cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Computational identification and characterization of vascular wilt pathogen (Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici) CAZymes in tomato xylem sap
Creators: name: Roy, Abhijeet
name: Kalita, Barsha
name: Jayaprakash, Aiswarya
name: Kumar, Amrendra
name: Lakshmi, P. T. V.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici is a devastating plant pathogenic fungi known for wilt disease in the tomato plant and secrete cell wall degrading enzymes. These enzymes are collectively known as carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes), crucial for growth, colonization and pathogenesis. Therefore, the present study was aimed to identify and annotate pathogen CAZymes in the xylem sap of a susceptible tomato variety using downstream proteomics and meta servers. Further, structural elucidation and conformational stability analysis of the selected CAZyme families were done through homology modeling and molecular dynamics simulation. Among all the fungal proteins identified, the carbohydrate metabolic process was found to be enriched. Most of the annotated CAZymes belonged to the hydrolase and oxidoreductase families, and 90% were soluble and extracellular. Moreover, using a publically available interactome database, interactions were observed between the families acting on chitin, hemicellulose and pectin. Subsequently, important catalytic residues were identified in the candidate CAZymes belonging to carbohydrate esterase (CE8) and glycosyl hydrolase (GH18 and GH28). Further, essential dynamics after molecular simulation of 100 ns revealed the overall behavior of these CAZymes with distinct global minima and transition states in CE8. Thus, our study identified some of the CAZyme families that assist in pathogenesis and growth through host cell wall deconstruction with further structural insight into the selected CAZyme families. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma
Supplementary information for 'Active learning strategies for the design of sustainable alloys'
Creators: name: Rao, Ziyuan
name: Bajpai, Anurag
name: Zhang, Hongbin
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 340399
subject: Macromolecular and materials chemistry not elsewhere classified

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Identification of potential bioactive natural compounds from Indonesian medicinal plants against 3-chymotrypsin-like protease (3CLpro) of SARS-CoV-2: molecular docking, ADME/T, molecular dynamic simulations, and DFT analysis
Creators: name: Prasetyo, Wahyu Eko
name: Purnomo, Heri
name: Sadrini, Miracle
name: Wibowo, Fajar Rakhman
name: Firdaus, Maulidan
name: Kusumaningsih, Triana
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: An outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) has caused a global health emergency, resulting in hundreds of millions of infections and millions of deaths globally since December 2019. Due to the lack of a particular medicine or treatment approach and the fast spread of the virus around the world, it is imperative to find effective pharmacological molecules to combat the virus. Herein, we carried out docking-based virtual screening of selected 49 bioactive phytochemicals from 20 medicinal plants used in Jamu, an Indonesian traditional herbal medicine along with the 3CLpro inhibitor N3 towards the 3CLpro enzyme of SARS-CoV-2. From a total of 49 bioactive phytochemicals, eleven compounds exhibited good binding affinity against 3CLpro of SARS-CoV-2 (-7.2 to −8.5 kcal/mol). Accordingly, only seven phytochemicals fully obeyed drug-likeness properties. Ultimately, it was observed that both Luteolin and Naringenin have significant interactions with both of the catalytic residues of 3CLpro through hydrogen bonds and hydrophobic interactions, respectively. The drug-like characteristics of Luteolin and Naringenin were also confirmed by pharmacokinetic investigations. Further, an investigation into molecular dynamics (MD) simulations were undertaken to ensure the ligands would remain stable within the binding pocket. Finally, density-functional theory (DFT) calculations revealed the following order for biochemical reactivity: Naringenin > Luteolin > N3. The oxygen and hydrogen atom regions of these investigated ligands are suitable for electrophilic and nucleophilic attacks, respectively. These two bioactive phytochemicals from Tamarindus indica (Luteolin and Naringenin) as well as Citrus aurantifolia (Naringenin) might be potential antagonists of 3CLpro of SARS-CoV-2. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma.
A theoretical study of the heavy and light hole properties of Cd1-xZnxS quantum dot superlattices
Creators: name: Marzougui, Saber
name: Safta, Nabil
name: International Journal Of Materials Science And Applications
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 20203 Particle Physics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Applied Physics
subject: Condensed Matter Physics

description: This work reports on a theoretical investigation of superlattices based on Cd1-xZnxS quantum dots embedded in an insulating material.
Body-Worn Cameras and Transparency: Experimental Evidence of Inconsistency in Police Executive Decision-Making
Creators: name: Tregle, Brandon
name: Nix, Justin
name: Pickett, Justin T.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Body-worn cameras (BWC) have diffused rapidly throughout policing as a means of promoting transparency and accountability. Yet, whether to release BWC footage to the public remains largely up to the discretion of police executives, and we know little about how they interpret and respond to BWC footage – particularly footage involving critical incidents. We asked a nationally representative sample of police executives (N = 476) how supportive they were of legislation that would mandate releasing BWC footage upon request as public information, and presented them with an experimental vignette about BWC capturing one of their officers fatally shooting an [armed/unarmed] [Black/White] suspect. Results indicated inconsistency in executives’ attitudes and decision-making: (1) less than one-third of executives supported such legislation, (2) suspect race and armed/unarmed status shaped how executives felt media would cover the incident and whether they would state publicly that the shooting was justified, and (3) agency size conditioned the effects of armed/unarmed status on executives’ perceptions.
Analysis of time delay effects on a linear bubble chain system
Creators: name: Ooi, Andrew
name: Nikolovska, Aneta
name: Manasseh, Richard
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A chain of vertically rising discrete air bubbles represents a transition phenomenon from individual to continuum behavior in a bubbly liquid. Previous studies have reported that there is a preference for acoustic energy to propagate along the bubble chain and that this behavior could be explained by a coupled-oscillator model. However, it has recently been demonstrated that quantitative results from the coupled-oscillator model do not match experimental data. In this paper, it is shown how adding time delays to the coupled-oscillator model can produce results that are in better agreement with experimental data. In addition, the effects of time delays on the natural frequencies and damping of individual eigenmodes of the vertical bubble chain are also investigated. It was found that adding time delays can dramatically change the damping of the different modes of the system while having less dramatic impact on the natural frequencies of the individual eigenmodes. Counterintuitively, it is found that the effects of time delays appear to be more important when the bubbles are closer together than when they are farther apart.
Polarity and steric effect of the lateral substituent on the mesophase behaviour of some newly prepared liquid crystals
Creators: name: Magdi M. Naoum
name: Metwally, Nadia H.
name: Eltawab, Manal M. Abd
name: Ahmed, Hoda A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: Eight homologous series of 2- (or 3-) substituted phenyl 4ʹ-(4ʺ-alkoxy phenylazo) benzoates (Ina–h) were prepared in which, within each homologous series, the length of the terminal alkoxy group varies between 6, 8, 10 and 12 carbons, while the other substituent, X, is a laterally attached polar group that alternatively changed from CH3, H, F, Br and CN. Compounds prepared were characterised by infrared and 1H-NMR spectroscopy, and their mesophase behaviour investigated by differential scanning calorimetry and identified by polarised light microscopy. The results were discussed in terms of polarity and steric effects. The stability of the mesophase was correlated once with the dipolar anisotropy of the whole molecule and another with the dipolar anisotropy of the substituent, X. A comparative study was made between the investigated compounds and their previously prepared linear 4-substituted isomers, namely 4-substituted phenyl 4ʹ-(4ʺ-alkoxy phenylazo) benzoates (Ini–k).
The effect of inversion of the ester group on the mesophase behaviour of some azo/ester compounds
Creators: name: Magdi M. Naoum
name: Abdelgawad A. Fahmi
name: Nagwa H.S. Ahmed
name: Saad, Gamal R.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Biochemistry

description: Five homologous series of 4-substituted phenyl 4′-(4″-alkoxy phenylazo) benzoates (Ina–−e) were prepared in which, within each homologous series, the length of the terminal alkoxy group varies between 8, 10, 12, 14 and 16 carbons, while the other terminal substituent, X, is a polar group that alternatively changed from CH3O, CH3, H, Br, and CN groups. Compounds prepared were characterised by infrared, mass, and H1-NMR spectroscopy and their mesophase behaviour investigated by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and polarised light microscopy (PLM). The results were discussed in terms of mesomeric and polarisability effects. Only for the lower group of compounds, I8a-e, that showed a nematic phase, the nematic-to-isotropic transition temperatures (TN–I) were successfully correlated to the polarisability anisotropy of bonds to the substituent X. A comparative study was made between the investigated compounds and two previously prepared isomeric groups. In the first group of isomers, 4-(4′alkoxy phenylazo) phenyl 4″-substituted benzoates (IIna–e), the ester groups are inverted. While in the second, 4-(4′-substituted phenylazo) phenyl 4″-alkoxy benzoates (IIIna–e), two modifications were made, inversion of the COO group, and exchange of the two wing substituents
A theoretical study of the electronic properties of Cd1-xZnxS quantum dot superlattices
Creators: name: Marzougui, Saber
name: Safta, Nabil
name: American Journal Of Nanoscience And Nanotechnology
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 20203 Particle Physics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Applied Physics
subject: Condensed Matter Physics

description: The present work is aimed to investigate theoretically the electronic properties of superlattices based on Cd1-xZnxS quantum dots embedded in an insulating material.
Non-symmetrical liquid crystal dimers armed with azobenzene and 1,2,3-triazole-cholesterol
Creators: name: Alshargabi, Arwa
name: Guan-Yeow Yeap
name: Mahmood, Wan Ahmad Kamil
name: Chun-Chieh Han
name: Hon-Cheu Lin
name: Takeuchi, Daisuke
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biochemistry

description: New non-symmetrical dimers which contain respective side units of azobenzene and 1,2,3-triazole-choloesteral have been synthesised from the reaction between 6-azido-[4-(4-acetylphenylazo)phenoxy]alkane and cholesteryl-4-(prop-2-ynyloxy)benzoate. The results show that the derivatives of 6-bromo[4-(4-acetylphenylazo)phenoxy]alkanes which possess the odd alkyl spacers exhibit dimesomorphism of N and SmA phases whilst the members with even numbers are non-mesogenic. However, the 6-azido-[4-(4-acetylphenylazo)phenoxy]-alkanes show N and SmA phases in a wide temperature range. On heating and cooling the target compounds cholesteryl 4-[(1-(6-(4-(4ʹ-acetylphenylazo)phenoxy)alkyl)-1H-1,2,3-triazol-4-yl)methoxy]benzoate show chiral nematic (oily streak and fan-shaped texture) and focal conic texture characteristics of smectic A phases with high thermal stability. Present investigation also reveals the effect of the spacer length upon the phase transition temperature. Intercalated arrangement is favoured by the molecules in the smectic phase. The observation is well established by XRD measurement wherein the actual molecular length is smaller than the theoretical value.
Slides for: AI and Metaverse Impact on Smart Cities and Its Citizens
Creators: Gustavo Giannatasio
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2024

Slides for: AI and Metaverse Impact on Smart Cities and Its Citizens
The needs of the Citizens are the real driver for Smart Cities Solutions. Technology is a tool to design alternate solutions. Strategic development Goals are key to address the needs. New technologies help designers to look for innovative solutions. The AI and Metaverse Technology challenges the vast opportunities for new solutions, However General public is not aware of the real potential of AI and Metaverse to solve their needs. AI is confused with just privacy issues and Metaverse is practically unknown by the general public. The presentation introduces the proposed order to get solutions starting from Citizen needs and the UN Strategic Development Goals. Trends on Ai and metaverse as well as practical implementations of solutions based in such technologies are detailed. The presentation recommends further readings and sites to explore more on the subject.
Analytical material for planning in Olomouc, Czech Republic
Creators: name: Burian, Jaroslav
name: Alžběta Brychtová
name: Aleš Vávra
name: Hladišová, Barbora
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Urban planning in the Czech Republic is governed by the Act No. 183/2006 Coll., the Construction Act and the Ministry Decree No. 500/2006 Coll. These laws make it an obligation to create and maintain up to date Analytical Materials for Planning (Územně analytické podklady – UAP) containing four specific maps showing Territories Requiring Preservation, Territorial Challenges, Territorial Limits and Territorial Concepts. Currently, there is no uniform approach to the cartographic visualization of these maps. This article describes the process of designing the symbology and then the creating of four thematic maps that meet the requirements. The maps that have been produced through the current project are the result of collaboration between the Department of Geoinformatics, the Regional Authority of the Olomouc Region and the City of Olomouc. The joint project was focused on the creation of a comprehensive symbology for the UAP maps required by law. The new symbology respects basic cartographic rules and meets the needs of decision-making. Simultaneously the procedure for updating maps with new ones was designed. The output of the project represents the first attempt to standardize the creation of UAP maps in the Czech Republic. The Regional Authority of the Olomouc Region certified the new symbology as a recommended methodology for creating UAP maps. The symbology is currently in use in 9 of the 13 districts of Olomouc region: Olomouc, Jeseník, Lipník nad Bečvou, Šumperk, Přerov, Litovel, Hranice, Prostějov a Šternberk. All the maps are available on the public website of the Olomouc region.
Microfluidic production of ultrasound contrast agents with a capillary gas jet PDMS microchip
Creators: name: Chen, Chuanpin
name: Leech, Patrick W.
name: Zhu, Yonggang
name: Manasseh, Richard
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Abstract not reproduced here by request of the publisher. The text is available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.810767.
Production of monodispersed micron-sized bubbles at high rates in a microfluidic device
Creators: name: Chen, Chuanpin
name: Zhu, Yonggang
name: Leech, Patrick W.
name: Manasseh, Richard
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A polydimethylsiloxane microchip consisting of a T-junction microchannel network and a thin glass capillary has been developed for the generation of microbubbles. The glass capillary is used to produce an ultrathin gas jet and to controllably block the straight liquid channel, thereby increasing the local liquid velocity near the intersection. Liquid flow rate, liquid viscosity, gas pressure, and inner diameter of the gas jet are varied to investigate the effect on bubble generation. Bubbles with a diameter down to 4.5 μm can be produced at a high rate of 7.5 kHz using a capillary with an inner diameter of 2 μm.
February/March : General Issue
Creators: Chun Sing Lai
Mohamed Darwish
Maysam Abbod
Soheil Mohseni
Alan C. Brent
Sandeep Shekhawat
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2024

Newsletter
This is a general issue of the Smart Cities eNewsletter featuring "Education in Electric Vehicle Systems: A Multi-disciplinary Approach", "Blockchain Integration in Renewable Energy and Storage Technologies: An Exploration of Environmental Stewardship and Resilient Accountability", and "Metaverse and Augmented Reality in Smart Retail for Inventory Management".
Eigenmodal resonances of polydisperse bubble systems on a rigid boundary
Creators: name: Illesinghe, Suhith
name: Ooi, Andrew
name: Manasseh, Richard
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper presents theory and experimental data on the resonance frequency of systems consisting of different-sized air bubbles attached to a rigid wall. Effects of the change in resonant frequency with bubble size and distance between the bubbles were studied. It was found that the symmetric mode resonance frequency of the bubble system decreased with increasing r=R02/R01, where R01 and R02 are the equilibrium radii of bubbles in the system. Both the symmetric and antisymmetric modes of oscillation were detected in the experiments, with the resonant frequency of the symmetric mode dominant at small bubble separation and the frequency of the antisymmetric mode dominant when the bubbles were farther apart. A linear coupled-oscillator theoretical model was used to describe the oscillations of the bubble system, in which the method of images was used to approximate the effects of the wall. It was found that there was fair to good agreement between the predictions of the coupled-oscillator model with the experimental data.
Hysteresis and multistability in networks of bistable stochastic elements with global interaction
Creators: name: Pototskyy, Andriy
name: Janson, N.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We demonstrate the existence of the first-order phase transitions and hysteresis in a network of bistable stochastic elements with global interaction subject to additive white noise. Using the Fokker-Planck equation approach, we present a method which allows one to use a continuation technique (AUTO) to follow the stationary one-particle distribution density in the space of system parameters. In addition, the Gaussian approximation is employed to compute the loci of the bifurcation points.
High resolution Monte Carlo study of the Domb-Joyce model
Creators: name: Clisby, Nathan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 490206
subject: Statistical mechanics, physical combinatorics and mathematical aspects of condensed matter

description: We study the Domb-Joyce model of weakly self-avoiding walks on the simple cubic lattice via Monte Carlo simulations. We determine to excellent accuracy the value for the interaction parameter which results in an improved model for which the leading correction-to-scaling term has zero amplitude.
Diagnostic of mineral deficiencies and interactions in upland rice yield declining on foot slope soil in a humid forest zone
Creators: name: Iqbal, Zahid
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Environmental Science
subject: Soil Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Education
subject: Plant Biology

description: Haphazardly fertilization can impaired rice production inducing yield declining in continuous cropping even with
high input management. To sustain upland rice production on foot slope ferralsol in a humid forest zone of West
Africa, soil deficient nutrients were identified in omission trial concerning N, P, K, Ca, Mg and Zn –fertilizers in
Côte d’Ivoire from 2003 to 2005. The relationship between rice grain yield and nutrient contents in soil and above
ground organs were also determined. Significant (P = 0.05) yield depressions were observed for P and K exclusion
treatments as deficient nutrients in the first (P) and second (PK) years. Chaminade index revealed also secondary
soil deficiency for Mg and N in the subsequent year with a decreasing trend from 2003 to 2005 [N (85%, 104%,
78%), P (63%, 51%, 56%), K (95%, 44%, 62%) and Mg (87%, 85%, 64%)] likely to grain yield declining.
Antagonistic relationships in rice mineral nutrition, soil leaching and acidification as well as increasing of Mn
availability and soil nutrient deficiencies were main factors of yield declining. These processes were discussed to be
depending on the initial soil fertility level that was somewhat differing in savanna ecology. Application of P, PK and
PKNMg fertilizers were recommended for three years cropping respectively. Practice of minimum tillage and
maintaining high ratio of Ca: Mg was suggested for reinforcing the yield stabilization.
The microRNA biogenesis machinery: regulation by steroid hormones and alterations in cancer
Creators: name: González-Duarte, Ramiro José
name: Cazares, Verna
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: Molecular Biology
Cancer
Cell Biology

description: MicroRNAs are a class of non-coding RNAs that regulate gene expression at the post-transcriptional level. The major proteins of the canonical microRNA biogenesis pathway in human are: Drosha, DGCR8, DDX5, DDX17, Exportin 5, Dicer and Argonaute 2. Recent studies suggest that gene expression of some canonical microRNA biogenesis components could be targeted by steroid hormones. Furthermore, various alterations in microRNA biogenesis have been associated with diseases like cancer. Due to the importance of microRNAs in cell physiology, the study of the factors that regulate or affect their biogenesis is critical.
Situación y perspectivas de la investigación científica en la Escuela de Bibliotecología y Ciencias de la Información de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos: 2000- 2012
Creators: name: Estrada-Cuzcano, Alonso
name: Alfaro-Mendives, Karen Lizeth
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Library and Information Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: It analyzes the rise in the number of graduates who choose Librarianship degree through professional reports in recent years. It also seeks to know the status of research in library science at the National University of San Marcos through the analysis of theses and professional reports of the years 2000 - 2012, determining the amount of research produced, the topics, methods and research techniques used, which is the investigative quality of this work. It is proposed as research should reorient specialty graduates to obtain their degree.
UHPLC-HRMS-MS analysis, antioxidant and hepatoprotective effects of methanolic extracts from Ficus carica L., leaves and stem barks against acute CCl4-induced liver damage
Creators: name: ibn ElAchaouia, Yosra
name: Mahmoudi, Asma
name: Dallali, Dhouha
name: Marrakchi, Rim
name: Marti, Guillaume
name: Chemkha, Mohammed
name: Sayadi, Sami
name: Noureddine, Allouche
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Methanolic leaf (LME) and stem bark (SBME) extracts from Ficus carica L., were analysed using UHPLC-HRMS-MS analysis. Fifty-two compounds were identified belonging to flavonoids, phenolic acids and alkaloids. Their hepatoprotective activity was tested in a CCl4 rat model. In the CCl4-treated groups, the investigated extracts improved body weight (LME: 245.7 and SBME: 236.5 g) and relative liver weight (LME: 3.9 and SBME: 3.6 mg/g). They also reduced levels of aspartate aminotransferase (LME: 102.6 and SBME: 205.3.0 (UI/L), alanine aminotransferase (LME: 170.3 and SBME: 260.6 UI/L), lactate dehydrogenase (LME: 281.6 and SBME: 445.3 UI/L) and MDA (LME: 1.4 and SBME: 2.1 U/mg protein), while enhancing superoxide dismutase (LME: 65.1 and 46.2 U/mg protein) and catalase (LME: 11.0 and SBME: 8.3 U/mg protein) activities. These findings, together with histological examination, imply that the studied methanolic extracts protect the liver against steatosis, fibrosis and inflammation by increasing the antioxidative defense.
title: French Far-Right Trajectories: Against a Multiculturalism that Dare not Speak its Name
Creators: name: Delouis, Anne Friederike
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Social and Cultural Anthropology

description: Clearly, France is a peculiar place as far as multiculturalism is concerned. With its official ideology of egalitarianism, the "indivisible" Republic claims universal validity. As a consequence, the existence of different ethnic or cultural groups on the French territory is hardly recognized in legal terms and official rhetoric. However, the social reality of poor and mostly ethnic ghettoes in all major French towns became eminently visible when the 2005 riots brought them to international media attention. Living conditions and economic opportunities for suburban ghetto-dwellers have not improved since, nor have majority attitudes towards them changed significantly. On the contrary, the perceived failure of the political establishment to discuss problems linked to immigration and xenophobia makes these topics a favourite hunting ground for the Far Right, which attracts increasing numbers of voters convinced of the impossibility of multiculturalism. The paper examines closely the personal trajectories of voters who recently "converted" to xenophobic and far-right views. In what concepts and metaphors do they cast their "conversion experience"? What events, experiences, or encounters are seen as decisive? To what extent is religion (mis)used as an argument? Rather disturbingly, some of the new far-right discourses make "creative" use of anthropological thought, claiming a threatened indigenous people status for themselves. Is it thinkable at all that there might be any common ground between these extremist views and migrants' own critiques of multiculturalism? A comparison with public discourse about cultural diversity in Germany and the UK will identify common patterns in European critiques of multicultural policies.
Enduring Schooling : Against Noise, and in the Service of the Remix
Creators: name: Nedeljkov, Nikolina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: Literature

description: Enduring Schooling : Against Noise, and in the Service of the Remix Nikolina Nedeljkov Candidate in the PhD Program in English The Graduate Center, The City University of New York The article was published in Genero: Journal of Feminist Theory and Cultural Studies. Eds. Katarina Lončarević, Marina Simić, and Daša Duhaček. Issue 18. Belgrade: Women’s Studies Center, 2014. 65-88. Print. It was also presented at “THE NEXUS”: First TC interdisciplinary studies conference in collaboration with Cultural Studies, Film and Education Research Academy, and Cultural Formations, Teachers College, Columbia University (10/2013).
Firmicutes is an Important Component of Microbial Communities in Water-Injected and Pristine Oil Reservoirs, Western Siberia, Russia
Creators: name: Frank, Yulia
name: Banks, David
name: Avakian, Marat
name: Antsiferov, Dmitry
name: Kadychagov, Petr
name: Karnachuk, Olga
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: The dominant microbial components of fluids from wells in pristine and water-injected, high-temperature, Western Siberian oil fields, were analyzed by PCR-DGGE. Particular emphasis was placed on sulphate-reducing organisms, due to their ecological and industrial importance. Bacterial phylotypes obtained from the non-water-injected Stolbovoye oil field were more diverse than those from the Samotlor field, which is subject to secondary oil recovery by reinjection of recycled production water. The majority of phylotypes from both sites were related to Firmicutes. The low similarity to their closest relatives indicates unique bacterial communities in deep underground production waters and crude oil. Archaeal phylotypes detected only in the Samotlor samples were represented by Methanosarcinales and Methanobacteriales.
Individual limb muscle bundles are formed through progressive steps orchestrated by adjacent connective tissue cells during primary myogenesis.
Creators: name: Besse, Laurianne
name: Sheeba, Caroline J
name: Holt, Mark
name: Labuhn, Maurice
name: Wilde, Susan
name: Feneck, Eleanor
name: Bell, Donald
name: Kucharska, Ania
name: Logan, Malcolm PO
Publisher: name: The Francis Crick Institute
Year: 2020
Subjects: Imaging
Tumour Biology
Signalling & Oncogenes
Developmental Biology
Human Biology & Physiology
Stem Cells

description: Although the factors regulating muscle cell differentiation are well described, we know very little about how differentiating muscle fibers are organized into individual muscle tissue bundles. Disruption of these processes leads to muscle hypoplasia or dysplasia, and replicating these events is vital in tissue engineering approaches. We describe the progressive cellular events that orchestrate the formation of individual limb muscle bundles and directly demonstrate the role of the connective tissue cells that surround muscle precursors in controlling these events. We show how disruption of gene activity within or genetic ablation of connective tissue cells impacts muscle precursors causing disruption of muscle bundle formation and subsequent muscle dysplasia and hypoplasia. We identify several markers of the populations of connective tissue cells that surround muscle precursors and provide a model for how matrix-modifying proteoglycans secreted by these cells may influence muscle bundle formation by effects on the local extracellular matrix (ECM) environment.
Synchronization of a large number of continuous one-dimensional stochastic elements with time-delayed mean-field coupling
Creators: name: Pototskyy, Andriy
name: Janson, N.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We study synchronization as a means of control of collective behavior of an ensemble of coupled stochastic units in which oscillations are induced merely by external noise. For a large number of one-dimensional continuous stochastic elements coupled non-homogeneously through the mean field with delay we developed an approach to find a boundary of synchronization domain and the frequency of the mean-field oscillations on it. Namely, the exact location of the synchronization threshold is shown to be a solution of the boundary value problem (BVP) which was derived from the linearized Fokker-Planck equation. Here the synchronization threshold is found by solving this BVP numerically. Approximate analytics is obtained by expanding the solution of the linearized Fokker-Planck equation into a series of eigenfunctions of the stationary Fokker-Planck operator. Bistable systems with a polynomial and piece-wise linear potential are considered as examples. Multistability and hysteresis in the mean-field behavior are observed in the stochastic network at finite noise intensities. In the limit of small noise intensities the critical coupling strength is shown to remain finite, provided that the delay in the coupling function is not infinitely small. Delay in the coupling term can be used as a control parameter that manipulates the location of the synchronization threshold.
Dipole rectification in an oscillating electric field
Creators: name: Pototskyy, Andriy
name: Janson, N.
name: Marchesoni, Fabio
name: Savel'Ev, Sergey E.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Directed transport of a neutral dimer driven by an ac electric field on a one-dimensional asymmetric substrate is demonstrated. We specialize on the case of a short elastic dimer formed by two bound equal masses carrying opposite charges, i.e. a dipole. The combination of ac drive and binding potential induces a net dipole current (strictly zero for a rigid dimer), which can be optimized by tuning the temperature and the driving frequency with distinct activation energies. Under appropriate operating conditions, a dimer can get rectified more efficiently than its constituents set free, thus implying that particle pairing can actually enhance the ratchet effect.
Recreational Fishing Effort, Catch, and Harvest for Murray Cod and Golden Perch in the Murrumbidgee River, Australia
Creators: name: Forbes, Jamin P.
name: Watts, Robyn J.
name: Robinson, Wayne A.
name: Baumgartner, Lee J.
name: Steffe, Aldo S.
name: Murphy, Jeff J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences

description: Recreational fishery management aims to prevent species decline and provide sustainable fisheries. Overfishing has been frequently suggested as a cause of historic fishery declines within the Murray–Darling Basin (MDB), Australia, but there have been few quantitative surveys for providing fishery-dependent data to gauge status. The Murray Cod Maccullochella peelii and the Golden Perch Macquaria ambigua are important species targeted by recreational fishers across the MDB. The fisheries are controlled by size and bag limits and gear restrictions (both species) as well as a closed season (Murray Cod only). A complemented fisher survey design was used to assess the recreational fishery for both species in a 76-km reach of the Murrumbidgee River in 2012–2013. Progressive counts were used to quantify boat- and shore-based fishing effort. Catch and harvest rate information was obtained from shore-based fishers via roving surveys and from boat-based fishers via bus route surveys. Murray Cod catch rates (fish/angler-hour) were 0.228 ± 0.047 (mean ± SE; boat based) and 0.092 ± 0.023 (shore based), and harvest rates (fish/angler-hour) were 0.013 ± 0.006 (boat based) and 0.003 ± 0.001 (shore based). Golden Perch catch rates were 0.018 ± 0.009 (shore based) and 0.002 ± 0.001 (boat based), and harvest rates were 0.006 ± 0.002 (shore based) and 0.001 ± <0.001 (boat based). The Murray Cod fishery had maximal catch and harvest during the 5-month period after the closed season ended. The closed season aims to protect spawning Murray Cod, but this strategy's effectiveness may have been influenced by high fishing effort and deliberate bycatch during the closure period. To sustain and improve these MDB fisheries, we suggest quantification of catch-and-release impacts on spawning Murray Cod, provision of fish passage, re-stocking of Golden Perch, and education on fishing techniques that minimize Murray Cod bycatch during the closed season.Received October 22, 2014; accepted March 6, 2015
Efficiency of High Gradient Magnetic Separation Applied to Micrometric Magnetic Particles
Creators: name: J. Lunacek
name: M. Lesnak
name: P. Jandacka
name: R. Dvorsky
name: J. Repkova
name: J. Seidlerova
name: N. Vitkovska
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Hematology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physics
subject: Engineering
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: This article presents two prototypes of laboratory magnetic separators that generate high gradient magnetic fields. Such a field is created in a separation cell via steel wool. The efficiency of separators was tested on a water suspension containing weakly magnetic Fe2O3 nano/micro-particles, prepared in three size fractions in a size range of 60 nm – 10 μm. The separation process was evaluated via optical transmittance of the suspension before and after sequential separation processes. Repeated separations on the same sample exhibit an asymptotic trend that results in the conclusion that it is not possible to trap all solid content. According to the decrease of solid particles concentrations during cyclic separation we set the efficiency of the process. It is maximally 46% for fine fraction, 65% for medium fraction, and 40% for coarse fraction after infinity separation cycles.
Firmicutes is an Important Component of Microbial Communities in Water-Injected and Pristine Oil Reservoirs; Western Siberia, Russia
Creators: name: Frank, Yulia
name: Banks, David
name: Avakian, Marat
name: Antsiferov, Dmitry
name: Kadychagov, Petr
name: Karnachuk, Olga
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Engineering

description: The dominant microbial components of fluids from wells in pristine and water-injected, high-temperature, Western Siberian oil fields, were analyzed by PCR-DGGE. Particular emphasis was placed on sulphate-reducing organisms, due to their ecological and industrial importance. Bacterial phylotypes obtained from the non-water-injected Stolbovoye oil field were more diverse than those from the Samotlor field, which is subject to secondary oil recovery by reinjection of recycled production water. The majority of phylotypes from both sites were related to Firmicutes. The low similarity to their closest relatives indicates unique bacterial communities in deep underground production waters and crude oil. Archaeal phylotypes detected only in the Samotlor samples were represented by Methanosarcinales and Methanobacteriales.
Microbial Communities Associated with Zones of Elevated Magnetic Susceptibility in Hydrocarbon-Contaminated Sediments
Creators: name: Beaver, Carol L.
name: Williams, Anja E.
name: Atekwana, Estella A.
name: Farag M. Mewafy
name: Aal, Gamal Abdel
name: Slater, Lee D.
name: Rossbach, Silvia
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: Recent studies suggest that magnetic susceptibility (MS) measurements can play an important role in identifying zones where microbial-mediated iron mineral transformations are occurring. Here we investigated the microbial community variations within zones of elevated MS in a petroleum hydrocarbon-contaminated aquifer near Bemidji, Minnesota, USA. Our main objective was to 1) identify the key microbial populations that may play a role in hydrocarbon degradation, 2) analyze which microbial populations could be connected to the elevated MS and 3) explore the use of non-destructive geophysical techniques as a tool to guide microbial sampling. Clone libraries based on the 16S rRNA gene revealed the presence of iron-reducing β-Proteobacteria in the vadose zone, whereas the free petroleum phase on the water table was characterized by a methanogenic consortium, in which the syntrophic δ-proteobacterium Smithella and the hydrogenotrophic Methanoregula predominated. Nonmetric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) found a close relationship between elevated MS values and the methanogenic hydrocarbon-degrading consortium. Our results suggest that magnetic susceptibility measurements can guide microbiologists to zones of active microbial biodegradation in aged petroleum spills.
El método de mínimos cuadrados parciales (PLS) como herramienta de análisis causal: Un modelo explicativo de los componentes de imagen de destino en función de las motivaciones de viaje del turista urbano
Creators: name: Olague, Jose T.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: Entertainment

description: El tema de este trabajo es la relación causal entre la motivación de viaje y los componentes afectivos y cognitivos de la imagen del destino en un contexto de turistas de ocio a la ciudad de Monterrey. Dicha relación se puso a prueba a través de un modelo explicativo por el método de mínimos cuadrados parciales (partial least squares - PLS) con lo que pudo probarse una relación directa positiva y significativa. Asimismo la técnica de análisis por PLS permitió la identificación de los tres principales indicadores observables de la motivación de viaje de los turistas y obtener evidencia, a través de un modelo, de su papel determinante sobre dos componentes principales de la imagen para los cuales igualmente quedaron establecidos sus indicadores observables. Con ello se pudo establecer qué aspectos de la motivación son los más importantes para los turistas y vincularlos a aquellos aspectos (afectivos y cognitivos) mejor valorados en el destino.
Efficiency of HIGH Gradient Magnetic Separation Applied to Micrometric Magnetic Particles
Creators: name: J. Lunacek
name: M. Lesnak
name: P. Jandacka
name: R. Dvorsky
name: J. Repkova
name: J. Seidlerova
name: N. Vitkovska
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Hematology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physics
subject: Engineering
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: This article presents two prototypes of laboratory magnetic separators that generate high gradient magnetic fields. Such a field is created in a separation cell via steel wool. The efficiency of separators was tested on a water suspension containing weakly magnetic Fe2O3 nano/micro-particles, prepared in three size fractions in a size range of 60 nm – 10 m. The separation process was evaluated via optical transmittance of the suspension before and after sequential separation processes. Repeated separations on the same sample exhibit an asymptotic trend that results in the conclusion that it is not possible to trap all solid content. According to the decrease of solid particles concentrations during cyclic separation we set the efficiency of the process. It is maximally 46% for fine fraction, 65% for medium fraction and 40% for coarse fraction, after infinity separation cycles.
СНИЖЕНИЕ ЧАСТОТЫ РАЗВИТИЯ НОЗОКОМИАЛЬНОЙ ИНФЕКЦИИ МОЧЕВОГО ТРАКТА ПРИ СОЧЕТАНИИ  АНТИБИОТИКОВ С ИММУНОМОДУЛЯТОРАМИ.
Creators: name: Юлдашев, Б.С.
name: Каримов, Р.Х.
name: Мадаминов, Ф.А.
name: Мадаминов, А.С.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Нозокомиальная (госпитальная, внутрибольничная) инфекция - это состояние организма, которое является следствием ответной реакции на наличие в организме инфекционного агента или его токсина, которой не было до проведения медицинских процедур и поступления пациента в стационар. Возникшую инфекцию следует считать нозокомиальной, если между ее проявлением и процедурой, вызвавшей ее, прошло не менее 48 часов.
Taxing choices: international competition, domestic institutions and the transformation of corporate tax policy
Creators: name: Swank, Duane
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Since the 1980s, notable corporate tax base broadening and rate reductions have occurred throughout the rich democracies. Scholars agree that tax competition for mobile assets shapes this transformation. I address two questions in this article. First, what form has tax competition taken and, second, how have domestic institutions conditioned competition's impact? I build on past work and argue that tax competition is characterized by the (Stackelberg) leadership of the United States as opposed to alternative forms of competition. At the same time, domestic institutions, especially the degree to which the nation is a co-ordinated versus liberal market economy, are central determinants of the pace of reform. I test these propositions with models of 1982–2008 tax rate change in 18 capitalist democracies. I find that rising trade openness and capital mobility place downward pressures on tax rates, the United States' adoption of the neoliberal tax model engenders significant competitive responses from other nations, and that the institutions of co-ordinated economies slow the pace of neoliberal reforms. High public debt, left-leaning median voters and institutional veto points also significantly constrain tax policy change. I conclude with some reflections on tax policy in the wake of the global financial crisis and on neoliberalism and institutional change in advanced democratic capitalism.