cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Seating configuration and position preferences in fully automated vehicles
Creators: name: Koppel, Sjaan
name: Octavio, Jesús Jiménez
name: Bohman, Katarina
name: Logan, David
name: Raphael, Wassim
name: Jimenez, Leonardo Quintana
name: Lopez-Valdes, Francisco
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Objective: This study aimed to understand seating configuration and position preferences in a fully automated vehicle (FAV) across 7 hypothetical traveling scenarios. Methods: Participants completed an online survey in which they were asked to imagine traveling in an FAV across 7 hypothetical traveling scenarios and asked to select 1 of 5 seating configurations and 1 of 4 seating positions for themselves and for any additional occupants. Furthermore, participants were asked to indicate any activities that they and any additional occupants would engage in and whether they would be willing to wear a different seat belt in an FAV while seated in a non-forward-facing mode or while reclined. Results: Five hundred and fifty-two participants (male = 50.5%; mean = 36.6 years, SD = 14.0 years) completed the online survey. Most participants resided in Australia (40.9%), Spain (16.5%), Sweden (15.6%), or Lebanon (19.4%). Most participants drove on a daily basis (60.0%), had driven between 5,000 and 15,000 km in the previous year (33.2%), and reported that they always or almost always wear a seat belt while traveling in a motor vehicle (98.2%). Across all scenarios, participants were most likely to prefer a conventional seating configuration (i.e., all seats facing forward; between 40.0 and 76.3%). In terms of seating position preferences, participants preferred seating position A (i.e., the conventional driver’s seat; between 54.6 and 68.3%), regardless of with whom they were traveling. The most common activity while traveling alone was reading (25.0%). However, when traveling with other occupants, talking was the most common activity (41.0–63.0%), even with someone they did not know (31.0%). Most participants predicted that they would always or almost always wear a seat belt when traveling in an FAV (95.9%). Most participants also reported that they would be very willing or willing to wear a different seat belt configuration in an FAV while seated in a non-forward-facing mode or while reclined (73.8 and 80.7%, respectively). Conclusions: This study has provided valuable insight regarding seating configuration and position preferences in an FAV, as well as predicted activities and restraint use. Future research will use this information to simulate likely injury outcomes of these preferences in the event of a motor vehicle crash and provide a basis for the design of occupant protection systems for FAVs.
Clinical evaluation of the QuickVet®/RapidVet® canine dog erythrocyte antigen 1.1 blood-typing test
Creators: name: Kohn, Barbara
name: Classe, Gabriele
name: Weingart, Christiane
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::630 Landwirtschaft

description: In transfusion medicine, blood typing is an integral part of pretransfusion testing. The objective of the current study was the clinical evaluation of an automated canine cartridge dog erythrocyte antigen (DEA) 1.1 blood-typing method (QuickVet/RapidVet) and comparison of the results with a gel column- based method (ID-Gel Test Canine DEA 1.1). Ethylenediamine tetra-acetic acid- anticoagulated blood samples from 11 healthy and 85 sick dogs were available for typing. Before blood typing, all samples were tested for agglutination and hemolysis. All samples were tested once or multiple times with both methods according to the manufacturer's guidelines. With the gel method, 53 dogs tested DEA 1.1 positive and 42 dogs DEA 1.1 negative; blood typing was not possible due to erythrocyte autoagglutination in 1 dog. With the cartridge test, 53 samples tested DEA 1.1 positive, 34 samples tested DEA 1.1 negative, and 6 results were inconclusive (3 samples were not included due to autoagglutination or severe hemolysis). Without taking the inconclusive samples into account, the agreement between both methods was 96.5%. The sensitivity and specificity for samples that were definitively typed by both methods were 100% and 91.9%, respectively. The cartridge test was suitable for in-clinic canine DEA 1.1 blood typing, although some discrepancies compared to the gel method existed. The cartridge test is software-directed, is easy to use, and does not require user interpretation, but preanalytical guidelines (sample evaluation for agglutination and hemolysis) have to be followed. For inconclusive results, an alternate blood-typing method should be performed.
Automated Graph-Based Data Integration and Information Fusion: An Open-Source Ecosystem of Tools With a Focus on Maintainability and Usability
Creators: name: Friedrichs, Marcel
Publisher: name: Universität Bielefeld
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: 000

description: Information is a vital part of research. While there are likely exceptions, almost all research projects process or produce data, or both. Storage of information in digital form provides many advantages, such as large capacities or easy and immediate access across locations. However, new challenges arise as well necessitating specialized software and paradigms for efficient data storage, integration, and analysis.

The ever-growing number of available online databases is a vast source of information for research projects. Longevity and maintenance of these databases is, however, a non-trivial task and finding relevant databases for a project has become difficult. Meta-registries provide curated information on available databases and allow searching for specific keywords, topics, and more.

Data integration tools and workflows are available providing researchers with the means to combine and interconnect heterogeneous source databases. Each tool uses specific database systems and integration methodologies but also introduces certain constraints.

This thesis evaluates existing meta-registries for life science databases and identifies the requirements to capture reliable metadata on database longevity. As a result, two novel meta-registries, miRNAverse and NAR DB Status, are presented. Both focus on providing up-to-date manual metadata annotations regarding availability and longevity of databases. Analyses of both meta-registries show a database availability between 62% and 66%.

Moreover, this thesis compares existing data integration tools and identifies functional and non-functional requirements for such tools. A novel concept is formulated covering the entire data integration and mapping process from automatic database version retrieval to an analysis-ready data warehouse. To demonstrate the feasibility of the concept, the BioDWH2 ecosystem of tools is implemented. A significant number of data source modules are already available and extensible using a modular approach. Data source versions are automatically retrieved and downloaded if necessary. Furthermore, the entire mapping process is developed to be transparent and analyzable. The novel MappingSpy tool allows the visual inspection of mappings and calculates scores to hint at potential issues. BioDWH2 is open-source and freely available at https://github.com/BioDWH2/.
Microdynerus atriceps MORAWITZ 1895
Creators: name: Gusenleitner, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eumenidae
Microdynerus
Microdynerus atriceps

description: Microdynerus atriceps MORAWITZ 1895
M a t e r i a l: Griechenland: Lesbos, 0,85 km NE Eressos, 100m, 39°10’22’’N 25°56’23’’E, 14.6.200 4, 1; leg. M. Greenwell; Lesbos, 2,2 km SE Mystegna, 20m, 39°12’15’’N 26°29’07’’E, 1, leg. E. Lamborn.
 Die Art wurde bisher nur im Nahen Osten, einschliesslich der Türkei bekannt. Für Europa sind dies die ersten Funde. Im Bestimmungsschlüssel (GUSENLEITNER 1979) werden die Unterschiede zu anderen Microdynerus -Arten des Nahen Ostens angeführt. In der Bestimmungstabellen (GUSENLEITNER 1997, 2003) fehlt diese Art, da sie damals für Europa nicht gemeldet war. Besonders charakteristisch ist die helle Zeichnung am oberen Abschnitt der Mesopleuren. In der Tabelle 1979 wurde angeführt, dass das Schildchen zwei helle Flecken besitzt. Bei dem hier vorgestellten Weibchen fehlen bei dem Exemplar aus Mytsegna diese Flecken auf dem Schildchen.
description: Published as part of Gusenleitner, J., 2008, Bestimmungstabellen mittel- und südeuropäischer Eumeniden (Vespoidea, Hymenoptera) 4. Nachtrag, pp. 1505-1507 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 40 (2) on page 1505, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5431522
02_normal_to_disease
Creators: name: Hu, Luni
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 310201
subject: Bioinformatic methods development

description: To evaluate its generalizability to disease states, UniCell was trained on healthy tissue samples and tested on matched disease datasets in a normal-to-disease transfer setting. In this setup, UniCell not only retained high classification performance on shared cell types, but also enabled the detection of previously unseen cell populations (e.g., follicular dendritic cells in lymphoma) through a confidence-guided novelty detection pipeline that integrates PCA, clustering, and prediction uncertainty.
Clinotanypus Kieffer
Creators: name: Cranston, Peter S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Clinotanypus

description: Clinotanypus Kieffer
(Figs. 1–3)
 Three species of Clinotanypus have been described from the region: C. crux (Wiedemann) and C. obscuripes (de Meijere) from Indonesia as adults by Johannsen (1931), and in their immature stages by Zavrelˇ (1933). Kieffer (1924) described C. pictidorsum from Java.
 Larval Clinotanypus cannot be differentiated yet and the only regional rearings known are pharate pupae. The known biologies within this essentially tropical genus suggest that the larvae are predatory, eurythermic and tolerant of organic pollution. The two larval records in this study come from dilute ponds with low conductivities (103, 194 µS. cm−1) and low dissolved solids (65, 97 ppm).
description: Published as part of Cranston, Peter S., 2007, The Chironomidae Larvae Associated With The Tsunami-Impacted Waterbodies Of The Coastal Plain Of Southwestern Thailand, pp. 231-244 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 55 (2) on page 233, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5333182
Measurements of the branching ratios for $6P_{1/2}$ decays in $^{138}$Ba$^+$
Creators: name: Arnold, K. J.
name: Chanu, S. R.
name: Kaewuam, R.
name: Tan, T. R.
name: Yeo, L.
name: Zhang, Zhiqiang
name: Safronova, M. S.
name: Barrett, M. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Measurement of the branching ratios for $6P_{1/2}$ decays to $6S_{1/2}$ and $5D_{3/2}$ in $^{138}$Ba$^+$ are reported with the decay probability from $6P_{1/2}$ to $5D_{3/2}$ measured to be $p=0.268177\pm(37)_\mathrm{stat}-(20)_\mathrm{sys}$. This result differs from a recent report by $12σ$. A detailed account of systematics is given and the likely source of the discrepancy is identified. The new value of the branching ratio is combined with a previous experimental results to give a new estimate of $τ=7.855(10)\,\mathrm{ns}$ for the $6P_{1/2}$ lifetime. In addition, ratios of matrix elements calculated from theory are combined with experimental results to provide improved theoretical estimates of the $6P_{3/2}$ lifetime and the associated matrix elements.
description: 12 pages, 7 figure, updated corrected a few minor typos
Generalized comparison theorems in quantum mechanics
Creators: name: Hall, Richard L.
name: Katatbeh, Qutaibeh D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper is concerned with the discrete spectra of Schroedinger operators H = -Delta + V, where V(r) is an attractive potential in N spatial dimensions. Two principal results are reported for the bottom of the spectrum of H in each angular-momentum subspace H_{ell}: (i) an optimized lower bound when the potential is a sum of terms V(r) = V^{(1)}(r) + V^{(2)}(r), and the bottoms of the spectra of -Delta + V^{(1)}(r) and -Delta + V^{(2)}(r) in H_{ell} are known, and (ii) a generalized comparison theorem which predicts spectral ordering when the graphs of the comparison potentials V^{(1)}(r) and V^{(2)}(r) intersect in a controlled way. Pure power-law potentials are studied and an application of the results to the Coulomb-plus-linear potential V(r) = -a/r + br is presented in detail: for this problem an earlier formula for energy bounds is sharpened and generalized to N dimensions.
description: 25 pages, 5 figures
Neglected Nutrition: A Call to Action for the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) and the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) to Update the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE)
Creators: Goulding, Samantha Gabrielle
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: United States Medical Licensing Examination
Nutrition
Nutrition--Education
Medical policy
Medical colleges

description: With more than 93 million US adults already living with obesity (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2018), it is unsurprising that obesity-related diseases like type II diabetes, coronary heart disease, stroke, and several types of cancer are becoming the most prevalent health concerns physicians are presented with. Accordingly, nutrition is now a recognized determinant in three of the top four leading causes of death in the United States and subsequently has been validated extensively as an effective preventative health measure through experimental, observational, and controlled clinical trials (Kris-Etherton et al, 2014). Despite evidence supporting nutrition as a cost-effective and low-risk treatment for chronic disease, fewer than thirty percent of medical schools meet the minimum hours of nutrition education recommended by the National Research Council (Bradley et al, 2017). Therefore, medical schools are not adequately training their students in nutrition, which results in lack of confidence in both student and physicians to counsel patients about healthy dietary behaviors. Medical schools prioritize their students’ performance on the USMLE Step exams, and thus shape their curricula around what competencies are present on those exams. By using an ecological model as the framework for intervention, a two-part literature review encompassing the community, organizational, and policy levels was conducted. Upon analysis of the most prevalent nutrition-related treatment recommendations published by professional medical organizations, six specific, evidence-based, nutrition-related competencies were outlined. These recommended competencies are put forward as essential additions to the USMLE Step exams.
Tanypus Meigen 1803
Creators: name: Cranston, Peter S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Tanypus

description: Tanypus Meigen
(Fig. 4)
 Tanypus has been reported from the region previously only as T. punctipennis Meigen by Johannsen (1931) from Sumatra, with the larva and pupa described briefly by Zavrelˇ (1933).
 Known biologies within this worldwide genus suggest that the larvae are predatory in warm shallow pools, especially those with high nutrient loadings. The four larval records in this study come from ponds with conductivities ranging from dilute (49 and 103 to more saline 727 and 4,440 µS. cm−1) and with a similar wide range in dissolved solid concentrations (24, 51 364, 2,230 ppm).
description: Published as part of Cranston, Peter S., 2007, The Chironomidae Larvae Associated With The Tsunami-Impacted Waterbodies Of The Coastal Plain Of Southwestern Thailand, pp. 231-244 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 55 (2) on pages 233-234, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5333182
Additional file 1: of Strain Effect on Thermoelectric Performance of InSe Monolayer
Creators: name: Wang, Qian
name: Han, Lihong
name: Wu, Liyuan
name: Zhang, Tao
name: Li, Shanjun
name: Lu, Pengfei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Table S2. Calculated bandgaps of InSe monolayer under different tensile strain. For sake of comparison, some previous theoretical and experimental (optical bandgap) results without strain are also listed. Figure S1. (a) The 2D elastic constant is obtained by parabola fitting total energy-strain relationship along x and y directions of monolayer InSe. (b) The band edge positions of conduction band and valence band with respect to the applied strain along x and y directions. Dotted line represents the linear fit, which defines deformation potential constant (DOCX 66 kb)
Physics in Forensic Science
Creators: name: Hazarika, Ayush
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 510501
subject: Biological physics
classificationCode: 510502
subject: Medical physics

description: This work was submitted for a competition organized by IAPT.
Physics serves as a cornerstone in forensic science, providing a rigorous scientific framework for analyzing evidence and unraveling the complexities of crime scenes. Recent breakthroughs in disciplines such as ballistics, DNA analysis, and accident reconstruction have transformed forensic science, enabling investigators to dissect evidence with unprecedented precision and efficiency. Looking forward, the convergence of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, advancements in materials science and technology, innovations in surface and trace chemical analysis, and advancements in imaging technology are poised to revolutionize the landscape of forensic science. Despite these advancements, physics will continue to play a pivotal role in forensic investigations, ensuring the integrity and accuracy of evidence analysis and contributing to the fair and just administration of justice.
Reinforcement Learning: A Survey
Creators: name: Kaelbling, L. P.
name: Littman, M. L.
name: Moore, A. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper surveys the field of reinforcement learning from a computer-science perspective. It is written to be accessible to researchers familiar with machine learning. Both the historical basis of the field and a broad selection of current work are summarized. Reinforcement learning is the problem faced by an agent that learns behavior through trial-and-error interactions with a dynamic environment. The work described here has a resemblance to work in psychology, but differs considerably in the details and in the use of the word ``reinforcement.'' The paper discusses central issues of reinforcement learning, including trading off exploration and exploitation, establishing the foundations of the field via Markov decision theory, learning from delayed reinforcement, constructing empirical models to accelerate learning, making use of generalization and hierarchy, and coping with hidden state. It concludes with a survey of some implemented systems and an assessment of the practical utility of current methods for reinforcement learning.
description: See http://www.jair.org/ for any accompanying files
title: Journal of Urban Mathematics Education, Vol. 14 No. 1 (2021): May 2021, Special Issue – I, Too, Am America! Teaching Mathematics for Empowerment
title: May 2021, Special Issue – I, Too, Am America! Teaching Mathematics for Empowerment
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Journal Of Urban Mathematics Education
Publisher: name: Journal of Urban Mathematics Education
Year: 2021

description: This special issue of the Journal of Urban Mathematics Education includes articles that affirm the cultural and American identity of those who experience "othering" in America's K–12 public schools and in society at large.
description: The End or Beginning?...1–11 I, Too, Am America!...12–23 Radical Love as Praxis...71–95 "We Made Math!"...24–44 Exploring Mathematics of the Sociopolitical Through Culturally Relevant Pedagogy in a College Algebra Course at a Historically Black College/University...45–70
Modular $S_3$ invariant flavor model in SU(5) GUT
Creators: name: Kobayashi, Tatsuo
name: Shimizu, Yusuke
name: Takagi, Kenta
name: Tanimoto, Morimitsu
name: Tatsuishi, Takuya H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a flavor model with the $S_3$ modular invariance in the framework of SU(5) GUT. The $S_3$ modular forms of weights $2$ and $4$ give the quark and lepton mass matrices with a common complex parameter, the modulus $τ$. The GUT relation of down-type quarks and charged leptons is imposed by the VEV of adjoint 24-dimensional Higgs multiplet in addition to the VEVs of $5$ and $\bar 5$ Higgs multiples of SU(5). The observed CKM and PMNS mixing parameters as well as the mass eigenvalues are reproduced properly. We discuss the leptonic CP phase and the effective mass of the neutrinoless double beta decay with the sum of neutrino masses.
description: 16 pages, 5 figures and 1 table. Numerical data have been revised
Calibrating and validating the Aerobic Mortality Risk Index (IRMA): an index for predicting mass mortality of fish due to anoxia
Creators: name: Becerra, Luis Felipe
name: Mancera Pineda, José Ernesto
name: López Kleine, Liliana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Tropical estuaries, eutrophication, fish kills index, anoxia, chlorophyll

description: To develop an early warning tool for mass fish mortality due to eutrophication in tropical estuaries, we calibrated and validated the Aerobic Mortality Risk Index (IRMA). To calculate IRMA, we used a conceptual model that relates the concentrations of PO4 (µmol.L-1), chlorophyll (CLA, µg.L-1) and dissolved oxygen (DO, mg.L-1), incorporating 30 years of monitoring data from the estuarine lagoon Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta (CGSM) - Colombian Caribbean. We calibrated the model using the fish kill events recorded in CGSM and evaluated its performance through a confusion matrix. Several metrics were used to assess the effectiveness of IRMA, resulting in an optimized threshold value of 60%.
Ablabesmyia Johannsen 1905
Creators: name: Cranston, Peter S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Ablabesmyia

description: Ablabesmyia Johannsen
(Figs. 8, 11)
 Ablabesmyia is a widely distributed genus, readily recognised in the larval stage by the two or three dark, simple claws amongst the dominant yellow ones on the posterior parapod. Two distinct larval types are recognised from the division of the basal segment of the maxillary palp: with two sections in the A. notabilis group, and with four or five parts in the A. hilli group (Fig. 8). The number of regional species belonging in each grouping is quite uncertain and an extensive rearing programme would be required since adult males are needed for species delimitation.
 The first published regional record of the genus concerns A. moniliformis Fittkau (1962), recorded from Sumatra as Pentaneura monilis Linnaeus, sensu Johannsen (1931) with immature stages recorded by Zavrelˇ (1933). Ashe (1990) recorded the genus from Sulawesi.
 Larvae belonging to the A. notabilis group were found in three tsunami-impacted sites, with conductivities of 168, 669 and 3,940 µS. cm−1 and dissolved solids of 84, 336 and 2,000 ppm, respectively. One larva belonging to the A. hilli group was found in a single disturbed peaty site with conductivity of 255 µS. cm−1 and dissolved solids of 128 ppm.
 Late instar larval Ablabesmyia have gut contents often comprising smaller chironomids, especially of Tanytarsus species.
description: Published as part of Cranston, Peter S., 2007, The Chironomidae Larvae Associated With The Tsunami-Impacted Waterbodies Of The Coastal Plain Of Southwestern Thailand, pp. 231-244 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 55 (2) on page 234, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5333182
The Symbol Grounding Problem
Creators: name: Harnad, Stevan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.0

description: How can the semantic interpretation of a formal symbol system be made intrinsic to the system, rather than just parasitic on the meanings in our heads? How can the meanings of the meaningless symbol tokens, manipulated solely on the basis of their (arbitrary) shapes, be grounded in anything but other meaningless symbols? The problem is analogous to trying to learn Chinese from a Chinese/Chinese dictionary alone. A candidate solution is sketched: Symbolic representations must be grounded bottom-up in nonsymbolic representations of two kinds: (1) "iconic representations," which are analogs of the proximal sensory projections of distal objects and events, and (2) "categorical representations," which are learned and innate feature-detectors that pick out the invariant features of object and event categories from their sensory projections. Elementary symbols are the names of these object and event categories, assigned on the basis of their (nonsymbolic) categorical representations. Higher-order (3) "symbolic representations," grounded in these elementary symbols, consist of symbol strings describing category membership relations (e.g., "An X is a Y that is Z").
Additional file 1 of Decitabine assists umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stem cells in improving glucose homeostasis by modulating macrophage polarization in type 2 diabetic mice
Creators: name: Gao, Jieqing
name: Cheng, Yu
name: Hao, Haojie
name: Yin, Yaqi
name: Xue, Jing
name: Zhang, Qi
name: Li, Lin
name: Liu, Jiejie
name: Xie, Zongyan
name: Yu, Songyan
name: Li, Bing
name: Han, Weidong
name: Mu, Yiming
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
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: Hematology

description: Table S1. Primer sequences of target genes (mice). Figure S1. Induction of the T2D mouse model. The T2D mouse model was induced by a combination of an 8-week HFD and a single intraperitoneal injection of low-dose STZ (100 mg/kg). a Blood glucose was consecutively detected after STZ injection. One week after STZ injection, IPGTT (b) and IPITT (c) were performed to confirm the establishment of the T2D mouse model. For IPITT (c), the results are presented relative to the initial blood glucose levels. The results are presented as the means ± SD. *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01. Figure S2. Identification of UC-MSC characteristics. UC-MSCs were isolated and identified from full-term fetal umbilical cords. a The morphology of UC-MSCs. (B-C): Multilineage differentiation of MSCs: adipocytic differentiation (b) was detected by Oil Red O staining; osteoblastic differentiation (c) was confirmed by Alizarin Red staining; Scale bar 50 μm. (d–f): Immunological phenotypes of MSCs: cultured UC-MSCs consisted of a homogenous mesenchymal population that stained positive for CD90 in 99.76% of cells (d) and CD105 in 99.79% of cells (e) but negative for CD45 (f), which met the international definition of MSCs. Figure S3. Biological characteristics and identification of bone marrow-derived macrophages (BMDMs). BMDMs were isolated and cultured in RMPI-1640 supplemented with 100 ng/ml M-CSF. a The morphology of macrophages. b Flow cytometry analyses showed that the positive rate of F4/80 in bone marrow-derived cells was over 95%. (c, d): M1 macrophage induction, after stimulation with LPS (100 ng/ml) and IFN-γ (50 ng/ml) for 24 h, and the morphology of macrophages (c). The positive rate of CD11c in BMMCs was over 95% (d). Abbreviations: BMDMs, bone marrow-derived macrophages. M-CSF, macrophage colony-stimulating factor. Figure S4. UC-MSCs combined with decitabine did not influence UC-MSCs homing in T2DM mice. UC-MSCs were CM-Dil (red) labeled in advance. Successfully induced type 2 diabetic mice were treated with UC-MSCs or UC-MSCs combined with decitabine. One week after the infusion, detection of UC-MSCs in the adipose tissue, liver, and lung of T2DM recipients using a confocal laser scanning microscope. Scale bar, 100 μm (A) and 50 μm (B). Values are presented as the means ± SD. ns, no significant difference. (DOCX 2295 kb)
Almost thermal operations: inhomogeneous reservoirs
Creators: name: Shu, Angeline
name: Cai, Yu
name: Seah, Stella
name: Nimmrichter, Stefan
name: Scarani, Valerio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The resource theory of thermal operations explains the state transformations that are possible in a very specific thermodynamic setting: there is only one thermal bath, auxiliary systems can only be in corresponding thermal state (free states), and the interaction must commute with the free Hamiltonian (free operation). In this paper we study the mildest deviation: the reservoir particles are subject to inhomogeneities, either in the local temperature (introducing resource states) or in the local Hamiltonian (generating a resource operation). For small inhomogeneities, the two models generate the same channel and thus the same state transformations. However, their thermodynamics is significantly different when it comes to work generation or to the interpretation of the "second laws of thermal operations".
description: 9 pages, 5 figures. Supersedes submission arXiv:1806.08108
Coelichneumon desinatorius
Creators: name: Riedel, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Coelichneumon
Coelichneumon desinatorius

description: Coelichneumon desinatorius (THUNBERG 1824)
M a t e r i a l: Griechenland: Peloponnes 12 km nordwestlich Sparti, 1 26.-27.IV.2005, leg. M. Kadlecová; Tschechien: Böhmen, Hosin, 1 V.2004, leg. Nemec.
V e r b r e i t u n g:Paläarktis,neufürGriechenland.
description: Published as part of Riedel, M., 2008, Die Coelichneumon-Arten (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Ichneumoninae) des Biologiezentrums Linz, Austria, pp. 1839-1859 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 40 (2) on page 1842, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5431814
Endophytic Aureobasidium pullulans BSS6 assisted developments in phytoremediation potentials of Cucumis sativus under Cd and Pb stress
Creators: name: Ali, Amjad
name: Bilal, Saqib
name: Khan, Abdul Latif
name: Fazal Mabood
name: Al-Harrasi, Ahmed
name: In-Jung Lee
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 20199 Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: In the current study, we aimed to elucidate the bioremediating potential of endophytic fungi during various heavy metals stresses to the cucumber (Cucumis sativus) plants. Preliminary screening showed that endophyte (Aureobasidium. pullulans BSS6) produced IAA and extra-cellular enzymes (phosphatase, cellulase and glucosidase). Therefore, BSS6 was inoculated to cucumber plants during short term (24 h) heavy metals stress (STM) and long-term (7 days) heavy metals stress (LTM). Results showed that antioxidant activities (catalase, peroxidase and reduced glutathione) were significantly enhanced and lipid peroxidation inhibited during stress conditions in A. pullulans BSS6 inoculated plants, particularly in LTM stress. The ameliorative effects of BSS6 were evident from the quantification of results and were found to significantly regulate soil enzymatic activities: including (β -glucosidase, phosphatases and cellulases) during STM and LTM. Hence, endophytic BSS6 proved to be efficient in improving cucumber tolerance during metal contamination via regulating soil enzymatic activities to reduce metal uptake and boost the antioxidant system.
A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Lensing Potential and Power Spectrum from 500 deg$^2$ of SPTpol Temperature and Polarization Data
Creators: name: Wu, W. L. K.
name: Mocanu, L. M.
name: Ade, P. A. R.
name: Anderson, A. J.
name: Austermann, J. E.
name: Avva, J. S.
name: Beall, J. A.
name: Bender, A. N.
name: Benson, B. A.
name: Bianchini, F.
name: Bleem, L. E.
name: Carlstrom, J. E.
name: Chang, C. L.
name: Chiang, H. C.
name: Citron, R.
name: Moran, C. Corbett
name: Crawford, T. M.
name: Crites, A. T.
name: de Haan, T.
name: Dobbs, M. A.
name: Everett, W.
name: Gallicchio, J.
name: George, E. M.
name: Gilbert, A.
name: Gupta, N.
name: Halverson, N. W.
name: Harrington, N.
name: Henning, J. W.
name: Hilton, G. C.
name: Holder, G. P.
name: Holzapfel, W. L.
name: Hou, Z.
name: Hrubes, J. D.
name: Huang, N.
name: Hubmayr, J.
name: Irwin, K. D.
name: Knox, L.
name: Lee, A. T.
name: Li, D.
name: Lowitz, A.
name: Manzotti, A.
name: McMahon, J. J.
name: Meyer, S. S.
name: Millea, M.
name: Montgomery, J.
name: Nadolski, A.
name: Natoli, T.
name: Nibarger, J. P.
name: Noble, G. I.
name: Novosad, V.
name: Omori, Y.
name: Padin, S.
name: Patil, S.
name: Pryke, C.
name: Reichardt, C. L.
name: Ruhl, J. E.
name: Saliwanchik, B. R.
name: Sayre, J. T.
name: Schaffer, K. K.
name: Sievers, C.
name: Simard, G.
name: Smecher, G.
name: Stark, A. A.
name: Story, K. T.
name: Tucker, C.
name: Vanderlinde, K.
name: Veach, T.
name: Vieira, J. D.
name: Wang, G.
name: Whitehorn, N.
name: Yefremenko, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a measurement of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing potential using 500 deg$^2$ of 150 GHz data from the SPTpol receiver on the South Pole Telescope. The lensing potential is reconstructed with signal-to-noise per mode greater than unity at lensing multipoles $L \lesssim 250$, using a quadratic estimator on a combination of CMB temperature and polarization maps. We report measurements of the lensing potential power spectrum in the multipole range of $100< L < 2000$ from sets of temperature-only, polarization-only, and minimum-variance estimators. We measure the lensing amplitude by taking the ratio of the measured spectrum to the expected spectrum from the best-fit $Λ$CDM model to the $\textit{Planck}$ 2015 TT+lowP+lensing dataset. For the minimum-variance estimator, we find $A_{\rm{MV}} = 0.944 \pm 0.058{\rm (Stat.)}\pm0.025{\rm (Sys.)}$; restricting to only polarization data, we find $A_{\rm{POL}} = 0.906 \pm 0.090 {\rm (Stat.)} \pm 0.040 {\rm (Sys.)}$. Considering statistical uncertainties alone, this is the most precise polarization-only lensing amplitude constraint to date (10.1 $σ$), and is more precise than our temperature-only constraint. We perform null tests and consistency checks and find no evidence for significant contamination.
description: 18 pages, 8 figures; updated to match published version
Genetic Algorithm for SU(2) Gauge Theory on a 2-dimensional Lattice
Creators: name: Yamaguchi, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: An algorithm is proposed for the simulation of pure SU(N) lattice gauge theories based on Genetic Algorithms(GAs). We apply GAs to SU(2) pure gauge theory on a 2 dimensional lattice and show the results, the action per plaquette and Wilson loops, are consistent with those by Metropolis method(MP)s and Heatbath method(HB)s. Thermalization speed of GAs is especially faster than the simple MPs.
description: 3 pages,9 figures,LATTICE98(Algorithm), "Genetic Algorithm for SU(N) Gauge Theory on a Lattice"
Larsia Fittkau 1962
Creators: name: Cranston, Peter S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Larsia

description: Larsia Fittkau
(Figs. 14–16)
 Larsia is a frequently-occuring genus especially in warm streams and rivers, but is encountered less often in tropical standing waters. Pupal evidence suggests that diversity is higher than the sole published regional record of L. albiceps (Johannsen, 1931) whose immature stages were described by Zavrelˇ (1933) from Sumatra. Regionally, larvae were found only in dilute, unimpacted sites ranging in conductivity from 50–1570 µS. cm−1 and in dissolved solids from 23–1,570 ppm. A single pupa, from the most dilute site, has a thoracic horn (Fig. 16) unlike any other found in the genus in Asia or Australia: no association with larvae from any other site can be made with any certainty. However, the larvae from this survey are not the same as those identified tentatively as L. albiceps from Australia (Cranston, 2000) judging from slight differences in the arrangement of the cephalic setae and especially the strength of the transverse ‘creases’ of the mentum (gula and submentum) in the Thai specimens (Fig. 15, m, sm) compared to Australian specimens.
description: Published as part of Cranston, Peter S., 2007, The Chironomidae Larvae Associated With The Tsunami-Impacted Waterbodies Of The Coastal Plain Of Southwestern Thailand, pp. 231-244 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 55 (2) on page 234, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5333182
title: Movement of 𝛼-synuclein aggregates associated with mitochondria via tunneling nanotubes in Parkinson's disease
Creators: name: Harten, Paige M
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: tunnelling nanotubes
subject: Parkinson's disease
subject: mitochondria

description: INTRODUCTION Parkinson's Disease (PD) is primarily driven by dysfunction caused by α-synuclein aggregates. These aggregates affect mitochondrial membranes, impairing energy production (OXPHOS) and protein import. This mitochondrial dysfunction is a major contributor to PD symptomologies. Literature suggests that the association between α-synuclein aggregates and mitochondria is responsible for the functional impairments seen in affected neurons. α-Synuclein aggregates exploit various physiological processes for intercellular transmission, a key factor in disease progression. Tunneling Nanotubes (TNTs) have emerged as a novel mechanism for this pathological spread, facilitating the transport of α-synuclein aggregates between neurons bound to mitochondria, contributing to the prion-like dissemination seen in the Substantia Nigra's dopaminergic neurons. Despite various proposed formation mechanisms, the exact process of TNT formation remains elusive. OBJECTIVE The main objective of this project is to explore molecular aspects of α-synuclein-cell-to-cell transfer via TNTs mediated by mitochondria in vitro and investigate the role of mitochondrial adaptor protein complexes through an MTX-1 Knock-Down (KD) in PD , potentially offering therapeutic insights. [...]
Theoretical realization of two-dimensional M3(C6X6)2(M= Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mn, Ni, Pd, Rh and X= O, S, Se) metal-organic frameworks
Creators: name: Mortazavi, Bohayra
name: Shahrokhi, Masoud
name: Hussain, Tanveer
name: Zhuang, Xiaoying
name: Rabczuk, Timon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Most recently, Cu-hexahydroxybenzene MOF was for the time experimentally realized, through a kinetically controlled approach. Cu-HHB belongs to the family of conductive MOFs with a chemical formula of M3(C6X6)2(X=NH, O, S). Motivated by the recent experimental advance in the fabrication of Cu-HHB, we conducted extensive first-principles simulations to explore the thermal stability, mechanical properties and electronic characteristics of M3(C6X6)2(M= Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mn, Ni, Pd, Rh and X= O, S, Se) monolayers. First-principles results confirm that all considered 2D porous lattices are thermally stable at high temperatures over 1500 K. It was moreover found that these novel 2D structures can exhibit linear elasticity with considerable tensile strengths, revealing their suitability for practical applications in nanodevices.Depending on the metal and chalcogen atoms in M3(C6X6)2 monolayers, they can yield various electronic and magnetic properties, such as; magnetic semiconducting, perfect half metallic, magnetic and nonmagnetic metallic behaviours. This work highlights the outstanding physics of M3(C6X6)2 2D porous lattices and will hopefully help to expand this conductive MOF family, as promising candidates to design advanced energy storage/conversion, electronics and spintronics systems.
Adaptive Problem-solving for Large-scale Scheduling Problems: A Case Study
Creators: name: Gratch, J.
name: Chien, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Although most scheduling problems are NP-hard, domain specific techniques perform well in practice but are quite expensive to construct. In adaptive problem-solving solving, domain specific knowledge is acquired automatically for a general problem solver with a flexible control architecture. In this approach, a learning system explores a space of possible heuristic methods for one well-suited to the eccentricities of the given domain and problem distribution. In this article, we discuss an application of the approach to scheduling satellite communications. Using problem distributions based on actual mission requirements, our approach identifies strategies that not only decrease the amount of CPU time required to produce schedules, but also increase the percentage of problems that are solvable within computational resource limitations.
description: See http://www.jair.org/ for any accompanying files
Driving difficulties as reported by older drivers with mild cognitive impairment and without neurological impairment
Creators: name: Vardaki, Sophia
name: Dickerson, Anne E.
name: Beratis, Ion
name: Yannis, George
name: Papageorgiou, Sokratis G.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Objective: Considerable evidence indicates that medical conditions prevalent among older individuals lead to impairments in visual, cognitive, or psychomotor functions needed to drive safely. The purpose of this study was to explore the factors determining driving difficulties as seen from the viewpoint of 30 older drivers with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and 30 age-matched controls without cognitive impairment. Methods: Perceptions of driving difficulties from both groups were examined using data from an extensive questionnaire. Samples of drivers diagnosed with MCI and age-matched controls were asked to report the frequency with which they experienced driving difficulties due to functional deficits and knowledge of new traffic rules and traffic signs. Results: The analysis revealed that 2 factors underlie MCI perceptions of driving difficulties, representing (1) difficulties associated with late detection combined with slowed response to relevant targets in the peripheral field of view and (2) difficulties associated with divided attention between tasks requiring switching from automatic to conscious processing particularly of long duration. The analysis for healthy controls revealed 3 factors representing (1) difficulties in estimating speed and distance of approaching vehicles in complex (attention-dividing) high-information-load conditions; (2) difficulties in moving head, neck, and feet; and (3) difficulties in switching from automatic responses to needing to use cognitive processing in new or unexpected situations. Conclusions: Though both group analyses show difficulties with switching from automatic to decision making, the difficulties are different. For the control group, the difficulty in switching involves switching in new or unexpected situations associated with high-information-load conditions, whereas this switching difficulty for the MCI group is associated with divided attention between easier tasks requiring switching. These findings underline the ability of older drivers (with MCI and without cognitive impairment) to indicate probable impairments in various driving skills. The patterns of difficulties perceived by the MCI group and the age-matched healthy control group are indicative of demanding driving situations that may merit special attention for road designers and road safety engineers. They may also be considered in the design of older drivers’ fitness to drive evaluations, training programs, and/or vehicle technologies that provide for older driver assistance.
Coelichneumon dorsosignatus
Creators: name: Riedel, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Coelichneumon
Coelichneumon dorsosignatus

description: Coelichneumon dorsosignatus (BERTHOUMIEU & EVERSMANN 1894)
M a t e r i a l: Türkei: Umgebung Agri, 16 27. VI.1993, leg. M. Halada, 12 27. VI.1993, leg. Jiroušek; 1 27.VI.1993, leg. K. Deneš; Türkei: Gevas, Van Gölü, 1 29. VI.1993, leg. K. Deneš; Türkei: Zor Dagi, Umgebung Sulucan, 3 25. VI.1993, leg. Deneš; Türkei: Umgebung Tatuam, 1 30. VI.1993, leg. Deneš; Türkei: Pasli 50 km südlich Kars, 1 1.VII.1997, leg. M. Halada.
V e r b r e i t u n g:Paläarktis.
description: Published as part of Riedel, M., 2008, Die Coelichneumon-Arten (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Ichneumoninae) des Biologiezentrums Linz, Austria, pp. 1839-1859 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 40 (2) on page 1842, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5431814
Ordaining the Disinherited: What Women of Color Clergy Have to Teach Us About Discernment
Creators: Plummer, Tamara
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Clergy
Women clergy
African Americans
Hispanic Americans
Indigenous peoples
South Asian Americans
Discernment (Christian theology)
Ordination

description: Grounded in the work of Howard Thurman's definition of the disinherited, Kenji Yoshino's work on Covering, and Traci West's ethical approach, the stories of a diverse group of BIPOC ordained priests in the Episcopal Church are centered to better understand the experience of discernment and ordination process. Utilizing a Womanist ethics hermeneutic, these stories are utilized as scripture to highlight new imaginative spaces for spiritual vocational discovery and leaders in mainline Christian denominations.