cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 3 of Patient-reported outcome measures for clinical decision-making in outpatient follow-up: validity and reliability of a renal disease questionnaire
Creators: name: Grove, Birgith Engelst
name: Schougaard, Liv Marit Valen
name: Ivarsen, Per Ramløv
name: Kyte, Derek
name: Hjollund, Niels Henrik
name: de Thurah, Annette
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3. COSMIN Risk of BIAS checklist.
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title: Editorial preparation of the edition of the cycle of fairy tales Jill Murphy "the worst witchÂ»
Creators: name: ÐÐ²Ð°Ð½Ð¾Ð²Ð°, ÐÐ°Ð»ÐµÑÐ¸Ñ
Publisher: name: Ð¡Ð°Ð½ÐºÑ-ÐÐµÑÐµÑÐ±ÑÑÐ³ÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ Ð¿Ð¾Ð»Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐ½Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ ÑÐ½Ð¸Ð²ÐµÑÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑ ÐÐµÑÑÐ° ÐÐµÐ»Ð¸ÐºÐ¾Ð³Ð¾
Year: 2019
Subjects: ÑÐµÐ´Ð°ÐºÑÑÑÐ°
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editorial
children's literature
children's editions
editorial analysis
editorial preparation of editions
editorial of children's edition

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description: This paper outlines the features of the work of the editor on children's publications. The subject and purpose of children's literature, types of children's publications are considered. A study of the editorial training of children's literature has been conducted. Formed a general description of the development of the concept of children's publications. Conducted editorial analysis of children's artwork. A new edition concept has been developed.
Do Washington state public policies foster social constructions of homelessness?
Creators: name: Trnjanin, Adna
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2021

description: This study examined public policies and city ordinances in Washington State. In particular, this
description: study focused on identifying whether Washington State policies and City ordinances on housing
description: and homelessness fostered a construction of homeless individuals. Much of the academic literature
description: focuses on what causes homelessness and how homelessness affects specific types of homeless
description: populations, but it seems to exclude homelessness in the policy process and how policies construct
description: these definitions of homeless populations. A mixed method approach was used. An interview with
description: nine Washington state employees who work in the housing and homelessness field, and a content
description: analysis of 321 Washington State policies and 212 city ordinances, was conducted to better
description: understand the social constructions of homelessness that have been codified in policy. Blaming
description: perspective and systemic factors were used to identify whether a policy was constructing homeless
description: individuals positively or negatively. Within the State of Washington policies, 77% were passed in
description: favor of addressing the systemic factors that affect housing and homelessness. Within the city
description: ordinances, 72% of the policies were passed with intent to address the systemic factors. However,
description: only 11% of state laws perceive individual blaming perspective, while 52% of city ordinances proposed individual blaming perspective. According to the participant responses, economic
description: factors played the largest role as stressors to the housing field and homeless population. Further,
description: certain populations of homeless individuals see more preferential treatment than others as they are
description: seen more deserving and harder to judge.
Dynamics, Synchronization and Quantum Phase Transitions of Two Dissipative Spins
Creators: name: Orth, Peter P.
name: Roosen, David
name: Hofstetter, Walter
name: Hur, Karyn Le
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the static and dynamical properties of two Ising-coupled quantum spins embedded in a common bosonic bath as an archetype of dissipative quantum mechanics. First, we elucidate the ground state phase diagram for an ohmic and a subohmic bath using a combination of bosonic numerical renormalization group (NRG), analytical techniques and intuitive arguments. Second, employing the time-dependent NRG we investigate the system's rich dynamical behavior arising from the complex interplay between spin-spin and spin-bath interactions. Interestingly, spin oscillations can synchronize due to the proximity of the common non-Markovian bath and the system displays highly entangled steady states for certain nonequilibrium initial preparations. We complement our non-perturbative numerical results by exact analytical solutions when available and provide quantitative limits on the applicability of the perturbative Bloch-Redfield approach at weak coupling.
description: 21 pages, 18 figures
Atmospheric lepton fluxes at very high energy
Creators: name: Illana, J. I.
name: Lipari, Paolo
name: Masip, M.
name: Meloni, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The observation of astrophysical neutrinos requires a detailed understanding of the atmospheric neutrino background. Since neutrinos are produced in meson decays together with a charged lepton, important constraints on this background can be obtained from the measurement of the atmospheric muon flux. Muons, however, can also be produced as mu+ mu- pairs by purely electromagnetic processes. We use the Z-moment method to study and compare the contributions to the atmospheric muon and neutrino fluxes from different sources (pi/K decay, charmed and unflavored hadron decay, and photon conversion into a muon pair). We pay special attention to the contribution from unflavored mesons (eta, eta', rho0, omega and phi). These mesons are abundant in air showers, their lifetimes are much shorter than those of charged pions or kaons, and they have decay branching ratios of order 10^-4 into final states containing a muon pair. We show that they may be the dominant source of muons at E_mu >10^3 TeV.
description: Pdflatex, 28 pages, 6 figures
A comparison of the effect of three different low-level laser power settings on limb function, bone healing and pain in dogs following tibial plateau levelling osteotomy: a pilot stude
Creators: name: Chen, Chi-Ya
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2023

description: Objective: To evaluate the effect of different low-level laser therapy (LLLT) power settings on
description: pain, limb use, bone healing, and the synovial prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) concentrations in dogs
description: after tibial plateau levelling osteotomy (TPLO) surgery.
description: Materials and Methods: A randomized, double-blinded, prospective study with 9 client-owned
description: dogs with spontaneous unilateral cranial cruciate ligament rupture. Patients were divided into 3
description: LLLT power treatment groups; 2, 4 or 6 J/cm2
description: , respectively, using two 808nm, 500mW power
description: Class IIIb laser sources. All dogs underwent stifle arthroscopy followed by TPLO surgery.
description: Outcome metrics included serial orthopaedic examinations, accelerometery, goniometry, ground
description: reaction force analysis (GRF), Canine Brief Pain Inventory (CBPI), Modified Glasgow
description: Composite Pain Scale (MGPS), radiographic scoring, and synovial PGE2 concentrations over the
description: 8-week study period.
description: Results: There were no significant differences in outcome metrics between all treatment groups
description: over the study period. Positive trends were noted with CBPI, MGPS, and GRF in 2 J/cm2
description: and 6 J/cm2
description: groups and increased bone healing and decreased synovial PGE2 concentrations in the 4
description: J/cm2
description: group.
description: Clinical Significance: Although statistical significance was not detected in this study, trends
description: were observed between the 3 laser treatment groups. The statistical variables from this pilot
description: study will aid in designing a larger controlled, LLLT power-variable study in future TPLO
description: surgery patients.
"Whose Influence and Whose Priorities? Insights from Government and Donor Stakeholders"
Creators: name: Admin, RISE
name: Asgedom et al., Selamawi
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: Education policy
Teacher education and professional development of educators
Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This study is part of the RISE Ethiopia country research team's work on the country's national education reforms (called GEQIP, General Education Quality Improvement Program, currently in its third phase) which investigates whether and how these reforms enhance learning and learning equity especially for disadvantaged groups such as girls, children in extreme poverty or children with disabilities.
A Framework for QoS-aware Execution of Workflows over the Cloud
Creators: name: Marzolla, Moreno
name: Mirandola, Raffaela
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Performance (cs.PF)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Cloud Computing paradigm is providing system architects with a new powerful tool for building scalable applications. Clouds allow allocation of resources on a "pay-as-you-go" model, so that additional resources can be requested during peak loads and released after that. However, this flexibility asks for appropriate dynamic reconfiguration strategies. In this paper we describe SAVER (qoS-Aware workflows oVER the Cloud), a QoS-aware algorithm for executing workflows involving Web Services hosted in a Cloud environment. SAVER allows execution of arbitrary workflows subject to response time constraints. SAVER uses a passive monitor to identify workload fluctuations based on the observed system response time. The information collected by the monitor is used by a planner component to identify the minimum number of instances of each Web Service which should be allocated in order to satisfy the response time constraint. SAVER uses a simple Queueing Network (QN) model to identify the optimal resource allocation. Specifically, the QN model is used to identify bottlenecks, and predict the system performance as Cloud resources are allocated or released. The parameters used to evaluate the model are those collected by the monitor, which means that SAVER does not require any particular knowledge of the Web Services and workflows being executed. Our approach has been validated through numerical simulations, whose results are reported in this paper.
Transport Properties in Ferromagnetic Josephson Junction between Triplet Superconductors
Creators: name: Rahnavard, Yousef
name: Rashedi, Gholamreza
name: Yokoyama, Takehito
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Charge and spin Josephson currents in a ballistic superconductor-ferromagnet-superconductor junction with spin-triplet pairing symmetry are studied using the quasiclassical Eilenberger equation. The gap vector of superconductors has an arbitrary relative angle with respect to magnetization of the ferromagnetic layer. We clarify the effects of the thickness of ferromagnetic layer and magnitude of the magnetization on the Josephson charge and spin currents. We find that 0-πtransition can occur except for the case that the exchange field and d-vector are in nearly perpendicular configuration. We also show how spin current flows due to misorientation between the exchange field and d-vector.
description: 6 pages, 8 figures
Additional file 4 of Patient-reported outcome measures for clinical decision-making in outpatient follow-up: validity and reliability of a renal disease questionnaire
Creators: name: Grove, Birgith Engelst
name: Schougaard, Liv Marit Valen
name: Ivarsen, Per Ramløv
name: Kyte, Derek
name: Hjollund, Niels Henrik
name: de Thurah, Annette
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 4. S1. Results from the cognitive interviewing.
Chirality in spin-1/2 zigzag XY chain: Low-temperature density-matrix renormalization group study
Creators: name: Sugimoto, Takanori
name: Sota, Shigetoshi
name: Tohyama, Takami
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study spin chirality for a spin-1/2 zigzag XY chain at low temperature by applying a low-temperature density-matrix renormalization group technique. We calculate temperature dependence of dynamical and static correlations of the chirality. In a chiral phase, chiral long-range order at zero temperature disappears at finite temperature, consistent with the fact that there is no long-range order at finite temperature in one-dimensional systems with short-range interactions. In a dimer phase next to the chiral phase, we find an enhancement of static chiral correlation as well as spin correlation with increasing temperature. The enhancement corresponds to the increase of spectral weight inside a gap in the dynamical chiral-correlation function. This temperature-induced chiral correlation is a demonstration of the presence of a chiral state in excited states.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
Additional file 5 of Patient-reported outcome measures for clinical decision-making in outpatient follow-up: validity and reliability of a renal disease questionnaire
Creators: name: Grove, Birgith Engelst
name: Schougaard, Liv Marit Valen
name: Ivarsen, Per Ramløv
name: Kyte, Derek
name: Hjollund, Niels Henrik
name: de Thurah, Annette
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 5. Agreement and reliability between the items from test 1 to test 2 in original categories (n = 160).
Effect of water models on transmembrane self-assembled cyclic peptide nanotubes. Simulation Files
Creators: name: Calvelo, Martin
name: Lynch, Charlotte I.
name: Granja, Juan R.
name: Sansom, Mark S. P.
name: Garcia-Fandiño, Rebeca
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Molecular Dynamics
Water Models
Self-Assembly
Nanotubes
Cyclic-peptide
Lipid bilayer

description: In order to study the behavior of two types of self-assembling peptide motifs, alternating α-amino acids with γ- or δ-aminocycloalkanecarboxylic acids inserted in a lipid bilayer and in presence of different water models (TIP3P, TIP4P, TIP4P/2005 and OPC), Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations have been carried out. The obtained results can be found in the following publication: "Effect of water models on transmembrane self-assembled cyclic peptide nanotubes", submitted. Here, the files needed to repeat the simulations are available for the free use of the community. For any question/suggestion, please contact martin.calvelo@gmail.com
description: This work was supported by the Spanish Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI) and the ERDF (CTQ2016-78423-R, PID2019-111126RB-100 and RTI2018-098795-A-I00), and by the Xunta de Galicia and the ERDF (ED431F 2020/05, ED431C 2017/25 and Centro singular de investigación de Galicia accreditation 2016-2019, ED431G/09). M.C. thanks to Xunta de Galicia for a predoctoral fellowship (ED481A-2017/068). R.G.-F. thanks to Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades for a "Ramón y Cajal" contract (RYC-2016-20335). Research in MSPS's group is supported by EPSRC (EP/R004722/1; EP/V010948/1) BBSRC (BB/R00126X/1 ), and Wellcome Trust (208361/Z/17/Z). All calculations were carried out at the Centro de Supercomputación de Galicia (CESGA).
Galaxy Zoo: Bar Lengths in Nearby Disk Galaxies
Creators: name: Hoyle, Ben
name: Masters, Karen. L.
name: Nichol, Robert C.
name: Edmondson, Edward M.
name: Smith, Arfon M.
name: Lintott, Chris
name: Scranton, Ryan
name: Bamford, Steven
name: Schawinski, Kevin
name: Thomas, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an analysis of bar length measurements of 3150 local galaxies in a volume limited sample of low redshift (z < 0.06) disk galaxies. Barred galaxies were initially selected from the Galaxy Zoo 2 project, and the lengths and widths of the bars were manually drawn by members of the Galaxy Zoo community using a Google Maps interface. Bars were measured independently by different observers, multiple times per galaxy (>=3), and we find that observers were able to reproduce their own bar lengths to 3% and each others' to better than 20%. We find a "color bimodality" in our disk galaxy population with bar length, i.e., longer bars inhabit redder disk galaxies and the bars themselves are redder, and that the bluest galaxies host the smallest galactic bars (< 5 kpc/h). We also find that bar and disk colors are clearly correlated, and for galaxies with small bars, the disk is, on average, redder than the bar colors, while for longer bars the bar then itself is redder, on average, than the disk. We further find that galaxies with a prominent bulge are more likely to host longer bars than those without bulges. We categorise our galaxy populations by how the bar and/or ring are connected to the spiral arms. We find that galaxies whose bars are directly connected to the spiral arms are preferentially bluer and that these galaxies host typically shorter bars. Within the scatter, we find that stronger bars are found in galaxies which host a ring (and only a ring). The bar length and width measurements used herein are made publicly available for others to use (http://data.galaxyzoo.org).
description: 15 pages, 16 figures, accepted in MNRAS
Nonautonomous mixed mKdV-sinh-Gordon hierarchy
Creators: name: Gomes, J. F.
name: de Melo, G. R.
name: Ymai, L. H.
name: Zimerman, A. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The construction of a nonautonomous mixed mKdV/sine-Gordon model is proposed by employing an infinite dimensional affine Lie algebraic structure within the zero curvature representation. A systematic construction of soliton solutions is provided by an adaptation of the dressing method which takes into account arbitrary time dependent functions. A particular choice of those arbitrary functions provides an interesting solution describing the transition of a pure mKdV system into a pure sine-Gordon soliton.
description: 14 pages 5 figures, Latex Revised improved version
Dissipation-induced d-Wave Pairing of Fermionic Atoms in an Optical Lattice
Creators: name: Diehl, S.
name: Yi, W.
name: Daley, A. J.
name: Zoller, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show how dissipative dynamics can give rise to pairing for two-component fermions on a lattice. In particular, we construct a "parent" Liouvillian operator so that a BCS-type state of a given symmetry, e.g. a d-wave state, is reached for arbitrary initial states in the absence of conservative forces. The system-bath couplings describe single-particle, number conserving and quasi-local processes. The pairing mechanism crucially relies on Fermi statistics. We show how such Liouvillians can be realized via reservoir engineering with cold atoms representing a driven dissipative dynamics.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures. Replaced with the published version
Additional file 6 of Patient-reported outcome measures for clinical decision-making in outpatient follow-up: validity and reliability of a renal disease questionnaire
Creators: name: Grove, Birgith Engelst
name: Schougaard, Liv Marit Valen
name: Ivarsen, Per Ramløv
name: Kyte, Derek
name: Hjollund, Niels Henrik
name: de Thurah, Annette
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 6. Sensitivity analyses showing agreement and reliability between the items from test 1 to test 2 in original categories (n = 204).
Optical Spectra of Graded Nanostructured TiO2 Chiral Thin Films
Creators: name: Babaei, F.
name: Esfandiar, A.
name: Savaloni, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The rigorous coupled wave analysis method (RCWA) is applied to the graded chiral TiO2 thin films in axial and non-axial excited states using the Bruggeman homogenization formalism. The dependence of the filtering frequency and polarization selectivity as a function of different structural parameters, are investigated. A good agreement with experimental results reported by other researchers is achieved.
description: 25 pages,8 figures
K-classes of matroids and equivariant localization
Creators: name: Fink, Alex
name: Speyer, David E
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: To every matroid, we associate a class in the K-theory of the Grassmannian. We study this class using the method of equivariant localization. In particular, we provide a geometric interpretation of the Tutte polynomial. We also extend results of the second author concerning the behavior of such classes under direct sum, series and parallel connection and two-sum; these results were previously only established for realizable matroids, and their earlier proofs were more difficult.
description: v2: added a starting point for combinatorialists in Section 2.4, + minor changes
Semantic Recommendation Engine Solutions
Creators: name: Sara Duane, Sara Nash
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Content personalization and recommendation engines are pervasive in today’s society. They power some of our most used platforms–including Amazon, Spotify, Netflix, and more. However, many organizations struggle to provide their employees and customers with the same ease of content and information discovery. They are turning to semantic recommendation engines to solve these business challenges. How do you get started in designing and implementing an enterprise content recommendation engine to connect people with relevant content at the time of need? How do you define a knowledge graph that will effectively connect people to the right experts? Do you take a deterministic or statistical approach with your semantic foundation? Nash and Duane have led numerous recommendation engine implementations, including with organizations in the healthcare, finance, and government sectors. During this presentation, they will share case studies, lessons learned, and success stories of enterprise semantic recommendation engines, a clear approach for establishing a recommender, and best practices to drive a successful implementation.
Integrative genomic analyses of lung adenocarcinoma from never-smokers
Creators: name: Nagelberg, Amy L.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer mortality worldwide. Targeted therapies have improved outcomes for lung cancer patients carrying certain mutations, but challenges remain. Many tumours harbour mutations in uncharacterized genes or genes that are non-actionable due to difficulty of drug development. In addition, patients with lung tumours that initially respond to targeted therapies eventually develop resistance. Therefore, discovery and characterization of new genes that drive lung tumourigenesis is needed to improve treatment. Next-generation sequencing approaches have enabled identification of novel cancer drivers. However, gene discovery in lung cancer remains a challenge, as the high mutational burden frequenting these tumours makes it difficult to distinguish driver versus passenger events. In addition, computational pipelines for analysis of sequence data often use strict filters that may limit their power for gene discovery. This study attempts to identify novel candidate drivers of lung cancer using an approach that leverages greater flexibility in upstream bioinformatic parameters and emphasizes filters that are weighted to account for biological relevance. This is implemented using whole exome sequencing data from 15 never-smoker lung cancers and matched normal lung controls. The novel workflow presented here identified 12 new lung cancer candidate genes, as well as 9 previously identified drivers. Integration with independent datasets and a secondary custom-capture sequencing dataset in an expanded in-house cohort was used to evaluate mutation prevalence. Furthermore, copy number and expression data for the same tumours were used to assess evidence of two-hit alteration for candidate tumour suppressor genes, and correlations between gene status and patient survival were also evaluated. The candidates were also integrated with an in vivo Sleeping Beauty insertional mutagenesis screen in transgenic mouse models of lung cancer to evaluate their causative likelihood and functional relevance for lung tumour development. Three candidates — MAP3K5, SHPRH, and ASCC3, were identified as candidate tumour suppressor genes that passed analysis criteria and are located on or near the chromosomal region 6q23-25, which is frequently deleted in lung cancer and associated with familial lung cancer susceptibility. SHPRH was functionally validated, with preliminary confirmation of its tumour suppressive function presented.
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title: Prototype of Applications for Anomaly Detection in Railcar Parts Data with Counterfeit Detection
Creators: name: ÐÐµÑÑÐµÑÐ¾Ð², ÐÐ¸ÐºÐ¸ÑÐ°
Publisher: name: Ð¡Ð°Ð½ÐºÑ-ÐÐµÑÐµÑÐ±ÑÑÐ³ÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ Ð¿Ð¾Ð»Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐ½Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ ÑÐ½Ð¸Ð²ÐµÑÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑ ÐÐµÑÑÐ° ÐÐµÐ»Ð¸ÐºÐ¾Ð³Ð¾
Year: 2023
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anomalie detection
databases

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description: The object of the study is data on the details of railway cars and the stages of their life cycle. The purpose of the work is to create a prototype application for detecting anomalies in rail traffic data. The first chapter sets the task and provides an overview of machine learning methods. The second chapter compares methods for detecting anomalies and chooses the best method. In the third chapter, a prototype of an application for detecting anomalies in data using a random forest model was developed. As a result, an application for detecting anomalies in data was implemented, algorithms for detecting anomalies that are necessary to identify counterfeit products were considered, and a database for storing data was created.
Additional file 7 of Patient-reported outcome measures for clinical decision-making in outpatient follow-up: validity and reliability of a renal disease questionnaire
Creators: name: Grove, Birgith Engelst
name: Schougaard, Liv Marit Valen
name: Ivarsen, Per Ramløv
name: Kyte, Derek
name: Hjollund, Niels Henrik
name: de Thurah, Annette
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 7. Known group (discriminiative validity) stratified into CKD stage 3b and stage 4 and 5 at time for test 1 among 160 patients with chronic kidney disease.
Flavour physics constraints in the BMSSM
Creators: name: Bernal, N.
name: Losada, M.
name: Mahmoudi, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the implications of the presence of the two leading-order, non-renormalizable operators in the Higgs sector of the MSSM to flavour physics observables. We identify the constraints of flavour physics on the parameters of the BMSSM when we: a) focus on a region of parameters for which electroweak baryogenesis is feasible, b) use a CMSSM-like parametrization, and c) consider the case of a generic NUHM-type model. We find significant differences as compared to the standard MSSM case.
description: 22 pages, 7 figures
Additional file 5 of VA-TIRFM-based SM kymograph analysis for dwell time and colocalization of plasma membrane protein in plant cells
Creators: name: Su, Bodan
name: Wang, Anqi
name: Xie, Daoxin
name: Shan, Xiaoyi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 5: Figure S3. Colocalization between AtRGS1-YFP and mCherry-AtREM1.3 analyzed by VA-TIRFM under different conditions. A–C Typical single-molecular viewer of AtRGS1-YFP (A), mCherry-AtREM1.3 (B), and merge (C) images at steady state. D–F Typical single-molecular viewer of AtRGS1-YFP (D), mCherry-AtREM1.3 (E), and merge (F) images upon JA treatment. Bar = 5 μm. The 6-day-old transgenic seedlings co-expressing AtRGS1-YFP and mCherry-AtREM1.3 were treated with ½ MS liquid medium (CK) and 100 μM MeJA (JA) for 8 h.
Late Devonian shear zone reactivation in the Canadian Appalachian orogen
Creators: name: Piette-Lauzière, Nicolas
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: Accretionary orogens are characterized by sequential collisions of buoyant crustal material with a continental margin or an oceanic arc. Because the timing, kinematics, and intensity of deformation are controlled by the obliquity of the collisions, pre-accretionary shape, and rheology of the accreted crustal material, it is often difficult to determine what processes controlled the generation or reactivation of shear zones not located in the immediate vicinity of a suture marking a collision. In the Canadian Appalachians, this problem is compounded by the lack of tectonic interpretation for the regional deformation occurring during the Late Devonian oblique collision of Meguma to composite Laurentia during the Neoacadian Orogeny. To address these issues, this thesis targets the Eastern Highlands and Pocologan-Kennebecasis shear zones (Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, respectively) which were part of the composite margin of Laurentia at the time of the Neoacadian orogeny. Several characteristics of these shear zones are quantified including 1) the timing of deformation, through U-Pb and ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar geochronology; 2) the kinematics based on field and thin section observations and quartz crystallographic preferred orientations; and 3) the potential impact of fluid-rock interaction on shear zone rheology. The new information from this work is combined with regional interpretation of aeromagnetic and gravimetric depth slices, and compilation of shear zone deformation ages and ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar cooling ages to provide insight into the tectonic setting of the Neoacadian Orogeny. In the northern Appalachians, between the Late Devonian and Mississippian, regionally extensive NE-SW and ENE-WSW oriented shear zones were formed, or reactivated, with a dextral strike-slip shear sense consistent with a large-scale C-C’ system. Aeromagnetic and gravity geophysical data indicate that several of these structures are listric, and thus formed a lateral succession of transpressive and transtensive segments crosscut by antithetic sinistral shear zones. These structures appear to define a syntaxis in New England. ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar age transects across the region outline Neoacadian cooling and exhumation that correlates spatially to an area of high paleo-elevation that was contemporaneous to the opening of the Maritimes and Catskills basins. Such a setting is similar to the present-day oblique collision of Yakutat terrane to Western North America.
Update of the Unitarity Triangle Analysis
Creators: name: UTfit Collaboration
name: Bevan, A.
name: Bona, M.
name: Ciuchini, M.
name: Derkach, D.
name: Franco, E.
name: Lubicz, V.
name: Martinelli, G.
name: Parodi, F.
name: Pierini, M.
name: Schiavi, C.
name: Silvestrini, L.
name: Sordini, V.
name: Stocchi, A.
name: Tarantino, C.
name: Vagnoni, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the status of the Unitarity Triangle Analysis (UTA), within the Standard Model (SM) and beyond, with experimental and theoretical inputs updated for the ICHEP 2010 conference. Within the SM, we find that the general consistency among all the constraints leaves space only to some tension (between the UTA prediction and the experimental measurement) in BR(B -> tau nu), sin(2 beta) and epsilon_K. In the UTA beyond the SM, we allow for New Physics (NP) effects in (Delta F)=2 processes. The hint of NP at the 2.9 sigma level in the B_s-\bar B_s mixing turns out to be confirmed by the present update, which includes the new D0 result on the dimuon charge asymmetry but not the new CDF measurement of phi_s, being the likelihood not yet released.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, Proceedings of the 35th International Conference of High Energy Physics - ICHEP2010 (July 22-28, 2010, Paris)
Cyclic overlay model of p–y curves for laterally loaded monopiles in cohesionless soil
Creators: name: Song, Junnan
name: Achmus, Martin
Publisher: name: Göttingen : Copernicus Publications
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Bearing behaviors
subject: Cohesionless soil
subject: Large diameter
subject: Length to diameter ratio
subject: Load cycle
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::300 | Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie::330 | Wirtschaft::333 | Boden- und Energiewirtschaft::333,7 | Natürliche Ressourcen, Energie und Umwelt

description: The bearing behaviour of large-diameter monopile foundations for offshore wind turbines under lateral cyclic loads in cohesionless soil is an issue of ongoing research. In practice, mostly the p–y approach is applied in the design of monopiles. Recently, modifications of the original p–y approach for monotonic loading stated in the API regulations have been proposed to account for the special bearing behaviour of large-diameter piles with small length-to-diameter ratios. However, cyclic loading for horizontally loaded piles predominates the serviceability of the offshore wind converters, and the actual number of load cycles cannot be considered by the cyclic p–y approach of the API regulations. This research therefore focuses on the effects of cyclic loading on the p–y curves along the pile shaft and aims to develop a cyclic overlay model to determine the cyclic p–y curves valid for a lateral load with a given number of load cycles. A stiffness degradation method (SDM) is applied in a three-dimensional finite element model to determine the effect of the cyclic loading by degrading the secant soil stiffness according to the magnitude of cyclic loading and number of load cycles based on the results of cyclic triaxial tests. Thereby, the numerical simulation results are used to develop a cyclic overlay model, i.e. an analytical approach to adapt the monotonic (or static) p–y curve to the number of load cycles. The new model is applied to a reference system and compared to the API approach for cyclic loads.
Nudging travellers to societally favourable routes: The impact of visual communication and emotional responses on decision making
Creators: name: Fuest, Stefan
name: Sester, Monika
name: Griffin, Amy L.
Publisher: name: Amsterdam : Elsevier Ltd.
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Map symbolisation
subject: Visual variables
subject: Emotions
subject: Route choice
subject: Traffic
subject: Air quality
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::300 | Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie::380 | Handel, Kommunikation, Verkehr

description: As urbanisation increases, in many places, the transport system is suffering from problems that may affect large parts of the urban population, such as traffic congestion or increased air pollution. In both cases, a better distribution of traffic flows could contribute to establishing a more sustainable transport system, and to improve the situation from a societal point of view. In this paper, we use cartographic symbolisation for communicating favourability of route options for achieving a societal benefit. Since map symbols can evoke different emotional responses in the viewer, we investigate to which extent map symbols evoke positive and negative emotions and whether these influence route choice decision making. We created different cartographic visualisations and designed a user study that investigates the effectiveness and suitability of these different visualisation variants for influencing route choice based on two scenarios: traffic and air quality. Fourteen route maps were prepared using different map symbols to symbolise societally favourable and non-favourable route options. The results of this study show that map symbols can be used effectively for influencing route choice towards choosing the favourable route for the two tested scenarios. While visualisations that modify only lines were more effective in the traffic scenario, area symbol modifications were more effective for the air quality scenario. The symbolisation evoked a wide range of emotions in participants. While non-favourable routes mainly evoke negative emotions (particularly fear), favourable routes mainly evoked positive emotions (particularly contentment) or no emotions. The results further demonstrate that for some of the visualisation variants, emotions felt in response to the map visualisations contributed significantly to changing the route choice decisions in favour of the societally favourable route option. The findings of this research demonstrate the relationship between route choice behaviour and emotional responses elicited by map symbols.
Cosmological density perturbations from conformal scalar field: infrared properties and statistical anisotropy
Creators: name: Libanov, M.
name: Rubakov, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a scenario in which primordial scalar perturbations are generated when complex conformal scalar field rolls down its negative quartic potential. Initially, these are the perturbations of the phase of this field; they are converted into the adiabatic perturbations at a later stage. A potentially dangerous feature of this scenario is the existence of perturbations in the radial field direction, which have red power spectrum. We show, however, that to the linear order in the small parameter - the quartic self-coupling - the infrared effects are completely harmless, as they can be absorbed into field redefinition. We then evaluate the statistical anisotropy inherent in the model due to the existence of the long-ranged radial perturbations. To the linear order in the quartic self-coupling the statistical anisotropy is free of the infrared effects. The latter show up at the quadratic order in the self-coupling and result in the mild (logarithmic) enhancement of the corresponding contribution to the statistical anisotropy. The resulting statistical anisotropy is a combination of a larger term which, however, decays as momentum increases, and a smaller term which is independent of momentum.
description: 19 pages, 2 figures. Journal version, typos corrected, subsection added
STUDIES ON ANTI-MULLERIAN HORMONE SERUM LEVELS IN THE FEMALE ALPACA
Creators: name: Patino, Cristian
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2023

description: Camelids are important production animals in many areas of the world. Poor reproductive performance is a major problem in camelid medicine. However it still remains understudied. Abnormal follicular growth and the hormonal mechanisms related to ovarian activity are involved in most reproductive disorders. Anti-Müllerian Hormone (AMH) is essential for understanding the variation in reproductive potential as demonstrated in several domestic species. The work presented in this thesis focuses on the determination of basal AMH serum levels and its variation during different stages of the cycle, under superovulation as well as in females with ovarian hypoplasia/dysgenesis. In the first chapter, a comparative literature review on AMH was performed with the aim of knowing the current knowledge and potential use to predict the fertility in females. In the first study, a commercial ELISA AMH kit was validated for female alpacas and then use to determine the variation of AMH levels between peak of follicular development and post-ovulation. The results of this experiment showed that AMH serum levels remain constant between estrus and diestrus. There was a large individual variation amongst females in serum AMH concentrations.
description: In the second study, the effect of superovulation on AMH serum levels and ovarian response was studied. Thirteen female alpacas were synchronized with GnRH (50 µg, Cystorelin®, Merial, Dulth, GA, USA) and progesterone vaginal implants (CIDR, Easy breed®, 0.3 mg progesterone, Zoetis, Kalamazoo, MI) and superstimulated with porcine FSH (Folltropin® , Vetoquinol USA Inc, Fort Worth TX). The main results of this study showed that there was not significant difference in serum AMH concentrations within an animal and there was a significant difference amongst females along the study. Also, there was a correlation between AMH levels and the number of follicles after superovulation.
description: In the third study, the clinical diagnosis and histological feature of ovarian hypoplasia/dysgenesis was investigated. Five maiden female alpacas with history of infertility were examined by transrectal ultrasonography and exploratory laparoscopy. Once the lack of ovarian activity was confirmed, blood samples were obtained for cytogenetic evaluation and AMH serum concentration determination. The results obtained reveal that only one female presented a minute chromosome and various histological variants can be present in cases of ovarian hypoplasia/dysgenesis. In addition, AMH levels were scientifically lower compare to control multiparous females.
description: These studies showed that AMH can be used as a predictor of fertility in cyclic female alpacas and those under super ovulatory treatments by estimating the follicular reserve with a single sample. In addition, AMH serum concentrations can also be used as a method to confirm ovarian hypoplasia/dysgenesis without a surgical approach. A bigger number of animals are needed to confirm this result.