cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Iris Style Transfer: Enhancing Iris Recognition with Style Features and Privacy Preservation through Neural Style Transfer
Creators: name: Wang, Mengdi
name: Bozkir, Efe
name: Kasneci, Enkelejda
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Iris texture is widely regarded as a gold standard biometric modality for authentication and identification. The demand for robust iris recognition methods, coupled with growing security and privacy concerns regarding iris attacks, has escalated recently. Inspired by neural style transfer, an advanced technique that leverages neural networks to separate content and style features, we hypothesize that iris texture's style features provide a reliable foundation for recognition and are more resilient to variations like rotation and perspective shifts than traditional approaches. Our experimental results support this hypothesis, showing a significantly higher classification accuracy compared to conventional features. Further, we propose using neural style transfer to obfuscate the identifiable iris style features, ensuring the protection of sensitive biometric information while maintaining the utility of eye images for tasks like eye segmentation and gaze estimation. This work opens new avenues for iris-oriented, secure, and privacy-aware biometric systems.
description: The 2025 ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications (ETRA)
The importance of examining movements within the US health care system: sequential logit modeling
Creators: name: Lee, Chioun
name: Ayers, Stephanie
name: Kronenfeld, Jennie
name: Frimpong, Jemima A.
name: Rivers, Patrick
name: Kim, Sam
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Social status
Medical care
Medical sciences
Medicine

description: Background: Utilization of specialty care may not be a discrete, isolated behavior but rather, a behavior of sequential movements within the health care system. Although patients may often visit their primary care physician and receive a referral before utilizing specialty care, prior studies have underestimated the importance of accounting for these sequential movements. Methods: The sample included 6,772 adults aged 18 years and older who participated in the 2001 Survey on Disparities in Quality of Care, sponsored by the Commonwealth Fund. A sequential logit model was used to account for movement in all stages of utilization: use of any health services (i.e., first stage), having a perceived need for specialty care (i.e., second stage), and utilization of specialty care (i.e., third stage). In the sequential logit model, all stages are nested within the previous stage. Results: Gender, race/ethnicity, education and poor health had significant explanatory effects with regard to use of any health services and having a perceived need for specialty care, however racial/ethnic, gender, and educational disparities were not present in utilization of specialty care. After controlling for use of any health services and having a perceived need for specialty care, inability to pay for specialty care via income (AOR = 1.334, CI = 1.10 to 1.62) or health insurance (unstable insurance: AOR = 0.26, CI = 0.14 to 0.48; no insurance: AOR = 0.12, CI = 0.07 to 0.20) were significant barriers to utilization of specialty care. Conclusions: Use of a sequential logit model to examine utilization of specialty care resulted in a detailed representation of utilization behaviors and patient characteristics that impact these behaviors at all stages within the health care system. After controlling for sequential movements within the health care system, the biggest barrier to utilizing specialty care is the inability to pay, while racial, gender, and educational disparities diminish to non-significance. Findings from this study represent how Americans use the health care system and more precisely reveals the disparities and inequalities in the U.S. health care system.
Prognostic significance of lymphangiogenesis in pharyngolaryngeal carcinoma patients
Creators: name: Garcia-Carracedo, Darío
name: Rodrigo, Juan
name: Astudillo, Aurora
name: Nieto, Carlos
name: Gonzalez, Maria
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Squamous cell carcinoma
Lymphatics
Medical sciences
Oncology

description: Background: Lymphatic vessel spread is considered a major route for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma metastasis. Formation of new lymphatic vessels could facilitate the process, raising the malignant potential of these tumours. Recent identification of lymphatic markers allows the study of the lymphangiogenesis phenomenon. We searched for molecular events involved in the lymphangiogenic process that could have prognostic value in laryngeal/pharyngeal carcinoma patients. Methods: 104 paraffin-embedded pharyngeal/laryngeal tumour samples were studied. Immunohistochemical analysis of podoplanin and double immunofluorescence analysis of Ki-67 and D2-40 were performed. Lymph vessel density (inside the tumour mass, at its periphery or considered as a whole) and the presence of tumour emboli inside lymphatics were recorded. The proliferative state of endothelial lymphatic cells was evaluated. Results: Lymphatic vessels were detected inside the tumour mass (75%) and in the surrounding tissue (80%); some of them in a proliferative state. Tumour emboli were detected in a high proportion of the cases (45%). Lymphatic vessel density was higher in the pharyngeal cases (p = 0.0029), in greater size (p = 0.039), more advanced stage primary tumours (p = 0.006) and in carcinomas of patients with affected nodes (p = 0.019). The presence of tumour emboli and a high global vessel density were indicators of poor prognosis (recorded as death from tumour) in the laryngeal group (p = 0.015 and p = 0.027, respectively), but notably not in the pharyngeal one. Interestingly, high global vessel density showed a negative prognostic value among pathologically staged N0 laryngeal carcinomas (p = 0.03). Conclusions: The lymphangiogenic process correlated with aggressive tumour features (pN category, tumour size, tumour stage), but might play different roles in tumours arising from different anatomic sites. Our results suggest that detection of tumour emboli and assessment of global vessel density using the D2-40 antibody, may be useful in the clinical practice, as predictors of reduced survival among pN0 laryngeal carcinoma patients.
CRANIOSYNOSTOSIS: CAUSES, DIAGNOSIS, AND TREATMENT APPROACHES
Creators: name: Yokubjonov, Khumoyunmirzo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Craniosynostosis occurs when cranial sutures fuse prematurely. These sutures are essential for facilitating the baby's passage through the birth canal and later accommodating brain growth. When one or more sutures close too early, the skull adapts by growing along the path of least resistance—perpendicular to the closed suture—resulting in an abnormal skull shape. This condition can lead to increased intracranial pressure (ICP) and may impact the respiratory and neurological systems, as well as overall child development. [1][2]
Anisotropic Hybridization Dynamics in the Quasi-One-Dimensional Kondo Lattice CeCo$_2$Ga$_8$ Revealed by Ultrafast Optical Spectroscopy
Creators: name: Tan, Ba-Lei
name: Zhang, Chen
name: Wu, Qi-Yi
name: Dong, Guo-Hao
name: Liu, Hao
name: Chen, Bo
name: Song, Jiao-Jiao
name: Tian, Xin-Yi
name: Zhou, Ying
name: Liu, Hai-Yun
name: Duan, Yu-Xia
name: Shi, You-Guo
name: Meng, Jian-Qiao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the ultrafast dynamics of the quasi-one-dimensional Kondo lattice CeCo$_2$Ga$_8$ using optical pump-probe spectroscopy. Time-resolved pump-probe reflectivity measurements reveal a strong anisotropy in the photoinduced response, which is a direct consequence of the material's unique electronic structure. The temperature dependence of the relaxation dynamics provides evidence for the formation of two distinct hybridization gaps that appear at different temperatures in the heavy fermion state. A direct gap of 2$Δ_{dir}$ $\approx$ 50 meV that persists up to $T^†$ $\approx$ 90 K, well above the coherence temperature $T^*$ $\approx$ 20 K. We attribute this higher-temperature gap to the hybridization fluctuations. An indirect gap of 2$Δ_{ind}$ $\approx$ 10 meV opens closer to $T^*$, signifying the development of long-range coherence in the heavy fermion state. Furthermore, we find that the hybridization gap can be suppressed with increasing pump fluence, indicating a delicate interplay between photoexcitation and the coherent heavy fermion state. Our results provide insights into the interplay of Kondo physics and low dimensionality in CeCo$_2$Ga$_8$, and establish ultrafast optical spectroscopy as a sensitive probe of anisotropic hybridization in heavy fermion materials.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures; Accepted by Frontiers of Physics
Additional file 1 of Deaths of despair: cause-specific mortality and socioeconomic inequalities in cause-specific mortality among young men in Scotland
Creators: name: Allik, Mirjam
name: Brown, Denise
name: Dundas, Ruth
name: Leyland, Alastair H.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Classification of main causes of death. Table S2. Mortality rates by deprivation quintiles and inequalities in mortality from 2001 to 2003 to 2016–2018 for five main causes of death among men aged 15–44.
The effect of metal enrichment and galactic winds on galaxy formation in cosmological zoom simulations
Creators: name: Hirschmann, Michaela
name: Naab, Thorsten
name: Dave, Romeel
name: Oppenheimer, Benjamin D.
name: Ostriker, Jeremiah P.
name: Somerville, Rachel S.
name: Oser, Ludwig
name: Genzel, Reinhard
name: Tacconi, Linda J.
name: Foerster-Schreiber, Natascha M.
name: Burkert, Andreas
name: Genel, Shy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the differential effects of metal cooling and galactic stellar winds on the cosmological formation of individual galaxies with three sets of cosmological, hydrodynamical zoom simulations of 45 halos in the mass range 10^111 and predict reasonable star formation histories, (ii) produce galaxies with high cold gas fractions (30-60 per cent) at high redshift, (iii) significantly reduce the galaxy formation efficiencies for halos (M_halo<10^12M_sun) at all redshifts in agreement with observational and abundance matching constraints, (iv) result in high-redshift galaxies with reduced circular velocities matching the observed Tully-Fisher relation at z~2, and (v) significantly increase the sizes of low-mass galaxies (M_stellar<3x10^10M_sun) at high redshift resulting in a weak size evolution - a trend in agreement with observations. However, the low redshift (z<0.5) star formation rates of massive galaxies are higher than observed (up to ten times). No tested model predicts the observed size evolution for low-mass and high-mass galaxies simultaneously. Due to the delayed onset of star formation in the wind models, the metal enrichment of gas and stars is delayed and agrees well with observational constraints. Metal cooling and stellar winds are both found to increase the ratio of in situ formed to accreted stars - the relative importance of dissipative vs. dissipationless assembly. For halo masses below ~10^12M_sun, this is mainly caused by less stellar accretion and compares well to predictions from semi-analytical models but still differs from abundance matching models. For higher masses, the fraction of in situ stars is over-predicted due to the unrealistically high star formation rates at low redshifts.
description: 23 pages, 16 figures, and 1 table. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
New fat free mass - fat mass model for use in physiological energy balance equations
Creators: name: Thomas, Diana
name: Das, Sai
name: Levine, James
name: Martin, Corby
name: Mayer, Laurel
name: McDougall, Andrew
name: Strauss, Boyd
name: Heymsfield, Steven B.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Body weight
Nutrition
Medicine
Medical sciences

description: Background: The Forbes equation relating fat-free mass (FFM) to fat mass (FM) has been used to predict longitudinal changes in FFM during weight change but has important limitations when paired with a one dimensional energy balance differential equation. Direct use of the Forbes model within a one dimensional energy balance differential equation requires calibration of a translate parameter for the specific population under study. Comparison of translates to a representative sample of the US population indicate that this parameter is a reflection of age, height, race and gender effects. Results: We developed a class of fourth order polynomial equations relating FFM to FM that consider age, height, race and gender as covariates eliminating the need to calibrate a parameter to baseline subject data while providing meaningful individual estimates of FFM. Moreover, the intercepts of these polynomial equations are nonnegative and are consistent with observations of very low FM measured during a severe Somali famine. The models preserve the predictive power of the Forbes model for changes in body composition when compared to results from several longitudinal weight change studies. Conclusions: The newly developed FFM-FM models provide new opportunities to compare individuals undergoing weight change to subjects in energy balance, analyze body composition for individual parameters, and predict body composition during weight change when pairing with energy balance differential equations.
title: Fideior; [1773]
title: ein Trauerspiel auf öffentlicher Schaubühne des Churfürstlichen Schulhauses der Gesellschaft Jesu zu Straubing vorgestellet den 3. und 6. Herbstmonats in dem Jahre 1773. als aus höchstgnädiger Freygebigkeit des heil. röm. Reichs hochgräflich Seinsheimischen Hauses der allda studierenden Jugend die Prämien ausgetheilet wurden
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2014

description: Perioche. - In Fraktur
Additional file 1 of Quantitative measurement of bubble textures in pumice clasts using a digital stereo microscope with low-angled ring illumination
Creators: name: Ohashi, Masatoshi
name: Ichihara, Mie
name: Fukashi Maeno
name: Kennedy, Ben
name: Gravley, Darren
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Additoinal information about the calibration, the image processing, and the errors of the DSM-LaRI.
British Columbia Legislative Assembly sessional clipping book (1943-02)
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Politics and government
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919741
subject: British Columbia. Legislative Assembly
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/600765
subject: Law
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/993678
subject: FOS: Law

description: These Sessional Clippings books cover the period 1891 to 1972, and include newspaper accounts written by various legislative reporters who covered debates occurring in the British Columbia Legislative Assembly. Transcripts of debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard) were not published in B.C. until 1970; hence these "Sessional Clipping Books" augment the "Journals", the record of daily proceedings of the Legislative Assembly. Selected clippings from various newspapers including the Vancouver Sun, the Vancouver Province, the Colonist, and the Times newspapers, relating to the newspaper reports concerning activities of the Legislature. The original sessional clippings books comprise 351 ledger size print volumes, held at the Legislative Library in Victoria BC. The print volumes were microfilmed onto 26 reels in 1977 under a Tri University Libraries (TRIUL) project by Precision Micrographic Services (Vancouver, B.C.), with the permission of the Legislative Library, Victoria, British Columbia. This digital collection was created by scanning the 26 microfilm reels.
Increased fluidity and oxidation of malarial lipoproteins: relation with severity and induction of endothelial expression of adhesion molecules
Creators: name: Sibmooh, Nathawut
name: Yamanont, Paveena
name: Krudsood, Srivicha
name: Leowattana, Wattana
name: Brittenham, Gary M.
name: Looareesuwan, Sornchai
name: Udomsangpetch, Rachanee
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2004
Subjects: Malaria
Lipoproteins
Medical sciences
Pathology

description: Introduction: Oxidative stress has been demonstrated in malaria. The potential oxidative modification of lipoproteins derived from malaria patients was studied. These oxidized lipids may have role in pathogenesis of malaria. Method: The plasma lipid profile and existence of oxidized forms of very low density lipoprotein (VLDL), low density lipoprotein (LDL) and high density lipoprotein (HDL) were investigated in malaria (17 mild and 24 severe patients) and 37 control subjects. Thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARs), conjugated dienes, tryptophan fluorescence and fluidity of lipoproteins were determined as markers of oxidation. The biological effect of malarial lipoproteins was assessed by the expression of adhesion molecules on endothelial cells. Results: Malarial lipoproteins had decreased cholesterol (except in VLDL) and phospholipid. The triglyceride levels were unchanged. The cholesterol/phospholipid ratio of LDL was decreased in malaria, but increased in VLDL and HDL. TBARs and conjugate dienes were increased in malarial lipoproteins, while the tryptophan fluorescence was decreased. The fluidity of lipoproteins was increased in malaria. These indicated the presence of oxidized lipoproteins in malaria by which the degree of oxidation was correlated with severity. Of three lipoproteins from malarial patients, LDL displayed the most pronounced oxidative modification. In addition, oxidized LDL from malaria patients increased endothelial expression of adhesion molecules. Conclusion: In malaria, the lipoproteins are oxidatively modified, and the degree of oxidation is related with severity. Oxidized LDL from malarial patients increases the endothelial expression of adhesion molecules. These suggest the role of oxidized lipoproteins, especially LDL, on the pathogenesis of disease.
Obesity and right ventricular structure and function: the MESA-RV study
Creators: name: Chahal, Harjit
name: McClelland, Robyn
name: Tandri, Harikrishna
name: Jain, Aditya
name: Turkbey, Evrim
name: Hundley, Gregory
name: Barr, R. Graham
name: Kizer, Jorge
name: Lima, João
name: Bluemke, David
name: Kawut, Steven
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Cardiovascular system
Obesity
Medical sciences
Epidemiology

description: Introduction: The relationship between obesity and right ventricle (RV) has been inadequately studied due to difficulty in imaging its more complex geometry by echocardiography. While obesity associated RV diastolic dysfunction has been shown, inconclusive data exists regarding systolic function. We aimed to determine the association between obesity and RV structure and function by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in a large multi-ethnic cohort. Purpose: We hypothesized that obesity would be associated with greater RV mass, larger RV end-diastolic volume (EDV), and lower RV ejection fraction (EF). Methods: Cardiac MRIs were analyzed from 1973 participants in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis, which included individuals aged 45-84 years without clinical cardiovascular disease. Participants were divided into 3 categories based on BMI: normal (18.5-24.9 kg/m2), overweight (25-29.9 kg/m2) and obese (= 30 kg/m2). Associations with RV measures were determined using multivariable regression. Results: The mean age was 62 ± 10 years, 47% were men. 43% were white, 28% African American, 20% Hispanic, and 9% Asian. In multivariable analyses adjusted for age, ethnicity, gender, cardiovascular risk factors and height, obesity was associated with higher RV mass, larger RVEDV (3.1 g/17% higher & 22.7 ml/20% higher respectively, p < 0.0001) and lower RVEF, mass/EDV ratio (-0.9%, p < 0.05; -8.1 mg/ml, p < 0.0001) as compared to normal BMI category participants. These findings persisted after adjusting for the respective left ventricle (LV) parameter. Within each BMI category, RV mass and EDV were positively associated with BMI while mass/EDV was negatively associated with BMI only in the normal BMI category Figures 1 and 2. Figure 1   Figure 2   Conclusion: In a cohort free of clinical cardiovascular disease, obesity was significantly associated with higher RV mass, RVEDV and lower RVEF even after adjustment for the LV. Future studies should examine the mechanism of this effect on the RV.
TP73 allelic expression in human brain and allele frequencies in Alzheimer's disease
Creators: name: Li, Quanyi
name: Athan, Eleni
name: Wei, Michelle L.
name: Yuan, Eric
name: Rice, Samuel
name: Vonsattel, Jean Paul
name: Mayeux, Richard Paul
name: Tycko, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Gene expression
subject: Alzheimer's disease
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Background: The p73 protein, a paralogue of the p53 tumor suppressor, is essential for normal development and survival of neurons. TP73 is therefore of interest as a candidate gene for Alzheimer's disease (AD) susceptibility. TP73 mRNA is transcribed from three promoters, termed P1 – P3, and there is evidence for an additional complexity in its regulation, namely, a variable allelic expression bias in some human tissues. Methods: We utilized RT-PCR/RFLP and direct cDNA sequencing to measure allele-specific expression of TP73 mRNA, SNP genotyping to assess genetic associations with AD, and promoter-reporter assays to assess allele-specific TP73 promoter activity. Results: Using a coding-neutral BanI polymorphism in TP73 exon 5 as an allelic marker, we found a pronounced allelic expression bias in one adult brain hippocampus, while 3 other brains (two adult; one fetal) showed approximately equal expression from both alleles. In a tri-ethnic elderly population of African-Americans, Caribbean Hispanics and Caucasians, a G/A single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) at -386 in the TP73 P3 promoter was weakly but significantly associated with AD (crude O.R. for AD given any -386G allele 1.7; C.I. 1.2–2.5; after adjusting for age and education O.R. 1.5; C.I. 1.1–2.3, N= 1191). The frequency of the -386G allele varied by ethnicity and was highest in African-Americans and lowest in Caucasians. No significant differences in basal P3 promoter activity were detected comparing -386G vs. -386A promoter-luciferase constructs in human SK-NSH-N neuroblastoma cells. Conclusions: There is a reproducible allelic expression bias in mRNA expression from the TP73 gene in some, though not all, adult human brains, and inter-individual variation in regulatory sequences of the TP73 locus may affect susceptibility to AD. However, additional studies will be necessary to exclude genetic admixture as an alternative explanation for the observed associations.
Physical and mental health-related correlates of physical function in community dwelling older adults: a cross sectional study
Creators: name: Garber, Carol Ewing
name: Greaney, Mary
name: Riebe, Deborah
name: Nigg, Claudio
name: Burbank, Patricia
name: Clark, Phillip
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Exercise
subject: Older people
subject: Medical sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Background: Physical function is the ability to perform both basic and instrumental activities of daily living, and the ability of older adults to reside in the community depends to a large extent on their level of physical function. Multiple physical and health-related variables may differentially affect physical function, but they have not been well characterized. The purpose of this investigation was to identify and examine physical and mental health-related correlates of physical function in a sample of community-dwelling older adults. Methods: Nine hundred and four community dwelling older men (n = 263) and women (n = 641) with a mean (95% Confidence Interval) age of 76.6 (76.1, 77.1) years underwent tests of physical function (Timed Up and Go; TUG), Body Mass Index (BMI) was calculated from measured height and weight, and data were collected on self-reported health quality of life (SF-36), falls during the past 6 months, number of medications per day, depression (Geriatric Depression Scale; GDS), social support, and sociodemographic variables. Results: Subjects completed the TUG in 8.7 (8.2, 9.2) seconds and expended 6,976 (6,669, 7,284) Kcal.wk-1 in physical activity. The older persons had a mean BMI of 27. 6 (27.2, 28.0), 62% took 3 or more medications per day, and14.4% had fallen one or more times over the last 6 months. Mean scores on the Mental Component Summary (MCS) was 50.6 (50.2, 51,0) and the Physical Component Summary (PCS) was 41.3 (40.8, 41.8). Multiple sequential regression analysis showed that, after adjustment for TUG floor surface correlates of physical function included age, sex, education, physical activity (weekly energy expenditure), general health, bodily pain, number of medications taken per day, depression and Body Mass Index. Further, there is a dose response relationship such that greater degree of physical function impairment is associated with poorer scores on physical health-related variables. Conclusions: Physical function in community-dwelling older adults is associated with several physical and mental health-related factors. Further study examining the nature of the relationships between these variables is needed.
Residual sleep disturbance and risk of relapse during the continuation/maintenance phase treatment of major depressive disorder with the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor fluoxetine
Creators: name: Yang, Huaiyu
name: Sinicropi-Yao, Lara
name: Chuzi, Sarah
name: Youn, Soo
name: Clain, Alisabet
name: Baer, Lee
name: Chen, Ying
name: McGrath, Patrick J.
name: Fava, Maurizio
name: Papakostas, George
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Depression, Mental
Sleep disorders
Psychiatry
Medicine

description: Background: Relapse of major depressive disorder (MDD) is a common clinical problem. This study was designed to determine whether residual sleep disturbance (insomnia and hypersomnia) predict risk of relapse during the continuation and maintenance treatment of MDD. Methods: A total of 570 patients with MDD were treated with open-label, flexible dose fluoxetine (range 20 to 60 mg; mean dose = 45.8 mg/day; SD = 15.1) for 12 weeks. Under double blind conditions, 262 patients who achieved clinical response were randomly assigned to continue fluoxetine or to switch to placebo for 52 weeks or until relapse. Residual sleep disturbance during the baseline visit of the double-blind phase was assessed using items 4, 5, 6 (insomnia) and 22, 23, 24 (hypersomnia) of the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS). Survival analysis was utilized to determine the effect of residual sleep disturbance on risk of relapse. Results: The severities of early (P > 0.05), middle (P > 0.05), late (P > 0.05), or total (P > 0.05) residual insomnia were not found to significantly predict risk of relapse during continuation and maintenance-phase treatment. Similarly, the severities of early bedtime (P > 0.05), oversleeping (P > 0.05), napping (P > 0.05), or total (P > 0.05) residual hypersomnia were not found to significantly predict risk of relapse during continuation and maintenance-phase treatment. Conclusion: The present study did not identify the severity of residual sleep disturbance among fluoxetine responders to predict risk of MDD relapse. The size of our sample may have precluded us from identifying more modest effects of residual sleep disturbance on the risk of relapse in MDD patients. Future studies are needed to further explore the relationship between residual sleep disturbance and relapse in MDD. Trial Registration: ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00427128
FAIR assessment template adapted to the COMBINE community
Creators: name: Balaur, Irina
name: Nickerson, David
name: Welter, Danielle
name: Wodke, Judith A.H.
name: Ancien, François
name: Gebhardt, Tom
name: Grouès, Valentin
name: Hermjakob, Henning
name: König, Matthias
name: Radde, Nicole
name: Rougny, Adrien
name: Schneider, Reinhard
name: Malik Sheriff, Rahuman S
name: Shiferaw, kirubel Biruk
name: Stefan, Melanie
name: Satagopam, Venkata
name: Waltemath, Dagmar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: FAIR
COMBINE community
OpenScience
Biomedical
RDA
FAIRplus
FAIR indicators

description: This is the template of the RDA FAIR indicators adapted to the COmputational MOdeling in BIology NEtwork (COMBINE) community (https://co.mbine.org/), as a result of the FAIR COMBINE Archive Indicators project (https://fair-ca-indicators.github.io/), which is as a community effort for the FAIR assessment of COMBINE simulations.

Specifically, we adapted the RDA FAIR indicators template (DOI: 10.15497/rda00050) provided by the FAIRplus project (https://fairplus-project.eu/) to assess the FAIR features of both the COMBINE models themselves and the COMBINE archives, (which represent the set of files needed to reproduce a virtual experiment).
Thermodynamic Model of Liquid-Liquid Phase Equilibrium in Solutions of Alkanethiol-Coated Nanoparticles
Creators: name: Soule, Ezequiel R.
name: Hoppe, Cristina E.
name: Borrajo, Julio
name: Williams, Roberto J. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A thermodynamic model for a mixture of alkanethiol-coated nanoparticles (NPs) and low molecular weight (non-polymeric) solvent is developed, and calculations of liquid-liquid phase equilibrium for different values of NP core radius, alkanethiol chain length, solvent molar volume and alkanethiol-solvent interaction parameter, are presented. The model takes into account the swelling of the organic coronas and the dispersion of particles with swollen coronas in the solvent. The energetic interaction between alkyl chains and solvent is considered, both within the corona and between the outer alkyl segments and free solvent. Swelling involves mixing of alkanethiol chains and solvent in the corona and stretching of the organic chains. Dispersion considers an entropic contribution based on Carnahan Starling equation of state and an enthalpic term calculated considering the surface contacts between alkyl segments placed in the external boundary of the corona and the molecules of free solvent. Two different kinds of phase equilibrium are found. One of them, observed at high values of the interaction parameter, is the typical liquid-liquid equilibrium for compact NPs in a poor solvent where a complete phase separation is observed when cooling (increasing the interaction parameter). The second liquid-liquid equilibrium is observed at low values of the interaction parameter, where swelling of coronas is favored. In this region two different phases co-exist, one more concentrated in NPs that exhibit relatively compact coronas and the other one more diluted in NPs with extended coronas. In diluted solutions of NPs the deswelling of the fully extended coronas takes place abruptly in a very small temperature range, leading to a solution of compact NPs. This critical transition might find practical applications similar to those found for the abrupt shrinkage of hydrogels at a critical temperature.
description: this is the author's version of an article published in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research (ACS), available online at http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ie901784r
Petromyidae Tullberg 1899
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Petromyidae

description: Family Petromyidae REVIEWED BY: H. Levenson (HL). ISIS NUMBER: 5301410031000000000.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 6), pp. 560-594 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 592, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353039
War-related psychological sequelae among emergency department patients in the former Republic of Yugoslavia
Creators: name: Nelson, Brett
name: Fernandez, William
name: Galea, Sandro
name: Sisco, Sarah
name: Dierberg, Kerry
name: Gorgieva, Gordana
name: Nandi, Arijit
name: Ahern, Jennifer
name: Mitrović, Mihajlo
name: VanRooyen, Michael
name: Vlahov, David
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: War
subject: Hospitals--Emergency services
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Mental health

description: Background: Residents of the Republic of Serbia faced civil war and a NATO-led bombing campaign in 1999. We sought to assess the burden of metal health dysfunction among emergency department (ED) patients presenting for care three years post-war in Serbia. Methods: This study was conducted during July and August 2002 at two sites: a university hospital ED in Belgrade, Serbia and an ED in a remote district hospital serving a Serbian enclave in Laplje Selo, Kosovo. Investigators collected data on a systematic sample of non-acute patients presenting to the ED. All respondents completed a structured questionnaire assessing demographics and symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) (using the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire), and major depression (using the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale). Results: A total of 562 respondents participated (310 in Belgrade, 252 in Laplje Selo); the response rate was 83.8%, 43% were female, and mean age was 37.6 years (SD = 13.4). Overall, 73 (13.0%) participants had symptoms consistent with PTSD, and 272 (49.2%) had symptoms consistent with depression. Sixty-six respondents had both disorders (11.9%). In separate multivariable logistic regression models, predictors of PTSD were refugee status and residence in Laplje Selo, and predictors of depression were older age, current unemployment, and lower social support. Conclusions: Three years post-war, symptoms of PTSD and major depression in Serbia remained a significant public health concern, particularly among refugees, those suffering subsequent economic instability, and persons living in rural, remote areas.
Identification of population substructure among Jews using STR markers and dependence on reference populations included
Creators: name: Listman, Jennifer
name: Hasin, Deborah S.
name: Kranzler, Henry
name: Malison, Robert
name: Mutirangura, Apiwat
name: Sughondhabirom, Atapol
name: Aharonovich, Efrat
name: Spivak, Baruch
name: Gelernter, Joel
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Population genetics
subject: Jews
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Medical sciences

description: Background: Detecting population substructure is a critical issue for association studies of health behaviors and other traits. Whether inherent in the population or an artifact of marker choice, determining aspects of a population's genetic history as potential sources of substructure can aid in design of future genetic studies. Jewish populations, among which association studies are often conducted, have a known history of migrations. As a necessary step in understanding population structure to conduct valid association studies of health behaviors among Israeli Jews, we investigated genetic signatures of this history and quantified substructure to facilitate future investigations of these phenotypes in this population. Results: Using 32 autosomal STR markers and the program STRUCTURE, we differentiated between Ashkenazi (AJ, N = 135) and non-Ashkenazi (NAJ, N = 226) Jewish populations in the form of Northern and Southern geographic genetic components (AJ north 73%, south 23%, NAJ north 33%, south 60%). The ability to detect substructure within these closely related populations using a small STR panel was contingent on including additional samples representing major continental populations in the analyses. Conclusions: Although clustering programs such as STRUCTURE are designed to assign proportions of ancestry to individuals without reference population information, when Jewish samples were analyzed in the absence of proxy parental populations, substructure within Jews was not detected. Generally, for samples with a given grandparental country of birth, STRUCTURE assignment values to Northern, Southern, African and Asian clusters agreed with mitochondrial DNA and Y-chromosomal data from previous studies as well as historical records of migration and intermarriage.
The fleas of house mice (Mus musculus L.) and ship rats (Rattus rattus L.) in forest of the Orongorongo Valley, New Zealand
Creators: name: Fitzgerald, Brian M.
name: Efford, Murray G.
name: Karl, Brian J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: The ectoparasites of introduced rodents in mainland New Zealand forests include several species of cosmopolitan flea that may be important in the population dynamics and future biocontrol of rodents. We describe a 2-rodent, 2-flea system that showed little change over 20 years. Ship rats (Rattus rattus) and house mice (Mus musculus) were snap trapped at fixed sites in the Orongorongo Valley, Wellington, for a study of their population ecology. The fleas Leptopsylla segnis and Nosopsyllus fasciatus were common on mice and rats respectively, and less common on the alternate hosts. Prevalence was described in relation to sex and age of the host, and to season and year. Male mice were more likely than females to carry L. segnis. Prevalence and intensity of infection mostly increased with age of host. Prevalence of both flea species showed modest seasonal variation, with a dip in autumn. Pregnant or lactating female rats and mice were less likely to have fleas than were non-breeding adult females. Prevalence did not vary positively with host density. We detected a slight overall increase in the prevalence of each flea species over the duration of the study. We conclude with some discussion of flea assemblages in New Zealand.
How to induce multiple delays in coupled chaotic oscillators?
Creators: name: Bhowmick, Sourav K.
name: Ghosh, Dibakar
name: Roy, Prodyot K.
name: Kurths, Jürgen
name: Dana, Syamal K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Lag synchronization is a basic phenomenon in mismatched coupled systems, delay coupled systems and time-delayed systems. It is characterized by a lag configuration that establishes a unique time shift between all the state variables of the coupled systems. In this report, an attempt is made how to induce multiple lag configurations in coupled systems when different pairs of state variables attain different time shift. A design of coupling is presented to realize this multiple lag synchronization. Numerical illustration is given using examples of the Rössler system and the slow-fast Hindmarsh-Rose neuron model. The multiple lag scenario is physically realized in an electronic circuit of two Sprott systems.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures
Additional file 1 of Efficient COI barcoding using high throughput single-end 400 bp sequencing
Creators: name: Chentao Yang
name: Yuxuan Zheng
name: Shangjin Tan
name: Guanliang Meng
name: Rao, Wei
name: Caiqing Yang
name: Bourne, David G.
name: O’Brien, Paul A.
name: Junqiang Xu
name: Liao, Sha
name: Chen, Ao
name: Xiaowei Chen
name: Xinrui Jia
name: Zhang, Ai-Bing
name: Shanlin Liu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Read counts of the Sanger barcode failed samples. Stars indicate samples of which short amplicon(s) was detected in the HIFI assemblies. Short amplicons are those clusters of abundance > 10 and of length
Generic circuits sets and general initial ideals with respect to weights
Creators: name: Caviglia, Giulio
name: Sbarra, Enrico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 13F10, 13P20, Secondary 13A50

description: We study the set of circuits of a homogeneous ideal and that of its truncations, and introduce the notion of generic circuits set. We show how this is a well-defined invariant that can be used, in the case of initial ideals with respect to weights, as a counterpart of the (usual) generic initial ideal with respect to monomial orders. As an application we recover the existence of the generic fan introduced by Römer and Schmitz for studying generic tropical varieties. We also consider general initial ideals with respect to weights and show, in analogy to the fact that generic initial ideals are Borel-fixed, that these are fixed under the action of certain Borel subgroups of the general linear group.
description: 10 pages
Training Human-Robot Teams by Improving Transparency Through a Virtual Spectator Interface
Creators: name: Dallas, Sean
name: Qiang, Hongjiao
name: AbuHijleh, Motaz
name: Jo, Wonse
name: Riegner, Kayla
name: Smereka, Jon
name: Robert, Lionel
name: Louie, Wing-Yue
name: Tilbury, Dawn M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: H.5.2; I.2.9

description: After-action reviews (AARs) are professional discussions that help operators and teams enhance their task performance by analyzing completed missions with peers and professionals. Previous studies that compared different formats of AARs have mainly focused on human teams. However, the inclusion of robotic teammates brings along new challenges in understanding teammate intent and communication. Traditional AAR between human teammates may not be satisfactory for human-robot teams. To address this limitation, we propose a new training review (TR) tool, called the Virtual Spectator Interface (VSI), to enhance human-robot team performance and situational awareness (SA) in a simulated search mission. The proposed VSI primarily utilizes visual feedback to review subjects' behavior. To examine the effectiveness of VSI, we took elements from AAR to conduct our own TR, designed a 1 x 3 between-subjects experiment with experimental conditions: TR with (1) VSI, (2) screen recording, and (3) non-technology (only verbal descriptions). The results of our experiments demonstrated that the VSI did not result in significantly better team performance than other conditions. However, the TR with VSI led to more improvement in the subjects SA over the other conditions.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures, Accepted to ICRA 2025
Prologus. Mauritio poenitenti, remissâ licèt culpâ, graves tamen à Divina Nemesi statuuntur poenae; [1749]
Creators: name: Michl, Johann Joseph Ildephons
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2014

description: Enth. den Text des musikalischen Zwischenspiels zu Mauritius imperator
Radio detection of the young binary HD 160934
Creators: name: Azulay, R.
name: Guirado, J. C.
name: Marcaide, J. M.
name: Marti-Vidal, I.
name: Arroyo-Torres, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Precise determination of dynamical masses of pre-main-sequence (PMS) stars is essential to calibrate stellar evolution models that are widely used to derive theoretical masses of young low-mass objects. Binary stars in young, nearby loose associations are particularly good candidates for this calibration since all members share a common age. Interestingly, some of these young binaries present a persistent and compact radio emission, which makes them excellent targets for astrometric VLBI studies. We aim to monitor the orbital motion of the binary system HD 160934, a member of the AB Doradus moving group. We observed HD 160934 with the Very Large Array and the European VLBI Network at 8.4 and 5 GHz, respectively. The orbital information derived from these observations was analyzed along with previously reported orbital measurements. We show that the two components of the binary, HD 160934 A and HD 160934 c, display compact radio emission at VLBI scales, providing precise information on the relative orbit. Revised orbital elements were estimated. Future VLBI monitoring of this pair should determine precise model-independent mass estimates for the A and c components, which will serve as calibration tests for PMS evolutionary models.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Encoding auditory scenes with a population of Hodgkin-Huxley neurons
Creators: name: Lazar, Aurel A.
name: Turetsky, Robert
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Auditory pathways
subject: Neurons
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biology

description: The article evaluates the auditory models that exhibit a population of Hodgkin-Huxley neurons. It was found that such model maintains the intelligibility of natural and synthetic sound stimuli. Hodgkin-Huxley neurons were found to encode sounds with approximately the same intelligibility as Integrate-and-Fire neurons. The results show that the Hodgkin-Huxley neurons can be interchangeably used in computational modeling.