cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 1: of Comparison of two statistical indicators in communicating epidemiological results to the population: a randomized study in a high environmental risk area of Italy
Creators: name: Baccini, Michela
name: Ghirardi, Laura
name: Farinella, Domenica
name: Biggeri, Annibale
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Sample size determination. (PDF 42 kb)
Additional file 1 of The effect of lidocaine intraoperative infusion on quality of postoperative sleep in patients undergoing thyroidectomy: a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Shao, Caiqun
name: Lin, Longxiang
name: Chen, Mengmeng
name: Wang, Ning
name: Shangguan, Wangning
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1
The Causes and Evolutionary Consequences of Mixed Singing in Two Hybridizing Songbird Species (Luscinia spp.)
Creators: name: Vokurková, Jana
name: Petrusková, Tereza
name: Reifová, Radka
name: Kozman, Alexandra
name: Mořkovský, Libor
name: Kipper, Silke
name: Weiss, Michael
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie

description: Bird song plays an important role in the establishment and maintenance of prezygotic reproductive barriers. When two closely related species come into secondary contact, song convergence caused by acquisition of heterospecific songs into the birds’ repertoires is often observed. The proximate mechanisms responsible for such mixed singing, and its effect on the speciation process, are poorly understood. We used a combination of genetic and bioacoustic analyses to test whether mixed singing observed in the secondary contact zone of two passerine birds, the Thrush Nightingale (Luscinia luscinia) and the Common Nightingale (L. megarhynchos), is caused by introgressive hybridization. We analysed song recordings of both species from allopatric and sympatric populations together with genotype data from one mitochondrial and seven nuclear loci. Semi-automated comparisons of our recordings with an extensive catalogue of Common Nightingale song types confirmed that most of the analysed sympatric Thrush Nightingale males were ‘mixed singers’ that use heterospecific song types in their repertoires. None of these ‘mixed singers’ possessed any alleles introgressed from the Common Nightingale, suggesting that they were not backcross hybrids. We also analysed songs of five individuals with intermediate phenotype, which were identified as F1 hybrids between the Thrush Nightingale female and the Common Nightingale male by genetic analysis. Songs of three of these hybrids corresponded to the paternal species (Common Nightingale) but the remaining two sung a mixed song. Our results suggest that although hybridization might increase the tendency for learning songs from both parental species, interspecific cultural transmission is the major proximate mechanism explaining the occurrence of mixed singers among the sympatric Thrush Nightingales. We also provide evidence that mixed singing does not substantially increase the rate of interspecific hybridization and discuss the possible adaptive value of this phenomenon in nightingales.
Dynamics of Translation Elongation in an mRNA Context with a High Frameshifting Propensity
Creators: Bailey, Nevette Adia
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biophysics
Ribosomes
Proteins--Synthesis
Genetic translation
Messenger RNA
Transfer RNA

description: Ribosomes are universally conserved macromolecular machines found within all living cells that catalyze protein synthesis, one of nature’s most fundamental processes. Ribosomes synthesize proteins, which are polymeric chains of amino acids, by incorporating the amino acids one at a time via aminoacylated-transfer RNAs (aa-tRNAs), based on translation of the sequence of triplet- nucleotide codons presented by the messenger RNA (mRNA) template that is a direct readout of genomic DNA. Recent biochemical, structural, dynamic, and computational studies have uncovered large-scale conformational changes of the ribosome, its tRNA substrates, and the additional protein translation factors that play important roles in regulating protein synthesis, especially during the elongation phase of translation when the bulk of each protein is synthesized. How the ribosome, its translation elongation factors, tRNAs, and mRNA physically coordinate and regulate the movements of the tRNAs carrying amino acids into, through, and out of the ribosome remains one of the more fundamental questions in the mechanistic studies of protein synthesis. A complete understanding of the conformational dynamics of ribosomal complexes will improve our knowledge of how translation is regulated, including how ribosome-targeting antibiotics regulate translation elongation, and will provide crucial information for designing next-generation antibiotics. In this thesis I have investigated the conformational dynamics of the ribosome during the elongation phase of protein synthesis at the single-molecule level using single-molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer (smFRET) microscopy experiments. Specifically, I have studied ribosomal dynamics during the elongation phase of translation in the presence of a tRNAPro in the context of an mRNA that has the propensity to shift out of the reading frame. My studies have revealed information about the mechanistic and regulatory functions of the posttranscriptional modifications of tRNAPro in a context in which the ribosomal complex has the propensity to undergo non-programmed +1-frameshifting, in which the tRNA-mRNA base pairing shifts one base toward the 3’ end of the mRNA, and if unchecked, leads to the synthesis of a polypeptide with a completely different sequence of amino acids. My data suggests that in this context, the mechanism underlying non-programmed +1-frameshifting involves the tRNA shifting out of frame prior to the tRNA being accommodated in the P site, i.e. either while the tRNA is in the A site, or more likely, during translocation of the tRNA from the A site to the P site, and not while the tRNA is already occupying the P site, as previously proposed.
Lattice Gauge Fields and Discrete Noncommutative Yang-Mills Theory
Creators: name: Ambjorn, J.
name: Makeenko, Y. M.
name: Nishimura, J.
name: Szabo, R. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We present a lattice formulation of noncommutative Yang-Mills theory in arbitrary even dimensionality. The UV/IR mixing characteristic of noncommutative field theories is demonstrated at a completely nonperturbative level. We prove a discrete Morita equivalence between ordinary Yang-Mills theory with multi-valued gauge fields and noncommutative Yang-Mills theory with periodic gauge fields. Using this equivalence, we show that generic noncommutative gauge theories in the continuum can be regularized nonperturbatively by means of {\it ordinary} lattice gauge theory with 't~Hooft flux. In the case of irrational noncommutativity parameters, the rank of the gauge group of the commutative lattice theory must be sent to infinity in the continuum limit. As a special case, the construction includes the recent description of noncommutative Yang-Mills theories using twisted large $N$ reduced models. We study the coupling of noncommutative gauge fields to matter fields in the fundamental representation of the gauge group using the lattice formalism. The large mass expansion is used to describe the physical meaning of Wilson loops in noncommutative gauge theories. We also demonstrate Morita equivalence in the presence of fundamental matter fields and use this property to comment on the calculation of the beta-function in noncommutative quantum electrodynamics.
description: 48 pages LaTeX2e, no figures
title: Climate change adaptation
title: transformation of governance structures? Assessing the adaptive capacity of spatial planning in Alpine countries
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Kruse, Sylvia
name: Pütz, Marco
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften

description: Whereas climate mitigation has to be conducted and coordinated on a global level, climate adaptation can primarily be dealt with on the regional and local level. Natural conditions as well as societal and economic vulnerabilities can be very different between regions. Moreover, the capacity of cities, municipalities, regions and countries to adapt to climate change depends on multiple factors (e.g. institutional, societal, economic, and cultural) (cf. Füssel 2007, Lebel et al. 2006). In this context local and regional policy making has to transform governance practices in order to enhance adaptation options and to improve the adaptive governance of cities and regions. Adaptive governance refers to the coordination and interplay of administrative units in a multilevel governance environment involving different scales of action as well as state and non-state actors. Presenting first results of a research project, the paper addresses two questions: first, how climate adaptation is governed in multi-level spatial planning systems and second, if and how governance patters and mechanisms in spatial planning are currently being transformed in order to adapt to climate change impacts. The paper focuses on the transnational analysis and evaluation of the adaptive capacities of relevant spatial planning systems in Alpine Countries. Besides spatial planning policies on different administrative levels and spatial planning instruments for climate adaptation the analysis focuses on the national and regional political framework, on cooperation and participation activities, on knowledge requirements and institutional barriers within the Alpine countries. The results of this systematic transnational analysis of multi-level governance in the field of spatial planning are subsequently discussed against the background of current concepts of adaptive governance in multi-level environments (cf. Brunner 2005, Folke 2006).
Dynamics of Melt-mediated Crystallization of Amorphous Silicon Films
Creators: Hu, Qiongying
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Chemistry
Materials science

description: This thesis reports on the new experimental findings and the corresponding conclusions that were made regarding the pulsed-laser-induced melting-and-solidification behavior of a-Si films. In particular, it focuses on investigating the melt-mediated crystallization details that are associated with the a-Si films, which presumably do not contain preexisting microcrystal clusters (as for instance can be formed via high-dose ion-irradiation of Si wafers and PECVD deposition of a-Si films). Whereas the behavior of microcrystalline-cluster-containing a-Si films within the partial-melting regime was well characterized and accounted for [1], a more intrinsic, and, therefore, more fundamentally important situation involving microcrystalline-cluster-deficient a-Si films in the partial melting regime has yet to be definitively resolved. The present thesis addresses this unsatisfactory situation. The samples used in this work consisted of 50nm to 200nm dehydrogenated PECVD a-Si films (with or without additional ion irradiation of the films) on SiO2-coated glass and quartz substrate. Single-shot irradiation experiments using an excimer-laser-based system were conducted at various pulse durations (30ns-Gaussian-profile beam to 250ns beam obtained via an optical pulse duration extender) and at various energy densities. Extensive in situ transformation analysis was performed using both front-side and back-side transient reflectance measurements also microstructural characterization of the irradiated films was conducted using TEM and AFM. The experimental findings obtained in this investigation reveal that these a-Si films can melt and solidify in ways that are quite distinct, more varied, and highly complex compared to those encountered in microcrystalline-cluster-rich a-Si films. Specifically: (1) spatially dispersed and temporally stochastic nucleation of crystalline solids occurring relatively effectively at the moving liquid-amorphous interface, (2) very defective crystal growth that leads to the formation of fine-grained Si proceeding, at least initially after the nucleation, at a sufficiently rapidly moving crystal solidification front, and (3) the propensity for local preferential re-melting of the defective regions and grain boundaries (while the beam is still on) are some of the fundamental factors that can participate and affect how these films melt and solidify. We discuss, by providing an extensive and critical review of the relevant papers, how the present conclusions are fundamentally distinct from those that have been made by the previous investigators in the field. The implications of these findings on the conventional ELA (i.e., excimer-laser annealing) method as well as the possibility of developing partial-melting-regime-based ultra-high-throughput crystallization methods are also discussed.
Customized FinGPT Search Agents Using Foundation Models
Creators: name: Tian, Felix
name: Byadgi, Ajay
name: Kim, Daniel
name: Zha, Daochen
name: White, Matt
name: Xiao, Kairong
name: Yanglet, Xiao-Yang Liu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Current large language models (LLMs) have proven useful for analyzing financial data, but most existing models, such as BloombergGPT and FinGPT, lack customization for specific user needs. In this paper, we address this gap by developing FinGPT Search Agents tailored for two types of users: individuals and institutions. For individuals, we leverage Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to integrate local documents and user-specified data sources. For institutions, we employ dynamic vector databases and fine-tune models on proprietary data. There are several key issues to address, including data privacy, the time-sensitive nature of financial information, and the need for fast responses. Experiments show that FinGPT agents outperform existing models in accuracy, relevance, and response time, making them practical for real-world applications.
Cunmin xueyi 村民學藝 Q00547_01_A
Creators: name: Admin, Textcourt
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 470515
subject: Literature in Chinese

description: Launched in October 2019 at the University of Oxford, TEXTCOURT: Linking the Textual Worlds of Chinese Court Theater, ca. 1600-1800 is a five-year research project whose aim is to develop a digital archive of court drama texts to connect and link them with their local and global contexts. The project will enable textual studies of Chinese court drama and produce research publications and an anthology of English translations. It will contribute to the understanding of the role of Chinese court drama in world court cultures.
An analytical bound on the fleet size in vehicle routing problems: a dynamic programming approach
Creators: name: Eshragh, Ali
name: Esmaeilbeigi, Rasul
name: Middleton, Richard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present an analytical upper bound on the number of required vehicles for vehicle routing problems with split deliveries and any number of capacitated depots. We show that a fleet size greater than the proposed bound is not achievable based on a set of common assumptions. This property of the upper bound is proved through a dynamic programming approach. We also discuss the validity of the bound for a wide variety of routing problems with or without split deliveries.
Mapping tori of free group automorphisms are coherent
Creators: name: Feighn, Mark
name: Handel, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The mapping torus of an endomorphism Φof a group G is the HNN-extension G*_G with bonding maps the identity and Φ. We show that a mapping torus of an injective free group endomorphism has the property that its finitely generated subgroups are finitely presented and, moreover, these subgroups are of finite type.
description: 17 pages, published version
Pre-Training with Whole Word Masking for Chinese BERT
Creators: name: Cui, Yiming
name: Che, Wanxiang
name: Liu, Ting
name: Qin, Bing
name: Yang, Ziqing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) has shown marvelous improvements across various NLP tasks, and its consecutive variants have been proposed to further improve the performance of the pre-trained language models. In this paper, we aim to first introduce the whole word masking (wwm) strategy for Chinese BERT, along with a series of Chinese pre-trained language models. Then we also propose a simple but effective model called MacBERT, which improves upon RoBERTa in several ways. Especially, we propose a new masking strategy called MLM as correction (Mac). To demonstrate the effectiveness of these models, we create a series of Chinese pre-trained language models as our baselines, including BERT, RoBERTa, ELECTRA, RBT, etc. We carried out extensive experiments on ten Chinese NLP tasks to evaluate the created Chinese pre-trained language models as well as the proposed MacBERT. Experimental results show that MacBERT could achieve state-of-the-art performances on many NLP tasks, and we also ablate details with several findings that may help future research. We open-source our pre-trained language models for further facilitating our research community. Resources are available: https://github.com/ymcui/Chinese-BERT-wwm
description: 11 pages. Journal extension to arXiv:2004.13922
Additional file 2: of Comparison of two statistical indicators in communicating epidemiological results to the population: a randomized study in a high environmental risk area of Italy
Creators: name: Baccini, Michela
name: Ghirardi, Laura
name: Farinella, Domenica
name: Biggeri, Annibale
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Questions R1 and R2. Description of questions R1 and R2 on risk attitude and perception. (PDF 15 kb)
Power System Dispatch with Marginal Degradation Cost of Battery Storage
Creators: name: He, Guannan
name: Kar, Soummya
name: Mohammadi, Javad
name: Moutis, Panayiotis
name: Whitacre, Jay F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Battery storage is essential for the future smart grid. The inevitable cell degradation renders the battery lifetime volatile and highly dependent on battery dispatch, and thus incurs opportunity cost. This paper rigorously derives the marginal degradation cost of battery for power system dispatch. The derived optimal marginal degradation cost is time-variant to reflect the time value of money and the functionality fade of battery and takes the form of a constant value divided by a discount factor plus a term related to battery state of health. In case studies, we demonstrate the evolution of the optimal marginal costs of degradation that corresponds to the optimal long-term dispatch outcome. We also show that the optimal marginal cost of degradation depends on the marginal cost of generation in the grid.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures
Chengxian huadeng 誠獻花燈 Q00545_01_A
Creators: name: Admin, Textcourt
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 470515
subject: Literature in Chinese

description: Launched in October 2019 at the University of Oxford, TEXTCOURT: Linking the Textual Worlds of Chinese Court Theater, ca. 1600-1800 is a five-year research project whose aim is to develop a digital archive of court drama texts to connect and link them with their local and global contexts. The project will enable textual studies of Chinese court drama and produce research publications and an anthology of English translations. It will contribute to the understanding of the role of Chinese court drama in world court cultures.
Results from an Einstein@Home search for continuous gravitational waves from Cassiopeia A, Vela Jr. and G347.3
Creators: name: Ming, Jing
name: Papa, Maria Alessandra
name: Singh, Avneet
name: Eggenstein, Heinz-Bernd
name: Zhu, Sylvia J.
name: Dergachev, Vladimir
name: Hu, Yi-Ming
name: Prix, Reinhard
name: Machenschalk, Bernd
name: Beer, Christian
name: Behnke, Oliver
name: Allen, Bruce
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report results of the most sensitive search to date for periodic gravitational waves from Cassiopeia A, Vela Jr. and G347.3 with frequency between 20 and 1500 Hz. The search was made possible by the computing power provided by the volunteers of the Einstein@Home project and improves on previous results by a factor of 2 across the entire frequency range for all targets. We find no significant signal candidate and set the most stringent upper limits to date on the amplitude of gravitational wave signals from the target population, corresponding to sensitivity depths between 54 $[1/ {\sqrt{\textrm{Hz}}}]$ and 83 $[1/ {\sqrt{\textrm{Hz}}}]$, depending on the target and the frequency range. At the frequency of best strain sensitivity, near $172$ Hz, we set 90% confidence upper limits on the gravitational wave intrinsic amplitude of $h_0^{90\%}\approx 10^{-25}$, probing ellipticity values for Vela Jr. as low as $3\times 10^{-8}$, assuming a distance of 200 pc.
Additional file 2 of The effect of lidocaine intraoperative infusion on quality of postoperative sleep in patients undergoing thyroidectomy: a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Shao, Caiqun
name: Lin, Longxiang
name: Chen, Mengmeng
name: Wang, Ning
name: Shangguan, Wangning
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 2
Age and metallicity of a globular cluster in the dwarf spheroidal galaxy DDO78
Creators: name: Sharina, M. E.
name: Sil'chenko, O. K.
name: Burenkov, A. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of moderate resolution spectroscopy for a globular cluster in the M81 group dwarf spheroidal galaxy DDO~78. The DDO78 globular cluster, 4 Milky Way globular clusters, spectroscopic and radial velocity standards were observed with the Long-slit spectrograph of the 6-m telescope (SAO RAS, Russia). Lick spectrophotometric indices were determined in the bandpasses adopted by Burstein et al. (1984). We have derived the mean metallicity of the globular cluster in DDO78 to be [Fe/H] = -1.6 +- 0.1 dex by taking the weighted mean of metallicities obtained from the strength of several absorption features. We have estimated an age for the globular cluster of 9-12 Gyr similar to that found for the Galactic globular cluster NGC362, which resembles our cluster by chemical abundance and integrated spectrophotometric properties.
description: 20 pages, 5 figures; Astronomy and Astrophysics, in preparation
Erstellung einer radargestützten Niederschlagsklimatologie
Creators: name: Winterrath, Tanja
name: Brendel, Christoph
name: Hafer, Mario
name: Junghänel, Thomas
name: Klameth, Anna
name: Walawender, Ewelina
name: Weigl, Elmar
name: Becker, Andreas
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::550 Geowissenschaften, Geologie::551 Geologie, Hydrologie, Meteorologie

description: Es ist Konsens in der Klimaforschungsgemeinschaft, dass der globale Klimawandel mit großer Wahrscheinlichkeit mit einer erhöhten Häufigkeit von witterungsbedingten Naturkatastrophen einhergeht [IPCC, 2011]. Grundlage für diese Schlussfolgerung sind im Wesentlichen die Ergebnisse globaler und regionaler Klimasimulationen. Neben Windstürmen sind insbesondere Auftreten und Häufigkeit von hydrometeorologischen Extremereignissen wie z. B. Starkregen oder Dürre ursächlich für korrespondierende Naturkatastrophen, die für den Katastrophenschutz relevant sind. So sind die Anzahl von Umwelteinsätzen der Feuerwehr im Nachgang von Extremereignissen wie Starkregen oder Hagel [Geier, 2009] sowie die Zahl der wetterbedingten Einsätze des Technischen Hilfswerks in den vergangenen Jahren gestiegen [Strotmann, 2011]. Dieser Trend wird von einer Befragung der im Katastrophenschutz eingebundenen Organisationen bestätigt, nach deren Ergebnissen neben Sturmereignissen vor allem Hochwasser vermehrt Einsätze nach sich ziehen.
Does violation of a Bell inequality always imply quantum advantage in a communication complexity problem?
Creators: name: Tavakoli, Armin
name: Żukowski, Marek
name: Brukner, Časlav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum correlations which violate a Bell inequality are presumed to power better-than-classical protocols for solving communication complexity problems (CCPs). How general is this statement? We show that violations of correlation-type Bell inequalities allow advantages in CCPs, when communication protocols are tailored to emulate the Bell no-signaling constraint (by not communicating measurement settings). Abandonment of this restriction on classical models allows us to disprove the main result of, inter alia, [Brukner et. al., Phys Rev. Lett. 89, 197901 (2002)]; we show that quantum correlations obtained from these communication strategies assisted by a small quantum violation of the CGLMP Bell inequalities do not imply advantages in any CCP in the input/output scenario considered in the reference. More generally, we show that there exists quantum correlations, with nontrivial local marginal probabilities, which violate the $I_{3322}$ Bell inequality, but do not enable a quantum advantange in any CCP, regardless of the communication strategy employed in the quantum protocol, for a scenario with a fixed number of inputs and outputs
description: Accepted for publication in Quantum
Gauss Sums, Jacobi Sums, and $p$-ranks of Cyclic Difference Sets
Creators: name: Evans, Ronald
name: Hollmann, Henk
name: Krattenthaler, Christian
name: Xiang, Qing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05B10 05A15 05C38 05C90 11L05 11T24 11T71 94B15

description: We study quadratic residue difference sets, GMW difference sets, and difference sets arising from monomial hyperovals, all of which are $(2^d-1, 2^{d-1}-1, 2^{d-2}-1)$ cyclic difference sets in the multiplicative group of the finite field $F_{2^d}$ of $2^d$ elements, with $d \geq 2$. We show that, except for a few cases with small $d$, these difference sets are all pairwise inequivalent. This is accomplished in part by examining their 2-ranks. The 2-ranks of all of these difference sets were previously known, except for those connected with the Segre and Glynn hyperovals. We determine the 2-ranks of the difference sets arising from the Segre and Glynn hyperovals, in the following way. Stickelberger's theorem for Gauss sums is used to reduce the computation of these 2-ranks to a problem of counting certain cyclic binary strings of length $d$. This counting problem is then solved combinatorially, with the aid of the transfer matrix method. We give further applications of the 2-rank formulas, including the determination of the nonzeros of certain binary cyclic codes, and a criterion in terms of the trace function to decide for which $β$ in $F_{2^d}^*$ the polynomial $x^6 + x + β$ has a zero in $F_{2^d}$, when $d$ is odd.
description: Proofs of the main theorems 4.6 and 4.8 significantly simplified; now only 37 pages, AmS-LaTeX; to appear in J. Combin. Theory Ser. A
Additional file 1 of Combined transcriptomic and metabolomic analyses elucidate key salt-responsive biomarkers to regulate salt tolerance in cotton
Creators: name: Han, Mingge
name: Cui, Ruifeng
name: Wang, Delong
name: Huang, Hui
name: Rui, Cun
name: Malik, Waqar Afzal
name: Wang, Jing
name: Zhang, Hong
name: Xu, Nan
name: Liu, Xiaoyu
name: Lei, Yuqian
name: Jiang, Tiantian
name: Sun, Liangqing
name: Ni, Kesong
name: Fan, Yapeng
name: Zhang, Yuexin
name: Wang, Junjuan
name: Chen, Xiugui
name: Lu, Xuke
name: Yin, Zujun
name: Wang, Shuai
name: Guo, Lixue
name: Zhao, Lanjie
name: Chen, Chao
name: Ye, Wuwei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1.
Additional file 1 of Introducing a new estimator and test for the weighted all-cause hazard ratio
Creators: name: Ann-Kathrin Ozga
name: Rauch, Geraldine
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: The additional file contains further simulation results with the distributions described in this work but other weighting schemes.(PDF 172 kb)
Wuzu jiangshen 五祖降神 Q00546_01_A
Creators: name: Admin, Textcourt
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 470515
subject: Literature in Chinese

description: Launched in October 2019 at the University of Oxford, TEXTCOURT: Linking the Textual Worlds of Chinese Court Theater, ca. 1600-1800 is a five-year research project whose aim is to develop a digital archive of court drama texts to connect and link them with their local and global contexts. The project will enable textual studies of Chinese court drama and produce research publications and an anthology of English translations. It will contribute to the understanding of the role of Chinese court drama in world court cultures.
Elliptic classes of Schubert varieties via Bott-Samelson resolution
Creators: name: Rimanyi, Richard
name: Weber, Andrzej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14M15, 14C17, 19L47, 55N34

description: Based on recent advances on the relation between geometry and representation theory, we propose a new approach to elliptic Schubert calculus. We study the equivariant elliptic characteristic classes of Schubert varieties of the generalized full flag variety $G/B$. For this first we need to twist the notion of elliptic characteristic class of Borisov-Libgober by a line bundle, and thus allow the elliptic classes to depend on extra variables. Using the Bott-Samelson resolution of Schubert varieties we prove a BGG-type recursion for the elliptic classes, and study the Hecke algebra of our elliptic BGG operators. For $G=GL_n(C)$ we find representatives of the elliptic classes of Schubert varieties in natural presentations of the K theory ring of $G/B$, and identify them with the Tarasov-Varchenko weight function. As a byproduct we find another recursion, different from the known R-matrix recursion for the fixed point restrictions of weight functions. On the other hand the R-matrix recursion generalizes for arbitrary reductive group $G$.
description: the paper has been accepted for publication by the Journal of Topology; this version contains minor corrections
Real-Time Privacy-Preserving Data Release for Smart Meters
Creators: name: Shateri, Mohammadhadi
name: Messina, Francisco
name: Piantanida, Pablo
name: Labeau, Fabrice
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Smart Meters (SMs) are able to share the power consumption of users with utility providers almost in real-time. These fine-grained signals carry sensitive information about users, which has raised serious concerns from the privacy viewpoint. In this paper, we focus on real-time privacy threats, i.e., potential attackers that try to infer sensitive information from SMs data in an online fashion. We adopt an information-theoretic privacy measure and show that it effectively limits the performance of any attacker. Then, we propose a general formulation to design a privatization mechanism that can provide a target level of privacy by adding a minimal amount of distortion to the SMs measurements. On the other hand, to cope with different applications, a flexible distortion measure is considered. This formulation leads to a general loss function, which is optimized using a deep learning adversarial framework, where two neural networks -- referred to as the releaser and the adversary -- are trained with opposite goals. An exhaustive empirical study is then performed to validate the performance of the proposed approach and compare it with state-of-the-art methods for the occupancy detection privacy problem. Finally, we also investigate the impact of data mismatch between the releaser and the attacker.
title: Die spontane Vegetation toskanischer Städte
Creators: name: Brandes, Dietmar
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
Year: 1985
Subjects: subject: 570

description: Die spontane Vegetation toskanischer Städte wird mit pflanzensoziologischen Aufnahmen und Artenlisten belegt. Es läßt sich eine deutliche Gliederung in Abhängigkeit von der Stadtstruktur feststellen. Während sich in den Stadtkernen nur Arten mit weiter ökologischer und soziologischer Amplitude finden, ist die Ruderalvegetation am alten Stadtrand optimal entwickelt. Die Übergangslage der untersuchten Städte zeigt sich darin, daß nitrophile Saumgesellschaften noch erstaunlich häufig vorkommen, während die mediterranen Ruderalgesellschaften des Verbandes Hordeion Zeporini nur vergleichsweise schlecht vertreten sind. Die spontane Vegetation toskanischer Städte weist einen großen Anteil gemeinsamer Arten mit mitteleuropäischen Städten auf, während die Zahl gemeinsamer Assoziationen sehr gering ist.
description: The spontaneous Vegetation of Tuscan towns is shown by plant sociological releves and species lists. A clear relationship to city structure can be seen. While species with broad ecological and sociological amplitudes are found in city centers the ruderal vegetation is developed optimally at the ancient outskirts of the towns. The transitional state of the investigated cities is shown by the fact that nitrophilous skirt communities are remarkably frequent, while mediterranean ruderal communities of the alliance Hordeion leporini are relatively poorly represented. The spontaneous Vegetation of Tuscan towns possesses a great number of species common also to cities in Central Europe, but the number of common associations is very small.
Additional file 1: of Public preferences for primary care provision in Germany â a discrete choice experiment
Creators: name: Kim-Sarah Krinke
name: Tangermann, Ulla
name: Amelung, Volker
name: Krauth, Christian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: English version of the questionnaire and DCE. (PDF 841 kb)
Dynamics of touch-receptor plasticity in the mammalian peripheral nervous system
Creators: Clary, Rachel Cecelia
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Tactile sensors
subject: Mammals--Nervous system
subject: Somatosensory neurons
subject: Merkel cells
subject: Skin
subject: Neuroplasticity
subject: Hair--Growth

description: Somatosensory neurons densely innervate skin, our largest sensory organ. Adult skin continually remodels throughout the lifespan to maintain a protective barrier for our bodies. How sensory neurons maintain their peripheral endings in the face of continual turnover of their target tissue is not well understood. To address this gap in knowledge, I analyzed the temporal dynamics and mechanisms of structural plasticity of touch receptors in healthy adult skin. My studies focused on the terminals of Merkel-cell afferents in mouse touch domes. These two-part touch receptors comprise epithelial Merkel cells innervated by branching axons of fast-conducting sensory neurons. I show that Merkel cells and their afferents are structurally plastic over the course of hair growth in adults. These two components simplify during active hair growth, with fewer terminal neurites and fewer Merkel cells per touch dome at this stage compared with other phases of hair growth. Merkel-cell removal was observed with multiple molecular markers. Additionally, mice showed diminished touch-evoked behavior during hair growth compared with follicle quiescence. Next, I showed that Sarm1, a key effector of Wallerian degeneration, is not required for structural plasticity of Merkel cell-neurite complexes in young adulthood. Finally, I developed a technique to perform time-lapse in vivo imaging of identified Merkel cells and afferent terminals over the course of a month. These structures were highly plastic, with afferent terminals undergoing frequent growth and regression, as well as both Merkel cells and terminal branches being added or removed. Together, these studies reveal that peripheral nerve terminals undergo a previously unsuspected amount of structural plasticity in healthy tissue.
Additional file 13: of DNA methylation profiling allows for characterization of atrial and ventricular cardiac tissues and hiPSC-CMs
Creators: name: Hoff, Kirstin
name: Lemme, Marta
name: Anne-Karin Kahlert
name: Runde, Kerstin
name: Audain, Enrique
name: Schuster, Dorit
name: Scheewe, Jens
name: Attmann, Tim
name: Pickardt, Thomas
name: Caliebe, Almuth
name: Siebert, Reiner
name: Hans-Heiner Kramer
name: Milting, Hendrik
name: Hansen, Arne
name: Ammerpohl, Ole
name: Marc-Phillip Hitz
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Figure S13. Bisulfite pyrosequencing analysis of candidate CpG loci: test of specificity of AVM pattern. DNA methylation patterns of different cell lines (grey bars, each single samples)—endothelial cells of the hiPSC line (hiPSC-EC), valve interstitial cardiac cell line (VIC, Innoprot P10462) and a non-cardiac cell line MCF7 (breast cancer cell line)—were investigated using bisulfite pyrosequencing technique to compare to the AVM patterns of cardiac tissues from patients with CHDs (discovery set, 450K array data of atrial (n = 44) and ventricular (n = 5) tissues; white bars) and in vitro cultivated atrial and ventricular subtypes of hiPSC-CMs (bisulfite pyrosequencing data, n = 4 atrial-like and n = 8 ventricular-like hiPSC-CMs; dotted bars). CpG loci with significant (p
The Dynamical Interaction of AGN with their Galaxian Environments
Creators: name: Dopita, M. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Jet-driven shocks are responsible for an important fraction of the emission of the narrow-line regions (NLRs) in many classes of AGN. However, this cannot explain all observations. It is clear that the remaining sources are photoionised by the active nucleus. The 2-d hydrodynamic models from the RSAA group support an evolutionary scenario whereby the shock-excited NLRs are initially jet-driven but later, ionizing photons from the central engine replace shocks as the main excitation mechanism and shock induced star formation may also become important. In their photoionized phase, dusty and radiation-pressure dominated evolution produces a self-regulated NLR spectrum. This model aso explains the coronal emission lines and fast (3000 km s$^{-1}$) outflows seen in some Seyferts.
description: 4 pages, TeX (or Latex, etc), to appear in The Evolution of Galaxies III - From Simple Approaches to Self-Consistent Models, Eds. G. Hensler, G. Stasinska, S. Harfst, P.Kroupa & Chr. Theis, Astrophysics & Space Science, (in press)
On the Bénabou-Roubaud theorem
Creators: name: Kahn, Bruno
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 18D30, 18C15, 18F20

description: We give a detailed proof of the Bénabou-Roubaud theorem. As a byproduct it yields a weakening of its hypotheses: the base category does not need fibre products and the Beck-Chevalley condition, in the form of a natural transformation, can be weakened by only requiring the latter to be epi.
description: Final version, to appear in Cahiers de topologie et g\'eom\'etrie diff\'erentielle cat\'egoriques
Additional file 12: of DNA methylation profiling allows for characterization of atrial and ventricular cardiac tissues and hiPSC-CMs
Creators: name: Hoff, Kirstin
name: Lemme, Marta
name: Anne-Karin Kahlert
name: Runde, Kerstin
name: Audain, Enrique
name: Schuster, Dorit
name: Scheewe, Jens
name: Attmann, Tim
name: Pickardt, Thomas
name: Caliebe, Almuth
name: Siebert, Reiner
name: Hans-Heiner Kramer
name: Milting, Hendrik
name: Hansen, Arne
name: Ammerpohl, Ole
name: Marc-Phillip Hitz
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Figure S12. Correlation between methylation values of 450K array and bisulfite pyrosequencing (PRDM16, TNFSF4, WWP1 and ZNF365). Linear regression analysis of methylation values (percentage) at four candidate CpG loci (on PRDM16, TNFSF4, WWP1 and ZNF365) from 11 cardiac tissue samples that have been subjected to 450K array analysis (β-values as percentage on x-axis) and bisulfite pyrosequencing (y-axis). The 11 samples of the verification set are listed in Additional file 14: Table S1. At all four candidate CpG loci a high correlation of the methylation values (R2 ranging from 0.91 to 0.97, and p values ranging from p = 0.00026 to p = 3.7 × 10−7) from the two platforms, 450K array and bisulfite pyrosequencing, could be verified. (PDF 1164 kb)
Identifying resonances of the Galactic bar in Gaia DR2: I. Clues from action space
Creators: name: Trick, Wilma H.
name: Fragkoudi, Francesca
name: Hunt, Jason A. S.
name: Mackereth, J. Ted
name: White, Simon D. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Action space synthesizes the orbital information of stars and is well-suited to analyse the rich kinematic substructure of the disc in the \emph{Gaia} DR2 radial velocity sample (RVS). We revisit the strong perturbation induced in the Milky Way (MW) disc by an $m=2$ bar, using test particle simulations and the actions $(J_R,L_z,J_z)$ estimated in an axisymmetric potential. These make three useful diagnostics cleanly visible. (1.) We use the well-known characteristic flip from outward to inward motion at the Outer Lindblad Resonance (OLR, $l=+1,m=2$), which occurs along the axisymmetric resonance line (ARL) in $(L_z,J_R)$, to identify in the \emph{Gaia} action data three candidates for the bar's OLR and pattern speed $Ω_\text{bar}$: $1.85Ω_0$, $1.20Ω_0$, and $1.63Ω_0$ (with $\sim0.1Ω_0$ systematic uncertainty). The \emph{Gaia} data is therefore consistent with both slow and fast bar models in the literature, but disagrees with recent measurements of $\sim1.45Ω_0$. (2.) For the first time, we demonstrate that bar resonances -- especially the OLR -- cause a gradient in vertical action $\langle J_z \rangle$ with $L_z$ around the ARL via "$J_z$-sorting" of stars. This could contribute to the observed coupling of $\langle v_R \rangle$ and $\langle | v_z | \rangle$ in the Galactic disc. (3.) We confirm prior results that the behaviour of resonant orbits is well approximated by scattering and oscillation in $(L_z,J_R)$ along a slope $ΔJ_R/ΔL_z = l/m$ centered on the $l$:$m$ ARL. Overall, we demonstrate that axisymmetrically estimated actions are a powerful diagnostic tool even in non-axisymmetric systems.
description: 17 pages, 12 figures, 1 table (excluding appendices); accepted for publication in MNRAS; this replacement contains minor fixes to match published version