cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Cognitive Recovery After Stroke: A Meta-analysis and Metaregression of Intervention and Cohort Studies
Creators: name: Saa Arancibia, Juan Pablo
name: Tse, Tamara
name: Baum, Carolyn
name: Cumming, T
name: Josman, N
name: Rose, Miranda
name: O’Keefe, S
name: Sewell, Katherine
name: Nguyen, Vinh
name: Carey, Leeanne
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences
classificationCode: 3209
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: No description supplied.
Foreign Ownership in Food Retailing
Creators: name: Seigle, Naaman
name: Handy, Charles R.
name: Seigle, Naaman
name: Handy, Charles R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1981
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: The slogan "Take Stock in America," intended to publicize U.S. Savings Bonds, has become the goal for the increasing number of foreign firms investing in the U.S. food system. The U.S. Government has traditionally maintained a neutral policy toward direct foreign investment. This neutrality was recently reaffirmed by the Department of Commerce in congressional hearings. Foreign investment in the U.S. has doubled in the last 5 years, but the amount of foreign investment is still only about one-fourth as great as U.S. investment in foreign firms. Foreign investment in U.S. agricultural land has received the most publicity and generated the most concern up to present time. However, data collected under the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act of 1978 reveal that as of February I, 1980, foreign entities and individuals owned slightly less than 0.5 percent of all U.S. agricultural land, almost half of which is classified as forest lands. A greater degree of foreign investment has occurred in food manufacturing and retailing.
Private transaction costs of participation in water quality improvement programs for Australia’s Great Barrier Reef: Extent, causes and policy implications
Creators: name: Coggan, Anthea
name: Van Grieken, Martijn
name: Boullier, Alexis
name: Jardi, Xavier
name: Coggan, Anthea
name: Van Grieken, Martijn
name: Boullier, Alexis
name: Jardi, Xavier
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Great Barrier Reef
subject: sugarcane
subject: transaction costs
subject: water quality

description: The direct private cost to landholders of participating in programs that result in improved farming activities (IFAs) is generally well understood. However, the private indirect or transaction costs, such as the cost of a landholder’s time and the expense to learn about IFAs and apply for assistance to implement these changes on-farm, are not so well understood. Where these have been studied, they have been shown to be extensive. We assess the extent and causes of private transaction costs incurred by sugarcane growers participating in the Australian Government’s Reef Rescue scheme which pays farmers to adopt environmentally beneﬁcial farm management practices. Utilising a mail-out-mail-back survey of 110 growers, we found that the average total transaction cost per farm of participating in the program was AU$8389. The average total transaction costs per farm as a percentage of the average funding provided was 38 per cent. We also assessed which type of improved farming activity (soil, nutrient, pest or water management) generated the greatest transaction costs and how landholder characteristics such as bounded rationality, opportunism and social connection impacted on the extent of transaction costs.
Understanding the atmospheric properties and chemical composition of the ultra-hot Jupiter HAT-P-7b II. Mapping the effects of gas kinetics
Creators: name: Molaverdikhani, Karan
name: Helling, Christiane
name: Lew, Ben W. P.
name: MacDonald, Ryan J.
name: Samra, Dominic
name: Iro, Nicolas
name: Woitke, Peter
name: Parmentier, Vivien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The atmospheres of ultra-hot Jupiters are commonly considered to be at thermochemical equilibrium. We aim to provide disequilibrium chemistry maps for a global understanding of the chemistry in HAT-P-7b's atmosphere and assess the importance of disequilibrium chemistry on UHJs. We apply a hierarchical modelling approach utilising 97 1D atmospheric profiles from 3D GCM of HAT-P-7b. For each 1D profile, we evaluate our kinetic cloud formation model consistently with the local gas-phase composition in chemical equilibrium. We then evaluate quenching results from a zeroth-order approximation in comparison to a kinetic gas-phase approach. We find that the zeroth-order approach of estimating quenching points agrees well with the full gas-kinetic modeling results. Chemical disequilibrium has the greatest effect on the nightside and morning abundance of species such as H, H$_2$O, CH$_4$, CO$_2$, HCN, and all C$_n$H$_m$ molecules; heavier C$_n$H$_m$ molecules are more affected by disequilibrium processes. CO abundance, however, is affected only marginally. While dayside abundances also notably change, those around the evening terminator of HAT-P-7b are the least affected by disequilibrium processes. The latter finding may partially explain the consistency of observed transmission spectra of UHJs with atmospheres in thermochemical equilibrium. Photochemistry only negligibly affects molecular abundances and quenching levels. In general, the quenching points of HAT-P-7b's atmosphere are at much lower pressures in comparison to the cooler hot-jupiters. We propose several avenues to look for the effect of disequilibrium processes on UHJs that are, in general, based on abundance and opacity measurements at different local times. It remains a challenge to completely disentangle this from the chemical effects of clouds and that of a primordial non-solar abundance.
description: 26 page, 20 figures, accepted in A&A
Emotional intelligence: predictor of employees’ wellbeing, quality of patient care, and psychological empowerment
Creators: name: Karimi, Leila
name: Leggat, Sandra
name: Bartram, T
name: Afshari, Leila
name: Sarkeshik, S
name: Verulava, Tengiz
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Background: The study explored the role of emotional intelligence (EI) on employees’ perceived wellbeing and empowerment, as well as their performance, by measuring their quality of care. Methods: The baseline data for the present project was collected from 78 staff of a Victorian aged care organization in Australia. Self-administered surveys were used to assess participants’ emotional intelligence, general well-being, psychological empowerment, quality of care, and demographic characteristics. The model fit was assessed using structural equation modelling by AMOS (v 24) software. Results: The evaluated model confirmed that emotional intelligence predicts the employees’ psychological empowerment, wellbeing, and quality of care in a statistically significant way. Conclusions: The current research indicates that employees with higher EI will more likely deliver a better quality of patient care. Present research extends the current knowledge of the psychological empowerment and wellbeing of employees with a particular focus on emotional intelligence as an antecedent in an under-investigated setting like aged care setting in Australia.
Motivational interviewing with community-dwelling older adults after hip fracture (MIHip): protocol for a randomised controlled trial
Creators: name: Taylor, Nicholas
name: O'Halloran, Paul
name: Watts, JJ
name: Morris, Rebecca
name: Peiris, Casey
name: Porter, J
name: Prendergast, Luke
name: Harding, Katherine
name: Snowdon, David
name: Ekegren, CL
name: Hau, R
name: Mudiyanselage, SB
name: RIMAYANTI, Made-Utari
name: Noeske, Kate
name: Snowdon, M
name: Kim, D
name: Shields, Nora
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: INTRODUCTION: Community-dwelling people recovering from hip fracture have the physical capacity to walk in their community but lack the confidence to do so. The primary aim of this trial is to determine whether motivational interviewing increases time spent walking at 12 months in community-dwelling people after hip fracture compared with an attention placebo control group. Secondary aims are to evaluate cost effectiveness, patient and health service outcomes and to complete a process evaluation. METHODS AND ANALYSIS: An assessor-blinded parallel group randomised controlled design with embedded health economic evaluation and process evaluation will compare the effects of n=270 participants randomly allocated to an experimental group (motivational interviewing) or a control group (dietary advice). For inclusion, participants are aged ≥65 years, living at home independently within 6 months of discharge from hospital after hip fracture and able to walk independently and communicate with conversational English. Key exclusion criteria are severe depression or anxiety, impaired intellectual functioning and being medically unstable to walk. Participants allocated to the experimental group will receive 10 (8 weekly and 2 booster) telephone-based sessions of motivational interviewing to increase walking over 16 weeks. Participants allocated to the control group will receive an equivalent dose of telephone-based dietary advice. The primary outcome is daily time spent walking over 7 days assessed at weeks 0, 9, 26 and 52. Secondary outcomes include measures of psychological-related function, mobility-related function, community participation, health-related quality of life and falls. Health service utilisation and associated costs will be assessed. Process evaluation will assess the fidelity of the motivational interviewing intervention and explore contextual factors through semistructured interviews. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: Ethical approval obtained from Eastern Health (E19-002), Peninsula Health (50261/EH-2019), Alfred Health (617/20) and La Trobe University (E19/002/50261). The findings will be disseminated in peer-reviewed journals, conference presentations and public seminars. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: ACTRN12619000936123.
Hierarchical Mixtures of Generators for Adversarial Learning
Creators: name: Ahmetoğlu, Alper
name: Alpaydın, Ethem
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are deep neural networks that allow us to sample from an arbitrary probability distribution without explicitly estimating the distribution. There is a generator that takes a latent vector as input and transforms it into a valid sample from the distribution. There is also a discriminator that is trained to discriminate such fake samples from true samples of the distribution; at the same time, the generator is trained to generate fakes that the discriminator cannot tell apart from the true samples. Instead of learning a global generator, a recent approach involves training multiple generators each responsible from one part of the distribution. In this work, we review such approaches and propose the hierarchical mixture of generators, inspired from the hierarchical mixture of experts model, that learns a tree structure implementing a hierarchical clustering with soft splits in the decision nodes and local generators in the leaves. Since the generators are combined softly, the whole model is continuous and can be trained using gradient-based optimization, just like the original GAN model. Our experiments on five image data sets, namely, MNIST, FashionMNIST, UTZap50K, Oxford Flowers, and CelebA, show that our proposed model generates samples of high quality and diversity in terms of popular GAN evaluation metrics. The learned hierarchical structure also leads to knowledge extraction.
Oreodera zikani Melzer 1930
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Oreodera
Oreodera zikani

description: 89. Oreodera zikani Melzer, 1930
Type locality — Brazil, Rio de Janeiro: Itatiaia. (MZSP). Distribution — Brazil (Espírito Santo to São Paulo).
 Oreodera (?) zikani Melzer, 1930: 196, pl. 17, fig. 14.
 Oreodera zikani; Zikán & Zikán, 1944: 34 (distr.); Zikán & Wygodzinsky, 1948: 61 (type).
 Oreodera (Anoreina) zikani; Gilmour, 1965: 606 (cat.); Zajciw, 1972a: 66 (distr.); 1974a: 76 (distr.).
  Ozotroctes Bates, 1861
 Ozotroctes Bates, 1861: 478; Thomson, 1864: 17, 350; Lacordaire, 1872: 743.
 Type­species — Ozotroctes punctatissimus Bates, 1861 (monotypy).
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2005, Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae, pp. 1-760 in Zootaxa 1023 (1) on pages 1-760, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.946.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5049553
Enhancing solubility and stability of piperine using β-cyclodextrin derivatives: computational and experimental investigations
Creators: name: Ali, Saba
name: Saokaew, Phattharapawn
name: Aman, Aamir
name: Todsaporn, Duangjai
name: Sanachai, Kamonpan
name: Krusong, Kuakarun
name: Hannongbua, Supot
name: Wolschann, Peter
name: Mahalapbutr, Panupong
name: Rungrotmongkol, Thanyada
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology

description: Piperine (PP), a natural alkaloid found in black pepper, possesses significant bioactivities. However, its use in pharmaceutical applications is hindered by low water solubility and susceptibility to UV light degradation. To overcome these challenges, we investigated the potential of β-cyclodextrin (βCD) and its derivatives with dimethyl (DMβCD), hydroxy-propyl (HPβCD) and sulfobutyl-ether (SBEβCD) substitutions to enhance the solubility and stability of PP. This study employed computational and experimental approaches to examine the complexation between PP and βCDs. The results revealed the formation of two types of inclusion complexes: the P-form and M-form involving the insertion of piperidine moiety and the methylene-di-oxy-phenyl moiety, respectively. These complexes primarily rely on van der Waals interactions. Among the three derivatives, the PP/SBEβCD complex exhibited the highest stability followed by HPβCD, as attributed to maximum atom contacts and minimal solvent accessibility. Solubility studies confirmed the formation of inclusion complexes in a 1:1 ratio. Notably, the stability constant of the inclusion complex was approximately two-fold higher with SBEβCD and HPβCD compared to βCD. The DSC thermograms provided confirmation of the formation of the inclusion complex between the host and guest. These findings highlight the potential of βCD derivatives to effectively encapsulate PP, improving its solubility and presenting new opportunities for its pharmaceutical applications.
Greater early migration of a short-stem total hip arthroplasty is not associated with an increased risk of osseointegration failure: 5th-year results from a prospective RSA study with 39 patients, a follow-up study
Creators: name: Floerkemeier, Thilo
name: Budde, Stefan
name: Lewinski, Gabriela V.
name: Windhagen, Henning
name: HurSchler, Christof
name: Schwarze, Michael
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Background and purpose — Short-stem hip arthroplasty has been a viable alternative to standard stems for the treatment of hip osteoarthritis for over 10 years. This study assessed whether a correlation existed between a greater initial increase in implant migration and inferior clinical outcomes at 5 years postoperatively. Results on these patients after 2 years have been published previously. Patients and methods — Radiostereometry and clinical scoring were undertaken after surgery and at 3, 6, 12, and 24 months, and 5 years postoperatively. The migration and the clinical outcomes data from the patients with initial migrations at 3 months above the 75th percentile (≥ 75% group) were compared with those with migrations at 3 months of less than the 75th percentile (< 75% group). Results — Between 3 months and 5 years after surgery, the mean resultant implant migrations were 0.40 mm (SD 0.32) in the ≥ 75% group and 0.39 mm (SD 0.25) in the Interpretation — There was no correlation between a greater initial migration and inferior clinical outcomes at 5 years postoperatively. Despite a greater initial migration, there were no risks of early aseptic loosening and inferior midterm clinical outcomes associated with a short-stem implant with a primary metaphyseal anchorage.
Ozotroctes punctatissimus Bates 1861
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Ozotroctes
Ozotroctes punctatissimus

description: 1. Ozotroctes punctatissimus Bates, 1861
Type locality — Brazil, Pará: Santarém. (MNHN). Distribution — Ecuador, French Guiana, Brazil (Pará).
 Ozotroctes punctatissimus Bates, 1861: 478; Thomson, 1864: 17; Lacordaire, 1872: 744.
  Paradiscopus Schwarzer, 1930
 Paradiscopus Schwarzer, 1930: 109.
 Type­species — Paradiscopus maculatus Schwarzer, 1930 (original designation).
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2005, Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae, pp. 1-760 in Zootaxa 1023 (1) on pages 1-760, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.946.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5049553
Using experimental trials to improve translocation protocols for a cryptic, endangered passerine
Creators: name: Mitchell, William
name: Boulton, Rebecca L
name: Ireland, Luke
name: Hunt, Thomas J
name: Verdon, Simon
name: Olds, Liberty GM
name: Hedger, Chris
name: Clarke, Rohan H
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 30
subject: Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences
classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 3109
subject: Zoology
classificationCode: 41
subject: Environmental sciences
classificationCode: 4101
subject: Climate change impacts and adaptation

description: No description supplied
The Challenges before “The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 (LARR)”: A study of Indian Land Reforms
Creators: name: Ahmed, Masood
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 70101 Agricultural Land Management
subject: FOS: Other agricultural sciences
subject: 70106 Farm Management, Rural Management and Agribusiness
subject: 70199 Agriculture, Land and Farm Management not elsewhere classified

description: Issue is land reforms is directly associated with rural development. It aims to improve poor people accesstowards means of social welfare. In India, land reforms are in direct relationship with the growth and socialprogress. It is an irony that most of the development schemes focus on accessible population and leave largerural population that is in need of land reforms and waiting for their rescue. The paper questions variouspolicies and measures since independence in the implementation of land reforms as the reasons behindpoverty and less than expected contribution from the rural sector. It is most importantly a reason for hugemigrating population putting pressure on cities. The aim of this paper is to analyze the need for land reformsas a source to eradicate poverty and the utility of “The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in LandAcquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 (LARR)” to do distributive justice for better utilizationof resources.
Connected and consuming: applying a deep learning algorithm to quantify alcoholic beverage prevalence in user-generated instagram images
Creators: name: Norman, Thomas
name: Bonela, Abraham Albert
name: He, Zhen
name: Angus, D
name: Carah, N
name: Kuntsche, Emmanuel
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Determining the prevalence of alcohol-related content on social media is important to guide education initiatives and interventions in this space. We aimed to assess the performance of the pre-developed alcoholic beverage identification deep learning algorithm (ABDILA) to automatically quantify alcoholic beverage prevalence in user-generated Instagram images. 6,121 images were gathered from Instagram using ‘Splendour in the Grass’ related hashtags, an Australian music festival. These images were manually annotated as containing beer, champagne, wine, or anything else. The images were subsequently run through ABIDLA, which made predictions on their same categorical contents. We then assessed overall model accuracy (relative to human annotations), model accuracy of alcohol-containing images (overall accuracy and across beverage categories), and visually inspected images to extract common features of congruent- or mis-categorisations. While overall accuracy was high, congruent classifications were heavily skewed towards non-alcohol images. The algorithm consistently overestimated the number of images containing alcoholic beverages, and inspection revealed that these false positives were largely driven by image context and colour. While such algorithms show early promise as a rough automated estimation tools for large datasets on social media, this study highlights some critical improvements and directions for applying pre-trained algorithms in this space.
Supplemental material
Creators: name: Guerci, Philippe
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111601 Cell Physiology
subject: FOS: Basic medicine
subject: 110312 Nephrology and Urology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Immunohistochemical analysis and histology of the kidney
Location equilibria in a mixed duopsony with a cooperative
Creators: name: Fousekis, Panos
name: Fousekis, Panos
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: cooperative
subject: location
subject: mixed duopsony
subject: price

description: This work analyses a two-stage price–location game between a proﬁt maximising ﬁrm and a primary producers’ cooperative. According to the results, the location equilibria are not ﬁxed but depend on the intrinsic competitiveness of the spatial market. As the intrinsic competitiveness rises, the cooperative tends to be located closer to the middle point of the market. The limited diﬀerentiation in location entails an eﬃciency loss which is nevertheless smaller than that associated with the competition of two proﬁt maximising ﬁrms (pure duopsony) on exactly the same spatial market. The superiority of a mixed duopsony lies in the fact that the resulting equilibrium locations entail lower total transportation cost relative to those of a pure duopsony.
Minority mechanisms in models of agents learning collectively a resource level
Creators: name: Challet, Damien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Starting from the Minority Game and building more and more sophisticated models of adaptive agents, we show that minority mechanisms underly any model where agents learn collectively a resource level that can be either obvious and constant in time, obvious and time-varying, or hidden.
description: 6 pages 1 figure
Persona: P Kim Barth
Creators: name: Elbrecht, Karin (edu-sharing NETWORK e.V.)
name: Peil, Ricarda
name: Dinier, Julia
name: Lehmler, Julia
name: Endries, Tara – Marie
name: Schröter, Alexander
name: Erdmann, Sönke
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Persona
BIRD
Bildungsraum Digital
Human-Centered-Design
Educational Technologies

description: Die Anforderungen für das BIRD-Portal wurden mithilfe von Szenario-basiertem Design abgeleitet. Die zugrundeliegende Personasammlung soll nun Schritt für Schritt veröffentlicht werden.
Verbal agreement of datives in Nyangumarta
Creators: name: Weber, Natalie
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: I show that Nyangumarta (Pama-Nyungan family, Marrngu subgroup) has two types of applicative constructions. Although both have different nominal case frames and different verbal agreement patterns, both occur with a verb final suffix -a, which was previously analyzed as a purposive marker. I show that there are two syntactically distinct homophonous -a suffixes in Nyangumarta, and this homophony has until now obscured their function. The first -a is a low applicative (double object construction) (Pylkkänen 2002) which denotes a transfer of possession relation between two DPs and which I equate with PHave (Harley 2002). The second -a is an indirect object agreement marker which agrees specifically with inanimate or non-specific animate arguments, and which I illustrate specifically with benefactives.
Reconsidering royalty and resource rent taxes for Australian mining
Creators: name: Freebairn, John
name: Freebairn, John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: mining taxation
subject: resource rent tax
subject: royalty

description: It is argued that a comparative assessment of a royalty and a resource rent tax as a special tax on the Australian mining industry should recognise the following: the importance of quasi-rents earned on investments which shift out the mining supply curve over time, the dominance of nonresidents as buyers and as shareholders, and available data on relative costs for mines with more and less favourable natural resource endowments. Comparable tax rates for the two special taxes to generate similar government revenue are derived. For approximate revenue neutral taxes, the eﬃciency and distributional eﬀects of the royalty and resource rent tax options are assessed and compared. In terms of eﬃciency, the superiority of one over the other is ambiguous because of imperfect knowledge about key parameters. In terms of returns to Australia, and in particular the aggregate of transfers from nonresident shareholders and export buyers, both provide similar outcomes.
A comprehensive serum lipidome profiling of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Creators: name: FernÁndez-Eulate, Gorka
name: JosÉ Ignacio Ruiz-Sanz
name: Riancho, Javier
name: ZufirÍa, Monica
name: GereÑu, Gorka
name: FernÁndez-TorrÓn, Roberto
name: Poza-Aldea, Juan JosÉ
name: Ondaro, Jon
name: Espinal, Juan Bautista
name: GonzÁlez-ChinchÓn, Gonzalo
name: Zulaica, Miren
name: Ruiz-Larrea, Maria BegoÑa
name: Munain, Adolfo LÓpez De
name: Gil-Bea, Francisco Javier
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Objective: To perform a comprehensive lipid profiling to evaluate potential lipid metabolic differences between patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and controls, and to provide a more profound understanding of the metabolic abnormalities in ALS. Methods: Twenty patients with ALS and 20 healthy controls were enrolled in a cross-sectional study. Untargeted lipidomics profiling in fasting serum samples were performed by optimized UPLC–MS platforms for broad lipidome coverage. Datasets were analyzed by univariate and a variety of multivariate procedures. Results: We provide the most comprehensive blood lipid profiling of ALS to date, with a total of 416 lipids measured. Univariate analysis showed that 28 individual lipid features and two lipid classes, triacylglycerides and oxidized fatty acids (FAs), were altered in patients with ALS, although none of these changes remained significant after multiple comparison adjustment. Most of these changes remained constant after removing from the analysis individuals treated with lipid-lowering drugs. The non-supervised principal component analysis did not identify any lipid clustering of patients with ALS and controls. Despite this, we performed a variety of linear and non-linear supervised multivariate models to select the most reliable features that discriminate the lipid profile of patients with ALS from controls. These were the monounsaturated FAs C24:1n-9 and C14:1, the triglyceride TG(51:4) and the sphingomyelin SM(36:2). Conclusions: Peripheral alterations of lipid metabolism are poorly defined in ALS, triacylglycerides and certain types of FAs could contribute to the different lipid profile of patients with ALS. These findings should be validated in an independent cohort.
Australia’s coal seam gas boom and the LNG entry result
Creators: name: Simshauser, Paul
name: Nelson, Tim
name: Simshauser, Paul
name: Nelson, Tim
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: energy policy
subject: energy security
subject: gas markets

description: Queensland experienced extraordinary growth in booked 2P coal seam gas (CSG) reserves, rising from 3,400 PJ in 2005 to 41,200 PJ in 2013. Given annual domestic consumption of ca. 700 PJ/a, 2P reserves rapidly shifted from 14 to 72 years supply. Proﬁt-maximising ﬁrms sought to speed up commercialisation of reserves through the development of three liqueﬁed natural gas (LNG) export plants at Gladstone. In this article, we present forecasts of Australia’s east coast interconnected gas system with daily resolution using our dynamic partial equilibrium model. Modelling results show the rapid development of LNG plants combined with restrictive CSG development policies in NSW may result in unserved load from 2016. Relaxing development constraints or delaying construction of one LNG terminal by 1 year could have avoided the risk of Unserved Load events in the domestic gas market. Lessons can be learned from this CSG-LNG boom scenario. Facilitating new gas supplies is the most eﬃcient way of alleviating the impacts of the CSG-LNG boom on domestic markets in the medium term. In the long-term, Australian policymakers may consider the merits of a National Net Beneﬁts Test to maximise welfare through appropriate coordination – as is done by policymakers in the USA – as opposed to protecting local industries through ‘domestic gas reservation policies’.
Peritapnia minima Chemsak & Linsley 1978
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Peritapnia
Peritapnia minima

description: 2. Peritapnia minima Chemsak & Linsley, 1978
Type locality — Mexico, Baja California: 2 mi NE San Pedro. (CASC). Distribution — Mexico (Baja California).
 Peritapnia minima Chemsak & Linsley, 1978a: 26; Chemsak et al., 1992: 132 (cat.); Noguera & Chemsak, 1996: 406 (cat.); Monné, 2001b: 46 (cat. hosts).
 Tapeina nudicornis; Horn, 1894: 349 (not Bates, 1885).
 Peritapnia nudicornis; Horn, 1894: 403 (not Bates, 1885); Hamilton in Leng & Hamilton, 1896: 177; Linsley, 1934a: 62 (distr.); 1942: 75.
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2005, Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae, pp. 1-760 in Zootaxa 1023 (1) on pages 1-760, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.946.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5049553
Campesterol and dithymoquinone as a potent inhibitors of SARS cov-2 main proteases—promising drug candidates for targeting its novel variants
Creators: name: Algaissi, Abdullah
name: Khan, Elhan
name: Tabassum, Heena
name: Samreen, Sadiyah
name: Khamjan, Nizar A.
name: Lohani, Mohtashim
name: Khan, Saif
name: Kameli, Nader
name: Madkhali, Faisal
name: Ahmad, Iffat Zareen
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The sudden outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has currently taken approximately 2.4 million lives, with no specific medication and fast-tracked tested vaccines for prevention. These vaccines have their own adverse effects, which have severely affected the global healthcare system. The discovery of the main protease structure of coronavirus (Mpro/Clpro) has resulted in the identification of compounds having antiviral potential, especially from the herbal system. In this study, the computer-associated drug design tools were utilised to analyze the reported phytoconstituents of Nigella sativa for their antiviral activity against the main protease. Fifty-eight compounds were subjected to pharmacological parameter analysis to determine their lead likeness in comparison to the standard drugs (chloroquine and nirmatrelvir) used in the treatment of SARS-CoV-2. Nearly 31 compounds were docked against five different SARS-CoV-2 main proteases, and all compounds showed better binding affinity and inhibition constant against the proteases. However, dithymoquinone and campesterol displayed the best binding scores and hence were further subjected to dynamics and MMPBSA study for 100 ns. The stability analysis shows that dithymoquinone and campesterol show less variation in fluctuation in residues compared to standard complexes. Moreover, dithymoquinone exhibited higher binding affinity and favorable interaction followed by campesterol as compared to the standard drug. The in silico computational analysis provides a promising hit for regulating the main proteases activity.
3-D Photoionization Structure and Distances of Planetary Nebulae I. NGC6369
Creators: name: Monteiro, Hektor
name: Schwarz, Hugo E.
name: Gruenwald, Ruth
name: Heathcote, Steve
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of mapping the planetary nebula NGC6369 using multiple long slit spectra taken with the CTIO 1.5m telescope. We create two dimensional emission line images from our spectra, and use these to derive fluxes for 17 lines, the Halpha/Hbeta extinction map, the [SII] line ratio density map, and the [NII] temperature map of the nebula. We use our photoionization code constrained by these data to determine the distance, the ionizing star characteristics, and show that a clumpy hour-glass shape is the most likely three-dimensional structure for NGC6369. Note that our knowledge of the nebular structure eliminates all uncertainties associated with classical distance determinations, and our method can be applied to any spatially resolved emission line nebula. We use the central star, nebular emission line, and optical+IR luminosities to show that NGC6369 is matter bound, as about 70% of the Lyman continuum flux escapes. Using evolutionary tracks from Bloecker(1995) we derive a central star mass of about 0.65 Msolar.
description: 32pp, 12figs, accepted by ApJ
Cognitive Recovery After Stroke: A Meta-analysis and Metaregression of Intervention and Cohort Studies
Creators: name: Saa, JP
name: Tse, Tamara
name: Baum, CM
name: Cumming, T
name: Josman, N
name: Rose, Miranda
name: O’Keefe, S
name: Sewell, Katherine
name: Nguyen, Vinh
name: Carey, Leeanne
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Background: Cognition affects poststroke recovery, but meta-analyses of cognition have not yet provided a comparison of observational and intervention evidence. Objective: To describe the trajectory of poststroke cognition and the factors that moderate it across intervention and observational cohorts. Methods: Six databases were searched up to January 2020. Studies describing quantitative changes in cognition in adults poststroke were included. Interventions were classified into pharmacological, therapist-led, nonroutine/alternative, and usual care. Summary estimates were compared via hierarchical mixed-effects models. Age, recovery stage, stroke etiology, cognitive domain targeted in studies, and intervention types were investigated as moderators of cognition. Recovery stage and intervention were further analyzed in a multiplicative metaregression model. Results: A total of 43 intervention trials and 79 observation cohorts involving 28 222 stroke participants were included. Heterogeneity was significant (τ = 0.09; CI = 0.01-0.21, P
Strongly-interacting massive particle and dark photon in the era of intensity frontier
Creators: name: Kamada, Ayuki
name: Yamada, Masaki
name: Yanagida, Tsutomu T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A strongly interacting massive particle (SIMP) is an interesting candidate for dark matter (DM) because its self-interaction cross section can be naturally strong enough to address the astrophysical problem of small-scale structure formation. A simple model was proposed by assuming a monopole condensation, where composite SIMP comes from a "strongly interacting" U(1)$_{\rm d}$ gauge theory. In the original model, the DM relic abundance is determined by the $3\to2$ annihilation process via the Wess-Zumino-Witten term. In this letter, we discuss that the DM relic abundance is naturally determined also by a semi-annihilation process via a kinetic mixing between the hypercharge gauge boson and the dark U(1)$_{\rm d}$ gauge boson (dark photon). The dark photon can be discovered by LDMX-style missing momentum experiments in the near future.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures; v2: figure updated, minor comments added
Understanding the resource curse (or blessing) across national and regional scales: Theory, empirical challenges and an application
Creators: name: Fleming, David A.
name: Measham, Thomas G.
name: Paredes, Dusan
name: Fleming, David A.
name: Measham, Thomas G.
name: Paredes, Dusan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Australia
subject: economic growth
subject: mining boom
subject: natural resource curse
subject: nonrenewable resources
subject: regional development

description: The relationship between resource extraction activity and economic growth has been widely studied in the literature, and the resource curse hypotheses emerged as a theory to explain the eﬀects of resource windfalls on national economies. However, within countries, resource booms and busts can have distinctive eﬀects across local economies, as extractive regions face particular economic consequences unlikely to be observed in nonresource regions. Empirically, most studies analysing the resource curse have relied on cross-country models to estimate eﬀects and inform policy; however, the use of regional – within-country – analysis has gained attention from scholars lately, promoted by two advantages: it avoids unobserved country heterogeneities confounding economic outcomes caused by resources and exploits the subnational quasi-natural experimental conditions generated by endowments. This paper contributes to the resource curse literature by discussing its theoretical causes across scale (regional vs. national eﬀects) and highlighting the empirical challenges involved in the analysis of mining economic impacts across regions. We complement the discussions by econometrically modelling economic growth across nonmetropolitan substate regions of Australia during a period of resource windfalls, ﬁnding that in most cases, resources have been a blessing for local economies, although negative eﬀects have also been experienced in parts of the country.
Provable first-order transitions for liquid crystal and lattice gauge models with continuous symmetries
Creators: name: van Enter, A. C. D.
name: Shlosman, S. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider various sufficiently nonlinear sigma models for nematic liquid crystal ordering of RP^{N-1} type and of lattice gauge type with continous symmetries. We rigorously show that they exhibit a first-order transition in the temperature. The result holds in dimension 2 or more for the RP^{N-1} models and in dimension 3 or more for the lattice gauge models. In the two-dimensional case our results clarify and solve a recent controversy about the possibility of such transitions. For lattice gauge models our methods provide the first proof of a first-order transition in a model with a continuous gauge symmetry.
World Energy Outlook 2014 projections to 2040: natural gas and coal trade, and the role of China
Creators: name: Cronshaw, Ian
name: Cronshaw, Ian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: The paper presents data and results from the World Energy Outlook (WEO) 2014, published by the International Energy Agency (IEA). Over the period to 2040, total energy use is projected to grow by almost 40 per cent, while the share of fossil fuels in the energy mix falls. Nonetheless, these fossil fuels remain the dominant sources of energy, with oil, coal and gas each accounting for around one quarter of global energy needs by 2040. Increasingly, modern renewables are projected to replace fossil fuels, especially in the power sector. Around 93 per cent of the projected increased primary energy demand comes from non-OECD countries, with two-thirds coming from developing Asia, led by China. By 2025, China could account for almost a quarter of global energy use, doubling its share since the turn of the century. After 2025, India and other Asian countries surpass China as the main centres of energy demand growth. The IEA’s WEO 2014 concludes that even taking into account ambitious policy measures announced as of mid to late 2014, energy growth projections place the world on a path consistent with a long-term temperature increase of 3.6 degrees. Urgent action is required if the world’s energy systems are to be steered towards lower greenhouse gas emissions.
Open source QGIS toolkit for the Advanced Research WRF modelling system
Creators: name: Meyer, D.
name: Riechert, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Advanced Research WRF (Weather Research and Forecasting) model is a popular atmospheric model used for research and Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP). However, despite its popularity, its set-up and configuration often demand several interdisciplinary skills that go beyond the understanding of physical processes. Pre-processing tasks, such as importing custom high-resolution datasets in the WRF Pre-processing System (WPS), still require a considerable effort from the user. We present GIS4WRF, a free, open-source, and cross-platform QGIS Python plug-in to help scientists and practitioners with their Advanced Research WRF modelling workflows. GIS4WRF incorporates new and existing tools for data-processing, configuration, simulation, and visualization into a single graphical environment, and offers WRF-CMake binary distributions for Windows, macOS, and Linux. We highlight its main features and provide useful insights into several key approaches and techniques used in its development. We end with two example applications highlighting the contributions of GIS4WRF in simplifying several WRF-related tasks.
Multi-frequency control of Faraday wave patterns
Creators: name: Topaz, Chad M.
name: Porter, Jeff
name: Silber, Mary
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show how pattern formation in Faraday waves may be manipulated by varying the harmonic content of the periodic forcing function. Our approach relies on the crucial influence of resonant triad interactions coupling pairs of critical standing wave modes with damped, spatio-temporally resonant modes. Under the assumption of weak damping and forcing, we perform a symmetry-based analysis that reveals the damped modes most relevant for pattern selection, and how the strength of the corresponding triad interactions depends on the forcing frequencies, amplitudes, and phases. In many cases, the further assumption of Hamiltonian structure in the inviscid limit determines whether the given triad interaction has an enhancing or suppressing effect on related patterns. Surprisingly, even for forcing functions with arbitrarily many frequency components, there are at most five frequencies that affect each of the important triad interactions at leading order. The relative phases of those forcing components play a key role, sometimes making the difference between an enhancing and suppressing effect. In numerical examples, we examine the validity of our results for larger values of the damping and forcing. Finally, we apply our findings to one-dimensional periodic patterns obtained with impulsive forcing and to two-dimensional superlattice patterns and quasipatterns obtained with multi-frequency forcing.
description: 16 pages, 12 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. E
Using experimental trials to improve translocation protocols for a cryptic, endangered passerine
Creators: name: Mitchell, William F
name: Boulton, Rebecca L
name: Ireland, Luke
name: Hunt, Thomas J
name: Verdon, Simon
name: Olds, Liberty GM
name: Hedger, Chris
name: Clarke, Rohan H
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 30
subject: Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences
classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 3109
subject: Zoology
classificationCode: 41
subject: Environmental sciences
classificationCode: 4101
subject: Climate change impacts and adaptation

description: No description supplied
Conductance of interacting Aharonov-Bohm systems
Creators: name: Rejec, Tomaz
name: Ramsak, Anton
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A simple formula for the zero-temperature linear response conductance of an interacting mesoscopic region, threaded by magnetic flux, and attached to noninteracting single-channel leads is presented. The formula is valid for a general interacting system exhibiting Fermi liquid properties. As an example of the efficiency of the formula the results for the conductance of a simple Aharonov-Bohm ring with Kondo-Fano resonance physics are presented and compared with numerical renormalization group results.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures; to appear in Phys. Rev. B
Connected and consuming: applying a deep learning algorithm to quantify alcoholic beverage prevalence in user-generated instagram images
Creators: name: Norman, Thomas
name: Bonela, Abraham Albert
name: He, Zhen
name: Angus, D
name: Carah, N
name: Kuntsche, Emmanuel
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 4206
subject: Public health
classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration

description: No description supplied.