cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Readmission for Acute Decompensated Heart Failure among Patients Successfully Treated with Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: A PARTNER-1 Substudy
Creators: name: Petersen, John L.
name: Blackstone, Eugene H.
name: Jeevanantham Rajeswaran
name: Cohen, David J.
name: Douglas, Pamela S.
name: Hahn, Rebecca T.
name: Susheel Kodali
name: Svensson, Lars G.
name: Leon, Martin B.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Background: Readmission for acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) following transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is common and linked with mortality. However, time course of ADHF readmissions, their risk factors, and their association with long-term outcomes are not well understood. Our objectives were to identify the temporal pattern of readmission for ADHF following TAVR, which patients are at high risk, and the association of readmission for ADHF and subsequent mortality. Methods: We evaluated 2467 patients successfully treated and discharged in the PARTNER-1 trial, and followed for 5 years. Baseline and discharge clinical, pharmacologic, procedure, and echocardiographic characteristics were considered. The likelihood and temporal pattern of ADHF readmission after accounting for the competing risk of death were assessed using nested competing-risk methodology for repeating time-related events. Risk factors were identified by unsupervised bootstrap-aggregation machine learning. Results: Admission for ADHF following TAVR was associated with an increased risk of subsequent readmission. Accounting for baseline, procedure, and discharge characteristics, we identified greater severity of post-procedure mitral and aortic regurgitation, both lower- and higher-gradient aortic stenosis, oxygen-dependent COPD, baseline calcium channel blocker and long-acting nitrate use, and longer index hospitalization length of stay as risk factors for readmission for ADHF. Conclusion: Early readmission for ADHF following TAVR was associated with clinical, pharmacologic, and echocardiographic characteristics. The resulting models may be used to identify patients at high risk for early readmission following TAVR and to suggest future prospective trials, particularly to treat combined mitral regurgitation associated with aortic stenosis.
The Gaia-ESO Survey: CNO abundances in the open clusters Trumpler 20, NGC 4815, and NGC 6705
Creators: name: Tautvaišienė, G.
name: Drazdauskas, A.
name: Mikolaitis, Š.
name: Barisevičius, G.
name: Puzeras, E.
name: Stonkutė, E.
name: Chorniy, Y.
name: Magrini, L.
name: Romano, D.
name: Smiljanic, R.
name: Bragaglia, A.
name: Carraro, G.
name: Friel, E.
name: Morel, T.
name: Pancino, E.
name: Donati, P.
name: Jiménez-Esteban, F.
name: Gilmore, G.
name: Randich, S.
name: Jeffries, R. D.
name: Vallenari, A.
name: Bensby, T.
name: Flaccomio, E.
name: Recio-Blanco, A.
name: Costado, M. T.
name: Hill, V.
name: Jofré, P.
name: Lardo, C.
name: de Laverny, P.
name: Masseron, T.
name: Moribelli, L.
name: Sousa, S. G.
name: Zaggia, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Aim of this work is to determine C, N, and O abundances in stars of Galactic open clusters of the Gaia-ESO survey and to compare the observed abundances with those predicted by current stellar and Galactic evolution models. In this pilot paper, we investigate the first three intermediate-age open clusters. High-resolution spectra, observed with the FLAMES-UVES spectrograph on the ESO VLT telescope, were analysed using a differential model atmosphere method. Abundances of carbon were derived using the C2 band heads at 5135 and 5635.5 Å. The wavelength interval 6470- 6490 Å, with CN features, was analysed to determine nitrogen abundances. Oxygen abundances were determined from the [O i] line at 6300 Å. The mean values of the elemental abundances in Trumpler 20 as determined from 42 stars are: [Fe/H] = 0.10 +- 0.08 (s.d.), [C/H] = -0.10 +- 0.07, [N/H] = 0.50 +- 0.07, and consequently C/N = 0.98 +- 0.12. We measure from five giants in NGC 4815: [Fe/H] = -0.01 +- 0.04, [C/H] = -0.17 +- 0.08, [N/H] = 0.53 +- 0.07, [O/H] = 0.12 +- 0.09, and C/N = 0.79 +- 0.08. We obtain from 27 giants in NGC 6705: [Fe/H] = 0.0 +- 0.05, [C/H] = -0.08 +- 0.06, [N/H] = 0.61 +- 0.07, [O/H] = 0.13 +- 0.05, and C/N = 0.83 +- 0.19. The C/N ratios of stars in the investigated open clusters were compared with the ratios predicted by stellar evolutionary models. For the corresponding stellar turn-off masses from 1.9 to 3.3 solar masses, the observed C/N ratio values are very close to the predictions of standard first dredge-up models as well as to models of thermohaline extra-mixing. The average [O/H] abundance ratios of NGC 4815 and NGC 6705 are compared with the predictions of two Galactic chemical evolution models. The data are consistent with the evolution at the solar radius within the errors.
description: 13 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2014
A Comparative Analysis of the Supernova Legacy Survey Sample with ΛCDM and the $R_{\rm h}=ct$ Universe
Creators: name: Wei, Jun-Jie
name: Wu, Xue-Feng
name: Melia, Fulvio
name: Maier, Robert S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The use of Type~Ia SNe has thus far produced the most reliable measurement of the expansion history of the Universe, suggesting that $Λ$CDM offers the best explanation for the redshift--luminosity distribution observed in these events. But the analysis of other kinds of source, such as cosmic chronometers, gamma ray bursts, and high-$z$ quasars, conflicts with this conclusion, indicating instead that the constant expansion rate implied by the $R_{\rm h}=ct$ Universe is a better fit to the data. The central difficulty with the use of Type~Ia SNe as standard candles is that one must optimize three or four nuisance parameters characterizing supernova luminosities simultaneously with the parameters of an expansion model. Hence in comparing competing models, one must reduce the data independently for each. We carry~out such a comparison of $Λ$CDM and the $R_{\rm h}=ct$ Universe, using the Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS) sample of 252 SN~events, and show that each model fits its individually reduced data very well. But since $R_{\rm h}=ct$ has only one free parameter (the Hubble constant), it follows from a standard model selection technique that it is to be preferred over $Λ$CDM, the minimalist version of which has three (the Hubble constant, the scaled matter density and either the spatial curvature constant or the dark-energy equation-of-state parameter). We estimate by the Bayes Information Criterion that in a pairwise comparison, the likelihood of $R_{\rm h}=ct$ is $\sim 90\%$, compared with only $\sim 10\%$ for a minimalist form of $Λ$CDM, in which dark energy is simply a cosmological constant. Compared to $R_{\rm h}=ct$, versions of the standard model with more elaborate parametrizations of dark energy are judged to be even less likely.
description: 31 Pages, 5 Figures, 1 Table. Accepted for publication in AJ
WORK-LIFE PREVALENCE OF SELF-REPORTED OCCUPATIONAL INJURIES IN MOTHERS OF A BIRTH COHORT
Creators: name: Amaro, Joana
name: Queiroga, Ana Catarina
name: Amaro, João
name: Mehlum, Ingrid Sivesind
name: Lucas, Raquel
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Purpose: To study self-reported occupational injuries among mothers of a large birth cohort study and to assess the relation of their characteristics with different injury outcomes: occurrence, severity, temporal proximity and recurrence. Methods: We asked 4338 women whether they had ever had “an accident at work, even if it did not require medical treatment”. Participants were also asked the number of accidents throughout their working life, type of injury, and whether it occurred within the last 12 months. Results: Over a fifth (21.8%) of working-age mothers reported having had at least one occupational injury throughout their working life. Wounds and superficial injuries were the most frequently reported types of occupational injuries (11.0%), followed by dislocated bones and joints, sprains and strains (10.7%). Women who reported a history of occupational injuries also had a higher likelihood of reporting a work-related health problem (adjusted-OR=2.64; 95% CI [2.27, 3.07]) and of having a partner who also reported an occupational injury throughout their working life (adjusted-OR=1.86; 95% CI [1.33, 2.62]). Associations remained fairly stable across all outcomes. Conclusions: Our findings point towards a broadened understanding of occupational injury consequences and research focusing on family-level factors that account for the embeddedness of workers in households.
Journal of Lifestyle and Sdg's Review Adopts Transparency Seals for Open Science Promotion
Creators: name: De Oliveira Silva, Altieres
name: Janes, Diego Dos Santos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Open Science
Transparency Seals
Open Data
Open Methods
Reproducibility

description: The Journal of Lifestyle and SDG Review takes a significant step towards fostering open science by adopting Transparency Seals. As part of this initiative, authors are now required to deposit raw research data in the Open Science Brazil platform. This decision aligns with the Center for Open Science's principles, promoting transparency, integrity, and collaboration in scientific research. Open Science Brazil serves as a repository for accessible and replicable data, enhancing research credibility and supporting sustainable development goals. The journal offers three badges to commend open science practices: Open Data, Open Methods, and Preregistered Badges.
description: Silva, A. de O., & Janes , D. dos S. (2023). Journal of Lifestyle and Sdg's Review Adopts Transparency Seals for Open Science Promotion. Life Style, 10(00), e01565. https://doi.org/10.19141/2237-3756.lifestyle.v10.n00.pe01565
Ο Βαθμός Ικανοποίησης των Παράγωγων και των Καταναλωτών απο τις Βραχείες Εφοδιαστικές Αλυσίδες
Creators: name: Παπαντωνίου, Χριστίνα Κωνσταντίνου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2023
Subjects: Εφοδιαστική Αλυσίδα
Αγροτικοί Συνεταιρισμοί
Δράσεις Χωρίς Μεσάζοντες
Supply Chain
Agricultural Cooperatives
Actions Without Intermediaries

description: Ένα νέο είδος εφοδιαστικής αλυσίδας που έχει αναδειχθεί τα τελευταία χρόνια είναι αυτό της βραχείας εφοδιαστικής αλυσίδας. Στην παρούσα εργασία, πέρα από το θεωρητικό πλαίσιο που διέπει τον παραπάνω όρο παρουσιάζουμε τον τρόπο που αυτή βρίσκει εφαρμογή μεταξύ των αγροτικών προϊόντων τόσο στον ευρωπαϊκό χώρο όσο και επί ελληνικού εδάφους. Ειδική αναφορά γίνεται στους συνεταιρισμούς και ειδικότερα σε αυτόν του Αγροτοκαταναλωτή. Γύρω από αυτόν, πραγματοποιείται ποσοτική έρευνα με δείγμα παραγωγούς και καταναλωτές που συμμετέχουν στην υπαίθρια αγορά της Θεσσαλονίκης με σκοπό να διεξάγουμε τα συμπεράσματά μας.
description: A new type of supply chain that has emerged in recent years is that of the short supply chain. In the present work, in addition to the theoretical framework governing the above term, we present the way in which it finds application among agricultural products both in Europe and on Greek soil. Special reference is made to the cooperatives and especially to that of the Agricultural Consumer. Around him, a quantitative research is carried out with a sample of producers and consumers participating in the open-air market of Thessaloniki in order to carry out our conclusions.
Effects of hearing protector devices on speech intelligibility: the importance of individualized assessment
Creators: name: Rocha, Clayton H.
name: Lisboa, Gabriela
name: Padilha, Fernanda Y. O. M. M.
name: Rabelo, Camila M.
name: Samelli, Alessandra G.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Objectives. This study aimed to compare speech intelligibility in noise with and without hearing protection devices (HPDs). Methods. Fifty-one workers were distributed into three groups: noise-induced hearing loss group (NIHLG), normally hearing noise-exposed group (NG) and normally hearing non-exposed to noise group (CG). A free field system was used to emit monosyllables (65, 70 and 75 dB) and pink noise in different signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) (0, −5, −10 and −15). Results. In situations with HPDs, all groups showed a decrease in the percentage of correct responses with an increase in noise level. The HPD had little effect on speech intelligibility in the NIHLG and NG. Considering the effect caused by the HPD on speech intelligibility, it was observed that the group with the greatest loss was the CG for SNRs of −5, −10 and −15. Conclusion. Although speech intelligibility is influenced by the hearing threshold, the noise level and SNR are crucial for good speech intelligibility, either with or without an HPD. It is highlighted that the NG had worse results when compared with the CG, which may indicate changes in the auditory pathway resulting from continuous noise exposure, even in the absence of changes in the audiometric thresholds.
The total momentum of quantum fluids
Creators: name: Suto, Andras
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The probability distribution of the total momentum P is studied in N-particle interacting homogeneous quantum systems at positive temperatures. Using Galilean invariance we prove that in one dimension the asymptotic distribution of P/\sqrt{N} is normal at all temperatures and densities, and in two dimensions the tail distribution of P/\sqrt{N} is normal. We introduce the notion of the density matrix reduced to the center of mass, and show that its eigenvalues are N times the probabilities of the different eigenvalues of ¶. A series of results is presented for the limit of sequences of positive definite atomic probability measures, relevant for the probability distribution of both the single-particle and the total momentum. The P=0 ensemble is shown to be equivalent to the canonical ensemble. Through some conjectures we associate the properties of the asymptotic distribution of the total momentum with the characteristics of fluid, solid, and superfluid phases. Our main suggestion is that in interacting quantum systems above one dimension, in infinite space, the total momentum is finite with a nonzero probability at all temperatures and densities. In solids this probability is 1, and in a crystal it is distributed on a lattice. Since it is less than 1 in two dimensions, we conclude that a 2D system is always in a fluid phase. For a superfluid we conjecture that the total momentum is zero with a nonzero probability and otherwise its distribution is continuous. We define a macroscopic wave function based on the density matrix reduced to the center of mass. We discuss how dissipation can give rise to a critical velocity, predict the temperature dependence of the latter, and prove that Landau's criterion cannot explain superfluidity and its breakdown in a dissipative flow. We also comment on the relation between superfluidity and Bose-Einstein condensation.
description: 19 pages
Environment-based selection effects of Planck clusters
Creators: name: Kosyra, Ralf
name: Gruen, Daniel
name: Seitz, Stella
name: Mana, Annalisa
name: Rozo, Eduardo
name: Rykoff, Eli
name: Sanchez, Ariel
name: Bender, Ralf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate whether the large scale structure environment of galaxy clusters imprints a selection bias on Sunyaev Zel'dovich (SZ) catalogs. Such a selection effect might be caused by line of sight (LoS) structures that add to the SZ signal or contain point sources that disturb the signal extraction in the SZ survey. We use the Planck PSZ1 union catalog (Planck Collab- oration et al. 2013a) in the SDSS region as our sample of SZ selected clusters. We calculate the angular two-point correlation function (2pcf) for physically correlated, foreground and background structure in the RedMaPPer SDSS DR8 catalog with respect to each cluster. We compare our results with an optically selected comparison cluster sample and with theoretical predictions. In contrast to the hypothesis of no environment-based selection, we find a mean 2pcf for background structures of -0.049 on scales of $\lesssim 40'$, significantly non-zero at $\sim 4 σ$, which means that Planck clusters are more likely to be detected in regions of low background density. We hypothesize this effect arises either from background estimation in the SZ survey or from radio sources in the background. We estimate the defect in SZ signal caused by this effect to be negligibly small, of the order of $\sim 10^{-4}$ of the signal of a typical Planck detection. Analogously, there are no implications on X-ray mass measurements. However, the environ- mental dependence has important consequences for weak lensing follow up of Planck galaxy clusters: we predict that projection effects account for half of the mass contained within a 15' radius of Planck galaxy clusters. We did not detect a background underdensity of CMASS LRGs, which also leaves a spatially varying redshift dependence of the Planck SZ selection function as a possible cause for our findings.
description: 14 pages, 9 figures
Constraints on the reheating temperature from sizable tensor modes
Creators: name: Domcke, Valerie
name: Heisig, Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Despite its importance for modeling the homogeneous hot early universe very little is experimentally known about the magnitude of the reheating temperature, leaving an uncertainty of remarkable 18 orders of magnitude. In this paper we consider a general class of polynomial inflaton potentials up to fourth order. Employing a Monte Carlo scan and imposing theoretical and experimental constraints we derive a robust lower limit on the energy scale at the end of inflation, $V_\text{end}^{1/4} > 3 \times 10^{15}$ GeV for sizable tensor modes, $r \geq 10^{-3}$. If the reheating phase is perturbative and matter dominated, this translates into a lower bound on the reheating temperature, yielding $T_\text{rh} > 3 \times 10^8 \; (7 \times 10^2)$ GeV for gravitational inflaton decay through a generic dimension five (six) operator.
description: 29 pages + references, 5 figures, v2: Added appendix, improved analysis and presentation, conclusions unchanged, matches journal version
Outcomes after Transcatheter and Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement in Intermediate Risk Patients with Preoperative Mitral Regurgitation: Analysis of PARTNER II Randomized Cohort
Creators: name: S. Chris Malaisrie
name: Hodson, Robert W.
name: McAndrew, Thomas C.
name: Davidson, Charles
name: Swanson, Jeffrey
name: Hahn, Rebecca T.
name: Pibarot, Philippe
name: Jaber, Wael A.
name: Nishath Quader
name: Zajarias, Alan
name: Svensson, Lars
name: George, Isaac
name: Trento, Alfredo
name: Thourani, Vinod H.
name: Szeto, Wilson Y.
name: Dewey, Todd
name: Smith, Craig R.
name: Leon, Martin B.
name: Webb, John G.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Background: Preoperative mitral regurgitation (MR) in patients undergoing transcatheter (TAVR) and surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) has been studied in high-risk cohorts. This study examines the outcomes of preoperative MR (≥ moderate) in a larger, intermediate-risk cohort. Methods: The Placement of Aortic Transcatheter Valves (PARTNER) 2A Trial randomized 2032 intermediate-risk patients with severe, symptomatic aortic stenosis to TAVR or SAVR. An ad-hoc analysis was performed on 1738 patients with baseline MR echocardiographic data. Patients were analyzed according to the degree of preoperative MR (≥ moderate versus ≤ mild). Results: At baseline, ≥ moderate MR was reported in 300 patients (17%). At 30 days, ≥ moderate MR had improved in 47% to ≤ mild. Thirty-day mortality was higher in SAVR patients with ≥ moderate MR (8.0 versus 3.5%; p = 0.01), but this difference was not seen in TAVR (2.7 vs. 3.1%; p = 0.78). At 2-years, the combined outcome of death (20.5 vs. 16.3%; p = 0.07), stroke (12.9 vs. 9.0%; p = 0.06), and rehospitalization (22.0 versus 17.4%; p = 0.06) was higher in the ≥ moderate MR (40.4 vs. 32.6%; p = 0.009), and similar between SAVR and TAVR (39.8 vs. 41.0%; p = 0.89). Conclusions: Significant MR is prevalent in patients with severe AS and affects clinical outcomes after both TAVR and SAVR. SAVR patients with MR have high early risk, but the increased risk of death/stroke/rehospitalization becomes similar in both groups over time. Improvement in MR is common, especially in patients with lower ejection fraction and larger left-ventricular dimensions.
Η προστασία της θρησκευτικής ελευθερίας στην Ελλάδα και εναλλακτικοί τρόποι εκπλήρωσης της στρατιωτικής θητείας σήμερα
Creators: name: Παυλίδης, Νικόλαος Δημητρίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2023
Subjects: Θρησκευτική Ελευθερία
Εναλλακτική τρόποι εκπλήρωσης στρατιωτικής θητείας
Σχετική νομολογία
Religion freedom
Alternative ways of military service
Relevant legislation

description: Σκοπός της διατριβής ήταν η παρουσίαση του ατομικού δικαιώματος της θρησκευτικής ελευθερίας και η νομική προστασία αυτού τόσο παγκόσμια όσο και εθνικά. Επιπλέον παρουσιάστηκε ο τρόπος εκπλήρωσης της στρατιωτικής θητείας στην Ελλάδα αλλά και εναλλακτικοί τρόποι εκπλήρωσης σε περιπτώσεις όπου προβλέπεται, όπως για λόγους θρησκευτικής συνείδησης. Στο πρώτο μέρος της διατριβής, παρουσιάστηκε το θρησκευτικό φαινόμενο καθώς και η σχέση της θρησκείας με της επιστήμη και το Ελληνικό Κράτος. Στο δεύτερο μέρος, παρουσιάστηκε το ατομικό δικαίωμα της θρησκείας, η νομική προστασία αυτού τόσο στην Ελλάδα όσο και παγκόσμια. Στο τρίτο και τελευταίο μέρος, παρουσιάστηκε η στρατιωτική θητεία στην Ελλάδα σήμερα, αλλά και εναλλακτικοί τρόποι εκπλήρωσης αυτής.
description: The aim of the present thesis was the presentation of the privilege of religion freedom and legal protection as globally as according to Greek legacy. In addition, in the present thesis was present the alternative ways of military service such as for religion reason. Firstly, was present the religion phenomenon and the relation between science, Greek Government and religion. In the second sector, it is present, the religion right and how it is protect it, according to global and national legacy. In the third and last sector, it is present the military service in Greece nowadays and alternative ways of military service such as for religion reason.
MOESM1 of Association of improved oxidative stress tolerance and alleviation of glucose repression with superior xylose-utilization capability by a natural isolate of Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Creators: name: Cheng, Cheng
name: Tang, Rui-Qi
name: Xiong, Liang
name: Hector, Ronald
name: Bai, Feng-Wu
name: Zhao, Xin-Qing
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Primers used in this study. Table S2. Comparison of Log2 fold changes of selected genes between RNA-seq and qPCR analyses. Table S3. Upstream and missense gene variants of HXT5. Table S4. Change fold of genes involved in gluconeogenesis in the two stages between S. cerevisiae YB-2625 and S. cerevisiae S288C. Table S5. Changed genes shown in the main text. Figure S1. Fermentation performance of S. cerevisiae YB-2625 and S. cerevisiae S288C during mixed-sugar fermentation and overview of the transcriptomic data. A), Growth ability of the two strains; B) and C), comparison of xylitol and ethanol production of the two strains; D), Number of different expression genes under the conditions of YBXG vs SCXG and YBX vs SCX. Figure S2. Transcriptional regulatory network between Mig2p and other transcription factors. Figure S3. Heat map of the genes regulated by TOG1 revealed in the comparative transcriptomic analysis data. Figure S4. Effect of xylitol treatment on transcription of key genes in S. cerevisiae YB-2625.
Phenomenology of Baryogenesis from Lepton-Doublet Mixing
Creators: name: Garbrecht, Bjorn
name: Izaguirre, Ignacio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Mixing lepton doublets of the Standard Model can lead to lepton flavour asymmetries in the Early Universe. We present a diagrammatic representation of this recently identified source of $CP$ violation and elaborate in detail on the correlations between the lepton flavours at different temperatures. For a model where two sterile right-handed neutrinos generate the light neutrino masses through the see-saw mechanism, the lower bound on reheat temperatures in accordance with the observed baryon asymmetry turns out to be $\gsim 1.2\times 10^9\,{\rm GeV}$. With three right-handed neutrinos, substantially smaller values are viable. This requires however a tuning of the Yukawa couplings, such that there are cancellations between the individual contributions to the masses of the light neutrinos.
description: 28 pages
Computer vision syndrome and its associated ergonomic factors among bank workers
Creators: name: Boadi-Kusi, Samuel Bert
name: Adueming, Peter Osei-Wusu
name: Hammond, Francisca Ama
name: Antiri, Ebenezer Oduro
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy

description: Objectives. This study aimed to describe the prevalence of ergonomic factors associated with computer vision syndrome (CVS), and knowledge and practices of computer usage among bank workers in the Cape Coast Metropolis, Ghana. Methods. A comprehensive eye examination was performed for 139 bankers in the Cape Coast Metropolis. Measurements of ergonomic practices at workstations were carried out and self-administered questionnaires were used to collect socio-demographic data, symptoms of CVS and associated factors as well as knowledge, attitudes and practices of the bankers on CVS. Descriptive statistics and logistic regression were carried out to compute the different proportions and relevant associations. Results. Headaches (73.4%), eyestrain (65.5%) and itching (63.3%) were the most common reported symptoms. The prevalence of CVS in the study population was 71.2% with a high level of poor ergonomic practices (78.4%) at computer workstations. With regard to knowledge, attitudes and practices of the participants on CVS, 68.3% of the participants had low levels of knowledge on CVS, while 90.6% had negative attitudes towards CVS and 46.0% of the participants had poor practices. Conclusion. Bankers had a high prevalence of CVS. Ergonomic practices, females and computer usage were all associated significantly with the presence of CVS.
Functional trait-based restoration. Can hybrid restoration enhance invasion resistance and ecosystem services?
Creators: name: Ostertag, Rebecca
name: DiManno, Nicole
Publisher: name: QUBES Educational Resources
Year: 2023

description: A hybrid restoration experiment in Hilo, Hawaiʻi, in an area of high biocultural conservation value, that address the ecological and philosophical issues involved in conducting restoration with a combination of native and introduced species.
Morbidity and Mortality of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Performed During Non-Elective Hospitalizations
Creators: name: Aljohani, Sami
name: Alqahtani, Fahad
name: Badhwar, Vinay
name: Sokos, George
name: Alkhouli, Mohamad
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Morbidity and Mortality of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Performed During Non-Elective Hospitalizations
Tunable subwavelength strong absorption by graphene wrapped dielectric particles
Creators: name: Yang, Bing
name: Wu, Tong
name: Yang, Yue
name: Zhang, Xiangdong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The optical absorption properties of graphene wrapped dielectric particles have been investigated by using Mie scattering theory and exact multi-scattering method. It is shown that subwavelength strong absorption in infrared spectra can take place in such systems due to the excitation of plasmon resonance in graphene. The absorption characteristics and efficiency are tunable by varying Fermi level and damping constant of graphene, or by changing size and dielectric constant of small particles. For a cluster of these particles, the absorption characteristics are also affected by the separation distance between them. These extreme light resonances and absorptions in graphene wrapped nanostructures have great potential for opto-electronic devices.
Optimum Forward Light Scattering by Spherical and Spheroidal Dielectric Nanoparticles with High Refractive Index
Creators: name: Luk`yanchuk, Boris S.
name: Voshchinnikov, Nikolai V.
name: Paniagua-Dominguez, Ramon
name: Kuznetsov, Arseniy I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High-refractive index dielectric nanoparticles may exhibit strong directional forward light scattering at visible and near-infrared wavelengths due to interference of simultaneously excited electric and magnetic dipole resonances. For a spherical high-index dielectric, the so-called first Kerker's condition can be realized, at which the backward scattering practically vanishes for some combination of refractive index and particle size. However, Kerker's condition for spherical particles is only possible at the tail of the scattering resonances, when the particle scatters light weakly. Here we demonstrate that significantly higher forward scattering can be realized if spheroidal particles are considered instead. For each value of refractive index exists an optimum shape of the particle, which produces minimum backscattering efficiency together with maximum forward scattering. This effect is achieved due to the overlapping of magnetic and electric dipole resonances of the spheroidal particle at the resonance frequency. It permits the design of very efficient, low-loss optical nanoantennas.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures
Data from: Ornithogenic vegetation: How significant has the seabird influence been on the Aleutian Island vegetation during the Holocene?
Creators: name: Smyshlyaeva, Olesya
name: Severova, Elena
name: Krylovich, Olga
name: Kuzmicheva, Evgeniya
name: Savinetsky, Arkady
name: West, Dixie
name: Hatfield, Virginia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: In the Aleutian Islands during the Holocene, terrestrial predators were actually absent; as a result, large seabird colonies thrived along the coasts or across entire islands. Bird guano enriches the soil with nitrogen, which can lead to the formation of highly modified ornithogenic (bird-formed) ecosystems. For a more detailed investigation of avian influence, we reconstructed more than 10,000-year-old vegetation dynamics of the coast of Shemya Island (Near Islands) by pollen analysis. At the initial stages of vegetation development (10,000-4,600 cal yr BP), sedge-heather tundra grew in the studied area. A seabird colony existed on Shemya from 4,600 to 2,400 cal yr BP according to stable isotope analysis. During a period of at least 2,200-years nitrogen enrichment led to the development of ornithogenic herb meadows with a high presence of Apiaceae. A long-term increase in δ15N above 9-10‰ led to radical shifts in vegetation. Noticeable reduction of seabird colonies due to human hunting led to grass-meadows spreading. After a prolonged decrease δ15N below 9-10‰ (2,400 cal yr BP to present), there was a shift towards less productive sedge-tundra communities. However, the significant enrichment of guano affected only the coastal vegetation and did not alter the inland Shemya Island.
description: This zip directory contains raw pollen cound data, pollen concentration data, description of samples, , and isotopic (13C, 15N) + LOI data: mcdonald_data.zip In file 'McDonald Point (Shemya Aleutian Islands) isotopes LOI Pollen Influx.xlsx' missing values are marked with N / A. This zip directory contains complete pollen percentage and concentration diagrams in tiff format as figure: mcdonald_figures.zip Funding provided by: Russian Foundation for Basic Research
Crossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100002261
Award Number: 19-34-90071Funding provided by: National Geographic Society
Crossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100002261
Award Number: 4943-92Funding provided by: National Geographic Society
Crossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100006363
Award Number: 5252-94Funding provided by: National Science Foundation
Crossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000001
Award Number: OPP-93 14472Funding provided by: National Science Foundation
Crossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000001
Award Number: OPP-96 14472
Additional file 1: of Pathological phosphorylation of tau and TDP-43 by TTBK1 and TTBK2 drives neurodegeneration
Creators: name: Taylor, Laura
name: McMillan, Pamela
name: Liachko, Nicole
name: Strovas, Timothy
name: Ghetti, Bernardino
name: Bird, Thomas
name: C. Keene
name: Kraemer, Brian
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology

description: Supplemental Data_11_17_17_.pdf. (PDF 1301Â kb)
Public botanic gardens and the early institutionalisation of science : Edinburgh, Florence, and Pisa in the second half of the eighteenth century
Creators: name: Romero-Passerin D'Entreves, Elena
Publisher: name: University of St Andrews
Year: 2022
Subjects: Botanic Garden
Botany
Britain
Scotland
Italy
Tuscany
Eighteenth century
History of science
History of institutions
Professionalisation
Italian history
Peter-Leopold of Tuscany
George III
Scientific specialisation
Scottish history
Edinburgh
Florence
Pisa
Garden history
History of botany
History of Tuscany

description: This thesis is a comparative study of four botanic gardens in Scotland and Tuscany in the second half of the eighteenth century. Taking an approach based on case studies, it argues that botanic gardens were early examples of specialisation, professionalisation, and institutionalisation of science. The existing historiography on the topic has tended to focus on large and famous institutions which enjoyed excellent social and economic resources. By examining gardens at the margins of the largest Enlightenment science centres, the thesis shows that there were European trends in the evolution of botanical and scientific institutions at the time. Despite many differences in their political, economic, and climatic situations, the comparison of the botanic gardens of Edinburgh, Florence, and Pisa reveals striking similarities in their development as institutions in the second half of the century. The thesis explores three main themes: the management of space, the status of staff, and the place of the gardens in a wider public infrastructure. It shows that, though their responses to each theme sometimes differed, the gardens grappled with the same questions and followed similar trends. The space of the gardens was fashioned by and dedicated to scientific activities in a way that gave an increasingly precise definition to the concept of science, one that included research and excluded other forms of knowledge practices. The status of the people in charge of the gardens came to be more clearly defined and made them rare figures of professionals of science in the eighteenth century. Finally, an increase in funding and control by public authorities gave the gardens a mission to serve the public good through the practice of science. By examining these trends in all three cities, the thesis shows how specialisation, professionalisation and institutionalisation of science developed in botanic gardens of the eighteenth century.
Should Moderate or Less Functional Tricuspid Regurgitation be Repaired During Surgery for Degenerative Mitral Valve Disease?
Creators: name: Kirthi Ravichandren
name: Blackstone, Eugene H.
name: Jeevanantham Rajeswaran
name: Raza, Sajjad
name: Griffin, Brian
name: Suri, Rakesh M.
name: A. Marc Gillinov
name: Pettersson, Gösta B.
name: Mick, Stephanie L.
name: Navia, José L.
name: Sabik, Joseph F.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Background: It is unclear whether moderate or less functional tricuspid regurgitation (TR) should be repaired during surgery for degenerative mitral valve (MV) disease. We studied the natural course of unaddressed moderate or less TR and identified risk factors for TR progression after surgery for degenerative MV disease. Methods: From 2001 to 2011, 2,982 patients with isolated degenerative MV disease and no evidence of coronary artery disease underwent MV surgery. To generate an enriched sample of patients with TR, by random selection 200 patients without TR, 197 with mild TR, and 177 with moderate TR were studied. A total of 1,150 echocardiograms were available for longitudinal analysis of TR progression after surgery in 550 of these 574 patients. Results: Overall prevalence of severe TR was 1.1%, 2.2%, 3.6%, and 4.4% by 1, 3, 5, and 7 years, respectively. Patients with moderate preoperative TR were more likely to progress to severe TR by 7 years (8.6%) than those with mild TR (3.2%) or no TR (1.3%) preoperatively (p p = 0.03), shorter right ventricular base-to-apex length (p = 0.0004), smaller tethering area (p = 0.01), older age, and preoperative heart failure. During follow-up, no patient underwent TV intervention. Conclusion: Routine repair of moderate or less functional TR during surgery for degenerative MV disease does not appear to be warranted, because progression to severe TR is uncommon. Instead, we suggest a tailored approach, reserving TR repair during surgery for degenerative MV disease for patients with known risk factors.
Equivariant indices of Spin$^c$-Dirac operators for proper moment maps
Creators: name: Hochs, Peter
name: Song, Yanli
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 58J20, 53D50, 53C27

description: We define an equivariant index of Spin$^c$-Dirac operators on possibly noncompact manifolds, acted on by compact, connected Lie groups. The main result in this paper is that the index decomposes into irreducible representations according to the quantisation commutes with reduction principle.
description: 60 pages, corrections, additions and streamlining based on referee's comments
Readmission for Acute Decompensated Heart Failure among Patients Successfully Treated with Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: A PARTNER-1 Substudy
Creators: name: Petersen, John L.
name: Blackstone, Eugene H.
name: Jeevanantham Rajeswaran
name: Cohen, David J.
name: Douglas, Pamela S.
name: Hahn, Rebecca T.
name: Susheel Kodali
name: Svensson, Lars G.
name: Leon, Martin B.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Background: Readmission for acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) following transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is common and linked with mortality. However, time course of ADHF readmissions, their risk factors, and their association with long-term outcomes are not well understood. Our objectives were to identify the temporal pattern of readmission for ADHF following TAVR, which patients are at high risk, and the association of readmission for ADHF and subsequent mortality. Methods: We evaluated 2467 patients successfully treated and discharged in the PARTNER-1 trial, and followed for 5 years. Baseline and discharge clinical, pharmacologic, procedure, and echocardiographic characteristics were considered. The likelihood and temporal pattern of ADHF readmission after accounting for the competing risk of death were assessed using nested competing-risk methodology for repeating time-related events. Risk factors were identified by unsupervised bootstrap-aggregation machine learning. Results: Admission for ADHF following TAVR was associated with an increased risk of subsequent readmission. Accounting for baseline, procedure, and discharge characteristics, we identified greater severity of post-procedure mitral and aortic regurgitation, both lower- and higher-gradient aortic stenosis, oxygen-dependent COPD, baseline calcium channel blocker and long-acting nitrate use, and longer index hospitalization length of stay as risk factors for readmission for ADHF. Conclusion: Early readmission for ADHF following TAVR was associated with clinical, pharmacologic, and echocardiographic characteristics. The resulting models may be used to identify patients at high risk for early readmission following TAVR and to suggest future prospective trials, particularly to treat combined mitral regurgitation associated with aortic stenosis.
Additional file 1: of Pathological phosphorylation of tau and TDP-43 by TTBK1 and TTBK2 drives neurodegeneration
Creators: name: Taylor, Laura
name: McMillan, Pamela
name: Liachko, Nicole
name: Strovas, Timothy
name: Ghetti, Bernardino
name: Bird, Thomas
name: C. Dirk Keene
name: Kraemer, Brian
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology

description: Supplemental Data_11_17_17_.pdf. (PDF 1301Â kb)
Risk Prediction Model for Permanent Pacemaker Implantation after Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement
Creators: name: Pimprapa Vejpongsa
name: Zhang, Xu
name: Viraj Bhise
name: Kitkungvan, Danai
name: Poojita Shivamurthy
name: H. Vernon Anderson
name: Balan, Prakash
name: Nguyen, Tom C.
name: Estrera, Anthony L.
name: Dougherty, Anne H.
name: Smalling, Richard W.
name: Abhijeet Dhoble
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Background: Atrioventricular conduction disturbance requiring permanent pacemaker (PPM) implantation is the most common complication after transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). Improved risk stratification for potential need for post-procedure PPM implant prior to the TAVR procedure is warranted. The aim of this study was to develop and validate a risk-prediction model for PPM implantation after TAVR. Methods: This PPM risk assessment model was developed using the 2012&2013 National Inpatient Sample (NIS). A logistic regression model was built to identify the predictors of PPM placement. The performance of the model was validated using the NIS 2014 dataset. Results: Of 18,400 patients in the development cohort, 1,825 (9.9%) patients required PPM implantation after TAVR. After multivariate analysis, final predictive covariates of PPM implantation included left or right bundle branch block, bradycardia, 2nd-degree AV block and transfemoral approach. The estimated regression coefficients associated with these predictors were used to develop a scoring system. The proposed scoring system showed good discrimination in both development and validation cohorts, with c-statistics of 0.754 (95% CI: 0.726–0.782) and 0.746 (95% CI: 0.721–0.772) respectively. Calibration analysis indicated a good agreement between the observed rate of PPM and predicted risks of PPM by the risk score. Conclusions: This PPM risk prediction model derived using the NIS database is a simple tool that can estimate individual risk of PPM prior to TAVR procedure. The model displayed good discrimination and calibration indices. This risk score can provide valuable information for patients’ counseling and also help identify high-risk patients who need close monitoring immediately after the TAVR procedure.