cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
sj-docx-1-smo-10.1177_20503121211042209 – Supplemental material for Prevalence of CYP2C19 and ITGB3 polymorphisms among Bangladeshi patients who underwent percutaneous coronary intervention
Creators: name: Islam, Md Rabiul
name: Nova, Tasnova Tasnim
name: Momenuzzaman, NAM
name: Rabbi, Sikder Nahidul Islam
name: Jahan, Ishrat
name: Binder, Thomas
name: Islam, Mohammad Safiqul
name: Hasnat, Abul
name: Nahar, Zabun
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Cardiology
subject: 110599 Dentistry not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110305 Emergency Medicine
subject: 110306 Endocrinology
subject: 110308 Geriatrics and Gerontology
subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: 111099 Nursing not elsewhere classified
subject: 111199 Nutrition and Dietetics not elsewhere classified
subject: 111299 Oncology and Carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified
subject: 110314 Orthopaedics
subject: 110604 Sports Medicine
subject: 110315 Otorhinolaryngology
subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: 111403 Paediatrics
subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 110319 Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: 110203 Respiratory Diseases
subject: 160807 Sociological Methodology and Research Methods
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 110323 Surgery
subject: 70706 Veterinary Medicine
subject: FOS: Veterinary sciences

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-smo-10.1177_20503121211042209 for Prevalence of CYP2C19 and ITGB3 polymorphisms among Bangladeshi patients who underwent percutaneous coronary intervention by Md Rabiul Islam, Tasnova Tasnim Nova, NAM Momenuzzaman, Sikder Nahidul Islam Rabbi, Ishrat Jahan, Thomas Binder, Mohammad Safiqul Islam, Abul Hasnat and Zabun Nahar in SAGE Open Medicine
title: Cost-effectiveness of a Protocol for Tuberculosis Diagnosis in People Living With HIV: An Economic Study alongside a Pragmatic Clinical Trial in Brazil
Creators: name: Teixeira-Filha, N
Publisher: name: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Year: 2018

description: Tuberculosis (TB) is the main opportunistic infection and the main cause of death in people living with HIV (PLHIV). Brazil is among the 30 countries with the highest TB/HIV burden worldwide and the disease is responsible for about 1 3 % of all deaths in PLHIV in the country. Brazil is committed to the goals stated by international organisations and launched The National Plan to end TB , highlighting some of the main challenges that need to be overcome in the next 18 years . These include the expansion of gene Xpert for the diagnosis of TB, the introduction of new technologies for TB diagnosis and treatment and the strengthening of policies for TB control in PLHIV. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the cost - effectiveness of a protocol for TB diagnosis in PLHIV in Brazil. Four specific objectives were identified in order to achieve this aim: (1) to perform a review of the literature to evaluate gaps in costing studies and economic evaluations addressing TB/HIV co - infection; (2) to estimate the costs of PLHIV , with or without active or latent TB, from the symptomatic phase until the first year of treatment from the perspective of the Brazilian public health system; (3) to estimate direct and indirect costs of TB/HIV and latent TB/HIV co - infection ( LTBI /HIV) from the patient perspective during the pre - diagnosis and treatment period; and (4) to perform an interim analysis of the cost - effectiveness of a protocol for TB diagnosis in PLHIV as part of a pragmatic clinical trial in Brazil . The literature review shows a gap in the scientific evidence on cost and cost - effectiveness of TB diagnosis in PLHIV, with a concentration of studies in African countries. The cost study from the health system perspective shows that TB/HIV co - infected patients incurred in higher costs when compared with HIV/AIDS and LTBI /HIV patients for the whole pathway of care. The total mean cost for the TB/HIV category was almost 6 times higher than the HIV or AIDS category (US$ 6, 210 vs US$ 1, 612). The cost study from the patient perspective indicates that TB/HIV co - infected patient s can face catastrophic costs during the diagnosis and treatment period, with indirect costs representing a higher proportion of total costs , at 52.4%. The modelling study suggests that the protocol for TB diagnosis in PLHIV, including screening by clinical algorithm and complementary tests, such as gene Xpert is a cost saving intervention when compared with routine hospital referral. The findings from this study can contribute to supporting strategies to improve TB diagnosis in PLHIV, reducing costs from the health system perspective and preventing catastrophic costs faced by TB/HIV patients
Additional file 1 of Genetic association between smoking and DLCO in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis patients
Creators: name: Yuan, Ziheng
name: Lei, Wanyang
name: Xing, Xiqian
name: He, Xiaohua
name: Huang, Xiaoxian
name: Wei, Li
name: Lv, Yuanyuan
name: Qiu, Shuyi
name: Yuan, Ziyu
name: Wang, Jiyang
name: Yang, Mei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 1: Additional Table. Instrument variables of lifetime smoking index
IMMUNOTHERAPY OF SOLID TUMORS WITH IMMUNOMETABOLICALLY-RETARGETED NATURAL KILLER CELLS
Creators: name: Chambers, Andrea M
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Oncology and carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified
Immunology not elsewhere classified
Applied immunology (incl. antibody engineering, xenotransplantation and t-cell therapies)
Cancer cell biology
Cancer therapy (excl. chemotherapy and radiation therapy)
Innate immunity
Solid tumours

description: Cancer is responsible for the second highest cause of death in the United States, and lung cancer accounts for 13% of new cancer diagnoses, with the highest rate of cancer death at 24%. Almost 85% of these cases represent non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), which includes lung adenocarcinoma, the most common NSCLC subtype. Traditional cancer treatments often only temporarily stop the spread of the disease, but immunotherapies, which are becoming a standard of care, are much more promising. Natural killer (NK) cells are powerful effectors of innate immunity, and genetically engineered NK cells as immunotherapies have had encouraging clinical responses in the treatment of various cancers. However, more progress is needed for solid tumor treatment, especially for lung adenocarcinoma. The activation of cancer-associated ectoenzymes, CD39 and CD73 catalyze the phosphorylation of ATP to AMP to produce extracellular adenosine (ADO), which is a highly immunosuppressive mechanism contributing to the pathogenesis of solid tumors. Understanding adenosine effects on NK cells will help develop more robust immunotherapeutic treatments to improve cytotoxicity against solid tumors. Here, we established that tumor microenvironment ADO results in impaired metabolic and anti-tumor functions of cytokine-primed NK cells. Specifically, peripheral blood-derived NK cells stimulated with IL-2, IL-15, or a combination of IL-12 and IL-15 showed suppressed anti-tumor immunity due to ADO. This was observed by the downregulation of activation receptor expression, cytotoxicity inhibition, impairment of metabolic activity, and alterations in gene expression. To target ADO-producing CD73 on cancer cells, we redirected NK cells by fusing CD73 ScFv with intracellular and transmembrane regions of NK cell specific signaling components derived from FCyRIIIa (CD16). Engineered NK cells were shown to be cytotoxic against lung adenocarcinoma in vitro and impede tumor growth in a lung adenocarcinoma mouse model in vivo. Engineered cells also had higher levels of degranulation and cytokine release, as well as more infiltration into tumors and longer survival time in mice. In summary, the microenvironment of solid tumors is highly immunosupressive, and redirecting NK cell function using a NK-specific anti-CD73 targeting construct will help to promote anti-tumor immunity andinhibit cancer growth for a potentially powerful new immunotherapy against solid tumors.
Quantum coherent and measurement feedback control based on atoms coupled with a semi-infinite waveguide
Creators: name: Ding, Haijin
name: Amini, Nina H.
name: Zhang, Guofeng
name: Gough, John E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we show that quantum feedback control may be applied to generate desired states for atomic and photonic systems based on a semi-infinite waveguide coupled with multiple two-level atoms. In this set-up, an initially excited atom can emit one photon into the waveguide, which can be reflected by the terminal mirror or other atoms to establish different feedback loops via the coherent interactions between the atom and photon. When there are at most two excitations in the waveguide quantum electrodynamics (waveguide QED) system, the evolution of quantum states can be interpreted using random graph theory. While this process is influenced by the environment, and we clarify that the environment-induced dynamics can be eliminated by measurement-based feedback control or coherent drives. Thus, in the open system atom-waveguide interactions, measurement-based feedback can modulate the final steady quantum state, while simultaneously, the homodyne detection noise in the measurement process can induce oscillations, which is treated by the coherent feedback designs.
description: 25 pages, 5 figures
sj-pdf-7-uix-10.1177_01617346211041023 – Supplemental material for Is There a Difference Between the Joint Ultrasounds of Healthy Women and Men? A Study With Small, Medium, and Large Joints
Creators: name: Nunes-Tamashiro, Jose Carlos
name: Natour, Jamil
name: Pereira, Daniele Freitas
name: Machado, Flavia S.
name: Takahashi, Rogerio D.
name: Furtado, Rita Nely Vilar
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 90399 Biomedical Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Medical engineering

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-7-uix-10.1177_01617346211041023 for Is There a Difference Between the Joint Ultrasounds of Healthy Women and Men? A Study With Small, Medium, and Large Joints by Jose Carlos Nunes-Tamashiro, Jamil Natour, Daniele Freitas Pereira, Flavia S. Machado, Rogerio D. Takahashi and Rita Nely Vilar Furtado in Ultrasonic Imaging
title: Gamers’ Games: Narratives of conflict, independence and engagement in video game culture
Creators: name: Ruffino, Paolo
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Media and communications, Cultural Studies, Video Game Culture, Independent Games, Gamification, Hacking, Media archaeology, Creativity, Performativity, Deconstruction

description: In this dissertation I look at various ways in which the relation between gamers and games has been discussed in video game culture in recent years. Gamers and games are currently being positioned by many scholars and industry experts as experiencing a series of major changes. From one perspective, gamers are said to be getting more and more access to the means of production of video games. Video games, in turn, are frequently analysed in terms of the effects they can have on their users. I argue that the discourses surrounding these phenomena have the effect of reinforcing the separation between gamers and games, considering both terms as separate and distinct entities. Throughout this dissertation I offer a series of readings of the relationship between the two, of how this relationship is currently being discussed by various actors and of how it could be narrated otherwise. I look at the narratives about the historical origins of both gamers and games, the conflicts between consumers and publishers, the production of independent games and the use of games for doing things. Drawing on deconstruction (Derrida 1976, 1980, 1985, 1988) and cultural and media studies scholarship, I interrogate the mechanisms behind many of the stories surrounding the contaminated and parasitical relations (Serres 1982) between gamers and games, whereby both categories are seen as emerging from the process of boxing consumers and products into discrete entities. I offer a reading of contemporary video game culture through a study that aims to encourage all of us who study and play (with) games to raise ethical questions for our own role in shaping the objects of research and for our involvement in the discourses we produce, as both gamers and scholars. What is ultimately at stake in this project is the possibility of outlining an alternative mode of thinking about the medium of the video game, one that blurs the distinction between studying, playing, making and living with video games through the invention of narratives about the unresolved relations (Laclau and Mouffe 1985) between gamers and games.
FPGA Resource-aware Structured Pruning for Real-Time Neural Networks
Creators: name: Ramhorst, Benjamin
name: Loncar, Vladimir
name: Constantinides, George A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Neural networks achieve state-of-the-art performance in image classification, speech recognition, scientific analysis and many more application areas. Due to the high computational complexity and memory footprint of neural networks, various compression techniques, such as pruning and quantization, have been proposed in literature. Pruning sparsifies a neural network, reducing the number of multiplications and memory. However, pruning often fails to capture properties of the underlying hardware, causing unstructured sparsity and load-balance inefficiency, thus bottlenecking resource improvements. We propose a hardware-centric formulation of pruning, by formulating it as a knapsack problem with resource-aware tensor structures. Evaluated on a range of tasks, including sub-microsecond particle classification at CERN's Large Hadron Collider and fast image classification, the proposed method achieves reductions ranging between 55% and 92% in the DSP utilization and up to 81% in BRAM utilization.
Verification of simulated DSDs and sensitivity to CCN concentration in EnKF analysis and ensemble forecasts of the 30 April 2017 tornadic QLCS during VORTEX-SE
Creators: name: Belak, Connor Paul
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Atmospheric sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Storms in the SE-US often evolve in different environments than those in the central Plains. Many poorly understood aspects of these differing environments may impact the tornadic potential of SE-US storms. Among these differences are potential variations in the CCN concentration owing to differences in land cover, combustion, industrial and urban activity, and proximity to maritime environments. The relative influence of warm and cold rain processes is sensitive to CCN concentration, with higher CCN concentrations producing smaller cloud droplets and more efficient cold rain processes. Cold rain processes result in DSDs with relatively larger drops from melting ice compared to warm rain processes. Differences in DSDs impact cold pool and downdraft size and strength, that influence tornado potential. This study investigates the impact of CCN concentration on DSDs in the SE-US by comparing DSDs from ARPS-EnKF model analyses and forecasts to observed DSDs from portable disdrometer-equipped probes collected by a collaboration between Purdue University, the University of Oklahoma (OU), the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL), and the University of Massachusetts in a tornadic QLCS on 30 April 2017 during VORTEX-SE.The ARPS-EnKF configuration, which consists of 40 ensemble members, is used with the NSSL triple-moment microphysics scheme. Surface and radar observations are both assimilated. Data assimilation experiments with CCN concentrations ranging from 100 cm-3 (maritime) to 2,000 cm-3 (continental) are conducted to characterize the variability of DSDs and the model output DSDs are verified against the disdrometer observations. The sensitivity of the DSD variability to CCN concentrations is evaluated. Results indicate continental CCN concentrations (close to CCN 1,000 cm3) produce DSDs that align closest to the observed DSDs. Other thermodynamic variables also accord better to observations in intermediate CCN concentration environments.
title: Poussière/Bones: On Literary Self-translatability
Creators: name: Park, Joo Yeon
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: self-translatability, self-translation, translatability, translation, mother tongue, language of others, origin, pure language, Benjamin, Beckett, Cha, Derrida, Chopin, sound poetry, Deleuze, Guattari, minor literature, literature of the unwords, Narcissus, Echo

description: This research project considers the potentiality of literary self-translation as an artistic and philosophical question in relation to, and as part of, its potential visual, sonic and material transfiguration. The two-part project – writing and art making – is a form of ‘bilingual’ project in which the parallel parts converse as in face-à-face literary selftranslation. By closely reading texts written by authors who adopt languages of others as primary artistic mediums and self-translate their own works into their mother tongue, another language or a linguistic ‘extended field’ – Samuel Beckett, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Caroline Bergvall, Cathy Park Hong, and Henri Chopin – the written thesis questions ways in which relations between different languages and the self and others could be reconfigured and reimagined through the practice of selftranslation in a space of literary art. As well as defining the characteristics and parameters of explicit self-translation – such as the strong motivation of the bilingual writers to self-translate and the bold omission, deletion, and substitution of words and sentences in a translation which is effectively a second version, which does not merely repeat the first version – in relation to translation as conventionally understood (often referred to as translation by or of others), the thesis draws attention to hidden aspects of self translation: the self-translatability of the ‘silenced mother tongue’ in a selftranslation between languages neither of which is the author’s mother tongue; the poetical and political self-translatability in the merging of different languages in
sound-based poetry; and the entire removal of words in poetry performance as a selftranslation which returns language to the infantile origin. The epilogue of the thesis
opens up a further discussion by deploying the repetitive mechanism of words and image in the Ovidian classic tale of Narcissus and Echo as an allegorical device, which
mediates dialogue between the written and practical parts of the research.
title: The production and negotiation of difference in a world on the move: Brazilian migration to London
Creators: name: Martins Junior, Angelo
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: migration, Brazilian migration, community, social differentiation, racialisation, Brazilians in London, class, gender

description: Through the lived experiences and narratives of Brazilian migrants in London, this thesis explores the intersections between processes of social differentiation and international migration. By examining the diverse journeys of Brazilians, I provide an in-depth ethnographic examination of the multivalent ways in which difference contours Brazilian migration. I argue that the group is diverse, comprised of individuals from different class backgrounds, regions, and genders, which shapes both their decisions to migrate as well as the distinct ways in which they live their lives in London. These migrants are continuously re-inventing, producing and negotiating ‘cultural’, class, and regional differences - often intersected by gender, ‘race’ and immigration status. By focusing on how these differences, rooted in the colonial and postcolonial history of Brazil, become reconstituted in new processes of social-differentiation and racialisation in the receiving society, this thesis analyses the ways in which these migrants construct ties of affinity as well as exclusions, through bodies and spaces. This includes the bodies with whom they relate and the spaces in which they circulate, as well as those they explicitly avoid. The empirical research draws on a mixed methods approach, which combines an 18-month ethnography in places of leisure with 33 in-depth interviews with Brazilians in London. Problematising widespread assumptions in the literature that ethnic commonalities result in the constitution of migrant communities based on solidarity, this thesis makes important empirical and theoretical contributions to studies of migration through its focus on how the continuous production and negotiation of difference affects the way migrants live in a global world.
Additional file 2 of Genetic association between smoking and DLCO in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis patients
Creators: name: Yuan, Ziheng
name: Lei, Wanyang
name: Xing, Xiqian
name: He, Xiaohua
name: Huang, Xiaoxian
name: Wei, Li
name: Lv, Yuanyuan
name: Qiu, Shuyi
name: Yuan, Ziyu
name: Wang, Jiyang
name: Yang, Mei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 2: Additional Figure. Forest plot (A) and leave-one-out analysis (B) for lifetime smoking index on DLCO
title: Choreo-graphy: The Deinstitutionalisation of the Body and the Event of Writing
Creators: name: Moon, Je Yun
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Curatorial, Choreography, Body, Writing

description: Choreography is commonly understood as a technical term that describes what the choreographer does in a literal sense: writing the dancing bodies according to a master’s set narrative. However, recent events in contemporary choreography suggest a different possibility of articulating choreography as a technique of offering rather than a technique of domination over other bodies. Through an analysis of some groundbreaking choreographic experiments by Xavier Le Roy, Jérôme Bel, Boris Charmatz, Eszter Salamon, Christine De Smedt, Jan Ritsema, and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, which have gained visibility since the late 1990s in the global art scene beyond the Western institution of dance, this thesis aims to theorise this shift in what choreography is and can be.

In an attempt to theorise choreography as a technique of offering, this thesis illuminates the relationship between some of the tactical operations in contemporary choreographic experiments and the post-structuralist rethinking of power, institution, the body, subjectivity and knowledge production. Turning to Michel Foucault’s rethinking of power and Jacques Rancière’s challenge of the position of mastery, it aims to articulate the tactical deconstructions of the choreographer-master in contemporary choreographic experiments. Borrowing Hannah Arendt’s notion of a ‘space of appearance’ and Jean-Luc Nancy’s rethinking of body, it attempts to articulate how choreography as a spatiotemporal technique offers spaces of appearances for other bodies.

This thesis also highlights a different possibility of articulating choreography by positioning it in the critical field called the ‘curatorial’. Reflecting the contemporary disciplinary crisis in art, where the given methodologies and tools no longer do the job that they used to do, there are increasing demands from cultural producers for different modes of operations in order to open up new critical possibilities of interdisciplinary research. In thinking through Le Roy and De Keersmaeker’s ‘choreographed’ exhibitions, this thesis aims to rethink choreography in terms of the curatorial. This also means to rethink the curatorial in terms of choreography, where both theatre-making and exhibition-making can be rearticulated as a matter of body in relation to other bodies.
Optimal Power Analyses for Hierarchical Endpoints Testing in Group Sequential Design
Creators: name: Mei, Xiaohan
Publisher: name: University of Illinois Chicago
Year: 2025

description: The increasing demand for drug efficacy research highlights the need to address hypothesis testing for both primary and secondary endpoints in clinical trial design, requiring multiplicity adjustments, particularly in hierarchical endpoints. In group sequential designs, controlling the overall type I error rate while maintaining adequate power for secondary endpoints is challenging, as traditional gatekeeping procedures and alpha splitting often lead to overly conservative family-wise error rates (FWER) for secondary endpoints, resulting in insufficient power and inefficiencies such as excessive sample sizes or additional trials. To address this, a model-based optimal power analysis approach is proposed, enabling simultaneous evaluation of primary and secondary endpoints within a single trial, ensuring FWER control while enhancing power and minimizing sample size requirements. Focusing on cross-sectional and longitudinal continuous endpoints, the methodology employs a Gaussian copula for joint probabilities and a linear mixed-effects model to account for correlated increments in group sequential designs with two stages. Results demonstrate the approach’s effectiveness in controlling error rates, improving secondary endpoint power, and reducing sample size requirements. A real clinical trial on LDL apheresis treatment further illustrates its practical benefits, including considerations for sample size re-estimation and extending to strong FWER control.
Früherkennung Und Frühintervention In Der Offenen Jugendarbeit: Umgang Mit Anzeichen Von Gefährdung Bei Jugendlichen
Creators: name: Rösli, Ursula
name: Deiss, Sophie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: gnd:4123880-1

description: Die Autorinnen beschreiben, unter welchen Bedingungen die Offene Jugendarbeit Früherkennung und Frühintervention bei gefährdeten Jugendlichen professionell und nach ihren Prinzipien umsetzen kann. Durch Literaturrecherche und qualitative Forschung haben sie Qualitätskriterien und deren Voraussetzungen für die Umsetzung von Früherkennung und Frühintervention in der Offenen Jugendarbeit entwickelt. Als gefährdet gelten Jugendliche, welche eine belastete soziale Ausgangslage haben und mindestens zwei weitere Risikofaktoren, wie beispielsweise Substanzmissbrauch und aggressives Verhalten, aufweisen. Früherkennung hat zum Ziel, eine Gefährdungslage durch das Erkennen und Abklären von Anzeichen möglichst früh zu diagnostizieren. Mit Frühintervention ist die Behandlung der früh erkannten Gefährdungslage gemeint. Die Autorinnen stellen fest, dass die Offene Jugendarbeit für die Umsetzung von professioneller Früherkennung und Frühintervention eine berufsspezifische Wertehaltung und spezielle kommunale Rahmenbedingungen sowie personelle Ressourcen braucht. Die erarbeiteten Qualitätskriterien und deren Voraussetzungen können als Unterstützung von Reflexionsprozessen zur Umsetzung von Früherkennung und Frühintervention in der Offenen Jugendarbeit verwendet werden.
description: + Code Diss LU: hslusa bask 2009 be + Fussnote: Bachelor-Arbeit, Hochschule Luzern - Soziale Arbeit, Ausbildungsgang Soziokultur, 2009
Data from: Under cover: The nuanced influence of functional properties of cover on resource selection by pygmy rabbits (Brachylagus idahoensis)
Creators: name: Stein, Rachel
name: Lecigne, Bastien
name: Johnson, Timothy
name: Eitel, Jan
name: Rachlow, Janet
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Concealment
cover
fearscape
prey
pygmy rabbit
terrestrial lidar
viewshed
visibility

description: Animals at risk of predation select habitat that enhances security from predators. Two properties of cover related to security are concealment (i.e., habitat structure that blocks an individual from detection by others) and visibility (i.e., visual information accessible relative to habitat structure). Although these properties are often negatively correlated, they are not always inverse; animals in habitat with heterogenous structure maybe be able to select for both. We investigated habitat use by pygmy rabbits (Brachylagus idahoensis) at 2 scales (patch and microsite) to evaluate the influence of both structural properties of cover and visual properties (concealment and visibility) on habitat use by prey. We contrasted vegetation structure at paired used and unused patches. At each patch, we measured concealment and viewshed (i.e., visibility) in 3 orientations (i.e., aerial, terrestrial, and overall) and structural density using lidar. We also measured heights of the 3 tallest shrubs. Additionally, within used patches, we assessed the density of fecal pellets as an index of intensity of use and also measured distance to nearest burrow. At the patch scale, rabbits selected for structural properties of cover (dense vegetation and tall shrubs), but not visual properties of cover. Pygmy rabbits more intensively used microsites associated with high terrestrial concealment and in proximity to burrows. Our results suggest that pygmy rabbits may perceive greater threat from terrestrial as opposed to aerial predators at both scales, and they also indicate a nuanced relationship between properties of cover and habitat use.
description: Funding provided by: American Society of MammalogistsROR ID: https://ror.org/058rchw45Award Number:
Funding provided by: Idaho Space Grant ConsortiumROR ID: https://ror.org/05b1jpg49Award Number:
Funding provided by: Phi Kappa PhiCrossref Funder Registry ID: Award Number:
sj-docx-1-msj-10.1177_13524585211039753 – Supplemental material for Time to diagnosis in multiple sclerosis: Epidemiological data from the German Multiple Sclerosis Registry
Creators: name: Blaschke, Stefan J
name: Ellenberger, David
name: Flachenecker, Peter
name: Hellwig, Kerstin
name: Paul, Friedemann
name: Pöhlau, Dieter
name: Kleinschnitz, Christoph
name: Rommer, Paulus S
name: Rueger, Maria A
name: Zettl, Uwe K
name: Stahmann, Alexander
name: Warnke, Clemens
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-msj-10.1177_13524585211039753 for Time to diagnosis in multiple sclerosis: Epidemiological data from the German Multiple Sclerosis Registry by Stefan J Blaschke, David Ellenberger, Peter Flachenecker, Kerstin Hellwig, Friedemann Paul, Dieter Pöhlau, Christoph Kleinschnitz, Paulus S Rommer, Maria A Rueger, Uwe K Zettl, Alexander Stahmann and Clemens Warnke in Multiple Sclerosis Journal
Theory of Capillary Tension and Interfacial Dynamics of Motility-Induced Phases
Creators: name: Langford, Luke
name: Omar, Ahmad K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The statistical mechanics of equilibrium interfaces has been well-established for over a half century. In the last decade, a wealth of observations have made increasingly clear that a new perspective is required to describe interfaces arbitrarily far from equilibrium. In this work, beginning from microscopic particle dynamics that break time-reversal symmetry, we systematically derive the interfacial dynamics of coexisting motility-induced phases. Doing so allows us to identify the athermal energy scale that excites interfacial fluctuations and the nonequilibrium surface tension that resists these excitations. Our theory identifies that, in contrast to equilibrium fluids, this active surface tension contains contributions arising from nonconservative forces which act to suppress interfacial fluctuations and, crucially, is distinct from the mechanical surface tension of Kirkwood and Buff. We find that the interfacial stiffness scales linearly with the intrinsic persistence length of the constituent active particle trajectories, in agreement with simulation data. We demonstrate that at wavelengths much larger than the persistence length, the interface obeys surface area minimizing Boltzmann statistics with our derived nonequilibrium interfacial stiffness playing an identical role to that of equilibrium systems.
Additional file 1: of Practice and outcomes of neonatal resuscitation for newborns with birth asphyxia at Kakamega County General Hospital, Kenya: a direct observation study
Creators: name: Shikuku, Duncan
name: Benson Milimo
name: Ayebare, Elizabeth
name: Gisore, Peter
name: Gorrette Nalwadda
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: Medicine
Neuroscience
Developmental Biology
Computational Biology

description: Structured observational checklist. (PDF 561Â kb)
Homology reveals significant anisotropy in the cosmic microwave background
Creators: name: Pranav, Pratyush
name: Buchert, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We test the tenet of statistical isotropy of the standard cosmological model via a homology analysis of the cosmic microwave background temperature maps. Examining small sectors of the normalized maps, we find that the results exhibit a dependence on whether we compute the mean and variance locally from the masked patch, or from the full masked sky. Assigning local mean and variance for normalization, we find the maximum discrepancy between the data and model in the galactic northern hemisphere at more than $3.5$ s.d. for the PR4 dataset at degree-scale. For the PR3 dataset, the C-R and SMICA maps exhibit higher significance than the PR4 dataset at $\sim 4$ and $4.1$ s.d. respectively, however the NILC and SEVEM maps exhibit lower significance at $\sim 3.4$ s.d. The southern hemisphere exhibits high degree of consistency between the data and the model for both the PR4 and PR3 datasets. Assigning the mean and variance of the full masked sky decreases the significance for the northern hemisphere, the tails in particular. However the tails in the southern hemisphere are strongly discrepant at more than $4$ standard deviations at approximately $5$ degrees. The $p$-values obtained from the $χ^2$-statistic exhibit commensurate significance in both the experiments. Examining the quadrants of the sphere, we find the first quadrant to be the major source of the discrepancy. Prima-facie, the results indicate a breakdown of statistical isotropy in the CMB maps, however more work is needed to ascertain the source of the anomaly. Regardless, these map characteristics may have serious consequences for downstream computations such as parameter estimation, and the related Hubble tension.
description: 19 pages, 14 figures, 6 tables
Additional file 1 of Hyaluronic acid stimulation of stem cells for cardiac repair: a cell-free strategy for myocardial infarct
Creators: name: Jeong, Seon-Yeong
name: Park, Bong-Woo
name: Kim, Jimin
name: Lee, Seulki
name: You, Haedeun
name: Lee, Joohyun
name: Lee, Susie
name: Park, Jae-Hyun
name: Kim, Jinju
name: Sim, Woosup
name: Ban, Kiwon
name: Park, Joonghoon
name: Park, Hun-Jun
name: Kim, Soo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Fig S1. Characterization of hiPSC-CM. a Characterization of hiPSC-CM was performed by flow cytometric analysis with cardiomyocyte markers including cardiac troponin T (cTnT), actinin alpha (α-actinin), alpha smooth muscle actin (α-SMA) and myosin light chain 2a (MLC2a). Fig S2. Protection effects of the HA-iMSC-EVs on primary neonatal rat cardiomyocyte. a-b EVs were treated to primary neonatal rat cardiomyocyte damaged with 500 μM of H2O2 for 2h. a Video were recorded for 15 seconds, and the beating area were marked yellow line. b After 48 h, relative viable cells were increased in EV-treated groups compared to PBS group. Mean ± SD, n= 3, **p < 0.01 vs PBS; ##p < 0.01 vs iMSC-EV. Fig S3. Heart rate during the cardiac function measurements. During cardiac ultrasound measurements, imaging was conducted on a temperature-controlled pad set at 40 degrees Celsius. Anesthesia was carefully administered using masks. Ultrasound system recorded M-mode images over a 3-second duration. Subsequently, heart rate calculations were derived from M-mode images captured at the 5-week time point. Mean ± SEM, n= 5.
Ricci Curvature and Ricci Flow for Graphs and Hypergraphs
Creators: name: Sengupta, Prithviraj
Publisher: name: University of Illinois Chicago
Year: 2025

description: Shape measures are fundamental to the analysis of mathematical structures, particularly in areas such as mathematics and mathematical physics. Concepts like gradients and curvatures are commonly employed to describe the "shape" of higher-dimensional objects. However, applying these ideas to discrete structures, such as networks, presents significant challenges, largely due to the lack of inherent geometric embeddings. This thesis explores the discretization of Ricci curvature, focusing specifically on Ollivier-Ricci curvature, and investigates its applications in understanding the structural properties of both graphs and hypergraphs.

In the first part of the thesis, we focus on graphs and present original contributions related to Ollivier-Ricci curvature, establishing new theoretical bounds for both exact and approximate computations. This helps us in understanding how curvature can be leveraged to capture the underlying structure of complex networked systems, providing insight into various network phenomena that more conventional metrics fail to address. The mathematical challenges associated with adapting continuous curvature notions to discrete graphs are also explored, offering a refined framework for network analysis.

In the second part of the thesis, we extend this analysis to hypergraphs, which provide a more accurate model for systems exhibiting higher-order interactions, such as biochemical and social networks, where multiple entities interact simultaneously. We develop a novel curvature-guided diffusion process, coupled with topological surgery and edge-weight re-normalization, to detect influential cores within these hypergraphs. This approach allows us to uncover key structural components in both directed and undirected hypergraphs. We apply our method to seven metabolic networks modeled as directed hypergraphs and two co-authorship networks modeled as undirected hypergraphs, demonstrating its effectiveness in identifying central modules and influential groups.
Joint Oscillation Damping and Inertia Provision Service for Converter-Interfaced Generation
Creators: name: Feng, Cheng
name: Huang, Linbin
name: He, Xiuqiang
name: Wang, Yi
name: Dörfler, Florian
name: Kang, Chongqing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Power systems dominated by converter-interfaced distributed energy resources (DERs) typically exhibit weaker damping capabilities and lower inertia, compromising system stability. Although individual DER controllers are evolving to provide superior oscillation damping capabilities and inertia supports, there is a lack of network-wide coordinated management measures for multiple DERs, potentially leading to unexpected instability and cost-effectiveness problems. To address this gap, this paper introduces a hybrid oscillation damping and inertia management strategy for multiple DERs, considering network coupling effects, and seeks to encourage DERs to provide enhanced damping and inertia with appropriate economic incentives. We first formulate an optimization problem to tune and allocate damping and inertia coefficients for DERs, minimizing associated power and energy costs while ensuring hard constraints for system frequency stability and small-signal stability. The problem is built upon a novel convex parametric formulation that integrates oscillation mode location and frequency trajectory requirements, equipped with a theoretical guarantee, and eliminating the need for iterative tuning and computation burdens. Furthermore, to increase the willingness of DERs to cooperate, we further design appropriate economic incentives to compensate for DERs' costs based on the proposed cost minimization problem, and assess its impact on system cost-efficiency. Numerical tests highlight the effectiveness of the proposed method in promoting system stability and offer insights into potential economic benefits.
description: Accepted by IEEE TPWRS. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses
sj-docx-1-sms-10.1177_20563051211041650 – Supplemental material for The Limited Influence of Right-Wing Movements on Social Media User Engagement
Creators: name: Schwemmer, Carsten
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 200199 Communication and Media Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-sms-10.1177_20563051211041650 for The Limited Influence of Right-Wing Movements on Social Media User Engagement by Carsten Schwemmer in Social Media + Society
MUGHALS AND MERCENARIES: GLOBALIZATION AS DELIBERATIVE RHETORICS OF RISK AND PRECARITY IN THE ENGLISH EAST INDIA COMPANY
Creators: name: Sirohi, Priya
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Philosophy of language
History of economic thought
Historical studies not elsewhere classified
Economic history

description: Rhetorics of globalization are best understood through the concept of risk. This dissertation traces the history of contemporary globalization back to the encounters of the English East India Company (EIC) from the seventeenth through eighteenth centuries with foreign trading cultures through primary journals, records, and guidebooks. I also contrast the EIC approach with the sulh-i-kull approach of the Mughal Empire. I conclude that the EIC cultivated risk to override ethical considerations of the Other, invent the private sphere, and lay the bedrock of contemporary capitalism.
Additional file 1 of Low-level physical activity predictors among adults living with HIV in Ethiopia’s southern region, focusing on work, transportation, and recreation domains: unmatched case-control study
Creators: name: Bune, Girma Tenkolu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
EFFECT OF GLUCAN CHEMICAL STRUCTURE ON GUT MICROBIOTA COMPOSITION AND FUNCTION
Creators: name: Marcia, Arianna D Romero
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Food sciences not elsewhere classified

description: It is well known that colonic microbiota is influenced by both intrinsic and extrinsic factors; out of all these, diet plays a major role. The traditional human diet has typically been high in overall dietary fiber intake, due its inherent presence in plant-derived foods. However, over the years, dietary patterns have transitioned into a low-fiber Westernized diet. This diet is increasingly implicated in colonic diseases. Dietary fiber consumption is known to increase microbial diversity, yet the mechanisms are still unclear. This is partially true because dietary fiber as a category is composed of a wide variety of structures, which may have divergent effects on the gut microbiome. The food industry has extracted, isolated, refined and purified non-digestible carbohydrates and, in some cases, modified them for improved function, which may influence their interaction with the gut microbiome. This study was developed in two phases: we first hypothesized that glucans produced by different processes were structurally distinct and that these fine structural differences in glucans would govern microbial responses to the polymers. To test this hypothesis, we first determined the structural characteristics of the glucans by gas chromatography and mass spectrometry, which revealed substantial structural differences among the glucans with respect to size and linkage patterns, consequently categorizing the glucans by structure (i.e., mixed linkage α-glucans, resistant maltodextrins, and polydextroses). The second study involved the in vitro fecal fermentation of these commercially available soluble glucans which are uniformly composed of glucose linked into different structural arrangements. We further hypothesized that each glucan would select for different microbiota and that there would be glucan-specific general responses across microbiomes. We were able to identify a variety of idiosyncratic metabolic patterns as well as differential organisms selecting for specific glucan structures. Although there were associations with glucan classes at the family level (e.g., Bacteriodaceae and Lachnospiraceae were discriminants of the resistant maltodextrins and polydextroses respectively), associations with glucans across individual species within these families varied. These findings suggest that microbiome responses to structurally distinct glucans depend upon both fine glucan structure and community context, and community metabolic phenotypes emerge from the interaction of the two. These findings are relevant to the food industry as they may enable optimization of synthesis to generate chemical structures that select for specific organisms and/or improve overall gut health.