Timo
name: Olschwang, Vladimir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Gelechiidae
Gelechia
Gelechia basipunctella

description: Gelechia basipunctella Herrich-Schäffer, 1854
Burannoe 21.VI.1999 (1♂, 1♀), 03.VII.2003 (1♂).
 Distribution. Locally from C Europe to Russia (Middle Volga and S Ural). Outside Europe reported from Turkey, S Siberia and Mongolia.
description: Published as part of Junnilainen, Jari, Karsholt, Ole, Nupponen, Kari, Kaitila, Jari-Pekka, Nupponen, Timo & Olschwang, Vladimir, 2010, The gelechiid fauna of the southern Ural Mountains, part II: list of recorded species with taxonomic notes (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) 2367, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 2367 (1) on page 34, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2367.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10093655
Social Capital and Economic Growth: A New model for Rural Communities
Creators: name: Debertin, David L.
name: Goetz, Stephan J.
name: Debertin, David L.
name: Goetz, Stephan J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: social capital
subject: community
subject: rural community
subject: suburban community
subject: urban community
subject: community development

description: This paper is a companion to University of Kentucky Staff Paper 474, and consists of a series of color slides focusing on the typology of communities of various sizes, both rural and urban. It is a newly revised version of a set of slides originally presented at a rural development conference sponsored by the Southern Rural Development Center in 2004 at Tampa, Florida.
description: This is a new version of a series of color slides on social capital as presented at a conference on rural development presented in Tampa, Florida in 2004, and sponsored by the Southern Rural Development Center.
title: KMS States on Crossed Products by Finite Groups
Creators: name: Große, Johannes
Publisher: name: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: KMS State
subject: Twisted KMS Functionals
subject: Crossed Product
subject: AQFT
subject: Thermal State

description: The KMS states on an observable algebra model its thermal equilibrium behavior. The crossed product of an algebra of observable by a finite subgroup of its symmetries is an enlarged observable algebra. We combine these two physical notions. Extensions of a KMS state $\omega$ of a unital $C^*$-algebra $\mathcal{A}$ to the crossed product by a finite group $G$ are characterized. The extensions are parameterized in terms of families of twisted KMS functionals of $\mathcal{A}$ or equivalently by operator-valued states on $G$ whose image lies in the twisted center of the von Neumann algebra generated by the GNS representation corresponding to $\omega$. If the $G$-action is weakly inner, a decomposition of the extensions of the KMS state is found in terms of the characters of $G$. If $\omega$ is the unique KMS state, the dynamics is $\omega$-weakly asymptotically abelian and the $G$-action is non-trivial, the canonical extension is the unique extension to the crossed product. As a particular class of examples, KMS states on crossed products of (self-dual) CAR algebras with dynamics and $G$-action given by Bogoliubov automorphisms are analyzed in detail. Depending on a Gibbs type condition involving the odd part of the absolute value of the Hamiltonian, the existence of twisted KMS functionals and the existence of the twisted center is found. In case $G$ is abelian and the Gibbs type condition is satisfied, the KMS states are explicitly computed in terms of characters of $G$. As an application in mathematical physics, the extended field algebra of the Ising QFT is shown to be a $\mathbb{Z}_2$-crossed product of a CAR algebra which has a unique KMS state.
Carbon Emissions Trading in China: The Evolution from Pilots to a Nationwide Scheme
Creators: name: Zhang, ZhongXiang
name: Zhang, ZhongXiang
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Pilot Carbon Trading Schemes
subject: Environmental Taxes
subject: Compliance
subject: Carbon Offsets
subject: Energy Prices
subject: China

description: The Chinese central government has approved the seven pilot carbon trading schemes. These seven pilot regions are deliberately selected to be at varying stages of development and are given considerable leeway to design their own schemes. These pilot trading schemes have features in common, but vary considerably in their approach to issues such as the coverage of sectors, allocation of allowances, price uncertainty and market stabilization, potential market power of dominated players, use of offsets, and enforcement and compliance. This article explains why China opts for emissions trading, rather than carbon or environmental taxes at least initially, discusses the key common and varying features of these carbon trading pilots and their first-year performance, draws the lessons learned, discusses the potential pathways for evolution of regional pilot carbon trading schemes into a nationwide carbon trading scheme, and raises fundamental issues that must be addressed in order to make such an emissions trading scheme to work reliably and effectively and with an increasingly expanded coverage and scope.
MOESM2 of The development of a brief screener for autism using item response theory
Creators: name: Mårland, Caroline
name: Lubke, Gitta
name: Degl’Innocenti, Alessio
name: Råstam, Maria
name: Gillberg, Christopher
name: Nilsson, Thomas
name: Lundström, Sebastian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Response frequencies. The table presents the response frequencies for each item in the developmental sample.
Psoricoptera speciosella Teich 1892
Creators: name: Junnilainen, Jari
name: Karsholt, Ole
name: Nupponen, Kari
name: Kaitila, Jari-Pekka
name: Nupponen, Timo
name: Olschwang, Vladimir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Gelechiidae
Psoricoptera
Psoricoptera speciosella

description: Psoricoptera speciosella Teich, 1892
Miass 01–11.IX.2002 (1♂), 11.VIII.2005 (1♂); Moskovo 11.IX.2002 (2♂♂).
 Distribution. Known from N and C Europe southwards to France, northern Italy and Romania; European part of Russia. Outside Europe in Siberia, The Russian Far East and Japan (Karsholt & Park 1999).
description: Published as part of Junnilainen, Jari, Karsholt, Ole, Nupponen, Kari, Kaitila, Jari-Pekka, Nupponen, Timo & Olschwang, Vladimir, 2010, The gelechiid fauna of the southern Ural Mountains, part II: list of recorded species with taxonomic notes (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) 2367, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 2367 (1) on page 35, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2367.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10093655
Low and high frequency variability as a function of spectral properties in the bright X-ray binary GX 5-1
Creators: name: Jonker, P. G.
name: van der Klis, M.
name: Homan, J.
name: Mendez, M.
name: Lewin, W. H. G.
name: Wijnands, R.
name: Zhang, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on a detailed analysis of data obtained over nearly four years with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer of the Z source GX 5-1. From a spectral analysis using a hardness-intensity diagram it was found that the source traced out the typical Z-shaped pattern. The study of the power spectral properties showed that when the source moved on the Horizontal Branch towards the Normal Branch the fractional rms amplitudes and timescales of all variability decreased, while their FWHMs increased. The frequency separation of the two kHz QPO peaks decreased from 344+-12 Hz to 232+-13 Hz. At low frequencies, besides the horizontal branch oscillation (HBO) and its second harmonic, two additional broad Lorentzian components were needed to obtain acceptable fits. These broad Lorentzians have Q-values of ~1-2 and have frequencies 0.5 and 1.5 times the HBO frequency. When interpreted as being related to the HBO, they seem to favor disc models for the HBO over the magnetic beat-frequency model. We compare the timing properties and colour-colour diagrams (CDs) of GX 5-1 with those of the back hole candidate XTE J1550-564 and the atoll source 4U 1608-52. The CDs are strikingly similar when a colour scheme is used that is commonly employed in back hole studies. However, this may be a degeneracy as the CDs turn out to be more complicated when colours common in neutron star studies are employed. Apart from some remarkable similarities between the CD of XTE J1550-564 and that of 4U 1608-52, several differences can be seen between these CDs and that of GX 5-1. Conclusions on spectral states or properties based solely on the use of CDs using the ``black hole scheme'' should be regarded with caution.
description: 19 pages, 15 figures, Accepted for publication in MNRAS, 3 figures reduced in size, abstract abbreviated
MOESM4 of Strategies for increasing participation in mail-out colorectal cancer screening programs: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Goodwin, Belinda
name: Ireland, Michael
name: March, Sonja
name: Myers, Larry
name: Crawford-Williams, Fiona
name: Chambers, Suzanne
name: Aitken, Joanne
name: Dunn, Jeff
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 4. Contains a forest plot for each meta-analysis conducted on each intervention type (including those with interventions from high risk of bias studies included and excluded).
Biodegradable silica nanoparticles for efficient linear DNA gene delivery
Creators: name: Ramos-Valle, Andrés
name: Kirst, Henning
name: Fanarraga, Mónica L.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Virology

description: Targeting, safety, scalability, and storage stability of vectors are still challenges in the field of nucleic acid delivery for gene therapy. Silica-based nanoparticles have been widely studied as gene carriers, exhibiting key features such as biocompatibility, simplistic synthesis, and enabling easy surface modifications for targeting. However, the ability of the formulation to incorporate DNA is limited, which restricts the number of DNA molecules that can be incorporated into the particle, thereby reducing gene expression. Here we use polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-generated linear DNA molecules to augment the coding sequences of gene-carrying nanoparticles, thereby maximizing nucleic acid loading and minimizing the size of these nanocarriers. This approach results in a remarkable 16-fold increase in protein expression six days post-transfection in cells transfected with particles carrying the linear DNA compared with particles bearing circular plasmid DNA. The study also showed that the use of linear DNA entrapped in DNA@SiO2 resulted in a much more efficient level of gene expression compared to standard transfection reagents. The system developed in this study features simplicity, scalability, and increased transfection efficiency and gene expression over existing approaches, enabled by improved embedment capabilities for linear DNA, compared to conventional methods such as lipids or polymers, which generally show greater transfection efficiency with plasmid DNA. Therefore, this novel methodology can find applications not only in gene therapy but also in research settings for high-throughput gene expression screenings.
title: Fully Coupled FEA Simulation of Re-programmable Origami Micro-Matter
Creators: name: Tshikwand, Georgino Kaleng
Publisher: name: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Fully Coupled FEM, SMA bending Actuator, re-programmable origami, Abaqus UMAT

description: Re-programmable matter is an attempt to introduce reconfigurability to programmable matter. Programmable matter is a material whose shape can be programmed through bending hinge actuators. Programmable matter is based on the concept of self-folding origami. In principle, programmable matter consists of a planar network of tiles and hinge actuators that can be folded into desired 3D structures. This is possible through joule heating of the hinge actuator which is made of active materials. Shape Memory Alloys (SMA) are amongst the most used active materials in the actuation of microsystems. The synergy of active and passive actuators facilitates the reconfiguration of the 3D origami structures back into the 2D planar structures and further folding in the opposite direction. This is the bidirectional actuation of the origami structure. The optimization of such actuation requires iterative Finite Element Method (FEM) simulations of the entire origami system. This assists in understanding the coupling effects between the actuators in the systems. In this thesis, we provide a holistic approach to achieve device simulation of the bidirectional actuation of the origami system. First, following thermodynamic principles, we derive a fully coupled material model to describe the shape memory effect and superelasticity properties of shape memory alloy materials. The resolved time-dependent coupling between the mechanical, thermal, and electrical field variables inherent to thermal actuation is described. Tensile and bending simulations are conducted to validate the model by direct comparison with experimental results. A detailed procedure to realize bidirectional actuation is provided. FEM simulation of Bidirectional actuation of open-box and pyramid origami structures is achieved. Here, thermal transport during actuation is found to influence the folding of the actuators in their attempt to fold to the programmed 3D structure. Appropriate measures are recommended to prevent the problem and achieve optimal actuation towards the programmed 3D structure. The combination of the shape memory alloy material model and bidirectional simulation procedure developed in this thesis are found to be robust to simulate and optimize the actuation of re-programmable micro origami systems.
Using Fuzzy Classification System for Diagnoses of Breast Cancer
Creators: name: Mahmoodi, Maryam Sadat
name: Bigham, Bahram Sadeghi
name: NAjafi, Adel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Applied Computer Science
subject: Theoretical Computer Science
subject: 10299 Applied Mathematics not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Using Fuzzy Classification System for Diagnoses of Breast Cancer
Additional file 2 of HBV genome-enriched single cell sequencing revealed heterogeneity in HBV-driven hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)
Creators: name: Wang, Wenhui
name: Chen, Yan
name: Wu, Liang
name: Zhang, Yi
name: Yoo, Seungyeul
name: Chen, Quan
name: Liu, Shiping
name: Hou, Yong
name: Chen, Xiao-ping
name: Chen, Qian
name: Zhu, Jun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 2: Table S1. Clinicopathological information of the patient. HCC, hepatocellular carcinoma; HBsAg, hepatitis B virus surface antigen; HBsAb, hepatitis B virus surface antibody; HBcAb, hepatitis B core antibody; HBeAb, hepatitis B e antibody; HCV Ab, hepatitis C virus antibody; AFP, alpha-fetoprotein; PVTT, portal vein tumor thrombosis; IVCTT, inferior vena cava tumor thrombosis. Hepatitis serology testing showed that the patient was HBsAb positive, HBsAg negative, HBcAb positive, HBeAb positive, HCV Ab negative and had no detectable blood HBV DNA copy number.
Quantum tunneling of two coupled single-molecular magnets
Creators: name: Hu, J. M.
name: Chen, Z. D.
name: Shen, S. Q.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two single-molecule magnets are coupled antiferromagnetically to form a supramolecule dimer. We study the coupling effect and tunneling process by means of the numerical exact diagonalization method, and apply them to the recently synthesized supramoleculer dimer [Mn4]2 The model parameters are calculated for the dimer based on the tunneling process. The absence of tunneling at zero field and sweeping rate effect on the step height in the hysterisis loops are understood very well in this theory.
description: 4 pages including 3 figure and 1 table
The Disparate Influence of State Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) on U.S. Renewable Electricity Generation Capacity
Creators: name: Maguire, Karen
name: Munasib, Abdul
name: Maguire, Karen
name: Munasib, Abdul
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Renewable portfolio standard (RPS)
subject: renewable energy
subject: wind energy
subject: synthetic control method (SCM)

description: Several papers have used panel data analyses to examine the effectiveness of U.S. state-level Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) in promoting renewable capacity development, but the findings are inconclusive. Estimation of average treatment effects, however, can mask the fact that RPS policies across states are disparate and the treatment states are heterogeneous. We use the Synthetic Control Method (SCM) to conduct individual case studies of the early adopter states. Our findings indicate that the impact of RPS varied across states. We find Texas to be unique among these early adopters in that RPS in Texas has led to increased renewable capacity.
A MONETARY INTERPRETATION OF THE 1974 BANGLADESH FAMINE
Creators: name: Hossain, Akhtar
name: Hossain, Akhtar
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1993
Subjects: Financial Economics

description: This Paper examines aspects of the Chadha-Teja thesis that expansionary macroeconomic policies, rather than floods, might have caused the 1974 Bangladesh Famine. Although empirical findings are broadly consistent with the thesis, they are suggestive rather than conclusive. Nevertheless, one major conclusion is drawn that random natural disasters, such as floods .and droughts, may cause sectoral economic dislocation and misery but they are unlikely to cause a full-blown famine, unless they are accompanied by such 'loose macroeconomic policies, that destroy the credibility of the government to 'food stockholders' in its ability to stabilise the economy.
High Utility Interval-Based Sequences
Creators: name: Mirbagheri, S. Mohammad
name: Hamilton, Howard J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Sequential pattern mining is an interesting research area with broad range of applications. Most prior research on sequential pattern mining has considered point-based data where events occur instantaneously. However, in many application domains, events persist over intervals of time of varying lengths. Furthermore, traditional frameworks for sequential pattern mining assume all events have the same weight or utility. This simplifying assumption neglects the opportunity to find informative patterns in terms of utilities, such as cost. To address these issues, we incorporate the concept of utility into interval-based sequences and define a framework to mine high utility patterns in interval-based sequences i.e., patterns whose utility meets or exceeds a minimum threshold. In the proposed framework, the utility of events is considered while assuming multiple events can occur coincidentally and persist over varying periods of time. An algorithm named High Utility Interval-based Pattern Miner (HUIPMiner) is proposed and applied to real datasets. To achieve an efficient solution, HUIPMiner is augmented with a pruning strategy. Experimental results show that HUIPMiner is an effective solution to the problem of mining high utility interval-based sequences.
description: To appear in Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Big Data Analytics and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK2020), Bratislava, Slovakia, September 14-17. Springer, 2020
Massive quark effects in two flavor color superconductors
Creators: name: Casalbuoni, R.
name: De Fazio, F.
name: Gatto, R.
name: Nardulli, G.
name: Ruggieri, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The high density effective theory formalism (HDET) is employed to describe high density QCD with two massive flavors (2SC). The gap equation is derived and explicitly solved for the gap parameter. The parameters associated to the pseudo Nambu-Goldstone boson of $U(1)_A$ are evaluated in the limit $μ\to\infty$ and $m/μ$ fixed. In particular we find for the velocity of the NG boson the relation $v^2=\sqrt{μ_1^2-m_1^2}\sqrt{μ_2^2-m_2^2}/3μ_1μ_2$.
description: Latex file. 14 pages, 2 figures. Some improvement in the presentation. 2 references added. Final version to be published in Physics Letters
Development of ion-triggered in situ gel containing ketoconazole/hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin for ocular delivery: in vitro and in vivo evaluation
Creators: name: Xia, Huiyun
name: Yang, Jingjing
name: Song, Fei
name: Pu, Guojuan
name: Dong, Fudan
name: Liang, Zhen
name: Zhang, Junjie
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biochemistry
Medicine
Molecular Biology
Pharmacology
Biotechnology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer

description: The application of ketoconazole (KET) in ocular drug delivery is restricted by its poor aqueous solubility though its broad-spectrum antifungal activity. The aim of this study is to develop an ion-sensitive in situ gel (ISG) of KET to promote its ocular bioavailability in topical application. The solubility of KET in water was increased by complexation with hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin (HPβCD), then KET-HPβCD inclusion complex (KET-IC) was fabricated into an ion-sensitive ISG triggered by sodium alginate (SA). The in vitro drug release and antifungal activities investigations demonstrated that the KET-IC-ISG formulation increased drug release and anti-fungal activities compared to pure KET. The ex vivo rabbit corneal permeation studied demonstrated higher permeability of KET-IC-ISG formulation (Papp of (6.34 ±0.21) ×10−4 cm/h) than pure KET (Papp of (3.09 ± 0.09) ×10−4 cm/h). The cytotoxicity assay and the ocular irritation study in rabbits confirmed the KET-IC-ISG safety and well tolerance. The ocular pharmacokinetics of KET in rabbits was investigated and the results showed that the KET-IC-ISG increased its bioavailability in cornea by 47-fold. In conclusion, the KET-IC-ISG system promoted the precorneal retention, the ocular drug bioavailability and the developed formulation is a potential strategy to treat mycotic keratitis.
title: Endangered Species Act Section 7(a)(2) Biological Opinion and Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act Essential Fish Habitat Response for the San Mateo State-Route 1 (SR-1) and SR-84 Structures and Scour Mitigation Project (04-2J790)
Creators: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Publisher: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Year: 2021

description: ESA Section 7 Consultation ; WCRO-2020-02463
IMPACT OF GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE ON AGRICULTURE AND PERFORMANCE OF AGRICULTURAL SECTOR IN INDIA
Creators: name: Selvaraj, K. N.
name: Selvaraj, K. N.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1993
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: The agricultural development had to rely heavily on government finance since the inception of first Five Year plan (FYP) period. However, there has been declining share to agriculture from the public finance clue to planned achievements in agriculture, industrialisation and economic reforms. This trend may have deleterious effect on the performance of agricultural sector. An attempt is made in this paper to assess the impact of agricultural government expenditure on agricultural output growth using time-series data over the 1951-52 to 1988-89 period. The adverse effect of expenditure instability on agricultural growth is also analysed. The results indicate that the government expenditure policies are of vital importance for the growth of agricultural sector and any reduction in agricultural government expenditure adversely affects agricultural sector performance. It was also found that instability in agricultural government expenditure is inversely related to the growth of the sector.
title: Intrahospitales Outcome von Koronarangiographie und perkutaner koronarer Intervention bei Patientinnen und Patienten über 90 Jahre
Creators: name: Brütting, Lisa Katharina
Publisher: name: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
Year: 2024

description: Die Indikationsstellung für eine Herzkatheteruntersuchung bei Patientinnen und Patienten im hohen Alter ist in der aktuellen klinischen Praxis weiterhin zurückhaltend. Aufgrund des anhaltenden demographischen Bevölkerungswandels und der Zunahme an kardiovaskulären Erkrankungen, kann ein solches Vorgehen jedoch immer häufiger auch bei Hochbetagten notwendig und lebenserhaltend sein. Ziel der Arbeit war es, die Komplikationsrate und das intrahospitale Outcome von über 90-jährigen Patientinnen und Patienten nach Herzkatheteruntersuchungen und perkutanen koronaren Interventionen im Kontext bestehender Vorerkrankungen und Risikofaktoren zu analysieren. In die retrospektive Untersuchung wurden 271 Patientinnen und Patienten (144 Männer, 127 Frauen) über 90 Jahre (mittleres Alter 92±2 Jahre) einbezogen, bei denen eine diagnostische Herzkatheteruntersuchung oder eine perkutane koronare Intervention durchgeführt wurde. Ausgewertet wurden die jeweiligen Befundberichte. Des Weiteren wurden die Anamnese und klinischen Daten im Verlauf des Krankenhausaufenthaltes analysiert. Die intrahospitale Mortalität lag nach einer Herzkatheteruntersuchung bei insgesamt 6,6 %, im Zusammenhang mit einer Koronarintervention stieg diese auf 10,5 %. Bei 44,6 % der Patientinnen und Patienten kam es zu Komplikationen im Zusammenhang mit dem invasiven Eingriff. Prädisponierende Faktoren für die Komplikationsrate und Mortalität waren höheres Patientenalter, eine vorbekannte Herz- oder Niereninsuffizienz sowie die Durchführung einer perkutanen koronaren Intervention. Patientinnen und Patienten mit einem akuten Koronarsyndrom hatten eine signifikant höhere Wahrscheinlichkeit für das Auftreten von Komplikationen. Eine bestehende orale Antikoagulation war ein eigenständiger Risikofaktor in Bezug auf Blutungs- und Zugangskomplikationen. Der femorale Zugangsweg war signifikant risikoreicher als der radiale Zugangsweg hinsichtlich Zugangskomplikationen und Mortalität. Der Grad der Frailty war kein eigenständiger Prädiktor für das Komplikationsrisiko oder die Mortalität. Die Komplikationsrate der invasiven Koronarangiographie und -intervention bei hochbetagten Patientinnen und Patienten ist hoch. Das Patientenalter ist ein eigenständiger prädiktiver Faktor. Der Betrachtung spezifischer Risikofaktoren und Vorerkrankungen in der Anamnese kommt in der Indikationsstellung eine wichtige Rolle zu. Zu berücksichtigen ist auch der initiale klinische Zustand und die Diagnose der Patientinnen und Patienten. Die Einführung eines einheitlichen Assessments bei hochbetagten Patientinnen und Patienten bereits bei der Vorstellung in der Klinik mag ein geeigneter Ansatz sein, um die Indikationsstellung zur Herzkatheteruntersuchung in Zukunft zu erleichtern.
EOSC-Pillar Ambassadors Programme Poster - German version
Creators: name: Czuray, Marie
name: Greco, Andrea
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Die European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) wird den Alltag von Forschenden stark prägen. Die EOSC erleichtert den Austausch und die Nachnutzung von Ergebnissen und Daten. Davon profitiert nicht nur die Wissenschaft, sondern die ganze Gesellschaft. Möchten Sie Ihr Netzwerk und Ihre Organisation dabei unterstützen, sich an der EOSC zu beteiligen? EOSC-Pillar Ambassadors Programme: https://bit.ly/3okji5N
Entangled light from white noise
Creators: name: Plenio, M. B.
name: Huelga, S. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An atom that couples to two distinct leaky optical cavities is driven by an external optical white noise field. We describe how entanglement between the light fields sustained by two optical cavities arises in such a situation. The entanglement is maximized for intermediate values of the cavity damping rates and the intensity of the white noise field, vanishing both for small and for large values of these parameters and thus exhibiting a stochastic-resonance-like behaviour. This example illustrates the possibility of generating entanglement by exclusively incoherent means and sheds new light on the constructive role noise may play in certain tasks of interest for quantum information processing.
description: Second part of the paper rewritten, more discussion and some analytical results added
The Impacts of Off-Farm Income on Farm Efficiency, Scale, and Profitability Cotton Farms
Creators: name: Nehring, Richard
name: Hallahan, Charlie
name: Nehring, Richard
name: Hallahan, Charlie
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Farm Management
subject: Production Economics
subject: input distance function off-farm hours scale efficiency cotton

description: This paper estimates performance measures on cotton farms, following an input distance stochastic production frontier (SPF) approach and compares the relative performance of farm operator households with and without off-farm wages and salaries. We use 2002 to 2014 USDA data for twelve major cotton producing states-Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas-- identifying different performance measures. Previous studies suggest that off-farm work influences economic performance—by “improving” managerial performance. We find that off-farm income boosts scale efficiency on larger operations for the data set analyzed, and is also consistent with significantly higher farm and household returns. We also find that the number of hours worked off-farm by the operator contributes to lower technical efficiency but we find no impact on technical efficiency for hours worked off-farm by the spouse (80 percent of total hours worked off-farm).
MOESM1 of Predictors of family focused practice: organisation, profession, or the role as child responsible personnel?
Creators: name: BjĂ¸Rg SkogĂ¸Y
name: Ogden, Terje
name: Weimand, Bente
name: Ruud, Torleif
name: SĂ¸Rgaard, Knut
name: Maybery, Darryl
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Predictors of Family Focused Practice Behaviours. Tables S1. a-e, with both significant and non-significant predictors.
Thermal Broadening of Bottomonia: Lattice Non-Relativistic QCD with Extended Operators
Creators: name: Larsen, Rasmus
name: Meinel, Stefan
name: Mukherjee, Swagato
name: Petreczky, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present lattice non-relativistic QCD calculations of bottomonium correlation functions at temperatures $T \simeq 150-350$ MeV. The correlation functions were computed using extended bottomonium operators, and on background gauge-field configurations for 2+1-flavor QCD having physical kaon and nearly-physical pion masses. We analyzed these correlation functions based on simple theoretically-motivated parameterizations of the corresponding spectral functions. The results of our analyses are compatible with significant in-medium thermal broadening of the ground state S- and P-wave bottomonia.
description: published version with ancillary files
Vectorial Fluorescence Emission from Microsphere Coupled to Gold Mirror
Creators: name: Vasista, Adarsh B.
name: Tiwari, Sunny
name: Sharma, Deepak K.
name: Chaubey, Shailendra K.
name: Kumar, G. V. Pavan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the generation, and momentum space distribution of fluorescence emission from individual SiO2 microsphere on dye coated Au mirror. The molecular fluorescence emission mediated via whispering gallery modes of the sphere is studied using polarization resolved optical energy-momentum micro-spectroscopy. Our experiments reveal intensity dependence of split modes of the cavity as a function of in-plane wavevector and emission polarization in the far field. The exotic far-field distribution can be understood by sphere-image sphere model that further reveals the polarization dependence of the split modes. The presented results reveal the potential of metallo-dielectric soft micro-cavities to engineer molecular emission that can encode spin and orbital angular momentum states and can be further extrapolated to realize dye-loaded active meta-atoms and meta-surfaces.
The Angular Trispectra of CMB Temperature and Polarization
Creators: name: Okamoto, Takemi
name: Hu, Wayne
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop the formalism necessary to study four-point functions of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization fields. We determine the general form of CMB trispectra, with the constraints imposed by the assumption of statistical isotropy of the CMB fields, and derive expressions for their estimators, as well as their Gaussian noise properties. We apply these techniques to initial non-Gaussianity of a form motivated by inflationary models. Due to the large number of four-point configurations, the sensitivity of the trispectra to initial non-Gaussianity approaches that of the temperature bispectrum at high multipole moment. These trispectra techniques will also be useful in the study of secondary anisotropies induced for example by the gravitational lensing of the CMB by the large scale structure of the universe.
description: 16 pages, 4 figures; typographical errors corrected
Direct and Indirect Effects -- An Information Theoretic Perspective
Creators: name: Schamberg, Gabriel
name: Chapman, William
name: Xie, Shang-Ping
name: Coleman, Todd P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Information theoretic (IT) approaches to quantifying causal influences have experienced some popularity in the literature, in both theoretical and applied (e.g. neuroscience and climate science) domains. While these causal measures are desirable in that they are model agnostic and can capture non-linear interactions, they are fundamentally different from common statistical notions of causal influence in that they (1) compare distributions over the effect rather than values of the effect and (2) are defined with respect to random variables representing a cause rather than specific values of a cause. We here present IT measures of direct, indirect, and total causal effects. The proposed measures are unlike existing IT techniques in that they enable measuring causal effects that are defined with respect to specific values of a cause while still offering the flexibility and general applicability of IT techniques. We provide an identifiability result and demonstrate application of the proposed measures in estimating the causal effect of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation on temperature anomalies in the North American Pacific Northwest.
Realizing the braided Temperley-Lieb-Jones C*-tensor categories as Hilbert C*-modules
Creators: name: Aaserud, Andreas Næs
name: Evans, David E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 18D10, 46L08

description: We associate to each Temperley-Lieb-Jones C*-tensor category $\mathcal{T}\!\mathcal{L}\mathcal{J}(δ)$ with parameter $δ$ in the discrete range $\{2\cos(π/(k+2))\,:\,k=1,2,\ldots\}\cup\{2\}$ a certain C*-algebra $\mathcal{B}$ of compact operators. We use the unitary braiding on $\mathcal{T}\!\mathcal{L}\mathcal{J}(δ)$ to equip the category $\mathrm{Mod}_{\mathcal{B}}$ of (right) Hilbert $\mathcal{B}$-modules with the structure of a braided C*-tensor category. We show that $\mathcal{T}\!\mathcal{L}\mathcal{J}(δ)$ is equivalent, as a braided C*-tensor category, to the full subcategory $\mathrm{Mod}_{\mathcal{B}}^f$ of $\mathrm{Mod}_{\mathcal{B}}$ whose objects are those modules which admit a finite orthonormal basis. Finally, we indicate how these considerations generalize to arbitrary finitely generated rigid braided C*-tensor categories.
description: In the latest version, we corrected a couple of typos and reformatted the bibliography. The paper will appear in essentially this form in Communications in Mathematical Physics (2020)
Mirificarma cytisella
Creators: name: Junnilainen, Jari
name: Karsholt, Ole
name: Nupponen, Kari
name: Kaitila, Jari-Pekka
name: Nupponen, Timo
name: Olschwang, Vladimir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Gelechiidae
Mirificarma
Mirificarma cytisella

description: Mirificarma cytisella (Treitschke, 1833)
Arkaim 14–19.VI.1996; Kidriasovo 28–29.V.1998; Miass 13.VI.1996, 26.VI.1997, 21.V.2005; Moskovo 26.V.1998, 02.VI.2004. Locally common.
 Distribution. From C and S Europe to the Ural Mountains.
description: Published as part of Junnilainen, Jari, Karsholt, Ole, Nupponen, Kari, Kaitila, Jari-Pekka, Nupponen, Timo & Olschwang, Vladimir, 2010, The gelechiid fauna of the southern Ural Mountains, part II: list of recorded species with taxonomic notes (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) 2367, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 2367 (1) on page 35, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2367.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10093655