cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Locating the LCROSS Impact Craters
Creators: name: Marshall, William
name: Shirley, Mark
name: Moratto, Zachary
name: Colaprete, Anthony
name: Neumann, Gregory
name: Smith, David
name: Hensley, Scott
name: Wilson, Barbara
name: Slade, Martin
name: Kennedy, Brian
name: Gurrola, Eric
name: Harcke, Leif
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Lunar CRater Observations and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission impacted a spent Centaur rocket stage into a permanently shadowed region near the lunar south pole. The Sheperding Spacecraft (SSC) separated \sim9 hours before impact and performed a small braking maneuver in order to observe the Centaur impact plume, looking for evidence of water and other volatiles, before impacting itself. This paper describes the registration of imagery of the LCROSS impact region from the mid- and near-infrared cameras onboard the SSC, as well as from the Goldstone radar. We compare the Centaur impact features, positively identified in the first two, and with a consistent feature in the third, which are interpreted as a 20 m diameter crater surrounded by a 160 m diameter ejecta region. The images are registered to Lunar Reconnaisance Orbiter (LRO) topographical data which allows determination of the impact location. This location is compared with the impact location derived from ground-based tracking and propagation of the spacecraft's trajectory and with locations derived from two hybrid imagery/trajectory methods. The four methods give a weighted average Centaur impact location of -84.6796\circ, -48.7093\circ, with a 1σ un- certainty of 115 m along latitude, and 44 m along longitude, just 146 m from the target impact site. Meanwhile, the trajectory-derived SSC impact location is -84.719\circ, -49.61\circ, with a 1σ uncertainty of 3 m along the Earth vector and 75 m orthogonal to that, 766 m from the target location and 2.803 km south-west of the Centaur impact. We also detail the Centaur impact angle and SSC instrument pointing errors. Six high-level LCROSS mission requirements are shown to be met by wide margins. We hope that these results facilitate further analyses of the LCROSS experiment data and follow-up observations of the impact region.
description: Accepted for publication in Space Science Review. 24 pages, 9 figures
Brightening of dark excitons in a single quantum dot containing a single magnetic ion
Creators: name: Goryca, M.
name: Plochocka, P.
name: Kazimierczuk, T.
name: Wojnar, P.
name: Karczewski, G.
name: Gaj, J. A.
name: Potemski, M.
name: Kossacki, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A promising method to investigate dark exciton transitions in quantum dots is presented. The optical recombination of the dark exciton is allowed when the exciton state is coupled with an individual magnetic impurity (manganese ion). It is shown that the efficient radiative recombination is possible when the exchange interaction with the magnetic ion is accompanied by a mixing of the heavy-light hole states related to an in-plane anisotropy of the quantum dot. It is also shown that the dark exciton recombination is an efficient channel of manganese spin orientation.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Association between plasma trimethylamine-N-oxide and cognitive impairment in patients with transient ischemic attack
Creators: name: Wang, Lufeng
name: Zhan, Xiaopeng
name: Jiang, Li
name: Xu, Guangyu
name: Bao, Yiwen
name: Wang, Junlang
name: Qv, Shaohua
name: Yang, Jie
name: Huang, Dongya
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mental Health

description: There is increasing evidence for the association of trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO) with cognitive impairment after minor stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA). However, how TMAO affects cognitive function in TIA patients has seldom been studied. A total of 310 TIA participants were retrospectively collected from our stroke register between January 2020 and July 2021. Plasma TMAO was measured by liquid chromatography‒mass spectrometry at baseline. Cognitive performance was assessed by neuropsychological evaluation at 3 months after TIA onset. A total of 310 patients were included (mean age, 74 years; male, 160 [51.6%]; mean ABCD2 score, 2.6). TMAO was positively associated with cognitive impairment after TIA (aOR, 1.423; 95% CI, 1.125–2.561). The highest quartile of TMAO was related to an almost 2-fold increased risk of cognitive decline compared to the lowest quartile. Furthermore, executive and memory function were more susceptible to impairment after TIA in groups with higher levels of TMAO. Mediation analysis revealed that the overall mediated effect was−0.347 (p < 0.001), and the intermediary effect of CRP was−0.108. Plasma TMAO at baseline was independently associated with cognitive impairment at the 3-month follow-up after TIA. In addition, the inflammatory marker CRP may serve as an important mediator in this relationship. Our study may provide some insights into anti-inflammatory therapy to improve the cognitive trajectory of TIA patients with high TMAO levels.
RXTE/ASM and Swift/BAT Observations of Spectral Transitions in Bright X-ray Binaries in 2005-2010
Creators: name: Tang, Jing
name: Yu, Wenfei
name: Yan, Zhen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied X-ray spectral state transitions that can be seen in the long- term monitoring light curves of bright X-ray binaries from the All-Sky Monitor (ASM) on board the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) and the Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) on board Swift during a period of five years from 2005 to 2010. We have applied a program to automatically identify the hard-to-soft (H-S) spectral state transitions in the bright X- ray binaries monitored by the ASM and the BAT. In total we identified 128 hard-to-soft transitions, of which 59 occurred after 2008. We also determined the transition fluxes and the peak fluxes of the following soft states, updated the measurements of the luminosity corresponding to the H-S transition and the peak luminosity of the following soft state in about 30 bright persistent and transient black hole and neutron star binaries following Yu & Yan (2009), and found the luminosity correlation and the luminosity range of spectral transitions in data between 2008-2010 are about the same as those derived from the data before 2008. This further strengthen the idea that the luminosity at which the H-S spectral transition occurs in the Galactic X-ray binaries is determined by non-stationary accretion parameters such as the rate-of-change of the mass accretion rate rather than the mass accretion rate itself. The correlation is also found to hold in data of individual sources 4U 1608-52 and 4U 1636-53.
description: 11 pages including 6 figures, accepted for publication in Research in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Exploring the Contribution of Energy Price to Carbon Emissions in African Countries
Creators: name: Umar, Bamanga
name: Alam, Md. Mahmudul
name: Al-Amin, Abul Quasem
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 140207 Financial Economics
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The increasing level of greenhouse gas carbon emission currently exacerbates the devastating effect of global warming on the Earth’s ecosystem. Energy usage is one of the most important determinants that is increasing the amount of carbon gases being released. Simultaneously, the level of energy usage is derived by the price and therefore, this study examines the contribution of energy price to carbon gas emissions in thirteen African nations for the period spanning 1990 to 2017. It does this by utilizing the Cross-sectional Dependence (CD), Augmented Mean Group (AMG) and Pooled Mean Group (PMG) panel modelling methods. The findings of the AMG model suggest that a 1% increase in energy price leads to a 0.02% decerease in carbon emission. The results further reveal that a 1% increase in energy intensity and technological innovation lead to 0.04% and 3.65% increase in carbon emission, respectively, in the selected African countries. Findings will help policymakers to implement effective energy price policies to reduce carbon emissions and achieve sustainable development goals especially in the emerging economies of Africa.
Additional file 1 of CYFIP1 coordinate with RNMT to induce osteosarcoma cuproptosis via AURKAIP1 m7G modification
Creators: name: Lin, Zili
name: Wu, Ziyi
name: He, Yizhe
name: Li, Xiangyao
name: Luo, Wei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Supplementary Material 1
Social Vulnerability Assessment for Landslide Hazards in Malaysia: A Systematic Review Study
Creators: name: Diana, Mohd Idris Nor
name: Muhamad, Nurfashareena
name: Taha, Mohd Raihan
name: Osman, Ashraf
name: Alam, Md. Mahmudul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 140207 Financial Economics
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Landslides represent one of the world’s most dangerous and widespread risks, annually causing thousands of deaths and billions of dollars worth of damage. Building on and around hilly areas in many regions has increased, and it poses a severe threat to the physical infrastructure and people living within such zones. Quantitative assessment of social vulnerability in Malaysia is worrying because it has been given less attention than hazard-related studies. Therefore, this study’s objective is to find out the indicators used for social vulnerability assessment in the context of a landslide in Malaysia. The analysis is critical for understanding the measures of social vulnerability, given that the incorporation of climate change and disaster risk mitigation issues in urban planning and management are considered priorities in ensuring a stable popu?lation growth and avoiding economic disruption. A systematic study on the Scopus and Web of Science repositories was conducted based on the PRISMA Report analysis method. This article concluded that there are six important indicators of social vulnerability in the context of landslide in Malaysia.
Community Preparation and Vulnerability Indices for Floods in Pahang State of Malaysia
Creators: name: Ashikin, Alias Nurul
name: Diana, Mohd Idris Nor
name: Siwar, Chamhuri
name: Alam, Md. Mahmudul
name: Yasar, Muhamad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 140207 Financial Economics
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The east coast of Malaysia is frequently hit by monsoon floods every year that severely impact people, particularly those living close to the river bank, which is considered to be the most vulnerable and high-risk areas. We aim to determine the most vulnerable area and understand affected residents of this community who are living in the most sensitive areas caused by flood?ing events in districts of Temerloh, Pekan, and Kuantan, Pahang. This study involved collecting data for vulnerability index components. A field survey and face-to-face interviews with 602 respondents were conducted 6 months after the floods by using a questionnaire evaluation based on the livelihood vulnerability index (LVI). The findings show that residents in the Temerloh district are at higher risk of flooding damage compared to those living in Pekan and Kuantan. Meanwhile, the contribution factor of LVI-Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) showed that Kuantan is more exposed to the impact of climate change, fol?lowed by Temerloh and Pekan. Among all the principal components shown, food components were considered to be the most vulnerable. Meanwhile, water components were categorised as the most invulnerable. Preventive planning involves preserving human life, minimising dam?age to household products, preserving crops and animals, adequate supply of clean water and food, good health and ensuring financial sustainability as an indication of changing livelihoods, sustainable food-storing systems, and other protective steps to curb damage and injury caused by annual flood strikes. Information generated on LVI assessment and adaptation procedures will help policymakers reduce people’s vulnerability in the face of floods and ensure proper plans are put in place in all relevant areas.
Additional file 1 of General practitioners’ attitudes and barriers to patient activation in cardiovascular disease prevention: insights from the DECADE study
Creators: name: Gräfe, Willy
name: Tinsel, Iris
name: Börger, Maja
name: Kloppe, Thomas
name: Maun, Andy
name: Riemenschneider, Henna
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: Medicine
Cell Biology
Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy
Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1
Nonuniformly expanding 1d maps with logarithmic singularities
Creators: name: Takahasi, Hiroki
name: Wang, Qiudong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 34C15, 37D45, 37E10

description: For a certain parametrized family of maps on the circle with critical points and logarithmic singularities where derivatives blow up to infinity, we construct a positive measure set of parameters corresponding to maps which exhibit nonuniformly expanding behavior. This implies the existence of "chaotic" dynamics in dissipative homoclinic tangles in periodically perturbed differential equations.
description: 17 pages, no figure
Estimation of Losses and Damages Caused by Flash Floods in the Commercial Area of Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia
Creators: name: Bari, Md Azizul
name: Alam, Lubna
name: Alam, Md. Mahmudul
name: Rahman, Labonnah Farzana
name: Pereira, Joy Jacqueline
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 140207 Financial Economics
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Flash flood is the most devastating natural disaster experienced in Malaysia. It can be defined as any high water flow caused by various factors such as rainstorms, slow water run-off, and broken dams. In Malaysia, the most typical and disruptive hydro-meteorological occurrences are flash floods, which are mostly faced by Malaysian cities including Kuala Lumpur and Kajang. However, flash floods may occur at any time of the year rather than during monsoon and can result in devastating losses and damages. Thus, several mitigation steps and estimations are warranted to handle flash floods, especially at the city level. Hence, this paper estimated the amount of direct loss and damage due to flash floods on the basis of the commercial area of Kajang City. This empirical study used primary data collected through direct face-to-face semi-structured interviews with 41 businessmen in the study area. The average estimated overall losses and damages per shop was RM4,510.07 due to flash floods at Kajang City in 2014, wherein the significant contribution comes from the economic side. This study’s findings can serve as the baseline information for future studies on flash flood losses and damages. Furthermore, the present study suggests extensive institutional research for estimating losses and damages due to flash floods at the country level as an adaptation strategy.
Mean-payoff Automaton Expressions
Creators: name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu
name: Doyen, Laurent
name: Edelsbrunner, Herbert
name: Henzinger, Thomas A.
name: Rannou, Philippe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Quantitative languages are an extension of boolean languages that assign to each word a real number. Mean-payoff automata are finite automata with numerical weights on transitions that assign to each infinite path the long-run average of the transition weights. When the mode of branching of the automaton is deterministic, nondeterministic, or alternating, the corresponding class of quantitative languages is not robust as it is not closed under the pointwise operations of max, min, sum, and numerical complement. Nondeterministic and alternating mean-payoff automata are not decidable either, as the quantitative generalization of the problems of universality and language inclusion is undecidable. We introduce a new class of quantitative languages, defined by mean-payoff automaton expressions, which is robust and decidable: it is closed under the four pointwise operations, and we show that all decision problems are decidable for this class. Mean-payoff automaton expressions subsume deterministic mean-payoff automata, and we show that they have expressive power incomparable to nondeterministic and alternating mean-payoff automata. We also present for the first time an algorithm to compute distance between two quantitative languages, and in our case the quantitative languages are given as mean-payoff automaton expressions.
Additional file 1 of Perspectives and experiences of parents of children with juvenile dermatomyositis: a semi-structured interview study
Creators: name: Kelly, Amy Helen
name: Kelly, Ayano
name: Singh-Grewal, Davinder
name: Chaitow, Jeffrey
name: Jaure, Allison
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: Medicine
Cancer
Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 1
Improving outcomes for disadvantaged jobseekers: The next generation of employment services – response to discussion paper.
Creators: name: Considine, Mark
name: McGann, Michael
name: O'Sullivan, Siobhan
name: Nguyen, Phuc
name: Lewis, Jenny
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: This submission responds to the Australian Government’s discussion paper, The Next Generation of Employment Services.
Promoting digital literacy in African education: ICT innovations in a Ugandan primary teachers' college
Creators: name: Andema, Samuel
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: This research entitled “Promoting digital literacy in African education: ICT innovations in a Ugandan primary teachers’ college” was guided by two research questions: (1) What role can digital technology and digital literacy play in improving teacher education in a rural Ugandan primary teacher’s college? (2) How has ICT policy impacted curriculum development in Ugandan education and classroom practice in two rural Ugandan primary schools? It took the form of a qualitative case study in which data were collected using classroom observations, individual interviews, focus group discussions, semi-structured questionnaires, artefacts and document analyses. Findings of the study suggest that technology has a major role to play in improving teacher education in a rural Ugandan primary teachers’ college. These included: enhancing the tutors’ identities; increasing the tutors’ resourcefulness; promoting team work among the tutors; promoting the integration of the local with the global to facilitate teaching and learning; and promoting teamwork and team spirit among the tutors. Further, the study found that the ICT policy had positively impacted curriculum development and classroom practices in the two rural Ugandan primary schools. However, the study revealed that the positive impact of ICT policy on curriculum development and classroom practices were being undermined by multiple factors, including: fragile ICT infrastructure in the villages; inadequate supply of electricity; lack of access to the Internet; and inadequate digital literacy skills among teachers. It therefore concludes that government should take appropriate measures to address these challenges for digital literacy to sustainably take root in Ugandan education. Further studies will need to be carried out to identify appropriate strategies through which these challenges can be addressed in order to achieve meaningful educational change in Uganda.
A fully-reproducible workflow for the SKA Data Challenge 2 HI-FRIENDS solution
Creators: name: Moldón, Javier
name: Darriba, Laura
name: Verdes-Montenegro, Lourdes
name: Sánchez, Susana
name: Parra, Manuel
name: Garrido, Julián
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: FAIR, reproducibility, snakemake, SKA, SKA Regional Centres

description: Reproducibility of data processing and scientific analysis gain especially relevance when processing large volumes of data from new and future observatories, for which analysis can be computationally expensive. In preparation for this situation, the SKAO is issuing a series of data challenges where competing teams try to process simulated SKA data products while maximizing the scientific output. The second SKA data challenge (SDC2) requested processing a 1TB data cube and incorporated a Reproducibility Award for those teams that presented an Open and reproducible workflow by accomplishing a series of conditions to make it well documented, easy to install and to use, with an open license, accessible source code, following coding standards and tests. We participated as the HI-FRIENDS team and put especial emphasis on following the criteria for reproducibility and openess of our workflow. We developed a workflow managed with the workflow management system snakemake, and put the code and the documnetation publicly available in Github, Zenodo and WorkflowHub. Apart from following their reproducibility checklist, we suggested additional actions to be implemented to make the workflow more FAIR.
Impacts of Health and Economic Costs on Street Children Working as Waste Collectors in Dhaka City
Creators: name: Alam, Md. Mahmudul
name: Hossain, Mohammad Saeed
name: Islam, Nurul
name: Murad, Md Wahid
name: Khan, Niaz Ahmed
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 140207 Financial Economics
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This research investigates the health impacts and access to health services by children who are engaged in waste collection in Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh. The relevant qualitative data were collected through expert interviews and personal observations, while quantitative data were gathered through a face-to-face questionnaire survey given to 50 street children who collected waste at the landfill site located in Dhaka city’s Matuail area. The results indicate that 94% of these children have suffered from many health problems, such as fever and fatigue due to tiredness, dizziness, and vomiting. Consequently, a significant portion of their daily income is spent on medical treatment. This study suggests that the waste collection system must integrate modern technological, health and environmental resources so that: firstly, they do not harm waste collectors; and secondly, rehabilitate the street children and give them better access to acceptable basic amenities. This is a priority the city authorities.
Velocity Structure Diagnostics of Simulated Galaxy Clusters
Creators: name: Biffi, Veronica
name: Dolag, Klaus
name: Boehringer, Hans
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gas motions in the hot intracluster medium of galaxy clusters have an important effect on the mass determination of the clusters through X-ray observations. The corresponding dynamical pressure has to be accounted for in addition to the hydrostatic pressure support to achieve a precise mass measurement. An analysis of the velocity structure of the ICM for simulated cluster-size haloes, especially focusing on rotational patterns, has been performed, demonstrating them to be an intermittent phenomenon, strongly related to the internal dynamics of substructures. We find that the expected build-up of rotation due to mass assembly gets easily destroyed by passages of gas-rich substructures close to the central region. Though, if a typical rotation pattern is established, the corresponding mass contribution is estimated to be up to ~17% of the total mass in the innermost region, and one has to account for it. Extending the analysis to a larger sample of simulated haloes we statistically observe that (i) the distribution of the rotational component of the gas velocity in the innermost region has typical values of ~200-300 km/s; (ii) except for few outliers, there is no monotonic increase of the rotational velocity with decreasing redshift, as we would expect from approaching a relaxed configuration. Therefore, the hypothesis that the build-up of rotation is strongly influenced by internal dynamics is confirmed, and minor events like gas-rich substructures passing close to the equatorial plane can easily destroy any ordered rotational pattern.
description: 13 pages, 10 figures; Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Improving outcomes for disadvantaged jobseekers: The next generation of employment services – response to discussion paper.
Creators: name: Considine, Mark
name: McGann, Michael
name: O'Sullivan, Siobhan
name: Nguyen, Phuc
name: Lewis, Jenny
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This submission responds to the Australian Government’s discussion paper, The Next Generation of Employment Services.
Additional file 1 of Copy number normalization distinguishes differential signals driven by copy number differences in ATAC-seq and ChIP-seq
Creators: name: Su, Dingwen
name: Peters, Moritz
name: Soltys, Volker
name: Chan, Yingguang Frank
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. Copy number ratio in Bloom syndrome cell line relative to wild type cell line for each chromosome.
Large scale nested stellar discs in NGC 7217
Creators: name: Sil'chenko, Olga
name: Chilingarian, Igor
name: Sotnikova, Natalia
name: Afanasiev, Victor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: NGC7217 is an unbarred early-type spiral galaxy having a multi-segment exponential light profile and a system of starforming rings of the unknown origin; it also possesses a circumnuclear gaseous polar disc. We analysed new long slit spectroscopic data for NGC7217 and derived the radial distributions of its stellar population parameters and stellar and gaseous kinematics up to the radius of r~100 arcsec (~8 kpc). We performed the dynamical analysis of the galaxy by recovering its velocity ellipsoid at different radii, and estimated the scaleheights of its two exponential discs. The inner exponential stellar disc of NGC7217 appears to be thin and harbours intermediate age stars (t(SSP) ~ 5 Gyr). The outer stellar disc seen between the radii of 4 and 7 kpc is very thick (z0 = 1...3 kpc), metal-poor, [Fe/H]
description: Accepted to MNRAS, 12 pages, 10 figures
Assessment of Risk Management Practices in the Public Sector of Malaysia
Creators: name: Said, Jamaliah
name: Alam, Md. Mahmudul
name: Johari, Razana Juhaida
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 140207 Financial Economics
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 140202 Economic Development and Growth

description: Public sectors around the world, especially in the developing counties, are not functioning well due to widespread fraud, governance, corruption, and inefficacy. For this reason, the world’s public sectors need to improve their efficacy by using a sound risk management system. This study attempts to comprehend the phenomenon of current risk management practices among the public sector employees in different service schemes in Malaysia. A questionnaire survey was utilized to collect primary data from 194 department heads in Malaysia’s federal ministries. The collected data was analysed using descriptive statistics and factor analysis. Findings revealed that 94.7% of respondents agreed to implementing risk management in their respective departments, but the level of priority for these risk management factors differs based on the service schemes. This study will assist policymakers to identify what is needed to enhance risk management practices in the public sector.
Improving CMB non-Gaussianity estimators using tracers of local structure
Creators: name: Mead, James M. G.
name: Lewis, Antony
name: King, Lindsay J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Local non-Gaussianity causes correlations between large scale perturbation modes and the small scale power. The large-scale CMB signal has contributions from the integrated Sachs Wolfe (ISW) effect, which does not correlate with the small scale power. If this ISW contribution can be removed, the sensitivity to local non-Gaussianity is improved. Gravitational lensing and galaxy counts can be used to trace the ISW contribution; in particular we show that the CMB lensing potential is highly correlated with the ISW signal. We construct a nearly-optimal estimator for the local non-Gaussianity parameter $\fnl$ and investigate to what extent we can use this to decrease the variance on ${\fnl}$. We show that the variance can be decreased by up to $20\%$ at Planck sensitivity using galaxy counts. CMB lensing is a good bias-independent ISW tracer for future more sensitive observations, though the fractional decrease in variance is small if good polarization data is also available.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures. Comments welcome
Supplementary Material from When fossil clades ‘compete’: local dominance, global diversification dynamics and causation
Creators: name: Lidgard, Scott
name: Di Martino, Emanuela
name: Zágoršek, Kamil
name: Liow, Lee Hsiang
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 40308 Palaeontology (incl. Palynology)
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Lidgard et al. data compilation details, analyses, and figures
Imaging of Three Possible Low Redshift Analogs to High Redshift Compact Red Galaxies
Creators: name: Shih, Hsin-Yi
name: Stockton, Alan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As part of a larger program to identify and characterize possible low-redshift analogs to massive compact red galaxies found at high redshift, we have examined the morphologies of three low-redshift compact galaxies drawn from the sample of Trujillo et al. (2009). Using deeper and higher resolution images, we have found faint and relatively extensive outer structures in addition to the compact cores identified in the earlier measurements. One object appears to have a small companion that may be involved in an ongoing minor merger of the sort that could be responsible for building up the outer parts of these galaxies. The ages of the dominant stellar populations in these objects are found to be around 2--4 Gyr, in good agreement with the previous estimates. The presence of diffuse outer structures in these galaxies indicates that truly compact and massive red galaxies are exceedingly rare at low redshift. The relatively young stellar populations suggest that the accretion of the extensive outer material must occur essentially universally on relatively short timescales of few billion years or less. These results confirm and extend previous suggestions that the driving mechanism behind the size evolution of high redshift compact galaxies cannot be highly stochastic processes such as major mergers, which would inevitably leave a non-negligible fraction of survivors at low redshift.
description: Accepted by ApJ
The application of compressive sampling to radio astronomy II: Faraday rotation measure synthesis
Creators: name: Li, Feng
name: Brown, Shea
name: Cornwell, Tim J.
name: de Hoog, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Faraday rotation measure (RM) synthesis is an important tool to study and analyze galactic and extra-galactic magnetic fields. Since there is a Fourier relation between the Faraday dispersion function and the polarized radio emission, full reconstruction of the dispersion function requires knowledge of the polarized radio emission at both positive and negative square wavelengths $λ^2$. However, one can only make observations for $λ^2 > 0$. Furthermore observations are possible only for a limited range of wavelengths. Thus reconstructing the Faraday dispersion function from these limited measurements is ill-conditioned. In this paper, we propose three new reconstruction algorithms for RM synthesis based upon compressive sensing/sampling (CS). These algorithms are designed to be appropriate for Faraday thin sources only, thick sources only, and mixed sources respectively. Both visual and numerical results show that the new RM synthesis methods provide superior reconstructions of both magnitude and phase information than RM-CLEAN
description: Accepted by A&A, Matlab code can be found: http://code.google.com/p/csra/downloads
ESBL-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in the Broiler Production Chain and the First Description of ST3128
Creators: name: Daehre, Katrin
name: Projahn, Michaela
name: Friese, Anika
name: Semmler, Torsten
name: Guenther, Sebastian
name: Roesler, Uwe H.
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: extended-spectrum-beta-lactamases
subject: ESBLs
subject: Klebsiella pneumoniae
subject: broiler production
subject: broiler chicken
subject: 610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: ESBL-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae (K. pneumoniae) represent an increasing problem both in human and veterinary medicine. As SHV-2 - encoding K. pneumoniae were recently detected in the broiler production we were interested in investigating a possible transmission along the broiler production chain and furthermore, in evaluating their possible impact on human health. Therefore, 41 ESBL-producing K. pneumoniae originating from a parent flock, from the hatcherys' environment during the hatching of that parent flocks' chickens, and from an associated fattening flock were investigated on an Illumina Miseq. Whole genome sequences were analyzed concerning their MLST-type, cgMLST-type, genotypic and phenotypic resistance, plasmid profiles and virulence genes. Irrespective of the origin of isolation all investigated isolates were multi-drug resistant, harbored the same ESBL-gene blaSHV−2, shared the same sequence type (ST3128) and displayed 100% similarity in core genome multilocus sequence typing (cgMLST). In addition, in silico plasmid typing found several Inc/Rep types associated with ESBL-plasmids. Summarizing, identical clones of SHV-2—producing K. pneumoniae were detected in different stages of the industrial broiler production in one out of seven investigated broiler chains. This proves the possibility of pseudo-vertical transmission of multi-resistant human pathogens from parent flocks to hatcheries and fattening flocks. Furthermore, the importance of cross-contamination along the production chain was shown. Although the ESBL-producing K. pneumoniae clone detected here in the broiler production has not been associated with clinical settings so far, our findings present a potential public health threat.
Additional file 3 of Copy number normalization distinguishes differential signals driven by copy number differences in ATAC-seq and ChIP-seq
Creators: name: Su, Dingwen
name: Peters, Moritz
name: Soltys, Volker
name: Chan, Yingguang Frank
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 3. Step-by-step pipelines for differential analysis with and without copy number normalization for ATAC-sdeaceq and ChIP-seq data.
Government Policies, Financial Scopes and Technological Usages for Agricultural Development and Post-Harvest Loss Reduction in Algeria
Creators: name: Djihad, Tria
name: Alghorbany, Abdelkader
name: Muhamad, Azim Izzuddin Bin
name: Alam, Md. Mahmudul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 140207 Financial Economics
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Agriculture is considered to be a vital aspect of Algeria’s national economy and rural development. Achieving sustainable agricultural production, generating employment, reducing imports and minimising post-harvest crops losses are the major objectives of the Algerian government. However, based on the evaluation of existing policies, this study found that poor governance is hampering the agriculture sector, particularly in terms of management of financial resources, where most financial investments are made only for short-term gains. The lack of awareness about the importance of post-harvest practices and lack of using modern technology threaten the growth of this sector. Adopting sound post-harvest methods can reduce food losses and wastage in every stage of the food supply chain, and integration of modern techniques, skilled labour, and education training systems are very important if agriculture in Algeria is to progress.
The isotropic correlation function of plane figures: the triangle case
Creators: name: Ciccariello, Salvino
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: geometric probability and stochastic geometry (66Dxx), scattering theory (81Uxx),

description: The knowledge of the isotropic correlation function of a plane figure is useful to determine the correlation function of the cylinders having the plane figure as right-section and a given height as well as to analyze the out of plane intensity collected in grazing incidence small-angle scattering from a film formed by a particulate collection of these cylinders. The correlation function of plane polygons can always be determined in closed algebraic form. Here we report its analytic expression for the case of a triangle. The expressions take four different forms that depend on the relative order among the sides and the heights of the triangle.
description: 11 pages, 2 figures
Response to targeted perturbations for random walks on networks
Creators: name: Tejedor, Vincent
name: Bénichou, Olivier
name: Voituriez, Raphael
name: Moreau, Michel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a general framework, applicable to a broad class of random walks on networks, that quantifies the response of the mean first-passage time to a target node to a local perturbation of the network, both in the context of attacks (damaged link) or strategies of transport enhancement (added link). This approach enables to determine explicitly the dependence of this response on geometric parameters (such as the network size and the localization of the perturbation) and on the intensity of the perturbation. In particular, it is showed that the relative variation of the MFPT is independent of the network size, and remains significant in the large size limit. Furthermore, in the case of non compact exploration of the network, it is found that a targeted perturbation keeps a substantial impact on transport properties for any localization of the damaged link.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Enhancement of Thermal Conductivity due to Spinons in the One-Dimensional Spin System SrCuO_2
Creators: name: Kawamata, T.
name: Kaneko, N.
name: Uesaka, M.
name: Sato, M.
name: Koike, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have measured the thermal conductivity along the c-axis parallel to the spin-chains, kappa_c, of the one-dimensional antiferromagnetic spin system SrCuO_2, using as-grown and O_2-annealed single-crystals grown from raw materials with 99.9% (3N) and 99.99% (4N) purity. The value of kappa_c around 50K, where large contribution of the thermal conductivity due to spinons, kappa_spinon, is observed, is markedly enhanced by both the increase of the purity of raw materials and the O_2-annealing. Therefore, the increase of kappa_c implies that kappa_spinon is enhanced due to the decrease of spin defects caused by impurities in raw materials and by oxygen defects. The mean free path of spinons is as large as about 24000 angstrom at low temperatures in the O_2-annealed single-crystal grown from raw materials with 4N purity.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, 1 table
Additional file 4 of Copy number normalization distinguishes differential signals driven by copy number differences in ATAC-seq and ChIP-seq
Creators: name: Su, Dingwen
name: Peters, Moritz
name: Soltys, Volker
name: Chan, Yingguang Frank
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 4: Supplementary Table 1. Copy number awareness of commonly used tools in ATAC-seq and ChIP-seq differential analyses [77–81]. Notes: *background signal awareness when the genomic sequencing or ChIP-seq input data is available; n/a, not applicable.
Impacts of Accountability, Integrity, and Internal Control on Organizational Value Creation: Evidence from Malaysian Government Linked Companies
Creators: name: Said, Jamaliah
name: Alam, Md. Mahmudul
name: Radzi, Nurazwani Mat
name: Rosli, Mohamad Hafiz
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 140207 Financial Economics
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150201 Finance
subject: 150203 Financial Institutions (incl. Banking)
subject: 150103 Financial Accounting

description: Credible and well-functioning governance is crucial for the value creation of firms. Recently, private sectors have undergone substantial changes by focusing on good governance as a tool to enhance value, reputation, and image. The primary features of firms with good governance include greater emphasis on accountability practices, proper implementation of a corporate integrity system, and sound internal controls in place to avoid risk and to ensure policy and procedures that are complied. Government Linked Companies (GLCs) as the backbone of the Malaysian government have been harshly criticised for not being able to create value(s) despite receiving high priority in the process of getting government projects. Therefore, this study aims to examine the role of good governance systems, which are reflected through accountability systems, corporate integrity systems, and internal control systems towards value creation of Malaysian GLCs. This study collected primary data based on a set of questionnaire survey among 100 GLCs in Malaysia. Based on the regression analysis, this study found that corporate integrity systems and internal control systems were vital elements in ensuring value creation in GLCs.
Comparison of the approaches to assessing statistical interactions : an application to risk factors for adolescent problem behaviour
Creators: name: Rajlic, Gordana
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: The purpose of the current project was to utilize and compare several approaches to assessing interactions among continuous variables. The approaches used in the project were: (a) multiple regression, (b) unconstrained mean-centered approach (Marsh, Wen, & Hau, 2004), (c) orthogonalizing approach (Little, Bovaird, & Widaman, 2006), and (d) latent moderated structural equations approach (LMS; Klein & Moosbrugger, 2000). The last three approaches utilize the latent variables modeling framework, and they address some of the limitations of multiple regression related to the assumption that the predictors are measured without error. All selected approaches were applied to a problem from psychology domain concerned with adolescent problem behaviour. Specifically, the interactions between certain risk factors relevant for adolescent delinquency (i.e., low self-control, family risk, and neighbourhood risk) were assessed. The International Youth Survey data collected from 3114 students in grades 7 to 9, in the city of Toronto, were utilized in the study. The results obtained by the different approaches were compared and their consistency was examined in terms of the existence, direction, and strength of the relations of interest (specifically, the statistical significance, sign, and magnitude of the obtained coefficients were examined, as well as the magnitude of the standard errors and model fit indices). According to the results of the comparison, there was a considerable consistency in the results of the different approaches. However, some differences were also noted. The obtained differences are of importance as they may affect researchers’ conclusions in regard to the substantive problems of interest. The current study provided a number of highlights that may be of interest to researchers focused on methodological as well as applied aspects of assessing interactions.
The application of compressive sampling to radio astronomy I: Deconvolution
Creators: name: Li, Feng
name: Cornwell, Tim J.
name: de Hoog, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Compressive sampling is a new paradigm for sampling, based on sparseness of signals or signal representations. It is much less restrictive than Nyquist-Shannon sampling theory and thus explains and systematises the widespread experience that methods such as the Högbom CLEAN can violate the Nyquist-Shannon sampling requirements. In this paper, a CS-based deconvolution method for extended sources is introduced. This method can reconstruct both point sources and extended sources (using the isotropic undecimated wavelet transform as a basis function for the reconstruction step). We compare this CS-based deconvolution method with two CLEAN-based deconvolution methods: the Högbom CLEAN and the multiscale CLEAN. This new method shows the best performance in deconvolving extended sources for both uniform and natural weighting of the sampled visibilities. Both visual and numerical results of the comparison are provided.
description: Published by A&A, Matlab code can be found: http://code.google.com/p/csra/downloads