cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Ivanhoe I5501 1:250,000 - AUSTopo - Australian Digital Topographic Map Series
Creators: name: L., Carter
name: Geoscience Australia
Publisher: name: Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: EARTH SCIENCES
subject: Topographic Map
subject: 1:250 000
subject: AUSTopo - Australian Digital Topographic Map Series
subject: mapping
subject: digital map
subject: Australia
subject: Published_External

description: This map is part of the AUSTopo - Australian Digital Topographic Map Series. It covers the whole of Australia at a scale of 1:250 000 (1cm on a map represents 2.5 km on the ground) and comprises 516 maps. This is the largest scale at which published topographic maps cover the entire continent. Each standard map covers an area of approximately 1.5 degrees longitude by 1 degree latitude or about 150 kilometres from east to west and at least 110 kilometres from north to south. The topographic map shows approximate coverage of the sheets. The map may contain information from surrounding map sheets to maximise utilisation of available space on the map sheet. There are about 50 special maps in the series and these maps cover a non-standard area. Typically, where a map produced on standard sheet lines is largely ocean it is combined with its landward neighbour. These maps contain natural and constructed features including road and rail infrastructure, vegetation, hydrography, contours (interval 50m), localities and some administrative boundaries.

Coordinates: Geographical and MGA Datum: GDA94, GDA2020, AHD. Projection: Universal Traverse Mercator (UTM) Medium: Digital PDF download.
Study of vacancy ordering and the boson peak in metastable cubic Ge-Sb-Te using machine learning potentials
Creators: name: Choi, Young-Jae
name: Ghim, Minjae
name: Jhi, Seung-Hoon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The mechanism of the vacancy ordering in metastable cubic Ge-Sb-Te (c-GST) that underlies the ultrafast phase-change dynamics and prominent thermoelectric properties remains elusive. Achieving a comprehensive understanding of the vacancy-ordering process at an atomic level is challenging because of enormous computational demands required to simulate disordered structures on large temporal and spatial scales. In this study, we investigate the vacancy ordering in c-GST by performing large-scale molecular dynamics simulations using machine learning potentials. The initial c-GST structure with randomly distributed vacancies rearranges to develop a semi-ordered cubic structure with layer-like ordered vacancies after annealing at 700~K for 100~ns. The vacancy ordering significantly affects the lattice dynamical properties of c-GST. In the initial structure with fully disordered vacancies, we observe a boson peak, usually associated with amorphous solids, that consists of localized modes at $\sim$0.575~THz. The boson peak modes are highly localized around specific atomic arrangements of straight vacancy-Te-vacancy trios. As vacancies become ordered, the boson peak disappears and the Debye-Waller thermal \textit{B} factor of Te decreases substantially. This finding indicates that the c-GST undergoes a transition from amorphous-like to crystalline-like solid state by thermal annealing in low-frequency dynamics.
description: 10 pages of main text, 1 Table of Contents figure, 8 main figures, Supplemental Material
title: Tallangatta J5503 1:250,000 - AUSTopo - Australian Digital Topographic Map Series
Creators: name: L., Carter
name: Geoscience Australia
Publisher: name: Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: EARTH SCIENCES
subject: Topographic Map
subject: 1:250 000
subject: AUSTopo - Australian Digital Topographic Map Series
subject: mapping
subject: digital map
subject: Australia
subject: Published_External

description: This map is part of the AUSTopo - Australian Digital Topographic Map Series. It covers the whole of Australia at a scale of 1:250 000 (1cm on a map represents 2.5 km on the ground) and comprises 516 maps. This is the largest scale at which published topographic maps cover the entire continent. Each standard map covers an area of approximately 1.5 degrees longitude by 1 degree latitude or about 150 kilometres from east to west and at least 110 kilometres from north to south. The topographic map shows approximate coverage of the sheets. The map may contain information from surrounding map sheets to maximise utilisation of available space on the map sheet. There are about 50 special maps in the series and these maps cover a non-standard area. Typically, where a map produced on standard sheet lines is largely ocean it is combined with its landward neighbour. These maps contain natural and constructed features including road and rail infrastructure, vegetation, hydrography, contours (interval 50m), localities and some administrative boundaries.

Coordinates: Geographical and MGA Datum: GDA94, GDA2020, AHD. Projection: Universal Traverse Mercator (UTM) Medium: Digital PDF download.
Primordial black holes in non-canonical scalar field inflation driven by quartic potential in the presence of bump
Creators: name: Heydari, Soma
name: Karami, Kayoomars
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Here, generation of Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) from quartic potential in the presence of a tiny bump in non-canonical inflationary model has been inquired. It is demonstrated that, a viable inflationary era can be driven through the quartic potential in non-canonical framework with a power-law Lagrangian density. Furthermore, setting a suitable function of inflaton field as a correction term (like a bump) to the quartic potential, causes the inflaton to slow down for a while. In such a short time span, the amplitude of the scalar perturbations power spectrum on small scales grows up sufficiently versus CMB scales. In addition to the bump feature, the enhancing effect of the $α$ parameter of the Lagrangian on the amplitude of the scalar power spectrum has been shown. Fine tuning of three parameter Cases of the model results in generating of three Cases of PBHs. In addition, we investigate the secondary Gravitational Waves (GWs) produced during generation of PBHs and show that their contemporary density parameter spectra $(Ω_{\rm GW_0})$ can be tracked down by GWs detectors.
description: 24 pages, 5 figures
Simulating quantum backflow on a quantum computer
Creators: name: Goussev, Arseni
name: Joo, Jaewoo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum backflow is a counterintuitive effect in which the probability density of a free particle moves in the direction opposite to the particle's momentum. If the particle is electrically charged, then the effect can be viewed as the contrast between the direction of electric current and that of the momentum. To date, there has been no direct experimental observation of quantum backflow. However, the effect has been simulated numerically (using classical computers) and optically (using classical light). In this study, we present the first simulation of quantum backflow using a real quantum computer.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures
Nucleon axial-vector form factor and radius from future neutrino experiments
Creators: name: Petti, Roberto
name: Hill, Richard J.
name: Tomalak, Oleksandr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Precision measurements of antineutrino elastic scattering on hydrogen from future neutrino experiments offer a unique opportunity to access the low-energy structure of protons and neutrons. We discuss the determination of the nucleon axial-vector form factor and radius from antineutrino interactions on hydrogen that can be collected at the future Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility, and study the sources of theoretical and experimental uncertainties. The projected accuracy would improve existing measurements by $1$ order of magnitude and be competitive with contemporary lattice-QCD determinations, potentially helping to resolve the corresponding tension with measurements from (anti)neutrino elastic scattering on deuterium. We find that the current knowledge of the nucleon vector form factors could be one of the dominant sources of uncertainty. We also evaluate the constraints that can be simultaneously obtained on the absolute $\bar ν_μ$ flux normalization.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures, v2: version published in Physical Review D, Equation 9, and Table 1 updated, minor text updates
title: Cargelligo I5506 1:250,000 - AUSTopo - Australian Digital Topographic Map Series
Creators: name: L., Carter
name: Geoscience Australia
Publisher: name: Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: EARTH SCIENCES
subject: Topographic Map
subject: 1:250 000
subject: AUSTopo - Australian Digital Topographic Map Series
subject: mapping
subject: digital map
subject: Australia
subject: Published_External

description: This map is part of the AUSTopo - Australian Digital Topographic Map Series. It covers the whole of Australia at a scale of 1:250 000 (1cm on a map represents 2.5 km on the ground) and comprises 516 maps. This is the largest scale at which published topographic maps cover the entire continent. Each standard map covers an area of approximately 1.5 degrees longitude by 1 degree latitude or about 150 kilometres from east to west and at least 110 kilometres from north to south. The topographic map shows approximate coverage of the sheets. The map may contain information from surrounding map sheets to maximise utilisation of available space on the map sheet. There are about 50 special maps in the series and these maps cover a non-standard area. Typically, where a map produced on standard sheet lines is largely ocean it is combined with its landward neighbour. These maps contain natural and constructed features including road and rail infrastructure, vegetation, hydrography, contours (interval 50m), localities and some administrative boundaries.

Coordinates: Geographical and MGA Datum: GDA94, GDA2020, AHD. Projection: Universal Traverse Mercator (UTM) Medium: Digital PDF download.
Political Context of the European Vaccine Debate on Twitter
Creators: name: Paoletti, Giordano
name: Dall'Amico, Lorenzo
name: Kalimeri, Kyriaki
name: Lenti, Jacopo
name: Mejova, Yelena
name: Paolotti, Daniela
name: Starnini, Michele
name: Tizzani, Michele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, fears grew that making vaccination a political (instead of public health) issue may impact the efficacy of this life-saving intervention, spurring the spread of vaccine-hesitant content. In this study, we examine whether there is a relationship between the political interest of social media users and their exposure to vaccine-hesitant content on Twitter. We focus on 17 European countries using a multilingual, longitudinal dataset of tweets spanning the period before COVID, up to the vaccine roll-out. We find that, in most countries, users' endorsement of vaccine-hesitant content is the highest in the early months of the pandemic, around the time of greatest scientific uncertainty. Further, users who follow politicians from right-wing parties, and those associated with authoritarian or anti-EU stances are more likely to endorse vaccine-hesitant content, whereas those following left-wing politicians, more pro-EU or liberal parties, are less likely. Somewhat surprisingly, politicians did not play an outsized role in the vaccine debates of their countries, receiving a similar number of retweets as other similarly popular users. This systematic, multi-country, longitudinal investigation of the connection of politics with vaccine hesitancy has important implications for public health policy and communication.
description: Published version in Sci Rep
Tuning flat bands by interlayer interaction, spin-orbital coupling, and external fields in twisted homotrilayer MoS$_2$
Creators: name: Li, Yonggang
name: Zhan, Zhen
name: Yuan, Shengjun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ultraflat bands have already been detected in twisted bilayer graphene and twisted bilayer transition-metal dichalcogenides, which provide a platform to investigate strong correlations. In this paper, the electronic properties of twisted trilayer molybdenum disulfide (TTM) are investigated via an accurate tight-binding Hamiltonian. We find that the highest valence bands are derived from the $Γ$-point of the constituent monolayer, and they exhibit a graphenelike dispersion or become isolated flat bands that are dependent on the starting stacking arrangements. The lattice relaxation, local deformation, and external fields can significantly tune the electronic structures of TTM. After introducing the spin-orbital coupling effect, we find a spin-valley-layer locking effect at the minimum of the conduction band at the $K$- and $K^\prime$-point of the Brillouin zone, which may provide a platform to study optical properties and magnetoelectric effects.
Vectorial phase retrieval in super-resolution polarization microscopy
Creators: name: Gutiérrez-Cuevas, Rodrigo
name: Alemán-Castañeda, Luis A.
name: Herrera, Isael
name: Brasselet, Sophie
name: Alonso, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In single molecule orientation localization microscopy, valuable information about the orientation and longitudinal position of each molecule is often encoded in the shape of the point spread function (PSF). This shape, though, can be affected significantly by aberrations and other imperfections in the imaging system, leading to erroneous estimation of the measured parameters. A basic solution is to model the aberrations as a scalar mask in the pupil plane that is characterized through phase retrieval algorithms. However, this approach is not suitable for cases involving polarization-dependent aberrations, introduced either through unintentional anisotropy in the elements or by using birefringent masks for PSF shaping. Here, this problem is addressed by introducing a fully vectorial model in which the polarization aberrations are represented via a spatially-dependent Jones matrix, commonly used to describe polarization-dependent elements. It is then shown that these aberrations can be characterized from a set of PSF measurements at varying focal planes and for various polarization projections. This PZ-stack of PSFs, which contains both phase and polarization projection diversity, is used in a phase retrieval algorithm based on nonlinear optimization to determine the aberrations. This methodology is demonstrated with numerical simulations and experimental measurements. The pyPSFstack software developed for the modeling and characterization is made freely available.
description: 13 pages for main manuscript and 14 pages for the supplemental document
Barriers, pathways and processes for uptake, translocation and accumulation of nanomaterials in plants – Critical review
Creators: name: Schwab, Fabienne
name: Guangshu Zhai
name: Kern, Meaghan
name: Turner, Amalia
name: Schnoor, Jerald L.
name: Wiesner, Mark R.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Uptake, transport and toxicity of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) into plant cells are complex processes that are currently still not well understood. Parts of this problem are the multifaceted plant anatomy, and analytical challenges to visualize and quantify ENMs in plants. We critically reviewed the currently known ENM uptake, translocation, and accumulation processes in plants. A vast number of studies showed uptake, clogging, or translocation in the apoplast of plants, most notably of nanoparticles with diameters much larger than the commonly assumed size exclusion limit of the cell walls of ∼5–20 nm. Plants that tended to translocate less ENMs were those with low transpiration, drought-tolerance, tough cell wall architecture, and tall growth. In the absence of toxicity, accumulation was often linearly proportional to exposure concentration. Further important factors strongly affecting ENM internalization are the cell wall composition, mucilage, symbiotic microorganisms (mycorrhiza), the absence of a cuticle (submerged plants) and stomata aperture. Mostly unexplored are the roles of root hairs, leaf repellency, pit membrane porosity, xylem segmentation, wounding, lateral roots, nodes, the Casparian band, hydathodes, lenticels and trichomes. The next steps towards a realistic risk assessment of nanoparticles in plants are to measure ENM uptake rates, the size exclusion limit of the apoplast and to unravel plant physiological features favoring uptake.
Data Augmentation for Conversational AI
Creators: name: Soudani, Heydar
name: Kanoulas, Evangelos
name: Hasibi, Faegheh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Advancements in conversational systems have revolutionized information access, surpassing the limitations of single queries. However, developing dialogue systems requires a large amount of training data, which is a challenge in low-resource domains and languages. Traditional data collection methods like crowd-sourcing are labor-intensive and time-consuming, making them ineffective in this context. Data augmentation (DA) is an affective approach to alleviate the data scarcity problem in conversational systems. This tutorial provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of DA approaches in the context of conversational systems. It highlights recent advances in conversation augmentation, open domain and task-oriented conversation generation, and different paradigms of evaluating these models. We also discuss current challenges and future directions in order to help researchers and practitioners to further advance the field in this area.
Nanosilver pathophysiology in earthworms: Transcriptional profiling of secretory proteins and the implication for the protein corona
Creators: name: Hayashi, Yuya
name: Miclaus, Teodora
name: Engelmann, Péter
name: Autrup, Herman
name: Sutherland, Duncan S.
name: Janeck J. Scott-Fordsmand
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: Computational Biology

description: Previously we have identified lysenin as a key protein constituent of the secretome from Eisenia fetida coelomocytes and revealed its critical importance in priming interactions between the cells and the protein corona around nanosilver. As alterations of the protein environment can directly affect the corona composition, the extent to which nanoparticles influence the cells’ protein secretion profile is of remarkable interest that has rarely acquired attention. Here, we have probed transcriptional responses of E. fetida coelomocytes to the representative nanosilver NM-300K (15 nm) in a time-dependent manner (2, 4, 8 and 24 h at a low-cytotoxic concentration), and examined the implication of the temporal changes in transcriptional profiles of secretory proteins with a particular reference to that of lysenin. NM-300K was accumulated in/at the cells and lysenin was, after transient induction, gradually suppressed over time indicating a negative feedback cycle. This may limit further enrichment of lysenin in the corona and thereby decrease the lysenin-assisted uptake of the nanoparticles. Other differentially expressed genes were those involved in metal stress (likewise in AgNO3-stressed cells) and in Toll-like receptor (TLR) signaling. This offers an intriguing perspective of the nanosilver pathophysiology in earthworms, in which the conserved pattern recognition receptor TLRs may play an effector role.
Thanatus imbecillus L. Koch 1878
Creators: name: Hosseinpour, Amin
name: Zamani, Alireza
name: Azizi, Kourosh
name: Moemenbellah-Fard, Mohammad Djaefar
name: Soltani, Aboozar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Philodromidae
Thanatus
Thanatus imbecillus

description: Thanatus imbecillus L. Koch, 1878
 Material: 1♂ 1♀, Shah- ghasem Dam, 30°57ʹ50ʺN, 51°56ʹ69ʺE, April 2016; 1♂, Ab- Nahr, 30°69ʹ48ʺN, 51°68ʹ83ʺE, April 2016.
 Iranian provinces: Isfahan, Lorestan, Tehran. First record for Kohgiluyeh & Boyer-Ahmad.
 Distribution: Greece, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Caucasus, Russia (Europe, Urals), Iran, Central Asia.
description: Published as part of Hosseinpour, Amin, Zamani, Alireza, Azizi, Kourosh, Moemenbellah-Fard, Mohammad Djaefar & Soltani, Aboozar, 2019, Survey of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) in southwestern Iran, with new records, pp. 204-213 in Ecologica Montenegrina 22 on page 209, DOI: 10.37828/em.2019.22.16, http://zenodo.org/record/12716235
Influenza vaccine: progress in a vaccine that elicits a broad immune response
Creators: name: Isakova-Sivak, Irina
name: Stepanova, Ekaterina
name: Mezhenskaya, Daria
name: Matyushenko, Victoria
name: Prokopenko, Polina
name: Sychev, Ivan
name: Wong, Pei-Fong
name: Rudenko, Larisa
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: The licensed seasonal influenza vaccines predominantly induce neutralizing antibodies against immunodominant hypervariable epitopes of viral surface proteins, with limited protection against antigenically distant influenza viruses. Strategies have been developed to improve vaccines’ performance in terms of broadly reactive and long-lasting immune response induction. We have summarized the advancements in the development of cross-protective influenza vaccines and discussed the challenges in evaluating them in preclinical and clinical trials. Here, the literature regarding the current stage of development of universal influenza vaccine candidates was reviewed Although various strategies aim to redirect adaptive immune responses from variable immunodominant to immunosubdominant antigens, more conserved epitopes are being investigated. Approaches that improve antibody responses to conserved B cell epitopes have increased the protective efficacy of vaccines within a subtype or phylogenetic group of influenza viruses. Vaccines that elicit significant levels of T cells recognizing highly conserved viral epitopes possess a high cross-protective potential and may cover most circulating influenza viruses. However, the development of T cell-based universal influenza vaccines is challenging owing to the diversity of MHCs in the population, unpredictable degree of immunodominance, lack of adequate animal models, and difficulty in establishing T cell immunity in humans. cHA: chimeric HA; HBc: hepatitis B virus core protein; HA: hemagglutinin; HLA: human leucocyte antigen; IIV: inactivated influenza vaccine; KLH: keyhole limpet hemocyanin; LAH: long alpha helix; LAIV: live attenuated influenza vaccine; M2e: extracellular domain of matrix 2 protein; MHC: major histocompatibility complex; mRNA: messenger ribonucleic acid; NA: neuraminidase; NS1: non-structural protein 1; qNIV: quadrivalent nanoparticle influenza vaccine; TRM: tissue-resident memory T cells; VE: vaccine effectiveness; VLP: virus-like particles; VSV: vesicular stomatitis virus
Федеральные клинические рекомендации. Дефицит витамина D у взрослых- диагностика, лечение и профилактика. 2015.pdf
Creators: name: Doe, Jonn
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: Medicine

description: Федеральные клинические рекомендации. Дефицит витамина D у взрослых- диагностика, лечение и профилактика. 2015.pdf
Cost-effectiveness analysis for PCV13 in adults 60 years and over with underlying medical conditions which put them at an elevated risk of pneumococcal disease in Japan
Creators: name: Igarashi, Ataru
name: Hirose, Emi
name: Kobayashi, Yasuhiro
name: Yonemoto, Naohiro
name: Lee, Bennett
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Background: The objective of this study was to conduct a cost-effectiveness analysis of PCV13 vs. PPV23 and no vaccination and PPV23 vs. no vaccination in adults aged ≥ 60 years with underlying medical conditions which put them at an elevated risk of pneumococcal disease in a Japanese healthcare setting. Research design and methods: A natural history model was developed with a life-long time horizon and 1-year cycle length, with microsimulation as a modeling technique. The expected costs from a public payer’s and societal perspective, quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs), and prevented cases and deaths caused by IPD (invasive pneumococcal disease) and NBP (non-bacteremic pneumococcal pneumonia) were estimated. Results: In the base-case scenario, the cost per QALY gained from a public payer’s perspective for PCV13 vs, PPV23 and no vaccination were 500,255JPY and 1,139,438JPY, respectively, The cost per QALY gained for PPV23 vs no vaccination was 1,687,057JPY. Over the life-long time horizon for 1 million patients, when compared to PPV23, PCV13 resulted in 65 fewer IPD cases, 2,894 fewer NBP cases, and 384 fewer deaths caused by pneumococcal disease. Conclusions: In adults aged 60 years and over with underlying medical conditions, PCV13 was shown to be a more cost-effective alternative to PPV23.
Data Stewardship Flavors: Dutch Cuisine
Creators: name: Karvovskaya, Lena
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: data stewardship, Netherlands, VU Amsterdam, Utrecht University, TU Delft

description: A short presentation on research data stewardship in the Netherlands. Three case studies: VU Amsterdam, Utrecht University and TU Delft. Below is the abstract of the whole session: 4.2 Professionalising support for Open Research Open Research encourages making research more transparent and outputs from every stage of the research workflow - including data, software and publications - freely available and accessible to all. To achieve this shift in research culture, additional skills are needed that are not covered by traditional professional development offers for researchers. To support researchers in these new practices, a range of professional roles such as research software engineers and data stewards have been developed over the last few years that provide training, support and guidance to address new funder requirements and facilitate cultural change. Those support roles however often do not have formal career paths and rarely get rewarded for their contributions. Thus, professional associations and support networks are being built to campaign for recognition and share knowledge and experiences. While sharing the same goals and facing similar challenges, there has not been much exchange between those professional communities to join forces and exploit synergies. This workshop will bring data stewards and research software engineers together and provide an insight into case studies of initiatives to professionalise roles supporting open research from a range of countries. Group discussions will address challenges that those professions still face to get recognised and explore opportunities for collaboration on policy changes, professional development and hands-on cooperation in institutions.
Convergence, Finiteness and Periodicity of Several New Algorithms of p-adic Continued Fractions
Creators: name: Wang, Zhaonan
name: Deng, Yingpu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: $p$-adic continued fractions, as an extension of the classical concept of classical continued fractions to the realm of $p$-adic numbers, offering a novel perspective on number representation and approximation. While numerous $p$-adic continued fraction expansion algorithms have been proposed by the researchers, the establishment of several excellent properties, such as the Lagrange Theorem for classic continued fractions, which indicates that every quadratic irrationals can be expanded periodically, remains elusive. In this paper, we present several new algorithms that can be viewed as refinements of the existing $p$-adic continued fraction algorithms. We give an upper bound of the length of partial quotients when expanding rational numbers, and prove that for small primes $p$, our algorithm can generate periodic continued fraction expansions for all quadratic irrationals. As confirmed through experimentation, one of our algorithms can be viewed as the best $p$-adic algorithm available to date. Furthermore, we provide an approach to establish a $p$-adic continued fraction expansion algorithm that could generate periodic expansions for all quadratic irrationals in $\mathbb{Q}_p$ for a given prime $p$.
Amnesty International.Доклад 2015-2016.Права человека в современном мире. RUS.pdf
Creators: name: Doe, Jonn
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 160510 Public Policy
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 160403 Social and Cultural Geography
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography

description: Amnesty International.Доклад 2015-2016.Права человека в современном мире. RUS.pdf
Understanding COVID-19 vaccine acceptance in Pakistan: an echo of previous immunizations or prospect of change?
Creators: name: Ahmed, Tehniat F
name: Ahmed, Affan
name: Ahmed, Sheharyar
name: Ahmed, Haadi U
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: As countries ramp up their COVID-19 vaccination programs, attitudes of the population remain a determining player in the success of these plans. This study analyses the factors associated with intent to vaccinate against COVID-19 in the Pakistani population. This cross-sectional, anonymous, online survey was carried out in April 2021. Participants’ demographic details, experiences relating to COVID-19 and its vaccination, and their health beliefs were inquired and divided across Health Belief Model constructs. Multivariable regression was used to determine factors associated with a No/Not sure vs Yes response for vaccination intention. Of the 655 respondents, 62.0% were willing to get vaccinated. Significant predictors of a less likelihood of resisting vaccination included advanced age (AOR 0.25; 95% CI 0.07–0.88), fear of contracting COVID-19 (AOR 0.47; 95% CI 0.27–0.82), hope of preventing its spread (AOR 0.30; 95% CI 0.19–0.49), and community pressure (AOR 0.22; 95% CI 0.13–0.37). Concerns about vaccine reliability (AOR 2.75; 95% CI 1.67–4.53) and religious inhibitions (AOR 2.45; 95% CI 1.34–4.48) swayed people away from vaccination. Despite a reasonably good response of Pakistanis to vaccination, factors negatively influencing their intention need to be timely addressed to control this pandemic.
title: Roma G5512 1:250,000 - AUSTopo - Australian Digital Topographic Map Series
Creators: name: L., Carter
name: Geoscience Australia
Publisher: name: Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: EARTH SCIENCES
subject: Topographic Map
subject: 1:250 000
subject: AUSTopo - Australian Digital Topographic Map Series
subject: mapping
subject: digital map
subject: Australia
subject: Published_External

description: This map is part of the AUSTopo - Australian Digital Topographic Map Series. It covers the whole of Australia at a scale of 1:250 000 (1cm on a map represents 2.5 km on the ground) and comprises 516 maps. This is the largest scale at which published topographic maps cover the entire continent. Each standard map covers an area of approximately 1.5 degrees longitude by 1 degree latitude or about 150 kilometres from east to west and at least 110 kilometres from north to south. The topographic map shows approximate coverage of the sheets. The map may contain information from surrounding map sheets to maximise utilisation of available space on the map sheet. There are about 50 special maps in the series and these maps cover a non-standard area. Typically, where a map produced on standard sheet lines is largely ocean it is combined with its landward neighbour. These maps contain natural and constructed features including road and rail infrastructure, vegetation, hydrography, contours (interval 50m), localities and some administrative boundaries.

Coordinates: Geographical and MGA Datum: GDA94, GDA2020, AHD. Projection: Universal Traverse Mercator (UTM) Medium: Digital PDF download.
A Pathway to Peace
Creators: name: Moore, Brian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 160606 Government and Politics of Asia and the Pacific

description: This article provides an outside-the-box, four-pronged approach for U.S. policy towards North Korea founded on the strategic cooperation between the US-ROK-Japan triangle.
Noisy Demkov-Kunike model
Creators: name: Chen, Lin
name: Liang, Zhaoxin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Demkov-Kunike (DK) model, characterized by a time-dependent Rabi coupling $J~\text{sech}(t/T)$ and on-site detuning $Δ_0+Δ_1\tanh(t/T)$, has one of the most general forms of an exactly solvable two-state quantum system, and, therefore, it provides a paradigm for coherent manipulations of a qubit's quantum state. Despite its extensive applications in the noise-free cases, the exploration of the noisy DK model remains limited. Here, we extend the coherent DK model to take into account of a noisy coupling term $J\rightarrow J_{\text{noisy}}(t)$. We consider colored Markovian noise sources represented by the telegraph noise and Gaussian noise. We present exact solutions for the survival probability $Q^{\text{noisy}}_{\text{DK}}$ of the noisy DK model, namely the probability of the system to remain in its initial state. For the slow telegraph noise, we identify parameter regimes where the survival probability $Q^{\text{noisy}}_{\text{DK}}$ is suppressed rather than enhanced by noise. In contrast, for slow Gaussian noise, the noise always enhances the survival probability $Q^{\text{noisy}}_{\text{DK}}$, due to the absorption of noise quanta across the energy gap. This study not only complements the existing research on the noisy Landau-Zener model, but also provides valuable insights for the control of two-level quantum systems.
description: 7 pages, 8 figures
title: Mount Coolon F5507 1:250,000 - AUSTopo - Australian Digital Topographic Map Series
Creators: name: L., Carter
name: Geoscience Australia
Publisher: name: Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: EARTH SCIENCES
subject: Topographic Map
subject: 1:250 000
subject: AUSTopo - Australian Digital Topographic Map Series
subject: mapping
subject: digital map
subject: Australia
subject: Published_External

description: This map is part of the AUSTopo - Australian Digital Topographic Map Series. It covers the whole of Australia at a scale of 1:250 000 (1cm on a map represents 2.5 km on the ground) and comprises 516 maps. This is the largest scale at which published topographic maps cover the entire continent. Each standard map covers an area of approximately 1.5 degrees longitude by 1 degree latitude or about 150 kilometres from east to west and at least 110 kilometres from north to south. The topographic map shows approximate coverage of the sheets. The map may contain information from surrounding map sheets to maximise utilisation of available space on the map sheet. There are about 50 special maps in the series and these maps cover a non-standard area. Typically, where a map produced on standard sheet lines is largely ocean it is combined with its landward neighbour. These maps contain natural and constructed features including road and rail infrastructure, vegetation, hydrography, contours (interval 50m), localities and some administrative boundaries.

Coordinates: Geographical and MGA Datum: GDA94, GDA2020, AHD. Projection: Universal Traverse Mercator (UTM) Medium: Digital PDF download.
title: Longreach F5513 1:250,000 - AUSTopo - Australian Digital Topographic Map Series
Creators: name: L., Carter
name: Geoscience Australia
Publisher: name: Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: EARTH SCIENCES
subject: Topographic Map
subject: 1:250 000
subject: AUSTopo - Australian Digital Topographic Map Series
subject: mapping
subject: digital map
subject: Australia
subject: Published_External

description: This map is part of the AUSTopo - Australian Digital Topographic Map Series. It covers the whole of Australia at a scale of 1:250 000 (1cm on a map represents 2.5 km on the ground) and comprises 516 maps. This is the largest scale at which published topographic maps cover the entire continent. Each standard map covers an area of approximately 1.5 degrees longitude by 1 degree latitude or about 150 kilometres from east to west and at least 110 kilometres from north to south. The topographic map shows approximate coverage of the sheets. The map may contain information from surrounding map sheets to maximise utilisation of available space on the map sheet. There are about 50 special maps in the series and these maps cover a non-standard area. Typically, where a map produced on standard sheet lines is largely ocean it is combined with its landward neighbour. These maps contain natural and constructed features including road and rail infrastructure, vegetation, hydrography, contours (interval 50m), localities and some administrative boundaries.

Coordinates: Geographical and MGA Datum: GDA94, GDA2020, AHD. Projection: Universal Traverse Mercator (UTM) Medium: Digital PDF download.
Observation of Gravitational Waves and Gravitas Vessel Communications.docx
Creators: name: Kitchen, Kris
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 90107 Hypersonic Propulsion and Hypersonic Aerodynamics
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering
subject: 90108 Satellite, Space Vehicle and Missile Design and Testing
subject: 90199 Aerospace Engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Gravitational Waves as a Method of Faster than Light Communication. Draft as this is very complex.
Modeling the 3-micron Class Er-Doped Fluoride Fiber Laser with a Cubic Energy Transfer Rate Dependence
Creators: name: Bisson, William
name: Michaud, Alexandre
name: Paradis, Pascal
name: Vallée, Réal
name: Bernier, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose an energy transfer model with a cubic atomic population dependence to accurately model the behavior of various reported high-power erbium-doped fluoride fiber lasers operating near 2.8 microns. We first show that the previously introduced weakly interacting (WI) and strongly interacting (SI) models are not adequate for precisely modeling such high-power erbium-doped fluoride fiber lasers. We compare results obtained with the WI and SI models to the proposed model by simulating 4 different highly doped (7 mol.%) fiber lasers previously reported in the literature. Laser efficiencies and powers are reproduced with great accuracy. In addition, four other independent fiber laser systems based on erbium doping concentrations varying from 1-6 mol.% are also simulated with good accuracy using the proposed model with the exact same set of spectroscopic parameters, which confirms its validity for various erbium doping concentrations. Redshifting of laser wavelength is also taken into account by considering the full cross section spectra and computing signal powers over several wavelength channels.
description: 9 pages, 18 figures, Accepted for publication in IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics
'An ugly epoch' : male sexual violence in interwar Scotland, 1918-1930
Creators: name: Heren, Louise Elizabeth
Publisher: name: University of St Andrews
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sexual assault
subject: Rape
subject: Ravish
subject: Incest
subject: Sexual violence
subject: Scotland
subject: Masculinities
subject: Glasgow
subject: 1920s
subject: HV6593.S3H4
subject: Sex crimes--Scotland--History--20th century
subject: Sex crimes--Law and legislation--Scotland--History--20th century
subject: Women--Violence against--Scotland--History--20th century
subject: Rape--Social aspects--Scotland

description: This thesis examines social and judicial attitudes towards sexual violence in Scotland between November 1918 and December 1930. Based on a survey of over 700 sexual violence cases prosecuted at the High Court of Justiciary, it addresses three key research questions: who committed sexual violence against whom; what were the spatial and social geographies of these crimes, and how did the judiciary respond? The records suggest that sexual violence was committed by working-class males against women and children of their own class, and that while incest involved mainly pubertal victims, rape was a crime prosecuted equally against minors and adult females. The thesis explores reasons for this difference including the ability of the victim to report an assault. The absence of either middle-class perpetrators or victims from the records may reveal a lack of cross-class transgressions as well as different prosecuting practices for middle-class males. It also argues that the preponderance of prosecutions in Glasgow compared to Scotland’s other urban centres and rural areas cannot be explained by contemporaries’ correlation of domestic over-crowding with sexual violence. Finally, Scots Law and its reliance on nine regional procurators fiscal operating under a single legal code may have limited the scope for personal decision-making and ‘sifting’ of cases. However, once convinced of corroborated, compelling and competent evidence, procurators fiscal could proceed with cases, that often ran contrary to higher legal or forensic opinion. Once in court, analysis of jury gender composition, victim’s age, degree of association with the accused and notions of consent suggest that verdicts were evidence-based with class biases largely absent, although sentencing could be erratic. It is acknowledged that the ‘dark number’ of unreported and reported-but-unprosecuted crimes may not follow similar trends, but the prosecuted cases analysed in this thesis may offer insights into these unquantifiable, invisible crimes.
Torsion, Gravity Induced Chiral Symmetry Breaking and Cosmological Bounce
Creators: name: Tukhashvili, Giorgi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we elaborate and extend our proposal arXiv:2307.16098 of the cosmological bouncing model in which a chiral condensate violates the null energy condition and induces a bounce. The condensate formation is caused by the gravitational effects that arise in the effective action when the curvature of space-time is non-zero. As the chiral condensation is a vacuum effect, the symmetries of the FRW space-time are not violated. We explicitly calculate the spinor effective action in the presence of a background gravitational field up to second order in curvature and with derivative corrections and also derive the initial conditions of the condensate. In addition, a new interaction term between the condensate and the scalar field is introduced that might be relevant for producing the adiabatic perturbations during the contraction phase. The curvature/energy density stays far from Planckian values throughout this evolution.
description: 26 pages, 12 figures; v2: references added; typos corrected;
A novel vaccine to prevent meningococcal disease beyond the first year of life: an early review of MenACYW-TT
Creators: name: Martinón-Torres, Federico
name: Bertrand-Gerentes, Isabelle
name: Oster, Philipp
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Although quadrivalent meningococcal conjugate vaccines have been effective in preventing invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) caused by serogroups A, C, W, and Y across age groups from infants to adults, data on their efficacy and safety in adults ≥56 years of age are lacking. Moreover, multiple available quadrivalent conjugate vaccines require reconstitution prior to administration, introducing the potential for error. A novel quadrivalent meningococcal conjugate vaccine, MenACYW-TT (MenQuadfi®) was approved in 2020 for use in individuals ≥12 months of age as a single dose in the European Union and some other countries and in individuals ≥2 years of age in the United States. The findings of Phase II/III studies that included >6600 individuals and evaluated the immunogenicity and safety of MenACYW-TT beyond the first year of life are comprehensively summarized and discussed. Extensive data on immunogenicity and safety, co-administration with routine vaccines, elicitation of robust booster responses, and significantly higher Men C responses versus monovalent MenC or MenACWY standard-of-care vaccines in toddlers suggest that MenACYW-TT may be suitable for inclusion in National Immunization Programs (NIPs) globally. The authors provide their perspectives on the clinical use of MenACYW-TT across age groups from toddlers through adults.
Master of Science in Information Systems (Notarized Equiv. of Nairobi, 2015)
Creators: name: Nyagudi, Nyagudi Musandu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 130103 Higher Education
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: Education

description: Notarized Equivalency Affidavit for Master of Science in Information Systems (Nairobi, 2015)