cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Beacons In the Dark: Using Novae and Supernovae to Detect Dwarf Galaxies in the Local Universe
Creators: name: Conroy, Charlie
name: Bullock, James S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose that luminous transients, including novae and supernovae, can be used to detect the faintest galaxies in the universe. Beyond a few Mpc, dwarf galaxies with stellar masses $<10^6 M_{\odot}$ will likely be too faint and/or too low in surface brightness to be directly detected in upcoming large area ground-based photometric surveys. However, single epoch LSST photometry will be able to detect novae to distances of $\sim30$ Mpc and SNe to Gpc-scale distances. Depending on the form of the stellar mass-halo mass relation and the underlying star formation histories of low mass dwarfs, the expected nova rates will be a few to $\sim100$ yr$^{-1}$ and the expected SN rates (including both type Ia and core-collapse) will be $\sim10^2-10^4$ within the observable ($4π$ sr) volume. The transient rate associated with intrahalo stars will be comparably large, but these transients will be located close to bright galaxies, in contrast to the dwarfs, which should trace the underlying large scale structure of the cosmic web. Aggressive follow-up of hostless transients has the potential to uncover the predicted enormous population of low mass field dwarf galaxies.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures. Accepted to ApJL
ReflectOn_2022_Booklet_English.pdf
Creators: name: Mansfield, Robyn
name: Batagol, Becky
name: Prescott, Michaela
name: Spasojevic, Dasha
name: Rahlina, Ina
name: Nasir, Sudirman
name: Sinharoy, Sheela
name: Meo-sewabu, Litea
name: Bass, Audra
name: Charles, Isabel
name: Habsji, Hamdan
name: Hidayat, Adrianto
name: Ilhamsyah, Noor
name: Latief, Ihsan
name: Marzaman, Liza
name: Putri, Intan
name: Salinger, Allison
name: Syamsu, Syaidah
name: Wise, Iliesa
name: Soegijoko, Savitri
name: Vakarewa, Isoa
name: Wilson, Alexander
name: FRANCIS, NAOMI
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This toolkit aims to stimulate an increase in quality, inclusiveness, and sustainability in water and sanitation infrastructure projects in urban informal contexts. Such projects need to be more participatory, codesigned with participants with diverse knowledge and lived experience. They also need to be more inclusive, following the principles of ‘leave no one behind’ and ‘do no harm’. These things are hard to do, hence a toolkit to help.
L?uso di strutture intelligenti nella progettazione di veicoli subacquei
Creators: name: GEMELLI, PAOLO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Genova
Year: 2020

description: La ricerca ha lo scopo di analizzare l?utilizzo delle smart structures (strutture definite intelligenti per la loro capacit� di modificarsi in funzione dell?ambiente che le circonda) nella progettazione dei veicoli subacquei. Allo scopo si � utilizzato un glider: un veicolo subacqueo autonomo privo di motore che si muove sfruttando l?azione combinata di spinta di galleggiamento e portanza generata da una coppia di ali la cui ottimizzazione costituisce parte integrante della ricerca. Una volta definito lo spazio progettuale ed identificate le variabili di interesse � stato possibile ipotizzare l?uso di differenti combinazioni di materiali e forme per ottimizzare le prestazioni del veicolo, in particolare modo, dal punto di vista della persistenza in acqua.
Spherical Fused Silica Cells Filled with Pure Helium for NMR-Magnetometry
Creators: name: Maul, Andreas
name: Blümler, Peter
name: Heil, Werner
name: Nikiel, Anna
name: Otten, Ernst
name: Petrich, Andreas
name: Schmidt, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High magnetic fields (> 1 T) are measured by NMR magnetometers with un-rivaled precision if the precessing spin sample provides long coherence times. The longest coherence times are found in diluted ${}^{3}$He samples, which can be hyperpolarized for sufficient signal strength. In order to have minimal influence on the homogeneity and value of the measured magnetic field the optimal container for the ${}^{3}$He should be a perfect sphere. A fused silica sphere with an inner diameter of 8 mm and an outer diameter of 12 mm was made from two hemispheres by diffusion bonding leaving only a small hole for cleaning and evacuation. This hole was closed in vacuum by a CO${}_{2}$ laser and the inner volume was filled with a few mbars of ${}^3$He via wall permeation. NMR-measurements on such a sample had coherence times of 5 min. While the hemispheres were produced with < 1 $μ$m deviation from sphericity, the bonding left a step of ca. 50 $μ$m at maximum. The influence of such a mismatch, its orientation and materials in the direct vicinity of the sample are analyzed by FEM-simulations and discussed in view of coherence times and absolute fields.
description: 17 pages, 4 figures
Distributed Convex Optimization for Continuous-Time Dynamics with Time-Varying Cost Function
Creators: name: Rahili, Salar
name: Ren, Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, a time-varying distributed convex optimization problem is studied for continuous-time multi-agent systems. Control algorithms are designed for the cases of single-integrator and double-integrator dynamics. Two discontinuous algorithms based on the signum function are proposed to solve the problem in each case. Then in the case of double-integrator dynamics, two continuous algorithms based on, respectively, a time-varying and a fixed boundary layer are proposed as continuous approximations of the signum function. Also, to account for inter-agent collision for physical agents, a distributed convex optimization problem with swarm tracking behavior is introduced for both single-integrator and double-integrator dynamics.
Quality Indicators for the Management of Barrett’s Esophagus, Dysplasia, and Esophageal Adenocarcinoma: International Consensus Recommendations from the American Gastroenterological Association Symposium
Creators: name: Seewald, Stefan
name: McKeon, Frank
name: Inadomi, John M.
name: Corley, Douglas
name: Gupta, Neil
name: Vennalaganti, Prashanth
name: Falk, Gary W.
name: Ilson, David H.
name: El-Serag, Hashem
name: Lynch, John P.
name: Pech, Oliver
name: Peek, Richard
name: Souza, Rhonda F.
name: Repici, Alessandro
name: Pasricha, Pankaj J.
name: Kuipers, Ernest J.
name: Katzka, David A.
name: Wang, Kenneth
name: Spechler, Stuart J.
name: Sharma, Prateek
name: Peters, Jeffrey H.
name: Metz, David
name: Fitzgerald, Rebecca
name: Gress, Frank
name: Goldblum, John
name: Buttar, Navtej
name: Chak, Amitabh
name: Ajani, Jaffer
name: Shaheen, Nicholas J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: The development of and adherence to quality indicators in gastroenterology, as in all of medicine, is increasing in importance to ensure that patients receive consistent high-quality care. In addition, government-based and private insurers will be expecting documentation of the parameters by which we measure quality, which will likely affect reimbursements. Barrett’s esophagus remains a particularly important disease entity for which we should maintain up-to-date guidelines, given its commonality, potentially lethal outcomes, and controversies regarding screening and surveillance. To achieve this goal, a relatively large group of international experts was assembled and, using the modified Delphi method, evaluated the validity of multiple candidate quality indicators for the diagnosis and management of Barrett’s esophagus. Several candidate quality indicators achieved >80% agreement. These statements are intended to serve as a consensus on candidate quality indicators for those who treat patients with Barrett’s esophagus.
Robust Facial Expression Classification Using Shape and Appearance Features
Creators: name: Happy, S. L.
name: Routray, Aurobinda
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Facial expression recognition has many potential applications which has attracted the attention of researchers in the last decade. Feature extraction is one important step in expression analysis which contributes toward fast and accurate expression recognition. This paper represents an approach of combining the shape and appearance features to form a hybrid feature vector. We have extracted Pyramid of Histogram of Gradients (PHOG) as shape descriptors and Local Binary Patterns (LBP) as appearance features. The proposed framework involves a novel approach of extracting hybrid features from active facial patches. The active facial patches are located on the face regions which undergo a major change during different expressions. After detection of facial landmarks, the active patches are localized and hybrid features are calculated from these patches. The use of small parts of face instead of the whole face for extracting features reduces the computational cost and prevents the over-fitting of the features for classification. By using linear discriminant analysis, the dimensionality of the feature is reduced which is further classified by using the support vector machine (SVM). The experimental results on two publicly available databases show promising accuracy in recognizing all expression classes.
description: Proceedings of 8th International Conference of Advances in Pattern Recognition, 2015
Long Range Coulomb Interaction and the Majorana Fermions
Creators: name: Ghazaryan, Areg
name: Chakraborty, Tapash
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have investigated the effects of long-range Coulomb interaction on the topological superconducting phase in a quasi-one dimensional semiconductor wire, proximity coupled to a s-wave using the exact diagonalization approach. We find that in accordance with previous studies the addition of Coulomb interaction results in an enlargement of the region of parameter values where topological superconductivity can be observed. However, we also find that although the interaction decreases the bulk gap for values of the magnetic field close to the phase transition point, for moderate magnetic fields away from the transition point, the interaction actually enhances the bulk gap which can be important for observation of topological superconductivity in this system.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures
Disruption of DNA damage response pathways in tumorigenesis: investigating the role of ATM and BAP1 in hereditary cancers.
Creators: name: DALMASSO, BRUNA SAMIA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Genova
Year: 2020

description: The use of massive parallel sequencing techniques for genetic testing of hereditary cancer syndromes provides the possibility of analyzing multiple genes at the same time with limited costs. However, novel genes are being found in melanoma-prone families, but in many cases a causal relation has not been yet established. Moreover, the same gene is often found associated with multiple tumors, suggesting that spectrum of non-melanoma cancers in melanoma tumor syndromes could be broader than that currently known. This thesis describes the effort to tackle these issues, with a particular focus on two genes involved in DNA damage repair: the Ataxia-Telangiectasia Mutated (ATM) and BRCA1-associated protein 1 (BAP1) genes. During the last year of my PhD I completed the first and carried out the second of the following two studies: ?Germline ATM variants predispose to cutaneous melanoma: a joint analysis across the genomel and melanostrum consortia?, and ?BAP1-tumor predisposition syndrome and susceptibility to breast cancer?.
Characterizing the width of entanglement
Creators: name: Wölk, Sabine
name: Gühne, Otfried
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce the concept of entanglement width as measure of the spatial distribution of entanglement in multiparticle systems. We develop criteria to detect the width of entanglement using global observables such as energy and magnetic susceptibility. Therefore, the introduced entanglement criteria can be applied to systems where addressing of single particles is not possible. We apply the criteria to different examples such as the J1-J2- Heisenberg model and point out the difference between entanglement depth and entanglement width.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures, major revision including new examples and criteria for entanglement width
SOX9 Maintains Reserve Stem Cells and Preserves Radioresistance in Mouse Small Intestine
Creators: name: Akiyama, Haruhiko
name: Newton, Victoria
name: Magness, Scott T.
name: Gracz, Adam D.
name: Roche, Kyle C.
name: Liu, Xiao Fu
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Reserve intestinal stem cells (rISCs) are quiescent/slowly cycling under homeostatic conditions, allowing for their identification with label-retention assays. rISCs mediate epithelial regeneration after tissue damage by converting to actively proliferating stem cells (aISCs) that self renew and demonstrate multipotency, which are defining properties of stem cells. Little is known about the genetic mechanisms that regulate the production and maintenance of rISCs. High expression levels of the transcription factor Sox9 (Sox9high) are associated with rISCs. This study investigates the role of SOX9 in regulating the rISC state.
Analysis of doctor-patient consultations and implications for design of human-agent relational dialogue
Creators: name: Salman, Sana
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) are virtual agents that exhibit humanlike verbal and non-verbal behaviours. When it comes to digital health, ECAs can provide vital support to patients by being more reachable. In order to make ECAs more effective, humanlike empathy expressed during conversation through relational cues is essential. Empathy revolves around a wide range of verbal and non-verbal behaviours that include, for example, the choice of words in social dialogues. Owing to the COVID-19 situation, there was an opportunity to record online consultations in the Incontinence Clinic and Sleep Clinic at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead in Sydney, Australia. The present study analysed these human dialogues using qualitative research methods to understand the role of empathic dialogue used by the medical team. The qualitative analysis of the live calls used psychology-based relational cues derived from conversational characteristics of humans to build a coding framework around the most relevant themes. Statistical analysis was used to compare relational cue usage between healthcare roles. Finally, using the framework dialogues of the medical team and two ECAs known as Dr Evie (eVirtual Agent for Incontinence and Enuresis) and SAM (Sleep Adherence Mentor) were compared to provide recommendations for health practitioners and future ECA dialogue development.
Genetic diversity is a predictor of mortality in humans
Creators: name: Nalls, Mike
name: Starr, John M.
name: Bennett, David A.
name: Lunetta, Kathryn L.
name: Grabe, Hans J.
name: Yu, Lei
name: Bandinelli, Stefania
name: Kardia, Sharon L.R.
name: Gudnason, Vilmundur
name: Liewald, David C.
name: Lorbeer, Roberto
name: Scaria, Anish
name: Lumley, Thomas
name: Singleton, Andrew B.
name: Bihlmeyer, Nathan A.
name: Tanaka, Toshiko
name: Harris, Tamara B.
name: Launer, Lenore
name: Smith, Albert Vernon
name: Mirza, Saira Saeed
name: Deary, Ian J.
name: Pankow, James S.
name: Allerhand, Michael
name: Arking, Dan E.
name: Coresh, Josef
name: Evans, Denis A.
name: Tiemeier, Henning
name: Homuth, Georg
name: Kocher, Thomas
name: Weir, David R.
name: De Jager, Philip L.
name: Davies, Gail
name: Direk, Nese
name: Kiel, Douglas P.
name: Ferrucci, Luigi
name: Teumer, Alexander
name: Brody, Jennifer A.
name: Psaty, Bruce M.
name: Faul, Jessica D.
name: Karasik, David
name: Ikram, Mohammed Arfan
name: Garcia, Melissa
name: Zhao, Wei
name: Uitterlinden, André
name: Eiriksdottir, Gudny
name: Franceschini, Nora
name: Liu, Yongmei
name: Murabito, Joanne M.
name: Li, Hanyue
name: Smith, Jennifer A.
name: Oshima, Junko
name: Redmond, Paul
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: BackgroundIt has been well-established, both by population genetics theory and direct observation in many organisms, that increased genetic diversity provides a survival advantage. However, given the limitations of both sample size and genome-wide metrics, this hypothesis has not been comprehensively tested in human populations. Moreover, the presence of numerous segregating small effect alleles that influence traits that directly impact health directly raises the question as to whether global measures of genomic variation are themselves associated with human health and disease.ResultsWe performed a meta-analysis of 17 cohorts followed prospectively, with a combined sample size of 46,716 individuals, including a total of 15,234 deaths. We find a significant association between increased heterozygosity and survival (P = 0.03). We estimate that within a single population, every standard deviation of heterozygosity an individual has over the mean decreases that person’s risk of death by 1.57%.ConclusionsThis effect was consistent between European and African ancestry cohorts, men and women, and major causes of death (cancer and cardiovascular disease), demonstrating the broad positive impact of genomic diversity on human survival.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12863-014-0159-7) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
First results and future prospects for dual-harmonic searches for gravitational waves from spinning neutron stars
Creators: name: Pitkin, M.
name: Gill, C.
name: Jones, D. I.
name: Woan, G.
name: Davies, G. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate a method to incorporate signal models that allow an additional frequency harmonic in searches for gravitational waves from spinning neutron stars. We assume emission is given by the general triaxial non-aligned model of Jones, whose waveform under certain conditions reduces to that of a biaxial precessing star, or a simple rigidly rotating triaxial aligned star. The triaxial non-aligned and biaxial models can produce emission at both the star's rotation frequency ($f$) and $2f$, whilst the latter only emits at $2f$. We have studied parameter estimation for signal models using both a set of physical source parameters, and a set of waveform parameters that remove a degeneracy. We have assessed the signal detection efficiency, and used Bayesian model selection to investigate how well we can distinguish between the three models. We found that for signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) $\gtrsim 6$ there is no significant loss in efficiency if performing a search for a signal at $f$ and $2f$ when the source is only producing emission at $2f$. However, for sources with emission at both $f$ and $2f$ signals could be missed by a search only at $2f$. We also find that for a triaxial aligned source, the correct model is always favoured, but for a triaxial non-aligned source it can be hard to distinguish between the triaxial non-aligned model and the biaxial model, even at high SNR. Finally, we apply the method to a selection of known pulsars using data from the LIGO fifth science run. We give the first upper limits on gravitational wave amplitude at both $f$ and $2f$ and apply the model selection criteria on real data.
description: accepted for MNRAS
The molecular portraits of breast tumors are conserved across microarray platforms
Creators: name: Tretiakova, Maria
name: Ewend, Matthew G.
name: Mullins, Michael
name: Livasy, Chad
name: Hansen, Heidi
name: Mone, Mary
name: Nanda, Rita
name: Parker, Joel
name: Nelson, Edward
name: Dressler, Lynn
name: Marron, J. S.
name: Reynolds, Evangeline
name: Fan, Cheng
name: Perou, Charles M.
name: Orrico, Alejandra Ruiz
name: Perreard, Laurent
name: Wu, Junyuan
name: Bernard, Philip S.
name: Quackenbush, John F.
name: Liu, Yudong
name: Hu, Zhiyuan
name: Sawyer, Lynda R.
name: Nobel, Andrew
name: Oh, Daniel S.
name: Palazzo, Juan P.
name: Ellis, Matthew J.
name: He, Xiaping
name: Carey, Lisa A.
name: Qaqish, Bahjat F.
name: Olopade, Olufunmilayo I.
name: Dreher, Donna
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006

description: BackgroundValidation of a novel gene expression signature in independent data sets is a critical step in the development of a clinically useful test for cancer patient risk-stratification. However, validation is often unconvincing because the size of the test set is typically small. To overcome this problem we used publicly available breast cancer gene expression data sets and a novel approach to data fusion, in order to validate a new breast tumor intrinsic list.ResultsA 105-tumor training set containing 26 sample pairs was used to derive a new breast tumor intrinsic gene list. This intrinsic list contained 1300 genes and a proliferation signature that was not present in previous breast intrinsic gene sets. We tested this list as a survival predictor on a data set of 311 tumors compiled from three independent microarray studies that were fused into a single data set using Distance Weighted Discrimination. When the new intrinsic gene set was used to hierarchically cluster this combined test set, tumors were grouped into LumA, LumB, Basal-like, HER2+/ER-, and Normal Breast-like tumor subtypes that we demonstrated in previous datasets. These subtypes were associated with significant differences in Relapse-Free and Overall Survival. Multivariate Cox analysis of the combined test set showed that the intrinsic subtype classifications added significant prognostic information that was independent of standard clinical predictors. From the combined test set, we developed an objective and unchanging classifier based upon five intrinsic subtype mean expression profiles (i.e. centroids), which is designed for single sample predictions (SSP). The SSP approach was applied to two additional independent data sets and consistently predicted survival in both systemically treated and untreated patient groups.ConclusionThis study validates the "breast tumor intrinsic" subtype classification as an objective means of tumor classification that should be translated into a clinical assay for further retrospective and prospective validation. In addition, our method of combining existing data sets can be used to robustly validate the potential clinical value of any new gene expression profile.
Expressed sequence tags from Peromyscus testis and placenta tissue: Analysis, annotation, and utility for mapping
Creators: name: Cheng, Chun Huai
name: Glenn, Julie L.Weston
name: Lewandowski, Adrienne
name: Chen, Jianguo
name: Ramsdell, Clifton M.
name: Bullard-Dillard, Rebecca
name: Chen, Chin Fu
name: Glenn, Travis C.
name: Dewey, Michael J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: BackgroundMice of the genus Peromyscus are found in nearly every habitat from Alaska to Central America and from the Atlantic to the Pacific. They provide an evolutionary outgroup to the Mus/Rattus lineage and serve as an intermediary between that lineage and humans. Although Peromyscus has been studied extensively under both field and laboratory conditions, research has been limited by the lack of molecular resources. Genes associated with reproduction typically evolve rapidly and thus are excellent sources of evolutionary information. In this study we describe the generation of two cDNA libraries, one from placenta and one from testis, characterize the resulting ESTs, and describe their utility for mapping the Peromyscus genome.ResultsThe 5' ends of 1,510 placenta and 4,798 testis clones were sequenced. Low quality sequences were removed and after clustering and contig assembly, 904 unique placenta and 2,002 unique testis sequences remained. Average lengths of placenta and testis ESTs were 711 bp and 826 bp, respectively. Approximately 82% of all ESTs were identified using the BLASTX algorithm to Mus and Rattus, and 34 – 54% of all ESTs could be assigned to a biological process gene ontology category in either Mus or Rattus. Because the Peromyscus genome organization resembles the Rattus genome more closely than Mus we examined the distribution of the Peromyscus ESTs across the rat genome finding markers on all rat chromosomes except the Y. Approximately 40% of all ESTs were specific to only one location in the Mus genome and spanned introns of an appropriate size for sequencing and SNP detection. Of the primers that were tried 54% provided useful assays for genotyping on interspecific backcross and whole-genome radiation hybrid cell panels.ConclusionThe 2,906 Peromyscus placenta and testis ESTs described here significantly expands the molecular resources available for the genus. These ESTs allow for specific PCR amplification and broad coverage across the genome, creating an excellent genetic marker resource for the generation of a medium-density genomic map. Thus, this resource will significantly aid research of a genus that is uniquely well-suited to both laboratory and field research.
An Examination of the Effectiveness of Teaching Data Modelling Concepts
Creators: name: Czenky, Márta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: H.2.1; K.3.2

description: The effective teaching of data modelling concepts is very important; it constitutes the fundament of database planning methods and the handling of databases with the help of database management lan-guages, typically SQL. We examined three courses. The students of two courses prepared for the exam by solving tests, while the students of the third course prepared by solving tasks from a printed exercise book. The number of task for the second course was 2.5 times more than the number of task for the first course. The main purpose of our examination was to determine the effectiveness of the teaching of data modelling concepts, and to decide if there is a significant difference between the results of the three courses. According to our examination, with increasing the number of test tasks and with the use of exercise book, the results became significantly better.
Investigation on the effect of low-pressure plasma treatment on the adhesion properties of different carbon-fiber-reinforced-polymer materials for structural adhesive bonding
Creators: name: PIZZORNI, MARCO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Genova
Year: 2021

description: This three-part study, developed with the collaboration of the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), reports a systematic and quantitative evaluation of the effects induced by various low-pressure plasma (LPP) treatments on the adhesive properties of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) substrates. In particular, Part A of this work was focused on the surface activation of CFRP substrates, made via traditional vacuum-bag technique, which was performed using several combinations of LPP parameters. From the comparison with conventional pre-bonding preparations, it was possible to quantify the effectiveness of LPP in increasing the performance of adhesively-bonded CFRP joints. Further measurements of roughness and wettability were performed, and analyses via x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) were also carried out, allowing identification of the morphological, physical and chemical phenomena involved in the treatments. Then, a quantitative evaluation of the aging behavior of the adhesively-bonded joints was the topic of the subsequent Part B. Four significant sets of LPP-treatment conditions were selected, and then subjected to accelerated temperature-humidity aging. To assess the durability of the CFRP-adhesive system under severe aging conditions, tensile shear strength (TSS) testing and wedge cleavage test (WT) were performed in parallel. The experimental findings showed that LPP treatment of the CFRP substrates results in increased short-term quality of the adhesive joint as well as in enhancement of its durability even under severe aging conditions. The last part of the work (Part C) was inspired by the recent developments in additive technologies for the manufacturing of structural thermoplastic-composite parts. In this context, the mechanical and failure behavior were investigated of continuous carbon-fiber (CCF) composite materials built via Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) technology when used as substrates for bonded joints. Notably, the experiments were focused on verifying how the additively-manufactured substrates respond to adhesive bonding when the interface interactions are increased by preparing the surface with LPP treatment. This approach allowed detection of those criticalities that might limit the application of adhesive bonding to 3D-printed composite parts, with respect to that observed using traditional CFRP materials.
Trait-trait dynamic interaction: 2D-trait eQTL mapping for genetic variation study
Creators: name: Sun, Wei
name: Li, Ker Chau
name: Yuan, Shinsheng
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: BackgroundMany studies have shown that the abundance level of gene expression is heritable. Analogous to the traditional genetic study, most researchers treat the expression of one gene as a quantitative trait and map it to expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL). This is 1D-trait mapping. 1D-trait mapping ignores the trait-trait interaction completely, which is a major shortcoming.ResultsTo overcome this limitation, we study the expression of a pair of genes and treat the variation in their co-expression pattern as a two dimensional quantitative trait. We develop a method to find gene pairs, whose co-expression patterns, including both signs and strengths, are mediated by genetic variations and map these 2D-traits to the corresponding genetic loci. We report several applications by combining 1D-trait mapping with 2D-trait mapping, including the contribution of genetic variations to the perturbations in the regulatory mechanisms of yeast metabolic pathways.ConclusionOur approach of 2D-trait mapping provides a novel and effective way to connect the genetic variation with higher order biological modules via gene expression profiles.
CARACTERÍSTICAS E DIFERENÇAS ANATOMOFISIOLÓGICAS VOCAIS ENTRE NEGROS E CAUCASIANOS: UMA REVISÃO DE LITERATURA
Creators: name: Marcus Vinícius Andrade de Oliveira
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Introdução: A voz é uma expressão fundamental da comunicação humana e é influenciada pela estrutura anatômica e as características fisiológicas do sistema vocal. Essas características são determinantes para as diferenças entre as vozes do negro e do caucasiano. Objetivo: Identificar as características e diferenças anatomofisiológicas vocais entre negros e caucasianos. Metodologia: foi realizado uma revisão de literatura de natureza exploratória com busca nas bases de dados Medline/PubMed, Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde (BVS), SciELO, CAPES e Google Acadêmico. Como critério de seleção foram escolhidos apenas os artigos nacionais publicados nos períodos entre 2001 e 2021 e disponíveis integralmente online. Resultados: O estudo observou diferenças anatômicas e fisiológicas nas pregas vocais e músculos da laringe dos negros, incluindo a ausência do músculo ariepiglótico. Também foram observadas variações na frequência dos formantes das vogais e maior tensão muscular em estilos musicais específicos, como gospel e bluegrass. Essas características foram notadas mais nas vozes potentes, graves e peculiares dos negros, mas podem também estar relacionadas a fendas glóticas e enfraquecimento da mucosa, causando rouquidão e qualidade vocal áspera. Conclusão: Apesar de ter atingido os objetivos propostos, o estudo também destacou a necessidade de mais pesquisas focadas na atuação do fonoaudiólogo com cantores negros, caucasianos e demais grupos étnicos. Há uma carência de estudos atualizados que exploram as diferenças neuromusculares, fisiológicas e o impacto dessas variações na prática clínica e pedagógica do universo musical.
Study and Analysis of Error Free Transformers using Digital Filtering Algorithm
Creators: name: E N, ganesh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 90699 Electrical and Electronic Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This study presents an algorithm for detecting the operating regime of transformers that allows to avoid malfunctioning differential protection operation caused by magnetizing inrush current during transformer excitation. The proposed algorithm is tested in a simulation of a 20 MVA, 110/20 kV transformer
Empowering reflective practice
Creators: name: Truasheim, P J
Publisher: name: CQUniversity
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 130399 Specialist Studies in Education not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: This study focuses on a program for the professional development of native speakers of Mandarin Chinese who come from China to function as Chinese language teaching assistants in an Australian primary school for a period of around one year The program. referred to as the Overseas Chinese Language Assistant in Teaching (OCLAiT) Program seeks to develop a reflective approach to the teaching task in the experience of the teaching assastant as they adjust to the culturally different social and educational context of their pedagogical practice. The notion of teacher empowerment is seen to provide a philosophical framework for the actions and attitudes of classroom teachers, department heads and other school authorities that help to facilitate the development of this reflective approach reflection on practice in a environment of teacher empowerment results in appropriately modified or sustained effective teaching practice. Reflection and empowerment are considered in the light of the literature which describe these phenomena: both are associated with characteristic behaviour and attitudes. The identification of these characteristics provides a basis for the investigative part of this study which focuses on the experience of one particular teaching assistant over a 15 month period. Of particular note is the use of a modified form of stimulated recall interviewing (SRI) which is used to detect the presence of a "reflective cycle" (Wallace, 1991) in which the process of reflection on teaching practice affects that practice; the informed practice is subsequently reflected on, and so on. Other forms of investigation including interviews, written reports, and a questionnaire completed by seven (7) Australian teachers who observed the teaching assistant's teaching practice on a weekly basis over a one year period.
Supplemental data of "MSclassifR: an R Package for Supervised Classification of Mass Spectra with Machine Learning Methods"
Creators: name: Alexandre Godmer
name: Yahia Benzerara
name: Emanuelle Varron
name: Nicolas Veziris
name: Karen Druart
name: Mariette Matondo
name: Alexandra Aubry
name: Quentin Giai Gianetto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Supplemental data of the publication "MSclassifR: an R Package for Supervised Classification of Mass Spectra with Machine Learning Methods" in the process of being submitted
 
This includes:

Table S1.  Details of the results for datasets 2-4 of this study
Table S2. Results for the dataset n° 1 of this study
Table S3. Performances of Bruker® system subspecies identification concerning Mycobacterium abscessus complex
Tablse S4. Details on the parameters of MSclassifR functions used in the numerical experiments
Accretion of dark matter by stars
Creators: name: Brito, Richard
name: Cardoso, Vitor
name: Okawa, Hirotada
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Searches for dark matter imprints are one of the most active areas of current research. We focus here on light fields with mass $m_B$, such as axions and axion-like candidates. Using perturbative techniques and full-blown nonlinear Numerical Relativity methods, we show that (i) dark matter can pile up in the center of stars, leading to configurations and geometries oscillating with frequency which is a multiple of f=$2.5 10^{14}$ $m_B c^2$/eV Hz. These configurations are stable throughout most of the parameter space, and arise out of credible mechanisms for dark-matter capture. Stars with bosonic cores may also develop in other theories with effective mass couplings, such as (massless) scalar-tensor theories. We also show that (ii) collapse of the host star to a black hole is avoided by efficient gravitational cooling mechanisms.
description: 5 pages, RevTeX 4. Published in Physical Review Letters
Evidence for Mature Bulges and an Inside-out Quenching Phase 3 Billion Years After the Big Bang
Creators: name: Tacchella, S.
name: Carollo, C. M.
name: Renzini, A.
name: Schreiber, N. M. Förster
name: Lang, P.
name: Wuyts, S.
name: Cresci, G.
name: Dekel, A.
name: Genzel, R.
name: Lilly, S. J.
name: Mancini, C.
name: Newman, S.
name: Onodera, M.
name: Shapley, A.
name: Tacconi, L.
name: Woo, J.
name: Zamorani, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Most present-day galaxies with stellar masses $\geq10^{11}$ solar masses show no ongoing star formation and are dense spheroids. Ten billion years ago, similarly massive galaxies were typically forming stars at rates of hundreds solar masses per year. It is debated how star formation ceased, on which timescales, and how this "quenching" relates to the emergence of dense spheroids. We measured stellar mass and star-formation rate surface density distributions in star-forming galaxies at redshift 2.2 with $\sim1$ kiloparsec resolution. We find that, in the most massive galaxies, star formation is quenched from the inside out, on timescales less than 1 billion years in the inner regions, up to a few billion years in the outer disks. These galaxies sustain high star-formation activity at large radii, while hosting fully grown and already quenched bulges in their cores.
description: 12 (+23) pages, 4 (+10) figures, accepted version
On rational fixed points of finite group actions on the affine space
Creators: name: Haution, Olivier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Consider a finite l-group acting on the affine space of dimension n over a field k, whose characteristic differs from l. We prove the existence of a fixed point, rational over k, in the following cases: --- The field k is p-special for some prime p different from its characteristic. --- The field k is perfect and fertile, and n = 3.
Generating libraries of iTol2-end insertions at BAC ends using loxP and lox511 Tn10 transposons
Creators: name: Kawakami, Koichi
name: Wolf, Hope M.
name: Eltayeb, Mugtaba A.
name: Chatterjee, Pradeep K.
name: Abe, Gembu
name: Shakes, Leighcraft A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: BackgroundBacterial Artificial Chromosomes (BACs) have been widely used as transgenes in vertebrate model systems such as mice and zebrafish, for a variety of studies. BAC transgenesis has been a powerful tool to study the function of the genome, and gene regulation by distal cis-regulatory elements. Recently, BAC transgenesis in both mice and zebrafish was further facilitated by development of the transposon-mediated method using the Tol2 element. Tol2 ends, in the inverted orientation and flanking a 1 kb spacer DNA (iTol2), were introduced into the BAC DNA within the bacterial host using recombination of homologous sequences. Here we describe experiments designed to determine if a simpler and more flexible system could modify BACs so that they would be suitable for transgenesis into zebrafish or mouse embryos using the Tol2 transposase.ResultsA new technique was developed to introduce recognition sequences for the Tol2 transposase into BACs in E. coli using the Tn10 transposon vector system. We constructed pTnloxP-iTol2kan and pTnlox511-iTol2kan to introduce the loxP or lox511 site and iTol2 cassette, containing the Tol2 cis-sequences in the inverted orientation, into BACs that have loxP and lox511 sites flanking genomic DNA inserts by Tn10-mediated transposition. The procedure enables rapid generation of a large collection of BACs ready for transgenesis with the iTol2 cassette at the new end of a progressively truncated genomic insert via lox-Cre recombination. The iTol2 ends are efficiently recognized by the Tol2 transposase, and the BACs readily integrate into zebrafish chromosomes.ConclusionThe new technology described here can rapidly introduce iTol2 ends at a BAC end of choice, and simultaneously generate a large collection of BACs with progressive deletions of the genomic DNA from that end in a single experiment. This procedure should be applicable to a wider variety of BACs containing lox sites flanking the genomic DNA insert, including those with sequence repeats. The libraries of iTol2 inserted BACs with truncations from an end should facilitate studies on the impact of distal cis-regulatory sequences on gene function, as well as standard BAC transgenesis with precisely trimmed genes in zebrafish or mouse embryos using Tol2 transposition.
Supplemental data of "MSclassifR: an R Package for Supervised Classification of Mass Spectra with Machine Learning Methods"
Creators: name: Godmer, Alexandre
name: Yahia Benzerara
name: Varron, Emanuelle
name: Veziris, Nicolas
name: Druart, Karen
name: Matondo, Mariette
name: Aubry, Alexandra
name: Gianetto, Quentin Giai
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Supplemental data of the publication "MSclassifR: an R Package for Supervised Classification of Mass Spectra with Machine Learning Methods" in the process of being submitted This includes: Table S1. Details of the results for datasets 2-4 of this study Table S2. Results for the dataset n° 1 of this study Table S3 : Performances of Bruker® system subspecies identification concerning Mycobacterium abscessus complex
Missing hard states and regular outbursts: the puzzling case of the black hole candidate 4U 1630-472
Creators: name: Capitanio, F.
name: Campana, R.
name: De Cesare, G.
name: Ferrigno, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: 4U 1630-472 is a recurrent X-ray transient classified as a black-hole candidate from its spectral and timing properties. One of the peculiarities of this source is the presence of regular outbursts with a recurrence period between 600 and 730 d that has been observed since the discovery of the source in 1969. We report on a comparative study on the spectral and timing behaviour of three consecutive outbursts occurred in 2006, 2008 and 2010. We analysed all the data collected by the INTErnational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) and the Rossi X-ray timing Explorer (RXTE) during these three years of activity. We show that, in spite of having a similar spectral and timing behaviour in the energy range between 3 and 30 keV, these three outbursts show pronounced differences above 30 keV. In fact, the 2010 outburst extends at high energies without any detectable cut-off until 150-200 keV, while the two previous outbursts that occurred in 2006 and 2008 are not detected at all above 30 keV. Thus, in spite of a very similar accretion disk evolution, these three outbursts exhibit totally different characteristics of the Compton electron corona, showing a softening in their evolution rarely observed before in a low mass X-ray binary hosting a black hole. We argue the possibility that the unknown perturbation that causes the outbursts to be equally spaced in time could be at the origin of this particular behaviour. Finally we describe several possible scenarios that could explain the regularity of the outbursts, identifying the most plausible, such as a third body orbiting around the binary system.
description: April 2015: accepted for publication in MNRAS. May 2015: in press
MARGARET: A Personal Transportation Aircraft of Tomorrow Used Today for Collaboration among Universities
Creators: name: di Meo, Giovanni Antonio
name: Scholz, Dieter
name: Fioriti, Marco
name: Furlan, Andrea
name: Chiesa, Sergio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: EWADE2013
aircraft
design
teaching
education
research
university
Europe
workshop

description: 1 - Introduction to MARGARET 2 - MARGARET Aircraft Technologies 3- MARGARET Consortium: Collaboration among Universities and Educational Initiatives 4 - Future of MARGARET
description: http://EWADE.AircraftDesign.org --- http://ProceedingsEWADE2013.AircraftDesign.org
Impact of Organizational Factors and Individual Factors on Knowledge Usage
Creators: name: Yanee Nakprasom
Publisher: name: DR.KEN Institute of Academic Development and Promotion
Year: 2022
Subjects: Knowledge Usage
Organizational and Individual Factors
Timing
Convergent Thinking
Habits
Individual Technique
Passion to Use Newly Acquired Knowledge

description: International Journal of Sociologies and Anthropologies Science Reviews, 2, 5, 29-38
Gene and Biosynthesis of Docosahexaenoic Acid in Moritella marina
Creators: name: Chompunuch Glinwong
Publisher: name: Research Administration Division
Year: 2022
Subjects: Moritella marina
Marine bacteria
Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA)
Biosynthesis pathway

description: Thai Science and Technology Journal, 30, 4, 37-48
Giant Piezoelectricity in Monolayer Group IV Monochalcogenides: SnSe, SnS, GeSe and GeS
Creators: name: Fei, Ruixiang
name: Li, Wenbin
name: Li, Ju
name: Yang, Li
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We predict enormous piezoelectric effects in intrinsic monolayer group IV monochalcogenides (MX, M=Sn or Ge, X=Se or S), including SnSe, SnS, GeSe and GeS. Using first-principle simulations based on the modern theory of polarization, we find that their characteristic piezoelectric coefficients are about two orders of magnitude larger than those of other 2D materials, such as MoS2 and GaSe, and bulk quartz and AlN which are widely used in industry. This enhancement is a result of the unique "puckered" C2v symmetry and weaker chemical bonds of monolayer group IV monochalcogenides. Given the achieved experimental advances in fabrication of monolayers, their flexible character and ability to withstand enormous strain, these 2D structures with giant piezoelectric effects may be promising for a broad range of applications, such as nano-sized sensors, piezotronics, and energy harvesting in portable electronic devices.