cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Conformal Extentsion of Metrics of Negative Curvature
Creators: name: Mangoubi, Dan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53c21; 30f45

description: We consider the problem of extending a conformal metric of negative curvature, given outside a neighbourhood of 0 in the unit disk $\DD$, to a conformal metric of negative curvature in $\DD$. We give conditions under which such an extension is possible, and also give obstructions to such an extension. The methods we use are based on a maximum principle and the Ahlfors--Schwarz Lemma. We apply these considerations to compactification of Riemann surfaces.
description: In Memory of Robert Brooks. An analysis of Gromov's example added. 20 pages, 5 figures. to appear in Journal d'Analyse Mathematique
An Incremental Learning Approach to Automatically Recognize Pulmonary Diseases from the Multi-vendor Chest Radiographs
Creators: name: Sirshar, Mehreen
name: Hassan, Taimur
name: Akram, Muhammad Usman
name: Khan, Shoab Ahmed
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Pulmonary diseases can cause severe respiratory problems, leading to sudden death if not treated timely. Many researchers have utilized deep learning systems to diagnose pulmonary disorders using chest X-rays (CXRs). However, such systems require exhaustive training efforts on large-scale data to effectively diagnose chest abnormalities. Furthermore, procuring such large-scale data is often infeasible and impractical, especially for rare diseases. With the recent advances in incremental learning, researchers have periodically tuned deep neural networks to learn different classification tasks with few training examples. Although, such systems can resist catastrophic forgetting, they treat the knowledge representations independently of each other, and this limits their classification performance. Also, to the best of our knowledge, there is no incremental learning-driven image diagnostic framework that is specifically designed to screen pulmonary disorders from the CXRs. To address this, we present a novel framework that can learn to screen different chest abnormalities incrementally. In addition to this, the proposed framework is penalized through an incremental learning loss function that infers Bayesian theory to recognize structural and semantic inter-dependencies between incrementally learned knowledge representations to diagnose the pulmonary diseases effectively, regardless of the scanner specifications. We tested the proposed framework on five public CXR datasets containing different chest abnormalities, where it outperformed various state-of-the-art system through various metrics.
description: Computers in Biology and Medicine
Using image-extracted features to determine heart rate and blink duration for driver sleepiness detection
Creators: name: Darzi, Erfan
name: Mohammadie-Zand, Armin
name: Soltanian-Zadeh, Hamid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Heart rate and blink duration are two vital physiological signals which give information about cardiac activity and consciousness. Monitoring these two signals is crucial for various applications such as driver drowsiness detection. As there are several problems posed by the conventional systems to be used for continuous, long-term monitoring, a remote blink and ECG monitoring system can be used as an alternative. For estimating the blink duration, two strategies are used. In the first approach, pictures of open and closed eyes are fed into an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) to decide whether the eyes are open or close. In the second approach, they are classified and labeled using Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA). The labeled images are then be used to determine the blink duration. For heart rate variability, two strategies are used to evaluate the passing blood volume: Independent Component Analysis (ICA); and a chrominance based method. Eye recognition yielded 78-92% accuracy in classifying open/closed eyes with ANN and 71-91% accuracy with LDA. Heart rate evaluations had a mean loss of around 16 Beats Per Minute (BPM) for the ICA strategy and 13 BPM for the chrominance based technique.
Additional file 1 of Essential role of Salmonella Enteritidis DNA adenine methylase in modulating inflammasome activation
Creators: name: Guo, Yaxin
name: Gu, Dan
name: Huang, Tingting
name: Cao, Liyan
name: Zhu, Xinyu
name: Zhou, Yi
name: Wang, Kangru
name: Kang, Xilong
name: Meng, Chuang
name: Jiao, Xinan
name: Pan, Zhiming
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Growth curves of dam, invC, hilD, prgH, and spaN gene deletion mutants, complementation, and overexpression strains. Figure S2. Two rounds of screening to identify the genes involved in regulating inflammasome activation in vitro (original images of immunoblotting). Figure S3. Deletion mutants of dam, invC, prgH, and spaN failed to induce inflammasome activation (original images of immunoblotting). Figure S4. Deletion of prgH did not influence the synthesis of inflammasome components (original images of immunoblotting). Figure S5. Overexpression of Dam inhibited inflammasome activation (original images of immunoblotting). Figure S6. The ability of the dam complementation strain and overexpression strain cultured without IPTG to activate the inflammasome was improved (original images of immunoblotting). Figure S7. The deletion of Dam blocked the Jnk pathway in infected J774A.1 cells (original images of immunoblotting). Figure S8. Dam independently promoted NLRP3 inflammasome activation (original images of immunoblotting).
Direct Wavelet Expansion of the Primordial Power Spectrum
Creators: name: Mukherjee, Pia
name: Wang, Yun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In order to constrain and possibly detect unusual physics during inflation, we allow the power spectrum of primordial matter density fluctuations, P_{in}(k), to be an arbitrary function in the estimation of cosmological parameters from data. The multi-resolution and good localization properties of orthogonal wavelets make them suitable for detecting features in P_{in}(k). We expand P_{in}(k) directly in wavelet basis functions. The likelihood of the data is thus a function of the wavelet coefficients of P_{in}(k), as well as the H_0, Ω_b h^2, $Ω_c h^2 and the τ_{ri}, in a flat $Λ$CDM cosmology. We derive constraints on these parameters from CMB anisotropy data (WMAP, CBI, and ACBAR) and large scale structure (LSS) data (2dFGRS and PSCZ) using the Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) technique. The direct wavelet expansion method is different and complimentary to the wavelet band power method of Mukherjee & Wang (2003a,b), and results from the two methods are consistent. In addition, as we demonstrate, the direct wavelet expansion method has the advantage that once the wavelet coefficients have been constrained, the reconstruction of P_{in}(k) can be effectively denoised, i.e., P_{in}(k) can be reconstructed using only the coefficients that, say, deviate from zero at greater than 1σ. In doing so the essential properties of P_{in}(k) are retained. The reconstruction also suffers much less from the correlated errors of binning methods. The shape of the primordial power spectrum, as reconstructed in detail here, reveals an interesting new feature at 0.001 \la k/{Mpc}^{-1} \la 0.005. It will be interesting to see if this feature is confirmed by future data. The reconstructed and denoised P_{in}(k) is favored over the scale-invariant and power-law forms at \ga 1σ.
description: ApJ accepted. Color figures available upon request from pia@nhn.ou.edu
Farmland Loss and Poverty in Hanoi‘s Peri-Urban Areas, Vietnam: Evidence from Household Survey Data
Creators: name: Tuyen, T. Q.
name: Van Huong, V.
name: Tuyen, T. Q.
name: Van Huong, V.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Farmland loss
subject: poverty effects
subject: household welfare
subject: peri-urban areas.

description: Using a dataset from a 2010 field survey involving 477 households, this paper has contributed to the literature by providing the first econometric evidence for the impacts of farmland loss (due to urbanization and industrialization) on household poverty in Hanoi‘s peri-urban areas. Factors affecting poverty were examined using a logit regression model. Our econometric results indicate that the one and two-year effects of farmland loss on poverty are not statistically significant. These results, therefore, confirm that farmland loss has had no impact on poverty in the short-term. This study also found that factors contributing to poverty reduction include households‘ education, access to credit, ownership of productive assets and participation in nonfarm activities before farmland loss. We propose some policy implications that can help households escape poverty and improve their welfare.
New solutions of relativistic wave equations in magnetic fields and longitudinal fields
Creators: name: Bagrov, V. G.
name: Baldiotti, M. C.
name: Gitman, D. M.
name: Shirokov, I. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate how one can describe explicitly the present arbitrariness in solutions of relativistic wave equations in external electromagnetic fields of special form. This arbitrariness is connected to the existence of a transformation, which reduces effectively the number of variables in the initial equations. Then we use the corresponding representations to construct new sets of exact solutions, which may have a physical interest. Namely, we present new sets of stationary and nonstationary solutions in magnetic field and in some superpositions of electric and magnetic fields.
description: 25 pages, LaTex file
Agricultural E-Government: Design of Quality Evaluation Method Based on ISO SQuaRE quality Model
Creators: name: Ulman, M.
name: Vostrovský, V.
name: Tyrychtr, J.
name: Ulman, M.
name: Vostrovský, V.
name: Tyrychtr, J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Agricultural e-government
subject: electronic service
subject: public authority
subject: quality in use
subject: ISO SQuaRE
subject: quality characteristics
subject: CABAG.

description: The paper briefly describes the current use of e-government services in the Czech Republic with focus on use of e-services in agriculture. The term agricultural e-government is defined here. There are several methods for evaluation of service and e-service quality however, no relevant method based on ISO software quality standards was found yet. Proposed CABAG (Communication between Agricultural Businesses and Government) method enables to evaluate quality of agricultural electronic services by means of ISO/IEC 25010 quality in use model giving list of quality characteristics, sub characteristics and quality requirements. The overall quality of agricultural e-service is represented as an aggregated result of expected level minus actual level of implementation for each particular requirement. The method can be used both for end users and providers (or owners) of e-services. Pieces of knowledge introduced in this paper resulted from solution of Internal Grant Agency (IGA) of the Faculty of Economics and Management, Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague grant number 20131038 “Analýza a návrh modelu hodnocení kvality e-služeb v sektoru zemědělství” (Analysis and design of quality evaluation model of e-services in agriculture).
Additional file 2 of Transcriptomics analysis of differentially expressed genes in subcutaneous and perirenal adipose tissue of sheep as affected by their pre- and early postnatal malnutrition histories
Creators: name: Ahmad, Sharmila
name: Drag, Markus Hodal
name: Salleh, Suraya Mohamad
name: Zexi Cai
name: Nielsen, Mette Olaf
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Figure S1 A-F. The protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks of differentially expressed genes (DEGs). A) LOW vs HIGH, B) LOW vs NORM, C) interaction effect of prenatal nutrition and sex (PreNxsex), D) LOW-HCHF vs NORM-CONV, E) HIGH-HCHF vs NORM-CONV, and F) HCHF vs CONV. The red and green nodes represent upregulated and downregulated genes, respectively. The nodes with octagon shape are the hub genes. Figure S2A-E: Functional enrichment networks. A and B) module 1 and module 2 for LOW vs HIGH, C) module 2 for the interaction of prenatal nutrition and sex, D) module 1 for LOW-HCHF and HIGH-HCHF vs NORM-CONV and E) module 1 for HCHF vs CONV.
Farmland values and agricultural growth: the case of Chile
Creators: name: Donoso, Guillermo
name: Cancino, Jose P.
name: Foster, William
name: Donoso, Guillermo
name: Cancino, Jose P.
name: Foster, William
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Agricultural land values
subject: Chile
subject: hedonic models

description: This study analyzes the relationships between farmland values and factors associated with the growth in Chilean agriculture, and identifies agricultural land value's determinants by estimating a log-linear hedonic price function. The results indicate that a parcel's market value varies according to its suitability and productivity for different crops, its location and transport costs, its potential for residential use, and other factors that determine expectations of future income streams. Farms with soil aptitude for fruits, high-valued export-oriented crops that have led Chile's agricultural boom, have higher values than those with forestry soil aptitude.
A facile and low environmental impact approach to prepare thermally conductive nanocomposites based on polylactide and graphite nanoplatelets
Creators: name: Fina, Alberto
name: Colonna, Samuele
name: Maddalena, Lorenza
name: Tortello, Mauro
name: Monticelli, Orietta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, the preparation of nanocomposites based on poly(L-lactide) PLLA and graphite nanoplatelets (GNP) was assessed, by applying, for the first time, the reactive extrusion (REX) polymerization approach, which is considered a low environmental impact method to prepare polymer systems and which allows an easy scalability. In particular, ad hoc synthesized molecules, constituted by a pyrene end group and a poly (D-lactide) (PDLA) chain (Pyr-D), capable of interacting with the surface of GNP layers as well as forming stereoblocks during the ring opening polymerization (ROP) of L-lactide, were used. The nanocomposites were synthesized by adding to L-lactide the GNP/initiator system, prepared by dispersing the graphite in the acetone/Pyr-D solution, which was dried after the sonication process. DSC and X-ray diffraction measurements evidenced the stereocomplexation of the systems synthesized by using the pyrene-based initiators, whose extent turned out to depend on the PDLA chain length. All the prepared nanocomposites - including those synthesized starting from a classical initiator, that is 1-dodecanol - retained similar electrical conductivity, whereas the thermal conductivity was found to increase in the stereocomplexed samples. Preferential localization of stereocomplexed PLA close to the interface with GNP was demonstrated by Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM) techniques, supporting for an important role of local crystallinity in the thermal conductivity of the nanocomposites.
Assessing technical efficiency in traditional olive grove systems: a directional metadistance function approach
Creators: name: Beltrán-Esteve, Mercedes
name: Beltrán-Esteve, Mercedes
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Data Envelopment Analysis
subject: Directional distance functions
subject: metafrontier
subject: olive farming
subject: technical efficiency

description: Olive growing is the main agricultural activity in Andalusia, although the systems used are far from homogenous. Indeed, technological and natural characteristics have led to the implementation of several growing systems. Our goal is to analyze the efficiency of the two most important systems in Andalusia: traditional rain-fed mountain and plain olive groves. In this paper we not only assess the efficiency of olive farms but also assess the efficiency of farming systems. Additionally, this analysis takes into account the tradittional radial input orientation and also the input-specific efficiency. The results highlight the advantages of the plain olive grove system in front of the mountain olive grove system.
Chrysomorpha Motschulsky 1860
Creators: name: Ekiz, Ali Nafiz
name: Şen, İsmail
name: Aslan, Ebru Gül
name: Gök, Ali
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Chrysomorpha

description: Subgenus Chrysomorpha Motschulsky, 1860
 Ch. cerealis (Linnaeus 1767): TR-A: SAM (Aslan, Gruev et al. 2003; Kippenberg 2010b)
 Note: According to Kippenberg (2010b), this species is represented by two subspecies in Turkey: The nominate form and Ch. cerealis cyaneoaurata Motschulsky,
1860. It was not possible to give distributional records of subspecies separately, but locality data given above probably belong to the nominate form.
description: Published as part of Ekiz, Ali Nafiz, Şen, İsmail, Aslan, Ebru Gül & Gök, Ali, 2013, Checklist of leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) of Turkey, excluding Bruchinae, pp. 2213-2287 in Journal of Natural History 47 (33 - 34) on pages 2234-2235, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2012.763069, http://zenodo.org/record/5197560
Twisted equivariant K-theory with complex coefficients
Creators: name: Freed, Daniel S.
name: Hopkins, Michael J.
name: Teleman, Constantin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 55N15; 22E67

description: Using a global version of the equivariant Chern character, we describe the complexified twisted equivariant K-theory of a space with a compact Lie group action in terms of fixed-point data. We apply this to the case of a compact Lie group acting on itself by conjugation, and relate the result to the Verlinde algebra and to the Kac numerator at q=1. Verlinde's formula is also discussed in this context.
description: Final version, to appear in Topology. Exposition improved, rational homotopy calculation completely rewritten
Gauge Symmetry in Fokker-Planck dynamics
Creators: name: de Montgny, M.
name: Khanna, F. C.
name: Santana, A. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a Galilean metric approach, based in an embedding of the Euclidean space into a (4+1)-Minkowski space, we analyze a gauge invariant Lagrangian associated with a Riemannian manifold R, with metric g. With a specific choice of the gauge condition, the Euler-Lagrange equations are written covariantly in R, and then the Fokker-Planck equation is derived, such that the drift and the diffusion terms are obtained from g. The analysis is carried out for both, abelian and non abelian symmetries, and an example with the su(2) symmetry is presented.
description: 11 pages
Classification of Astrophysics Journal Articles with Machine Learning to Identify Data for NED
Creators: name: Chen, Tracy X.
name: Ebert, Rick
name: Mazzarella, Joseph M.
name: Frayer, Cren
name: Terek, Scott
name: Chan, Ben H. P.
name: Cook, David
name: Lo, Tak
name: Schmitz, Marion
name: Wu, Xiuqin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED) is a comprehensive online service that combines fundamental multi-wavelength information for known objects beyond the Milky Way and provides value-added, derived quantities and tools to search and access the data. The contents and relationships between measurements in the database are continuously augmented and revised to stay current with astrophysics literature and new sky surveys. The conventional process of distilling and extracting data from the literature involves human experts to review the journal articles and determine if an article is of extragalactic nature, and if so, what types of data it contains. This is both labor intensive and unsustainable, especially given the ever-increasing number of publications each year. We present here a machine learning (ML) approach developed and integrated into the NED production pipeline to help automate the classification of journal article topics and their data content for inclusion into NED. We show that this ML application can successfully reproduce the classifications of a human expert to an accuracy of over 90% in a fraction of the time it takes a human, allowing us to focus human expertise on tasks that are more difficult to automate.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures, 6 tables
Drones for Biodiversity Conservation and Ecological Monitoring
Creators: name: Zhang, Kristy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 79901 Agricultural Hydrology (Drainage, Flooding, Irrigation, Quality, etc.)
subject: FOS: Other agricultural sciences

description: Drones for Biodiversity Conservation and Ecological Monitoring
Fluorescence optical imaging in patients with active rheumatoid arthritis: a comparison with ultrasound and an association with biomarkers
Creators: name: S-Y Kawashiri
name: A Nishino
name: T Shimizu
name: A Takatani
name: M Umeda
name: T Koga
name: N Iwamoto
name: K Ichinose
name: M Tamai
name: H Nakamura
name: T Origuchi
name: T Maeda
name: A Kawakami
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer

description: Objectives: This study compared indocyanine green (ICG)-enhanced fluorescence optical imaging (FOI) and musculoskeletal ultrasound (MSUS), and explored the significance of the FOI findings based on the association between the FOI and MSUS findings and serum biomarkers in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The study also explored the association between the FOI findings and patients’ joint destruction at the joint-area level. Method: We enrolled 50 consecutive patients with active RA from among the patients hospitalized from May 2014 to March 2016 at Nagasaki University Hospital, Japan. FOI images were acquired with the Xiralite® fluorescence imaging system and compared with the patients’ clinical examination results and MSUS findings. On the same day, the patients’ clinical disease activity and levels of serum biomarkers (including vascular endothelial growth factor) were obtained. Results: Although the FOI detected synovitis with high sensitivity, the frequency of positive findings and the diagnostic performance with MSUS as the reference standard for FOI differed considerably among the phases of FOI as well as among the affected joint regions. The FOI scores were positively correlated with clinical disease activity, MSUS scores, and serum biomarkers. The severity of FOI-proven synovitis was associated with the presence of MSUS-proven bone erosion. Conclusion: FOI is effective for detecting joint inflammation in RA patients, with high accuracy. The severity of the FOI score was closely associated with the joint destruction at the joint-area level. However, the significance of positive FOI findings differed depending on not only the phase of FOI but also the affected joint regions.
Non-negligible Oscillation Effects in the Crustal Geo-neutrino Calculations
Creators: name: Han, Ran
name: Li, Yu-Feng
name: Mao, Xin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An accurate prediction of the geo-neutrino signal from the crust serves as a necessary prerequisite in the determination of the geo-neutrino flux from the mantle. In this work we report the non-negligible effect associated to the exact three-flavor antineutrino survival probability in the calculation of the crustal geo-neutrino signal, which was usually approximated as a constant average in previous studies. A geo-neutrino signal underestimation of about 1-2 TNU is observed as a result of the oscillatory behaviour within the local crustal region extending for about 300 km from the experimental site. We also estimated that the Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein matter oscillation is responsible for a $0.1\%$-$0.3\%$ increase of the local crustal signal, depending on the detector location. This work reminds that the exact oscillation possibility in matter should be considered for future prediction of the local crustal geo-neutrino signal.
description: 16 pages, 4 figures, accepted for the publication in PRD
Lessons learned from clinical phenotypes in early psoriatic arthritis: the real-world Dutch south west Early Psoriatic ARthritis study
Creators: name: FR Kasiem
name: JJ Luime
name: M Vis
name: MR Kok
name: K Wervers
name: AH Gerards
name: CWY Appels
name: WL Van Der Graaff
name: MJF Starmans-Kool
name: YPM Goekoop-Ruiterman
name: JHLM Van Groenendael
name: L-A Korswagen
name: JJ Veris-Van Dieren
name: JMW Hazes
name: I Tchetverikov
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Hematology

description: Objective: This paper describes the baseline demographics, clinical characteristics, and patient-reported outcomes (PROs) according to clinical phenotype of patients with early psoriatic arthritis (PsA) for the purpose of creating a decision support system for daily clinical practice. Method: Patients with newly diagnosed PsA were included in the Dutch south west Early Psoriatic ARthritis (DEPAR) study. No classification criteria were applied, to ensure collection of real-world data on demographics, medication, clinical characteristics, and PROs. An IT infrastructure facilitated data collection. Results: We described 527 patients, categorized according to the clinical phenotype stated by the rheumatologist at the time of diagnosis, namely monoarthritis (15%), oligoarthritis (40%), polyarthritis (23%), enthesitis (10%), axial disease (2%), and dactylitis (10%). Overall psoriasis severity was mild and 83 patients (16%) had no psoriasis. Short-term sick leave (> 1 day per 4 weeks) was 17% and long-term sick leave (> 4 weeks) was 4%. The group with phenotype enthesitis reported the longest duration of complaints, had the highest fatigue scores, and contained the highest percentage of patients with a Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) anxiety score ≥ 8 and depression score ≥ 8. Conclusion: PsA patients presenting at outpatient clinics in the Netherlands had a mild degree of psoriasis, with impairment of quality of life and work productivity. Most patients presented with phenotype oligoarthritis. Those presenting with phenotype enthesitis more often reported scores suggestive of an anxiety or depression disorder and fatigue. It is important for attending rheumatologists to be aware of these differences when assessing patients with PsA.
Additional file 5 of Cellular and transcriptomic analyses reveal two-staged chloroplast biogenesis underpinning photosynthesis build-up in the wheat leaf
Creators: name: Loudya, Naresh
name: Mishra, Priyanka
name: Takahagi, Kotaro
name: Uehara-Yamaguchi, Yukiko
name: Komaki Inoue
name: Laszlo Bogre
name: Mochida, Keiichi
name: López-Juez, Enrique
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 5: Table S4. List of genes representative of key biological functions whose expression was individually plotted in Figs. 3, 4, 5, 6 and Additional file 1 Figures 8-9. Table S5. Primers used for genome copy number and rRNA quantitation. Table S6. Summary of quantitative cellular and other parameters and data analysis. Table S7. R script used to generate box plots. Table S8. Correction parameters for cell age and mitosis.
Improving ECG Classification Interpretability using Saliency Maps
Creators: name: Jones, Yola
name: Deligianni, Fani
name: Dalton, Jeff
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Cardiovascular disease is a large worldwide healthcare issue; symptoms often present suddenly with minimal warning. The electrocardiogram (ECG) is a fast, simple and reliable method of evaluating the health of the heart, by measuring electrical activity recorded through electrodes placed on the skin. ECGs often need to be analyzed by a cardiologist, taking time which could be spent on improving patient care and outcomes. Because of this, automatic ECG classification systems using machine learning have been proposed, which can learn complex interactions between ECG features and use this to detect abnormalities. However, algorithms built for this purpose often fail to generalize well to unseen data, reporting initially impressive results which drop dramatically when applied to new environments. Additionally, machine learning algorithms suffer a "black-box" issue, in which it is difficult to determine how a decision has been made. This is vital for applications in healthcare, as clinicians need to be able to verify the process of evaluation in order to trust the algorithm. This paper proposes a method for visualizing model decisions across each class in the MIT-BIH arrhythmia dataset, using adapted saliency maps averaged across complete classes to determine what patterns are being learned. We do this by building two algorithms based on state-of-the-art models. This paper highlights how these maps can be used to find problems in the model which could be affecting generalizability and model performance. Comparing saliency maps across complete classes gives an overall impression of confounding variables or other biases in the model, unlike what would be highlighted when comparing saliency maps on an ECG-by-ECG basis.
Conjugate points for systems of second-order ordinary differential equations
Creators: name: Hajdú, S.
name: Mestdag, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 34A26, 37J15, 53C21, 53C22, 70G65

description: We recall the notion of Jacobi fields, as it was extended to systems of second-order ordinary differential equations. Two points along a base integral curve are conjugate if there exists a non-trivial Jacobi field along that curve that vanishes on both points. Based on arguments that involve the eigendistributions of the Jacobi endomorphism, we discuss conjugate points for a certain generalization (to the current setting) of locally symmetric spaces. Next, we study conjugate points along relative equilibria of Lagrangian systems with a symmetry Lie group. We end the paper with some examples and applications.
description: 23 pages, 1 figure
Let the Great World Spin: Revealing the Stormy, Turbulent Nature of Young Giant Exoplanet Analogs with the Spitzer Space Telescope
Creators: name: Vos, Johanna M.
name: Faherty, Jacqueline K.
name: Gagné, Jonathan
name: Marley, Mark
name: Metchev, Stanimir
name: Gizis, John
name: Rice, Emily L.
name: Cruz, Kelle
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a survey for photometric variability in young, low-mass brown dwarfs with the Spitzer Space Telescope. The 23 objects in our sample show robust signatures of youth and share properties with directly-imaged exoplanets. We present three new young objects: 2MASS J03492367$+$0635078, 2MASS J09512690 $-$8023553 and 2MASS J07180871$-$6415310. We detect variability in 13 young objects, and find that young brown dwarfs are highly likely to display variability across the L2--T4 spectral type range. In contrast, the field dwarf variability occurrence rate drops for spectral types $>$L9. We examine the variability amplitudes of young objects and find an enhancement in maximum amplitudes compared to field dwarfs. We speculate that the observed range of amplitudes within a spectral type may be influenced by secondary effects such as viewing inclination and/or rotation period. We combine our new rotation periods with the literature to investigate the effects of mass on angular momentum evolution. While high mass brown dwarfs ($>30 M_{\mathrm{Jup}}$) spin up over time, the same trend is not apparent for lower mass objects ($<30 M_{\mathrm{Jup}}$), likely due to the small number of measured periods for old, low-mass objects. The rotation periods of companion brown dwarfs and planetary-mass objects are consistent with those of isolated objects with similar ages and masses, suggesting similar angular momentum histories. Within the AB Doradus group, we find a high variability occurrence rate and evidence for common angular momentum evolution. The results are encouraging for future variability searches in directly-imaged exoplanets with facilities such as the James Webb Space Telescope and 30-meter telescopes.
Minnesota Farm Business Notes No. 428
Creators: name: Jensen, H. R.
name: Sundquist, W. Burt
name: Day, L.M.
name: Jensen, H. R.
name: Sundquist, W. Burt
name: Day, L.M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1961
Subjects: Agribusiness
Risk and Uncertainty

description: Some Basic Problems in Agriculture (Jensen); Farm adjustment problems in East Central Minnesota (Sundquist and Day)
Colaphodes Motschulsky 1860
Creators: name: Ekiz, Ali Nafiz
name: Şen, İsmail
name: Aslan, Ebru Gül
name: Gök, Ali
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Colaphodes

description: Subgenus Colaphodes Motschulsky, 1860
 Ch. haemoptera (Linnaeus 1758): TR-A – TR-E: IST, KRK (Tomov and Gruev 1975; Bienkowski 2001; Aslan, Gruev et al. 2003; Warchałowski 2003; Gruev 2004, 2005a)
 Note: Two subspecies in Turkey: the nominate form and Ch. haemoptera byzantia Jolivet, 1951. Probably, the nominate form is distributed in Asian Turkey whereas the latter is distributed in European Turkey. The latter subspecies is endemic to Turkey.
description: Published as part of Ekiz, Ali Nafiz, Şen, İsmail, Aslan, Ebru Gül & Gök, Ali, 2013, Checklist of leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) of Turkey, excluding Bruchinae, pp. 2213-2287 in Journal of Natural History 47 (33 - 34) on page 2235, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2012.763069, http://zenodo.org/record/5197560
Minnesota Farm Business Notes No. 429
Creators: name: Berg, S. O.
name: Engene, Selmer A.
name: Smith, F. J.
name: Learn, Elmer W.
name: Berg, S. O.
name: Engene, Selmer A.
name: Smith, F. J.
name: Learn, Elmer W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1961
Subjects: Agribusiness
Risk and Uncertainty

description: The Worldwide Challenges to American Agriculture
Criteria for slip transfer across grain and twin boundaries in pure Ni
Creators: name: Nieto-Valeiras, E.
name: LLorca, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Slip transfer at grain boundaries and annealing twin boundaries was studied in polycrystalline Ni by means of slip trace analysis. Slip transfer or blocking was assessed in $>$ 200 boundaries and was related with geometrical criteria that establish the alignment between the active slip systems across the boundaries. It was found that slip transfer mainly occurs at low-angle regular grain boundaries and that a Luster-Morris parameter $>$ 0.8 stands for the best criterion to assess slip transfer. In the case of coherent or incoherent twin boundaries, slip transfer occurs when the residual Burgers vector is close to zero through dislocation cross-slip.
Production of Z'-Boson Resonances with Large Width at the LHC
Creators: name: Accomando, E.
name: Coradeschi, F.
name: Cridge, T.
name: Fiaschi, J.
name: Hautmann, F.
name: Moretti, S.
name: Shepherd-Themistocleous, C.
name: Voisey, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Di-lepton searches for Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) Z' bosons that rely on the analysis of the Breit-Wigner (BW) line shape are appropriate in the case of narrow resonances, but likely not sufficient in scenarios featuring Z' states with large widths. Conversely, alternative experimental strategies applicable to wide Z' resonances are much more dependent than the default bump search analyses on the modelling of QCD higher-order corrections to the production processes, for both signal and background. For heavy Z' boson searches in the di-lepton channel at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the transverse momentum q_T of the di-lepton system peaks at q_T \ltap 10^{-2} M_{ll}, where M_{ll} is the di-lepton invariant mass. We exploit this to treat the QCD corrections by using the logarithmic resummation methods in M_{ll} / q_T to all orders in the strong coupling constant α_s. We carry out studies of Z' states with large width at the LHC by employing the program {\tt reSolve}, which performs QCD transverse momentum resummation up to Next-to-Next-to-Leading Logarithmic (NNLL) accuracy. We consider two benchmark BSM scenarios, based on the Sequential Standard Model (SSM) and dubbed `SSM wide' and `SSM enhanced'. We present results for the shape and size of Z' boson signals at the differential level, mapped in both cross section (σ) and Forward-Backward Asymmetry (A_{\rm FB}), and perform numerical investigations of the experimental sensitivity at the LHC Run 3 and High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC).
description: 9 pages, 4 figures
Neutral Current Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering. Theory
Creators: name: Giusti, Carlotta
name: Ivanov, Martin V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The treatment of nuclear effects in neutrino-nucleus interactions is one of the main sources of systematic uncertainty for the analysis and interpretation of data of neutrino oscillation experiments. Neutrinos interact with nuclei via charged or neutral currents and both cases must be studied to obtain a complete information. We give an overview of the theoretical work that has been done to describe nuclear effects in neutral-current neutrin onucleus scattering in the kinematic region ranging between beam energies of a few hundreds MeV to a few GeV, which is typical of most ongoing and future accelerator-based neutrino experiments, and where quasielastic scattering is the main interaction mechanism. We review the current status and challenges of the theoretical models, the role and relevance of the contributions of different nuclear effects, and the present status of the comparison between the numerical predictions of the models as well as the available experimental data. We discuss also the sensitivity to the strange form factors of the nucleon and the methods and observables that can allow one to obtain evidence for a possible strange quark contribution from measurements of neutrino and antineutrino-nucleus scattering.
description: 62 pages, 34 figures, JPG focus issue on Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions
Icosahedral quasicrystal enhanced nucleation in commercially pure Ni processed by selective laser melting
Creators: name: Galera-Rueda, C.
name: Jin, X.
name: LLorca, J.
name: Pérez-Prado, M. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This work provides unambiguous evidence for the occurrence of icosahedral quasicrystal (iQC) enhanced nucleation during selective laser melting of gas atomized commercially-pure Ni powders. This solidification mechanism, which has only been recently reported in a few alloys and has to date never been observed in pure metals, consists on the solidification of grains of the primary phase on the facets of iQCs formed due to the presence of icosahedral short range order in the liquid. The occurrence of iQC enhanced nucleation has been inferred from the observation in the SLM processed pure Ni samples of an excess fraction of partially incoherent twin boundaries and of clusters of twinned grain pairs sharing common <110> five-fold symmetry axes. This work further evidences that additive manufacturing methods may constitute an invaluable tool for investigating the fundamentals of solidification and for the design of unprecedented grain boundary networks.
Induction of remission in female rheumatoid arthritis patients is associated with stabilization of myocardial abnormalities: a prospective cardiac magnetic resonance follow-up study
Creators: name: R Koivuniemi
name: A Kuuliala
name: S Kivistö
name: M Holmström
name: M Hämäläinen
name: E Moilanen
name: K Rajamäki
name: H Kautiainen
name: KK Eklund
name: M Leirisalo-Repo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Objectives: To study whether female patients with active rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have myocardial abnormalities and whether progression of myocardial involvement can be attenuated by disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs). Method: Cardiac magnetic resonance (cMR; 1.5 or 3.0 T), including late gadolinium enhancement (LGE), T1 relaxation time, and ventricular functions, was performed in 30 patients with untreated active early RA starting first DMARDs, and 28 patients with chronic RA with inadequate response to conventional synthetic DMARDs starting biological DMARDs. cMR was repeated in RA patients 1 year later. cMR was conducted once in 22 fibromyalgia (FM) subjects and in 35 healthy volunteers serving as controls. All subjects were non-smoking females without coronary heart disease, heart failure, or diabetes. Results: Compared with controls, 58 RA patients had slightly lower ventricular function, although in the normal range, and longer T1 time at baseline. None of the FM subjects had LGE, but it was frequent in RA (67%). During the 1 year DMARD treatment, Disease Activity Score based on 28-joint count–C-reactive protein declined, ventricular functions tended to improve, but the number of patients with LGE remained unchanged. However, the number of LGE-positive heart segments either decreased or stayed the same in 91% of RA patients. In early RA patients, achieving tight remission was associated with LGE stabilization, after adjustment for age, metabolic syndrome, baseline inflammatory activity, and leisure-time physical activity. Conclusion: Treatment targeted to tight remission in early stages of RA seems to be important to prevent not only joint damage but also myocardial abnormalities.
Additional file 3 of Genome and transcriptome-based characterization of high energy carbon-ion beam irradiation induced delayed flower senescence mutant in Lotus japonicus
Creators: name: Du, Yan
name: Luo, Shanwei
name: Zhao, Jian
name: Feng, Zhuo
name: Chen, Xia
name: Ren, Weibin
name: Liu, Xiao
name: Wang, Zhuanzi
name: Yu, Lixia
name: Li, Wenjian
name: Qu, Ying
name: Liu, Jie
name: Zhou, Libin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 3: Fig. S3. Verification of DNA sequence variation of candidate gene CUFF.40834.
Invariant Stein domains in Stein symmetric spaces and a non-linear complex convexity theorem
Creators: name: Gindikin, Simon
name: Kroetz, Bernhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 22E10, 22E15

description: We prove a complex version of Kostant's non-linear convexity theorem. Applications to the construction of G-invariant Grauert tubes of non-compact Riemannian symmetric G/K spaces are given.
description: 9 pages
Higher-Degree Analogs of the Determinant Line Bundle
Creators: name: Lott, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In the first part of this paper, given a smooth family of Dirac-type operators on an odd-dimensional closed manifold, we construct an abelian gerbe-with-connection whose curvature is the three-form component of the Atiyah-Singer families index theorem. In the second part of the paper, given a smooth family of Dirac-type operators whose index lies in the i-th filtration of the reduced K-theory of the parametrizing space, we construct a set of Deligne cohomology class of degree i whose curvatures are the i-form component of the Atiyah-Singer families index theorem.
description: Final version