cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Unusually large polarizabilities and "new" atomic states in Ba
Creators: name: Li, Chih-Hao
name: Rochester, S. M.
name: Kozlov, M. G.
name: Budker, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electric polarizabilities of four low-J even-parity states and three low-J odd-parity states of atomic barium in the range $35,600 $ to $36,000\ $cm$^{-1}$ are investigated. The states of interest are excited (in an atomic beam) via an intermediate odd-parity state with a sequence of two laser pulses. The odd-parity states can be excited due to the Stark-induced mixing with even-parity states. The polarizabilities are measured via direct spectroscopy on the second-stage transition. Several states have tensor and scalar polarizabilities that exceed the values that might be expected from the known energy levels of barium by more than two orders of magnitude. Two of the Stark-induced transitions cannot be identified from the known energy spectrum of barium. The observations suggest the existence of as yet unidentified odd-parity energy states, whose energies and angular momenta are determined in the present experiment. A tentative identification of these states as [Xe]$6s8p ^3P_{0,2}$ is suggested.
description: 29 pages, 12 figures
Additional file 1 of Gene expression responses to anti-tuberculous drugs in a whole blood model
Creators: name: Kwan, Philip Kam Weng
name: Wenwei Lin
name: Naim, Ahmad Nazri Mohamed
name: Balamurugan Periaswamy
name: Sessions, Paola Florez De
name: Hibberd, Martin L.
name: Paton, Nicholas I.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1.
Soa violacea New 1975
Creators: name: Neto, Alberto Moreira da Silva
name: Aldrete, Alfonso Neri García
name: Rafael, José Albertino
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Psocodea
Lepidopsocidae
Soa
Soa violacea

description: Soa violacea New
 Soa violacea New, 1975: 89, figs. 13-18.
 Holotype: female, Brazil: Xavantina, dead palm fronds on ground, 21-26.I.1969, T. R. New.
 Condition of holotype: Right fore- and hindwing, and right hind leg mounted on one slide (№ 6965); subgenital plate, gonapophyses, clunium, paraprocts and epiproct mounted in another slide (№ 6965); head and two legs mounted in another slide (№ 6965).Thorax and remaining parts in a separate micro-vial with ethanol (MZSP 000219).
description: Published as part of Neto, Alberto Moreira da Silva, Aldrete, Alfonso Neri García & Rafael, José Albertino, 2019, Catalogue of Psocoptera (Insecta: Psocodea) types housed in the collection of the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, pp. 1-11 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 59 on page 10, DOI: 10.11606/1807-0205/2019.59.30, http://zenodo.org/record/4637371
Inspiring Change: The Sustainability Coordinator Workshop Marketing Plan
Creators: name: Chong, David
name: Goeller, Lisa
name: Jonson, Ashley
name: LaForge, Jeff
name: Macdonald, Elizabeth
name: Marinova, Marina
name: Zhang, Fan
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Gap probability in the spectrum of random matrices and asymptotics of polynomials orthogonal on an arc of the unit circle
Creators: name: Krasovsky, I. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We obtain uniform asymptotics for polynomials orthogonal on a fixed and varying arc of the unit circle with a positive analytic weight function. We also complete the proof of the large $s$ asymptotic expansion for the Fredholm determinant with the kernel $\sin z/(πz)$ on the interval $[0,s]$, verifying a conjecture of Dyson for the constant term in the expansion. In the Gaussian Unitary Ensemble of random matrices, this determinant describes the probability for an interval of length $s$ in the bulk scaling limit to be free from the eigenvalues.
description: 20 pages, 1 figure, small changes
Additional file 1 of Identification of asymptomatic Leishmania infections: a scoping review
Creators: name: Ibarra-Meneses, Ana Victoria
name: Corbeil, Audrey
name: Wagner, Victoria
name: Onwuchekwa, Chukwuemeka
name: Fernandez-Prada, Christopher
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. List of countries considered endemic.
Science Verification Results from PMAS
Creators: name: Roth, M. M.
name: Becker, T.
name: Boehm, P.
name: Kelz, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: PMAS, the Potsdam Multi-Aperture Spectrophotometer, is a new integral field instrument which was commissioned at the Calar Alto 3.5m Telescope in May 2001. We report on results obtained from a science verification run in October 2001. We present observations of the low-metallicity blue compact dwarf galaxy SBS0335-052, the ultra-luminous X-ray Source X-1 in the Holmberg II galaxy, the quadruple gravitational lens system Q2237+0305 (the "Einstein Cross"), the Galactic planetary nebula NGC7027, and extragalactic planetary nebulae in M31. PMAS is now available as a common user instrument at Calar Alto Observatory.
description: 4 pages, 9 figures (attached in JPEG format), Euro3D Science Workshop Proceedings, held in Cambridge May 21-23, 2003, to appear in AN (accepted)
On duality between quantum maps and quantum states
Creators: name: Zyczkowski, Karol
name: Bengtsson, Ingemar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the space of quantum operations, as well as the larger space of maps which are positive, but not completely positive. A constructive criterion for decomposability is presented. A certain class of unistochastic operations, determined by unitary matrices of extended dimensionality, is defined and analyzed. Using the concept of the dynamical matrix and the Jamiolkowski isomorphism we explore the relation between the set of quantum operations (dynamics) and the set of density matrices acting on an extended Hilbert space (kinematics). An analogous relation is established between the classical maps and an extended space of the discrete probability distributions.
description: 25 pages in revtex with 9 figures included
MFC-based biosensor for domestic wastewater COD assessment in constructed wetlands
Creators: name: Corbella, C.
name: Hartl, M.
name: Fernandez-gatell, M.
name: Puigagut, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: In the context of natural-based wastewater treatment technologies (such as constructed wetlands - CW) the use of a low-cost, continuous-like biosensor tool for the assessment of operational conditions is of key importance for plant management optimization. The objective of the present study was to assess the potential use of constructed wetland microbial fuel cells (CW-MFC) as a domestic wastewater COD assessment tool. For the purpose of this work four lab-scale CW-MFCs were set up and fed with pre-settled domestic wastewater at different COD concentrations. Under laboratory conditions two different anodic materials were tested (graphite rods and gravel). Furthermore, a pilot-plant based experiment was also conducted to confirm the findings previously recorded for lab-scale experiments. Results showed that in spite of the low coulombic efficiencies recorded, either gravel or graphite-based anodes were suitable for the purposes of domestic wastewater COD assessment. Significant linear relationships could be established between inlet COD concentrations and CW-MFC Ecell whenever contact time was above 10 hours. Results also showed that the accuracy of the CW-MFC was greatly compromised after several weeks of operation. Pilot experiments showed that CW-MFC presents a good bio-indication response between week 3 and 7 of operation (equivalent to an accumulated organic loading between 100 and 200 g COD/m2, respectively). Main conclusion of this work is that of CW-MFC could be used as an "alarm-tool" for qualitative continuous influent water quality assessment rather than a precise COD assessment tool due to a loss of precision after several weeks of operation.
description: 46 pages, 14 Figures
Additional file 1 of CD13 as a new tumor target for antibody-drug conjugates: validation with the conjugate MI130110
Creators: name: Domínguez, Juan Manuel
name: Pérez-Chacón, Gema
name: Guillén, María José
name: Muñoz-Alonso, María José
name: Somovilla-Crespo, Beatriz
name: Danay Cibrián
name: Acosta-Iborra, Bárbara
name: Adrados, Magdalena
name: Muñoz-Calleja, Cecilia
name: Cuevas, Carmen
name: Sánchez-Madrid, Francisco
name: Avilés, Pablo
name: Zapata, Juan M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Materials and Methods, Table S1. Anti-proliferative activity of PM050489 in CD13 positive and negative cell lines. Figure S1. Immunohistochemistry analysis of CD13 expression in tumor samples. Figure S2. Chromatography analysis of TEA1/8 mAb and MI130110. Figure S3. Immunofluorescence analysis of the nuclear membrane and chromosome condensation. Figure S4. Flow cytometry analysis of cells used in xenograft models. Figure S4. Evolution of HT1080 tumor volumes at 4 given days. Figure S4. Evolution of HT1080 tumor volumes at 4 given days in MI130110-treated xenografted mice.
Hadron Structure from Lattice QCD
Creators: name: LHPC Collaboration
name: Bistrovic, B.
name: Edwards, R. G.
name: Fleming, G.
name: Hagler, Ph.
name: Negele, J. W.
name: Orginos, K.
name: Pochinsky, A.
name: Renner, D. B.
name: Richards, D. G.
name: Schroers, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The structure of neutrons, protons, and other strongly interacting particles is now being calculated in full, unquenched lattice QCD with quark masses entering the chiral regime. This talk describes selected examples, including the nucleon axial charge, structure functions, electromagnetic form factors, the origin of the nucleon spin, the transverse structure of the nucleon, and the nucleon to Delta transition form factor.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures Talk at International Conference on QCD and Hadronic Physics
Plectonotum rubrithorax Constantin 2020, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Constantin, Robert
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cantharidae
Plectonotum
Plectonotum rubrithorax

description: Plectonotum rubrithorax sp. nov.
 (Figs. 19, 42, 83-84, 111, 119)
 Type material: Holotype ♂ (MUSM): Peru, Huanuco, provincia de Leoncio Prado, 40 km NE de Tingo Maria, Abra Divisoria, Rio Azul, 09°12′12″S, 75°48′47″, alt. 1,670 m, 04.IV.2015, leg. R. Constantin.
 Description: Holotype. Length 3.5 mm. Head black, the clypeus yellow. Pronotum orange yellow. Elytra chocolate-brown. Antennae black, the first two antennomeres yellow, the third brownish yellow. Legs orange yellow, the apical half of tibiae and the tarsi brown. Abdomen brown. Head 0.86 times as wide as pronotum, short, the clypeus not protruding. Eyes remarkably developed, broad, bulging, the interocular space only as wide as one third of head width. Frons concave between the antennal sockets.Temples short. Cephalic surface smooth, not punctate,with sparse thin yellowish setae. Antennae longer than the body, the first two antennomeres smooth, the second very minute, the following parallel sided, warty, bearing numerous erect brown setae as long as antennomere width. Pronotum 1.6 times wider than long, with angular apical edge, arched and laterally sinuous basal edge, the lateral edge with a narrow bead and an emargination in front of the basal corners. Pronotal surface shiny, without visible punctation. Elytra 2.4 times longer than combined width at the base, very thinly punctate, irregularly disposed, covered with long, thin, yellow setae. Aedeagus: tegmen with apices of lateral lobes straight and dorsally emarginated; lateral sclerites long and slender; median lobe very short.
 Dimensions of the holotype: TL = 3.5 mm; AL = 4.0 mm; HW = 0.86 mm; IOW = 0.3 mm; OL = 0.43 mm; IAW = 0.09mm;PL = 062 mm;PW = 1.0 mm; EL= 2.65 mm; EW = 1.1 mm. Length of the antennomeres, in mm: aI = 0.29; aII = 0.08; aIII = 0.36; aIV = 0.4; aV = 0.44; aVI = 0.45; aVII = 0.45; aVIII = 0.43; aIX = 0.39; aX = 0.33; aXI = 0.35.
 Differential diagnosis: Plectonotum rubrithorax sp. nov., is similar to the Peruvian species P.neoruficolle nom. nov., by the similar habitus and colour pattern. It differs from the latter by the concave frons, broader eyes, longer antennae, narrower pronotal bead and aedeagus shape.
 Etymology: The specific epithet refers to the peculiar pronotal colouration.
 Natural history: Collected beating shrubs and trees on the edge of a small wood.
description: Published as part of Constantin, Robert, 2020, A contribution to the genera Plectonotum Gorham and Hyponotum Wittmer, with the description of sixteen new species from Peru (Coleoptera, Cantharidae), pp. 1-27 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (Pap. Avulsos Zool., S. Paulo) (Pap. Avulsos Zool., S. Paulo) 60 (34) on page 17, DOI: 10.11606/1807-0205/2020.60.special-issue.34, http://zenodo.org/record/4637615
Additional file 2 of Identification of asymptomatic Leishmania infections: a scoping review
Creators: name: Ibarra-Meneses, Ana Victoria
name: Corbeil, Audrey
name: Wagner, Victoria
name: Onwuchekwa, Chukwuemeka
name: Fernandez-Prada, Christopher
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Search syntax for PubMed.
Site-testing at Muztagh-ata site I: Ground Meteorology and Sky Brightness
Creators: name: Xu, Jing
name: Esamdin, Ali
name: Hao, Jin-xin
name: Bai, Jin-min
name: Yang, Ji
name: Zhou, Xu
name: Yao, Yong-qiang
name: Hou, Jin-liang
name: Pu, Guang-xin
name: Feng, Guo-jie
name: Bai, Chun-hai
name: Wei, Peng
name: Ma, Shu-guo
name: Yisikandee, Abudusaimaitijiang
name: Wang, Le-tian
name: Zhang, Xuan
name: Ming, Liang
name: Ma, Lu
name: Liu, Jin-zhong
name: Cao, Zi-huang
name: Zhao, Yong-heng
name: Feng, Lu
name: Shi, Jian-rong
name: Chen, Hua-lin
name: Pei, Chong
name: Jiang, Xiao-jun
name: Wang, Jian-feng
name: Tian, Jian-feng
name: Xue, Yan-jie
name: Hu, Jing-yao
name: Jiang, Yun-ying
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Site-testing is crucial for achieving the goal of scientific research and analysis of meteorological and optical observing conditions is one of the basic tasks of it. As one of three potential sites to host 12-meter Large Optical/infrared Telescope (LOT), Muztagh-ata site which is located on the Pamirs Plateau in west China's Xinjiang began its site-testing task in the spring of 2017. In this paper, we firstly start with an introduction to the site and then present a statistical analysis of the ground-level meteorological properties such as air temperature, barometric pressure, relative humidity, wind speed and direction, recorded by automatic weather station with standard meteorological sensors for two-year long. We also show the monitoring results of sky brightness during this period.
description: 16 pages, 19 figures
Plectonotum inca Wittmer 1988
Creators: name: Constantin, Robert
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cantharidae
Plectonotum
Plectonotum inca

description: Plectonotum inca Wittmer, 1988
 (Figs. 11, 31, 67-68, 103, 119)
 Plectonotum inca Wittmer, 1988: 330-331.
 Type material: Holotype ♂ (NHMB): Peru: Cuzco: “ Peru, Machu Picchu, 2,000-2,400 m, 15.XII.1985, [leg.] W. Wittmer ”. Paratypes: 17 specimens ♂ and ♀ same data as holotype (NHMB).
Illustration of habitus and male genitalia are given for comparison.
description: Published as part of Constantin, Robert, 2020, A contribution to the genera Plectonotum Gorham and Hyponotum Wittmer, with the description of sixteen new species from Peru (Coleoptera, Cantharidae), pp. 1-27 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (Pap. Avulsos Zool., S. Paulo) (Pap. Avulsos Zool., S. Paulo) 60 (34) on page 22, DOI: 10.11606/1807-0205/2020.60.special-issue.34, http://zenodo.org/record/4637615
Additional file 1 of Safety of dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine versus artemether-lumefantrine for the treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria among children in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized control trials
Creators: name: Assefa, Dawit Getachew
name: Zeleke, Eden Dagnachew
name: Molla, Wondwosen
name: Mengistu, Nebiyu
name: Sefa, Ahmedin
name: Mebratu, Andualem
name: Bate, Asresu Feleke
name: Bekele, Etaferaw
name: Yesmaw, Gizachew
name: Makonnen, Eyasu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Detailed search strategy.
Practical Planet Prospecting
Creators: name: Aigrain, S.
name: Irwin, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: (Abridged) Space missions to search for exo-planets via the transit method, such as COROT, Eddington and Kepler, will need to address problems associated with the automated and efficient detection of planetary transits in light curves affected by a variety of noise sources, including stellar variabilility. Starting from a general purpose maximum likelihood approach we discuss the links between a variety of period and transit finding methods. The natural endpoint of this hierarchy of methods is shown to be a fast, robust and statistically efficient least-squares algorithm based on box-shaped transits. This approach is predicated on the assumption of periodic transits hidden in random noise, usually assumed to be superposed on a flat continuum with regular continuous sampling. We next show how to generalise the transit finding method to the more realistic scenario where complex stellar (micro) variability, irregular sampling and long gaps in the data are all present. Tests of this methodology on simulated Eddington light curves including realistic stellar micro-variability, irregular sampling and data gaps, are used to quantify the performance. In the case where transit durations are short compared to the dominant timescales for stellar variability and data record segments, it is possible to decouple the transit signal from the remainder. We conclude that even with realistic contamination from stellar variability, irregular sampling, and gaps in the data record, it is still possible to detect transiting planets with an efficiency close to the idealised theoretical bound. In particular, space missions have the potential to approach the regime of detecting earth-like planets around G2V-type stars.
description: 16 pages, 15 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Rapid molecular detection of macrolide resistance
Creators: name: Nelson, Megan M.
name: Waldron, Christopher L.
name: Bracht, John
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Background: Emerging antimicrobial resistance is a significant threat to human health. However, methods for rapidly diagnosing antimicrobial resistance generally require multi-day culture-based assays. Macrolide efflux gene A, mef(A), provides resistance against erythromycin and azithromycin and is known to be laterally transferred among a wide range of bacterial species. Methods: We use Recombinase Polymerase Assay (RPA) to detect the antimicrobial resistance gene mef(A) from raw lysates without nucleic acid purification. To validate these results we performed broth dilution assays to assess antimicrobial resistance to erythromycin and ampicillin (a negative control). Results: We validate the detection of mef(A) in raw lysates of Streptococcus pyogenes, S. pneumoniae, S. salivarius, and Enterococcus faecium bacterial lysates within 7–10 min of assay time. We show that detection of mef(A) accurately predicts real antimicrobial resistance assessed by traditional culture methods, and that the assay is robust to high levels of spiked-in non-specific nucleic acid contaminant. The assay was unaffected by single-nucleotide polymorphisms within divergent mef(A) gene sequences, strengthening its utility as a robust diagnostic tool. Conclusions: This finding opens the door to implementation of rapid genomic diagnostics in a clinical setting, while providing researchers a rapid, cost-effective tool to track antibiotic resistance in both pathogens and commensal strains.
Rapid molecular detection of macrolide resistance
Creators: name: Nelson, Megan M.
name: Waldron, Christopher L.
name: Bracht, John
Publisher: name: BMC Infectious Diseases
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences

description: Background: Emerging antimicrobial resistance is a significant threat to human health. However, methods for rapidly diagnosing antimicrobial resistance generally require multi-day culture-based assays. Macrolide efflux gene A, mef(A), provides resistance against erythromycin and azithromycin and is known to be laterally transferred among a wide range of bacterial species. Methods: We use Recombinase Polymerase Assay (RPA) to detect the antimicrobial resistance gene mef(A) from raw lysates without nucleic acid purification. To validate these results we performed broth dilution assays to assess antimicrobial resistance to erythromycin and ampicillin (a negative control). Results: We validate the detection of mef(A) in raw lysates of Streptococcus pyogenes, S. pneumoniae, S. salivarius, and Enterococcus faecium bacterial lysates within 7–10 min of assay time. We show that detection of mef(A) accurately predicts real antimicrobial resistance assessed by traditional culture methods, and that the assay is robust to high levels of spiked-in non-specific nucleic acid contaminant. The assay was unaffected by single-nucleotide polymorphisms within divergent mef(A) gene sequences, strengthening its utility as a robust diagnostic tool. Conclusions: This finding opens the door to implementation of rapid genomic diagnostics in a clinical setting, while providing researchers a rapid, cost-effective tool to track antibiotic resistance in both pathogens and commensal strains.
Deterministic Sampling and Range Counting in Geometric Data Streams
Creators: name: Bagchi, Amitabha
name: Chaudhary, Amitabh
name: Eppstein, David
name: Goodrich, Michael T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: F.2.2

description: We present memory-efficient deterministic algorithms for constructing epsilon-nets and epsilon-approximations of streams of geometric data. Unlike probabilistic approaches, these deterministic samples provide guaranteed bounds on their approximation factors. We show how our deterministic samples can be used to answer approximate online iceberg geometric queries on data streams. We use these techniques to approximate several robust statistics of geometric data streams, including Tukey depth, simplicial depth, regression depth, the Thiel-Sen estimator, and the least median of squares. Our algorithms use only a polylogarithmic amount of memory, provided the desired approximation factors are inverse-polylogarithmic. We also include a lower bound for non-iceberg geometric queries.
description: 12 pages, 1 figure
Additional file 2 of Safety of dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine versus artemether-lumefantrine for the treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria among children in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized control trials
Creators: name: Assefa, Dawit Getachew
name: Zeleke, Eden Dagnachew
name: Molla, Wondwosen
name: Mengistu, Nebiyu
name: Sefa, Ahmedin
name: Mebratu, Andualem
name: Bate, Asresu Feleke
name: Bekele, Etaferaw
name: Yesmaw, Gizachew
name: Makonnen, Eyasu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Characteristics of excluded studies.
Low-temperature asymptotic of the transverse dynamical structure factor for a magnetically polarized XX chain
Creators: name: Bibikov, P. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dyson equation for the real two-time commutator retarded one-magnon Green function of the ferromagnetically polarized XX chain is suggested following the Plakida-Tserkovnikov algorithm. Starting from this result a low-temperature integral representation for the corresponding magnon self energy is obtained by the truncated form factor expansion however without any resummations. Within the suggested approach the low-temperature asymptotics of the transverse dynamical structure factor may be readily studied. Some obtained line shapes are presented.
description: 32 pages, 6 figures
The Radio Continuum of the Metal-Deficient Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxy SBS0335-052
Creators: name: Hunt, Leslie K.
name: Dyer, Kristy K.
name: Thuan, Trinh X.
name: Ulvestad, James S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new Very Large Array observations at five frequencies, from 1.4 to 22GHz, of the extremely low-metallicity blue compact dwarf SBS0335-052. The radio spectrum shows considerable absorption at 1.49GHz, and a composite thermal+non-thermal slope. After fitting the data with a variety of models, we find the best-fitting geometry to be one with free-free absorption homogeneously intermixed with the emission of both thermal and non-thermal components. The best-fitting model gives an an emission measure EM ~ 8x10^7pc cm^{-6} and a diameter of the radio-emitting region D ~17pc. The inferred density is n_e ~ 2000 cm^{-3}. The thermal emission comes from an ensemble of \~9000 O7 stars, with a massive star-formation rate (>=5Msun) of 0.13-0.15 yr^{-1}, and a supernova rate of 0.006 yr^{-1}. We find evidence for ionized gas emission from stellar winds, since the observed Bralpha line flux significantly exceeds that inferred from the thermal radio emission. The non-thermal fraction at 5GHz is ~0.7, corresponding to a non-thermal luminosity of ~2x10^{20} W Hz^{-1}. We attribute the non-thermal radio emission to an ensemble of compact SN remnants expanding in a dense interstellar medium, and derive an equipartition magnetic field of ~0.6-1 mG, and a pressure of \~3x10^{-8}-1x10^{-7} dyne cm^{-2}. If the radio properties of SBS0335-052 are representative of star formation in extremely low-metallicity environments, derivations of the star formation rate from the radio continuum in high redshift primordial galaxies need to be reconsidered. Moreover, photometric redshifts inferred from ``standard'' spectral energy distributions could be incorrect.
description: 25 pages, including 3 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Masses of tetraquark states in the hidden charm sector above $D-D^*$ threshold
Creators: name: Bhavsar, Tanvi
name: Shah, Manan
name: Patel, Smruti
name: Vinodkumar, P. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the diquark-diantiquark composition, we study the masses of hidden charm tetraquark systems ($cq\bar{c}\bar{q}$, $cs\bar{c}\bar{s}$ and $cs\bar{c}\bar{q}$) using a linear confinement potential. In this study, we have factorized the four body system into three subsequent two body systems. To remove degeneracy in the S and P wave masses of mesons and tetraquark states, the spin-spin, spin orbit and tensor components of the confined one gluon exchange interactions are employed. In this attempt, we have been able to assign the $ψ(4230)$ as pure $cq\bar{c}\bar{q}$ tetraquark state. $ψ(4360)$ and $ψ(4390)$ as pure $cs\bar{c}\bar{q}$ tetraquark states. According to our analysis $ψ(4260)$ is an admixture of $^1P_1$ and $^5P_1$ $cq\bar{c}\bar{q}$ tetraquark state. Additionally, we have been able to predict the radiative decay width $Γ_{(ψ\rightarrow J/ψγ)}$, leptonic decay width $Γ_{e^+e^-}$ and hadronic decays of $1^{--}$ tetraquark stat
description: 11 pages
title: Quorum Sensing and Plant-Induced Gene Expression in the Novel Group of Plant Beneficial and Environmental Burkholderia
Creators: name: Coutinho, Bruna Gonçalves
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2014

description: The genus Burkholderia is composed of functionally diverse species and it can be divided into several groups. One of these, designated as the plant-beneficial-environmental (PBE) Burkholderia group, is formed by non-pathogenic species, which in most cases have been found to be associated with plants. It was previously established that members of the PBE group share an N-acyl-homoserine lactone (AHL) quorum-sensing (QS) system designated Bral/R that produces and responds to 3-oxo-C14-HSL (OC14-HSL). In the present study, we further studied the Bral/R system in several members of the PBE group determining the AHL production profile as well its regulons. Major results include that different levels of AHLs are produced by different species and that the regulon is species specific. The biosynthesis of exopolysaccharide was the only common phenotype found to be regulated by Bral/R in several species of the PBE cluster. In addition, Bral/R was shown not to be important for plant nodulation by B. phymatum spp. nor for endophytic colonization and growth promotion of maize by B. phytofirmans PsJN. Moreover, the genome of the rice endophyte B. kururiensis M130 was sequenced and analysed in order to detect potential loci involved in its endophytic lifestyle and plant growth promotion. Two experimental approaches (plate screening of a transposon-promoter probe library and RNAseq) were then performed in order to identify loci that were regulated in response to plant macerate. The results indicated that B. kururiensis undergoes major regulatory changes affecting the expression of 27.7% of its protein coding genes. Interestingly, a great number of differentially expressed genes encode membrane transporters and secretion systems, which indicates that the exchange of molecules is an important aspect in planta. In addition, genes related to mobility, chemotaxis and adhesion were also over-represented suggesting recognition and an intimate interaction between bacteria and plant. This work highlights the close signalling taking place between plants and bacteria and helps us to understand the adaptation of an endophyte in planta.
Alternative Approach to $B^- \to η^{\prime} K^-$ Branching Ratio Calculation
Creators: name: Dariescu, Marina-Aura
name: Dariescu, Ciprian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Since the calculation of $BR(B^- \to η^{\prime} K^-)$ in the framework of QCD improved factorization method, developed by Beneke et al., leads to numerical values much below the experimental data, we include two different contributions, in an alternative way. First, we find out that the spectator hard-scattering mechanism increases the $BR$ value with almost 50%, but the predictions depend on the combined singularities in the amplitude convolution. Secondly, by adding SUSY contributions to the Wilson coefficients, we come to a $BR$ depending on three parameters, whose values are constrained by the experimental data.
description: 17 pages, 2 Postscript figures
COSTOS DE PRODUCCIÓN Y RENTABILIDAD DE LA CAÑA DE AZUCAR PARA FRUTA (Saccharum officinarum) EN UNA REGIÓN DEL ESTADO DE MÉXICO
PRODUCTION COST AND SUGAR CANE FRUIT PROFITABILITY (Saccharum officinarum) IN A REGION OF STATE OF MEXICO
Creators: name: Rebollar, Samuel Rebollar
name:  Aristóteles Cervantes Álvarez
name: Puebla, Bartolo Jaramillo
name: Jiménez, Daniel Cardoso
name: Rebollar, Alfredo Rebollar
name: Rebollar, Samuel Rebollar
name:  Aristóteles Cervantes Álvarez
name: Puebla, Bartolo Jaramillo
name: Jiménez, Daniel Cardoso
name: Rebollar, Alfredo Rebollar
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: sugar cane fruit
subject: costs
subject: point of equilibrium
subject: profitability

description: With the objective of determining costs and total income and profitability in the production of sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum) for fruit, research was carried out in the southern region of the State of Mexico during 2015. The methodology used was cost, revenue and profit at the private level, in current terms (without inflation); which the producer disbursed in a quantifiable way in the crop. The field information came from the direct application of a semi-structured survey to 34 producers, by means of sampling for finite populations, with emphasis on economic-technical variables. The results showed that, with and without indebtedness, total cost of production and the gain by hectare cultivated, benefit/cost ratio and point of equilibrium, was $80,487, $41,567.0, 1.5 and 20.7 tons; $87,287, $34767, 1.4 and 34.7 tons; for a production process that starts in November of a year and is harvested in November to December of the following year. It is concluded that the system is profitable, but is sensitive to the purchase price for a greater participation of producers in the sales process.
description: ISNN-1405-9282
Climate Variability and Agricultural Loan Delinquency in the US
Creators: name: Nadolnyak, Denis
name: Hartarska, Valentina
name: Shen, Xuan
name: Nadolnyak, Denis
name: Hartarska, Valentina
name: Shen, Xuan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: loan delinquency and default
subject: farm credit system
subject: climate variability and climate change
subject: ENSO
subject: farm debt
subject: Southeastern USA

description: Inter-annual climate variability in the Southeastern US that affects farm productivity and cash flows is largely dependent on the predictable El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon. In this paper, we estimate the association between the ENSO anomalies and the performance of agricultural loan portfolios of the Farm Credit System (FCS) institutions - the largest agricultural lender in this region. We find that, compared to neutral years, the share of delinquent loans in the FCS portfolio decreases by 1.5 to 2 percentage points following La Nina years and increases by 1.5 to 2 percentage points following El Nino years. These delinquencies are generally resolved because the impact on loan write-offs is much smaller, although statistically significant which suggests that the FCS institutions have well-diversified portfolios. The results also suggest that agricultural insurance markets are complementary to credit markets, that land values at loan origination have a positive impact on delinquencies, and that loan write-offs decrease with the lender’s size.
description: IN: International Journal of Economics and Finance, 8(12), 238-249. doi:10.5539/ijef.v8n12p238.
Factors Affecting Farm Loan Delinquency in the Southeast
Creators: name: Quaye, Frederick Murdoch
name: Nadolnyak, Denis
name: Hartarska, Valentina
name: Quaye, Frederick Murdoch
name: Nadolnyak, Denis
name: Hartarska, Valentina
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Farm Management
subject: Farm Credit
subject: Credit Delinquency
subject: Climate
subject: Agricultural Insurance
subject: Southeast US

description: This study examines the factors and behaviors that affect Southeast US farmers’ ability to meet their loan repayment obligations within the stipulated loan term. The study uses a 10-year (2003-2012) pooled cross-sectional data from the USDA ARMS survey data (Phase III). A probit approach is used to regress delinquency against various borrower-specific, loan-specific, lender-specific, macroeconomic and climatic variables for the first part. The results show that farmers with larger farms, farmers with insurance, farmers with higher net income, farmers with smaller debt to asset ratio, farmers with single loans and those that take majority of their loans from sources apart from commercial banks are those that are less likely to be delinquent. Temperature and precipitation also affect outcomes, but by minute magnitudes.
description: IN: Research in Applied Economics, 9(4), 75-92. doi:10.5296/rae.v9i4.12165.
Pea and Lentil Market Analysis
Creators: name: Lakkakula, Prithviraj
name: Olson, Frayne
name: Ripplinger, David
name: Lakkakula, Prithviraj
name: Olson, Frayne
name: Ripplinger, David
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: FINAL RESEARCH REPORT SUBMITTED TO NORTH DAKOTA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE SPECIALTY CROP BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM
"Grown in Your Backyard": Linking Bernoulli’s Bagels to the UBC Farm in an Effort to Localize the Food System
Creators: name: Brighton, Cara
name: Doyle-Yamaguchi, Emily
name: Enns, Kaitlin
name: Kelly, Spencer
name: Millman, Roanne
name: Stevenson, Whitney
name: Willis, Julie
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Additional file 3 of Safety of dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine versus artemether-lumefantrine for the treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria among children in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized control trials
Creators: name: Assefa, Dawit Getachew
name: Zeleke, Eden Dagnachew
name: Molla, Wondwosen
name: Mengistu, Nebiyu
name: Sefa, Ahmedin
name: Mebratu, Andualem
name: Bate, Asresu Feleke
name: Bekele, Etaferaw
name: Yesmaw, Gizachew
name: Makonnen, Eyasu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3. Funnel plot of comparison: dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine versus artemether-lumefantrine for treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria among African children, outcome: Gastrointestinal adverse events (early vomiting).
Discrete charges on a two dimensional conductor
Creators: name: Berkenbusch, Marko Kleine
name: Claus, Isabelle
name: Dunn, Catherine
name: Kadanoff, Leo P.
name: Nicewicz, Maciej
name: Venkataramani, Shankar C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the electrostatic equilibria of N discrete charges of size 1/N on a two dimensional conductor (domain). We study the distribution of the charges on symmetric domains including the ellipse, the hypotrochoid and various regular polygons, with an emphasis on understanding the distributions of the charges, as the shape of the underlying conductor becomes singular. We find that there are two regimes of behavior, a symmetric regime for smooth conductors, and a symmetry broken regime for ``singular'' domains. For smooth conductors, the locations of the charges can be determined up to a certain order by an integral equation due to Pommerenke (1969). We present a derivation of a related (but different) integral equation, which has the same solutions. We also solve the equation to obtain (asymptotic) solutions which show universal behavior in the distribution of the charges in conductors with somewhat smooth cusps. Conductors with sharp cusps and singularities show qualitatively different behavior, where the symmetry of the problem is broken, and the distribution of the discrete charges does not respect the symmetry of the underlying domain. We investigate the symmetry breaking both theoretically, and numerically, and find good agreement between our theory and the numerics. We also find that the universality in the distribution of the charges near the cusps persists in the symmetry broken regime, although this distribution is very different from the one given by the integral equation.
description: 46 pages, 46 figures, submitted to J. Stat. Phys
title: Smooth Risk Functions for Self-Controlled Case Series Models
Creators: name: Weldeselassie, Yonas Ghebremichael
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2014

description: The self-controlled case series (SCCS) method is commonly used to investigate associations between vaccine exposures and adverse events (side effects). It is an alternative to cohort and case control study designs. It requires information only on cases, individuals who have experienced the adverse event at least once, and automatically controls all fixed confounders that could modify the true association between exposure and adverse event. However, time-varying confounders (age, season) are not automatically controlled. The SCCS method has parametric and semi-parametric versions in terms of controlling the age effect. The parametric method uses piecewise constant functions with a priori chosen age groups and the semi-parametric method leaves the age effect unspecified. Mis-specification of age groups in the parametric version may lead to biased estimates of the exposure effect, and the semi-parametric approach runs into computational problems when the sample size is moderately large. Moreover, both versions of SCCS represent the time-varying exposures using step functions with pre-determined cut-points. A less prescriptive approach may be beneficial when the shape of the relative risk function associated with exposure is not known a priori, especially when exposure effects can be long-lasting. This thesis focuses on extending the SCCS method to avoid the aforementioned limitations by modelling the age and exposure effects using flexible smooth functions. Specifically, we used penalised regression splines based on cubic M-splines, which are piecewise polynomials of degree 3. We developed three new extensions: a method that represents only the age effect with splines, a method that uses splines to model only the exposure effect and a non-parametric SCCS method that represents both effects by splines. Simulation studies showed that these new methods outperformed the parametric and semi-parametric methods. The new methods are illustrated using large data sets. Review of SCCS vaccine studies and directions on how to use the method are also given.
Defect order in active nematics on a curved surface
Creators: name: Pearce, D. J. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the effects of extrinsic curvature on the turbulent behavior of a 2D active nematic confined to the surface of a cylinder. The surface of a cylinder has no intrinsic curvatrue and only extrinsic curvature. A nematic field reacts to the extrinsic curvature by trying to align with the lowest principle curvature, in this case parallel to the long axis of the cylinder. When nematics are sufficiently active, there is a proliferation of defects arising from a bend or splay instability depending on the nature of the active stress. The extrinsic curvature of the cylinder beaks the rotational symmetry of this process, implying that defects are created parallel or perpendicular to the cylinder depending on whether the active nematic is contractile or extensile.
description: 6 pages, 7 Figures
The Quark Structure of Pentaquarks
Creators: name: Jahn, O.
name: Negele, J. W.
name: Sigaev, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by the possible observation of the $Θ^+(1530)$, we study the quark structure of pentaquark states in quenched lattice QCD. The complete set of 19 local sources that have the proper symmetry for positive or negative parity isoscalar pentaquarks is constructed, as well as a nonlocal source composed of two displaced ``good'' diquarks. Quantitative structure information is determined from diagonalizing the 19-dimensional correlation matrix and from calculating the overlaps of sources with the lattice eigenstates. The volume dependence of the overlap is studied to differentiate between scattering and localized resonant states. The positive parity state has a small component of two ``good'' diquarks, and its energy is too much higher than the negative parity state to be a candidate for the $Θ^+(1530)$.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures Lattice 2005: Hadron Spectrum and Quark Masses
Additional file 4 of Safety of dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine versus artemether-lumefantrine for the treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria among children in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized control trials
Creators: name: Assefa, Dawit Getachew
name: Zeleke, Eden Dagnachew
name: Molla, Wondwosen
name: Mengistu, Nebiyu
name: Sefa, Ahmedin
name: Mebratu, Andualem
name: Bate, Asresu Feleke
name: Bekele, Etaferaw
name: Yesmaw, Gizachew
name: Makonnen, Eyasu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4. Funnel plot of comparison: dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine versus artemether-lumefantrine for treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria among African children, outcome: Gastrointestinal adverse events (diarrhoea).