cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Prevalence of intestinal parasitosis, KAP and associated risk factors among people living with HIV/AIDS attending at ART clinic in Debre brehan referral hospital, Debre brehan, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Shenkutie, Tassew Tefera
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2019

description: Background: Intestinal parasites (IP) cause a significant morbidity and mortality in most developing countries throughout the world and relatively a high burden was seen in those living with HIV/AIDS. Objective: To determine the magnitude of intestinal parasites, KAP and associated risk factors among people living with HIV/AIDS attending ART clinic in Debre brehan referral Hospital, Debre brehan, Ethiopia. Materials and methods: A total of 350 study participants were enrolled in the study. An institution based cross-sectional study design was implemented from March 01, 2019 to August 30, 2019. Structured questionnaire was used to collect socio demographic data, KAP (knowledge, attitude and practice on IP) and clinical data. Stool sample was collected and processed using direct microscopy, formol-ether concentration and modified acid fast laboratory techniques in DBRH laboratory. Data was analyzed using SPSS version 20 and p < 0.05 was considered as statistically significant. Results: The overall prevalence of intestinal parasites among HIV/AIDS patients was 20.3% (71/350). Among this E. histolytica/dispar takes the highest rank (13.4%) followed by G.lamblia (2.9%) whereas Hook worm (0.8%), Ascaris lumburcoids (0.8%), Hymenolepis nana (0.6%), Tanea species (0.6%) and Strongyloid stercoralis (0.3%) were identified less frequently. Lack of latrine and high viral load count was significantly associated with intestinal parasitosis. Regarding to knowledge, attitude and practice of participants, 46.8% had poor knowledge, 84.5% had positive attitude and 91.8% had good practice on prevention and control of intestinal parasite. In addition, bad health practice of the participants had significant association with intestinal parasitosis (AOR = 2.88, 95% CI: 1.2, 6.88). Conclusion: The overall prevalence of intestinal parasites in this study was low and lack of latrine, high viral load count and bad health practice was significantly associated with intestinal parasitosis. The association of lack of latrine and bad health practice initiates the need for awareness creation in the study area.
Calochroa bramani
Creators: name: Wiesner, Jürgen
name: Bandinelli, Aligi
name: Matalin, Andrey
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Calochroa
Calochroa bramani

description: 128. Calochroa bramani (Dokhtouroff, 1882) (Fig. 128, 320) Cicindela Mouhoti Bramani: Horn 1913: 366; 1924: 18. Calochroa bramani: Matalin 2015b: 626. Published data. SOUTHEAST: Tay Ninh (Horn 1913: 366; 1924: 18); Dong Nai (Nam Cat Tien National Park) (Fedorenko and Matalin 2011: 127, 128) New records. CENTRAL HIGHLANDS: Lam Dong, Nam Cat Tien. leg. Dembicky and Pacholatko, v./ vi.1994, 2 males, 1 female (JWGC); SOUTHEAST: Ba Ria-Vung Tau, Vung Tau, Xuyen Moc, leg. N. Belyaeva, 25-26.iv.1990, 1 female (SIEE), Binh Phuoc, 160 km NNE of Ho Chi Minh, Bu Gia Map National Park, leg. A. Napolov, 19-22.v.1995, 1 male (MPU), Binh Phuoc, Bu Gia Map National Park, N12 o 11’ 37” E108 o 12’ 21”, 350-540m, leg. D. Fedorenko, 9-19.iv.2009, 7 males, 4 females, 13.v.2009, 2 males (MPU, SIEE), Dong Nai, Ma Da, leg. S. Kruscop, 3.v.2002, 1 male, 2 females (MPU). Distribution. Vietnam (Ba Ria-Vung Tau, Binh Phuoc, Dong Nai, Lam Dong, Tay Ninh), Laos (Champasack, Saravane, Savannakhet), Cambodia (Siem Reap, Pursat, Kampong Speu), Thailand (Chanthaburi, Loei, Mukdahan, Nahkon Nayok, Sa Kaeo, Sakhon Nakhon, Ubon Ratchathani). Remarks. New provincial records for Ba Ria-Vung Tau, Binh Phuoc and Lam Dong.
description: Published as part of Wiesner, Jürgen, Bandinelli, Aligi & Matalin, Andrey, 2017, Notes on the tiger beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Cicindelinae) of Vietnam. 135. Contribution towards the knowledge of Cicindelinae, pp. 1-131 in Insecta Mundi 2017 (589) on pages 47-48, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5169363
description: {"references": ["Horn, W. 1913. Materiaux pour servir a l'etude de la faune entomologique de l' ndo-Chine. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique 57: 362 - 366.", "Horn, W. 1924. Faune entomologique de l'Indochine francaise, Fam. Cicindelidae. Opuscules de l' Institut Scientifique de l'Indochine Saigon 3: 3 - 25.", "Matalin, A. V. 2015 b. New records of tiger beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae: Cicindelinae) from Thailand. Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology 18: 617 - 627.", "Fedorenko, D. N., and A. V. Matalin. 2011. 7. On two seasonal aspects of a tiger beetle fauna (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Cicindelinae). P. 125 - 130. In (Tiunov, A. V. Ed.): Structure and functions of soil communities of a monsoon tropical forest (Cat Tien National Park, South Vietnam). M.: KMK Scientific Press. 2011. 277 p. (in Russian, with English summary)."]}
title: Quantitative Analysis of X-Ray Absorption Near Edge Structure Data by a Full Multiple Scattering Procedure
title: The Fe-CO Geometry in Photolyzed Carbonmonoxy-Myoglobin Single Crystal
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Arcovito, A.
name: Benfatto, M.
name: Della Longa, S.
name: Girasole, M.
name: Hazemann, J. L.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Amplitude Higgs mode and admittance in superconductors with a moving condensate
Creators: name: Moor, Andreas
name: Volkov, Anatoly F.
name: Efetov, Konstantin B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the amplitude (Higgs) mode in a superconductor with a condensate flow (supercurrent). We demonstrate that, in this case, the amplitude mode corresponding to oscillations $δ|Δ|_Ω \exp(i Ωt)$ of the superconducting gap is excited by an external ac electric field $\mathbf{E}_Ω \exp(i Ωt)$ already in the first order in $|\mathbf{E}_Ω|$, so that ${δ|Δ|_Ω \propto (\mathbf{v}_{0} \mathbf{E}_Ω)}$, where $\mathbf{v}_{0}$ is the velocity of the condensate. The frequency dependence $δ|Δ|_Ω$ has a resonance shape with a maximum at ${Ω= 2 Δ}$. In contrast to the standard situation without the condensate flow, the oscillations of the amplitude $δ|Δ(t)|$ contribute to the admittance $Y_Ω$. We provide a formula for admittance of a superconductor with a supercurrent. The predicted effect opens new ways of experimental investigation of the amplitude mode in superconductors and materials with superconductivity competing with other states.
description: accepted for publication in PRL
Late quaternary environments and climate history at Lakes Bolac and Turangmoroke, western Victoria, Australia
Creators: name: Cook., Ellyn J.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Multi-omics molecular profiling of lung tumours
Creators: name: Domingo-Sabugo, Clara
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2021

description: Lung Cancer (LC) is one of the most common malignancies and is the leading cause of cancer death worldwide among both men and women. Current LC classifications are based on histopathological features which poorly reflect the molecular diversity of these tumours. Consequently, primary and secondary drug resistance are very frequent, and a high mortality is usual in LC patients. Despite the fact that LC has been intensively studied, there is a lack of effective biomarkers for early detection, stratification and prognosis. Integration of omics data is a powerful approach that can be used to identify molecular subgroups relevant in the clinical setting. This thesis addresses this challenge by characterising the molecular alterations accompanying LC at the genetic and DNA methylation level, using a combination of Whole-Exome Sequencing (WES), Targeted Capture Sequencing (TCS), Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) genotyping, Whole-Genome Bisulfite Sequencing and RNA-sequencing. The integration of different types of omics data first validated previous molecular alterations in frequently diagnosed LC tumours. This allowed comparison of the genomic and epigenomic landscapes between these common and rarer LC subtypes. Next, novel molecular subgroups of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) tumours with bad prognostic, as well as subgroups of Lung Carcinoids (L-CDs, an understudied LC subtype) have been identified and their molecular alterations and signatures characterised. Significant associations with histological features and gene expression programmes have been found by using several bioinformatic tools. These results show the value of multi-omics approaches to better understand the molecular mechanisms underlying LC and to identify new biomarkers. Importantly, some of these findings may be translatable and are likely to improve the detection, monitoring and stratification for targeted therapies in LC patients.
In situ, steerable, hardware-independent and data-structure agnostic visualization with ISAAC
Creators: name: Matthes, Alexander
name: Huebl, Axel
name: Widera, René
name: Grottel, Sebastian
name: Gumhold, Stefan
name: Bussmann, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The computation power of supercomputers grows faster than the bandwidth of their storage and network. Especially applications using hardware accelerators like Nvidia GPUs cannot save enough data to be analyzed in a later step. There is a high risk of loosing important scientific information. We introduce the in situ template library ISAAC which enables arbitrary applications like scientific simulations to live visualize their data without the need of deep copy operations or data transformation using the very same compute node and hardware accelerator the data is already residing on. Arbitrary meta data can be added to the renderings and user defined steering commands can be asynchronously sent back to the running application. Using an aggregating server, ISAAC streams the interactive visualization video and enables user to access their applications from everywhere.
Photometric and astrometric vagaries of the enigma star KIC 8462852
Creators: name: Makarov, Valeri V
name: Goldin, Alexey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply a PCA-based pre-whitening method to the entire collection of main Kepler mission long-cadence data for KIC 8462852 spanning four years. This technique removes the correlated variations of instrumental origin in both the detected light curves and astrometry, resolving intrinsic changes in flux and image position of less than 100 ppm and 1 mas, respectively. Beside the major dips in the light curve during mission quarters 8 and 16, when the flux dropped by up to 20%, we confirm multiple smaller dips across the time span of observation with amplitudes ranging from 0.1% to 7%. A variation of flux with a period of 0.88 d and a half-amplitude of approximately 90 ppm is confirmed in the PCA-cleaned data. We find that the phase of the wave is steady over the entire 15-month interval. We confidently detect a weak variability-induced motion (VIM) effect in the cleaned astrometric trajectories, when the moment-based centroids shift synchronously with the flux dips by up to 0.0008 pixels on the detector. The inconsistent magnitude and direction of VIM effects within the same quarter point at more than one source of photometric variability in the blended image. The 0.88 d periodicity comes from a different source, not from the target star KIC 8462852. We discuss a possible interpretation of the bizarre properties of the source as a swarm of interstellar junk (comets and planetoids) crossing the line of sight to the star and its optical companions at approximately 7 mas per year.
description: published in ApJ. This version is close, or practically identical, to the published paper
Using the Open Science skills wheel to determine essential skills and capacity building
Creators: name: Vlietinck, Hanne
name: Garcia, Paula Oset
name: Schouteden, Nele
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: In order to effectively implement open science, it is crucial to prioritize capacity building and invest in human resources, particularly empowering researchers who play a vital role in making Open Science the normal way of doing science. The objective of this session was to assess the significance of various skills outlined in an "Open Science Skills wheel". Participants were tasked with identifying the skills deemed essential, those considered second most essential (desirable but less critical), and the essential skills that required additional training or capacity building as voted by the attendees. To accomplish this, the participants were given stickers to cast their votes, with red stickers indicating critical skills, yellow stickers representing the second most essential skills, and blue stickers denoting the need for further education or capacity building in those essential skills. The session concluded with a concise discussion to synthesize the insights gained. By actively engaging participants in this manner, the session aimed to reflect and prioritize Open Science skills while acknowledging the areas that require additional attention and support.
description: {"references": ["McCaffrey, C., Meyer, T., Riera Quintero, C., Swiatek, C., Marcerou-Ramel, N., Gill\u00e9n, C., Clavel, K., Wojciechowska, A., Brinken, H., Prevoo, M., & Egerton, F.. (2020). Open Science Skills Visualisation - Visualisation des comp\u00e9tences en science ouverte (Version 2). Zenodo."]}
Efficient numerical solution to vacuum decay with many fields
Creators: name: Masoumi, Ali
name: Olum, Ken D.
name: Shlaer, Benjamin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Finding numerical solutions describing bubble nucleation is notoriously difficult in more than one field space dimension. Traditional shooting methods fail because of the extreme non-linearity of field evolution over a macroscopic distance as a function of initial conditions. Minimization methods tend to become either slow or imprecise for larger numbers of fields due to their dependence on the high dimensionality of discretized function spaces. We present a new method for finding solutions which is both very efficient and able to cope with the non-linearities. Our method directly integrates the equations of motion except at a small number of junction points, so we do not need to introduce a discrete domain for our functions. The method, based on multiple shooting, typically finds solutions involving three fields in under a minute, and can find solutions for eight fields in about an hour. We include a numerical package for Mathematica which implements the method described here.
description: 19 pages, 7 figures, few typos fixed, improved method for calculation of action included. More detailed comparison with other techniques is included
Sedimentology, stratigraphy and palaeoenvironment of the Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous non-marine Strzelecki Group, Gippsland Basin, southeastern Australia
Creators: name: Constantine., Andrew
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Structural health monitoring of thick composites using ultrasonic guided waves
Creators: name: Feng, Tianyi
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2022

description: This thesis systematically evaluates the influence of composite thickness on properties of ultrasonic guided waves (UGW) under varying temperatures for damage detection using surface-mounted and embedded lead zirconate titanate (PZT) transducers for Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) purposes. First, a novel edge cut-out method for embedding diagnostic films with PZT transducers based on the circuit-printed technique will be proposed. The use of thin diagnostic films with printed circuits instead of traditional cables was shown to significantly reduce the weight of composite structures. In addition, the novel edge cut-out method allowed edge trimming possible which can be used in industrial mass manufacturing for the next higher assembly. Then the structural integrity of the composites with the embedded diagnostic film and PZT transducers will be assessed. Initially, the effect of fatigue tests on the electro-mechanical impedance (EMI) properties of PZT transducers under different loading cycles (up to 1 million) was studied. In addition, the effect of fatigue tests on active sensing behaviours based on UGW under different loading cycles was investigated. Finally, the tensile and compressive tests were conducted to assess the effect of the novel embedding technique on the elastic modulus of the composite materials. After that, the peak amplitude and the group velocity of the S0 and the A0 modes and temperature influence through different thicknesses of composites actuated by surface-mounted and embedded PZT transducers will be investigated. The interactions of UGW with the surface-mounted artificial damage and the impact damage were studied by laser Doppler vibrometer (LDV) using surface-mounted and embedded PZT transducers. Finally, damage detection and localization for the surface-mounted artificial damage and the impact damage were investigated by surface-mounted and embedded PZT transducers. The influence of the embedded position of PZT transducers on UGW was also numerically and experimentally studied. The reversibility of the peak amplitude of the first wave packet of UGW actuated/received by PZT transducers in different positions was compared. In the end, the possibility of monitoring the debonding and the simulated damage of the composite bonded by a repair structure using a smart repair patch will be investigated. First, the EMI method was used to verify the bonding properties of PZT transducers. Second, the damage index (DI) correlation coefficient and the delay-and-sum (DAS) algorithm were used to detect and locate the artificial delamination and the surface-mounted artificial damage, respectively.
Microfocus small-angle X-ray scattering at SSRF BL16B1
Creators: name: Hua, Wenqiang
name: Wang, Yuzhu
name: Zhou, Ping
name: Hu, Tao
name: Li, Xiuhong
name: Bian, Fenggang
name: Wang, Jie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Offering high-brilliance X-ray beams on micrometer length scales, the microfocus-SAXS at SSRF BL16B1 was established with a KB mirror system for studying small sample volumes, or probing micro-scopic morphologies. The SAXS minimum q value was 0.1nm-1 with a flux of 1.5 * 10^10 photons/s. Two position-resolved scanning experimental methods were combined with microfocus-SAXS that include STXM and CT. To improve the significant smearing effect in the horizontal direction, an effective and easy-to-use desmearing procedure for two-dimensional SAXS pattern based on the blind deconvolution was developed and the deblurring results demonstrated the good restoration effect for the defocus image. Finally, a bamboo sample was selected for SAXS-CT experiment which illustrated the performance of the microfocus-SAXS method.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures, 1 table
Lophyra (Lophyra) cancellata subsp. cancellata cancellata (Dejean 1825
Creators: name: Wiesner, Jürgen
name: Bandinelli, Aligi
name: Matalin, Andrey
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Lophyra
Lophyra cancellata
Lophyra (lophyra) cancellata cancellata (dejean, 1825)

description: 141. Lophyra (Lophyra) cancellata cancellata (Dejean, 1825) (Fig. 141, 188, 332) Cicindela cancellata: Horn 1914: 139; 1924: 21. Lophyra (Lophyra) cancellata cancellata: Matalin 2015b: 624. Published data. RED RIVER DELTA: Ha Noi City (Horn 1914: 139); SOUTHEAST: Ho Chi Minh City (Horn 1924: 5 = Saigon). New records. NORTH CENTRAL COAST: Nghe An, near Con Cuong, bank of Con River, leg. O. Kabakov, 24.iv.1962, 1 male, 1 female (ZISP), Nge An, S form Quy Chau, 200m, leg. O. Kabakov, 14.xii.1963, 1 male (MPU); CENTRAL HIGHLANDS: Kon Tum, Kon Plong, N14 o 37’ 22.8” E108 o 17’ 38.4”, 1100m, leg. A. Bandinelli, L. Bartolozzi, S. Bambi, 3.v.2016, 1 male, 2 females (ABIC). Distribution. Vietnam (Ha Noi City, Ho Chi Minh City, Kon Tum, Nghe An), China (Fujian, Hainan, Jiangxi, Yunnan), Laos (Bokeo, Khammuane, Phongsaly, Savannakhet, Vientiane, Xayabury), Cambodia, Thailand (Chiang Mai, Kamphaeng Phet, Kanchanaburi, Mae Hong Son, Mukdahan, Nakhon Sawan, Phatthalung, Phetchaburi, Phitsanulok, Prachuab Kiri Khan, Saraburi, Trang, Ubon Ratchathani), Myanmar (Kachin), Bangladesh, India (Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu), Sri Lanka, Malaysia (Malacca). Remarks. New provincial records for Kon Tum and Nghe An.
description: Published as part of Wiesner, Jürgen, Bandinelli, Aligi & Matalin, Andrey, 2017, Notes on the tiger beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Cicindelinae) of Vietnam. 135. Contribution towards the knowledge of Cicindelinae, pp. 1-131 in Insecta Mundi 2017 (589) on pages 54-55, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5169363
description: {"references": ["Horn, W. 1914. Materiaux pour servir a l' etude de la faune entomologique de l' Indo-Chine, Cicindelinae No. II. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique 58: 137 - 140.", "Horn, W. 1924. Faune entomologique de l'Indochine francaise, Fam. Cicindelidae. Opuscules de l' Institut Scientifique de l'Indochine Saigon 3: 3 - 25.", "Matalin, A. V. 2015 b. New records of tiger beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae: Cicindelinae) from Thailand. Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology 18: 617 - 627."]}
A Magnetar-like Outburst from a High-B Radio Pulsar
Creators: name: Archibald, R. F.
name: Kaspi, V. M.
name: Tendulkar, S. P.
name: Scholz, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Radio pulsars are believed to have their emission powered by the loss of rotational kinetic energy. By contrast, magnetars show intense X-ray and gamma-ray radiation whose luminosity greatly exceeds that due to spin-down and is believed to be powered by intense internal magnetic fields. A basic prediction of this picture is that radio pulsars of high magnetic field should show magnetar-like emission. Here we report on a magnetar-like X-ray outburst from the radio pulsar PSR J1119-6127, heralded by two short bright X-ray bursts on 2016 July 27 and 28 (Kennea et al. 2016; Younes et al. 2016). Using Target-of-Opportunity data from the Swift X-ray Telescope and NuSTAR, we show that this pulsar's flux has brightened by a factor of > 160 in the 0.5-10 keV band, and its previously soft X-ray spectrum has undergone a strong hardening, with strong pulsations appearing for the first time above 2.5 keV, with phase-averaged emission detectable up to 25 keV. By comparing Swift-XRT and NuSTAR timing data with a pre-outburst ephemeris derived from Fermi Large Area Telescope data, we find that the source has contemporaneously undergone a large spin-up glitch of amplitude df/f = 5.74(8) E-6. The collection of phenomena observed thus far in this outburst strongly mirrors those in most magnetar outbursts and provides an unambiguous connection between the radio pulsar and magnetar populations.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures, accepted to ApJL
Approaches toward factor Xa inhibition
Creators: name: Bromfield., Karen M.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Structured Dropout for Weak Label and Multi-Instance Learning and Its Application to Score-Informed Source Separation
Creators: name: Ewert, Sebastian
name: Sandler, Mark B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.6; H.5.5

description: Many success stories involving deep neural networks are instances of supervised learning, where available labels power gradient-based learning methods. Creating such labels, however, can be expensive and thus there is increasing interest in weak labels which only provide coarse information, with uncertainty regarding time, location or value. Using such labels often leads to considerable challenges for the learning process. Current methods for weak-label training often employ standard supervised approaches that additionally reassign or prune labels during the learning process. The information gain, however, is often limited as only the importance of labels where the network already yields reasonable results is boosted. We propose treating weak-label training as an unsupervised problem and use the labels to guide the representation learning to induce structure. To this end, we propose two autoencoder extensions: class activity penalties and structured dropout. We demonstrate the capabilities of our approach in the context of score-informed source separation of music.
Ursodeoxycholic acid: a potential anti-arrhythmic and anti-fibrotic agent in adult hearts
Creators: name: Ferraro, Elisa
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2021

description: Acute myocardial ischaemia and reperfusion (I-R) are major causes of ventricular arrhythmias. In the chronic post-ischaemic heart, the presence of a healed fibrotic scar contributes to the occurrence of malignant arrhythmias, and development of post-myocardial infarction (MI) left ventricular (LV) remodelling and heart failure (HF). The aim of the work in this thesis was to investigate if ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) protects against acute I-R-induced arrhythmias, and if it plays cardioprotective and anti-arrhythmic roles in the chronic post-MI adult myocardium. An ex vivo rat model of acute I-R was used to study the effect of UDCA on arrhythmia incidence. UDCA administration reduced acute ischaemia-induced arrhythmias, with no effect on reperfusion arrhythmias. The antiarrhythmic effect of UDCA is partially mediated by an increase in cardiac wavelength, due to the attenuation of conduction velocity (CV) slowing, and the preservation of Connexin43 phosphorylation during acute ischaemia. Multiple in vitro models of cardiac fibrosis were used to study the potential of UDCA as treatment of cardiac fibrosis. UDCA was proven to reduce cardiac fibrosis and preserve the associated changes in contractile functions and electrophysiology. The antifibrotic mechanism of action of UDCA is partially mediated by TGR5 modulation via dephosphorylation of ERK protein. A sixteen-week post-MI model was generated to explore the effects of UDCA on late post-MI arrhythmias and LV remodeling. UDCA prevented the adverse LV remodeling associated with the progression of MI and reduced fibrosis and the healed ischaemic border zone (IBZ) sizes. This resulted in reduced late susceptibility to ventricular arrhythmias and improved CV across the IBZ in UDCA-treated hearts at 16 weeks post MI. We generated robust novel data highlighting the potential application of UDCA in the prevention of ventricular arrhythmias during acute MI in the adult myocardium as well as against cardiac arrhythmias that are associated with cardiac fibrosis, due to its cardioprotective effect in the post-MI heart.
A criterion for continuity in a parameter of solutions to generic boundary-value problems for higher-order differential systems
Creators: name: Mikhailets, Vladimir
name: Murach, Aleksandr
name: Soldatov, Vitalii
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider the most general class of linear boundary-value problems for ordinary differential systems, of order $r\geq1$, whose solutions belong to the complex space $C^{(n+r)}$, with $0\leq n\in\mathbb{Z}$. The boundary conditions can contain derivatives of order $l$, with $r\leq l\leq n+r$, of the solutions. We obtain a constructive criterion under which the solutions to these problems are continuous with respect to the parameter in the normed space $C^{(n+r)}$. We also obtain a two-sided estimate for the degree of convergence of these solutions.
description: Published in Methods of Functional Analysis and Topology (MFAT), available at http://mfat.imath.kiev.ua/article/?id=915. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1604.07029
Electrochemical studies of some cobalt Schiff-base complexes
Creators: name: Brockway., David John
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Additional file 6 of Enrichment of Prevotella intermedia in human colorectal cancer and its additive effects with Fusobacterium nucleatum on the malignant transformation of colorectal adenomas
Creators: name: Lo, Chia-Hui
name: Wu, Deng-Chyang
name: Jao, Shu-Wen
name: Wu, Chang-Chieh
name: Lin, Chung-Yen
name: Chuang, Chia-Hsien
name: Lin, Ya-Bo
name: Chen, Chien-Hsiun
name: Chen, Ying-Ting
name: Chen, Jiann-Hwa
name: Hsiao, Koung-Hung
name: Chen, Ying-Ju
name: Chen, Yuan-Tsong
name: Wang, Jaw-Yuan
name: Li, Ling-Hui
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 6: Figure S1. Migration and invasion of CRC cells incubated with Prevotella intermedia at various MOIs.
Intestinal Parasites and Knowledge, Attitude and Practices (KAPs) among individuals who have River water Contact with Special Emphasis on Schistosoma Mansoni in Addiremets town, Western Tigray, Ethiopia
Creators: name: G/yohanns, Alganesh
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: Background: Intestinal parasitic infections are major public health and socio-economic concerns that adversely affect the well-being of millions of peoples worldwide, mainly the poor in developing countries. The most prevalent helminthes in developing countries are Schistosoma mansoni, Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura, hookworms and Hymenolepis species. Intestinal Schistosomiasis is a serious public health problem mainly in tropical and subtropical parts of the world. Objective: To determine prevalence of intestinal parasites and knowledge, attitude and practices (KAPs) among individuals who have river water contact with special emphasis on Schistosoma mansoni in Addiremets, Western Tigray, Ethiopia. Methodology: A cross sectional study was conducted from February to April 2017. A total of 411 study participants were included in this study. Socio demography, associated risk factors and knowledge, attitude and practice (KAPs) of individuals regarding intestinal parasitosis mainly to intestinal schistosomiasis were collected using preformed structured questioners. From all study participants, stool samples were collected and laboratory investigations were performed using direct microscopy, Formol-Ether concentration and Kato- Katz techniques. Malacology study was assessed by collecting snails from the river in the study area. Data was entered into excel sheet, cleaned and exported and analyzed using SPSS version 20. Bi-variant logistic regression and multiple logistic regressions were used for correlation analysis. Result: The overall prevalence of intestinal parasites was 51.3%. The most frequent parasites encountered were S. mansoni and H.worm. The prevalence was slightly higher among males 54.1% (131/242) than females 47.3% (80/169). The highest proportion of parasites was reported among the age group of 5-9 years old subjects (70.6%). The prevalence of S. mansoni was found to be 26.3 % with mean of intensity infection 218 egg per gram (Range: 24 to 1728). Of all study participants 94.4% had good knowledge while 35.9% of them had poor practices towards intestinal parasitosis and intestinal schistosomiasis. Conclusion: High prevalence of intestinal parasitic infection was observed in Addiremets town in which S. mansoni and H. worm were the most common parasites. Majority of the participants had good knowledge and positive attitude towards intestinal parasites and intestinal schistosomiasis. Key words: Intestinal parasites, Schistosomiasis, KAP, Addiremets, Western Tigray, Ethiopia.
Chain rules and inequalities for the BHT fractional calculus on arbitrary time scales
Creators: name: Nwaeze, Eze R.
name: Torres, Delfim F. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 26A33, 26D10, 26E70

description: We develop the Benkhettou-Hassani-Torres fractional (noninteger order) calculus on time scales by proving two chain rules for the $α$-fractional derivative and five inequalities for the $α$-fractional integral. The results coincide with well-known classical results when the operators are of (integer) order $α= 1$ and the time scale coincides with the set of real numbers.
description: This is a preprint of a paper whose final and definite form is published in 'Arabian Journal of Mathematics', ISSN 2193-5343 (Print) 2193-5351 (Online). Paper submitted 25/Feb/2016; revised 24/Sept/2016; accepted 28/Nov/2016
Europeanised Attitudes, Nationalised Communication? Evidence on the Patterns behind Political Communication Output in Brussels
Creators: name: Plavec, Jan Georg
name: Pfetsch, Barbara
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: political communication
subject: communication culture
subject: journalism
subject: 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke::070 Publizistische Medien, Journalismus, Verlagswesen::070 Publizistische Medien, Journalismus, Verlagswesen

description: Studies of a communication deficit in the European Union (EU) have hardly taken a systematic look at the site where most of the political communication output is being created: within the elite bubble of EU politicians and correspondents in Brussels. This study builds on the communication culture approach to describe and explain the basic attitudinal patterns of EU politicians and journalists who critically shape the political communication output coming out of Brussels that is being consumed by European citizens. Based on a survey with more than 300 participating politicians and journalists, this study demonstrates that the internationalised communication context in Brussels reduces differences between the attitudes of actors from professional and national groups. We demonstrate that there is a tendency toward common elitist attitudes, complemented by a highly negative view of the public and a cynical mode of political communication. However, we observe predominantly national contact networks in Brussels and partly differing attitudes among some sub-groups of politicians and journalists, reflecting the partly conflicting national configurations of the European political and media system and the principal-agent relationships of EU politicians and journalists with their constituencies and media outlets.
Lophyra (Spilodia) striolata subsp. dorsolineolata
Creators: name: Wiesner, Jürgen
name: Bandinelli, Aligi
name: Matalin, Andrey
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Lophyra
Lophyra striolata
Lophyra (spilodia) striolata dorsolineolata (chevrolat, 1845)

description: 144. Lophyra (Spilodia) striolata dorsolineolata (Chevrolat, 1845) (Fig. 144, 335) Cicindela striolata var. dorsolineolata: Horn 1929: 20. Published data. NORTHEAST: Quang Ninh (Tien Yen) (Horn 1929: 20). New records. NORTHEAST: Bac Giang, Ba Be National Park. (entry), 180-220m, N22 o 25’07” E105 o 28’ 09”, leg. A. Skale, 16-20.v.2014, 2 males (ASGC), Bac Kan, Ba Be National Park, 350m, leg. E. Orbach, 3/ 8.vi.2011, 1 male, 1 female (EOIC), Thai Nguyen, vic. Ngoc Thanh, Me Linh (IEBR station), N21 o 23’ 3” E105 o 42’ 44”, 60-80m, leg. A. Skale, 12.v.2012, 1 specimen (ASGC), Tuyen Quang, Na Hang Nature Reserve, 150m, leg. L. Bartolozzi, S. Bambi, F. Cianferoni, G. Mazza, E. Orbach, 5-7.vi.2013, at light, 1 female (MZUF); RED RIVER DELTA: Ninh Binh, Cuc Phuong National Park, N20 o 17’ 34.32” E105 o 40’ 3.12”, 270m, leg. A. Skale, 22-24.v.2015, 1 specimen (ASGC), Vinh Phuc, Me Linh research station for biodiversity, 70m, leg. L. Bartolozzi, S. Bambi, F. Cianferoni, G. Mazza, E. Orbach, 3.vi.2013, 5 males, 1 female (MZUF), Vinh Phuc, Tam Dao Dist., Me Linh Biodiversity Center, N21 o 38’ 74” E105 o 71’ 28”, 70m, E. Orbach, 3.vi.2013, 1 male (EOIC); NORTH CENTRAL COAST: Ha Tinh, Vu Quang Nature Reserve, leg. A. Bandinelli, L. Bartolozzi, S. Bambi, 1-2.v.2014, 1 male (ABIC); Quang Binh, Minh Hoa distr., 8 km SO of Yen Hop, leg. A. Deviatkin, S. Kruskop, 20-25.iv.1999, 3 males (MPU, SIEE), Thua Thien-Hue, Sao La Nature Reserve, A Luoi District, 300m, N16 o 3’ 21.6” E107 o 28’ 48”, leg. A. Bandinelli, L. Bartolozzi, E. Orbach, S. Bambi, 21.v.2017, 2 males, 2 females (ABIC). Distribution. Vietnam (Bac Giang, Bac Kan, Ha Tinh, Ninh Binh, Quang Binh, Quang Ninh, Thai Nguyen, Thua Thien-Hue, Tuyen Quang, Vinh Phuc,), China (Anhui, Beijing, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shandong, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang), Taiwan, Indonesia (Sulawesi), Philippines, Japan (Ryukyu). Remarks. New provincial records for Bac Giang, Bac Kan, Ha Tinh, Ninh Binh, Quang Binh, Thai Nguyen, Thua Thien-Hue, Tuyen Quang and Vinh Phuc.
description: Published as part of Wiesner, Jürgen, Bandinelli, Aligi & Matalin, Andrey, 2017, Notes on the tiger beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Cicindelinae) of Vietnam. 135. Contribution towards the knowledge of Cicindelinae, pp. 1-131 in Insecta Mundi 2017 (589) on page 56, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5169363
description: {"references": ["Horn, W. 1929. Bausteine zur Kenntnis der Cicindelinen-Fauna des Ostens der orientalischen Region. Zeitschrift fur Wissenschaftliche Insektenbiologie 24: 17 - 22."]}
Es ist noch nicht zu spät: Konkrete Lösungen für konkrete Probleme
Creators: name: Zimmermann-Timm, Heike
name: Kienzl, Karl
name: Kienzl, Lukas
Publisher: name: Universität Hamburg
Year: 2023
Subjects: Concrete solutions, concrete problems, CO2- reduction to zero, social justice, ecological responsibility, sustainability.

description: It’s not to late - Concrete solutions to concrete problems: The challenges are great and time is running out. By mid-century, CO2 emissions must be reduced to zero in order to meet the global warming limit set at international level. However, this must be accompanied by an urgently needed structural change. This is the only way to achieve the goal of reconciling climate protection with a social and just transformation of society. People need work and income. If this combination of social justice and ecological responsibility succeeds, the chances are good: After all, sustainability is a central driver of innovation. It applies to society, it applies to the economy, and it applies to each and every one of us.
The mechanical response of a passive-dynamic ankle-foot- orthosis and its interaction with the lower limb during gait
Creators: name: Edwards, Kirstie
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2021

description: The prescription of a passive dynamic ankle foot orthosis (PD-AFO), trademarked the Momentum, has improved functional outcome for many patients, though not all. The design features of the PD- AFO that account for this improvement, and the changes the PD-AFO introduces into gait, are not fully understood. This thesis aims to establish how the PD-AFO alters the external and internal loading of the foot during gait. Gait analysis was used to evaluate changes in external loading of the foot when wearing the PD-AFO (possible offloading). It was demonstrated that the PD-AFO reduced loading in the foot when walking, with maximum offloading seen during early stance. A novel methodology, using strain gauges, demonstrated the struts’ energy storage and return (ESAR) characteristics and ability to provide propulsive power during late stance. Finite element (FE) modelling was used to evaluate internal loading of the foot. A comprehensive development process was undertaken to build FE models of the foot and PD-AFO. By running multiple simulations of the FE model of the PD-AFO, design components whose mechanical characteristics may significantly alter gait were highlighted, such as the alignment of the posterior struts. The FE models of the foot and PD-AFO were combined to model the loading at a point during early stance; comparable results with data recorded experimentally was achieved. Simulation results demonstrated greater relative reduction in contact stresses, compared to contact force, at the subtalar joint. This suggested that PD-AFO’s influence on the subtalar joint angle may be an important design feature in the PD-AFO’s success. This research may help to predict who may be successfully aided by the PD-AFO, target research on design components that influence the mechanical response of the PD-AFO; and indicate potential long-term adverse effects of using the device as a result of changes to gait.
Naviauxella rufovittata : Cassola and Werner 1995
Creators: name: Wiesner, Jürgen
name: Bandinelli, Aligi
name: Matalin, Andrey
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Naviauxella
Naviauxella rufovittata

description: 149. Naviauxella rufovittata Cassola and Werner, 1995 (Fig. 149, 180, 340) Naviauxella rufovittata: Cassola and Werner, 1995: 44-46; Cassola 2002: 341. Published data. CENTRAL HIGHLANDS: Gia Lai (An Khe, Tram Lap) (Cassola 2002: 341), Lam Dong (13 km SW Bao Loc) (Cassola and Werner, 1995: 45). New records. CENTRAL HIGHLANDS: Gia Lai, Kon Chu Rang Nature Reserve, surround. of rangers HQ, N14 o 28’ 26.4” E108 o 32’ 24”, 900m, leg. A. Bandinelli, L. Bartolozzi, S. Bambi, 8-12.v.2016, 1 male, 1 female (ABIC), Gia Lai, Buon Luoi,, leg. A. Gorochov, 1.iv-5.v.1995, 2 males, 1 female (ZISP, MPU), Lam Dong, Cat Tien Distr., Nam Cat Tien National Park, Headquarter aerea, 120m, leg. L. Bartolozzi, G. Chelazzi, S. Bambi, F. Fabiano, E. Orbach, V. Sbordoni, 11-15.vi.2015, 1 male, 1 female (MZUF); SOUTHEAST: Dong Nai, Ma Da, leg. S. Kruscop, 3.v.2002, 1 female (MPU). Distribution. Vietnam (Dong Nai, Gia Lai, Lam Dong). Remarks. New provincial record for Dong Nai.
description: Published as part of Wiesner, Jürgen, Bandinelli, Aligi & Matalin, Andrey, 2017, Notes on the tiger beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Cicindelinae) of Vietnam. 135. Contribution towards the knowledge of Cicindelinae, pp. 1-131 in Insecta Mundi 2017 (589) on page 58, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5169363
description: {"references": ["Cassola, F., and K. Werner. 1995. A new Naviauxella from Vietnam (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae). Acta Coleopterologica 11 (2): 43 - 46."]}
The use of artificial wetlands for wastewater treatment : an experimental assessment
Creators: name: Breen., Peter F.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Critical Spin Dynamics of the 2D Quantum Heisenberg Antiferromagnets Sr2CuO2Cl2 and Sr2Cu3O4Cl2
Creators: name: Birgeneau, R. J.
name: Chou, F. C.
name: Erwin, R. W.
name: Kastner, M. A.
name: Kim, Y. J.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Pairing of particle-hole symmetric composite fermions in half-filled Landau level
Creators: name: Wang, Zhiqiang
name: Chakravarty, Sudip
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a recent proposal of the half-filled Landau level, the composite fermions are taken to be Dirac particles and particle-hole symmetric. Cooper pairing of these composite fermions in different angular momentum channels, $\ell$, can give rise to different kinds of Pfaffian states. In addition to the well known Moore-Read Pfaffian and anti-Pfaffian states, a new putative particle-hole symmetric Pfaffian state, corresponding to the $s-$wave pairing channel, was also proposed. However, the possible underlying pairing mechanism is not clear at all. In this work we provide a specific pairing mechanism for realizing some of these Pfaffian states. We show that there can be nonzero pairing in angular momentum channels $|\ell|\ge 1$ depending on the magnitude of a coupling constant. There is a quantum phase transition from the Dirac composite fermi liquid state to Cooper pairing states in angular momentum channels $|\ell|\ge 1$ as the coupling constant is tuned across its critical point value. Surprisingly the particle-hole symmetric $\ell=0$ channel pairing turns out to be impossible irrespective of the size of the coupling constant.
description: 8 pages and 4 figures; accepted version in Phys. Rev. B including corrections regarding triplet pairing channel. Clarity of figures improved