cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Hedgehog-responsive mesenchymal clusters direct patterning and emergence of intestinal villi
Creators: name: Walton, Katherine D
name: Kolterud, Asa
name: Czerwinski, Michael J
name: Prakash, Ajay
name: Grosse, Ann Staubach
name: Schnell, Santiago
name: Gumucio, Deborah L
Publisher: name: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Animals
subject: Hedgehog Proteins
subject: Humans
subject: Intestinal Mucosa
subject: Kruppel-Like Transcription Factors
subject: Mice
subject: Mice, Transgenic
subject: Patched Receptors
subject: Patched-1 Receptor
subject: Receptor, Platelet-Derived Growth Factor alpha
subject: Receptors, Cell Surface
subject: Signal Transduction
subject: Zinc Finger Protein GLI1

description: In the adult intestine, an organized array of finger-like projections, called villi, provide an enormous epithelial surface area for absorptive function. Villi first emerge at embryonic day (E) 14.5 from a previously flat luminal surface. Here, we analyze the cell biology of villus formation and examine the role of paracrine epithelial Hedgehog (Hh) signals in this process. We find that, before villus emergence, tight clusters of Hh-responsive mesenchymal cells form just beneath the epithelium. Cluster formation is dynamic; clusters first form dorsally and anteriorly and spread circumferentially and posteriorly. Statistical analysis of cluster distribution reveals a patterned array; with time, new clusters form in spaces between existing clusters, promoting approximately four rounds of villus emergence by E18.5. Cells within mesenchymal clusters express Patched1 and Gli1, as well as Pdgfrá, a receptor previously shown to participate in villus development. BrdU-labeling experiments show that clusters form by migration and aggregation of Hh-responsive cells. Inhibition of Hh signaling prevents cluster formation and villus development, but does not prevent emergence of villi in areas where clusters have already formed. Conversely, increasing Hh signaling increases the size of villus clusters and results in exceptionally wide villi. We conclude that Hh signals dictate the initial aspects of the formation of each villus by controlling mesenchymal cluster aggregation and regulating cluster size.
Embedding-based Retrieval in Facebook Search
Creators: name: Huang, Jui-Ting
name: Sharma, Ashish
name: Sun, Shuying
name: Xia, Li
name: Zhang, David
name: Pronin, Philip
name: Padmanabhan, Janani
name: Ottaviano, Giuseppe
name: Yang, Linjun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Search in social networks such as Facebook poses different challenges than in classical web search: besides the query text, it is important to take into account the searcher's context to provide relevant results. Their social graph is an integral part of this context and is a unique aspect of Facebook search. While embedding-based retrieval (EBR) has been applied in eb search engines for years, Facebook search was still mainly based on a Boolean matching model. In this paper, we discuss the techniques for applying EBR to a Facebook Search system. We introduce the unified embedding framework developed to model semantic embeddings for personalized search, and the system to serve embedding-based retrieval in a typical search system based on an inverted index. We discuss various tricks and experiences on end-to-end optimization of the whole system, including ANN parameter tuning and full-stack optimization. Finally, we present our progress on two selected advanced topics about modeling. We evaluated EBR on verticals for Facebook Search with significant metrics gains observed in online A/B experiments. We believe this paper will provide useful insights and experiences to help people on developing embedding-based retrieval systems in search engines.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables, to be published in KDD '20
Thin-Film Engineering of Solution Processable N-Type Silicon Phthalocyanines for Organic Thin-Film Transistors
Creators: name: Cranston, Rosemary
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa
Year: 2024

description: Despite significant advances in the field of organic electronic devices, there remains a critical need for soluble, stable, and high performing n-type organic semiconductors. Understanding how molecular design and thin-film fabrication conditions impact the formation, microstructure, morphology, and electronic properties of thin-films is crucial to expanding the application of organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs) in commercial electronics. Axially substituted silicon phthalocyanines (SiPcs) are promising organic electronic materials as a result of their favourable intermolecular stacking, crystallinity, chemical versatility, and compatibility with solution fabrication techniques. Here, SiPc derivatives with axial substituted alkyl chains of varying length, symmetry, and branching position were studied in OTFTs, establishing relationships between molecular structure, film morphology and device performance. Through low surface energy dielectric modifications, and the exploitation of fluorine-fluorine interactions at the dielectric-semiconductor interface, SiPc films with large area crystalline domains were achieved, yielding improved OTFT performance. Differences between sublimation and solution deposition methods were further investigated to understand the nucleation, crystallization, and film formation processes of SiPcs. Using a scalable high throughput printing platform for thin-film deposition highlighted the challenges of transitioning from lab scale fabrication to techniques compatible with commercial manufacturing. Finally, fabrication parameters play an important role in thin-film formation and resultant OTFT performance, with key parameters such as deposition rate, time, solvent, temperature, and post fabrication processing identified, examined, and controlled to obtain high performing devices. The works presented herein demonstrate the effectiveness of molecular substitutions and fabrication tuning as strategies to control crystal packing and the charge transport properties of semiconducting molecules, furthering our understanding of solution processable n-type semiconductors.
Constructing a Social Development Network within a Rural Municipal Government in Portugal
Creators: name: Koehnen, Timothy
name: Cristovao, Artur
name: Koehnen, Timothy
name: Cristovao, Artur
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: advisory councils
subject: participation
subject: empowerment
subject: decision-making
subject: governance

description: In Portugal, an experimental Social Development Network (SDN) programme has been promoted at the national level by the Social Development Institute (SDI). The major operational objective of the SDN is to construct advisory councils and local commis- sions to increase local participation. The advisory council is represented by local de- velopment stakeholders from governmental and non-governmental institutions. These stakeholders define the actions to be taken for the social development agenda in the municipal government. The paper depicts the achievements and inadequacies of this network. In general, the case-study evaluation determines if the network strengthens the social action process in a rural area faced by social constraints, for example, poverty, aging and low educational levels.
Continuous-Variable Quantum Information Distributor: Reversible Telecloning
Creators: name: Zhang, Jing
name: Xie, Changde
name: Peng, Kunchi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a scheme of continuous-variable reversible telecloning, which broadcast the information of an unknown state without loss from a sender to several spatially separated receivers exploiting multipartite entanglement as quantum channels. In this scheme, quantum information of an unknown state is distributed into $M$ optimal clones and $M-1$ anticlones using $2M$% -partite entanglement. For the perfect quantum information distribution that is optimal cloning, $2M$-partite entanglement is required to be a maximum two-party entanglement. Comparing with the quantum telecloning proposed by Loock and Braunstein [Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 247901 (2001)], this protocol produces the anticlones (or time-reversed state) of the unknown quantum state, thus, keep all information of an unknown state.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures
Additional file 1 of Creatine homeostasis and protein energy wasting in hemodialysis patients
Creators: name: Post, Adrian
name: Schutten, Joëlle C.
name: Kremer, Daan
name: Veen, Yvonne Van Der
name: Groothof, Dion
name: Sotomayor, Camilo G.
name: Koops, Christa A.
name: Blaauw, Pim De
name: Kema, Ido P.
name: Westerhuis, Ralf
name: Wallimann, Theo
name: M. Rebecca Heiner-Fokkema
name: Bakker, Stephan J. L.
name: Franssen, Casper F. M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1. Additional Tables S1–S10.
INTEGRAL observation of the high-mass X-ray transient V0332+53 during the 2005 outburst decline
Creators: name: Mowlavi, N.
name: Kreykenbohm, I.
name: Shaw, S. E.
name: Pottschmidt, K.
name: Wilms, J.
name: Rodriguez, J.
name: Produit, N.
name: Soldi, S.
name: Larsson, S.
name: Dubath, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The decline of the high mass X-ray transient V0332+53 during the Dec. 2004 to Feb. 2005 outburst is analysed from the data recorded by INTEGRAL. The flux is shown to decrease exponentially until 2005 Feb. 10, with a decay time scale of \~30 days above 20 keV and ~20 days at lower energies, and to decrease linearly thereafter. The energy spectrum is well modelled throughout the decay by a power law with a folding energy of ~7.5 keV, and with two cyclotron absorption features. The folding energy does not vary significantly over the decay, but the spectrum becomes harder with time. Most importantly, we show that the parameters describing the fundamental cyclotron line around 27 keV do vary with time: its energy and depth increase (by about 17% for the energy in ~6 weeks), while its width decreases. These changes of the cyclotron line parameters are interpreted as resulting from a change in the extent of the cyclotron scattering region. Two quasi-periodic oscillations are also observed at various times during the observations, one at 0.05 Hz and another one near the pulsation frequency around 0.23 Hz.
description: Submitted to A&A: Sept. 21, 2005; accepted: Dec. 14, 2005. 8 pages, 7 figures
Original Research By Young Twinkle Students (ORBYTS): Ephemeris Refinement of Transiting Exoplanets
Creators: name: Edwards, Billy
name: Changeat, Quentin
name: Yip, Kai Hou
name: Tsiaras, Angelos
name: Taylor, Jake
name: Akhtar, Bilal
name: AlDaghir, Josef
name: Bhattarai, Pranup
name: Bhudia, Tushar
name: Chapagai, Aashish
name: Huang, Michael
name: Kabir, Danyaal
name: Khag, Vieran
name: Khaliq, Summyyah
name: Khatri, Kush
name: Kneth, Jaidev
name: Kothari, Manisha
name: Najmudin, Ibrahim
name: Panchalingam, Lobanaa
name: Patel, Manthan
name: Premachandran, Luxshan
name: Qayyum, Adam
name: Rana, Prasen
name: Shaikh, Zain
name: Syed, Sheryar
name: Theti, Harnam
name: Zaidani, Mahmoud
name: Saraf, Manasvee
name: de Mijolla, Damien
name: Caines, Hamish
name: Kokori, Anatasia
name: Rocchetto, Marco
name: Mallonn, Matthias
name: Bachschmidt, Matthieu
name: Bosch, Josep M.
name: Bretton, Marc
name: Chatelain, Philippe
name: Deldem, Marc
name: Di Sisto, Romina
name: Evans, Phil
name: Fernandez-Lajus, Eduardo
name: Guerra, Pere
name: Horta, Ferran Grau
name: Kang, Wonseok
name: Kim, Taewoo
name: Leroy, Arnaud
name: Lomoz, Frantivsek
name: de Haro, Juan Lozano
name: Hentunen, Veli-Pekka
name: Jongen, Yves
name: Molina, David
name: Montaigut, Romain
name: Naves, Ramon
name: Raetz, Manfred
name: Sauer, Thomas
name: Watkins, Americo
name: Wunsche, Anael
name: Zibar, Martin
name: Dunn, William
name: Tessenyi, Marcell
name: Savini, Giorgio
name: Tinetti, Giovanna
name: Tennyson, Jonathan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report follow-up observations of transiting exoplanets that have either large uncertainties (>10 minutes) in their transit times or have not been observed for over three years. A fully robotic ground-based telescope network, observations from citizen astronomers and data from TESS have been used to study eight planets, refining their ephemeris and orbital data. Such follow-up observations are key for ensuring accurate transit times for upcoming ground and space-based telescopes which may seek to characterise the atmospheres of these planets. We find deviations from the expected transit time for all planets, with transits occurring outside the 1 sigma uncertainties for seven planets. Using the newly acquired observations, we subsequently refine their periods and reduce the current predicted ephemeris uncertainties to 0.28 - 4.01 minutes. A significant portion of this work has been completed by students at two high schools in London as part of the Original Research By Young Twinkle Students (ORBYTS) programme.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS
MPEC 2024-A148 : COMET P/2023 Y2 (Gibbs)
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: COMET P/2023 Y2 (Gibbs)

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Additional file 1 of Induced extracellular production of stilbenes in grapevine cell culture medium by elicitation with methyl jasmonate and stevioside
Creators: name: Jeong, Yu Jeong
name: Park, Su Hyun
name: Sung-Chul Park
name: Soyoung Kim
name: Kim, Tae Hee
name: Jiyoung Lee
name: Kim, Suk Weon
name: Ryu, Young Bae
name: Jeong, Jae Cheol
name: Kim, Cha Young
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1. Additional figures and tables.
Experimenter's Freedom in Bell's Theorem and Quantum Cryptography
Creators: name: Kofler, Johannes
name: Paterek, Tomasz
name: Brukner, Caslav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Bell's theorem states that no local realistic explanation of quantum mechanical predictions is possible, in which the experimenter has a freedom to choose between different measurement settings. Within a local realistic picture the violation of Bell's inequalities can only be understood if this freedom is denied. We determine the minimal degree to which the experimenter's freedom has to be abandoned, if one wants to keep such a picture and be in agreement with the experiment. Furthermore, the freedom in choosing experimental arrangements may be considered as a resource, since its lacking can be used by an eavesdropper to harm the security of quantum communication. We analyze the security of quantum key distribution as a function of the (partial) knowledge the eavesdropper has about the future choices of measurement settings which are made by the authorized parties (e.g. on the basis of some quasi-random generator). We show that the equivalence between the violation of Bell's inequality and the efficient extraction of a secure key - which exists for the case of complete freedom (no setting knowledge) - is lost unless one adapts the bound of the inequality according to this lack of freedom.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures, incorporated referee comments
EU Strategy against gender pay gap through wage transparency: the best is yet to come.
Creators: name: Zilli, Anna
Publisher: name: Italian Labour Law e-Journal
Year: 2021

description: The proposal for a Directive on transparency and wage equality presented by the Commission on 4 March 2021 confirms the saying that “knowledge is power”: the gender pay gap can be faced and solved if workers and, especially, female workers are enabled to know the salaries of their peers. Technology helps overcome privacy issues on a sensitive aspect of the employment relationship
description: Italian Labour Law e-Journal, Vol. 14 No. 2 (2021)
A framework to evaluate the viability of robotic process automation for business process activities
Creators: name: Wellmann, Christian
name: Stierle, Matthias
name: Dunzer, Sebastian
name: Matzner, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Robotic process automation (RPA) is a technology for centralized automation of business processes. RPA automates user interaction with graphical user interfaces, whereby it promises efficiency gains and a reduction of human negligence during process execution. To harness these benefits, organizations face the challenge of classifying process activities as viable automation candidates for RPA. Therefore, this work aims to support practitioners in evaluating RPA automation candidates. We design a framework that consists of thirteen criteria grouped into five perspectives which offer different evaluation aspects. These criteria leverage a profound understanding of the process step. We demonstrate and evaluate the framework by applying it to a real-life data set.
description: This is an accepted manuscript for the "RPA Forum" at the "Int. Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2020)". The final authenticated version is available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58779-6_14
Rejuvenation of spiral bulges
Creators: name: Thomas, Daniel
name: Davies, Roger L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We seek to understand whether the stellar populations of galactic bulges show fingerprints of secular evolution triggered by the presence of the disc. For this purpose we re-analyse the sample of Proctor and Sansom, deriving stellar population ages and element abundances from absorption line indices. We obtain very consistent constraints on ages from the three Balmer indices Hbeta, Hgamma, and Hdelta, in good agreement with those of Proctor and Sansom based on a completely different method. Like other studies in the literature, we find that bulges have relatively low luminosity weighted ages, the lowest age derived for the smallest bulges being 1.3 Gyr. Hence bulges are not generally old but actually rejuvenated systems. We discuss evidence that this might be true also for the bulge of the Milky Way. We show that the smallest bulges, being the youngest with the lowest alpha/Fe ratios, must have experienced star formation events involving 10-30 per cent of their total mass in the past 1-2 Gyr. No significant correlations of the stellar population parameters with Hubble Type are found instead. We show that the relationships with sigma coincide perfectly with those of early-type galaxies. Hence, bulges are typically seen younger, metal-poorer and less alpha/Fe enhanced than early-type galaxies, only because of their smaller masses. At a given velocity dispersion, bulges and elliptical galaxies are indistinguishable as far as their stellar populations are concerned. These results favour an inside-out formation scenario and indicate that the discs in spiral galaxies of Hubble types Sbc and earlier cannot have a significant influence on the evolution of the stellar populations in the bulge component. The phenomenon of pseudobulge formation must be restricted to spirals of types later than Sbc.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures, accepted by MNRAS
Additional file 1 of Early epidemiological assessment of the transmission potential and virulence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Wuhan City, China, January–February, 2020
Creators: name: Mizumoto, Kenji
name: Kagaya, Katsushi
name: Chowell, Gerardo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 1 : Table S1. Information related to Japanese evacuees from Wuhan City on board government–chartered flights. Table S2. Main differences between our study and previous study.
How much autonomy in autonomous work? – legal status and social protection of ‘freelancers’ in Poland
Creators: name: Naumowicz, Kamila
Publisher: name: Italian Labour Law e-Journal
Year: 2021

description: One of the main problems of freelancers in Poland underlined by the pandemic is the fact that they have been faced with the lack of legal measures adequate to guarantee their social protection. The question that naturally arises is – how to guarantee fundamental social rights to the self-employed and protect their autonomy at the same time? In this paper, the author deals with this question, by analyzing the answers given by the Polish government in the latest reform of the collective labour law – an introduction of a new category of “persons performing paid work” that gave right of association also to workers whose work performance is not based on labour law contracts. The analysis leads to the question of the boundaries between protection of social rights and guarantee of autonomy on the other hand.
description: Italian Labour Law e-Journal, Vol. 14 No. 2 (2021)
Bose-Einstein condensation in a circular waveguide
Creators: name: Gupta, S.
name: Murch, K. W.
name: Moore, K. L.
name: Purdy, T. P.
name: Stamper-Kurn, D. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have produced Bose-Einstein condensates in a ring-shaped magnetic waveguide. The few-millimeter diameter non-zero bias ring is formed from a time-averaged quadrupole ring. Condensates which propagate around the ring make several revolutions within the time it takes for them to expand to fill the ring. The ring shape is ideally suited for studies of vorticity in a multiply-connected geometry and is promising as a rotation sensor.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
An Improved Spin-Down Rate for the Proposed White-Dwarf Pulsar AR Scorpii
Creators: name: Gaibor, Yadira
name: Garnavich, Peter
name: Littlefield, Colin
name: Potter, Stephen B.
name: Buckley, David A. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze rapid-cadence, multiwavelength photometry of AR Scorpii from three observatories, covering five observing seasons. We measure the arrival times of the system's beat pulses and use them to compute an updated ephemeris. The white dwarf spin-down rate is estimated with an uncertainty of only 4%. These results confirm, beyond any doubt, that the white dwarf's spin period is increasing at the rate consistent with by that of Stiller et al. (2018). We study the evolution of the beat pulse's color index across the orbit. The color of the primary pulse maxima varies significantly across the orbit, with the peaks being bluer after superior conjunction than in the first half of the orbit. Specifically, at orbital phase 0.5, the color index of the primary pulse shows a very sharp discontinuity towards bluer indices. This supports the Potter & Buckley (2018b) synchrotron emission model where the two emitting poles differ significantly in color. However, no corresponding jump in the color of the secondary pulses is seen. Furthermore, our analysis reveals that the arrival times of the pulses can differ by as much as 6s in simultaneous $u$ and $r$ photometry, depending on the binary orbital phase. If left uncorrected, this wavelength-dependent timing offset could lead to erroneous measurements of the spin-period derivative, particularly with heterogeneous datasets.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Topological states in arrays of optical waveguides engineered via mode interference
Creators: name: Savelev, Roman S.
name: Gorlach, Maxim A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Photonic structures with topologically nontrivial bands are usually designed by arranging simple meta-atoms, ideally, single-mode ones, in a carefully designed photonic lattice with symmetry that guarantees the emergence of topological states. Here we investigate an alternative option that does not require complex lattice geometry but instead relies on the tuning of the parameters of the individual meta-atoms to achieve the degeneracy of the modes with different symmetry. As an illustrative example, we consider a one-dimensional array of equidistant identical periodic nanophotonic waveguides supporting degenerate modes with strongly asymmetric near field profiles giving rise to the coupling modulation. Exploiting this feature, we demonstrate that the proposed system supports topological edge modes and can be viewed as a generalization of the paradigmatic Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model, reducing to it for the suitable parameter choice. Our results thus provide an avenue to engineer topological states via mode interference which further expands the plethora of topological structures available in photonics being especially promising for nonlinear topological systems.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures
Additional file 1 of The effects of green coffee extract supplementation on glycemic indices and lipid profile in adults: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of clinical trials
Creators: name: Asbaghi, Omid
name: Sadeghian, Mehdi
name: Nasiri, Morteza
name: Khodadost, Mahmoud
name: Shokri, Azad
name: Panahande, Bahman
name: Aliyar Pirouzi
name: Sadeghi, Omid
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplemental Table 1. Results of risk of bias assessment for clinical trials included in the current meta-analysis on the effects of GCE supplementation on glycemic and lipid measures1. Supplemental Figure 1. Flow diagram of study selection. Supplemental Figure 2. Funnel plots for the effect of GCE supplementation on serum levels of FBG (A), insulin (B), TG (C), TC (D), LDL (E), and HDL (F). WMD: weighted mean difference, FBG: fasting blood glucose, TG: triglyceride, LDL: low-density lipoprotein, HDL: high-density lipoprotein. Supplemental Figure 3. Non-linear dose-response effects of CGA dosage (mg/d) on (A) FBG and (B) serum levels of insulin. The 95% CI is demonstrated in the shaded regions. CGA: chlorogenic acid, FBG: fasting blood glucose. Supplemental Figure4. Non-linear dose-response effects of CGA dosage (mg/d) on serum concentrations of (A) TG, (B) TC, (C) LDL, and (D) HDL. The 95% CI is demonstrated in the shaded regions. CGA: chlorogenic acid, TG: triglycerides, TC: total cholesterol, LDL: low-density lipoprotein, HDL: high-density lipoprotein
Stellar Evolution with Enriched Surface Convection Zones I. General Effects of Planet Consumption
Creators: name: Cody, Ann Marie
name: Sasselov, Dimitar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Abundance analyses of stars with planets have revealed that their metallicities are enhanced relative to field stars. Such a trend was originally suggested to be due to accretion of iron-rich planetary material. Based on this assumption, we have developed a stellar evolution code to model stars with non-uniform metallicity distributions. We have calculated ``polluted'' stellar evolution tracks for stars with M=0.9-1.2 M_sun. Our models encompass a range of initial metal content from Z=0.01 to 0.03, and include metallicity enhancements within the stellar convection zone corresponding to Delta-Z=0.005-0.03. We find that the primary effects of metal enhancement on stellar structure and evolution are expansion of the convection zone and downward shift of effective temperature. In addition, we have computed the surface metallicities expected for stars of different mass for fixed quantities of pollution; there appears to be no correlation with present observational data on the metallicities of stars known to harbor planets.
description: 29 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication by the Astrophysical Journal; one reference corrected
The West and Central Africa Advantage
Creators: name: Soma, Chakrabarti
name: Soma, Chakrabarti
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: climate change
subject: nutrition
subject: women empowerment
subject: youth empowerment

description: A new report from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) shows that by working with women, men, young people and indigenous peoples as change agents we are best placed to beat back the impact of climate change on rural communities in West and Central Africa (WCA). The report, the West and Central Africa Advantage, shows that the integration of initiatives that fight climate change, improve nutrition, and foster women’s and youth empowerment give IFAD’s programmes a higher chance of success and bigger impact, minimizing trade-offs and risks.
Quantum trajectory approach to the geometric phase: open bipartite systems
Creators: name: Yi, X. X.
name: Liu, D. P.
name: Wang, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Through the quantum trajectory approach, we calculate the geometric phase acquired by a bipartite system subjected to decoherence. The subsystems that compose the bipartite system interact with each other, and then are entangled in the evolution. The geometric phase due to the quantum jump for both the bipartite system and its subsystems are calculated and analyzed. As an example, we present two coupled spin-$\frac 1 2 $ particles to detail the calculations.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
HAZMAT VI: The Evolution of Extreme Ultraviolet Radiation Emitted from Early M Star
Creators: name: Peacock, Sarah
name: Barman, Travis
name: Shkolnik, Evgenya L.
name: Loyd, R. O. Parke
name: Schneider, Adam C.
name: Pagano, Isabella
name: Meadows, Victoria S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantifying the evolution of stellar extreme ultraviolet (EUV, 100 -- 1000 $\overset{\circ}{A}$) emission is critical for assessing the evolution of planetary atmospheres and the habitability of M dwarf systems. Previous studies from the HAbitable Zones and M dwarf Activity across Time (HAZMAT) program showed the far- and near-UV (FUV, NUV) emission from M stars at various stages of a stellar lifetime through photometric measurements from the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX). The results revealed increased levels of short-wavelength emission that remain elevated for hundreds of millions of years. The trend for EUV flux as a function of age could not be determined empirically because absorption by the interstellar medium prevents access to the EUV wavelengths for the vast majority of stars. In this paper, we model the evolution of EUV flux from early M stars to address this observational gap. We present synthetic spectra spanning EUV to infrared wavelengths of 0.4 $\pm$ 0.05 M$_{\odot}$ stars at five distinct ages between 10 and 5000 Myr, computed with the PHOENIX atmosphere code and guided by the GALEX photometry. We model a range of EUV fluxes spanning two orders of magnitude, consistent with the observed spread in X-ray, FUV, and NUV flux at each epoch. Our results show that the stellar EUV emission from young M stars is 100 times stronger than field age M stars, and decreases as t$^{-1}$ after remaining constant for a few hundred million years. This decline stems from changes in the chromospheric temperature structure, which steadily shifts outward with time. Our models reconstruct the full spectrally and temporally resolved history of an M star's UV radiation, including the unobservable EUV radiation, which drives planetary atmospheric escape, directly impacting a planet's potential for habitability.
description: 23 pages, 15 figures, accepted to ApJ
Early optical afterglow lightcurves of neutron-fed Gamma-ray bursts
Creators: name: Fan, Y. Z.
name: Zhang, B.
name: Wei, D. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, within the popular internal shock scenario of GRBs, we calculate the early optical afterglow lightcurves of a neutron-fed GRB fireball for different assumed neutron fractions in the fireball and for both ISM- and wind-interaction models. The cases for both long and short GRBs are considered. We show that as long as the neutron fraction is significant (e.g. the number of neutrons is comparable to that of protons), rich afterglow signatures would show up. For a constant density (ISM) model, a neutron-rich early afterglow is characterized by a slowly rising lightcurve followed by a sharp re-brightening bump caused by collision between the leading neutron decay trail ejecta and the trailing ion ejecta. For a massive star stellar-wind model, the neutron-rich early afterglow shows an extended plateau lasting for about 100 seconds before the lightcurve starts to decay. The plateau is mainly attributed to the emission from the unshocked neutron decay trail. When the overlapping of the initial prompt $γ-$rays with the shocks and the trail is important, as is common for the wind model and is also possible in the ISM model under some conditions, the IC cooling effect suppresses the very early optical afterglow significantly, making the neutron-fed signature dimmer. For short GRBs powered by compact star mergers, a neutron-decay-induced step-like re-brightening is predicted, although the amplitude is not large. All these neutron-fed signatures are likely detectable by the Ultraviolet Optical Telescope (UVOT) on board the {\em Swift} observatory if GRB fireballs are indeed baryonic and neutron-rich. Close monitoring of early afterglows from 10s to 1000s of seconds, when combined with detailed theoretical modeling, could be used to potentially diagnose the existence of the neutron component in GRB fireballs.
description: 17 pages (6 figures), accepted for publication in ApJ. Several figures are revised, the IC cooling due to the prompt gamma-rays overlap with the shocked regions (stellar wind model) has been taken into account. The possible evidence for the neutron-rich internal shocks (i.e., the prompt optical and near IR flash accompanying GRB 041219a) has been mentioned briefly
Economic Dependency and Contractual Imbalance of Self-Employed Workers in the Italian Legal Framework
Creators: name: Mazzanti, Caterina
Publisher: name: Italian Labour Law e-Journal
Year: 2021

description: The contribution aims at analyzing the issue of economic dependency of self-employed workers in the Italian Legal system and the problem of their contractual imbalance. At this purpose, it focuses on Art. 3, L. no. 81/2018 on unfair clauses and practices, which settles different measures in favor of self-employed workers.
description: Italian Labour Law e-Journal, Vol. 14 No. 2 (2021)
Male Income, Female Income, and Household Income Inequality in Israel: A Decomposition Analysis
Creators: name: Kimhi, Ayal
name: Kimhi, Ayal
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics

description: Differentiating between the sensitivity of income inequality to male income and female income, and decomposing inequality by income determinants, we find that total income inequality is less sensitive to female income variability or the level of female income than to male income variability or the level of male income. Uniform increases in education reduce income inequality, with female education having a larger effect than male education. The fraction of minority populations has a positive effect on inequality, but this operates mostly through female income. All this suggests that female income is the most adequate target for inequality-reducing policy, and that within-household gender equality is good for reducing income inequality among households.
Non-equilibrium coherence dynamics of a soft boson lattice
Creators: name: Tuchman, A. K.
name: Orzel, C.
name: Polkovnikov, A.
name: Kasevich, M. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the non-equilibrium evolution of the phase coherence of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in a one dimensional optical lattice, as the lattice is suddenly quenched from an insulating to a superfluid state. We observe slowly damped phase coherence oscillations in the regime of large filling factor (~100 bosons per site) at a frequency proportional to the generalized Josephson frequency. The truncated Wigner approximation (TWA) predicts the frequency of the observed oscillations.
description: 10 pages. 4 figures
Additional file 3 of On-line virtual patient learning: a pilot study of a new modality in antimicrobial stewardship education for pediatric residents
Creators: name: Alshengeti, Amer
name: Slayter, Kathryn
name: Black, Emily
name: Top, Karina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3. Descriptive statistics of residents’ knowledge score Pre- and Post VP module.
Additional file 1 of Temporal trends in pulmonary embolism prevalence in Greece during 2013–2017
Creators: name: Lampropoulos, Ioannis C.
name: Raptis, Dimitrios G.
name: Daniil, Zoe
name: Tasoulis, Sotirios K.
name: Vassilis P. Plagianakos
name: Malli, Foteini
name: Gourgoulianis, Konstantinos I.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Pulmonary embolism prevalence per age group through the study period (2013-2017). Data are expressed per 100.000 population per each year. “Average” corresponds to the mean prevalence per age group throughout the whole study period. Table S2. Regression Results for Male and Female population separately.
Apanteles psenes Nixon 1965
Creators: name: Liu, Zhen
name: He, Jun-Hua
name: Chen, Xue-Xin
name: Gupta, Ankita
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Apanteles
Apanteles psenes

description: Apanteles psenes Nixon, 1965
 (Figures 68, 102, 104o 1 –o 2)
 Apanteles psenes Nixon, 1965: 80. Holotype ♀ (examined)—Malaysia-Peninsular [NHM, Fig. 104o 1 –o 2].
 Diagnosis. Ovipositor sheath slightly longer than hind tibia; propodeum completely but rather weakly areolated; T1 coarsely punctate and parallel-sided; hind tarsus very pale yellow, tarsomeres with faint apical infuscation; antenna rather thin, with flagellomeres 16–17 very slightly longer than wide; fore wing weakly brownish; hind wing rather narrow; face impunctate but with satin-like sheen; frons, vertex and temples hardly roughened but dull with a satinlike sheen.
 Material examined. 1♀, Dongyang, Zhejiang, 1983.VIII, Shi Zuhua, No. 831940; 1♀, Longquan, Zhejiang, light trap, 1965.VII.20, He Junhua, No. 65054.8.
 Distribution. China (Zhejiang) new record; Malaysia, Vietnam.
 Remarks. Characters of the examined specimens agree with the published descriptions and the type specimen, except for penultimate flagellomere slightly longer and vein r more distinctly angled with 2-SR (Fig. 68f).
description: Published as part of Liu, Zhen, He, Jun-Hua, Chen, Xue-Xin & Gupta, Ankita, 2020, The ater-group of the genus Apanteles Foerster (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) from China with the descriptions of forty-eight new species, pp. 1-205 in Zootaxa 4807 (1) on page 140, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4807.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3927639
Estimation of a Censored Demand System in Stratified Sampling: An Analysis of Mexican Meat Demand at the Table Cut Level.
Creators: name: Lopez, Jose Antonio
name: Malaga, Jaime E.
name: Lopez, Jose Antonio
name: Malaga, Jaime E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: censored demand system
subject: two-step estimation procedure
subject: stratified sampling
subject: Mexican meat demand
subject: elasticities
subject: adult equivalent scales
subject: bootstrap standard errors

description: Evidence of meat trade in the form of table cuts suggests that consumer preferences and tastes vary across meat cuts. Unlike previous studies, this paper estimates demand elasticities at the table cut level from a Mexican survey of household incomes and expenditures, which is a stratified sample. The study uses the two-step estimation of a censored demand system proposed by Shonkwiler and Yen (1999) but incorporates stratification variables into the estimation procedure. Parameter estimates are reported and its standard errors are approximated by using the bootstrap procedure.
Additional file 2 of On-line virtual patient learning: a pilot study of a new modality in antimicrobial stewardship education for pediatric residents
Creators: name: Alshengeti, Amer
name: Slayter, Kathryn
name: Black, Emily
name: Top, Karina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Reviewer checklist.
The Autonomous Workers and the Needed Responses of Social Protection Systems to Overcome Transitions
Creators: name: Garbuio, Chiara
Publisher: name: Italian Labour Law e-Journal
Year: 2021

description: The contribution investigates the need to provide an efficient system of active labour market policies for the autonomous workers too, and despite their heterogeneity, in order to give them the adequate support to stay and to overcome transitions in the labour market.
description: Italian Labour Law e-Journal, Vol. 14 No. 2 (2021)
Additional file 2 of Characterization of Haplotype Diversity in the BADH2 Aroma Gene and Development of a KASP SNP Assay for Predicting Aroma in U.S. Rice
Creators: name: Addison, Christopher K.
name: Brijesh Angira
name: Manoch Kongchum
name: Harrell, Dustin L.
name: Niranjan Baisakh
name: Linscombe, Steven D.
name: Famoso, Adam N.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Supplemental Figure 1. Technical validation of Aroma SNP1 across segregating F2:F3 breeding population. All genotypic classes showed clear clustering suitable for automated computer scoring with the exception of one line (indicated in grey).
The Dutch system for youth minimum wages: expressing concern about age discrimination and the rights of young people
Creators: name: Bakhtina, Krystyna
Publisher: name: Italian Labour Law e-Journal
Year: 2021

description: The present article examines the Dutch system of youth minimum wages, the system which provides for lower wages for those younger than 21. One of the main reasons behind this policy is to promote employment of young people entering the labour market. There is a lot of economic literature which analyses the effects of minimum wages on youth employment. However, the topic of youth minimum wages has not been addressed from the perspective of the rights of young individuals; the literature has paid little attention to the discriminatory character of the system of youth minimum wages. This paper argues that the system of Dutch youth minimum wages clearly disregards the rights of young people and leads to discriminatory outcomes. The paper calls to further investigate the effectiveness of this policy by taking into consideration its discriminatory character and the effects on the rights of young people.
description: Italian Labour Law e-Journal, Vol. 14 No. 2 (2021)
Additional file 1 of A cookbook for DNase Hi-C
Creators: name: Gridina, Maria
name: Mozheiko, Evgeniy
name: Valeev, Emil
name: Nazarenko, Ludmila P.
name: Lopatkina, Maria E.
name: Markova, Zhanna G.
name: Yablonskaya, Maria I.
name: Voinova, Viktoria Yu
name: Shilova, Nadezhda V.
name: Lebedev, Igor N.
name: Fishman, Veniamin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary information: supplementary tables and figures.
Has the "Farm Problem" Disappeared? A Comparison of Household and Self-Employment Income Levels of the Farm and Nonfarm Self-Employed
Creators: name: Peake, Whitney O.
name: Marshall, Maria I.
name: Peake, Whitney O.
name: Marshall, Maria I.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: self-employment
subject: farm households

description: This study tests the impact of household and demographic factors on the economic well-being of the farm and nonfarm self-employed using data from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series. Parametric and nonparametric techniques are used to test for statistical differences in self-employment and household income levels. Further, household and demographic factors are tested for their effect on self-employment income using a censored tobit regression model. The farm self-employed report significantly higher levels of self-employment income. Results reveal that several household and demographic factors significantly impact self-employment income levels for the farm and nonfarm self-employed, with key differences in impacts.