cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Nuclei of Double-Charm Hyperons
Creators: name: Julia-Diaz, B.
name: Riska, D. O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ground states of double-charm hyperons form a spin 1/2 isospin 1/2 multiplet analogous to that of nucleons. Their main strong interaction may be inferred directly from the corresponding nucleon-nucleon interaction by multiplication of the interaction components by the appropriate fractional difference between interaction strengths for pairs of light flavor quarks and pairs of triplets, e.g. nucleons, of light flavor quarks. By construction of the interaction between the recently discovered double-charm hyperons by this method from several realistic nucleon-nucleon interaction models it is shown that double-charm hyperons are likely to form bound (or possibly meta-stable) states akin to the deuteron in the spin triplet state. Double beauty baryons would form corresponding deeply bound states. Nucleons and double charm (beauty) hyperons will also form bound states. The existence of hypernuclei with double-charm and double-beauty hyperons, which are stable against the strong decay, is very likely.
description: Revised version. Conclusions unchanged
ASSUMPTIONS AND POSSIBILITIES OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SERBIAN FOOD INDUSTRY
Creators: name: Savic, Ljubodrag
name: Boskovic, Gorica
name: Micic, Vladimir
name: Savic, Ljubodrag
name: Boskovic, Gorica
name: Micic, Vladimir
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Production Economics
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: food industry
subject: agriculture
subject: export
subject: industrial policy

description: The industrial production of food represents a strong motive of international trade, the development of competitiveness, high-quality products and a sustainable developmental strategy. The food industry has a significant place within Serbia’s economy and industry today. The subject of this paper’s study is the analysis of the reached levels of the development and competitiveness, limitations and future development of the food industry. The aim of this paper is to highlight the assumptions and possibilities of the development of the food industry in our country, i.e. tasks which it is given in order to achieve the growth of its efficiency and competitiveness. In this paper, appropriate methods of quantitative analysis, qualitative and structural changes are used. The indicators of export competitiveness which are used as indicators are the coverage of import with export and the index of Revealed Comparative Advantages (RCA).
description: Review Article
Large-Scale Optical Reservoir Computing for Spatiotemporal Chaotic Systems Prediction
Creators: name: Rafayelyan, Mushegh
name: Dong, Jonathan
name: Tan, Yongqi
name: Krzakala, Florent
name: Gigan, Sylvain
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Reservoir computing is a relatively recent computational paradigm that originates from a recurrent neural network and is known for its wide range of implementations using different physical technologies. Large reservoirs are very hard to obtain in conventional computers, as both the computation complexity and memory usage grow quadratically. We propose an optical scheme performing reservoir computing over very large networks potentially being able to host several millions of fully connected photonic nodes thanks to its intrinsic properties of parallelism and scalability. Our experimental studies confirm that, in contrast to conventional computers, the computation time of our optical scheme is only linearly dependent on the number of photonic nodes of the network, which is due to electronic overheads, while the optical part of computation remains fully parallel and independent of the reservoir size. To demonstrate the scalability of our optical scheme, we perform for the first time predictions on large spatiotemporal chaotic datasets obtained from the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation using optical reservoirs with up to 50 000 optical nodes. Our results are extremely challenging for conventional von Neumann machines, and they significantly advance the state of the art of unconventional reservoir computing approaches, in general.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures, abstract is modified according to the published version
MOESM2 of Retinal pigment epithelium degeneration caused by aggregation of PRPF31 and the role of HSP70 family of proteins
Creators: name: Valdés-Sánchez, Lourdes
name: Calado, Sofia
name: Cerda, Berta
name: Aramburu, Ana
name: García-Delgado, Ana
name: Massalini, Simone
name: Montero-Sánchez, Adoración
name: Vaibhav Bhatia
name: Rodríguez-Bocanegra, Eduardo
name: Diez-Lloret, Andrea
name: Rodríguez-Martínez, Daniel
name: Chakarova, Christina
name: Shom Bhattacharya
name: Díaz-Corrales, Francisco
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 2. Results of transcriptome array (MTA) 1.0 to evaluate differential gene expression in RPE samples of six Prpf31A216P/+ and three WT-littermates.
NAVARO II, a Novel Scissor-Based Planar Parallel Robot 1
Creators: name: Chablat, Damien
name: Rolland, Luc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This article presents a new variable actuation mechanism based on the 3-RPR parallel robot. This mechanismis an evolution of the NaVARo robot, a 3-RRR parallel robot, for which the second revolute joint of the threelegs is replaced by a scissor to obtain a larger working space and avoid the use of parallelograms to operate thesecond revolute joint. To obtain better spatial rigidity, the leg mechanism is constructed by placing the scissorsin an orthogonal plane to the plane of the manipulator displacement (3-RRR or even the 3-RPR). This geometricproperty brings the significant consequence of allowing the scissors to directly substitute the prismatic chains in the3-RPR and enjoy the same kinematics advantages for the overall robots as only one solution to the inverse kinematicmodel. From the Jacobian expression, surfaces of singularity can be calculated and presented in a compact form.The singularity equations are presented for a robot with a similar base and mobile platform. The properties of thescissors are then determined to have a prescribed regular workspace.
Occupational exposure to graphene and silica nanoparticles. Part I: workplace measurements and samplings
Creators: name: Boccuni, Fabio
name: Ferrante, Riccardo
name: Tombolini, Francesca
name: Natale, Claudio
name: Gordiani, Andrea
name: Sabella, Stefania
name: Iavicoli, Sergio
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: Few-Layers Graphene (FLG) are able to improve the performance of materials, due to their chemical-physical properties. Engineered amorphous silica nanoparticles (SiO2NPs) are among the most widespread nanomaterials (NMs) in the world. Such nanomaterials are two case studies of the research project ‘NanoKey’ that integrated the exposure assessment through personal measurements and sampling in the workplace, as described in the present work (part I), with the biomonitoring of exposed workers (reported in part II). Measurement campaigns were conducted according to OECD and WHO harmonized approach in two production sites. The set of instruments included real-time devices for high-resolution measurements at the nanoscale and time-integrated samplers for the off-line gravimetric analysis and chemical and morphological (SEM-EDS) characterization of exposure in order to identify the contribution of production compared to the background. Values of particle number concentration (PNC) and lung deposited surface area (LDSA) within the FLG production resulted higher than the background far field (FF), even if they are always similar to the near field (NF) ones: the average diameter (Davg) during the production was higher than the NF background but always lower than the FF values. SEM-EDS analysis highlighted the presence of structures comparable to those produced. During the SiO2NPs production, the PBZ values showed PNC and LDSA levels higher than the background, with a decrease in the Davg probably due to NPs emission. SEM-EDS confirms the presence of rare silica nanoparticles. Since the exposure to airborne NMs cannot be excluded in both production sites, a prevention-through-design approach to mitigate the potential risk for workers has been recommended.
Additional file 1 of Using individual barcodes to increase quantification power of massively parallel reporter assays
Creators: name: Keukeleire, Pia
name: Rosen, Jonathan D.
name: Göbel-Knapp, Angelina
name: Salomon, Kilian
name: Schubach, Max
name: Kircher, Martin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 1.
Cosmological Evolution of the Hard X-ray AGN Luminosity Function and the Origin of the Hard X-ray Background
Creators: name: Ueda, Yoshihiro
name: Akiyama, Masayuki
name: Ohta, Kouji
name: Miyaji, Takamitsu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the cosmological evolution of the hard X-ray luminosity function (HXLF) of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in the 2-10 keV luminosity range of 10^{41.5} - 10^{46.5} erg s^-1 as a function of redshift up to 3. From a combination of surveys conducted at photon energies above 2 keV with HEAO1, ASCA, and Chandra, we construct a highly complete (>96%) sample consisting of 247 AGNs over the wide flux range of 10^{-10} - 3.8*10^{-15} erg cm^-2 s^-1 (2-10 keV). For our purpose, we develop an extensive method of calculating the intrinsic (before-absorption) HXLF and the absorption (N_H) function. This utilizes the maximum likelihood method fully correcting for observational biases with consideration of the X-ray spectrum of each source. We find that (i) the fraction of X-ray absorbed AGNs decreases with the intrinsic luminosity and (ii) the evolution of the HXLF of all AGNs (including both type-I and type-II AGNs) is best described with a luminosity dependent density evolution (LDDE) where the cutoff redshift increases with the luminosity. Our results directly constrain the evolution of AGNs that produce a major part of the hard X-ray background, thus solving its origin quantitatively. A combination of the HXLF and the NH function enables us to construct a purely "observation based" population synthesis model. We present basic consequences of this model, and discuss the contribution of Compton-thick AGNs to the rest of the hard X-ray background.
description: 62 pages, 26 figures (13 colour figures included). Accepted for publication in ApJ. Minor corrections. References are updated
Conceptual Framework for Extended Life Cycle Assessment of Soy and Beef Chains
Creators: name: Pashaei Kamali, Farahnaz
name: Meuwissen, Miranda P.M.
name: Oude Lansink, Alfons G.J.M.
name: Pashaei Kamali, Farahnaz
name: Meuwissen, Miranda P.M.
name: Oude Lansink, Alfons G.J.M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: soy chains
subject: beef chains
subject: LCA

description: debate on appropriate framework, tools and methods to evaluate food and feed along the chains. This paper presents literature review for evaluation of triple bottom line impacts of soy and beef chains in particular, and food chains in general. We reviewed literature on the sustainability of soy and beef chains and concluded that synchronous quantitative assessment of triple bottom line impacts along the soy and beef chains is currently lacking. We proposed to define a framework to bridge the gap between concepts of sustainability and carry out economic, environmental and social evaluation of food business cases especially for soy and beef chains. The framework includes defining relevant triple bottom line indicators, stakeholder preferences and defining quantitative methods for assessment of these impacts simultaneously. However, this paper is still under development and defining framework has been partly done. Moreover, stakeholders’ preferences have not been finished yet.
MOESM2 of Newborn and childhood differential DNA methylation and liver fat in school-age children
Creators: name: Geurtsen, Madelon
name: Jaddoe, Vincent
name: Salas, Lucas
name: Santos, Susana
name: Felix, Janine
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Table S1. CpG with p-values <1.0 × 10-4 from Epigenome-wide Association Study of DNA Methylation in Cord Blood and Child Liver Fat Accumulation in Childhood*. Table S2. CpG with p-values <1.0 × 10-4 from Epigenome-wide Association Study of DNA Methylation in Child Peripheral Blood with Liver Fat Accumulation in Childhood*.
Deaf, Hard of Hearing, and Hearing Perspectives on using Automatic Speech Recognition in Conversation
Creators: name: Glasser, Abraham
name: Kushalnagar, Kesavan
name: Kushalnagar, Raja
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Many personal devices have transitioned from visual-controlled interfaces to speech-controlled interfaces to reduce costs and interactive friction, supported by the rapid growth in capabilities of speech-controlled interfaces, e.g., Amazon Echo or Apple's Siri. A consequence is that people who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) may be unable to use these speech-controlled devices. We show that deaf speech has a high error rate compared to hearing speech, in commercial speech-controlled interfaces. Deaf speech had approximately a 78% word error rate (WER) compared to a hearing speech 18% WER. Our findings show that current speech-controlled interfaces are not usable by DHH people. Based on our findings, significant advances in speech recognition software or alternative approaches will be needed for deaf use of speech-controlled interfaces. We show that current speech-controlled interfaces are not usable by DHH people.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures
Additional file 1 of Exploring effective patient feedback methods for eHealth in general practice
Creators: name: Nasori, Mana
name: Vossen, Marianne Mak-van der
name: Holtrop, Marije
name: Bont, Jettie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1
Field-Tuning of the electron and hole populations in the ruthenate Bi_3Ru_3O_11
Creators: name: Lee, Wei-Li
name: Hass, M. K.
name: Lawes, G.
name: Remirez, A. P.
name: Cava, R. J.
name: Ong, N. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Experiments on the Hall coefficient R_H and heat capactity C reveal an unusual, compensated electronic ground state in the ruthenate Bi_3Ru_3O_11. At low temperature T, R_H decreases linearly with magnetic field |H| for fields larger than the field scale set by the Zeeman energy. The results suggest that the electron and hole populations are tuned by H in opposite directions via coupling of the spins to the field. As T is decreased below 5 K, the curve C(T)/T vs. T^2 shows an anomalous flattening consistent with a rapidly growing Sommerfeld parameter γ(T). We discuss shifts of the electron and hole chemical potentials by H to interpret the observed behavior of R_H.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures, reference added
Additional file 2 of Substantia nigra Smad3 signaling deficiency: relevance to aging and Parkinson’s disease and roles of microglia, proinflammatory factors, and MAPK
Creators: name: Liu, Ying
name: Yu, Lijia
name: Xu, Yaling
name: Tang, Xiaohui
name: Wang, Xijin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Effect of each treatment on body weight and survival of rats.
Quantitative measurement of carbon nanotubes in rat lung
Creators: name: Devoy, Jérôme
name: Nunge, Hervé
name: Bonfanti, Elodie
name: Seidel, Carole
name: Gaté, Laurent
name: Cosnier, Frédéric
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: Despite their numerous possible applications, the potential impact of carbon engineered nanomaterials (CEN) on human health, especially after inhalation exposure, is still questioned. Quantification of CEN in the respiratory system is a recurring issue and deposition and pulmonary biopersistence data are essential for toxicological evaluation. In this context, a fully validated standard method for CEN quantification in lung tissue is therefore imperative. The present method, based on the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health 5040 method for atmospheric elemental and organic carbon analysis as well as on previous developments on biological matrices, involves a simple thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) of lyophilized samples, possibly preceded by a step of chemical digestion of the tissues depending on the nature of CEN investigated. The analytical method was validated for 4 CEN (carbon black as well as 3 long and thick or short and thin carbon nanotubes) for selectivity, linearity, detection and quantification limits, bias, and within-batch and between-batch precision. Calibration curves show linearity in the range of 1–40 mg/g lyophilized lung. Limits of detection for the different CEN range from 6 to 18 µg in 20 mg dry test sample. On average, within-batch precision was kept below 20 and 10% for analysis with or without a prior digestion step, respectively, whereas the corresponding between-batch precision levels reached almost 20 and 15%, respectively. The method was successfully applied to toxicological investigations for the quantitative analysis of CEN contents in rat lung exposed by inhalation.
An Integrated Analysis of Food Information to Consumers: Problems, Pitfalls, Policies and Progress
Creators: name: Bremmers, Harry J.
name: Bremmers, Harry J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: labelling
subject: food information
subject: gmo
subject: country-of-origin
subject: nanotechnology

description: The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the discussion on the positive and negative aspects of food information requirements, especially in the light of the acceptance of a new food information regulation (EU) 1169/2011. The methods which are used are legal and literature studies, case studies as well as the provision of supplementary data on the effects of food information requirements on consumer choices, costs and benefits. The field of food information is complex, since it includes legal, socio-psychological as well as economic aspects. The paper describes the major recent changes in food information law and the barriers to competitiveness of the European food industry as a consequence of connected problems and pitfalls. It suggests technical and legal solutions for improvement. The paper especially focuses on the major barriers to innovation: the competition on the package of legal and commercial information, the labelling of novel foodstuffs, (i.e., nanotechnology and gmo), and the authorisation of health claims. It advices to overhaul food information law: to integrate, simplify and to improve its logic.
MammoGrid: A Service Oriented Architecture based Medical Grid Application
Creators: name: Amendolia, S R
name: Estrella, F
name: Hassan, W
name: Hauer, T
name: Manset, D
name: McClatchey, R
name: Rogulin, D
name: Solomonides, T
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: H2.4;J.3;C2.4

description: The MammoGrid project has recently delivered its first proof-of-concept prototype using a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)-based Grid application to enable distributed computing spanning national borders. The underlying AliEn Grid infrastructure has been selected because of its practicality and because of its emergence as a potential open source standards-based solution for managing and coordinating distributed resources. The resultant prototype is expected to harness the use of huge amounts of medical image data to perform epidemiological studies, advanced image processing, radiographic education and ultimately, tele-diagnosis over communities of medical virtual organisations. The MammoGrid prototype comprises a high-quality clinician visualization workstation used for data acquisition and inspection, a DICOM-compliant interface to a set of medical services (annotation, security, image analysis, data storage and querying services) residing on a so-called Grid-box and secure access to a network of other Grid-boxes connected through Grid middleware. This paper outlines the MammoGrid approach in managing a federation of Grid-connected mammography databases in the context of the recently delivered prototype and will also describe the next phase of prototyping.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures
MOESM1 of Retinal pigment epithelium degeneration caused by aggregation of PRPF31 and the role of HSP70 family of proteins
Creators: name: Valdés-Sánchez, Lourdes
name: Calado, Sofia
name: Cerda, Berta
name: Aramburu, Ana
name: García-Delgado, Ana
name: Massalini, Simone
name: Montero-Sánchez, Adoración
name: Vaibhav Bhatia
name: Rodríguez-Bocanegra, Eduardo
name: Diez-Lloret, Andrea
name: Rodríguez-Martínez, Daniel
name: Chakarova, Christina
name: Shom Bhattacharya
name: Díaz-Corrales, Francisco
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. TEM images of RPE of 8-month-old WT (a) and Prpf31A216P/+ mice (b). Photoreceptor outer segments (OS) were observed in contact with the RPE microvilli (Mv) in WT mice (a). In Prpf31A216P/+ mice OS and Mv are also observed; however, they looked shorter and disorganized (b). RPE nuclei (Nu), melanin granules (Me), basal infoldings (BI), Bruch’s membrane (BM) and choroid (Co) are also displayed. Scale bars represent 5 μm. Figure S2. ERG recordings of WT and Prpf31A216P/+ mice. Rod response and quantification of b-wave amplitude in dark adapted mice (a-a”). Cone-rod response and quantification of a-wave in dark adapted mice (b-b”). Cone response and quantification of b-wave in light adapted mice (c-c”). RPE response and quantification of c-wave in dark adapted mice (d-d”). The boxplots a”-d” represent the a, b and c-wave amplitude in dark or light adapted WT and Prpf31A216P/+ mice (n = 6 in each group). Statistically significant differences were determined by Mann-Whitney U-test (*p 2 and p-value < 0.05. Table S3. Functional categories of genes having alternative splicing in Prpf31A216P/+ mice. The top 40 terms of 174 are listed. Table S4. Number of candidate genes showing alternative splicing in the RPE of Prpf31A216P/+ vs WT mice. Default filter criteria, splicing index < -2 or > 2 and ANOVA p value < 0.05.
How do Concerns about Pesticides Impact Consumer Willingness to Buy Genetically Modified French Fries in Germany? Results from a Purchasing Experiment
Creators: name: Nielsen, Thea
name: Nielsen, Thea
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: consumer acceptance
subject: genetically modified foods (GMFs)
subject: logistic regression model
subject: purchasing experiment.

description: A purchasing experiment in which genetically modified (GM) and conventional french fries were offered for sale at fast food stands in Germany was conducted to assess whether a market exists for GM fries and to identify factors influencing the willingness to buy such fries. The GM and conventional fries were offered for sale at the same price at eight different locations. The GM fries were labelled as being made from “environmentally-friendlier genetically modified potatoes (much less sprays)” while the regular fries were labelled as being made from “conventional potatoes”. Consumers were not aware of their participation in the purchasing experiment until after their purchasing decisions were made. The goal of the experimental set-up was to mimic an actual buying situation to the fullest extent possible. Therefore, information, such as the percentage in reduction of pesticide application or genetic information on the GM potato, were not provided to customers. Of the 331 customers who made a purchasing decision, 56.5% decided to purchase conventional fries and 22.4% GM fries, while 21.1% had no preference between conventional fries and GM fries. A short questionnaire was administered after purchasing decisions were made to better understand factors impacting purchasing decisions. Results from a logistic regression model revealed that worry about pesticides, frequency of organic food purchases, perceptions of the risk of GM foods on health, and the acceptability of GM foods for the environment significantly impact the probability that a customer is willing to buy GM fries. A surprising result is that people who purchase organic food often or always have much higher odds of being willing to purchase GM fries compared to people who purchase organic food less often. The main implication of this study is that a market for fries made from GM potatoes with less pesticide applications currently exists in Germany and could be expanded by providing more information about their genetic origin and reduced pesticide usage.
The cosomological evolution of the environments of powerful radio galaxies
Creators: name: Goodlet, J. A.
name: Kaiser, C. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results from the analysis of 26 extragalactic radio sources of type FRII which were observed with the VLA at 5 GHz and around the 1.4 GHz band. The sources were selected to have redshifts in the range $ 0.3
description: 2 pages, Cozumel AGN 2003 conference proceedings
Uranus and Neptune are key to understand planets with hydrogen atmospheres
Creators: name: Guillot, Tristan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Uranus and Neptune are the last unexplored planets of the Solar System. I show that they hold crucial keys to understand the atmospheric dynamics and structure of planets with hydrogen atmospheres. Their atmospheres are active and storms are believed to be fueled by methane condensation which is both extremely abundant and occurs at low optical depth. This means that mapping temperature and methane abundance as a function of position and depth will inform us on how convection organizes in an atmosphere with no surface and condensates that are heavier than the surrounding air, a general feature of gas giants. Using this information will be essential to constrain the interior structure of Uranus and Neptune themselves, but also of Jupiter, Saturn and numerous exoplanets with hydrogen atmospheres. Owing to the spatial and temporal variability of these atmospheres, an orbiter is required. A probe would provide a reference profile to lift ambiguities inherent to remote observations. It would also measure abundances of noble gases which can be used to reconstruct the history of planet formation in the Solar System. Finally, mapping the planets' gravity and magnetic fields will be essential to constrain their global composition, structure and evolution.
Additional file 1 of Unveiling the role of chromosome structure morphology on gene function through chromosome conformation analysis
Creators: name: Zhan, Yuxiang
name: Yildirim, Asli
name: Boninsegna, Lorenzo
name: Alber, Frank
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Quadrupole collectivity of neutron-rich Neon isotopes
Creators: name: Rodriguez-Guzman, R. R.
name: Egido, J. L.
name: Robledo, L. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The angular momentum projected Generator Coordinate Method, with the quadrupole moment as collective coordinate and the Gogny force (D1S) as the effective interaction, is used to describe the properties of the ground state and low-lying excited states of the even-even Neon isotopes $^{20-34}$Ne, that is, from the stability valley up to the drip-line. It is found that the ground state of the N=20 nucleus $^{30}$Ne is deformed but to a lesser extent than the N=20 isotope of the Magnesium. In the calculations, the isotope $^{32}$Ne is at the drip-line in good agreement with other theoretical predictions. On the other hand, rather good agreement with experimental data for many observables is obtained.
description: 11 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in EPJA
The effects of discreteness of galactic cosmic rays sources
Creators: name: Taillet, Richard
name: Salati, Pierre
name: Maurin, David
name: Vangioni-Flam, Elisabeth
name: Cassé, Michel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Most studies of GeV Galactic Cosmic Rays (GCR) nuclei assume a steady state/continuous distribution for the sources of cosmic rays, but this distribution is actually discrete in time and in space. The current progress in our understanding of cosmic ray physics (acceleration, propagation), the required consistency in explaining several GCRs manifestation (nuclei, $γ$,...) as well as the precision of present and future space missions (e.g. INTEGRAL, AMS, AGILE, GLAST) point towards the necessity to go beyond this approximation. A steady state semi-analytical model that describes well many nuclei data has been developed in the past years based on this approximation, as well as others. We wish to extend it to a time dependent version, including discrete sources. As a first step, the validity of several approximations of the model we use are checked to validate the approach: i) the effect of the radial variation of the interstellar gas density is inspected and ii) the effect of a specific modeling for the galactic wind (linear vs constant) is discussed. In a second step, the approximation of using continuous sources in space is considered. This is completed by a study of time discreteness through the time-dependent version of the propagation equation. A new analytical solution of this equation for instantaneous point-like sources, including the effect of escape, galactic wind and spallation, is presented. Application of time and space discretness to definite propagation conditions and realistic distributions of sources will be presented in a future paper.
description: final version, 8 figures, accepted in ApJ. A misprint in fig 8 labels has been corrected
New evidence for weak magnetic fields in Herbig Ae/Be stars
Creators: name: Järvinen, S. P.
name: Carroll, T. A.
name: Hubrig, S.
name: Ilyin, I.
name: Schöller, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In recent years Herbig Ae/Be stars receive considerable attention as their disks are believed to be the sites of on-going planet formation. Confirming the presence of magnetic fields in these stars is critical for understanding the transport of angular momentum during the protostellar phase. Furthermore, magnetic fields set the conditions for strongly anisotropic accretion. In this study we present the results of our recent observing campaigns of a sample of Herbig Ae/Be stars aimed at measurements of their magnetic fields applying the Singular Value Decomposition method to high resolution spectropolarimetric observations. The strongest longitudinal magnetic field of 209 G is detected in the Herbig Be star HD 58647, whereas the weakest field of 17 G is measured in the Herbig Ae star HD 190073. A change of polarity is detected for HD 58647 and in the Herbig Be star HD 98922. The obtained results provide further evidence that Herbig Ae/Be stars possess much weaker magnetic fields than their lower mass counterpart T Tauri stars with magnetic fields of kG order.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, 1 table, accepted to be published in MNRAS
The sp3/sp2  carbon ratio as a modulator of in vivo and in vitro toxicity of the chemically purified detonation-synthesized nanodiamond via the reactive oxygen species generation
Creators: name: Lee, Dong-Keun
name: Sangwook Ha
name: Soyeon Jeon
name: Jiyoung Jeong
name: Dong-Jae Kim
name: Lee, Seung Whan
name: Wan-Seob Cho
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
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: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Computational Biology

description: Nanodiamonds have been suggested as biocompatible materials and are suitable for various biomedical applications, but little is known about how to synthesize safer nanodiamonds. Herein, seven different detonation-synthesized nanodiamonds (DNDs) with sequential sp3/sp2  carbon ratios were assembled by controlling the chemical purification parameters and the role of sp3/sp2  carbon ratio on the toxicity of DNDs was investigated. Carbon black and nickel oxide nanoparticles were used as reference particles. The intrinsic reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation potential of DNDs was estimated by a 2′7′-dichlorofluorescein diacetate (DCFH-DA) assay, and these values showed a good negative correlation with the sp3/sp2  carbon ratios, which implies that ROS generation increased as the sp3/sp2  carbon ratio decreased. As a model to investigate inflammogenic potential of DND samples, a rat intratracheal instillation model was used as the lung is very sensitive to nanoparticle exposures. The sp3/sp2  carbon ratios or the estimated values of ROS generation potential showed excellent linear correlations with the number of neutrophils and pro-inflammatory cytokines in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid at 24 h after instillation. Treatment of DND samples to THP-1 derived macrophages also showed that the sp3/sp2  carbon ratios or the estimated values of ROS generation potential were closely related with the toxicity endpoints such as cell viability and pro-inflammatory cytokines. Taken together, these data demonstrate that the sp3/sp2  carbon ratio is the key determinant for the toxicity of DNDs, which can be a useful tool for the safer-by-design approach of DNDs and the safety assessment of carbon nanoparticles.
MOESM1 of Newborn and childhood differential DNA methylation and liver fat in school-age children
Creators: name: Geurtsen, Madelon
name: Jaddoe, Vincent
name: Salas, Lucas
name: Santos, Susana
name: Felix, Janine
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1a. Epigenome-wide Association Study Results of DNA Methylation in Cord Blood with Liver Fat Fraction in Children. Figure S1b. Epigenome-wide Association Study Results of DNA Methylation in Child Peripheral Blood with Liver Fat Fraction in Children.
Additional file 1 of Chloroplast genomic insights into adaptive evolution and rapid radiation in the genus Passiflora (Passifloraceae)
Creators: name: Cauz-Santos, Luiz Augusto
name: da Costa, Zirlane Portugal
name: Sader, Mariela Analía
name: van den Berg, Cássio
name: Vieira, Maria Lucia Carneiro
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Qualitative picture of a new mechanism for high-Tc superconductors
Creators: name: Hu, Chia-Ren
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Xu et al. observed enhanced Nernst effect and Iguchi et al. observed patched diamagnetism, both well above $T_c$ in underdoped high-$T_c$ superconductors (HTSCs). A new mechanism is proposed here, which seems to naturally explain, at least qualitatively, these observations, as well as the d-wave nature and continuity of pseudogap and pairing gap, the tunneling conductance above $T_c$, as well as $T^*(x)$, $T_ν(x)$, $T_c(x)$, etc. This mechanism combines features of dynamic charged stripes, preformed pairs, and spin-bags: At appropriete doping levels, the doped holes (and perhaps also electrons) will promote the formation of anti-phase islands in short-range anti-ferromagnetic order. On the boundary of each such island reside two doped carriers; the unscreened Coulomb repulsion between them stabilizes its size. Superconductivity results when such ``pre-formed pairs'' Bose-condense.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, New3SC-4 Conference Proceedings, to be published in ijmpb
Additional file 2 of Unveiling the role of chromosome structure morphology on gene function through chromosome conformation analysis
Creators: name: Zhan, Yuxiang
name: Yildirim, Asli
name: Boninsegna, Lorenzo
name: Alber, Frank
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Supplementary Material 2.
Deformed covariance in spherically symmetric vacuum models of loop quantum gravity: Consistency in Euclidean and self-dual gravity
Creators: name: Bojowald, Martin
name: Brahma, Suddhasattwa
name: Ding, Ding
name: Ronco, Michele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Different versions of consistent canonical realizations of hypersurface deformations of spherically symmetric space-times have been derived in models of loop quantum gravity, modifying the classical dynamics and sometimes also the structure of space-time. Based on a canonical version of effective field theory, this paper provides a unified treatment, showing that modified space-time structures are generic in this setting. The special case of Euclidean gravity demonstrates agreement also with existing operator calculations.
description: 37 pages
Food Awareness and Transparency: Current Practices and Future Tools
Creators: name: Sebok, Andras
name: Hegyi, Adrienn
name: Viola, Katalin
name: Gabor, Istvan
name: Homolka, Fruzsina
name: Sebok, Andras
name: Hegyi, Adrienn
name: Viola, Katalin
name: Gabor, Istvan
name: Homolka, Fruzsina
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: transparency
subject: food awareness
subject: successful practices
subject: Future Internet functions
subject: Future internet applications

description: Within the SmartAgriFood project the envisaged functions of Future Internet (FI) were collected and explained to the business users. 135 in depth interviews in 6 countries, and 8 focus group discussions in 5 countries were carried out for identifications and evaluation of the potential applications in the agri-food chain in the Smart Food Awareness area. Privacy was seen as a key function of the FI. The majority of the potential application ideas were rated as applicable to ensure improved awareness for the food chain members. There is a need for systematic explanation of the new enabling functions of the FI to the potential business users in a user-friendly way to foster the identification of new application opportunities. In some cases there is a difference between the priorities set by them and the behaviour of the consumers.
Structural basis of different surface-modified fullerene derivatives as novel thrombin inhibitors: insight into the inhibitory mechanism through molecular modelling studies
Creators: name: Yang, Zhijie
name: Wan, Yongfeng
name: E, Jingwen
name: Luo, Zhijian
name: Guan, Shanshan
name: Wang, Song
name: Zhang, Hao
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biophysics
Biochemistry
Pharmacology
Biotechnology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Hematology

description: Thrombin is the main target of antithrombotic and anticoagulant therapy. Although recent studies have shown that surface-modified fullerene derivatives can be used as novel nano-anticoagulants to effectively inhibit thrombin, the specific mechanism remains unclear. In this study, we investigated the binding mode and inhibition mechanism of fullerenes with thrombin by using various molecular modelling approaches. The results showed that owing to the hydrophobicity of the fullerene skeleton, the four existing fullerene inhibitors mainly combined with the active site of thrombin through van der Waals interaction and tended to make the surrounding environment hydrophobic. This made the inhibitors with hydrophobic side chains, especially those with large hydrophobic side chains containing benzene rings, have greater binding free energy with protein. However, as more hydrophilic groups can change the surrounding hydrophilic–hydrophobic environment and form more hydrogen bonds, the electrostatic contribution of the polyhydroxy side chain designed in this study was increased further. At the same time, the van der Waals interaction between the fullerene carbon skeleton and protein did not decrease significantly, resulting in a significantly increased total binding free energy and an enhanced inhibition effect. These findings provide a theoretical basis for the improvement of highly effective fullerene anticoagulants.
Les catastrophes naturelles dans les romans caribéens d’expression française
Creators: name: Vignoli, Alessia
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2020

description:

The notion of ‘disaster’ pervades the Caribbean thought. The common origin of the Caribbean region, the European colonization, caused two disasters: the extermination of Native Americans and the deportation of African slaves. The union between nature and the oppressed people against the oppressor resulted in the creation of an environmental conscience that the Caribbean literature has often expressed. This essay will investigate the common points shared by some Haitian, Martinican and Guadeloupean authors in the writing of natural hazards. It will show that, despite the diversity that marks the Caribbean, there is a repetition of common features that proves its geopoetic unity.

description: Il Tolomeo
La Peste d’Albert Camus : une analyse de la société coloniale algérienne à travers le prisme de l’épidémie
Creators: name: Berardi, Alessia
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2020

description:

March 2020: as Coronavirus continues spreading across the globe, the well-known novel La Peste (1947) by Albert Camus appeals to new readers all over the world. This article offers a new modest reading of La Peste by adopting an approach which emerges from the intersection between Environmental Humanities and Postcolonial Studies. We will explore to what extent the plague is an allegory of human suffering and isolate the different levels on which the allegory may work. Furthermore, we will focus on the link between the representation of the plague outbreaking in Oran and the French-Algerian, multiethnic society. What will the ‘epidemic fiction’ reveal about social structures and practices in the context of colonial Algeria’s last years of existence, and how? The representation of the epidemic seems to mirror the inequalities of that colonial society that is not depicted in the novel, and yet it reminds the reader that societies are constructed and, thus, can be improved.

description: Il Tolomeo