cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Genetic polymorphisms in methyl-group metabolism and epigenetics: Lessons from humans and mouse models
Creators: name: Zeisel, Steven H.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: Choline is an essential nutrient that is critical during fetal brain development. Choline deficiency, through disturbing methyl metabolism, may alter DNA methylation and thereby influence neural precursor cell proliferation and apoptosis. This results in long term alterations in brain structure and function, specifically memory function. A recommended dietary intake for choline in humans was set in 1998, and a portion of the choline requirement can be met via endogenous de novo synthesis of phosphatidylcholine catalyzed by phosphatidylethanolamine N-methyltransferase (PEMT) in the liver. Though many foods contain choline, many humans do not get enough in their diets. When deprived of dietary choline, most adult men and postmenopausal women developed signs of organ dysfunction (fatty liver, liver or muscle cell damage). However, only a portion of premenopausal women developed such problems. The difference in requirement occurs because estrogen induces expression of the PEMT gene and allows premenopausal women to make more of their needed choline endogenously. In addition, there is significant variation in the dietary requirement for choline that can be explained by common genetic variants (single nucleotide polymorphisms; SNPs) in genes of choline and folate metabolism. Some of these increase the risk of choline deficiency many fold. These variations in choline requirement could have important implications for brain development.
Dietary fatty acids improve perceived sleep quality, stress, and health in migraine: a secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Mann, J. Douglas
name: Zamora, Daisy
name: Domeniciello, Anthony
name: Faurot, Keturah R.
name: Ramsden, Christopher E.
name: Palsson, Olafur
name: Lynch, Chanee E.
name: Gaylord, Susan A.
name: Horowitz, Mark
name: MacIntosh, Beth A.
name: Honvoh, Gilson
name: Miller, Vanessa
name: Park, Jinyoung
Publisher: name: Frontiers Media
Year: 2023

description: BackgroundMigraine is a prevalent disabling condition often associated with comorbid physical and psychological symptoms that contribute to impaired quality of life and disability. Studies suggest that increasing dietary omega-3 fatty acid is associated with headache reduction, but less is known about the effects on quality of life in migraine.MethodsAfter a 4-week run-in, 182 adults with 5–20 migraine days per month were randomized to one of the 3 arms for sixteen weeks. Dietary arms included: H3L6 (a high omega-3, low omega-6 diet), H3 (a high omega-3, an average omega-6 diet), or a control diet (average intakes of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids). Prespecified secondary endpoints included daily diary measures (stress perception, sleep quality, and perceived health), Patient-Reported Outcome Measurement Information System Version 1.0 ([PROMIS©) measures and the Migraine Disability Assessment (MIDAS). Analyses used linear mixed effects models to control for repeated measures.ResultsThe H3L6 diet was associated with significant improvements in stress perception [adjusted mean difference (aMD): −1.5 (95% confidence interval: −1.7 to −1.2)], sleep quality [aMD: 0.2 (95% CI:0.1–0.2)], and perceived health [aMD: 0.2 (0.2–0.3)] compared to the control. Similarly, the H3 diet was associated with significant improvements in stress perception [aMD: −0.8 (−1.1 to −0.5)], sleep quality [aMD: 0.2 (0.1, 0.3)], and perceived health [aMD: 0.3 (0.2, 0.3)] compared to the control. MIDAS scores improved substantially in the intervention groups compared with the control (H3L6 aMD: −11.8 [−25.1, 1.5] and H3 aMD: −10.7 [−24.0, 2.7]). Among the PROMIS-29 assessments, the biggest impact was on pain interference [H3L6 MD: −1.8 (−4.4, 0.7) and H3 aMD: −3.2 (−5.9, −0.5)] and pain intensity [H3L6 MD: −0.6 (−1.3, 0.1) and H3 aMD: −0.6 (−1.4, 0.1)].DiscussionThe diary measures, with their increased power, supported our hypothesis that symptoms associated with migraine attacks could be responsive to specific dietary fatty acid manipulations. Changes in the PROMIS© measures reflected improvements in non-headache pain as well as physical and psychological function, largely in the expected directions. These findings suggest that increasing omega-3 with or without decreasing omega-6 in the diet may represent a reasonable adjunctive approach to reducing symptoms associated with migraine attacks. Trial Registration: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT02012790.
AstraZeneca blister line 10 process improvements
Creators: name: Denning, Raquel
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019

description: The purpose of this project was to improve the Overall Equipment Effectiveness (GEE)
Availability of blister line 10 through four continuous improvement projects: Tamper Evident
Machine Upgrades, Redundant Print Registration Sensor, Leak Testing Parameter Change, and
Centerline. These projects were assigned from AstraZeneca which is a global biopharmaceutical
company that develops and distributes medicine accountable for numerous diseases. The
AstraZeneca site located in Mt. Vernon, Indiana is the biggest in the Americas and primarily
manufactures Type 2 diabetes medicine. Capital intensive sectors such as the pharmaceutical
sector rely on high investments to achieve high profits, therefore it is important for AstraZeneca
to optimize production lines. In return, the company will achieve cost-savings, minimize wastes,
and guarantee a return on investments.
The Tamper Evident (TE) Machine Upgrades was to help improve with downtime issues by
upgrading parts of the machine that targeted carton jams, carton damage, debris buildup, and servomotor
faults. It is calculated to improve the availability of line 10 by 3%. The Redundant Print
Registration Sensor project targeted a defect in the blister cards specifically an excessive amount
of shift in the print, causing product information to be cutoff when leaving the thermoformer. The
new redundant sensor would automatically catch this excessive shift before it would be cutoff.
This resulted in a cost avoidance since it would eliminate the possibility of downtime due to redress
events, or when finished blister cards are pulled from the warehouse to be inspected of defects.
The leak testing parameter change project was to prove that the leak test time length can be reduced
from 10 minutes to 90 seconds without affecting the probability of detecting defects due to
pinholes or cracks. After performing tests under different pressures and time frames, the failure
rates of the weak sealed blister cards appeared similar and were also proven to be statistically
equivalent. This resulted in the implementation of the new leak testing time of 90 seconds and
would save approximately 432 hours of time for the operators per month. Centerline was
implemented as a lean initiative to help reduce changeover time by visualizing the critical
adjustments operators change in between product change.
A study of the effects of Gaussian distribution of coherence length of source on the diffraction of partial temporal coherence beam from multi slits: Theory and simulation
Creators: name: Koushki, E.
name: Alavi, S. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: First, we have generalized the notion of Franhoufer diffraction of temporal coherent light from a single slit to the case of arbitrary n-slits. The diffraction pattern is investigated for different values of recently [19] introduced parameter, decoherence parameter. It is shown that for multi-slits, the temporal decoherence effects appear for the values of decoherence parameter equal or bigger than 1 namely the coherence length is shorter that the size of the slits. Results of our study reproduce the previous studies for perfect temporal case, when coherence length tends to infinity. Then to bring the problem closer to reality, we do not fix the coherence length and consider a Gaussian distribution function for it. Numerical study of the effects of coherence parameters of Gaussian distribution on far field diffraction pattern is performed.
description: 20 pages, 10 Figures
Additional file 4 of De novo annotation of lncRNA HOTAIR transcripts by long-read RNA capture-seq reveals a differentiation-driven isoform switch
Creators: name: Potolitsyna, Evdokiia
name: Hazell Pickering, Sarah
name: Tooming-Klunderud, Ave
name: Collas, Philippe
name: Briand, Nolwenn
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4: Figure S4. Uncropped gels for Fig.3f and Additional file 1, FigS3b left panel. Figure S5. Uncropped gels for Additional file 1, Fig. S3c. Figure S6. Uncropped gels for Fig.4g and Additional file 1, Fig. S3b right panel. Figure S7. Uncropped gels for Fig.5b.
On the Generalized Minimal Massive Gravity
Creators: name: Setare, M. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we study the Generalized Minimal Massive Gravity (GMMG) in asymptotically $AdS_3$ background. The generalized minimal massive gravity theory is realized by adding the CS deformation term, the higher derivative deformation term, and an extra term to pure Einstein gravity with a negative cosmological constant. We study the linearized excitations around the $AdS_3$ background and find that at special point (tricritical) in parameter space the two massive graviton solutions become massless and they are replaced by two solutions with logarithmic and logarithmic-squared boundary behavior. So it is natural to proposed that GMMG model could also provide a holographic description for a $3-$rank Logarithmic Conformal Field Theory (LCFT). We calculate the energy of the linearized gravitons in $AdS_3$ background, and show that the theory is free of negative-energy bulk modes. Then we obtain the central charges of the CFT dual explicitly and show GMMG also avoids the aforementioned "bulk-boundary unitarity clash". After that we show that General Zwei-Dreibein Gravity (GZDG) model can reduce to GMMG model. Finally by a Hamiltonian analysis we show that the GMMG model has no Boulware-Deser ghosts and this model propagate only two physical modes.
description: 23 pages, new sections added
Generalized XOR games with $d$ outcomes and the task of non-local computation
Creators: name: Ramanathan, Ravishankar
name: Augusiak, Remigiusz
name: Murta, Gláucia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A natural generalization of the binary XOR games to the class of XOR-d games with $d > 2$ outcomes is studied. We propose an algebraic bound to the quantum value of these games and use it to derive several interesting properties of these games. As an example, we re-derive in a simple manner a recently discovered bound on the quantum value of the CHSH-d game for prime $d$. It is shown that no total function XOR-d game with uniform inputs can be a pseudo-telepathy game, there exists a quantum strategy to win the game only when there is a classical strategy also. We then study the principle of lack of quantum advantage in the distributed non-local computation of binary functions which is a well-known information-theoretic principle designed to pick out quantum correlations from amongst general no-signaling ones. We prove a large-alphabet generalization of this principle, showing that quantum theory provides no advantage in the task of non-local distributed computation of a restricted class of functions with $d$ outcomes for prime $d$, while general no-signaling boxes do. Finally, we consider the question whether there exist two-party tight Bell inequalities with no quantum advantage, and show that the binary non-local computation game inequalities for the restricted class of functions are not facet defining for any number of inputs.
description: 10 pages
Constraints on anomalous quartic gauge couplings via $Wγjj$ production at the LHC
Creators: name: Guo, Yu-Chen
name: Wang, Ying-Ying
name: Yang, Ji-Chong
name: Yue, Chong-Xing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The vector boson scattering at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is sensitive to anomalous quartic gauge couplings (aQGCs). In this paper, we investigate the aQGC contribution to $ W γjj$ production at the LHC with $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV in the context of an effective field theory (EFT). The unitarity bound is applied as a cut on the energy scale of this production process, which is found to have significant suppressive effects on the signals. To enhance the statistical significance, we analyse the kinematic and polarization features of the aQGC signals in detail. We find that the polarization effects induced by the aQGCs are unique and can discriminate the signals from the SM backgrounds well. With the proposed event selection strategy, we obtain the constraints on the coefficients of dimension-8 operators with current luminosity. The results indicate that the process $pp \to W γjj$ is powerful for searching for the $O_{M_{2,3,4,5}}$ and $O_{T_{5,6,7}}$ operators.
description: 29 pages, 11 figures, 7 tables, to be published in Chinese Physics C
Magnetic bearing conveyor roller : Clean room roller
Creators: name: Clevidence, Nicholas
name: Fulkerson, Thomas
name: Robertson, Andrew
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019

description: This project is covering the development of a magnetically suspended belt conveyor
system that would be able to operate in high-end cleanroom environments. The design would
have sets of rollers held in place by permanent magnets so that it would levitate in mid-air. Thus,
eliminating friction produced from conventional roller designs.
Cleanroom environments are critical to the developing and manufacturing of many
products today; from pharmaceutical medicines, to medical equipment, to food products, to
semiconductors, to microprocessors, and many more high-end products. The maintaining of
these clean rooms is heavily reliant upon clean and safe equipment used throughout the process.
The design is intended to be a proof of concept for a feasible clean room conveyor design that
could potentially fulfill the strict requirements that clean room systems need and provide a cost
competitive product to other systems.
The research and design process will have us looking into many different designs
proposed, patents, research, and published papers around bearing solutions. These bearing
solutions will be the cornerstone to the conveyor design. Many different motors will also be
researched to see which is best for the application.
This project will be designed, manufactured, and tested throughout the course of the Fall 2019
semester. And the completed project and prototype will be presented at the end of the Fall 2019
semester on Tuesday December 3, 2019.
On the Covering Densities of Quarter-Convex Disks
Creators: name: Sriamorn, Kirati
name: Xue, Fei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: It is conjectured that for every convex disks K, the translative covering density of K and the lattice covering density of K are identical. It is well known that this conjecture is true for every centrally symmetric convex disks. For the non-symmetric case, we only know that the conjecture is true for triangles. In this paper, we prove the conjecture for a class of convex disks (quarter-convex disks), which includes all triangles and convex quadrilaterals.
Convergence analysis under consistent error bounds
Creators: name: Liu, Tianxiang
name: Lourenço, Bruno F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We introduce the notion of consistent error bound functions which provides a unifying framework for error bounds for multiple convex sets. This framework goes beyond the classical Lipschitzian and Hölderian error bounds and includes logarithmic and entropic error bounds found in the exponential cone. It also includes the error bounds obtainable under the theory of amenable cones. Our main result is that the convergence rate of several projection algorithms for feasibility problems can be expressed explicitly in terms of the underlying consistent error bound function. Another feature is the usage of Karamata theory and functions of regular variations which allows us to reason about convergence rates while bypassing certain complicated expressions. Finally, applications to conic feasibility problems are given and we show that a number of algorithms have convergence rates depending explicitly on the singularity degree of the problem.
description: 43 pages, comments welcome. To appear in Foundations of Computational Mathematics
Dyslexia detection from EEG signals using SSA component correlation and Convolutional Neural Networks
Creators: name: Ortiz, Andrés
name: Martinez-Murcia, Francisco J.
name: Formoso, Marco A.
name: Luque, Juan Luis
name: Sánchez, Auxiliadora
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Objective dyslexia diagnosis is not a straighforward task since it is traditionally performed by means of the intepretation of different behavioural tests. Moreover, these tests are only applicable to readers. This way, early diagnosis requires the use of specific tasks not only related to reading. Thus, the use of Electroencephalography (EEG) constitutes an alternative for an objective and early diagnosis that can be used with pre-readers. In this way, the extraction of relevant features in EEG signals results crucial for classification. However, the identification of the most relevant features is not straighforward, and predefined statistics in the time or frequency domain are not always discriminant enough. On the other hand, classical processing of EEG signals based on extracting EEG bands frequency descriptors, usually make some assumptions on the raw signals that could cause indormation loosing. In this work we propose an alternative for analysis in the frequency domain based on Singluar Spectrum Analysis (SSA) to split the raw signal into components representing different oscillatory modes. Moreover, correlation matrices obtained for each component among EEG channels are classfied using a Convolutional Neural network.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures. Submitted to conference
Optimal Transformations of Muller Conditions
Creators: name: Casares, Antonio
name: Colcombet, Thomas
name: Fijalkow, Nathanaël
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Formal Languages and Automata Theory (cs.FL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: F.4.3

description: In this paper, we are interested in automata over infinite words and infinite duration games, that we view as general transition systems. We study transformations of systems using a Muller condition into ones using a parity condition, extending Zielonka's construction. We introduce the alternating cycle decomposition transformation, and we prove a strong optimality result: for any given deterministic Muller automaton, the obtained parity automaton is minimal both in size and number of priorities among those automata admitting a morphism into the original Muller automaton. We give two applications. The first is an improvement in the process of determinisation of Büchi automata into parity automata by Piterman and Schewe. The second is to present characterisations on the possibility of relabelling automata with different acceptance conditions.
description: Paper superseded by the extended version arXiv:2305.04323
Additional file 1 of Molecular screening reveals non-uniform malaria transmission in western Kenya and absence of Rickettsia africae and selected arboviruses in hospital patients
Creators: name: Chiuya, Tatenda
name: Villinger, Jandouwe
name: Falzon, Laura C.
name: Alumasa, Lorren
name: Amanya, Fredrick
name: Bastos, Armanda D. S.
name: Fèvre, Eric M.
name: Masiga, Daniel K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Detailed description of primers and thermocycling conditions used for the detection of Rickettsia africae, arboviruses and Plasmodium spp.
Effectiveness of Maternal mRNA COVID-19 Vaccination During Pregnancy Against COVID-19–Associated Hospitalizations in Infants Aged <6 Months During SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Predominance — 20 States, March 9, 2022–May 31, 2023
Creators: name: Zambrano, Laura D.
name: Bhumbra, Samina S.
name: Hobbs, Charlotte V.
name: Newhams, Margaret M.
name: Mack, Elizabeth H.
name: Simeone, Regina M.
name: Cameron, Melissa A.
name: Halasa, Natasha B.
name: Irby, Katherine
name: Kong, Michele
name: Boom, Julie A.
name: Campbell, Angela P.
name: Crandall, Hillary
name: Levy, Emily R.
name: Gertz, Shira J.
name: Hume, Janet R.
name: Staat, Mary A.
name: Kamidani, Satoshi
name: Overcoming COVID-19 Investigators
name: Schuster, Jennifer E.
name: Zinter, Matt S.
name: Flori, Heidi R.
name: Maddux, Aline B.
name: Pannaraj, Pia S.
name: Bradford, Tamara T.
name: Michelson, Kelly N.
name: Bline, Katherine E.
name: Wu, Michael J.
name: Fleming-Dutra, Katherine E.
name: Nofziger, Ryan A.
name: Orzel-Lockwood, Amber O.
name: Sahni, Leila C.
name: Walker, Tracie C.
name: Heidemann, Sabrina M.
name: Randolph, Adrienne G.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: Infants aged <6 months are not eligible for COVID-19 vaccination. Vaccination during pregnancy has been associated with protection against infant COVID-19–related hospitalization. The Overcoming COVID-19 Network conducted a case-control study during March 9, 2022–May 31, 2023, to evaluate the effectiveness of maternal receipt of a COVID-19 vaccine dose (vaccine effectiveness [VE]) during pregnancy against COVID-19–related hospitalization in infants aged <6 months and a subset of infants aged <3 months. VE was calculated as (1 – adjusted odds ratio) x 100% among all infants aged <6 months and <3 months. Case-patients (infants hospitalized for COVID-19 outside of birth hospitalization and who had a positive SARS-CoV-2 test result) and control patients (infants hospitalized for COVID-19–like illness with a negative SARS-CoV-2 test result) were compared. Odds ratios were determined using multivariable logistic regression, comparing the odds of receipt of a maternal COVID-19 vaccine dose (completion of a 2-dose vaccination series or a third or higher dose) during pregnancy with maternal nonvaccination between case- and control patients. VE of maternal vaccination during pregnancy against COVID-19–related hospitalization was 35% (95% CI = 15%–51%) among infants aged <6 months and 54% (95% CI = 32%–68%) among infants aged <3 months. Intensive care unit admissions occurred in 23% of all case-patients, and invasive mechanical ventilation was more common among infants of unvaccinated (9%) compared with vaccinated mothers (1%) (p = 0.02). Maternal vaccination during pregnancy provides some protection against COVID-19–related hospitalizations among infants, particularly those aged <3 months. Expectant mothers should remain current with COVID-19 vaccination to protect themselves and their infants from hospitalization and severe outcomes associated with COVID-19.
Making the decoy-state measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution practically useful
Creators: name: Zhou, Y-H
name: Yu, Z. -W.
name: Wang, X. -B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The relatively low key rate seems to be the major barrier to its practical use for the decoy state measurement device independent quantum key distribution (MDIQKD). We present a 4-intensity protocol for the decoy-state MDIQKD that hugely raises the key rate, especially in the case the total data size is not large. Also, calculation shows that our method makes it possible for secure private communication with {\em fresh} keys generated from MDIQKD with a delay time of only a few seconds.
description: Typing errors corrected, presentation improved
Interleukin-6 (IL-6) receptor/IL-6 fusion protein (Hyper IL-6) effects on the neonatal mouse brain: Possible role for IL-6 trans-signaling in brain development and functional neurobehavioral outcomes
Creators: name: Moy, Sheryl S.
name: Harry, G. Jean
name: McPherson, Christopher A.
name: Brunssen, Susan H.
name: Toews, Arrel D.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes are linked to perinatal production of inflammatory mediators, including interleukin 6 (IL-6). While a pivotal role for maternal elevation in IL-6 has been established in determining neurobehavioral outcomes in the offspring and considered the primary target mediating the fetal inflammatory response, questions remain as to the specific actions of IL-6 on the developing brain. CD-1 male mice received a subdural injection of the bioactive fusion protein, hyper IL-6 (HIL-6) on postnatal-day (PND)4 and assessed from preweaning until adulthood. Immunohistochemical evaluation of astrocytes and microglia and mRNA levels for pro-inflammatory cytokines and host response genes indicated no evidence of an acute neuroinflammatory injury response. HIL-6 accelerated motor development and increased reactivity to stimulation and number of entries in a light/dark chamber, decreased ability to learn to withhold a response in passive avoidance, and effected deficits in social novelty behavior. No changes were observed in motor activity, pre-pulse startle inhibition, or learning and memory in the Morris water maze or radial arm maze, as have been reported for models of more severe developmental neuroinflammation. In young animals, mRNA levels for MBP and PLP/DM20 decreased and less complexity of MBP processes in the cortex was evident by immunohistochemistry. The non-hydroxy cerebroside fraction of cerebral lipids was increased. These results provide evidence for selective effects of IL-6 signaling, particularly trans-signaling, in the developing brain in the absence of a general neuroinflammatory response. These data contribute to our further understanding of the multiple aspects of IL-6 signaling in the developing brain.
Dynamical systems study of Chameleon scalar field
Creators: name: Roy, Nandan
name: Banerjee, Narayan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The present work is an extensive study of the viable stable solutions of chameleon scalar field models leading to possibilities of an accelerated expansion of the universe. It is found that for various combinations of the chameleon field potential $V(ϕ)$ and the coupling $f(ϕ)$ of the chameleon field with matter, a stable solution for an accelerated expansion is quite possible. The investigation provides a diagnostics for the stability criteria for all sorts of combinations of $V(ϕ)$ and $f(ϕ)$.
description: 19 pages, 11 figures, 8 tables
Determination and Analysis of Hyper-Variable A Mating Types in Wild Strains of Lentinula edodes in Korea
Creators: name: Park, Mi-Jeong
name: Kim, Eunjin
name: Jeong, Yeun Sug
name: Son, Mi-Young
name: Jang, Yeongseon
name: Ka, Kang-Hyeon
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: The diversity of A mating type in wild strains of Lentinula edodes was extensively analyzed to characterize and utilize them for developing new cultivars. One hundred twenty-three A mating type alleles, including 67 newly discovered alleles, were identified from 106 wild strains collected for the past four decades in Korea. Based on previous studies and current findings, a total of 130 A mating type alleles have been found, 124 of which were discovered from wild strains, indicating the hyper-variability of A mating type alleles of L. edodes. About half of the A mating type alleles in wild strains were found in more than two strains, whereas the other half of the alleles were found in only one strain. About 90% of A mating type combinations in dikaryotic wild strains showed a single occurrence. Geographically, diverse A mating type alleles were intensively located in the central region of the Korean peninsula, whereas only allele A17 was observed throughout Korea. We also found the conservation of the TCCCAC motif in addition to the previously reported motifs, including ATTGT, ACAAT, and GCGGAG, in the intergenic regions of A mating loci. Sequence comparison among some alleles indicated that accumulated mutation and recombination would contribute to the diversification of A mating type alleles in L. edodes. Our data support the rapid evolution of A mating locus in L. edodes, and would help to understand the characteristics of A mating loci of wild strains in Korea and help to utilize them for developing new cultivars.
IPBES Invasive alien species assessment, data management report for Chapter 3. Section 3.2.2.4: Urbanisation
Creators: name: Camacho-Cervantes, Morelia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Data management report

description: Section 3.2.2.4 assesses the role of urbanisation as drivers of biological invasions in Chapter 3 of IPBES thematic assessment of invasive alien species and their control. The experts conducted a systematic review to report on the existing knowledge on this driver. This systematic review consists in the main source of evidence for the section.
Quantum sensing protocol for motionally chiral Rydberg atoms
Creators: name: Buhmann, Stefan Yoshi
name: Giesen, Steffen
name: Diekmann, Mira
name: Berger, Robert
name: Aull, Stefan
name: Debatin, Markus
name: Zahariev, Peter
name: Singer, Kilian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A quantum sensing protocol is proposed for demonstrating the motion-induced chirality of circularly polarised Rydberg atoms. To this end, a cloud of Rydberg atoms is dressed by a bichromatic light field. This allows to exploit the long-lived ground states for implementing a Ramsey interferometer in conjunction with a spin echo pulse sequence for refocussing achiral interactions. Optimal parameters for the dressing lasers are identified. Combining a circularly polarised dipole transition in the Rydberg atom with atomic centre-of-mass motion, the system becomes chiral. The resulting discriminatory chiral energy shifts induced by a chiral mirror are estimated using a macroscopic quantum electrodynamics approach.
An Algebraic Method to Fidelity-based Model Checking over Quantum Markov Chains
Creators: name: Xu, Ming
name: Fu, Jianling
name: Mei, Jingyi
name: Deng, Yuxin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Fidelity is one of the most widely used quantities in quantum information that measure the distance of quantum states through a noisy channel. In this paper, we introduce a quantum analogy of computation tree logic (CTL) called QCTL, which concerns fidelity instead of probability in probabilistic CTL, over quantum Markov chains (QMCs). Noisy channels are modelled by super-operators, which are specified by QCTL formulas; the initial quantum states are modelled by density operators, which are left parametric in the given QMC. The problem is to compute the minimumfidelity over all initial states for conservation. We achieve it by a reduction to quantifier elimination in the existential theory of the reals. The method is absolutely exact, so that QCTL formulas are proven to be decidable in exponential time. Finally, we implement the proposed method and demonstrate its effectiveness via a quantum IPv4 protocol.
Common variants at 12p11, 12q24, 9p21, 9q31.2 and in ZNF365 are associated with breast cancer risk for BRCA1 and/or BRCA2mutation carriers
Creators: name: Rosenquist, Richard
name: Harbst, Katja
name: Caligo, Maria A.
name: Nathanson, Kate
name: Healey, Sue
name: Kuchenbaecker, Karoline B.
name: Beesley, Jonathan
name: Karlsson, Per
name: Barrowdale, Daniel
name: Arver, Brita
name: Lee, Andrew
name: Rebbeck, Tim
name: Soucy, Penny
name: Lindblom, Annika
name: Domchek, Susan
name: Sinilnikova, Olga M.
name: Antoniou, Antonis C.
name: Loman, Niklas
name: Chen, Xiaoqing
name: McGuffog, Lesley
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: IntroductionSeveral common alleles have been shown to be associated with breast and/or ovarian cancer risk for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers. Recent genome-wide association studies of breast cancer have identified eight additional breast cancer susceptibility loci: rs1011970 (9p21, CDKN2A/B), rs10995190 (ZNF365), rs704010 (ZMIZ1), rs2380205 (10p15), rs614367 (11q13), rs1292011 (12q24), rs10771399 (12p11 near PTHLH) and rs865686 (9q31.2).MethodsTo evaluate whether these single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are associated with breast cancer risk for BRCA1 and BRCA2 carriers, we genotyped these SNPs in 12,599 BRCA1 and 7,132 BRCA2 mutation carriers and analysed the associations with breast cancer risk within a retrospective likelihood framework.ResultsOnly SNP rs10771399 near PTHLH was associated with breast cancer risk for BRCA1 mutation carriers (per-allele hazard ratio (HR) = 0.87, 95% CI: 0.81 to 0.94, P-trend = 3 × 10-4). The association was restricted to mutations proven or predicted to lead to absence of protein expression (HR = 0.82, 95% CI: 0.74 to 0.90, P-trend = 3.1 × 10-5, P-difference = 0.03). Four SNPs were associated with the risk of breast cancer for BRCA2 mutation carriers: rs10995190, P-trend = 0.015; rs1011970, P-trend = 0.048; rs865686, 2df-P = 0.007; rs1292011 2df-P = 0.03. rs10771399 (PTHLH) was predominantly associated with estrogen receptor (ER)-negative breast cancer for BRCA1 mutation carriers (HR = 0.81, 95% CI: 0.74 to 0.90, P-trend = 4 × 10-5) and there was marginal evidence of association with ER-negative breast cancer for BRCA2 mutation carriers (HR = 0.78, 95% CI: 0.62 to 1.00, P-trend = 0.049).ConclusionsThe present findings, in combination with previously identified modifiers of risk, will ultimately lead to more accurate risk prediction and an improved understanding of the disease etiology in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers.
Additional file 2 of Molecular screening reveals non-uniform malaria transmission in western Kenya and absence of Rickettsia africae and selected arboviruses in hospital patients
Creators: name: Chiuya, Tatenda
name: Villinger, Jandouwe
name: Falzon, Laura C.
name: Alumasa, Lorren
name: Amanya, Fredrick
name: Bastos, Armanda D. S.
name: Fèvre, Eric M.
name: Masiga, Daniel K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2. Detailed description of the management of independent variables for statistical analysis.
Efficacy of Guardian Cap Soft-Shell Padding on Head Impact Kinematics in American Football: Pilot Findings
Creators: name: Lauck, Bradley J.
name: Mincberg, David L.
name: Sinnott, Aaron M.
name: Pinapaka, Hari
name: Van Dyke, Charles
name: Chandler, Madison C.
name: Mihalik, Jason P.
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2023

description: Sport-related concussion prevention strategies in collision sports are a primary interest for sporting organizations and policy makers. After-market soft-shell padding purports to augment the protective capabilities of standard football helmets and to reduce head impact severity. We compared head impact kinematics [peak linear acceleration (PLA) and peak rotational acceleration (PRA)] in athletes wearing Guardian Cap soft-shell padding to teammates without soft-shell padding. Ten Division I college football players were enrolled [soft-shell padding (SHELL) included four defensive linemen and one tight end; non-soft-shell (CONTROL) included two offensive linemen, two defensive linemen, and one tight end]. Participants wore helmets equipped with the Head Impact Telemetry System to quantify PLA (g) and PRA (rad/s2) during 14 practices. Two-way ANOVAs were conducted to compare log-transformed PLA and PRA between groups across helmet location and gameplay characteristics. In total, 968 video-confirmed head impacts between SHELL (n = 421) and CONTROL (n = 547) were analyzed. We observed a Group x Stance interaction for PRA (F1,963 = 7.21; p = 0.007) indicating greater PRA by SHELL during 2-point stance and lower PRA during 3- or 4-point stances compared to CONTROL. There were no between-group main effects. Protective soft-shell padding did not reduce head impact kinematic outcomes among college football athletes.
Understanding the Non-linear Effects of Eddy Diffusion on the Ionosphere-Thermosphere System Authors
Creators: name: Malhotra, Garima
name: Ridley, Aaron
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Global Ionosphere Thermosphere Model
Eddy Diffusion
Lower Atmosphere, Ionosphere, Thermosphere Coupling
Thermosphere Vertical Coupling

description: The exchange of energy between lower atmospheric regions with the ionosphere thermosphere (IT) system is not well understood. Specifically, we lack the data and methods to understand the spatial and temporal effects of eddy turbulence in the thermosphere. This arises mainly because turbulence due to eddy diffusion cannot be directly measured and that it is a challenge to completely characterize its linear and non-linear effects from other influences. In this study, we analyze the sensitivity of the thermospheric densities, O/N2, TEC to the turbulence from the lower atmosphere by understanding the nature of eddy diffusion in Global Ionosphere Thermosphere Model (GITM). We also estimate a seasonal and latitudinal variation in the eddy diffusion coefficient (EDC) that would be required to match the measurements from GOCE densities, and GPS TEC and GUVI O/N2. We find that these variations (higher during equinoxes) in the EDC are different when calculated using densities, TEC and O/N2. Often the EDC shoots over the preferred range indicating that there are other processes contributing to these thermospheric properties as well. Also, the degree of contribution of eddy diffusion vs. other turbulence sources might change with the latitude and season.
Gas-phase electronic spectroscopy of nuclear spin isomer separated H2O@C and D2O@C
Creators: name: Rademacher, Johanna
name: Reedy, Elliott S.
name: Negri, Fabrizia
name: Alom, Shamim
name: Whitby, Richard J.
name: Levitt, Malcolm H.
name: Campbell, Ewen K.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Gas-phase electronic spectra of H2O@C60+ and D2O@C60+ are presented. These data were obtained by one-photon dissociation of weakly bound helium complexes synthesised in a 3 K ion trap. Measurements were recorded in the vicinity of the 2Ag,2Bg←X2Au electronic transitions of the C60+ cage. Two-colour hole burning experiments enabled nuclear spin isomer pure data to be obtained. The spectra are rich in structure with many absorptions attributed to internal excitation of the encapsulated molecule accompanying the C60+ electronic transition. The experimental data are complemented with density functional theory calculations using the B3LYP functional and 6-31++G** basis set.
Bandakia himachali Panesar 2004
Creators: name: Pešić, Vladimir
name: Chatterjee, Tapas
name: Bordoloi, Sabitry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Anisitsiellidae
Bandakia
Bandakia himachali

description: Bandakia himachali Panesar, 2004
Records from the study area: Himachal Pradesh—Panesar (2004).
Habitat: Mountain streams.
Distribution: India.
description: Published as part of Pešić, Vladimir, Chatterjee, Tapas & Bordoloi, Sabitry, 2010, A checklist of the water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) of India, with new records and description of one new species, pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 2617 (1) on page 8, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2617.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/197964
C0VID-19 Testing Platforms - A Review of Latest Commercialization Test Kits for At Home Testing
Creators: name: Pandey, Santosh
name: Park, Yunsoo
name: Benda, Ashler
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Clinical chemistry (incl. diagnostics)
subject: Clinical sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Clinical microbiology
subject: Clinimetrics
subject: Diagnostic radiography
subject: Infectious diseases
subject: Orthopaedics
subject: Rural clinical health
subject: Applied immunology (incl. antibody engineering, xenotransplantation and t-cell therapies)
subject: Allergy
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Autoimmunity
subject: Humoural immunology and immunochemistry
subject: Immunogenetics (incl. genetic immunology)
subject: Innate immunity
subject: Immunology not elsewhere classified

description: This review delves into the existing in vitro technology platforms for COVID-19 testing and diagnostics—molecular tests and rapid antigen tests, serology or antibody tests, and tests for the management of COVID-19 patients—that have been granted emergency use authorization by the FDA to detect and diagnose SARS-CoV-2 infections. We also consider different strategies for scaled-up and faster screening, such as pooled testing, screening programs, and surveillance testing. However, the key challenge lies in finding solutions to make testing more widely accessible by detecting subtle infectivity profiles, mapping the transmission dynamics of new variants, reducing costs, training a larger healthcare workforce, and providing test kits to the masses. Our aim is to establish universal access to COVID-19 testing and diagnostics, recognizing the tradeoffs during the development and distribution cycles of new testing platforms.
 Benda, A.; Zerajic, L.; Ankita, A.; Cleary, E.; Park, Y.; Pandey, S. COVID-19 Testing and Diagnostics: A Review of Commercialized Technologies for Cost, Convenience and Quality of Tests. Sensors 2021, 21, 6581. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21196581
A gap analysis of Internet-of-Things platforms
Creators: name: Mineraud, Julien
name: Mazhelis, Oleksiy
name: Su, Xiang
name: Tarkoma, Sasu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We are experiencing an abundance of Internet-of-Things (IoT) middleware solutions that provide connectivity for sensors and actuators to the Internet. To gain a widespread adoption, these middleware solutions, referred to as platforms, have to meet the expectations of different players in the IoT ecosystem, including device providers, application developers, and end-users, among others. In this article, we evaluate a representative sample of these platforms, both proprietary and open-source, on the basis of their ability to meet the expectations of different IoT users. The evaluation is thus more focused on how ready and usable these platforms are for IoT ecosystem players, rather than on the peculiarities of the underlying technological layers. The evaluation is carried out as a gap analysis of the current IoT landscape with respect to (i) the support for heterogeneous sensing and actuating technologies, (ii) the data ownership and its implications for security and privacy, (iii) data processing and data sharing capabilities, (iv) the support offered to application developers, (v) the completeness of an IoT ecosystem, and (vi) the availability of dedicated IoT marketplaces. The gap analysis aims to highlight the deficiencies of today's solutions to improve their integration to tomorrow's ecosystems. In order to strengthen the finding of our analysis, we conducted a survey among the partners of the Finnish IoT program, counting over 350 experts, to evaluate the most critical issues for the development of future IoT platforms. Based on the results of our analysis and our survey, we conclude this article with a list of recommendations for extending these IoT platforms in order to fill in the gaps.
description: 15 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables, Accepted for publication in Computer Communications, special issue on the Internet of Things: Research challenges and solutions
Hyperbolicity cones are amenable
Creators: name: Lourenço, Bruno F.
name: Roshchina, Vera
name: Saunderson, James
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Amenability is a notion of facial exposedness for convex cones that is stronger than being facially dual complete (or "nice") which is, in turn, stronger than merely being facially exposed. Hyperbolicity cones are a family of algebraically structured closed convex cones that contain all spectrahedral cones (linear sections of positive semidefinite cones) as special cases. It is known that all spectrahedral cones are amenable. We establish that all hyperbolicity cones are amenable. As part of the argument, we show that any face of a hyperbolicity cone is a hyperbolicity cone. As a corollary, we show that the intersection of two hyperbolicity cones, not necessarily sharing a common relative interior point, is a hyperbolicity cone.
description: 11 pages. v2: added Section 3.2 giving an explicit description of the span of a face and Section 3.3 giving concrete examples. Minor edits throughout