cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Deep Recurrent Quantization for Generating Sequential Binary Codes
Creators: name: Song, Jingkuan
name: Zhu, Xiaosu
name: Gao, Lianli
name: Xu, Xin-Shun
name: Liu, Wu
name: Shen, Heng Tao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: H.3.1

description: Quantization has been an effective technology in ANN (approximate nearest neighbour) search due to its high accuracy and fast search speed. To meet the requirement of different applications, there is always a trade-off between retrieval accuracy and speed, reflected by variable code lengths. However, to encode the dataset into different code lengths, existing methods need to train several models, where each model can only produce a specific code length. This incurs a considerable training time cost, and largely reduces the flexibility of quantization methods to be deployed in real applications. To address this issue, we propose a Deep Recurrent Quantization (DRQ) architecture which can generate sequential binary codes. To the end, when the model is trained, a sequence of binary codes can be generated and the code length can be easily controlled by adjusting the number of recurrent iterations. A shared codebook and a scalar factor is designed to be the learnable weights in the deep recurrent quantization block, and the whole framework can be trained in an end-to-end manner. As far as we know, this is the first quantization method that can be trained once and generate sequential binary codes. Experimental results on the benchmark datasets show that our model achieves comparable or even better performance compared with the state-of-the-art for image retrieval. But it requires significantly less number of parameters and training times. Our code is published online: https://github.com/cfm-uestc/DRQ.
Tetrathemis godiardi Lacroix 1921
Creators: name: Legrand, Jean
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Odonata
Libellulidae
Tetrathemis
Tetrathemis godiardi

description: Tetrathemis godiardi Lacroix, 1921
 Annales de la Société entomologique de Belgique 61: 378, ♁, Gold Coast (Ghana); holotype in MNHN.
Legrand, 1983: 157 (holotype, figs 11-14); Legrand & Girard, 1992: 18 (citation de Guinée).
 DESCRIPTION. — Abdomen un peu plus épais que celui de T. camerunensis; appendices anaux supérieurs courts, arrondis à l’extrémité et munis d’une pointe latéro-externe subapicale; appendice anal inférieur aussi long que les supérieurs.
REMARQUE. — Depuis sa capture par Girard en mars 1981, cette espèce, pourtant très caractéristique, n’a pas été retrouvée dans les environs de la station (plateau de Zouguépo); la saison à laquelle j’y étais (mai-juin) ne lui convenait peut-être pas.
DISTRIBUTION. — Ghana, Guinée, Liberia.
description: Published as part of Legrand, Jean, 2003, Les Odonates du Nimba et de sa région, pp. 231-310 in Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 190 on page 281
The notion of the interaction space of an information system
Creators: name: Srinivasa, Srinath
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke::000 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme::003 Systeme

description: Information systems’ (IS) design concerns modeling systems that are dynamic in nature. A dynamic system essentially has two dimensions of concern – static structure and dynamic behavior. The existence of dynamics – or interactions among parts of the system distinguish a dynamic system from a heap or collection of parts. Specification and management of the static aspects of an information system like the data and metadata have been fairly well addressed by existing paradigms. However, an understanding of the dynamic nature of information systems is still low. Currently most paradigms model behavioral properties above an existing structural model, resulting in what may be called “entity centric” modeling. Such a kind of modeling would neglect properties that can be attributed to behavioral processes themselves, and relationships that might exist among such processes. This thesis argues that the dynamics of an information system are best managed by explicitly characterizing an “interaction space” of the information system. An interaction space is defined as an abstract domain that represents the set of all dynamics of the information system. This is contrasted with an “entity space” that represents elements of the static structure of the information system. Recent results on the nature of interactive behavior and of open systems indicate that interaction spaces are characteristically different from the hierarchical nature of algorithmic problem solving. Interaction spaces consist of multiple interactive processes which affect the behavior of one another. Paradigms for the characterization of these spaces are hence explored as part of the thesis.
Quality assessment criteria: psychometric properties of measurement tools for cancer related fatigue
Creators: name: Maqbali, Mohammed Al
name: Hughes, Ciara
name: Gracey, Jackie
name: Rankin, Jane
name: Dunwoody, Lynn
name: Hacker, Eileen
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Background: Fatigue is a common and distressing cancer symptom that negatively affects the quality of life. Many scales have been developed to assess cancer-related fatigue. The properties of the scales vary in terms of dimensionality, reliability, validity, length and method of administration. Insufficient of psychometric properties may affect the accuracy of scales findings, that may lead result obtained questionable. The main objective of this review was to conduct a quality assessment of the psychometric properties of cancer-related fatigue scales to identify appropriate scales that could be used in research and clinical practice. Method: A systematic search was carried out to identify validated scales that measure cancer-related fatigue. Five databases were searched: CINAHL, MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsycINFO, Cochrane Library. This review was conducted following the PRISMA and Terwee et al.’s quality assessment guidelines to evaluate the psychometric properties of the studies. Result: Seventy-one different studies published between 1970 and 2018 met the inclusion criteria. Twenty-five scales were identified. Of these, eighteen were multidimensional and seven were uni-dimensional, containing between 4 and 72 items. Reliability and/or validity information was missing for many scales. Four scales met the quality assessment criteria and were reported as the most appropriate for measuring fatigue in cancer patients. Conclusion: Further psychometric testing is required for other scales. Developing a universally-defined tool kit for the assessment of cancer-related fatigue may help clarify the concept of fatigue and promote a systematic approach to fatigue measurement.
TYPES OF BOOK GENRES ON THE SCIENCE OF HADITH
Creators: name: Oriental university associate professor of history department doctor of philosophy of historical sciences (PhD) Alijonova Gulnozakhan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: In the sources of Islam, the second source after the Qur'an is the collection of hadiths. Reliable collections containing authentic hadiths are one of the most reliable sources for studying the words, manners, verbs, and interpretations of the Prophet (pbuh) and for understanding Islam and putting it into practice. Therefore, many books on the science of hadith have been written by Muslim scholars. These books are divided into «Rivayat al-Hadith» and «Dirayat al-Hadith» series.
欽祝大萬壽詞曲十調 (Yuenan hanwen yanjing wenxian jicheng) VY00001B
Creators: name: Admin, Textcourt
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 430301
subject: Asian history

description: Launched on 1 October 2019 at the University of Oxford, TEXTCOURT: Linking the Textual Worlds of Chinese Court Theater, ca. 1600-1800 is a five-year research project that has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 819953).
Theory for Glassy Behavior of Supercooled Liquid Mixtures
Creators: name: Katira, Shachi
name: Garrahan, Juan P.
name: Mandadapu, Kranthi K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a model for glassy dynamics in supercooled liquid mixtures. Given the relaxation behavior of individual supercooled liquids, the model predicts the relaxation times of their mixtures as temperature is decreased. The model is based on dynamical facilitation theory for glassy dynamics, which provides a physical basis for relaxation and vitrification of a supercooled liquid. This is in contrast to empirical linear interpolations such as the Gordon-Taylor equation typically used to predict glass transition temperatures of liquid mixtures. To understand the behavior of supercooled liquid mixtures we consider a multi-component variant of the kinetically constrained East model in which components have a different energy scale and can also diffuse when locally mobile regions, i.e., excitations, are present. Using a variational approach we determine an effective single component model with a single effective energy scale that best approximates a mixture. When scaled by this single effective energy, we show that experimental relaxation times of many liquid mixtures all collapse onto the 'parabolic law' predicted by dynamical facilitation theory. The model can be used to predict transport properties and glass transition temperatures of mixtures of glassy materials, with implications in atmospheric chemistry, biology, and pharmaceuticals.
title: A Learning Experience
title: integrating theory and practice for the implementation of INDCs
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Mersmann, Florian
name: Reich, Hendrikje
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::320 Politikwissenschaft
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::330 Wirtschaft::333 Boden- und Energiewirtschaft

description: A major cornerstone on the way to low-carbon sustainable development on a global scale will be a swift and effective implementation of all countries' INDCs submitted to the UNFCCC prior to Paris. However, doing so will require transforming development pathways away from currently pervasive carbon lock- ins. This can only be successful if countries take a systemic view on their development agendas, and link mitigation, adaptation and other developmental priorities together for a coherent overarching sustainable development strategy. The ownership for this process needs to be with the countries themselves as such strategies touch fundamentally upon national policy-making and implementation. At the same time, developing countries have access to bi- and multilateral financial and technical cooperation. To enable a systemic, country-led perspective, development cooperation needs to shift its paradigms away from currently prevalent project-level interventions. A truly innovative and transformational shift with the objective of pursuing a low-carbon and climate resilient society needs to open up space for experimentation as new ways of doing things need to be put into practice. Experiments will not always be successful, but foster learning on a national as well as an international level on pitfalls and solutions in new approaches to low-carbon sustainable development. Not least, there needs to be a renewed focus on programmatic approaches that link various topical domains for a country-led process, and a critical look at development work that is "doomed to succeed". Our article draws from systems theory, development studies and recent work on transitions studies and transformational change in the international domain. It links up different theoretical concepts with practical approaches in order to outline a future development agenda that will be owned by developing countries and supported non-invasively by bi- and multilateral development cooperation to foster low-carbon development pathways that are urgently needed to solve the climate crisis.
Hadrothemis Karsch 1891
Creators: name: Legrand, Jean
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Odonata
Libellulidae
Hadrothemis

description: Genre HADROTHEMIS Karsch, 1891
 Entomologische Nachrichten 17 (5/6): 75.
Bridges, 1991; Pinhey, 1962 (Catalogue); Tsuda, 1991 (distribution).
 Espèce type: Orthetrum camarense Kirby, 1889.
Taille moyenne (L.: 38 à 50 mm), aspect hétérogène, de court et massif à long et fin; tête à front arrondi ou légèrement aplati sur le devant avec souvent des reflets métalliques; ailes grandes avec de nombreuses nervures anténodales (de 15 à 25), ptérostigma grand; hamules des génitalia subcarrés avec un crochet antérieur; appendices anaux petits.
description: Published as part of Legrand, Jean, 2003, Les Odonates du Nimba et de sa région, pp. 231-310 in Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 190 on page 281
Nano vanadium dioxide films deposited on biomedical titanium: a novel approach for simultaneously enhanced osteogenic and antibacterial effects
Creators: name: Guo, Jinxiao
name: Zhou, Huaijuan
name: Wang, Jiaxing
name: Liu, Wei
name: Cheng, Mengqi
name: Peng, Xiaochun
name: Qin, Hui
name: Wei, Jianfeng
name: Jin, Ping
name: Li, Jinhua
name: Zhang, Xianlong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Vanadium is a trace element in the human body, and vanadium compounds have a promising future in biological and medical applications due to their various biological activities and low toxicity. Herein, a novel pure vanadium dioxide (VO2) nanofilm was deposited on a substrate of biomedical titanium by magnetron sputtering. The antibacterial effect of VO2 against the methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) was validated in vitro and in vivo. Moreover, the biocompatibility of VO2 and its osteogenic effects were systematically illustrated. A possible osteogenic mechanism involving the amelioration of highly reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels were investigated. According to the results of our present and previous studies, the simultaneous antibacterial and osteogenic effects of VO2 are attributed to its differential regulation of ROS levels in rat bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (rBMSCs) and bacteria. This study is the first to report the simultaneous effects of VO2 on bactericidal and osteogenic activities through its differential modification of ROS activity in eukaryotic (rBMSCs) and prokaryotic (MRSA) cells. The findings in this work may yield a deeper understanding of the biological activities of vanadium compounds while also paving the way for the further investigation and application of VO2 in biological and medical materials.
title: ISQ-Bericht zur Schulqualität 2016
title: Qualitätssicherungsverfahren, Prozess- und Ergebnisqualität an Schulen in Berlin und Brandenburg
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Brunner, Martin
name: Emmrich, Rico
name: Gärtner, Holger
name: Penk, Christiane
name: Vettorazzi, Kathrin
name: Wendt, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Neue Steuerung
subject: Vergleichsarbeiten (VERA)
subject: Selbstevaluation
subject: zentrale Abschlussprüfungen
subject: Schulinspektion
subject: datengestützte Schul- und Unterrichtsentwicklung
subject: evidenzbasierte Bildungspolitik
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::370 Bildung und Erziehung::370 Bildung und Erziehung

description: Im Mittelpunkt des Berichts des Instituts für Schulqualität der Länder Berlin und Brandenburg (ISQ) stehen die Eckpunkte der Bildungssysteme, wichtige Faktoren der Qualitätssicherung von schulischen Prozessen sowie zentrale Bildungsergebnisse im Verlauf der Schülerkarriere in Berlin und Brandenburg. Dabei präsentiert der Schulqualitätsbericht für Berlin und Brandenburg eine problemorientierte Analyse der Bildungssituation in der Region. Problemorientierung heißt, zentrale Entwicklungen im Bildungswesen für Politik und Öffentlichkeit erkennbar zu machen und möglichen Handlungsbedarf aufzuzeigen, ohne jedoch Wertungen vorzunehmen oder politische Empfehlungen abzugeben. Der vorliegende Bericht verfolgt dasselbe Ziel wie seine Vorgänger (wenn auch in thematisch engerem Rahmen): In der Zusammenstellung relevanter und empirisch gesicherter Daten und Informationen soll ein Beitrag geleistet werden, Diskussionen und Entscheidungen im Bildungsbereich durch die Bereitstellung von (zusätzlichen) Fakten anzureichern.
TRAITS AND BEHAVIORS NEEDED TO BE A UNIVERSITY OR A COLLEGE PRESIDENT
Creators: name: Mohammed, Omair
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 130313 Teacher Education and Professional Development of Educators
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 130103 Higher Education
subject: 170103 Educational Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 130106 Secondary Education
subject: 140204 Economics of Education
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 130306 Educational Technology and Computing
subject: 160506 Education Policy
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 50203 Environmental Education and Extension
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 130304 Educational Administration, Management and Leadership
subject: Literature

description: This paper lists over 110 traits needed to be a successful college or university president. The author had extensively researched from multiple sources on the traits of a successful president of the university or a college. The article provides the comprehensive idea of the traits and behaviors needed to be a university or a college president. In the first part of the literature review, the paper briefly describes some of the many key roles of the president. In the second part, the paper describes what traits are required to perform the presidential duties. It also lists many different attributes that should be present in the president at the time of occupying the office and those traits that can be obtained after holding the office. The author further details some of the traits that most of the universities posted in their job positions, expressed while interviews, and emphasized at hiring. The paper is concluded by the analysis of important traits and summary of the analysis.
Additional file 1 of The safety and potential efficacy of exosomes overexpressing CD24 (EXO-CD24) in mild-moderate COVID-19 related ARDS
Creators: name: Grigoropoulos, Ioannis
name: Tsioulos, Georgios
name: Kastrissianakis, Artemis
name: Shapira, Shiran
name: Green, Orr
name: Rapti, Vasiliki
name: Tsakona, Maria
name: Konstantinos, Thomas
name: Savva, Athina
name: Kavatha, Dimitra
name: Boumpas, Dimitrios
name: Syrigos, Konstantinos
name: Xynogalas, Ioannis
name: Leontis, Konstantinos
name: Ntousopoulos, Vasileios
name: Sakka, Vissaria
name: Sardelis, Zafeiris
name: Fotiadis, Andreas
name: Vlassi, Lamprini
name: Kontogianni, Chrysoula
name: Levounets, Anastasia
name: Poulakou, Garyfalia
name: Gaga, Mina
name: MacLoughlin, Ronan
name: Stebbing, Justin
name: Arber, Nadir
name: Antoniadou, Anastasia
name: Tsiodras, Sotirios
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Distribution of the patients according to the severity of the COVID-19 related symptoms at baseline. Table S2. Patients’ distribution according to their score in the 8-point NIAID-OS scale at baseline and at Day 7, both in total, as well as separately according to their treatment group. Table S3. Patients’ distribution according to their score in the 7-point WHO-OS scale at baseline and at Day 7, both in total, as well as separately according to their treatment group. Table S4. Patients’ distribution according to their score in the 10-point WHO-OS scale at baseline and at Day 7, both in total, as well as separately according to their treatment group.
Cerebrovascular Autoregulation Monitoring in the Management of Adult Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: A Delphi Consensus of Clinicians
Creators: name: Depreitere, B.
name: Citerio, G.
name: Smith, M.
name: Adelson, P. David
name: Aries, M. J.
name: Bleck, T. P.
name: Bouzat, P.
name: Chesnut, R.
name: De Sloovere, V.
name: Diringer, M.
name: Dureanteau, J.
name: Ercole, A.
name: Hawryluk, G.
name: Hawthorne, C.
name: Helbok, R.
name: Klein, S. P.
name: Neumann, J. O.
name: Robba, C.
name: Steiner, L.
name: Stocchetti, N.
name: Taccone, F. S.
name: Valadka, A.
name: Wolf, S.
name: Zeiler, F. A.
name: Meyfroidt, G.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: Original Work
Traumatic brain injury
Adult
Cerebral perfusion pressure
Cerebral blood flow
Homeostasis
Consensus development

description: Abstract: Background: Several methods have been proposed to measure cerebrovascular autoregulation (CA) in traumatic brain injury (TBI), but the lack of a gold standard and the absence of prospective clinical data on risks, impact on care and outcomes of implementation of CA-guided management lead to uncertainty. Aim: To formulate statements using a Delphi consensus approach employing a group of expert clinicians, that reflect current knowledge of CA, aspects that can be implemented in TBI management and CA research priorities. Methods: A group of 25 international academic experts with clinical expertise in the management of adult severe TBI patients participated in this consensus process. Seventy-seven statements and multiple-choice questions were submitted to the group in two online surveys, followed by a face-to-face meeting and a third online survey. Participants received feedback on average scores and the rationale for resubmission or rephrasing of statements. Consensus on a statement was defined as agreement of more than 75% of participants. Results: Consensus amongst participants was achieved on the importance of CA status in adult severe TBI pathophysiology, the dynamic non-binary nature of CA impairment, its association with outcome and the inadvisability of employing universal and absolute cerebral perfusion pressure targets. Consensus could not be reached on the accuracy, reliability and validation of any current CA assessment method. There was also no consensus on how to implement CA information in clinical management protocols, reflecting insufficient clinical evidence. Conclusion: The Delphi process resulted in 25 consensus statements addressing the pathophysiology of impaired CA, and its impact on cerebral perfusion pressure targets and outcome. A research agenda was proposed emphasizing the need for better validated CA assessment methods as well as the focused investigation of the application of CA-guided management in clinical care using prospective safety, feasibility and efficacy studies.
AdaNN: Adaptive Neural Network-based Equalizer via Online Semi-supervised Learning
Creators: name: Zhou, Qingyi
name: Zhang, Fan
name: Yang, Chuanchuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: 94

description: The demand for high speed data transmission has increased rapidly, leading to advanced optical communication techniques. In the past few years, multiple equalizers based on neural network (NN) have been proposed to recover signal from nonlinear distortions. However, previous experiments mainly focused on achieving low bit error rate (BER) on certain dataset with an offline-trained NN, neglecting the generalization ability of NN-based equalizer when the properties of optical link change. The development of efficient online training scheme is urgently needed. In this paper, we've proposed an adaptive online training scheme, which can fine-tune parameters of NN-based equalizer without the help of an online training sequence. By introducing data augmentation and virtual adversarial training, the convergence speed has been accelerated by 4.5 times, compared with decision-directed self-training. The proposed adaptive NN-based equalizer is called "AdaNN". Its BER has been evaluated under two scenarios: a 56 Gb/s PAM4-modulated VCSEL-MMF optical link (100-m), and a 32 Gbaud 16QAM-modulated Nyquist-WDM system (960-km SSMF). In our experiments, with the help of AdaNN, BER values can be quickly stabilized below 1e-3 after trained with 10^5 unlabeled symbols. AdaNN shows great performance improvement compared with non-adaptive NN and conventional MLSE.
description: 10 pages, 11 figures, 2 tables
Hadrothemis versuta Karsch 1891
Creators: name: Legrand, Jean
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Odonata
Libellulidae
Hadrothemis
Hadrothemis versuta

description: Hadrothemis versuta Karsch, 1891
 Entomologische Nachrichten 17 (4): 61; ♁, Cameroun; holotype in ZMHU.
Legrand, 1985a: 38; Legrand & Girard, 1992: 18 (citation de Guinée).
 DESCRIPTION. — Taille petite (L.: 38 mm), assez fin; front noir avec des reflets métalliques, nettement plus pileux que celui de H. defecta; thorax brunâtre avec une bande médiodorsale jaune; ailes postérieures avec une grande tache basale brune comme chez defecta, mais à contours diffus, triangle traversé; abdomen rouge.
N’a pas été retrouvée dans les environs du Nimba depuis sa dernière signalisation (Legrand 1985a).
DISTRIBUTION. — Bénin, Cameroun, Congo, Congo démocratique, Côte d’Ivoire, Gabon, Liberia, Nigeria, Ouganda, République Centrafricaine, Zambie.
description: Published as part of Legrand, Jean, 2003, Les Odonates du Nimba et de sa région, pp. 231-310 in Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 190 on page 283
The sleep and circadian problems of Huntington’s disease: when, why and their importance
Creators: name: Voysey, Z.
name: Fazal, S. V.
name: Lazar, A. S.
name: Barker, R. A.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Neurological Update
Huntington’s disease
Sleep
Circadian rhythm
Neurodegeneration
Dementia

description: Funder: University of Cambridge
description: Abstract: Introduction: Mounting evidence supports the existence of an important feedforward cycle between sleep and neurodegeneration, wherein neurodegenerative diseases cause sleep and circadian abnormalities, which in turn exacerbate and accelerate neurodegeneration. If so, sleep therapies bear important potential to slow progression in these diseases. Findings: This cycle is challenging to study, as its bidirectional nature renders cause difficult to disentangle from effect. Likewise, well-controlled intervention studies are often impractical in the setting of established neurodegenerative disease. It is this that makes understanding sleep and circadian abnormalities in Huntington’s disease (HD) important: as a monogenic fully penetrant neurodegenerative condition presenting in midlife, it provides a rare opportunity to study sleep and circadian abnormalities longitudinally, prior to and throughout disease manifestation, and in the absence of confounds rendered by age and comorbidities. It also provides potential to trial sleep therapies at a preclinical or early disease stage. Moreover, its monogenic nature facilitates the development of transgenic animal models through which to run parallel pre-clinical studies. HD, therefore, provides a key model condition through which to gain new insights into the sleep-neurodegeneration interface. Conclusions: Here, we begin by summarising contemporary knowledge of sleep abnormalities in HD, and consider how well these parallel those of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s as more common neurodegenerative conditions. We then discuss what is currently known of the sleep-neurodegeneration cyclical relationship in HD. We conclude by outlining key directions of current and future investigation by which to advance the sleep-neurodegeneration field via studies in HD.
N=(4,4) Type IIA String Theory on PP-Wave Background
Creators: name: Hyun, Seungjoon
name: Shin, Hyeonjoon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct IIA GS superstring action on the ten-dimensional pp-wave background, which arises as the compactification of eleven-dimensional pp-wave geometry along the isometry direction. The background geometry has 24 Killing spinors and among them, 16 components correspond to the non-linearly realized kinematical supersymmetry in the string action. The remaining eight components are linearly realized and shown to be independent of x^+ coordinate, which is identified with the world-sheet time coordinate of the string action in the light-cone gauge. The resultant dynamical N=(4,4) supersymmetry is investigated, which is shown to be consistent with the field contents of the action containing two free massive supermultiplets.
description: latex, 15 pages; v2: typos corrected, polished, references added
Synthetic nuclear Skyrme matter in imbalanced Fermi superfluids with a multicomponent order parameter
Creators: name: Samoilenka, Albert
name: Rybakov, Filipp N.
name: Babaev, Egor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cooper-pair formation in a system of imbalanced fermions leads to the well-studied Fulde-Ferrell or Larkin-Ovchinnikov superfluid state. In the former case the system forms spontaneous phase gradients while in the latter case it forms a stripelike or a crystal-like density gradient. We show that in multicomponent imbalanced mixtures, the superfluid states can be very different from the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov states. The system generates gradients in both densities and phases by forming three-dimensional vortex-antivortex lattices or lattices of linked vortex loops. The solutions share some properties with the ostensibly unrelated Skyrme model of densely packed baryons and can be viewed as synthetic realization of nuclear Skyrme matter.
description: 2 figures
Initiation timing effect of levothyroxine treatment on subclinical hypothyroidism in pregnancy
Creators: name: Zhao, Lijie
name: Jiang, Guojing
name: Tian, Xingfang
name: Zhang, Xiaoqin
name: Zhu, Ting
name: Chen, Beibei
name: Wang, Yongxiang
name: Ma, Qingliang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: The aim of this study is to estimate the timing impact on levothyroxine replacement among pregnant women with subclinical hypothyroidism (SCH). Ninety-eight pregnant women diagnosed as SCH in the first trimester were randomly divided into three groups: Group A, instantly initiated levothyroxine after diagnosis; Group B, administrated treatment in the second trimester, and Group C, received no prescription. Incidence of pregnancy complications and pregnancy outcomes were compared among three groups and subgroup analysis were performed stratified with TPO status in Group B. Group A exhibited lower rate of pregnancy complications (9.7%) and adverse outcome (3.2%) than Group B (41.9% and 32.3%) and Group C (64.5% and 38.7%). But the late initiation treatment group shared a comparable complication and maternal outcome with untreated women (p = .075 and .596, respectively). After stratified with TPOAb status in Group B, TPOAb+ women experienced a remarkable lower complication (14.2%) and adverse outcome rate (7.1%) compared with negative subjects (64.7% and 45%, respectively). Our data suggest that levothyroxine administrated in the first trimester was associated with decreased risk of adverse obstetric event. Additionally, pregnant women with TPOAb positive could also benefit from thyroid hormone therapy even initiated in the second trimester.
Beyond Product Quantization: Deep Progressive Quantization for Image Retrieval
Creators: name: Gao, Lianli
name: Zhu, Xiaosu
name: Song, Jingkuan
name: Zhao, Zhou
name: Shen, Heng Tao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: H.3.1

description: Product Quantization (PQ) has long been a mainstream for generating an exponentially large codebook at very low memory/time cost. Despite its success, PQ is still tricky for the decomposition of high-dimensional vector space, and the retraining of model is usually unavoidable when the code length changes. In this work, we propose a deep progressive quantization (DPQ) model, as an alternative to PQ, for large scale image retrieval. DPQ learns the quantization codes sequentially and approximates the original feature space progressively. Therefore, we can train the quantization codes with different code lengths simultaneously. Specifically, we first utilize the label information for guiding the learning of visual features, and then apply several quantization blocks to progressively approach the visual features. Each quantization block is designed to be a layer of a convolutional neural network, and the whole framework can be trained in an end-to-end manner. Experimental results on the benchmark datasets show that our model significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art for image retrieval. Our model is trained once for different code lengths and therefore requires less computation time. Additional ablation study demonstrates the effect of each component of our proposed model. Our code is released at https://github.com/cfm-uestc/DPQ.
Sustainable competitiveness: a spatial econometric analysis of European regions
Creators: name: Möbius, Patrick
name: Althammer, Wilhelm
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 60506 Virology

description: The paper complements the few regional studies on the sustainability–competitiveness nexus by providing a novel composite index of sustainable competitiveness for 272 European regions in 28 European countries. Principal component factor analysis is combined with a variance-based structural equation model to create a statistically reliable index, which overcomes the methodological issues of previous studies. Especially, the use of the latter also allows estimation of the cause–effect relationships between the different pillars of sustainable competitiveness, where empirical evidence is scarce. The paper shows that favorable ecological, social, and economic environments can jointly contribute to facilitating long-term sustainable competitiveness outcomes. Thereby, the progress in one dimension is not necessarily at the expense of another dimension of sustainable competitiveness. The proposed index reveals important insights for policymakers into the sustainable competitiveness trajectory of European regions. Region-specific plans for action can be derived and new policy conclusions can be drawn from the index.
A Multiverse Approach to Understanding News Engagement on Social Media
Creators: name: Pipal, Christian
name: Hyunjin (Jin) Song
name: Boomgaarden, Hajo G.
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: How does the multiverse approach benefit communication research using observational (big) data?

In recent years, open science tools like pre-registration and pre-analysis plans became increasingly popular in the social sciences. While they have mainly been used for experimental studies, they can also be used to register hypotheses beforehand when working with observational data. However, even with best intentions, a researcher is left with many, often arbitrary, analytical choices along the data analysis path. This ability to run equally plausible models increases the chance of false positive findings. The multiverse approach, in contrast, makes all analytical choices explicit, and runs analyses on all combinations of data processing and modelling paths. To date, multiverse analyses are not used widely in social science research using observational data. In our study we include three main categories of analytical choices a researcher faces that have been covered in previous multiverse studies: (1) variables (selection, operationalisation, choice of controls), (2) case selection and exclusion, and (3) modelling (functional form, estimation). In addition, we include (4) text pre-processing as an additional challenge for the robustness of results in text-as-data projects.

To illustrate the multiverse approach, we use a research question that has received much attention in the study of news and social media over the last decade: What content characteristics determine if a news article receives a lot of engagement on social media? Prior studies concerning news sharing and user engagements in social media point towards the role of general news values (García-Perdomo et al., 2018; Trilling, Tolochko & Burscher, 2016) -- such as geographical or psychological proximity, negativity (in terms of controversy or conflict), or human interest -- as well as informational utility of messages being shared (Kümpel, Karnowski, & Keyling, 2015; Valenzuela, Piña, & Ramírez, 2017). Yet these studies generally disagree about the specific direction of the influence regarding aforementioned factors; while some studies find that news sharing is positively influenced when the contents are negatively valenced (Valenzuela et al., 2017), yet others found the opposite patterns (Trilling et al., 2016). Likewise, studies often yield a mixed support for the role of emotional and arousing contents (e.g., Berger, 2011; Trilling et al., 2016). To answer this question, we make use of the useNews dataset (Haim and Puschmann 2020) that includes 2.99 million news articles from 12 countries and 9 languages, as well as engagement metrics and meta data of 4 million Facebook posts referencing these news articles collected between 2018 and 2020.
Additional file 1 of Sialylation on vesicular integrin β1 determined endocytic entry of small extracellular vesicles into recipient cells
Creators: name: Lin, Meixuan
name: Xu, Xiaoqiang
name: Zhou, Xiaoman
name: Feng, Hui
name: Wang, Ruili
name: Yang, Yunyun
name: Li, Jing
name: Fan, Ning
name: Jiang, Yazhuo
name: Li, Xiang
name: Guan, Feng
name: Tan, Zengqi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Proliferation of HCV29 treated with KK47 CM or YTS-1 CM. Figure S2. Apoptosis of HCV29 treated with KK47 CM or YTS-1 CM. Figure S3. Migratory ability of HCV29 treated with KK47 CM or YTS-1 CM. Figure S4. Knockdown of Rab27A in YTS-1. Figure S5. Migratory ability of HCV29 treated with Y-vec CM or Y-shRab27a CM. Figure S6. Proliferation of HCV29 treated with Y-vec CM or Y-shRab27a CM. Figure S7. Apoptosis of HCV29 treated with Y-vec CM or Y-shRab27a CM. Figure S8. Confocal microscopic imaging of sEV endocytosis. HCV29 were treated with fluorescence labeled YTS-1sEV. Figure S9. Levels of sialic acids, integrin β1, CD63 and TSG101 in sEV from integrin β1 silenced cells. Figure S10. shRNAs in sEV from Y-shβ1 cells by realtime PCR analysis. Figure S11. Proliferation of HCV29 treated with Y-vec CM or Y-shβ1 CM. Figure S12. Apoptosis of HCV29 treated with Y-vec CM or Y-shβ1 CM. Figure S13. Migratory ability of HCV29 treated with Y-vec CM or Y-shβ1 CM. Figure S14. Potential N-glycosylation sites (indicated by triangles) on integrin β1. Combined mutation to Asp of N-glycosylation sites 1–3, 4–6, 7–8 and 9–12 gave rise to Δ1-3, Δ4-6, Δ7-8 and Δ9-12. Figure S15. Sialic acid levels of MDA-MB-231 mutants, analyzed by lectin blotting. Figure S16. Migratory ability of HCV29 treated with CM from Y-vec, WT, Δ4–6 and Δ7–8 mutants. Figure S17. Proliferation of HCV29 treated with CM from Y-vec, WT, Δ4–6 and Δ7–8 mutants. Figure S18. Apoptosis of HCV29 treated with CM from Y-vec, WT, Δ4–6 and Δ7–8 mutants. Table S1. Information of plasma samples from bladder cancer patients and healthy subjects in Fig. 1I, J. Table S2. Information of plasma samples from bladder cancer patients and healthy subjects in Figs. 1M, N, 3N–P.
The University of Chicago - University of California Excavations at Korucutepe, 1968
Creators: name: Buccellati, Giorgio
name: Loon, Maurits Van
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Archaeology

description: Book chapter in 1968 Summer Work, 73–102. Keban Projesi Yayınları 1. Ankara: METU Keban Project Publications.
Additional file 1 of Efficacy of various core decompression techniques versus non-operative treatment for osteonecrosis of the femoral head: a systemic review and network meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
Creators: name: Liu, Quanzhe
name: Guo, Wenlai
name: Li, Rui
name: Lee, Jae Hyup
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Space Science
Medicine
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1. Appendix 1. Medline via OVID search strategy
THE USE OF RECYCLED DEMOLISHED CONCRETE AS AGGREGATES IN HOT MIX ASPHALT PAVING MIXES
Creators: name: K. M. L. A Udamulla
name: E. H Thenuka Kalhara
name: S. K. K. D. D Kodikara
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 90599 Civil Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: 91202 Composite and Hybrid Materials
subject: FOS: Materials engineering
subject: 90502 Construction Engineering
subject: 90503 Construction Materials
subject: 90799 Environmental Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering

description: This Paper was presented at the Special Session on Waste in Construction and Development at the 9th International Conference on Sustainable Built Environment
A local resolution of the Hubble tension: The impact of screened fifth forces on the cosmic distance ladder
Creators: name: Desmond, Harry
name: Jain, Bhuvnesh
name: Sakstein, Jeremy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The discrepancy between the values of the Hubble constant $H_0$ derived from the local distance ladder and the cosmic microwave background provides a tantalising hint of new physics. We explore a potential resolution involving screened fifth forces in the local Universe, which alter the Cepheid calibration of supernova distances. In particular, if the Cepheids with direct distance measurements from parallax or water masers are screened but a significant fraction of those in other galaxies are not, neglecting the difference between their underlying period--luminosity relations biases the local $H_0$ measurement high. This difference derives from a reduction in the Cepheid pulsation period and possible increase in luminosity under a fifth force. We quantify the internal and environmental gravitational properties of the Riess et al. distance ladder galaxies to assess their degrees of screening under a range of phenomenological models, and propagate this information into the $H_0$ posterior as a function of fifth force strength. We consider well-studied screening models in scalar--tensor gravity theories such as chameleon, K-mouflage and Vainshtein, along with a recently-proposed mechanism based on baryon--dark matter interactions in which screening is governed by local dark matter density. We find that a fifth force strength $\sim5-30\%$ that of gravity can alleviate (though not resolve) the $H_0$ tension in some scenarios, around the sensitivity level at which tests based on other distance ladder data can constrain this strength. Although our analysis is exploratory and based on screening models not necessarily realised in full theories, our results demonstrate that new physics-based local resolutions of the $H_0$ tension are possible, supplementing those already known in the pre-recombination era.
description: 20 pages, 7 figures; correction to Eq 16, H0 results weakened slightly
Reconstructing Mayaro virus circulation in French Guiana shows frequent spillovers
Creators: name: Hozé, Nathanaël
name: Salje, Henrik
name: Rousset, Dominique
name: Fritzell, Camille
name: Vanhomwegen, Jessica
name: Bailly, Sarah
name: Najm, Matthieu
name: Enfissi, Antoine
name: Manuguerra, Jean-Claude
name: Flamand, Claude
name: Cauchemez, Simon
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Article
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/692/308/174
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article

description: Funder: This study was supported by the “European Regional Development Fund” under EPI-ARBO grant agreement (GY0008695), the “Regional Health Agency of French Guiana”, the “National Center of Spatial Studies”. CF acknowledges funding from Calmette and Yersin allocated by the “Pasteur Institut Department of International Affairs”. N.H. and S.C. acknowledge financial support from the AXA Research Fund, the Investissement d’Avenir program, the Laboratoire d’Excellence Integrative Biology of Emerging Infectious Diseases program (Grant ANR-10-LABX-62-IBEID), the Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, the INCEPTION project (PIA/ANR-16-CONV-0005), the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under ZIKAlliance grant agreement No 734548.
description: Abstract: Characterizing the circulation of Mayaro virus (MAYV), an emerging arbovirus threat, is essential for risk assessment but challenging due to cross-reactivity with other alphaviruses such as chikungunya virus (CHIKV). Here, we develop an analytical framework to jointly assess MAYV epidemiology and the extent of cross-reactivity with CHIKV from serological data collected throughout French Guiana (N = 2697). We find strong evidence of an important sylvatic cycle for MAYV with most infections occurring near the natural reservoir in rural areas and in individuals more likely to go to the forest (i.e., adult males) and with seroprevalences of up to 18% in some areas. These findings highlight the need to strengthen MAYV surveillance in the region and showcase how modeling can improve interpretation of cross-reacting assays.
The University of Chicago - University of California Excavations at Korucutepe, 1968
Creators: name: Buccellati, Giorgio
name: Loon, Maurits Van
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Archaeology

description: Book chapter in 1968 Summer Work, 73–102. Keban Projesi Yayınları 1.
Ankara: METU Keban Project Publications.
Achieving state independence in Uzbekistan
Creators: name: Abdurakhmov Torakhon , Adhamova Zilola Akmaljon, daughter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Abstract: This article describes news published in newspapers about the independence of Uzbekistan and the joy of the holiday of that time.

Keywords: Qishloq Haqiqiti, "Council of Uzbekistan", Independence Day, “Hello, Independent Uzbekistan”, Oliy Kengash.