cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Time to positivity of blood cultures in bloodstream infections with Streptococcus dysgalactiae and association with outcome
Creators: name: Bläckberg, Anna
name: Lundberg, Katrina
name: Svedevall, Stina
name: Nilson, Bo
name: Rasmussen, Magnus
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Computational Biology

description: Invasive infections with Streptococcus dysgalactiae predominantly occur in persons of older age with substantial morbidity and mortality. Time to positivity from blood cultures (TTP) has been shown to be a prognostic indicator in bloodstream infections caused by other beta-haemolytic streptococci. This study aimed to determine any possible association between TTP and outcome in invasive infections due to S. dysgalactiae. Episodes of S. dysgalactiae bacteraemia, that occurred during 2015–2018 in the Region of Skåne, Sweden, were identified through the laboratory database and retrospectively studied. Any association with TTP and the primary outcome, death within 30 days and the development of sepsis or disease deterioration within 48 hours from blood culturing as secondary outcomes were investigated. Among the 287 episodes of S. dysgalactiae bacteraemia, 30-day mortality rate was 10% (n = 30). Median TTP was 9.3 h (interquartile range 8.0–10.3 h). Median TTP was statistically significantly shorter in patients who died within 30 days compared to surviving patients (7.7 vs 9.3 h, p = .001, Mann–Whitney U test). Short TTP(≤ 7.9 h) was still associated with 30-day mortality when adjusting for age, (OR 4.4, 95% CI 1.6–12.2, p = .004). Associations between secondary outcomes and levels of TTP were not observed. TTP may be an important prognostic indicator for 30-day mortality in patients with bloodstream infections due to S. dysgalactiae.
Additional file 1 of Qualitative evaluation of a multidisciplinary master of cancer sciences: impacts on graduates and influencing curricular factors
Creators: name: Lai-Kwon, Julia
name: Woodward-Kron, Robyn
name: Seignior, David
name: Allen, Louise
name: McArthur, Grant
name: Barrett, Michelle
name: Kok, David L
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Science Policy
Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 1
Conductive biomaterials with an auxetic design for treating Myocardial infarction
Creators: name: Kapnisi, Michaella
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2017

description: Myocardial infarction (MI) is responsible for millions of deaths every year worldwide. Biomaterials and regenerative therapies may have the capacity to treat this disease. Conjugated polymers are of particular interest for treating MIs, primarily for their potential ability to improve signal transduction and reduce arrhythmias that occur in the insulating fibrotic tissue that forms following an MI. However, such materials need further optimisation to be applicable as a cardiac patch. Herein the need for improved mechanical properties, particularly the magnitude and anisotropy of effective stiffness, is addressed by the auxetic micropatterning of a cardiac patch. Auxetic materials are those with a negative Poisson’s ratio, they expand laterally when stretched longitudinally and have the potential to enhance biomaterial conformability. High precision micropatterning into a chitosan-polyaniline composite was achieved through excimer laser microablation. This produces a repeating, re-entrant honeycomb design with scalable feature sizes (20 to 480 µm). Tensile tests show that the magnitude (E: 140 ± 40 kPa to 2.8 ± 0.5 MPa) and anisotropic ratio of the effective stiffnesses (EY/EX: 0.8 to 5.6) can be tuned to match the values of the native heart by modifying pattern dimensions. These auxetic cardiac patches display conductivity (10-2 S/cm) and cytocompatibility. Consequently, ex vivo studies found that the auxetic cardiac patches had no detrimental effect on the electrophysiology of both healthy and MI native rat heart tissue. In addition, a biomechanical rig was designed and built to enable a novel ex vivo technique, which has shown that patterning the patches improves their conformability to native heart tissue movements. Most notably, the work in this thesis describes a versatile and sophisticated method to control and tune the mechanical properties of a biomaterial, whilst maintaining the bulk properties of the material. This in turn could lead to improved biomaterial design for treating MIs.
Jonglieren in der Psychomotorik - eine theoretische Auseinandersetzung
Creators: name: Bolliger, Tobias
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Psychomotorik
Psychomotoriktherapie
Jonglieren
Kind
Jugendliche
Bachelorarbeit

description: Diese Bachelorarbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Verknüpfung von theoretischen Grundlagen des Jonglierens und der Psychomotorik. Mittels einer Literaturarbeit wird versucht, das Bewegungsverständnis, Förderbereiche und methodische Prinzipien der Jonglage und der Psychomotorik miteinander in Beziehung zu setzen. Überschneidungen bestehen sowohl beim Bewegungsverständnis als auch bei den Förderbereichen. Vier Studien zum Jonglieren mit Kindern und Jugendlichen zeigen eine grosse Breite an Effekten der Jonglage, welche auch für die psychomotorische Förderung relevant sein können. Besonders Kinder mit häufigen Misserfolgserlebnissen im Alltag könnten vom Jonglieren in der Psychomotoriktherapie profitieren. Die Methodik der Jonglierfachliteratur unterscheidet sich deutlich von der Methodik eines ausgewählten psychomotorischen Therapiekonzepts. Für das Jonglieren in der Psychomotoriktherapie können die methodischen Handlungsalternativen der Jonglierfachliteratur folglich eher als Ergänzung denn als grundsätzlicher Orientierungsrahmen angesehen werden.
Analysis, design & fabrication of low-power brain tissue oxygenation pulse oximetry
Creators: name: Farzaneh, Behzad
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2016

description: Pulse oximetry is widely used for brain tissue oxygenation measurement, where optical fibres crossing the patient's skull through a cranial bolt carry pulsed light from LEDs to the brain tissue while transferring the light reflected from the brain tissue to a current measuring photodiode. Pulse oximetry light detectors have evolved from a standalone, relatively small photodiode to an array of photodiodes that are spatially distributed around the pulsed LEDs. While novel photodiode arrays can provide a larger photocurrent by collecting a larger number of photons compared with the stand-alone version, and thereby provide better contrast, their relatively large output capacitance can significantly degrade the noise performance and the speed of the analogue front-end. This Thesis is dedicated to the design and fabrication of a novel front-end that can be used in conjunction with a modern photodiode to provide high-resolution brain tissue oxygenation measurement. A novel low-power, ultra low noise pulse oximetry front-end is designed, fabricated, and tested in this study. This front-end encompasses a low noise novel transimpedance amplifier, which can handle modern photodiode arrays with large output capacitance. The front end is designed in a fashion that its input-referred RMS noise power always remains much weaker than that of the photodiode shot noise for all photocurrent DC levels within a range of interest, which, in turn, provides the maximum possible signal-to-noise ratio. The front-end also utilises a novel thermometric calibrator capable of adjusting the LED light intensity with respect to the photocurrent DC level. Therefore, if the signal DC level drops below a certain level, the LED light is increased to enhance the signal's strength; for signals with a high DC level, the LED light is decreased to save power. Finally, the front-end uses a correlated dual sampling technique to eliminate the dark current and offset errors. In addition, this work analyses conventional pulse oximetry front-end topologies to specify the trade-offs and limitations posed by these architectures. All the theoretical and system level analyses are supported by transistor-level simulation data collected by means of Cadence Design Framework (CDF). These simulated results highlight the superiority of the proposed front-end design regarding power dissipation, silicon area usage, and noise performance in comparison with existing architectures.
Treatment effect modifiers in hospitalised patients with COVID-19 receiving remdesivir and dexamethasone
Creators: name: Leding, Cæcilie
name: Bodilsen, Jacob
name: Brieghel, Christian
name: Harboe, Zitta Barrella
name: Helleberg, Marie
name: Holm, Claire
name: Israelsen, Simone Bastrup
name: Jensen, Janne
name: Jensen, Tomas Østergaard
name: Johansen, Isik Somuncu
name: Johnsen, Stine
name: Kirk, Ole
name: Lindegaard, Birgitte
name: Meyer, Christian Niels
name: Mohey, Rajesh
name: Pedersen, Lars
name: Nielsen, Henrik
name: Nielsen, Stig Lønberg
name: Omland, Lars Haukali
name: Podlekareva, Daria
name: Ravn, Pernille
name: Starling, Jonathan
name: Storgaard, Merete
name: Søborg, Christian
name: Søgaard, Ole Schmeltz
name: Tranborg, Torben
name: Wiese, Lothar
name: Worm, Signe Heide Westring
name: Christensen, Hanne Rolighed
name: Benfield, Thomas
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: Medicine
Pharmacology
Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer

description: The combined effectiveness of remdesivir and dexamethasone in subgroups of hospitalised patients with COVID-19 is poorly investigated. In this nationwide retrospective cohort study, we included 3826 patients with COVID-19 hospitalised between February 2020 and April 2021. The primary outcomes were use of invasive mechanical ventilation and 30-day mortality, comparing a cohort treated with remdesivir and dexamethasone with a previous cohort treated without remdesivir and dexamethasone. We used inverse probability of treatment weighting logistic regression to assess associations with progression to invasive mechanical ventilation and 30-day mortality between the two cohorts. The analyses were conducted overall and by subgroups based on patient characteristics. Odds ratio for progression to invasive mechanical ventilation and 30-day mortality in individuals treated with remdesivir and dexamethasone compared to treatment with standard of care alone was 0.46 (95% confidence interval, 0.37–0.57) and 0.47 (95% confidence interval, 0.39–0.56), respectively. The reduced risk of mortality was observed in elderly patients, overweight patients and in patients requiring supplemental oxygen at admission, regardless of sex, comorbidities and symptom duration. Patients treated with remdesivir and dexamethasone had significantly improved outcomes compared to patients treated with standard of care alone. These effects were observed in most patient subgroups.
Additional file 12: Table S8. of Metabolic capability and in situ activity of microorganisms in an oil reservoir
Creators: name: Liu, Yi-Fan
name: Galzerani, Daniela
name: Mbadinga, Serge
name: Zaramela, Livia
name: Gu, Ji-Dong
name: Bo-Zhong Mu
name: Zengler, Karsten
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
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: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Geochemical characterization of production water from three wells from the Jiangsu oil field, China. (* ND, not detected.) (DOCX 15 kb)
Extracting an accurate model for permittivity from experimental data : Hunting complex poles from the real line
Creators: name: Garcia-Vergara, Mauricio
name: Demésy, Guillaume
name: Zolla, Frédéric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this letter, we describe a very general procedure to obtain a causal fit of the permittivity of materials from experimental data with very few parameters. Unlike other closed forms proposed in the literature, the particularity of this approach lies in its independence towards the material or frequency range at stake. Many illustrative numerical examples are given and the accuracy of the fitting is compared to other expressions in the literature.
description: The python code and datasets used to obtain the numerical results in this paper can be found at : https://git.io/v14Jb
title: ADCO, Sixième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1662), Cart. 30 (G 133), 441 folios, f. 440
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
name: Petot, Frédéric
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: cartulaire

description: Sixième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1662), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 30 (G 133), 441 folios, f. 440, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Sixième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1662), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 30 (G 133), 441 folios, f. 440, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https://manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye Saint-Étienne de Dijon
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15945019
Surface Defects and Chiral Algebras
Creators: name: Cordova, Clay
name: Gaiotto, Davide
name: Shao, Shu-Heng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We investigate superconformal surface defects in four-dimensional N=2 superconformal theories. Each such defect gives rise to a module of the associated chiral algebra and the surface defect Schur index is the character of this module. Various natural chiral algebra operations such as Drinfeld-Sokolov reduction and spectral flow can be interpreted as constructions involving four-dimensional surface defects. We compute the index of these defects in the free hypermultiplet theory and Argyres-Douglas theories, using both infrared techniques involving BPS states, as well as renormalization group flows onto Higgs branches. In each case we find perfect agreement with the predicted characters.
description: 52 pages, 1 table
A Digital Hardware Fast Algorithm and FPGA-based Prototype for a Novel 16-point Approximate DCT for Image Compression Applications
Creators: name: Bayer, F. M.
name: Cintra, R. J.
name: Edirisuriya, A.
name: Madanayake, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The discrete cosine transform (DCT) is the key step in many image and video coding standards. The 8-point DCT is an important special case, possessing several low-complexity approximations widely investigated. However, 16-point DCT transform has energy compaction advantages. In this sense, this paper presents a new 16-point DCT approximation with null multiplicative complexity. The proposed transform matrix is orthogonal and contains only zeros and ones. The proposed transform outperforms the well-know Walsh-Hadamard transform and the current state-of-the-art 16-point approximation. A fast algorithm for the proposed transform is also introduced. This fast algorithm is experimentally validated using hardware implementations that are physically realized and verified on a 40 nm CMOS Xilinx Virtex-6 XC6VLX240T FPGA chip for a maximum clock rate of 342 MHz. Rapid prototypes on FPGA for 8-bit input word size shows significant improvement in compressed image quality by up to 1-2 dB at the cost of only eight adders compared to the state-of-art 16-point DCT approximation algorithm in the literature [S. Bouguezel, M. O. Ahmad, and M. N. S. Swamy. A novel transform for image compression. In {\em Proceedings of the 53rd IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS)}, 2010].
description: 17 pages, 6 figures, 6 tables
title: Lettres de sauvegarde pour Jean et Anne Le Regnardet - Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, B II 352 bis 1 0002
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de médiévistique occidentale de Paris

description: Lettres de sauvegarde accordés par le bailli de Dijon à Jean et Anne Le Regnardet ; rapport du maire au bailli sur la mise en application et le contentieux issus de cette sauvegarde.
Document transcrit dans le cadre des ateliers de paléographie du Chancelier Rolin des Archives départements des Côtes d’Or
Page : 2/2
description: Source: https://archives.cotedor.fr/v2/site/AD21/web/media/04_apprendre/02_ateliers_chancelier_rolin/paleographie/confirmes/2013_2014/document_15.pdf
description: Source: https://www.nakala.fr/10.34847/nkl.9f3c8324
description: Lettres de sauvegarde pour Jean et Anne Le Regnardet - Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, B II 352 bis 1 0002
Psychomotorische Arbeit mit einer Klasse von jungen erwachsenen Asylsuchenden: Planung, Durchführung und Auswertung einer Intervention – ein Projekt
Creators: name: Oettli, Agnes
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Psychomotorik
Psychomotoriktherapie
Asylsuchende
Jugendliche
Bachelorarbeit

description: Die Psychomotoriktherapie in der Deutschschweiz ist fast ausschliesslich mit Kindern tätig. In dieser Bachelorarbeit wurde untersucht, in welcher Form und mit welchen Förderzielen eine mehrteilige psychomotorische Intervention mit der Zielgruppe junger erwachsener Asylsuchenden stattfinden könnte. Es wurde eine Deutschkurs-Klasse aus acht Teilnehmenden ausgewählt und aufgrund von Beobachtungen und Gesprächen mit den Lehrpersonen die Förderthemen Gruppenzusammenhalt und Bewegungsmotivation festgelegt. Die Intervention bestand aus zehn wöchentlich stattfindenden Psychomotoriklektionen à 50 Minuten. Sie wurden prozesshaft jede Woche reflektiert und weitergeplant. Die Intervention wurde schwerpunktmässig durch die Klassenlehrperson und die Autorin evaluiert. Der Gruppenzusammenhalt konnte während dem Zeitraum der Interventionsdurchführung verbessert werden. Zur Entwicklung der Bewegungsmotivation kann keine klare Aussage gemacht werden. Die Anwendung der Psychomotoriktherapie in diesem Praxisfeld wird als angebrachtes Interventionsangebot beurteilt.
The Fog Makes Sense: Enabling Social Sensing Services With Limited Internet Connectivity
Creators: name: Mayer, Ruben
name: Gupta, Harshit
name: Saurez, Enrique
name: Ramachandran, Umakishore
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Social sensing services use humans as sensor carriers, sensor operators and sensors themselves in order to provide situation-awareness to applications. This promises to provide a multitude of benefits to the users, for example in the management of natural disasters or in community empowerment. However, current social sensing services depend on Internet connectivity since the services are deployed on central Cloud platforms. In many circumstances, Internet connectivity is constrained, for instance when a natural disaster causes Internet outages or when people do not have Internet access due to economical reasons. In this paper, we propose the emerging Fog Computing infrastructure to become a key-enabler of social sensing services in situations of constrained Internet connectivity. To this end, we develop a generic architecture and API of Fog-enabled social sensing services. We exemplify the usage of the proposed social sensing architecture on a number of concrete use cases from two different scenarios.
description: Ruben Mayer, Harshit Gupta, Enrique Saurez, and Umakishore Ramachandran. 2017. The Fog Makes Sense: Enabling Social Sensing Services With Limited Internet Connectivity. In Proceedings of The 2nd International Workshop on Social Sensing, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, April 21 2017 (SocialSens'17), 6 pages
Nanoscale characterisation of cardiovascular tissue calcification
Creators: name: Agarwal, Shweta
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2017

description: Cardiovascular calcification contributes to the 17 million deaths globally caused by cardiovascular diseases. It is found in atherosclerotic plaques and remains one of the leading causes of valve stenosis. The only viable treatment for this disease remains the replacement of the tissue via surgical intervention. Recently, Bertazzo et al. showed the presence of nano/micro calcified particles in calcified heart tissues, as an early calcified structure that could be detected in the vascular tissue. With the recent discovery of the cardiovascular calcified particles, only little is known about their structure and composition. By combining state-of-the-art nano-analytical electron microscopy characterisation techniques, the work in the thesis shows the presence of two types of particles within the population of cardiovascular calcified particles. These two types of particles are composed of either apatite or whitlockite mineral with a different structure and crystallinity, suggesting at least two kinds of biomineralisation process leading to their formation. Using electron energy loss spectroscopy and atom probe tomography, the work in the thesis further unveils the presence of organic material, possibly protein in nature, within the mineralised structure of the calcified particles suggesting a biological process in their formation. More importantly, using a novel approach of in situ nano compression inside a scanning electron microscope, the work has also deduced the presence of nanogranules within the whitlockite particles, which shows a single crystal structure under diffraction studies. These results suggest that whitlockite particles have a mesocrystalline structure. To the best of our knowledge, this is also the first study to show the existence of whitlockite mesocrystals. Finally, the work reports the presence of whitlockite particles in different species of amniotes, providing clues to a possible common biomineralisation process in amniotes and a unified model of cardiovascular calcification.
Additional file 1 of Fitness costs of Tn1546-type transposons harboring the vanA operon by plasmid type and structural diversity in Enterococcus faecium
Creators: name: Kim, Dokyun
name: Kang, Da Young
name: Choi, Min Hyuk
name: Hong, Jun Sung
name: Kim, Hyun Soo
name: Kim, Young Ree
name: Kim, Young Ah
name: Uh, Young
name: Shin, Kyeong Seob
name: Shin, Jeong Hwan
name: Kim, Soo Hyun
name: Shin, Jong Hee
name: Jeong, Seok Hoon
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 1.
Naturalness and Dark Matter in the BLSSM
Creators: name: Rose, Luigi Delle
name: Khalil, Shaaban
name: King, Simon J. D.
name: Marzo, Carlo
name: Moretti, Stefano
name: Un, Cem S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the naturalness properties of the $B-L$ Supersymmetric Standard Model (BLSSM) and compare them to those of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) at both low (i.e., Large Hadron Collider) energies and high (i.e., unification) scales. By adopting standard measures of naturalness, we assess that, in presence of full unification of the additional gauge couplings and scalar/fermionic masses of the BLSSM, such a scenario reveals a somewhat higher degree of Fine-Tuning (FT) than the MSSM, when the latter is computed at the unification scale and all available theoretical and experimental constraints, but the Dark Matter (DM) ones, are taken into account. Yet, such a difference, driven primarily by the collider limits requiring a high mass for the gauge boson associated to the breaking of the additional $U(1)_{B-L}$ gauge group of the BLSSM in addition to the $SU(3)_C\times SU(2)_L \times U(1)_Y$ of the MSSM, should be regarded as a modest price to pay for the former in relation to the latter, if one notices that the non-minimal scenario offers a significant volume of parameter space where numerous DM solutions of different compositions can be found to the relic density constraints, unlike the case of the minimal structure, wherein only one type of solution is accessible over an ever diminishing parameter space. In fact, this different level of tension within the two SUSY models in complying with current data is well revealed when the FT measure is recomputed in terms of the low energy spectra of the two models, over their allowed regions of parameter space now in presence of all DM bounds, as it is shown that the tendency is now opposite, the BLSSM appearing more natural than the MSSM.
description: 28 pages, 18 figures
The resolved stellar populations around 12 Type IIP supernovae
Creators: name: Maund, J. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Core-collapse supernovae are found in regions associated with recent massive star formation. The stellar population observed around the location of a SN can be used as a probe of the origins of the progenitor star. We apply a Bayesian mixture model to fit isochrones to the massive star population around twelve Type IIP SNe, for which constraints on the progenitors are also available from fortuitous pre-explosion images. Using the high-resolution Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys and Wide Field Camera 3, we study the massive star population found within 100pc of each our target SNe. For most of the SNe in our sample, we find that there are multiple age components in the surrounding stellar populations. In the cases of SNe~2003gd and 2005cs, we find that the progenitor does not come from the youngest stellar population component and, in fact, these relatively low mass progenitors ($\sim 8M_{\odot}$) are found in close proximity to stars as massive as $15$ and $50-60M_{\odot}$, respectively. Overall, the field extinction (Galactic and host) derived for these populations is $\sim 0.3\,\mathrm{mags}$ higher than the extinction that was generally applied in previously reported progenitor analyses. We also find evidence, in particular for SN~2004dj, for significant levels of differential extinction. Our analysis for SN~2008bk suggests a significantly lower extinction for the population than the progenitor, but the lifetime of the population and mass determined from pre-explosion images agree. Overall, assuming that the appropriate age component can be suitably identified from the multiple stellar population components present, we find that our Bayesian approach to studying resolved stellar populations can match progenitor masses determined from direct imaging to within $\pm 3M_{\odot}$.
description: 17 pages, 20 figures, MNRAS accepted
Additional file 1: of The UAE healthy future study: a pilot for a prospective cohort study of 20,000 United Arab Emirates nationals
Creators: name: Abdishakur Abdulle
name: Alnaeemi, Abdullah
name: Aljunaibi, Abdullah
name: Abdulrahman Al Ali
name: Saedi, Khaled Al
name: Eiman Al Zaabi
name: Oumeziane, Naima
name: Bastaki, Marina Al
name: Al-Houqani, Mohammed
name: Maskari, Fatma Al
name: Dhaheri, Ayesha Al
name: Shah, Syed M.
name: Loney, Tom
name: El-Sadig, Mohamed
name: Abderrahim Oulhaj
name: Wareth, Leila
name: Mahmeed, Wael Al
name: Alsafar, Habiba
name: Hirsch, Benjamin
name: Anouti, Fatme Al
name: Yaaqoub, Jamila
name: Inman, Claire
name: Hamiz, Aisha Al
name: Hosani, Ayesha Al
name: Haji, Muna
name: Teeb Alsharid
name: Thekra Al Zaabi
name: Maisary, Fatima Al
name: Galani, Divya
name: Sprosen, Tim
name: Shahawy, Omar El
name: Jiyoung Ahn
name: Kirchhoff, Tomas
name: Ramasamy, Ravichandran
name: Schmidt, Ann
name: Hayes, Richard
name: Sherman, Scott
name: Ali, Raghib
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Participant Completed Questionnaire. (DOCX 82Â kb)
A new norisoprenoid from the leaves of Ficus pumila
Creators: name: Bai, Meng
name: Cai, Yue
name: Wu, Shou-Yuan
name: Song, Xiao-Ping
name: Chen, Guang-Ying
name: Zheng, Cai-Juan
name: Han, Chang-Ri
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: One new norisoprenoid 3,9-dihydroxy dihydro actinidiolide (1), together with eleven known compounds (2–12), were isolated from ethanol extract of the leaves of Ficus pumila collected in Hainan Province, China. Their structures were elucidated by the detailed analysis of comprehensive spectroscopic data. Compounds 1, 2, 4, 5, 8 and 10–12 were isolated from the F. pumila for the first time. All compounds were evaluated for their cytotoxic activity. Compounds 3 and 9 showed weak cytotoxic activity against Hela, MCF-7 and A549 cell lines.
Quantification of T lymphocyte dynamics in vivo
Creators: name: Costa Del Amo, Pedro
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2017

description: Despite the significant contributions of theoretical immunology to our understanding of the dynamic mechanisms regulating adaptive immunity, there are still many fundamental processes which need to be comprehended from a quantitative perspective (e.g. the generation and maintenance of T cell memory, the regulation of homeostasis, etc.). Mathematical models have become indispensable to handle the interpretation of the complex quantitative data generated by the recently developed experimental techniques to study lymphocyte dynamics. However, all models are at best simplified descriptions of the system under study, and the accuracy of their predictions and estimations is always determined by the veracity of their biological assumptions. The first objective of this thesis is the evaluation of the validity of the commonly assumed age-independence of lymphocyte fate in mathematical models in immunology. A series of recent, high-profile studies from the Hodgkin group show that lymphocyte fate (division, death, differentiation) is dependent on the age of the cell, at least in murine cells in vitro. However, the rules of T cell fate in humans in vivo are unknown. We found that the age-independent model provides the best description of human naïve and memory CD4+ and CD8+ T cell turnover in heavy water labelling experiments, and that the age-dependent model from the Hodgkin group fails to describe the link between lymphocyte division and death which is explored combining Annexin V staining and deuterated glucose labelling. The second objective is the quantification of the dynamics of the recently identified stem memory T cell subset in humans in vivo, with a strong focus on their contribution to the generation and the maintenance of T cell memory. Using a multidisciplinary approach combining mathematical modeling, and heavy water labeling, Ki67, and telomere length data, we show: i) that the TSCM population is kinetically heterogeneous (i.e. it is formed by different subpopulation with different average turnover rates); ii) that the TSCM population is maintained in a state of dynamic flux with considerably high replenishment rates; and iii) that TSCM dynamics are compatible with the increasingly believed hypothesis that the TSCM population could be the main T cell precursor responsible for the maintenance of T cell memory.
Potentilla procumbens var. corsica Briq.
Creators: name: Jeanmonod, Daniel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Rosales
Rosaceae
Potentilla
Potentilla procumbens
Potentilla procumbens var. corsica briq.

description: Potentilla procumbens var. corsica Briq., Prodr. Fl. Corse 2(1): 194. 1913.
Lectotypus (hic designatus): FRANCE. Corse: entre Ghisoni et le col de Sorba, 900 à 1000 m, 8.VI.1904, E. Burnat, J. Burnat, Cavillier & Abrezol 192 G-BU [G00830145]!; Isolecto-: G [G00429783]!; Syntypi: (G-BU [,,; G00830149, G00830150, G00830151]!).
G 00830146
G 00830147
G 00830148
Ξ Potentilla anglica subsp. nesogenes (Briq.) Gamisans
description: Published as part of Jeanmonod, Daniel, 2018, Typification des noms de taxons corses de l'herbier Burnat (G-BU), pp. 61-74 in Candollea 73 (1) on page 69, DOI: 10.15553/c2018v731a6, http://zenodo.org/record/5722164
Rational Conjugacy Classes of Maximal Tori In Groups of Type $D_n$
Creators: name: Fiori, Andrew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We give a concrete characterization of the rational conjugacy classes of maximal tori in groups of type $D_n$, with specific emphasis on the case of number fields and p-adic fields. This includes the forms associated to quadratic spaces, all of their inner and outer forms as well as the Spin groups, their simply connected covers. In particular, in this work we handle all (simply connected) outer forms of $D_4$.
Additional file 12 of Genetic dissection of grain water content and dehydration rate related to mechanical harvest in maize
Creators: name: Liu, Jianju
name: Yu, Hui
name: Liu, Yuanliang
name: Deng, Suining
name: Liu, Qingcai
name: Liu, Baoshen
name: Xu, Mingliang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 12: Table S6. Initial QTL mapping of GWC and GDR in the summer of 2014 in Shandong. Traits: the phenotypes. QTL: the names of QTL which were detected in the initial QTL mapping. Sources: the sources of phenotypes, 14sd1–1 and 14sd1–2 represent the phenotypes sampled at 45 DAP of replicate 1 and replicate 2 in the summer of 2014 in Shandong, respectively; 14sd2–1 and 14sd2–2 represent the phenotypes sampled at 50 DAP of replicate 1 and replicate 2 in the summer of 2014 in Shandong, respectively; 14sd-ave1 and 14sd-ave2 represent the average phenotypes sampled at 45 and 50 DAP, respectively. 14sddr1 and 14sddr2 represent the GDR between 45 and 50 DAP of replicate 1 and replicate 2, respectively. Rep: the names of replications related to phenotypic data. “AVE”: represents the phenotypes from the average value of R1 and R2. DAP: Days after pollination. Bins: the location of the QTL in the chromosomes. Flanking SNPs: the SNPs at the both sides of QTL. Physical Location (Mb): the physical location of the QTL. CI (Mb): size of confident interval. AE: additive effect. R2: explained phenotypic variation.
Estimate of Joule Heating in a Flat Dechirper
Creators: name: Bane, Karl
name: Stupakov, Gennady
name: Gjonaj, Erion
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have performed Joule power loss calculations for a flat dechirper. We have considered the configurations of the beam on-axis between the two plates---for chirp control---and for the beam especially close to one plate---for use as a fast kicker. Our calculations use a surface impedance approach, one that is valid when corrugation parameters are small compared to aperture (the perturbative parameter regime). In our model we ignore effects of field reflections at the sides of the dechirper plates, and thus expect the results to underestimate the Joule losses. The analytical results were also tested by numerical, time-domain simulations. We find that most of the wake power lost by the beam is radiated out to the sides of the plates. For the case of the beam passing by a single plate, we derive an analytical expression for the broad-band impedance, and---in Appendix B---numerically confirm recently developed, analytical formulas for the short-range wakes. While our theory can be applied to the LCLS-II dechirper with large gaps, for the nominal apertures we are not in the perturbative regime and the reflection contribution to Joule losses is not negligible. With input from computer simulations, we estimate the Joule power loss (assuming bunch charge of 300 pC, repetition rate of 100 kHz) is 21~W/m for the case of two plates, and 24 W/m for the case of a single plate.
description: 36 pages, 17 figures
Additional file 1 of Viral hepatitis in China during 2002–2021: epidemiology and influence factors through a country-level modeling study
Creators: name: Sun, Ning
name: He, Fangli
name: Sun, Jiufeng
name: Zhu, Guanghu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1
Schulsozialarbeit und schulische Sexualaufklärung: Qualitative Erhebung möglicher Formen des (nicht)Miteinbezugs der Schulsozialarbeit in die schulische Sexualaufklärung
Creators: name: Christen, Tanja
name: Eugster, Noah
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Schulische Sexualaufklärung in der Deutschschweiz ist Aufgabe der Lehrpersonen, wird jedoch in der Praxis unterschiedlich gehandhabt. Welche Rolle die Schulsozialarbeit dabei spielt wird in der Literatur erwähnt, jedoch nicht konkret beschrieben. Die Autor*innen Tanja Christen und Noah Eugster erläutern mittels Literatur die Entstehungshintergründe, Ziele, Leistungsbereiche und Definitionen von Schulsozialarbeit in der Deutschschweiz. Sie beschreiben die Rahmenbedingungen schulischer Sexualaufklärung auf europäischer, nationaler und regionaler Ebene, den Lehrplan 21 und was ganzheitliche Sexualaufklärung bedeutet. Mittels qualitativer Interviews mit sechs Schulsozialarbeitenden werden die Rollen der Lehrpersonen, der Schulsozialarbeit, der Schulleitung sowie von externen Fachstellen erörtert. Des Weiteren wird der (nicht)Miteinbezug der Schulsozialarbeit und eine Bewertung dessen aufgezeigt. Die induktive Auswertung zeigte, dass der Miteinbezug stattfindet und eine durch Einflussfaktoren wie Handlungsbedarf, individuelle Profilbildung, eigene Persönlichkeit und vorhandene Ressourcen gegebene Diversität verschiedener Formen der Rollenverteilung vorzufinden ist. Regional angepasste, rollenklärende Konzepte fördern die Qualität schulischer Sexualaufklärung. Sie können einen Miteinbezug der Schulsozialarbeit in der schulischen Sexualaufklärung im Klassensetting sowie als Beratungsangebot oder in der Schulentwicklung beinhalten. Qualitätssichernd wirken Austauschgefässe, die Beteiligung der Schulsozialarbeit an der Schulentwicklung, sowie spezifische Weiterbildungen in Sexualaufklärung für Schulsozialarbeitende.
description: + Code Diss LU: hslusa bask + Fussnote: Bachelor-Arbeit, Hochschule Luzern – Soziale Arbeit, Studienrichtung Soziokultur, 2022 + NL-Code: NLLUHSA202203
Orobanche rigens var. nigricans Beck
Creators: name: Jeanmonod, Daniel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Lamiales
Orobanchaceae
Orobanche
Orobanche rigens
Orobanche rigens var. nigricans beck

description: Orobanche rigens var. nigricans Beck in Annuaire Conserv. Jard. Bot. Genève 9: 174. 1905.
Lectotypus (désigné par JEANMONOD, 2007: 195): FRANCE. Corse: Capo Ferolato près Evisa, 900-1000 m, 31.V.1904, E. Burnat, J. Burnat, Cavillier & Abrezol 684 (G-BU [G00001437]!).
= Orobanche rigens Loisel.
description: Published as part of Jeanmonod, Daniel, 2018, Typification des noms de taxons corses de l'herbier Burnat (G-BU), pp. 61-74 in Candollea 73 (1) on page 68, DOI: 10.15553/c2018v731a6, http://zenodo.org/record/5722164
Uncertain Photometric Redshifts with Deep Learning Methods
Creators: name: D'Isanto, Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The need for accurate photometric redshifts estimation is a topic that has fundamental importance in Astronomy, due to the necessity of efficiently obtaining redshift information without the need of spectroscopic analysis. We propose a method for determining accurate multimodal photo-z probability density functions (PDFs) using Mixture Density Networks (MDN) and Deep Convolutional Networks (DCN). A comparison with a Random Forest (RF) is performed.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure, Astroinformatics 2016 conference proceeding
Numerical modelling of wave interactions with a vertical surface-piercing column
Creators: name: Kasiman, Erwan Hafizi
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2017

description: This thesis concerns the numerical modelling of the wave interactions with a vertical, surface-piercing, column. The study focuses on the unexpected high-frequency wave scattering and the nonlinear loading of columns located in the inertia regime. The test cases include both regular and irregular incident waves. With the wave-column interactions involving highly nonlinear free-surface effects, the two-phase Volume of Fluid (VOF) model adopted. This choice was based upon preliminary calculations in which the model was shown to be capable of simulating appropriate extreme wave conditions. These calculations involved a wide range of incident wave conditions including as standing, regular, irregular and breaking waves. In all cases, comparisons with existing theory and lab data confirmed that the waves were successfully simulated. The numerical method was first employed in the simulation of Type-1 and Type-2 scattered waves due to the interaction between incident regular waves and a vertical column. Comparisons to the laboratory data presented in Swan & Sheikh (2015) allowed a rigorous validation of the proposed method. Further investigation to determine the dependency of the scattered waves on the size of the column and the incident wave steepness was undertaken. For wave-structure interactions involving irregular focused waves, an additional wave scattering mechanism was also identified. The physical origins of this new mechanism were carefully investigated and shown to be closely linked to the increased steepness of the wave cases. The nonlinear wave-wave interactions between the incident and scattered wave fields, for both regular and irregular waves, were examined and their practical implications discussed. The nonlinear loading, in particular, the secondary loading cycle was successfully predicted using the numerical model. Frequency analysis and comparisons with available analytical force models were carried out to highlight important changes in the higher order force components, particularly in respect of increasing wave steepness and varying column diameter. A clear linkage between the secondary loading cycle and high-frequency wave scattering has been established and the physical origins of the former studied and explained. Finally, the importance of the secondary loading cycle in provoking a dynamic excitation was investigated using a simple single degree of freedom model. The results reveal a large dynamic excitation in both regular and irregular waves in the presence of the secondary loading cycle. This has important practical implications, not least because the load models commonly applied in design are not able to predict the secondary loading cycle. As such, they will undoubtedly under-estimate both the magnitude and occurrence of dynamic excitation. Key insights into this important problem are provided.
Additional file 8: Table S1. of The rice zebra3 (z3) mutation disrupts citrate distribution and produces transverse dark-green/green variegation in mature leaves
Creators: name: Kim, Suk-Hwan
name: Choon-Tak Kwon
name: Giha Song
name: Hee-Jong Koh
name: Gynheung An
name: Nam-Chon Paek
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Primers used in this study. (PDF 1453 kb)
Additional file 1 of Targeting prostate cancer stem-like cells by an immunotherapeutic platform based on immunogenic peptide-sensitized dendritic cells-cytokine-induced killer cells
Creators: name: Wang, Zhu
name: Li, Youjia
name: Wang, Yuliang
name: Wu, Dinglan
name: Lau, Alaster Hang Yung
name: Zhao, Pan
name: Zou, Chang
name: Dai, Yong
name: Chan, Franky Leung
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1: Tables S1 and S2. Sequence information of CD44- and EpCAM-derived synthetic peptides and nucleotide sequence of PCR primers used.
Preprocessing, mass loss and mass segregation of galaxies in DM simulations
Creators: name: Joshi, Gandhali D.
name: Wadsley, James
name: Parker, Laura C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the mass loss of galaxies in groups and clusters with high-resolution DM simulations. We detect weak mass segregation in the inner regions of group/cluster haloes, consistent with observational findings. This applies to samples of galaxy analogues selected using either their present-day mass or past maximum (peak) mass. We find a strong radial trend in the fractional mass lost by the galaxies since peak, independent of their mass. This suggests that segregation is due to massive galaxies having formed closer to the halo centres and not the preferential destruction of smaller galaxies near halo centres. We divide our sample into galaxies that were accreted as a group vs. as a single, distinct halo. We find strong evidence for preprocessing -- the grouped galaxies lose $\sim 35-45\%$ of their peak mass before being accreted onto their final host haloes, compared to single galaxies which lose $\sim12\%$. After accretion, however, the single galaxies lose more mass compared to the grouped ones. These results are consistent with a scenario in which grouped galaxies are preprocessed in smaller haloes while single galaxies `catch up' in terms of total mass loss once they are accreted onto the final host halo. The fractional mass loss is mostly independent of the galaxy mass and host mass, and increases with amount of time spent in a dense environment.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS