cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 9 of An experimental model for ovarian cancer: propagation of ovarian cancer initiating cells and generation of ovarian cancer organoids
Creators: name: Chen, Yu-An
name: Lu, Chen-Yu
name: Cheng, Wen-Fang
name: Kuo, Kuan-Ting
name: Yu, Chen-Wei
name: Ho, Hon-Nerng
name: Chen, Hsin-Fu
name: Pan, Szu-Hua
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 9: Figure S8. Establishment of the iCA5171-OSKM model, which exhibited stemness and cancer-initiating cell properties. (A)Schematic of the transduction procedure and establishment of iOCICs. CA5171 cells were infectedwith SeV containing four factors (OSKM) at day 0 and replated onto MEF dishes. Tra-1-60 positive colonies were picked up on day 21 and day 28. Scale bars: 200 µm. (B)Pluripotent gene expression and SeV silencing in iCA5171-OSKM clones. Expression of endogenous pluripotent genes (OCT4, SOX2, KLF4, and NANOG), SeV,and the housekeeping gene GAPDH. NC: negative control (PCR mixture without cDNA). The samples derive from the same experiment and gels were processed in parallel. (C)Protein expression of OCT4, TRA1-60, NANOG, and CD133 in day 7 iCA5171-OSKM colonies. Colonies were cultured on feeder cells for 7 days. IF was performed with OCT4, TRA1-60, NANOG, and CD133 primary antibodies. Scale bars: 50 µm. (D) IF staining was performed with CK7 and CA125 antibodies under differentiation conditions in iCA5171-OSKM cells. Scale bars: 50 µm. (E) Sphere-formation ability in vitro. A total of 105cells were plated on low attachment dishes and cultured for 14 days. The numbers of spheroids (≥ 25 µm) were counted under a microscope. The error bars indicate the SD. Scale bars: 200 µm.
Documenting the initial appearance of domestic cattle in the Eastern Fertile Crescent (northern Iraq and western Iran)
Creators: name: Price, M.D.
name: Hongo, H.
name: Arbuckle, B.S.
name: Öksüz, B.
Publisher: name: Academic Press
Year: 2016

description: In this paper we address the timing of and mechanisms for the appearance of domestic cattle in the Eastern Fertile Crescent (EFC) region of SW Asia through the analysis of new and previously published species abundance and biometric data from 86 archaeofaunal assemblages. We find that Bos exploitation was a minor component of animal economies in the EFC in the late Pleistocene and early Holocene but increased dramatically in the sixth millennium BC. Moreover, biometric data indicate that small-sized Bos, likely representing domesticates, appear suddenly in the region without any transitional forms in the early to mid sixth millennium BC. This suggests that domestic cattle were imported into the EFC, possibly associated with the spread of the Halaf archaeological culture, several millennia after they first appear in the neighboring northern Levant.
The Massive Star Population in M101. III. Spectra and Photometry of the Luminous and Variable Stars
Creators: name: Grammer, Skyler H.
name: Humphreys, Roberta M.
name: Gerke, Jill
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss moderate resolution spectra, multicolor photometry, and light curves of thirty-one of the most luminous stars and variables in the giant spiral M101. The majority are intermediate A to F-type supergiants. We present new photometry and light curves for three known "irregular blue variables" V2, V4 and V9) and identify a new candidate. Their spectra and variability confirm that they are LBV candidates and V9 may be in an LBV-like maximum light state or eruption.
description: To appear in the Astronomical Journal
Fiber types and fabric structures influence on weft knitted fabrics
Creators: Md. Saiful Hoque
Md. Jakir Hossain
Md. Mahbubur Rahman
Md. Mizanur Rashid
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2022

The physical properties of weft knitted fabrics can be modified according to the fabric structure and the raw material used to manufacture the final fabric. This research demonstrates the influence of fiber types and fabric structure on some specific physical properties such as bursting strength, wicking behavior, pilling effect, and abrasion resistance of weft knitted fabrics. For this purpose, in this research study, one natural fiber cotton, one regenerated fiber viscose, and one synthetic fiber polyester were used. At the same time, to avoid any conflicts of the other fabric production factors, the number of feeders, machine diameter, needle gauge, stitch length was kept constant during the production of the weft-knitted fabrics. Moreover, three different structures of single jersey fabric like plain single jersey, single lacoste, and double lacoste were used to produce nine single jerseys of weft knitted fabric, while in each knit structure, three fabrics were produced using 100% cotton, 100% viscose, and 100% polyester fiber. Statistical analysis has been performed along with factorial analysis of variance (ANOVA) followed by simple main effect and simple comparison analysis. The finding illustrates that both fiber types and fabric structure regulate the physical properties of weft knitted fabrics. The polyester fiber seems to possess excellent mechanical properties such as bursting strength, abrasion, and pilling resistance without any influence of fabric structures studied in this research. However, both the fiber types and fabric structure combinedly influence the wicking of weft knitted fabrics. Additionally, it has been assumed that the influence of fiber types and fabric structure on strength, pilling, abrasion-resistant, and wicking properties of fabrics also combined with the areal density and extensibility of weft knitted fabrics.
Publishing and pushing: Mixing models for communicating research data
Creators: name: Kansa, Sarah Whitcher
name: Kansa, Eric C.
name: Arbuckle, Benjamin
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: We present a case study of data integration and reuse involving 12 researchers who published datasets in Open Context, an online data publishing platform, as part of collaborative archaeological research on early domesticated animals in Anatolia. Our discussion reports on how different editorial and collaborative review processes improved data documentation and quality, and created ontology annotations needed for comparative analyses by domain specialists. To prepare data for shared analysis, this project adapted editor-supervised review and revision processes familiar to conventional publishing, as well as more novel models of revision adapted from open source software development of public version control. Preparing the datasets for publication and analysis required significant investment of effort and expertise, including archaeological domain knowledge and familiarity with key ontologies. To organize this work effectively, we emphasized these different models of collaboration at various stages of this data publication and analysis project. Collaboration first centered on data editors working with data contributors, then widened to include other researchers who provided additional peer-review feedback, and finally the widest research community, whose collaboration is facilitated by GitHub’s version control system. We demonstrate that the “publish” and “push” models of data dissemination need not be mutually exclusive; on the contrary, they can play complementary roles in sharing high quality data in support of research. This work highlights the value of combining multiple models in different stages of data dissemination.
(502062) Mary Ann[e] Clarke
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Repeat-until-success cubic phase gate for universal continuous-variable quantum computation
Creators: name: Marshall, Kevin
name: Pooser, Raphael
name: Siopsis, George
name: Weedbrook, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In order to achieve universal quantum computation using continuous variables, one needs to jump out of the set of Gaussian operations and have a non-Gaussian element, such as the cubic phase gate. However, such a gate is currently very difficult to implement in practice. Here we introduce an experimentally viable 'repeat-until-success' approach to generating the cubic phase gate, which is achieved using sequential photon subtractions and Gaussian operations. We find that our scheme offers benefits in terms of the expected time until success, although we require a primitive quantum memory.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
Study of the molecular characteristics of spastic paraplegia type 11: its impact on oxidative metabolism and response to drugs treatments
Creators: name: Mero, Serena
Publisher: name: Università di Siena
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Herditary spastic paraplegia, SPG11, oxidative metabolism, ataluren, miglustat, multi-omics, CRISPR/Cas9
subject: BIO/18 GENETICA
subject: Herditary spastic paraplegia
subject: SPG11
subject: oxidative metabolism
subject: ataluren
subject: miglustat
subject: multi-omics
subject: CRISPR/Cas9

description: The Hereditary Spastic Paraplegias (HSPs) are inherited neurological disorders characterized by progressive spasticity and pyramidal weakness, predominantly in the lower limbs. Collectively, HSPs are rare conditions affecting any age, and cause important health problems due to gradual functional deterioration, sometimes leading to premature death. Over 80 genes are currently associated with HSPs and the number is still increasing, as well as the clinical features associated with the disease. We focused our study on SPG11-HSP, the most frequent form of autosomal recessive HSP. This is a neurodegenerative disease with no cure requiring new insights on the mechanisms to find new opportunity to therapy. We tested SPG11 patients’ biological material and engineered SPG11 knockout neuroblastoma cell line. SPG11 encodes SPATACSIN, a large protein without a clear specific function associated to the disease. We demonstrated a loss-of-function mechanism with an involvement of mitochondria with consequences on oxidative metabolism. Then, with a multi-omics approach on SPG11 patients’ fibroblasts, we extended the knowledge of the putative pathway involved in SPG11 disease thanks to proteomic analysis and we defined putative disease biomarkers with lipidomic analysis. Lastly, the pharmacological approach with the two FDA approved drugs, ataluren and miglustat highlighted that the former did not appear to impact on SPG11 cells whereas the latter evidenced a slight modulatory effect on the new pathways identified through proteomic in patients’ fibroblasts. Altogether, studies performed during this doctoral work further underlined the usefulness of in vivo and in vitro studies on patients and their biological material as a tool for future investigations to dissect pathogenesis and to hypothesize effective therapies. Nonetheless further studies remain imperative to challenge SPG11-HSP disease progression with the ambition to modify tomorrow clinical practice in the large number of young children with spasticity. This increases the need of a more precise diagnosis at the pre-symptomatic stage, and potentiality to undergo safe and efficacious pharmacological treatments.
The evolution of sheep and goat husbandry in central Anatolia
Creators: name: Öztan, Aliye
name: Arbuckle, Benjamin
name: Gülçur, Sevil
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: This paper explores the evolution of sheep and goat husbandry in central Anatolia through the analysis of new and published faunal data from Neolithic, Chalcolithic, and Bronze Age sites in the region. The major patterns of change over time in the pastoral system are discussed including the beginnings of herding, the appearance of the practice of young male kill-off and the timing of the onset of the intensive use of secondary products. Results, including the discovery of longstanding differences in the management of sheep and goats as well as synchronic differences in herding strategies, have important implications for understanding the role of animal husbandry in central Anatolian communities and indicate that the history of pastoral production in the region is complex and multi-faceted.
Mediation and ANCOVA Models to Study the Influence of Solvent Retting Traits and Plant Physique on Bast Fiber Yield and Retting Time
Creators: Ikra Iftekhar Shuvo
Md. Saiful Hoque
Lovely K. M. Khandakar
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2022

The study aims in applying two statistical tools to analyze the retting behavior of plant stems for extracting bast fibers for industrial applications. At first, a mediation model is employed to investigate the first hypothesis of this work that involves studying the color response of the retted solvent as a function of retting time on the responsible variable, fiber yield (%). Statistically, there is a significant indirect effect of retting time on fiber yield (%) through retting trait (β = −0.0142, 95% C.I. [−0.0274, −0.0011]) – a statistical inference bolstered by the Sobel test result, confirming the mediation effect (p-value = 0.0329 < 0.05; z-score = −2.1334; bootstrapping of 5000 resamples). Next, the second hypothesis of the current work involves analyzing the impact of stem form-factors on their retting time using the statistical tool, ANCOVA. The partial- η2 indicates that cultivar treatment accounts for 30% variance of the retting time while controlling for the effects of two covariates – diameter and length of the stems, in this case. By controlling the Type-I error, Bonferroni and similar post-hoc tests also confirm the statistical significance of cultivar categories pertaining to their mean retting time. Future work could focus on these underlying hypotheses and study the impact of microorganisms, environmental factors, and cultivar treatment variables on the retting time to optimize the overall fiber yield and production process.
(502064) John Webb
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Biomimetic materials for novel cardiac regeneration approaches
Creators: name: Querceto, Silvia
Publisher: name: Università di Siena
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cardiac extracellular matrix, substrate stiffness, cardiomyocytes, hiPSC, cardiac tissue engineering, smart materials, contractile units, liquid crystalline elastomers
subject: BIO/09 FISIOLOGIA
subject: Cardiac extracellular matrix
subject: substrate stiffness
subject: cardiomyocytes
subject: hiPSC
subject: cardiac tissue engineering
subject: smart materials
subject: contractile units
subject: liquid crystalline elastomers

description: The quest for novel biomaterials to promote cell structural and functional maturation for cardiac tissue regeneration has emphasized a need to create microenvironments with physiological features. Substrate stiffness constitutes a structural property of crucial importance in the field of tissue engineering and many studies have shown how cardiac cells sense the rigidity of the substrate on which they grow. In this work, we focused on the relevance of substrates mimicking cardiac extracellular matrix (cECM) rigidity for the understanding of the complex interplay between the extracellular and intracellular compartments. Among the most promising biomaterials, Liquid Crystalline Elastomers (LCEs) represent a novel class of polymers previously investigated both as artificial muscles for biomedical purposes and dynamic cell scaffolds. The development of new smart materials which can provide bioactive cues to control and regulate cell fate has been recently encouraged. Indeed, mechanical cues play a significant role in maintaining cell and tissues/organs functions and, in this respect, cell models and substrate stiffness appear as intriguing tools for the investigation of cECM-cell interactions both in physiological and pathological conditions. From the perspective of materials, we have explored the fabrication of biomimetic patterned substrates to direct human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocyte (hiPSC-CM) growth and evaluate their effect on cell functional properties. In the field of regenerative medicine, the advent of hiPSC-CMs has paved the way for a patient-specific therapy but the development of more mature hiPSC-CMs is still needed. Promising approaches that have begun to be investigated include long-term culture, mechanical loading, 3-dimensional tissue engineering and, above all, the use of dynamic scaffolds to boost cell maturation by giving a mechanical stimulus. Finally, with the aim of creating an effective dynamic cell substrate, we have introduced the design of the first prototype of LCE-based biomimetic contractile unit by optimizing a miniaturization of the mechanical device. The functional properties of the contractile apparatus have been investigated and then modulated to closely reproduce the features of native myocardium. Overall, in this work we have provided an overview of some functional aspects of biomaterials which are considered of key relevance in different biomedical fields to elucidate how recent advances may impact future tissue engineering applications.
Your Actions Tell Where You Are: Uncovering Twitter Users in a Metropolitan Area
Creators: name: Zhang, Jinxue
name: Sun, Jingchao
name: Zhang, Rui
name: Zhang, Yanchao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Twitter is an extremely popular social networking platform. Most Twitter users do not disclose their locations due to privacy concerns. Although inferring the location of an individual Twitter user has been extensively studied, it is still missing to effectively find the majority of the users in a specific geographical area without scanning the whole Twittersphere, and obtaining these users will result in both positive and negative significance. In this paper, we propose LocInfer, a novel and lightweight system to tackle this problem. LocInfer explores the fact that user communications in Twitter exhibit strong geographic locality, which we validate through large-scale datasets. Based on the experiments from four representative metropolitan areas in U.S., LocInfer can discover on average 86.6% of the users with 73.2% accuracy in each area by only checking a small set of candidate users. We also present a countermeasure to the users highly sensitive to location privacy and show its efficacy by simulations.
description: Accepted by IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS) 2015
Supporting Figures including study area, results of HMM modelling and monthly periodogram results from Environmental conditions alter behavioural organization and rhythmicity of a large Arctic ruminant across the annual cycle
Creators: name: Beest, Floris M. Van
name: Beumer, Larissa Teresa
name: Chimienti, Marianna
name: Desforges, Jean-Pierre
name: Huffeldt, Nicholas Per
name: Pedersen, Stine H.
name: Schmidt, Niels Martin
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: The existence and persistence of rhythmicity in animal activity during phases of environmental change is of interest in ecology, evolution and chronobiology. A wide diversity of biological rhythms in response to exogenous conditions and internal stimuli have been uncovered, especially for polar vertebrates. However, empirical data supporting circadian organization in behaviour of large ruminating herbivores remains inconclusive. Using year-round tracking data of the largest Arctic ruminant, the muskox (Ovibos moschatus), we modelled rhythmicity as a function of behaviour and environmental conditions. Behavioural states were classified based on patterns in hourly movements, and incorporated within a periodicity analyses framework. Although circadian rhythmicity in muskox behaviour was detected throughout the year, ultradian rhythmicity was most prevalent, especially when muskoxen were foraging and resting in mid-winter (continuous darkness). However, when combining circadian and ultradian rhythmicity together, the probability of behavioural rhythmicity declined with increasing photoperiod until largely disrupted in mid-summer (continuous light). Individuals that remained behaviourally rhythmic during mid-summer foraged in areas with lower plant productivity (NDVI) than individuals with arrhythmic behaviour. Based on our study, we conclude that muskoxen may use an interval timer to schedule their behavioural cycles when forage resources are low, but that the importance and duration of this timer are reduced once environmental conditions allow energetic reserves to be replenished ad libitum. We argue that alimentary function and metabolic requirements are critical determinants of biological rhythmicity in muskoxen, which likely applies to ruminating herbivores in general.
(502057) Francis Woodman Wilson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
(502061) ___ ? [Gowans]
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Medication by Proxy: The Devolution of Psychiatric Power and Shared Accountability to Psychopharmaceutical Use Among Soldiers in America’s Post-9/11 Wars
Creators: name: Chua, Jocelyn Lim
Publisher: name: Springer
Year: 2020

description: With the United States military stretched thin in the “global war on terror,” military officials have embraced psychopharmaceuticals in the effort to enable more troops to remain “mission-capable.” Within the intimate conditions in which deployed military personnel work and live, soldiers learn to read for signs of psychopharmaceutical use by others, and consequently, may become accountable to those on medication in new ways. On convoys and in the barracks, up in the observation post and out in the motor pool, the presence and perceived volatility of psychopharmaceuticals can enlist non-medical military personnel into the surveillance and monitoring of medicated peers, in sites far beyond the clinic. Drawing on fieldwork with Army personnel and veterans, this article explores collective and relational aspects of psychopharmaceutical use among soldiers deployed post-9/11 in Iraq and Afghanistan. I theorize this social landscape as a form of “medication by proxy,” both to play on the fluidity of the locus of medication administration and effects within the military corporate body, and to emphasize the material and spatial ways that proximity to psychopharmaceuticals pulls soldiers into relationships of care, concern and risk management. Cases presented here reveal a devolution and dispersal of biomedical psychiatric power that complicates mainstream narratives of mental health stigma in the US military.
An impurity-induced gap system as a quantum data bus for quantum state transfer
Creators: name: Chen, Bing
name: Li, Yong
name: Song, Z.
name: Sun, C. -P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a tight-binding chain with a single impurity to act as a quantum data bus for perfect quantum state transfer. Our proposal is based on the weak coupling limit of the two outermost quantum dots to the data bus. First show that the data bus has an energy gap between the ground and first-excited states in the single-particle case induced by the impurity in the single particle case. By connecting two quantum dots to two sites of the data bus, the system can accomplish a high-fidelity and long-distance quantum state transfer. Numerical simulations were performed for a finite system; the results show that the numerical and analytical results of the effective coupling strength agree well with each other. Moreover, we study the robustness of this quantum communication protocol in the presence of disorder in the couplings between the nearest-neighbor quantum dots. We find that the gap of the system plays an important role in robust quantum state transfer.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures. Any suggestions and comments are welcome!
Bloody war: menstruation, soldiering, and the "gender-integrated" United States military
Creators: name: Chua, Jocelyn Lim
Publisher: name: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Year: 2020

description: Against the backdrop of an unprecedented number of women deploying in a new array of roles in the so-called "global war on terror" and the official opening of combat arms units to women in the United States military, menstruation has served as a key idiom in debates about what it means for women to wage war. In this article, I explore what public curiosity about and military anxieties over soldier menstruation can tell us about the banal and bodily nature of women’s militarization as a deeply affective, sensorial, and embodied process, and the tensions these anxieties reveal within liberal promises of a gender-integrated US military. Drawing on discourse analysis and ethnographic interviews, I examine efforts within US military medicine to hormonally regulate women soldiers’ menstrual cycles as a matter of military operational concern, alongside public narratives by women soldiers who deny the significance of menstruation to the work of soldiering. I argue that both of these discourses enact a conflation between womanhood and menstruation in the debate over women’s role in and at war, in a manner that circumscribes the possibilities of what we can apprehend–and feel–about war and soldiering as gendered experience.
Pharmaceutical Creep: U.S. Military Power and the Global and Transnational Mobility of Psychopharmaceuticals
Creators: name: Chua, Jocelyn Lim
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2020

description: In 2006, the United States Department of Defense developed for the first time official criteria for the use of psychopharmaceuticals “in theater”—in the physical and tactical spaces of military operations including active combat. Based on fieldwork with Army soldiers and veterans, this article explores the transnational and global dimensions of military psychopharmaceutical use in the post‐9/11 wars. I consider the spatial, material, and symbolic dimensions of what I call “pharmaceutical creep”—the slow drift of psychopharmaceuticals from the civilian world into theater and into the military corporate body. While pharmaceutical creep is managed by the U.S. military as a problem of gatekeeping and of supply and provisioning, medications can appear as the solution to recruitment and performance problems once in theater. Drawing on soldiers’ accounts of medication use, I illuminate the possibilities, but also the frictions, that arise when routine psychopharmaceuticals are remade into technologies of global counterinsurgency.
Tracking SARS-COV-2 variants using Nanopore sequencing in Ukraine in 2021
Creators: name: Yakovleva, Anna
name: Kovalenko, Ganna
name: Redlinger, Matthew
name: Liulchuk, Mariia G.
name: Bortz, Eric
name: Zadorozhna, Viktoria I.
name: Scherbinska, Alla M.
name: Wertheim, Joel O.
name: Goodfellow, Ian
name: Meredith, Luke
name: Vasylyeva, Tetyana I.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: Article
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article

description: Funder: Somerville College MTST Development Award and Catherine Hughes Fund
description: Funder: Catherine Hughes Fund
description: Funder: Global Challenges Research Fund and Wellcome Institutional Strategic Support Fund
description: Funder: Branco Weiss Fellowship – Society in Science; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001710
description: The use of real-time genomic epidemiology has enabled the tracking of the global spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), informing evidence-based public health decision making. Ukraine has experienced four waves of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) between spring 2020 and spring 2022. However, insufficient capacity for local genetic sequencing limited the potential application of SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance for public health response in the country. Herein, we report local sequencing of 103 SARS-CoV-2 genomes from patient samples collected in Kyiv in July-December 2021 using Oxford Nanopore technology. Together with other published Ukrainian SARS-CoV-2 genomes, our data suggest that the third wave of the epidemic in Ukraine (June-December 2021) was dominated by the Delta Variant of Concern (VOC). Our phylogeographic analysis revealed that in summer 2021 Delta VOC was introduced into Ukraine from multiple locations worldwide, with most introductions coming from Central and Eastern European countries. The wide geographic range of Delta introductions coincides with increased volume of travel to Ukraine particularly from locations outside of Europe in summer 2021. This study highlights the need to urgently integrate affordable and easily scaled pathogen sequencing technologies in locations with less developed genomic infrastructure, in order to support local public health decision making.
Random Birth-and-Death Networks
Creators: name: Zhang, Xiaojun
name: Zhan, Suoyue
name: Rayman-Bacchus, Lez
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, a baseline model termed as random birth-and-death network model (RBDN) is considered, in which at each time step, a new node is added into the network with probability p (0
SmartSwim survey
Creators: name: Rad, Mahdi Hamidi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: This survey is performed among Swiss swimming coaches as a part of the PhD thesis of Mahdi Hamidi Rad in Laboratory of Movement Analysis and Measurement (LMAM) at EPFL to evaluate the following: (i) the analysis systems they use for swimming analysis (ii) the parameters they would like to track throughout the training session and specifically during each swimming phase (iii) their opinion on the use of wearable motion sensors for monitoring swimmers (iv) what they would think of the solution offered by SmartSwim.
(502063) Henry Hamer
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
(502056) Winifred Woodman Wilson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Partially-ordered vortex lattices in the high-field, low-temperature mixed state of quasi two-dimensional organic superconductors
Creators: name: Maniv, A.
name: Zhuravlev, V.
name: Maniv, T.
name: Ofer, O.
name: Rommel, R.
name: Muller, J.
name: Sonier, J. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the results of high-field, low-temperature MuSR measurements of the quasi two-dimensional organic superconductors \k{appa}-(ET)2Cu(NCS)2 and \k{appa}-(ET)2Cu[N(CN)2]Br. The MuSR lineshapes for these compounds indicate the existence of partially-ordered vortex lattice phases in the high magnetic field regime, up to 2.5 T for the former compound and 4 T for the latter compound. The observed sharp loss of order is found to be consistent with a vortex-lattice melting transition that is predicted by numerical simulations of weakly coupled layers of pancake vortices. It is argued that the robustness of the partially-ordered vortex lattice phases could be due to strong flux-line pinning by a dilute ensemble of defects.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Post-agrarian aspirations: tourism and rural politics in Ecuador
Creators: name: Lyall, A.
name: Colloredo-Mansfeld, R.
name: Quick, J.
Publisher: name: Routledge
Year: 2020

description: This ethnographic study examines post-agrarian aspirations and rural politics in Ecuador. After decades of urban outmigration under a neoliberal agrarian order, many rural places have witnessed efforts to develop local tourism economies as a possibility to transcend stigmatised agrarian livelihoods and to (re)constitute communities. We build on anthropological studies of aspiration to explore how visions of post-agrarian futures are shifting the actors, scales and terms of rural politics in the present. Through two case studies, we observe how state actors have come to re-inscribe their role within post-agrarian imaginaries, partially rewriting the terms of state legitimacy in rural places.
(502060) George Gowans
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Statistical summary and R script analysis and graphs from Parasite infection disrupts escape behaviours in fish shoals
Creators: name: Demandt, Nicolle
name: Praetz, Marit
name: Kurvers, Ralf H. J. M.
name: Krause, Jens
name: Kurtz, Joachim
name: Scharsack, Jörn P.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Contains all outputs of all statistical models in this manuscript, an additional graph and the r codes used for the analysis and the graphs
Dynamic nuclear polarization and the paradox of Quantum Thermalization
Creators: name: De Luca, Andrea
name: Rosso, Alberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dynamic Nuclear Polarization (DNP) is to date the most effective technique to increase the nuclear polarization up to a factor $100,000$ opening disruptive perspectives for medical applications. In DNP, the nuclear spins are driven to an - out of equilibrium - hyperpolarized state by microwave saturation of the electron spins in interaction with them. Here we show that the electron dipolar interactions compete with the local magnetic fields resulting in two distinct dynamical phases: for strong interactions the electron spins equilibrate to an extremely low effective temperature that boosts DNP efficiency. For weak interaction this spin temperature is not defined and the polarization profile has an 'hole burning' shape characteristic of the non interacting case. The study of the many-body eigenstates reveals that these two phases are intimately related to the problem of thermalization in closed quantum systems where breaking of ergodicity is expected varying the strength of the interactions.
description: 5 pages + 6 pages of supplementary material; 5 figures. Accepted in PRL
Development, Citizenship, and Everyday Appropriations of Buen Vivir: Ecuadorian Engagement with the Changing Rhetoric of Improvement
Creators: name: Colloredo-Mansfeld, R.
name: Rousseau, M.
name: Lyall, A.
Publisher: name: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Year: 2018

description: The Ecuadorian state frames its development interventions in infrastructure and human capital as advances in buen vivir or ‘good living’. This paper reports ethnographic research that draws attention to everyday appropriations of state discourses on buen vivir in the Amazon and Andes. Non-state actors in marginalised communities often use state discourses strategically in engagements and negotiations with state actors. We argue that uses of official versions of buen vivir discourse often reflect such strategic appropriations of state idioms, rather than subjective commitment to state-led development and official notions of buen vivir.
(502053) Frances Margaret Wilson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Designed Three-Dimensional Freestanding Single-Crystal Carbon Architectures
Creators: name: Park, Ji-Hoon
name: Cho, Dae-Hyun
name: Moon, Youngkwon
name: Shin, Ha-Chul
name: Ahn, Sung-Joon
name: Kwak, Sang Kyu
name: Shin, Hyeon-Jin
name: Lee, Changgu
name: Ahn, Joung Real
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Single-crystal carbon nanomaterials have led to great advances in nanotechnology. The first single-crystal carbon nanomaterial, fullerene, was fabricated in a zero-dimensional form. One-dimensional carbon nanotubes and two-dimensional graphene have since followed and continue to provide further impetus to this field. In this study, we fabricated designed three-dimensional (3D) single-crystal carbon architectures by using silicon carbide templates. For this method, a designed 3D SiC structure was transformed into a 3D freestanding single-crystal carbon structure that retained the original SiC structure by performing a simple single-step thermal process. The SiC structure inside the 3D carbon structure is self-etched, which results in a 3D freestanding carbon structure. The 3D carbon structure is a single crystal with the same hexagonal close-packed structure as graphene. The size of the carbon structures can be controlled from the nanoscale to the microscale, and arrays of these structures can be scaled up to the wafer scale. The 3D freestanding carbon structures were found to be mechanically stable even after repeated loading. The relationship between the reversible mechanical deformation of a carbon structure and its electrical conductance was also investigated. Our method of fabricating designed 3D freestanding single-crystal graphene architectures opens up prospects in the field of single-crystal carbon nanomaterials, and paves the way for the development of 3D single-crystal carbon devices.
The Rise and Fall of Cheap Chinese Goods in Ecuadorian Popular Markets: The Limits of Post-Neoliberal Development in Correa's Ecuador
Creators: name: Colloredo-Mansfeld, R.
Publisher: name: Wiley-Blackwell
Year: 2018

description: In contrast to its neighbors Colombia and Peru, Ecuador has used tariffs to regulate the supply of imported Chinese-made goods. This article reports on research carried out in 2015 in relation to traders and manufacturers in four cities in the northern Ecuadorian Andes: Otavalo, Atuntaqui, Ibarra, and Tulcan. It focuses on Chinese-made apparel and describes the business practices and economic aspirations of the parallel trading diasporas—one Quichua, the other Chinese—that embraced these textiles. Some domestic manufacturing has benefited from tariffs and a newly active state. However, since Ecuador's fiscal “dollarization” crisis of the early 2000s, many indigenous traders have shifted to marketing Asian and especially Chinese-made goods as a way of preserving livelihoods and commercial diasporic communities. With profits pushed to near zero, informal, culturally encoded habits of credit and professional courtesy have taken on an outsize role in the survival of not just individual enterprise but entire trading communities.
¿Por qué es necesario tener una visión estratégica de eLearning?
Creators: name: García-Peñalvo, F. J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Educación Superior; eLearning; Metodologías docentes; Tecnologías del aprendizaje; Transformación digital; Modelo de referencia de eLearning; Plan estratégico

description: Participación en el webinar “Desafíos en la gestión de instituciones educativas en la nueva era digital”, organizado por la Universidad Internacional SEK (Ecuador) y celebrado el 27 de octubre de 2020.
Introduction: Popular Economies and the Remaking of China–Latin America Relations
Creators: name: Colloredo-Mansfeld, R.
name: Müller, J.
Publisher: name: Wiley-Blackwell
Year: 2018

description: Chinese investments and loans have increased rapidly over the last fifteen years in Latin America and the Caribbean, as has state-to-state cooperation. From the megaprojects of the Nicaraguan Canal and the transcontinental Brazil–Peru railway—reminiscent of Imperial investment fever a hundred years ago—to countless road construction projects across the region, Chinese state-supported enterprises are at the forefront of the present round of infrastructure building. This investment envisions a new century of trans-Pacific connections and global commerce. Latin America’s politicians and private contractors collaborate with Chinese enterprise across diverse sectors—agribusinesses in soybean production in Brazil and Argentina, and mining, oil, and natural gas operations in the Andean countries—praising the scale and pace of investment as a milestone for Latin America’s future economic growth. Activists and scholars see the same development as entrapping the economy in neo-extractivism, in a renewed dependence on primary resources that violates indigenous, social, and ecological rights.
Recent advances in the synthesis of smart hydrogels
Creators: Partha Sikdar
Md. Mazbah Uddin
Tanvir Mahady Dip
Shafiqul Islam
Md. Saiful Hoque
Avik K. Dar
Shuangyan Wu
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2021

Understanding the surrounding atmosphere and reacting accordingly with a precise action are always fascinating features of a material. Materials that pose such responsiveness are called smart materials. Currently, research studies on smart materials are being accelerated exponentially around the world; this is also true for smart hydrogels. Smart hydrogels with various chemically and structurally responsive moieties exhibit excellent characteristics of reacting under different environmental conditions such as pH, temperature, light, electric field, and magnetic field as well as biological and chemical stimuli. These smart hydrogels are drawing the attention of researchers for a wide range of applications, for instance, in designing biomedical, industrial, agricultural, electrical, healthcare, and hygienic products. This review encompasses the latest developments in the field of smart hydrogel synthesis based on their unique features and different aspects of their responsive behaviors. Additionally, this paper covers some of the recent strategies for tuning special functional properties of smart hydrogels for targeted applications.