cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Associations of body mass index with incident hypertension in American white, American black and Chinese Asian adults in early and middle adulthood: the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study, the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) study
Creators: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: The association of body mass index (BMI) with blood pressure may be stronger in Asian than non-Asian populations, however, longitudinal studies with direct comparisons between ethnicities are lacking. We compared the relationship of BMI with incident hypertension over approximately 9.5 years of follow-up in young (24-39 years) and middle-aged (45-64 years) Chinese Asians (n=5354), American Blacks (n=6076) and American Whites (n=13451). We estimated risk differences using logistic regression models and calculated adjusted incidences and incidence differences. To facilitate comparisons across ethnicities, standardized estimates were calculated using mean covariate values for age, sex, smoking, education and field center, and included the quadratic terms for BMI and age. Weighted least-squares regression models with were constructed to summarize ethnic-specific incidence differences across BMI. Wald statistics and p-values were calculated based on chi-square distributions. The association of BMI with the incidence difference for hypertension was steeper in Chinese (p<0.05) than in American populations during young and middle-adulthood. For example, at a BMI of 25 vs 21 kg/m2 the adjusted incidence differences per 1000 persons (95% CI) in young adults with a BMI of 25 vs those with a BMI of 21 was 83 (36-130) for Chinese, 50 (26-74) for Blacks and 30 (12-48) for Whites; among middle-aged adults it was 137 (77-198) for Chinese, 49 (9-88) for Blacks and 54 (38-69) for Whites. Whether hypertension carries the same level of risk of stroke or cardiovascular disease across national or ethnic groups remains uncertain.
A Generalization of the Space-Fractional Poisson Process and its Connection to some Lévy Processes
Creators: name: Polito, Federico
name: Scalas, Enrico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper introduces a generalization of the so-called space-fractional Poisson process by extending the difference operator acting on state space present in the associated difference-differential equations to a much more general form. It turns out that this generalization can be put in relation to a specific subordination of a homogeneous Poisson process by means of a subordinator for which it is possible to express the characterizing Lévy measure explicitly. Moreover, the law of this subordinator solves a one-sided first-order differential equation in which a particular convolution-type integral operator appears, called Prabhakar derivative. In the last section of the paper, a similar model is introduced in which the Prabhakar derivative also acts in time. In this case, too, the probability generating function of the corresponding process and the probability distribution are determined.
A Circular Waveguide Dual-Mode Filter With Improved Out-of-Band Performance for Satellite Communication Systems
Creators: name: Michał Baranowski
name: Łukasz Balewski
name: Adam Lamęcki
name: Michał Mrozowski
name: Jaione Galdeano
Publisher: name: Gdańsk University of Technology
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING (AM) , DUAL-MODE WAVEGUIDE FILTERS , OUTPUT MULTIPLEXER (OMUX) , SHAPE DEFORMATION

description: This letter presents a novel design for a 3-D-printed circular waveguide dual-mode (CWDM) filter with a modified cavity shape. The modification leads to a wide spurious-free stopband, which is highly desirable for channel separation in waveguide contiguous output multiplexers (OMUXs) in satellite communication systems. The new resonant cavity design is a result of applying shape deformation to a basic circular cavity in order to move away and suppress parasitic modes. A fourth-order Ku-band channel filter with two transmission zeros (TZs) is designed, fabricated by additive manufacturing (AM) in one piece and measured. In comparison with the state-of-the-art design of a stepped CWDM filter, an improvement of approximately 35% wider spurious-free range is achieved.
Clustering and Determinants of Cardiometabolic Risk Factors among Filipino Young Adults
Creators: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: With modernization, cardiometabolic disease risk has increased in low and middle-income countries. To better understand cardiometabolic disease etiology, we evaluated the patterning risk factors in a susceptible young adult population.
Public versus Private: Inequality in Educational Access & Welfare State Structuration
Creators: name: Seufert-Navarro, Dale
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: Economic inequality is on the rise in many postindustrial countries. Explanations for this have
identified multiple factors facilitating this trend, with recent economic transitions playing a key
role. Previously Fordist-organized economies deindustrialized into knowledge-based economies.
As such, education has become important for labor market integration. Therefore, education, or a
lack thereof, is a central mechanism behind inequality. But what of different methods of
educational access – public and private education? Using cross-national data between 1995 and
2016 for 19 postindustrial countries, this work finds that heavier reliance on private education
results in greater measures of market income inequality and wage dispersion. Conversely, higher
levels of public education spending are associated with lower levels of both. Additionally, this
work finds a mixed association between tertiary educational attainment and wage dispersion.
ProQuest – Amplify ETD Content and Accelerate Discovery By Using Citations Networks
Creators: name: Kettler, Meinhard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Through citations, two documents can be linked even if neither contains similar metadata terms at all. Citation indexing to uncover connections is a powerful tool for search and discovery, especially within a global collection that is multi-lingual, multi-cultural, and multi-disciplinary. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Global has followed Web of Science’s example by introducing Citation Connections into their user interface. Attend this session to learn how university’s contributing ETDs to PQDT Global benefit from features like the citations network, as they add to the global visibility of their graduate research.
A Self-Tester for Linear Functions over the Integers with an Elementary Proof of Correctness
Creators: name: Devadas, Sheela
name: Rubinfeld, Ronitt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present simple, self-contained proofs of correctness for algorithms for linearity testing and program checking of linear functions on finite subsets of integers represented as n-bit numbers. In addition we explore a generalization of self-testing to homomorphisms on a multidimensional vector space. We show that our self-testing algorithm for the univariate case can be directly generalized to vector space domains. The number of queries made by our algorithms is independent of domain size.
Comparison of the dietary intakes of individuals with and without type 1 diabetes in China
Creators: name: Liu, Wei
name: Ji, Linong
name: Jaacks, Lindsay
name: Popkin, Barry
name: Du, Shufa
name: Mendez, Michelle
name: Mayer-Davis, Elizabeth
name: Crandell, Jamie
name: Rosamond, Wayne
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: The objective was to compare the dietary intakes of individuals with type 1 diabetes (T1D) to individuals without diabetes in China.
Diagnosis and management of testosterone deficiency
Creators: name: Carson, CulleyC
name: McBride, JamesA
name: Coward, RobertM
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Testosterone supplementation therapy (TST) use has dramatically increased over the past decade, due to the availability of newer agents, aggressive marketing, and an increasing incidence of testosterone deficiency (TD). Despite the increase in TST, a degree of ambiguity remains as to the exact diagnostic criteria of TD, and administration and monitoring of TST. One explanation for this phenomenon is the complex role testosterone plays in multiple physiologic pathways. Numerous medical co-morbidities and medications can alter testosterone levels resulting in a wide range of nonspecific clinical signs and symptoms of TD. The diagnosis is also challenging due to the lack of a definitive serum total testosterone level that reliably correlates with symptoms. This observation is particularly true in the aging male and is exacerbated by inconsistencies between different laboratory assays. Several prominent medical societies have developed guideline statements to clarify the diagnosis, but they differ from each other and with expert opinion in several ways. Aside from diagnostic dilemmas, there are numerous subtle advantages and disadvantages of the various testosterone agents to appreciate. The available TST agents have changed significantly over the past decade similar to the trends in the diagnosis of TD. Therefore, as the usage of TST increases, clinicians will be challenged to maintain an up-to-date understanding of TD and TST. The purpose of this review is to provide a clear description of the current strategies for diagnosis and management of TD.
Elsevier – Digital Commons for Student Work & ETDS
Creators: name: Milasevic, Pavel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: What do students have to show for all the work they produce during their time on campus? Showcasing student work in Digital Commons gives students a visible and lasting home for their accomplishments — and shows prospective students around the globe what kind of education they can expect to receive at your institution. Students or program advisors (as system administrators) can submit, track revisions, and approve through an online interface with automatic notifications. Customizable collaboration tools allow administrators from different graduate programs or departments to jointly manage electronic theses and dissertations instantly through a central system. Digital Commons gives students visibility and exposure for their research and scholarship — and monthly readership reports show just how their work is having an impact around the world. Faculty mentors and other stakeholders can also track impact to demonstrate the success of their departments and student research initiatives.
Defined ToBRFV-resistant tomato varieties
Creators: name: Bai, Y.
name: Dombrovsky, A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Deliverable 3.1 aims at finding ToBRFV resistance in tomato wild relatives and to introgress them into tomato cultivars. The H2020 project VIRTIGATION - Emerging viral diseases in tomatoes and cucurbits: Implementation of mitigation strategies for durable disease management - has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No. 101000570.
Operator approach to values of stochastic games with varying stage duration
Creators: name: Sorin, Sylvain
name: Vigeral, Guillaume
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the links between the values of stochastic games with varying stage duration $h$, the corresponding Shapley operators $\bf{T}$ and ${\bf{T}}\_h$and the solution of $\dot f\_t = ({\bf{T}} - Id )f\_t$. Considering general non expansive maps we establish two kinds of results, under both the discounted or the finite length framework, that apply to the class of "exact" stochastic games. First, for a fixed length or discount factor, the value converges as the stage duration go to 0. Second, the asymptotic behavior of the value as the length goes to infinity, or as the discount factor goes to 0, does not depend on the stage duration. In addition, these properties imply the existence of the value of the finite length or discounted continuous time game (associated to a continuous time jointly controlled Markov process), as the limit of the value of any time discretization with vanishing mesh.
description: 22 pages, International Journal of Game Theory, Springer Verlag, 2016
Additional file 1 of Association between the use of weight management strategies and weight change among Australian adults over 12 months: an observational study
Creators: name: Singh, Ben
name: Olds, Timothy
name: Curtis, Rachel
name: Ferguson, Ty
name: Matricciani, Lisa
name: Brown, Wendy J
name: Dumuid, Dorothea
name: Esterman, Adrian
name: Maher, Carol
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
title: Entwicklung eines Mixed-Signal-Frontends für die Validierung von integrierten Halbleitern im Automobil-Temperaturbereich
Creators: name: Salkovic, Edis
Publisher: name: Fachhochschule Dortmund
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 621.3 Elektrotechnik, Elektronik

description: Im Rahmen dieser Masterthesis soll die bereits im Rahmen meiner Masterstudienarbeit entwickelte Frontend-Platine bestückt und im Zusammenspiel mit einem Zedboard in Betrieb genommen werden. Das Zedboard ist mit einem Baustein von Xilinx bestückt, der sowohl einen FPGA als auch einen ARM-Mikrocontroller beinhaltet. Der FPGA-Mikrocontroller wurde bereits so konfiguriert, dass SPI Schnittstellen implementiert sind, die für die Ansteuerung der ADCs und DACs verwendet werden können. Die Aufgabe dieser Masterthesis besteht darin die Software für den ARM-Mikrocontroller unter Petalinux zu schreiben, mit der die SPI Schnittstellen gelesen und beschrieben werden können. Der Softwareteil, welcher wesentlicher Bestandteil der Thesis ist, konnte zufriedenstellend gelöst werden, sodass alle gewünschten Funktionen enthalten sind. Die Frontendplatine aus der Masterstudienarbeit wurde überarbeitet und eine zweite Version angefertigt, welche bis auf einige kleine Fehler gut funktioniert.
Dynamical Interactions Make Hot Jupiters in Open Star Clusters
Creators: name: Shara, Michael M.
name: Hurley, Jarrod R.
name: Mardling, Rosemary A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Explaining the origin and evolution of exoplanetary "hot Jupiters" remains a significant challenge. One possible mechanism for their production is planet-planet interactions, which produces hot Jupiters from planets born far from their host stars but near their dynamical stability limits. In the much more likely case of planets born far from their dynamical stability limits, can hot Jupiters can be formed in star clusters? Our N-body simulations of planetary systems inside star clusters answer this question in the affirmative, and show that hot Jupiter formation is not a rare event. We detail three case studies of the dynamics-induced births of hot Jupiters on highly eccentric orbits that can only occur inside star clusters. The hot Jupiters' orbits bear remarkable similarities to those of some of the most extreme exoplanets known: HAT-P-32 b, HAT-P-2 b, HD 80606 b and GJ 876 d. If stellar perturbations formed these hot Jupiters then our simulations predict that these very hot, inner planets are often accompanied by much more distant gas giants in highly eccentric orbits.
description: 18 pages, 4 figures
SURF PowerPoint
Creators: name: Pei, Yifei
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: In this research project, we try to gain a unique insight into energization as a component of people’s motivation to act. We conducted a systematic literature review and found that energization was conceptualized as a subjective experience akin to mood (e.g., “feelings of excitement”) that was not tied to specific behaviors or goals. Our project aims to investigate whether energization is a distinct component of the motivation to pursue a goal and promotes effective goal striving.
ТОВАР КЕЛИБ ЧИҚҚАН ЖОЙ НОМИДАН ФОЙДАЛАНИШ АСОСЛАРИ ВА ТАРТИБИ
Creators: name: Иномжон Болтаев Ургенч давлат университети ўқитувчиси
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Мақолада товар келиб чиққан жой номидан фойдаланиш асослари ва тартиби, товар келиб чиққан жой номидан фойдаланишга оид шартномалар таҳлил қилинади. Амалга оширилган таҳлиллар натижасида муаллиф амалдаги қонун ҳужжатларини такомиллаштиришга оид таклифларни илгари суради
Complex Langevin simulation of quantum vortices in a Bose-Einstein condensate
Creators: name: Hayata, Tomoya
name: Yamamoto, Arata
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ab-initio simulation of quantum vortices in a Bose-Einstein condensate is performed by adopting the complex Langevin techniques. We simulate the nonrelativistic boson field theory at finite chemical potential under rotation. In the superfluid phase, vortices are generated above a critical angular velocity and the circulation is clearly quantized even in the presence of quantum fluctuations.
description: 6 pages, 7 figures. v2: Version to appear in PRA
Directional instability of kinetochore motility during chromosome congression and segregation in mitotic newt lung cells: a push-pull mechanism
Creators: name: Skibbens, R. V.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1993

description: Most models of mitotic congression and segregation assume that only poleward pulling forces occur at kinetochores. However, there are reports for several different cell types that both mono-oriented and bi- oriented chromosomes oscillate toward and away from the pole throughout mitosis. We used new methods of high resolution video microscopy and computer-assisted tracking techniques to measure the positions over time of individual kinetochores with respect to their poles during mitosis in living newt lung cells. The results show that kinetochores oscillate throughout mitosis when they are tethered to spindle poles by attachment to the plus-ends of kinetochore microtubules (kMTs). Oscillations were not sinusoidal. Instead, kinetochores abruptly (as quick as 6 s or less) switched between persistent (approximately 1.5 min average duration) phases of poleward (P) and away from the pole (AP) movement. This kinetochore "directional instability" was a property of motility at the plus-ends of kMTs since fluorescent marks on the lattice of kMTs have previously been observed to exhibit only relatively slow P movement. Each P and AP phase consisted of one or a few constant velocity domains (approximately 1.7 microns/min average velocity). Velocities of P and AP phases were similar from prometaphase through mid-anaphase. Kinetochores occasionally switched to an indeterminant (N) phase of no or confused motion, which was usually brief compared to the durations of P and AP phases. Net chromosome displacements that occurred during congression to the equator or poleward movement during anaphase were primarily generated by differences in the durations and not the velocities of P and AP movements. Careful analysis of centromere deformation showed that kinetochore P movement produced pulling forces while kinetochore AP movement produced pushing forces. These data show that kinetochore directional instability is fundamental to the processes of chromosome congression and segregation. We argue that tension at the kinetochore attachment site is a key factor which controls the switching between P and AP phases of kinetochore motion.
Additional file 1 of Anesthesia quality indicators to measure and improve your practice: a modified delphi study
Creators: name: Yee, May-Sann
name: Tarshis, Jordan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
Majorana modes and transport across junctions of superconductors and normal metals
Creators: name: Thakurathi, Manisha
name: Deb, Oindrila
name: Sen, Diptiman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study Majorana modes and transport in one-dimensional systems with a $p$-wave superconductor (SC) and normal metal leads. For a system with a SC lying between two leads, it is known that there is a Majorana mode at the junction between the SC and each lead. If the $p$-wave pairing $Δ$ changes sign or if a strong impurity is present at some point inside the SC, two additional Majorana modes appear near that point. We study the effect of all these modes on the sub-gap conductance between the leads and the SC. We derive an analytical expression as a function of $Δ$ and the length $L$ of the SC for the energy shifts of the Majorana modes at the junctions due to hybridization between them; the shifts oscillate and decay exponentially as $L$ is increased. The energy shifts exactly match the location of the peaks in the conductance. Using bosonization and the renormalization group method, we study the effect of interactions between the electrons on $Δ$ and the strengths of an impurity inside the SC or the barriers between the SC and the leads; this in turn affects the Majorana modes and the conductance. Finally we propose a novel experimental realization of these systems, in particular of a system where $Δ$ changes sign at one point inside the SC.
description: 17 pages, 13 figures; made some changes, this is the final published version
Membrane/microtubule tip attachment complexes (TACs) allow the assembly dynamics of plus ends to push and pull membranes into tubulovesicular networks in interphase Xenopus egg extracts
Creators: name: Waterman-Storer, C. M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1995

description: We discovered by using high resolution video microscopy, that membranes become attached selectively to the growing plus ends of microtubules by membrane/microtubule tip attachment complexes (TACs) in interphase- arrested, undiluted, Xenopus egg extracts. Persistent plus end growth of stationary microtubules pushed the membranes into thin tubules and dragged them through the cytoplasm at the approximately 20 microns/min velocity typical of free plus ends. Membrane tubules also remained attached to plus ends when they switched to the shortening phase of dynamic instability at velocities typical of free ends, 50-60 microns/min. Over time, the membrane tubules contacted and fused with one another along their lengths, forming a polygonal network much like the distribution of ER in cells. Several components of the membrane networks formed by TACs were identified as ER by immunofluorescent staining using antibodies to ER-resident proteins. TAC motility was not inhibited by known inhibitors of microtubule motor activity, including 5 mM AMP-PNP, 250 microM orthovanadate, and ATP depletion. These results show that membrane/microtubule TACs enable polymerizing ends to push and depolymerizing ends to pull membranes into thin tubular extensions and networks at fast velocities.
Transgressive loop group extensions
Creators: name: Waldorf, Konrad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A central extension of the loop group of a Lie group is called transgressive, if it corresponds under transgression to a degree four class in the cohomology of the classifying space of the Lie group. Transgressive loop group extensions are those that can be explored by finite-dimensional, higher-categorical geometry over the Lie group. We show how transgressive central extensions can be characterized in a loop-group theoretical way, in terms of loop fusion and thin homotopy equivariance.
description: 37 pages, 3 figures. In v2 the former Section 3.3 about Lie algebra splittings was withdrawn because of a gap in the proof of former Theorem 3.3.3. Best possible statement about Lie algebra splittings is now Proposition 4.9. In v3 typos and a mistake in Example 2.6 have been corrected; v3 is the published version
Turnitin – Keeping integrity at the core of education technology
Creators: name: Levchenko, Katya
name: Pierri, Silvana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Turnitin is a global company dedicated to ensuring the integrity of education and meaningfully improving learning outcomes. For more than 20 years, Turnitin has partnered with educational institutions to promote honesty, consistency, and fairness across all subject areas and assessment types.

 We believe that the future of education is digital, and that education technology has a growing role in supporting educators and enabling better outcomes for students.

 In this session, we’ll explain why we think delivering fairness and academic integrity requires us to work together globally and how our comprehensive suite of products supports assessment across subject areas.

 With more than 16,000 institutions and 40 million students already part of our worldwide community, we ensure that honesty and fairness are at the core of every assignment and assessment, and that every credential is truly earned.
A Multiwavelength Study of the Relativistic Tidal Disruption Candidate Sw J2058+05 at Late Times
Creators: name: Pasham, Dheeraj R.
name: Cenko, S. Bradley
name: Levan, Andrew J.
name: Bower, Geoffrey C.
name: Horesh, Assaf
name: Brown, Gregory C.
name: Dolan, Stephen
name: Wiersema, Klaas
name: Filippenko, Alexei V.
name: Fruchter, Andrew S.
name: Greiner, Jochen
name: Hounsell, Rebekah A.
name: O'Brien, Paul T.
name: Page, Kim L.
name: Rau, Arne
name: Tanvir, Nial R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a multiwavelength (X-ray, ultraviolet/optical/infrared, radio) analysis of the relativistic tidal disruption event candidate Sw J2058+05 from 3 months to 3 yr post-discovery in order to study its properties and compare its behavior with that of Sw J1644+57. Our main results are as follows. (1) The long-term X-ray light curve of Sw J2058+05 shows a remarkably similar trend to that of Sw J1644+57. After a prolonged power-law decay, the X-ray flux drops off rapidly by a factor of $\gtrsim 160$ within a span of $Δ$$t$/$t$ $\le$ 0.95. Associating this sudden decline with the transition from super-Eddington to sub-Eddington accretion, we estimate the black hole mass to be in the range of $10^{4-6}$ M$_{\odot}$. (2) We detect rapid ($\lesssim 500$ s) X-ray variability before the dropoff, suggesting that, even at late times, the X-rays originate from close to the black hole (ruling out a forward-shock origin). (3) We confirm using HST and VLBA astrometry that the location of the source coincides with the galaxy's center to within $\lesssim 400$ pc (in projection). (4) We modeled Sw J2058+05's ultraviolet/optical/infrared spectral energy distribution with a single-temperature blackbody and find that while the radius remains more or less constant at a value of $63.4 \pm 4.5$ AU ($\sim 10^{15}$ cm) at all times during the outburst, the blackbody temperature drops significantly from $\sim$ 30,000 K at early times to a value of $\sim$ 15,000 K at late times (before the X-ray dropoff). Our results strengthen Sw J2058+05's interpretation as a tidal disruption event similar to Sw J1644+57.
description: Replaced with the published version of the manuscript
Association between gestational levels of toxic metals and essential elements and cerebral palsy in children
Creators: name: Skogheim, Thea S.
name: Winterton, Adriano
name: Meltzer, Helle M.
name: Surén, Pål
name: Villanger, Gro D.
name: Thomsen, Cathrine
name: Knutsen, Helle K.
name: Engel, Stephanie M.
name: Biele, Guido
name: Andersen, Guro L.
name: Vik, Torstein
name: Aase, Heidi
name: Weyde, Kjell Vegard F.
Publisher: name: Frontiers Media SA
Year: 2023

description: Introduction Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common motor disability in childhood, but its causes are only partly known. Early-life exposure to toxic metals and inadequate or excess amounts of essential elements can adversely affect brain and nervous system development. However, little is still known about these as perinatal risk factors for CP. This study aims to investigate the associations between second trimester maternal blood levels of toxic metals, essential elements, and mixtures thereof, with CP diagnoses in children. Methods In a large, population-based prospective birth cohort (The Norwegian Mother, Father, and Child Cohort Study), children with CP diagnoses were identified through The Norwegian Patient Registry and Cerebral Palsy Registry of Norway. One hundred forty-four children with CP and 1,082 controls were included. The relationship between maternal blood concentrations of five toxic metals and six essential elements and CP diagnoses were investigated using mixture approaches: elastic net with stability selection to identify important metals/elements in the mixture in relation to CP; then logistic regressions of the selected metals/elements to estimate odds ratio (OR) of CP and two-way interactions among metals/elements and with child sex and maternal education. Finally, the joint effects of the mixtures on CP diagnoses were estimated using quantile-based g-computation analyses. Results The essential elements manganese and copper, as well as the toxic metal Hg, were the most important in relation to CP. Elevated maternal levels of copper (OR = 1.40) and manganese (OR = 1.20) were associated with increased risk of CP, while Hg levels were, counterintuitively, inversely related to CP. Metal/element interactions that were associated with CP were observed, and that sex and maternal education influenced the relationships between metals/elements and CP. In the joint mixture approach no significant association between the mixture of metals/elements and CP (OR = 1.00, 95% CI = [0.67, 1.50]) was identified. Conclusion Using mixture approaches, elevated levels of copper and manganese measured in maternal blood during the second trimester could be related to increased risk of CP in children. The inverse associations between maternal Hg and CP could reflect Hg as a marker of maternal fish intake and thus nutrients beneficial for foetal brain development.
R-Ras promotes apoptosis caused by growth factor deprivation via a Bcl- 2 suppressible mechanism
Creators: name: Wang, H. G.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1995

description: The Bcl-2 protein is an important regulator of programmed cell death, but the biochemical mechanism by which this protein prevents apoptosis remains enigmatic. Recently, Bcl-2 has been reported to physically interact with a member of the Ras superfamily of small GTPases, p23-R- Ras. To examine the functional significance of R-Ras for regulation of cell death pathways, the IL-3-dependent cells 32D.3 and FL5.12 were stably transfected with expression plasmids encoding an activated form (38 Glycine-->Valine) of R-Ras protein. R-Ras(38V)-producing 32D.3 and FL5.12 cells experienced increased rates of apoptotic cell death relative to control transfected cells when deprived of IL-3. Analysis of several independent clones of transfected 32D.3 cells revealed a correlation between higher levels of R-Ras protein and faster rates of cell death upon withdrawal of IL-3 from cultures. 32D.3 cells cotransfected with R-Ras(38V) and Bcl-2 exhibited prolonged cell survival in the absence of IL-3, equivalent to 32D.3 cells transfected with Bcl-2 expression plasmids alone. R-Ras(38V) also increased rates of cell death in serum-deprived NIH-3T3 cells, and Bcl-2 again abrogated most of this effect. The ratio of GTP and GDP bound to R- Ras(38V) was not significantly different in control 32D.3 cells vs those that overexpressed Bcl-2, indicating that Bcl-2 does not abrogate R-Ras-mediated effects on cell death by altering R-Ras GDP/GTP regulation. Moreover, purified Bcl-2 protein had no effect on the GTPase activity of recombinant wild-type R-Ras in vitro. When expressed in Sf9 cells using recombinant baculoviruses, R-Ras(38V) bound to and induced activation of Raf-1 kinase irrespective of whether Bcl-2 was coproduced in these cells, suggesting that Bcl-2 does not nullify R-Ras effects by interfering with R-Ras-mediated activation of Raf-1 kinase. Taken together, these findings suggest that R-Ras enhances the activity of a cell death pathway in growth factor-deprived cells and imply that Bcl-2 acts downstream of R-Ras to promote cell survival.
An in vivo structure-function study of armadillo, the beta-catenin homologue, reveals both separate and overlapping regions of the protein required for cell adhesion and for wingless signaling
Creators: name: Orsulic, S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1996

description: Armadillo, the Drosophila homologue of vertebrate beta-catenin, plays a pivotal role both in Wingless signaling and in assembly of adherens junctions. We performed the first in vivo structure-function study of an adherens junction protein, by generating and examining a series of Armadillo mutants in the context of the entire animal. We tested each mutant by assaying its biological function, its ability to bind proteins that normally associate with Armadillo in adherens junctions, its cellular localization, and its pattern of phosphorylation. We mapped the binding sites for DE-cadherin and alpha-catenin. Although these bind to Armadillo independently of each other, binding of each is required for the function of adherens junctions. We identified two separate regions of Armadillo critical for Wingless signaling. We demonstrated that endogenous Armadillo accumulates in the nucleus and provide evidence that it may act there in transducing Wingless signal. We found that the Arm repeats, which make up the central two-thirds of Armadillo, differ among themselves in their functional importance in different processes. Finally, we demonstrated that Armadillo's roles in adherens junctions and Wingless signaling are independent. We discuss the potential biochemical role of Armadillo in each process.
Simulations of rotating neutron star collapse with the puncture gauge: end state and gravitational waveforms
Creators: name: Dietrich, Tim
name: Bernuzzi, Sebastiano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We reexamine the gravitational collapse of rotating neutron stars to black holes by new 3+1 numerical relativity simulations employing the Z4c formulation of Einstein equations, the moving puncture gauge conditions, and a conservative mesh refinement scheme for the general relativistic hydrodynamics. The end state of the collapse is compared to the vacuum spacetime resulting from the evolution of spinning puncture initial data. Using a local analysis for the metric fields, we demonstrate that the two spacetimes actually agree. Gravitational waveforms are analyzed in some detail. We connect the emission of radiation to the collapse dynamics using simplified spacetime diagrams, and discuss the similarity of the waveform structure with the one of black hole perturbation theory.
description: 9 pages, 9 figures
Eylais hamata Koenike 1897
Creators: name: Pešić, Vladimir
name: Chatterjee, Tapas
name: Bordoloi, Sabitry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Eylaidae
Eylais
Eylais hamata

description: Eylais hamata Koenike, 1897
Records from the study area: Kashmir—Lundblad (1934); Prasad (1974).
Habitat: Ponds.
Distribution: Holarctic.
description: Published as part of Pešić, Vladimir, Chatterjee, Tapas & Bordoloi, Sabitry, 2010, A checklist of the water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) of India, with new records and description of one new species, pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 2617 (1) on page 4, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2617.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/197964
Additional file 2 of Anesthesia quality indicators to measure and improve your practice: a modified delphi study
Creators: name: Yee, May-Sann
name: Tarshis, Jordan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 2
Armadillo is required for adherens junction assembly, cell polarity, and morphogenesis during Drosophila embryogenesis
Creators: name: Cox, R. T.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1996

description: Morphological and biochemical analyses have identified a set of proteins which together form a structure known as the adherens junction. Elegant experiments in tissue culture support the idea that adherens junctions play a key role in cell-cell adhesion and in organizing cells into epithelia. During normal embryonic development, cells quickly organize epithelia; these epithelial cells participate in many of the key morphogenetic movements of gastrulation. This prompted the hypothesis that adherens junctions ought to be critical for normal embryonic development. Drosophila Armadillo, the homologue of vertebrate beta-catenin, is a core component of the adherens junction protein complex and has been hypothesized to be essential for adherens junction function in vivo. We have used an intermediate mutant allele of armadillo, armadilloXP33, to test these hypotheses in Drosophila embryos. Adherens junctions cannot assemble in the absence of Armadillo, leading to dramatic defects in cell-cell adhesion. The epithelial cells of the embryo lose adhesion to each other, round up, and apparently become mesenchymal. Mutant cells also lose their normal cell polarity. These disruptions in the integrity of epithelia block the appropriate morphogenetic movements of gastrulation. These results provide the first demonstration of the effect of loss of adherens junctions on Drosophila embryonic development.
Beyond a deficit-based approach: Characterizing typologies of assets for cisgender and transgender female sex workers and their relationship with syndemic health outcomes
Creators: name: Perez, Martha
name: Gomez, Hoisex
name: Maclin, Beth J.
name: Barrington, Clare
name: Kerrigan, Deanna
name: Rodriguez-Diaz, Carlos
name: Wang, Yan
name: Donastorg, Yeycy
Publisher: name: Public Library of Science
Year: 2023

description: Female sex workers (FSWs) live and work at the intersection of multiple marginalized identities that place them at greater risk for various negative health outcomes. Resilience theory asserts that an individual or community needs assets from which they can draw in response to stressors, such as chronic discrimination and abuse. This study characterizes and compares patterns of assets among cisgender and transgender FSWs living with HIV in the Dominican Republic and their relations with syndemic health outcomes. With Latent Class Analysis, we used companion cross-sectional datasets comprised of cisgender and transgender FSWs (N = 211 and 100, respectively) to estimate typologies of interpersonal, community, and institutional assets. We used multivariate logistic regression to model the relationship between class membership and HIV care and treatment, mental health, violence exposure, and substance use outcomes, respectively. Among cisgender FSWs, we identified three classes: Internal and External Multilevel Assets (Class 1); External Institutional Assets (Class 2); and Low Reported Assets (Class 3). Compared to Class 3, Class 1 membership among cisgender FSWs was significantly associated with ART adherence and marginally associated with viral suppression, and Class 2 membership was marginally associated with currently taking ART. We identified two classes in the transgender sample: Internal and External Multilevel Assets (Class 1) and External Institutional Assets (Class 2). Class 1 membership among transgender FSWs was significantly associated with ART adherence and marginally associated with current ART use and physical or sexual violence, compared to Class 2. Having a variety of assets may explain the ability of some FSWs to more effectively engage with healthcare and maintain their HIV medication regimen. Future interventions should seek to expand FSWs’ interpersonal and community assets, both from within and outside of the sex worker community, to bolster their ability to care for themselves and their community.
Recursion relations for Double Ramification Hierarchies
Creators: name: Buryak, A.
name: Rossi, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we study various properties of the double ramification hierarchy, an integrable hierarchy of hamiltonian PDEs introduced in [Bur15] using intersection theory of the double ramification cycle in the moduli space of stable curves. In particular, we prove a recursion formula that recovers the full hierarchy starting from just one of the Hamiltonians, the one associated to the first descendant of the unit of a cohomological field theory. Moreover, we introduce analogues of the topological recursion relations and the divisor equation both for the hamiltonian densities and for the string solution of the double ramification hierarchy. This machinery is very efficient and we apply it to various computations for the trivial and Hodge cohomological field theories, and for the $r$-spin Witten's classes. Moreover we prove the Miura equivalence between the double ramification hierarchy and the Dubrovin-Zhang hierarchy for the Gromov-Witten theory of the complex projective line (extended Toda hierarchy).
description: Revised version, to be published in Communications in Mathematical Physics, 27 pages
EBSCO – Three EBSCO Initiatives: Linked Data, Combined Statistics and Open Source
Creators: name: Piontek, Roman
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Three EBSCO projects exemplify the company’s strategic direction:

 1. Zepheira, a linked-data project that is indeed rather different to many of EBSCO’s software products that are usually comprised of an index component and a user interface. Zepheira is a data service—we receive catalogue or repository data, whereupon we normalise, connect, enrich, transform the data into BIBFRAME and facilitate their discoverability on a multitude of platforms.

 2. Panorama, a platform that can regularly harvest and visualise statistical or analytical data from third-party systems and thus compare and consolidate otherwise disparate data such as data from a library system, an authentication system, a campus system etc.

 3. FOLIO, a modular open-source platform for library services from acquisitions and cataloguing to circulation and electronic-resource management. Every module on the platform is born with maximum data connectivity in mind.

 We would like to cast a brief spotlight on all three of these initiatives.
IPBES Invasive Alien Species Assessment, data management report of Chapter 3. Figure 3.16
Creators: name: Galil, Bella S.
name: Marchini, Agnese
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Data management report

description: This data management report explains the development procedure of Figure 3.16 which shows the number of multicellular marine alien species introduced in peri-Mediterranean in 1959, 1989, and 2019 and also how proportionate those introductions were from Suez Canal. Figure 3.16 is in chapter 3 of IPBES invasive alien species assessment report (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7430727)
Building an ecological momentary assessment smartphone app for 4- to 10-year-old children: A pilot study
Creators: name: Tan, Xianming
name: Zhang, Xinyi
name: Sheridan, Margaret A.
name: Swingler, Margaret M.
name: Stickel, Daniel
name: Milojevich, Helen M.
name: Terrell, Jeffery
Publisher: name: Public Library of Science
Year: 2023

description: Objective Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) minimizes recall burden and maximizes ecological validity and has emerged as a valuable tool to characterize individual differences, assess contextual associations, and document temporal associations. However, EMA has yet to be reliably utilized in young children, in part due to concerns about responder reliability and limited compliance. The present study addressed these concerns by building a developmentally appropriate EMA smartphone app and testing the app for feasibility and usability with young children ages 4–10 (N = 20; m age = 7.7, SD = 2.0). Methods To pilot test the app, children completed an 11-item survey about their mood and behavior twice a day for 14 days. Parents also completed brief surveys twice a day to allow for parent-child comparisons of responses. Finally, at the end of the two weeks, parents provided user feedback on the smartphone app. Results Results indicated a high response rate (nearly 90%) across child surveys and high agreement between parents and children ranging from 0.89–0.97. Conclusions Overall, findings suggest that this developmentally appropriate EMA smartphone app is a reliable and valid tool for collecting in-the-moment data from young children outside of a laboratory setting.
Combinatorics of Tableau Inversions
Creators: name: Beagley, Jonathan E.
name: Drube, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A tableau inversion is a pair of entries in row-standard tableau $T$ that lie in the same column of $T$ yet lack the appropriate relative ordering to make $T$ column-standard. An $i$-inverted Young tableau is a row-standard tableau along with a precisely $i$ inversion pairs. Tableau inversions were originally introduced by Fresse to calculate the Betti numbers of Springer fibers in Type A, with the number of $i$-inverted tableaux that standardize to a fixed standard Young tableau corresponding to a specific Betti number of the associated fiber. In this paper we approach the topic of tableau inversions from a completely combinatorial perspective. We develop formulas enumerating the number of $i$-inverted Young tableaux for a variety of tableaux shapes, not restricting ourselves to inverted tableaux that standardize a specific standard Young tableau, and construct bijections between $i$-inverted Young tableaux of a certain shape with $j$-inverted Young tableaux of different shapes. Finally, we share some the results of a computer program developed to calculate tableaux inversions.
description: 20 pages, corrected typos