cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Mechanisms of immune response regulation by innate defense regulator peptides
Creators: name: Madera, Laurence
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: The growing threat of antibiotic-resistant bacteria necessitates the development of new anti-infective therapeutics. Innate defense regulator (IDR) peptides are a novel class of immunomodulatory agents shown to combat bacterial pathogens in murine models of infection via the augmentation of host immune functions, including the stimulation of chemokine production and enhancement of leukocyte recruitment, while suppressing bacterial-induced inflammation. Although IDR-peptides present the potential for future broad-range anti-infective agents, our limited understanding of how they modulate host immunity remains an obstacle in their development as clinical therapeutics. I hypothesized that IDR-peptides impact host immunity by modulating the immune responses of monocytes, a cell population necessary for IDR-mediated protection against infection. In this study, IDR-1002 was found to be a multi-faceted regulator of monocyte migration. IDR-1002 induced the production of monocyte-specific chemokines MCP-1 and MCP-3, as well as neutrophil-specific chemokines, IL-8 and GRO-α in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs), correlating with the activation of the mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPK), p38 and extracellular-regulated kinase (ERK)-1/2, in monocytes. IDR-1002 was also found to enhance human monocyte migration towards chemokines through the enhancement of β1-integrin-mediated adhesion to fibronectin via regulation of the phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase (PI3K)-Akt signalling pathway. In addition, IDR-1002 increased monocyte responsiveness to the chemokines MIP-1α and RANTES via modulation of CCR5 expression. These results demonstrate an overall promotion of monocyte motility by IDR-1002. In contrast to the immune-strengthening effects of IDR-1002, the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines in human PBMCs stimulated with bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) was suppressed by the peptide, and correlated with a suppression of LPS-induced NFκB and p38 MAPK signalling and activation of PI3K-Akt signalling in monocytes. These results demonstrate that IDR-peptides are potent modulators of human monocyte function via their extensive regulation of monocyte signalling networks, potentially accounting for their multifunctional effects on host immunity in murine models of bacterial infection.
Catechol-O-Methyltransferase moderates effect of stress mindset on affect and cognition
Creators: name: Crum, Alia J.
name: Akinola, Modupe
name: Turnwald, Bradley P.
name: Kaptchuk, Ted J.
name: Hall, Kathryn T.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Stress (Psychology)
Cognition
Catecholamines--Metabolism
Methyltransferases

description: There is evidence that altering stress mindset—the belief that stress is enhancing vs. debilitating—can change cognitive, affective and physiological responses to stress. However individual differences in responsiveness to stress mindset manipulations have not been explored. Given the previously established role of catecholamines in both placebo effects and stress, we hypothesized that genetic variation in catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT), an enzyme that metabolizes catecholamines, would moderate responses to an intervention intended to alter participants’ mindsets about stress. Participants (N = 107) were exposed to a stress mindset manipulation (videos highlighting either the enhancing or debilitating effects of stress) prior to engaging in a Trier Social Stress task and subsequent cognitive tasks. The associations of the COMT rs4680 polymorphism with the effect of stress mindset video manipulations on cognitive and affective responses were examined. Genetic variation at rs4680 modified the effects of stress mindset on affective and cognitive responses to stress. Individuals homozygous for rs4680 low-activity allele (met/met) were responsive to the stress-is-enhancing mindset manipulation as indicated by greater increases in positive affect, improved cognitive functioning, and happiness bias in response to stress. Conversely, individuals homozygous for the high-activity allele (val/val) were not as responsive to the stress mindset manipulation. These results suggest that responses to stress mindset intervention may vary with COMT genotype. These findings contribute to the understanding of gene by environment interactions for mindset interventions and stress reactivity and therefore warrant further investigations.
title: The Baltic Sea fisheries management with reversal of the burden of proof
Creators: name: Aps, R.
name: Lassen, H.
Publisher: name: ASC 2010 - Theme session P
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Technologies and data

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Integrated Maritime Policy for the European Union (IMP) considers the Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) as a fundamental tool for the sustainable development of marine areas and coastal regions, and for the restoration of Europe‟s seas to environmental health. Governance of marine spaces aims to provide a mechanism for a strategic and integrated plan-based approach for marine management that makes it possible to manage current and potentially conflicting uses. Schematic presentation of coupled economic and ecological system is used to support the discussion on the fisheries system and the economic and biological objectives involved. It is believed that introducing the principles of EU IMP and of the MSP as a key instrument for the IMP implementation, the Fishery Property Rights (e.g. ITQ system), the MSC‟s Principles and Criteria into the Baltic Sea fisheries management would contribute to the actual removal of excess fishing capacity in the Baltic Sea Region. It is suggested that the reversal of burden of proof could be technically performed based on the legal procedure of the Environmental Impact Assessment that gives the fishing industry the opportunity to demonstrate that it operates responsibly in return for access to fishing.
Distinguishing between HII regions and planetary nebulae with Hi-GAL, WISE, MIPSGAL, and GLIMPSE
Creators: name: Anderson, Loren D.
name: Zavagno, A.
name: Barlow, M. J.
name: Garcia-Lario, P.
name: Noriega-Crespo, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: HII regions and planetary nebulae (PNe) both emit at radio and infrared (IR) wavelengths, and angularly small HII regions can be mistaken for PNe. This problem of classification is most severe for HII regions in an early evolutionary stage, those that are extremely distant, or those that are both young and distant. Using data from the Herschel Hi-GAL survey, as well as WISE and the Spitzer MIPSGAL and GLIMPSE surveys, we wish to establish characteristic IR colors that can be used to distinguish between HII regions and PNe. We perform aperture photometry measurements for a sample of 126 HII regions and 43 PNe at wavelengths from 8.0 micron to 500 micron. We find that HII regions and PNe have distinct IR colors. The most robust discriminating color criteria are [F12/F8] < 0.3, [F160/F12] > 1.3, and [F160/F24] > 0.8 (or alternately [F160/F22] > 0.8), where the brackets indicate the log of the flux ratio. All three of these criteria are individually satisfied by over 98% of our sample of HII regions and by about 10% of our sample of PNe. Combinations of these colors are more robust in separating the two populations; for example all HII regions and no PNe satisfy [F12/F8] < 0.4 and [F160/F22] > 0.8. When applied to objects of unknown classification, these criteria prove useful in separating the two populations. The dispersion in color is relatively small for HII regions; this suggests that any evolution in these colors with time for HII regions must be relatively modest. The spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of HII regions can be separated into "warm" and "cold" components. The "cold" component is well-fit by a grey-body of temperature 25K. The SEDs of nearly two-thirds of our sample of HII regions peak at 160 micron and one third peak at 70 micron. For PNe, 67% of the SEDs peak at 70 micron, 23% peak at either 22 micron or 24 micron, and 9% (two sources) peak at 160 micron.
description: Fixed typos, updated figures 1 and 2
Patient-important outcomes in systematic reviews: Poor quality of evidence
Creators: name: Yordanov, Youri
name: Dechartres, Agnes
name: Ravaud, Philippe
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Epidemiology
Outcome assessment (Medical care)
Medicine
Systematic reviews (Medical research)

description: Background
Cochrane reviewers are strongly encouraged to evaluate the quality of evidence for the most important outcomes by using the GRADE approach and to report these results in a Summary of Findings (SoF) table. We aimed to assess whether outcomes reported in the SoF table of Cochrane reviews could be considered patient-important outcomes (PIOs) and the quality of the available evidence for these outcomes.

Methods
We performed a methodological review of Cochrane reviews published between March 2011 and September 2014. For a random sample of Cochrane reviews reporting a SoF table, we extracted all outcomes reported in this table and evaluated whether they could be considered PIOs (i.e., mortality, other clinical events, adverse events, function, pain, quality of life and therapeutic decisions). Then, we collected the quality of evidence for every outcome in these SoF tables.

Results
We included 290 reviews issued by 47 of the 53 Cochrane Review Groups. Every SoF table included a median of 5 outcomes, for a total of 1414 outcomes; 1089 (77%) could be considered PIOs. Almost all reviews (n = 278, 96%) included at least one PIO in their SoF table. The quality of evidence for the outcomes was high for 12% (n = 168), moderate for 28% (n = 402) and low or very low for 45% (n = 640). Less than one quarter of reviews (n = 63) included at least one PIO with high-quality evidence that favoured a benefit of the experimental intervention evaluated in half of them (n = 34 reviews).

Conclusions
Many outcomes reported in the SoF table of recent Cochrane reviews can be considered PIOs. However, the quality of available evidence remains limited for these outcomes.
Circumstellar disks in binary star systems
Creators: name: Müller, Tobias W. A.
name: Kley, Wilhelm
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we study the evolution of viscous and radiative circumstellar disks under the influence of a companion star. We focus on the eccentric γ Cephei and α Centauri system as examples and compare the disk quantities such as disk eccentricity and precession rate to previous isothermal simulations. We perform two-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations of the binary star systems under the assumption of coplanarity of the disk, host star and binary companion. We use the grid-based, staggered mesh code FARGO with an additional energy equation to which we added radiative cooling based on opacity tables. The eccentric binary companion perturbs the disk around the primary star periodically. Upon passing periastron spirals arms are induced that wind from the outer disk towards the star. In isothermal simulations this results in disk eccentricities up to ε_disk ~ 0.2, but in more realistic radiative models we obtain much smaller eccentricities of about ε_disk ~ 0.04 - 0.06 with no real precession. Models with varying viscosity and disk mass indicate show that disks with less mass have lower temperatures and higher disk eccentricity. The rather large high disk eccentricities, as indicated in previous isothermal disk simulations, implied a more difficult planet formation in the γ Cephei system due to the enhanced collision velocities of planetesimals. We have shown that under more realistic conditions with radiative cooling the disk become less eccentric and thus planet formation may be made easier. However, we estimate that the viscosity in the disk has to very small, with α \lesssim 0.001, because otherwise the disk's lifetime will be too short to allow planet formation to occur along the core instability scenario. We estimate that the periodic heating of the disk in eccentric binaries will be observable in the mid-IR regime.
description: 12 pages, 15 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
DPLA Exchange and SimplyE, an open platform for e-content services
Creators: name: Kimpton, Michele
name: English, James
name: Millman, David
name: Cartolano, Robert T.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Electronic books
Libraries
Public domain
Digital libraries

description: This presentation describes a pilot program spearheaded by the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) to test a new model for a library-owned and library-centered ebook marketplace for popular ebooks, together with free public domain and openly-licensed ebooks. The goal of the program is to demonstrate how DPLA can help libraries maximize access to ebooks for their patrons. For the pilot, DPLA sought out a mix of library types including a state library, a consortium, and both a large public library and one serving smaller and rural populations. The diverse group of pilot libraries are: Alameda County Library (CA); Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (PA); Connecticut State Library (CT); Califa Library Group (CA, KS); St. Mary’s County Library (MD) and Yavapai Library Network (AZ).
The frequency-dependent Wright-Fisher model: diffusive and non-diffusive approximations
Creators: name: Chalub, Fabio A. C. C.
name: Souza, Max O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 92D15, 92D25, 35K57, 35K67, 35L65

description: We study a class of processes that are akin to the Wright-Fisher model, with transition probabilities weighted in terms of the frequency-dependent fitness of the population types. By considering an approximate weak formulation of the discrete problem, we are able to derive a corresponding continuous weak formulation for the probability density. Therefore, we obtain a family of partial differential equations (PDE) for the evolution of the probability density, and which will be an approximation of the discrete process in the joint large population, small time-steps and weak selection limit. If the fitness functions are sufficiently regular, we can recast the weak formulation in a more standard formulation, without any boundary conditions, but supplemented by a number of conservation laws. The equations in this family can be purely diffusive, purely hyperbolic or of convection-diffusion type, with frequency dependent convection. The particular outcome will depend on the assumed scalings. The diffusive equations are of the degenerate type; using a duality approach, we also obtain a frequency dependent version of the Kimura equation without any further assumptions. We also show that the convective approximation is related to the replicator dynamics and provide some estimate of how accurate is the convective approximation, with respect to the convective-diffusion approximation. In particular, we show that the mode, but not the expected value, of the probability distribution is modelled by the replicator dynamics. Some numerical simulations that illustrate the results are also presented.
title: Reversing the burden of proof in fisheries management in the context of an integrated ecosystem approach
Creators: name: Fitzpatrick, M.
name: Graham, N.
name: Rihan, D.J.
name: Reid, D.G.
name: Sutton, G.
name: MacMullen, P.
Publisher: name: ASC 2010 - Theme session P
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Technologies and data

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.The implementation of an ecosystem-based approach to the management of marine resources will create additional layers of uncertainty and complexity which may be incompatible with current management approaches. Shifting to a results-based management approach while also derogating greater responsibility in decisionmaking will require a reversal of the burden of proof. Since an ecosystem approach implicitly requires integration across sectors and areas, it follows that sectorally and spatially integrated approaches to reversing the burden of proof will also be required. This paper explores how reversing the burden of proof has been approached in some fisheries globally and also in the management and regulation of another marine resource sector - aggregate extraction. Comparisons are made to the current approach in European fisheries which operate under a system where the burden of proof rests largely with government institutions. Through examples, we show how multi-sector and societal demands can result in marine use conflict and increasingly how there is a burden of proof requirement to provide information which demonstrates the legitimacy of an activity. We explore how some sectors of the fishing industry have responded and how the provision of higher resolution data has provided evidence revealing that perceived conflicts may in practice be unfounded. Finally we examine the implications of an integrated ecosystem approach for results based and devolved or self-management as possible outcomes of reform of the Common Fisheries Policy.
title: Results based management of bycatch in a catch share fishery
Creators: name: Harrington, Gretchen Anne
name: Moreland, Stefanie Lyn
Publisher: name: ASC 2010 - Theme session P
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Technologies and data

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.This paper explores using results based management to minimize the Bering Sea pollock (Theragra chalcogramma) fishery’s bycatch of culturally and economically valuable Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha). The pollock fishery is the largest single species fishery, by volume, in the United States, annually generating over a billion dollars in revenue. This fishery is managed under the American Fisheries Act, a catch share program that identifies the eligible vessels and processors and allocates pollock quot a am ong these participants. In Alaska, after escapement goals have been met, Chinook salmon harvests are fully utilized by subsistence, commercial, sport, and personal use fisheries
Extending the D'Alembert Solution to Space-Time Modified Riemann-Liouville Fractional Wave Equations
Creators: name: Godinho, Cresus F. L.
name: Weberszpil, J.
name: Helayël-Neto, J. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 12F05

description: In the realm of complexity, it is argued that adequate modeling of TeV-physics demands an approach based on fractal operators and fractional calculus (FC). Non-local theories and memory effects are connected to complexity and the FC. The non-differentiable nature of the microscopic dynamics may be connected with time scales. Based on the Modified Riemann-Liouville definition of fractional derivatives, we have worked out explicit solutions to a fractional wave equation with suitable initial conditions to carefully understand the time evolution of classical fields with a fractional dynamics. First, by considering space-time partial fractional derivatives of the same order in time and space, a generalized fractional D'Alembertian is introduced and by means of a transformation of variables to light-cone coordinates, an explicit analytical solution is obtained. To address the situation of different orders in the time and space derivatives, we adopt different approaches, as it will become clear throughout the paper. Aspects connected to Lorentz symmetry are analyzed in both approaches.
description: 8 pages
eMHR
Creators: name: Gan, Jing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 310201
subject: Bioinformatic methods development
classificationCode: 310207
subject: Statistical and quantitative genetics

description:
eMHR is a computational method for discovering mutation hotspot regions in genomic elements (CDS, 3UTR, 5UTR, promoters, splice site, etc.) to identify cancer driver genes genome-wide.eleMHR quantifies the enrichment of somatic mutations and detects mutation hotspot regions in genomic elements based on mutation set enrichment analysis.Two major files are required by eMHR: a set of genomic regions of interest element, and a set of somatic mutations in a tumor cohort, they are all in tab-separated text files. The element files we provide have two reference genomes containing hg19 and hg38. Users can make their selection based on the reference genome of somatic mutations.The match between somatic mutations and element region is completed by R code match_mutations_elements.R and generates element_mutations files. The eMHR code has both R and Java versions for users.
Pottery and Archaeology
Creators: name: H Brown, Duncan
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Medieval Ceramics: Journal of the Medieval Ceramics Research Group, 12, 15-22
description: This paper presents, in diagram form, a theoretical framework for the study of medieval ceramics. In so doing, the aims and potential of ceramic research are explored and to some extent explained. The purpose is to encourage a more complete attitude to pottery studies and to archaeology.
An Attempt to Make a Replica 14th Century Lincoln Ware Jug
Creators: name: MacDonald, Andrew
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Medieval Ceramics: Journal of the Medieval Ceramics Research Group, 12, 23-32
description: This is an account of how a modern potter attempted to replicate a 14th century green glazed Jug (Fig, 1) using techniques as close as possible to the original. The making, glazing and firing techniques are described.
Approcci funzionalisti attuali alla luce delle categorie saussuriane
Creators: name: BERNINI, Giuliano
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2016

description: On the background of three major pairs of Saussurean categories, namely arbitrariness and motivation, langue and parole, synchrony and diachrony, the impact of the seminal Cours de linguistique g�n�rale on the functional approaches to the study of language is evaluated in the 100th anniversary of its publication. The functionalist approaches are shown to have privileged the study of the motivation of linguistic signs, of the phenomena observable in the speakers? speech acts (parole) and of the developments they trigger in the course of time. The concentration on these three poles in the consideration of language phenomena has resulted in the neglecting of the aim of linguistic research mentioned in the last statement of the Cours, namely the study of language in se and per se.
Handbook On Measuring Employment from Extractive Industry Investments
Creators: name: Troiano, Beatrice
name: Toledano, Perrine
name: Maennling, Nicolas Wolfram
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Mineral investment
Input-output analysis--Econometric models
Computable general equilibrium models
Investments--Law and legislation
Job creation

description: This handbook outlines two modeling techniques used to estimate employment multipliers: 1) The input-output (IO) model, and 2) The computable general equilibrium (CGE) model. It explains the advantages, disadvantages, necessary inputs, and results associated with each model. Specifically using the IO model, the handbook provides a detailed 10-step approach to calculating employment multipliers from the extractive industries. Included are links to download a sample IO table and links to download sample data. Here is a model to show a user how to compute multipliers step-by-step. The handbook acknowledges that results are only as good as the data being input, which can be strained due to limited availability in national accounts. It encourages more transparency of employment multiplier studies, which have historically omitted clarification on the underlying assumptions and calculation methods. While the model will yield specific numeric outcomes, the results should be interpreted as directional patterns when it comes to scrutinizing job creation claims by either companies or governments.
Temperature phase transition model for the DNA-CNTs-based nanotweezers
Creators: name: Phan, Anh D.
name: Viet, N. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: DNA and Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have unique physical, mechanical and electronic properties that make them revolutionary materials for advances in technology. In state-of-the-art applications, these physical properties can be exploited to design a type of bio-nanorobot. In this paper, we present the behaviors of DNA-based nanotweezers and show the capabilities of controlling the robotic device. The theoretical calculations are based on the Englander-Peyrard-Bishop model for DNA. Furthermore, the influence of the Casimir force between on the opening and closing of nanotweezers is studied in comparison with the stretching forces of DNA.
A new radio frequency switch-mode power amplifier concept for wireless applications
Creators: name: Ali, Sheikh Nijam
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: Although RF switch-mode power amplifiers (SMPAs) are theoretically attractive with the potential to achieve very high power efficiencies, experimental realizations at high frequencies have yet to yield significantly better efficiency than conventional analog technology. Most SMPA designs are based on class D or class S circuits, and in these circuits, power efficiency is significantly reduced when the switching signal is changed from periodic to non-periodic. In this work, a new SMPA architecture is proposed. Instead of employing reflective out-of-band matching conditions used in class D/S circuits, the switch is matched to a broadband load which creates dissipative out-of-band impedances. The broadband load significantly improves switching conditions especially for non-periodic signals. The broadband load is implemented as a complementary diplexer which separates in-band and out-of-band signal power at the output of the SMPA. An energy recovery loop using out-of-band signal power is proposed to significantly reduce the sensitivity of the overall power efficiency to changes in the peak to average power ratio of the source signal. Experimental and simulation results are shown for the new SMPA architecture.
Japan’s Economy: Moving Along its Modest Sustainable Growth Path
Creators: name: Patrick, Hugh T.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Economics
Sustainable development
Economic development

description: Japan’s economy continues to chug along well, with above-potential GDP growth in 2017 that will continue for the coming year or two. In longer-term perspective, the economy is maintaining patterns established several years ago. This is not surprising. Above all, Japan’s economic success is founded on its well-educated, industrious labor force, high savings and investment rates, and good economic institutions. Its only significant natural resources are land and a four-season climate.
Additional file 6 of Impacts of allopolyploidization and structural variation on intraspecific diversification in Brassica rapa
Creators: name: Cai, Xu
name: Chang, Lichun
name: Zhang, Tingting
name: Chen, Haixu
name: Zhang, Lei
name: Lin, Runmao
name: Liang, Jianli
name: Wu, Jian
name: Freeling, Michael
name: Wang, Xiaowu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 6. Review history.
Interferometric thermometry of a single sub-Doppler cooled atom
Creators: name: Slodička, L.
name: Hétet, G.
name: Röck, N.
name: Gerber, S.
name: Schindler, P.
name: Kumph, M.
name: Hennrich, M.
name: Blatt, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Efficient self-interference of single-photons emitted by a sideband-cooled Barium ion is demonstrated. First, the technical tools for performing efficient coupling to the quadrupolar transition of a single $^{138}$Ba$^{+}$ ion are presented. We show efficient Rabi oscillations of the internal state of the ion using a highly stabilized 1.76 $μm$ fiber laser resonant with the S$_{1/2}$-D$_{5/2}$ transition. We then show sideband cooling of the ion's motional modes and use it as a means to enhance the interference contrast of the ion with its mirror-image to up to 90%. Last, we measure the dependence of the self-interference contrast on the mean phonon number, thereby demonstrating the potential of the set-up for single-atom thermometry close to the motional ground state.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures
Documentary Evidence for Medieval Ceramic Roofing Materials and its Archaeological Implications: Some Thoughts
Creators: name: Moorhouse, Stephen A
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Medieval Ceramics: Journal of the Medieval Ceramics Research Group, 12, 33-56
description: The study of medieval roof coverings has received little attention in the past. The work of the late Gerald Dunning on a wide range of ceramic ornamental roof furniture (Appendix 1) and L. F. Salzman's study of medieval roofs scattered throughout his monumental documentary survey of medieval building practices and materials (Salzman 1967, 100, 210-22, 233-35) remain outstanding. This paper examines the enormous potential of the documentary evidence for medieval ceramic coverings and fittings and the implications which it has for interpreting and understanding the archaeological evidence.
title: A Meta-Analysis of Rates of Depletion and Recovery of Overfished Stocks
Creators: name: Murawski, Steve
Publisher: name: ASC 2010 - Theme session P
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Technologies and data

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Do depleted fish stocks increase when F is reduced substantially and F reduction is sustained? If so, how do rates of rebuilding and depletion compare?
The Popularity of Medieval Vessel Forms in Humberside
Creators: name: Hayfield, Colin
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Medieval Ceramics: Journal of the Medieval Ceramics Research Group, 12, 57-68
description: This paper uses the available stratified and unstratified pottery from the Humberside area to investigate the proportions of individual medieval pottery forms. It classifies all forms into 'principal', 'common', and 'minor' categories and demonstrates that the cooking pot and jug forms effectively dominated all forms of production during the medieval period.
Exploring Curved Superspace
Creators: name: Dumitrescu, Thomas T.
name: Festuccia, Guido
name: Seiberg, Nathan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We systematically analyze Riemannian manifolds M that admit rigid supersymmetry, focusing on four-dimensional N=1 theories with a U(1)_R symmetry. We find that M admits a single supercharge, if and only if it is a Hermitian manifold. The supercharge transforms as a scalar on M. We then consider the restrictions imposed by the presence of additional supercharges. Two supercharges of opposite R-charge exist on certain fibrations of a two-torus over a Riemann surface. Upon dimensional reduction, these give rise to an interesting class of supersymmetric geometries in three dimensions. We further show that compact manifolds admitting two supercharges of equal R-charge must be hyperhermitian. Finally, four supercharges imply that M is locally isometric to M_3 x R, where M_3 is a maximally symmetric space.
description: 39 pages; minor changes
Additional file 3 of CircHYBID regulates hyaluronan metabolism in chondrocytes via hsa-miR-29b-3p/TGF-β1 axis
Creators: name: Liao, Hong-Xing
name: Zhang, Zhi-Hui
name: Chen, Hui-Lin
name: Huang, Ying-Mei
name: Liu, Zhan-Liang
name: Huang, Jian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 3: Table 3. Mankin score and alcian blue score of intact and damaged cartilage.
MPEC 2025-F203 : 2025 FO12
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2025 FO12

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Solar system tests and interpretation of gauge field and Newtonian prepotential in general covariant Hořava-Lifshitz gravity
Creators: name: Lin, Kai
name: Mukohyama, Shinji
name: Wang, Anzhong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study spherically symmetric, stationary vacuum configurations in general covariant theory (U(1) extension) of Hořava-Lifshitz gravity with the projectability condition and an arbitrary coupling constant $λ$, and obtain all the solutions in closed forms. If the gauge field $A$ and the Newtonian prepotential $φ$ do not directly couple to matter fields, the theory is inconsistent with solar system tests for $λ\not=1$, no matter how small $|λ-1|$ is. This is shown to be true also with the most general ansatz of spherical (but not necessarily stationary) configurations. Therefore, to be consistent with observations, one needs either to find a mechanism to restrict $λ$ precisely to $λ_{GR}=1$, or to consider $A$ and/or $φ$ as parts of the 4-dimensional metric on which matter fields propagate. In the latter, requiring that the line element be invariant not only under the foliation-preserving diffeomorphism but also under the local U(1) transformations, we propose the replacements, $N \rightarrow N - \upsilon(A - {\cal{A}})/c^2$ and $N^i \rightarrow N^i+N\nabla^{i}φ$, where $\upsilon$ is a dimensionless coupling constant to be constrained by observations, $N$ and $N^i$ are, respectively, the lapse function and shift vector, and ${\cal{A}} \equiv - \dotφ + N^i\nabla_{i}φ+ N(\nabla_{i}φ)^2/2$. With this prescription, we show explicitly that the aforementioned solutions are consistent with solar system tests for both $λ=1$ and $λ\not=1$, provided that $|\upsilon-1|<10^{-5}$. From this result, the physical and geometrical interpretations of the fields $A$ and $φ$ become clear. However, it still remains to be understood how to obtain such a prescription from the action principle.
description: revtex4, 16 pages without figures. Phys. Rev. D86, 104024 (2012)
Beyond syndromic management: Opportunities for diagnosis-based treatment of sexually transmitted infections in low- and middle-income countries
Creators: name: Garrett, Nigel J.
name: Osman, Farzana
name: Maharaj, Bhavna
name: Naicker, Nivashnee
name: Gibbs, Andrew
name: Norman, Emily
name: Samsunder, Natasha
name: Ngobese, Hope
name: Mitchev, Nireshni
name: Singh, Ravesh
name: Abdool Karim, Salim
name: Kharsany, Ayesha B. M.
name: Mlisana, Koleka P.
name: Rompalo, Anne
name: Mindel, Adrian
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Sexual health
Sexually transmitted diseases--Treatment
Epidemiology
HIV infections—Prevention

description: Introduction
In light of the limited impact the syndromic management approach has had on the global sexually transmitted infection (STI) epidemic, we assessed a care model comprising point-of-care (POC) STI testing, immediate treatment, and expedited partner therapy (EPT) among a cohort of young women at high HIV risk in South Africa.

Methods and findings
HIV negative women presenting for STI care underwent POC testing for Chlamydia trachomatis (CT), Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG) and Trichomonas vaginalis (TV), and swabs were sent for NG culture and susceptibility testing. Results were available within 2 hours and women with STIs were immediately treated and offered EPT packs, including medication, condoms, and information for sexual partners. An EPT questionnaire was administered after one week, and women retested for STIs after 6 and 12 weeks. 267 women, median age 23 (IQR 21–26), were recruited and 88.4% (236/267) reported genital symptoms. STI prevalence was CT 18.4% (95%CI 13.7–23.0), NG 5.2% (95%CI 2.6–7.9) and TV 3.0% (95%CI 1.0–5.0). After 12 weeks, all but one NG and two CT infections were cleared. No cephalosporin-resistant NG was detected. Of 63/267 women (23.6%) diagnosed with STIs, 98.4% (62/63) were offered and 87.1% (54/62) accepted EPT. At one week 88.9% (48/54) stated that their partner had taken the medication. No allergic reactions or social harms were reported. Of 51 women completing 6-week follow up, detection rates were lower amongst women receiving EPT (2.2%, 1/46) compared to those who did not (40.0%, 2/5), p = 0.023. During focus group discussions women supported the care model, because they received a rapid, specific diagnosis, and could facilitate their partners’ treatment.

Conclusions
POC STI testing and EPT were acceptable to young South African women and their partners, and could play an important role in reducing STI reinfection rates and HIV risk. Larger studies should evaluate the feasibility and cost-effectiveness of implementing this strategy at population level.
ABSTRACT: KOLLEKTIVE AKTEURSCHAFT UND METAKOGNITION IN VERTEILTEN SYSTEMEN
Creators: name: Störzinger, Tobias
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Philosophy of Mind
Social Ontology
Social Philosophy
Metacognition

description: Abstract der Dissertation "Kollektive Akteurschaft und Metakognition in verteilten Systemen".
Linear stability analysis for traveling waves of second order in time PDE's
Creators: name: Stanislavova, Milena
name: Stefanov, Atanas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We develop a general theory for linear stability of traveling waves of second order in time PDE's. More precisely, we introduce an explicitly computable index $\om^*\in (0, \infty]$ (depending on the self-adjoint part of the linearized operator) so that the wave is stable if and only if $|c|\geq \om^*$. The results are applicable both in the periodic case and in the whole line case. As an application, we consider three classical models - the Boussinesq equation, the Klein-Gordon-Zakharov (KGZ) system and the fourth order beam equation. For the Boussinesq model and the KGZ system (and as a direct application of the main results), we compute explicitly the set of speeds which give rise to linearly stable traveling waves (and for all powers of $p$ in the case of Boussinesq). This result is new for the KGZ system, while it generalizes the results of Alexander-Sachs, which apply to the case $p=2$. For the beam equation, we provide an explicit formula (depending of the function $\|\vp_c'\|_{L^2}$), which works for all $p$ and for both the periodic and the whole line cases. Our results complement (and exactly match, whenever they exist) the results of a long line of investigation regarding the related notion of orbital stability of the same waves.
description: Added some references, proof of Section 3.3 much simplified
Additional file 4 of CircHYBID regulates hyaluronan metabolism in chondrocytes via hsa-miR-29b-3p/TGF-β1 axis
Creators: name: Liao, Hong-Xing
name: Zhang, Zhi-Hui
name: Chen, Hui-Lin
name: Huang, Ying-Mei
name: Liu, Zhan-Liang
name: Huang, Jian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 4: Table 4. Samples for sequencing.
Additional file 5 of CircHYBID regulates hyaluronan metabolism in chondrocytes via hsa-miR-29b-3p/TGF-β1 axis
Creators: name: Liao, Hong-Xing
name: Zhang, Zhi-Hui
name: Chen, Hui-Lin
name: Huang, Ying-Mei
name: Liu, Zhan-Liang
name: Huang, Jian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 5: Table 5. Differently expressed circRNAs between the NC and OA groups.
Three particles in a finite volume
Creators: name: Polejaeva, Kathryn
name: Rusetsky, Akaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
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: Within the non-relativistic potential scattering theory, we derive a generalized version of the Lüscher formula, which includes three-particle inelastic channels. Faddeev equations in a finite volume are discussed in detail. It is proved that, even in the presence of the three-particle intermediate states, the discrete spectrum in a finite box is determined by the infinite-volume elements of the scattering S-matrix up to corrections, exponentially suppressed at large volumes.
description: 40 pages, 2 figures
Introduzione
Creators: name: Cavallo, Jo Ann
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Italian literature
Romance literature
Epic poetry

description: De nendo l’Orlando Innamorato «il più innovativo testo del- la storia della letteratura cavalleresca italiana», Marco Villoresi richiama l’attenzione sul «sincretismo culturale» virtualmente illimitato di Boiardo, testimoniato dalla sua inesauribile com- binazione di temi e di stili, di fonti e di generi tratti dall’«intero universo letterario». L’opera, infatti, impose un nuovo modello per il poema cavalleresco non solo attraverso la completa fusione del ciclo epico carolingio con quello bretone di Re Artù, ma anche incorporando nella sua struttura una serie di testi chiave di tutte le grandi tradizioni letterarie, da quella classica, greca e latina, a quella medievale, francese e italiana, arrivando così a comprendere una serie di generi diversi come l’epica, il romanzo, la storiogra a, la tragedia, la commedia, la novella e la lirica.

Con questo processo di «riscrittura creativa» e di continua tra- sformazione della materia ricavata dalle fonti, il Boiardo imbastì un dialogo critico con il passato sia su questioni a lui contempo- ranee che su temi di portata universale. I cavalieri boiardeschi si misurano con eroi come Ercole, Ettore, Enea, Giasone, Perseo e Lancilotto, mentere nel poema si ritrovano in veste nuova episodi e personaggi quali la maga Circe, la fata Morgana, i Lestrigoni e il ciclope omerico, la fonte di Narciso e la gara di Atalanta. Popolato da cavalieri, dame, giganti, maghi, fate e mostri, l’Innamorato tesse le trame dei vari episodi di amore, magia, avventura e guerra in maniera alternativa, adottando e rinnovando a fondo la tecnica dell’entrelacement. Gli innumerevoli racconti concomitanti si intersecano come pezzi di un grande puzzle, o meglio, come  li di un vasto arazzo, componendo quello che lo stesso Boiardo descrive come un “verziero” che ha seminato di storie “de amore e de batta- glia” (3.5.2), ciò che conferisce al poema una dimensione variopin- ta ma unitaria.
title: What information can acoustic data provide on marine biodiversity?
Creators: name: Trenkel, Verena M.
name: Berger, Laurent
Publisher: name: ASC 2010 - Theme session Q
Year: 2024
Subjects: Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Acoustics derived indicators have primarily been used in the context of single species management in the form of species biomass or abundance indices, often disaggregated by age class. Very little use has been made of acoustics to derive other indicators, despite the fact that these method have huge potentials, both in terms of simultaneously sampling across several trophic levels as well as at a range of spatial and temporal scales, which are not paralleled by any bottom trawl sampling program. In this presentation we make proposals on how acoustic data might be used to estimate diversity indices, making use of multi-frequency information which broadly reflect trophic levels. The proposed diversity indices are evaluated using simulated data and data from the Bay of Biscay.
Lower quantile estimation of wood strength data
Creators: name: Liu, Yang
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: In wood engineering, lower quantile estimation is vital to the safety of the construction with wood materials. In this thesis, we will first study the censored Weibull maximum likelihood estimate (MLE) of the lower quantile as in the current industrial standard D5457 (ASTM, 2004a) from a statistical point of view. According to our simulations, the lower quantile estimated by the censored Weibull MLE with the 10th empirical percentile as the threshold has a smaller mean squared error (MSE) than the intuitive parametric or non-parametric quantile estimate. This advantage can be shown to be achieved by a good balance between the variance and bias with the help of subjective censorship. However, the standard D5457 (ASTM, 2004a) only utilizes a small (10%) and ad-hoc proportion of the data in the lower quantile estimation, which stimulates us to further improve it. First, we can consider fitting a more complex model, such as the Weibull mixture, to a larger, (e.g., 70%) proportion of the data set with the subjective censorship, which leads to the censored Weibull mixture estimate of the lower quantile. Also, the bootstrap can be used to select a better censoring threshold for the censored Weibull MLE, which leads to the bootstrap censored Weibull MLE. According to our simulations, both proposals can yield a better lower quantile estimates than the standard D5457 and the bootstrap censored Weibull MLE is better than the censored Weibull mixture.
Review: Vorschläge Zur Systematishe Beschreibung Von Keramik and Leitfaden Zur Keramikbeschreigung (Mittelalter-Neuzeit) Terminologie-Typologie-Technologie
Creators: name: Gaimster, David R M
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Medieval Ceramics: Journal of the Medieval Ceramics Research Group, 12, 78-80
description: Publication review