cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Novel etheroatom containing aliphatic polyesters for biomedical and environmental applications
Creators: name: Gigli, Matteo <1984>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2013
Subjects: CHIM/07 Fondamenti chimici delle tecnologie

description: Biodegradable polymers for short time applications have attracted much interest all over the world. The reason behind this growing interest is the incompatibility of the polymeric wastes with the environment where they are disposed after usage. Synthetic aliphatic polyesters represent one of the most economically competitive biodegradable polymers. In addition, they gained considerable attention as they combine biodegradability and biocompatibility with interesting physical and chemical properties. 
In this framework, the present research work focused on the modification by reactive blending and polycondensation of two different aliphatic polyesters, namely poly(butylene succinate) (PBS) and poly(butylene 1,4-cyclohexanedicarboxylate) (PBCE). Both are characterized by good thermal properties, but their mechanical characteristics do not fit the requirements for applications in which high flexibility is requested and, moreover, both show slow biodegradation rate. With the aim of developing new materials with improved characteristics with respect to the parent homopolymers, novel etheroatom containing PBS and PBCE-based fully aliphatic polyesters and copolyesters have been therefore synthesized and carefully characterized. 
The introduction of oxygen or sulphur atoms along the polymer chains, by acting on chemical composition or molecular architecture, tailored solid-state properties and biodegradation rate: type and amount of comonomeric units and sequence distribution deeply affected the material final properties owing, among all, to the hydrophobic/hydrophilic ratio and to the different ability of the polymer to crystallize. 
The versatility of the synthesized copolymers has been well proved: as a matter of fact these polymers can be exploited both for biomedical and ecological applications.
Feasibility of 3D electrospun scaffolds has been investigated, biocompatibility studies and controlled release of a model molecule showed good responses. As regards ecological applications, barrier properties and eco-toxicological assessments have been conducted with outstanding results. Finally, the ability of the novel polyesters to undergo both hydrolytic and enzymatic degradation has been demonstrated under physiological and environmental conditions.
Memristive circuits simulate memcapacitors and meminductors
Creators: name: Pershin, Yuriy V.
name: Di Ventra, Massimiliano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We suggest electronic circuits with memristors (resistors with memory) that operate as memcapacitors (capacitors with memory) and meminductors (inductors with memory). Using a memristor emulator, the suggested circuits have been built and their operation has been demonstrated, showing a useful and interesting connection between the three memory elements.
Synthesis and aplication of linear and macrocyclic nitrogen ligand
Creators: name: Cerisoli, Lucia <1984>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2013
Subjects: CHIM/06 Chimica organica

description: Linear and macrocyclic nitrogen ligands have been found wide application during the years. Nitrogen has a much strong association with transition-metal ions because the electron pair is partucularly available for complexing purposes. 
We started our investigation with the synthesis of new chiral perazamacrocycles containing four pyrrole rings. This ligand was synthesized by the [2+2]condensation of (R,R)-diaminocyclohexane and dipirranedialdehydes and was tested, after a complexation with Cu(OAc)2, in Henry reactions. The best yields (96%) and higher ee’s (96%) were obtained when the meso-substituent on the dipyrrandialdehyde was a methyl group. The positive influence of the pyrrole-containing macrocyclic structure on the efficiency/enantioselectivity of the catalytic system was demonstrated by comparison with the Henry reactions performed using analogous  ligands. Henry product was obtain in good yield but only 73% of ee, when the dialdehyde unit was replaced by a triheteroaromatic dialdehye (furan-pyrrol-furan).
Another well known macrocyclic ligand is calix[4]pyrrole. We decided to investigate, in collaboration with Neier’s group, the metal-coordinating properties of  calix[2]pyrrole[2]pyrrolidine compounds obtained by the reduction of calix[4]pyrrole. We focused our attention on the reduction conditions, and tested different Pd supported (charcoal, grafite) catalysts at different condition. 
Concerning the synthesis of linear polyamine ligands. We focused our attention to the synthesis of 2-heteroaryl- and 2,5-diheteroarylpyrrolidines. The reductive amination reaction of diarylketones and aryl-substitutedketo-aldehydes with different chiral amines was exploited to prepare a small library of diastereo-enriched substituted pyrrolidines.
We have also described a new synthetic route to 1,2-disubstituted 1,2,3,4-tetrahydropyrrole[1,2-a]pyrazines, which involves the diastereoselective addition of Grignard reagents to chiral oxazolidines. The best diastereoselectivity (98:2)  was dependent on the nature of both the chiral auxiliary, (S)-1-phenylglycinol, and the nature of the organometallic reagent (MeMgBr).
What are the components that contribute to variability in echocardiographic measurements in aortic stenosis?
Creators: name: Cecaro, Fabrizio <1976>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2013
Subjects: MED/11 Malattie dell'apparato cardiovascolare

description: INTRODUCTION
Echocardiography is the standard clinical approach for quantification of the severity of aortic stenosis (AS). A comprehensive examination of its overall reproducibility and the simultaneous estimation of its variance components by multiple operators, readers, probe applications, and beats have not been undertaken.
METHOD AND RESULTS
Twenty-seven subjects with AS were scanned over 7 months in the echo-department by a median of 3 different operators. From each patient and each operator multiple runs of beats from multiple probe positions were stored for later analysis by multiple readers. The coefficient of variation was 13.3%, 15.9%, 17.6%, and 20.2% for the aortic peak velocity (Vmax), and velocity time integral (VTI), and left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) Vmax and VTI respectively. The largest individual contributors to the overall variability were the beat-to-beat variability (9.0%, 9.3%, 9.5%, 9.4% respectively) and that of inability of an individual operator to precisely apply the probe to the same position twice (8.3%, 9.4%, 12.9%, 10.7% respectively). The tracing (inter-reader) and reader (inter-reader), and operator (inter-operator) contribution were less important.
CONCLUSIONS 
Reproducibility of measurements in AS is poorer than often reported in the literature. The source of this variability does not appear, as traditionally believed, to result from a lack of training or operator and reader specific factors. Rather the unavoidable beat-to-beat biological variability, and the inherent impossibility of applying the ultrasound probe in exactly the same position each time are the largest contributors. 
Consequently, guidelines suggesting greater standardisation of procedures and further training for sonographers are unlikely to result in an improvement in precision. Clinicians themselves should be wary of relying on even three-beat averages as their expected coefficient of variance is 10.3% for the peak velocity at the aortic valve.
Inverse Static Analysis of Massive Parallel Arrays of Three-State Actuators via Artificial Intelligence
Creators: name: Pasila, Felix <1974>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2013
Subjects: ING-IND/13 Meccanica applicata alle macchine

description: Massive parallel robots (MPRs) driven by discrete actuators are force regulated robots that undergo continuous motions despite being commanded through a finite number of states only. Designing a real-time control of such systems requires fast and efficient methods for solving their inverse static analysis (ISA), which is a challenging problem and the subject of this thesis. In particular, five Artificial intelligence methods are proposed to investigate the on-line computation and the generalization error of ISA problem of a class of MPRs featuring three-state force actuators and one degree of revolute motion.
Trigonometric parallaxes of two T dwarfs with Keck and ShaneAO astrometry
Creators: name: Nguyen, Jayke
name: Ammons, S. Mark
name: Dennison, Kaitlin
name: Garcia, E. Victor
name: Lu, Jessica R.
name: McMillan, Stephen
name: Salama, Maissa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present trigonometric parallax and proper motion measurements for two T-type brown dwarfs. We derive our measurements from infrared laser guide star adaptive optics observations spanning five years from the ShaneAO/SHARCS and NIRC2/medium-cam instruments on the Shane and Keck telescopes, respectively. To improve our astrometric precision, we measure and apply a distortion correction to our fields for both instruments. We also transform the Keck and ShaneAO astrometric reference frames onto the ICRS using five-parameter parallax and proper motion solutions for background reference stars from Gaia DR2. Fitting for parallax and proper motion, we measure parallaxes of $73.5\pm9.2$ mas and $70.1\pm6.7$ mas for WISEJ19010703+47181688 (WISE1901) and WISEJ21543294+59421370 (WISE2154), respectively. We utilize Monte Carlo methods to estimate the error in our sparse field methods, taking into account overfitting and differential atmospheric refraction. Comparing to previous measurements in the literature, all of our parallax and proper motion values fall within $2σ$ of the published measurements, and 4 of 6 measurements are within $1σ$. These data are among the first parallax measurements of these T dwarfs and serve as precise measurements for calibrating stellar formation models. These two objects are the first results of an ongoing survey of T dwarfs with Keck/NIRC2 and the Shane Adaptive Optics system at Lick Observatory.
description: 18 Pages, 19 Figures. Accepted by PASP
Ischnus alternator
Creators: name: Riedel
name: Pénigot
name: Schwarz
name: Diller
name: Johansson
name: Japoshvili, G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Ischnus
Ischnus alternator

description: Ischnus alternator (GRAVENHORST, 1829), det. Schwarz
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Trap 4: 1♁ 15-29.vi.; trap 7: 1♁ 23.iv.-5.v., 1♁ 1-13.vi., 1♁ 15- 29.vi., 1♁ 13-27.vii.; trap 8: 1♀ 15-29.vi.
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Transpalaearctic, known from Georgia (RIEDEL & JAPOSHVILI 2021).
description: Published as part of Riedel, Pénigot, Schwarz, Diller, Johansson & Japoshvili, G., 2023, Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) of the Kintrishi National Park, Sakartvelo (Georgia), with descriptions of six new species, pp. 61-153 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 55 (1) on page 80, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10415120
title: Load Balancing in Compute Clusters With Delayed Feedback
Creators: name: Tahir, Anam
name: Alt, Bastian
name: Rizk, Amr
name: Koeppl, Heinz
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2024

description: Load balancing arises as a fundamental problem, underlying the dimensioning and operation of many computing and communication systems, such as job routing in data center clusters, multipath communication, Big Data and queueing systems. In essence, the decision-making agent maps each arriving job to one of the possibly heterogeneous servers while aiming at an optimization goal such as load balancing, low average delay or low loss rate. One main difficulty in finding optimal load balancing policies here is that the agent only partially observes the impact of its decisions, e.g., through the delayed acknowledgements of the served jobs. In this paper, we provide a partially observable (PO) model that captures the load balancing decisions in parallel buffered systems under limited information of delayed acknowledgements. We present a simulation model for this PO system to find a load balancing policy in real-time using a scalable Monte Carlo tree search algorithm. We numerically show that the resulting policy outperforms other limited information load balancing strategies such as variants of Join-the-Most-Observations and has comparable performance to full information strategies like: Join-the-Shortest-Queue, Join-the-Shortest-Queue(d) and Shortest-Expected-Delay. Finally, we show that our approach can optimise the real-time parallel processing by using network data provided by Kaggle.
Additional file 1 of The impact of long COVID on UK healthcare workers and their workplace: a qualitative study of healthcare workers with long COVID, their families, colleagues and managers
Creators: name: Al-Oraibi, Amani
name: Tarrant, Carolyn
name: Woolf, Katherine
name: Nellums, Laura B.
name: Pareek, Manish
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Additional file 1 of Estimating treatment effects using parametric models as counter-factual evidence
Creators: name: Jackson, Richard
name: Johnson, Philip
name: Berhane, Sarah
name: Kolamunnage-Dona, Ruwanthi
name: Hughes, David
name: Dodd, Susanna
name: Neoptolemos, John
name: Palmer, Daniel
name: Cox, Trevor
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: Medicine
Pharmacology
Biotechnology
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
Additional file 2 of The impact of long COVID on UK healthcare workers and their workplace: a qualitative study of healthcare workers with long COVID, their families, colleagues and managers
Creators: name: Al-Oraibi, Amani
name: Tarrant, Carolyn
name: Woolf, Katherine
name: Nellums, Laura B.
name: Pareek, Manish
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 2.
Evolution of H7N9 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus in the context of vaccination
Creators: name: Hou, Yujie
name: Deng, Guohua
name: Cui, Pengfei
name: Zeng, Xianying
name: Li, Bin
name: Wang, Dongxue
name: He, Xinwen
name: Yan, Cheng
name: Zhang, Yaping
name: Li, Jiongjie
name: Ma, Jinming
name: Li, Yanbing
name: Wang, Xiurong
name: Tian, Guobin
name: Kong, Huihui
name: Tang, Lijie
name: Suzuki, Yasuo
name: Shi, Jianzhong
name: Chen, Hualan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Human infections with the H7N9 influenza virus have been eliminated in China through vaccination of poultry; however, the H7N9 virus has not yet been eradicated from poultry. Carefully analysis of H7N9 viruses in poultry that have sub-optimal immunity may provide a unique opportunity to witness the evolution of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus in the context of vaccination. Between January 2020 and June 2023, we isolated 16 H7N9 viruses from samples we collected during surveillance and samples that were sent to us for disease diagnosis. Genetic analysis indicated that these viruses belonged to a single genotype previously detected in poultry. Antigenic analysis indicated that 12 of the 16 viruses were antigenically close to the H7-Re4 vaccine virus that has been used since January 2022, and the other four viruses showed reduced reactivity with the vaccine. Animal studies indicated that all 16 viruses were nonlethal in mice, and four of six viruses showed reduced virulence in chickens upon intranasally inoculation. Importantly, the H7N9 viruses detected in this study exclusively bound to the avian-type receptors, having lost the capacity to bind to human-type receptors. Our study shows that vaccination slows the evolution of H7N9 virus by preventing its reassortment with other viruses and eliminates a harmful characteristic of H7N9 virus, namely its ability to bind to human-type receptors.
Extreme recall: which politicians come to mind?
Creators: name: Sood, Gaurav
name: Weitzel, Daniel
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: Neuroscience
Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy
Mental Health

description: How do people understand parties? Using data from two original surveys fielded nearly a decade apart, we shed light on people’s mental images of the parties. In the surveys, we asked which politicians immediately come to mind when you think about Republicans (Democrats). People’s mental images of parties are a narrow gallery of few prominent national politicians. Nearly 40% of the people struggle to list three politicians. Further, 44% of the mentions are of the last three presidents. People are also likelier to list more extreme politicians. To shed light on the source of these biases, we analyze a decade’s worth of national television news data. We find that the media coverage patterns of politicians are similar to the patterns in the survey data. A 10% increase in media mentions is associated with a 2% increase in the number of people recalling the politician.
Pseudohypoparathyroidism and its various phenotypes: three sisters with three different clinical presentations
Creators: name: Sippelli, Fabio
name: Ferraloro, Chiara
name: Visalli, Giulia
name: Cafarella, Giulia
name: Corica, Domenico
name: Wasniewska, Malgorzata
Publisher: name: Atti della Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti - Classe di Scienze Medico-Biologiche
Year: 2021
Subjects: pseudohypoparathyroidism, Albright osteodystrophy, PTH resistance, Gs-alpha protein

description: Pseudohypoparathyroidism (PHP) is a heterogeneous group of hereditary disorders characterized by clinical and biological characteristics of resistance to parathyroid hormone (PTH) caused by impaired hormonal signalling via receptors that are coupled, through the α- subunit of the stimulatory G protein (Gsα). In some cases, resistance to other hormones (such as TSH, gonadotropins, GHRH and calcitonin) that have receptors coupled via Gsα is observed. A subset of patients with PHP are characterized by the variable expression of a collection of physical features, termed Albright hereditary osteodystrophy (AHO), which includes brachydactyly, rounded face, short stature, central obesity, subcutaneous ossifications, and variable degrees of mental retardation. These patients face a wide range of problems from early childhood to adulthood, which include potentially severe alterations in mineral metabolism, which could be associated with seizures; other endocrine deficiencies due to hormone resistance that lead to hypothyroidism, hypogonadism and GH deficiency; growth impairment independently of hormonal status; ectopic ossifications with potential severe limitation of mobility; skeletal issues and cognitive and psychomotor impairment. Here we report three sisters affected by pseudohypoparathyroidism but with remarkably differences from each other in terms of phenotypic and clinical-auxological characteristics, a demonstration of how this disease is characterized by a very heterogeneous phenotype, even among patients carrying the same genetic alteration.
description: Atti della Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti - Classe di Scienze Medico-Biologiche, Vol 109, No 2 (2021)
Additional file 9 of Selfish uptake versus extracellular arabinoxylan degradation in the primary degrader Ruminiclostridium cellulolyticum, a new string to its bow
Creators: name: Liu, Nian
name: Gagnot, Séverine
name: Denis, Yann
name: Byrne, Deborah
name: Faulds, Craig
name: Fierobe, Henri-Pierre
name: Perret, Stéphanie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 9. Primers used in this study. Table with the primers used in the study and their sequence are presented.
Probing modified gravity with magnetically levitated resonators
Creators: name: Timberlake, Chris
name: Vinante, Andrea
name: Shankar, Francesco
name: Lapi, Andrea
name: Ulbricht, Hendrik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an experimental procedure, based on Meissner effect levitation of neodymium ferromagnets, as a method of measuring the gravitational interactions between mg masses. The scheme consists of two superconducting lead traps, with a magnet levitating in each trap. The levitating magnets behave as harmonic oscillators, and by carefully driving the motion of one magnet on resonance with the other, we find that it should be easily possible to measure the gravitational field produced by a 4~mg sphere, with the gravitational attraction from masses as small as 30~$μ$g predicted to be measurable within realistic a realistic measurement time frame. We apply this acceleration sensitivity to one concrete example and show the ability of testing models of modified Newtonian dynamics.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures
CAROSELLO
Creators: name: Pieri, Giovanni
name: Bandecchi, Jacopo
name: Marretti, Matteo
name: Fiesoli, Irene
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Questo non è uno Storyboard_codesign session

Autori/designers:

Pieri Giovanni, Università degli Studi di Firenze

Bandecchi Jacopo, Università degli Studi di Firenze

Marretti Matteo, Università degli Studi di Firenze

Fiesoli Irene, Università degli Studi di Firenze

Il file "CAROSELLO", che potrete scaricare, contiene le indicazioni per confrontarsi con uno strumento di progettazione dello storyboard applicabile a svariati oggetti e utilizzabile in molteplici dimensioni. Questo strumento vuole porsi in modo giocoso e divertente cercando di essere adatto a chiunque lo voglia utilizzare per presentare un progetto o per capire meglio le potenzialità di un'idea, prodotto o servizio.
Structure of the murine cytomegalovirus genome and its expression in productive and non-productive infections
Creators: name: Misra, Vikram
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The purpose of this investigation was to examine the structure of the murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV) genome and to study its expression during productive and non-productive infections caused by the virus. The kinetic complexity of MCMV DNA was not less than its molecular weight implying the absence of major reiterations. The restriction endonuclease EcoR^ cleaved this molecule into twenty-five fragments, which were present in the digest in equimolar amounts and ranged in molecular weights from 20 to 1 million. The sum of the molecular weights of the fragments was 136 million. The genomes of the 'K 181' and 'Smith' strains of MCMV appeared to share more than 99 percent of their sequences, although the DNAs exhibited slightly different fragmentation patterns when treated with EcoR^ and Hind III endonucleases. Control was exerted on the transcription of the MCMV genome at temporal, quantitative, and processing levels. During productive infections, approximately 25 percent of the genome was represented as stable transcripts in the cell at 6 hours post infection, i.e., before the onset of viral DNA synthesis, whereas RNA transcribed from 35 to 40 percent of the DNA was present in the cells in the later stages of infection. RNA sequences corresponding to 6 h (early) transcripts would be detected in the cell throughout the infectious cycle. Both 'early' and 'late' RNA comprised two RNA classes differing about 7 to 10 fold in concentration. Viral DNA synthesis in the host cell was required for the expression of 'late' genes since in the presence of inhibitors of protein and DNA synthesis only 'early' transcription occurred. Control was also exerted on the transport of transcripts from the nucleus to the cytoplasm of infected cells. Although RNA extracted from the nuclei of infected cells arose from 25 (early) and 35 (late) percent of the viral genome, transcripts from only 11 (early) and 15 (late) percent of the DNA were detected in the cytoplasm. Cells of mouse origin (3T3.cells), arrested in the G^ phase of the cell cycle, retained the viral genome in a non-replicating state, but could be induced to enter the lytic cycle by serum activation. Transcripts from 19 percent of the genome were observed in G^ arrested, MCMV-infected cells. Viral RNA in these cells comprised only one abundance class, which was similar to the scarce class in 'early' RNA from infected exponentially growing cells. Some evidence was also obtained for the transmission of latent MCMV genomes from mother to progeny. Cells cultured from embryos of infected mice did not normally produce infectious virus. However, the presence of the virus, at least in some of these cells, could be demonstrated by immunofluorescence, and by in-situ hybridization, using iodinated MCMV DNA as probe.
Chronological spacetimes without lightlike lines are stably causal
Creators: name: Minguzzi, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The statement of the title is proved. It implies that under physically reasonable conditions, spacetimes which are free from singularities are necessarily stably causal and hence admit a time function. Read as a singularity theorem it states that if there is some form of causality violation on spacetime then either it is the worst possible, namely violation of chronology, or there is a singularity. The analogous result: "Non-totally vicious spacetimes without lightlike rays are globally hyperbolic" is also proved, and its physical consequences are explored.
description: 20 pages, 6 figures
Ischnus migrator
Creators: name: Riedel
name: Pénigot
name: Schwarz
name: Diller
name: Johansson
name: Japoshvili, G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Ischnus
Ischnus migrator

description: Ischnus migrator (FABRICIUS, 1775), det. Schwarz
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Trap2: 1♀ 29.vi.-13.vii.
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Transpalaearctic, known from Georgia (RIEDEL et al. 2018).
description: Published as part of Riedel, Pénigot, Schwarz, Diller, Johansson & Japoshvili, G., 2023, Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) of the Kintrishi National Park, Sakartvelo (Georgia), with descriptions of six new species, pp. 61-153 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 55 (1) on page 81, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10415120
An unusual case of cortriatrumdexter in a dog
Creators: name: La Pietra, Antonio
name: Merola, Giordana
name: Albanese, Maura
name: Passantino, Annamaria
name: La Maestra, Rocky
name: Pugliese, Michela
Publisher: name: Atti della Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti - Classe di Scienze Medico-Biologiche
Year: 2021
Subjects: Cortriatriatumdexter, cardiac defect, canine heart disease, CTD, CHD

description: Cortriatrumdexter (CTD) is a rare congenital malformation that can affect both humans and animals, in which the right atrium (RA) is divided into two chambers by a membranous structure. There is a high incidence of other cardiac congenital abnormalities associated with CTD. Clinical manifestations vary widley according to the degree of partitioning or septation of the RA. This study show the clinical case of a two-year-old, male intact, crossbreed dog, affect from CTD associated with three other congenital heart malformations: pulmonic stenosis, mitral and tricuspid dysplasia. Diagnosis, monitoring and drug therapy of the clinical case will be reported.
description: Atti della Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti - Classe di Scienze Medico-Biologiche, Vol 109, No 2 (2021)
Additional file 1 of Opioid-induced respiratory depression increases hospital costs and length of stay in patients recovering on the general care floor
Creators: name: Khanna, Ashish K.
name: Saager, Leif
name: Bergese, Sergio D.
name: Jungquist, Carla R.
name: Morimatsu, Hiroshi
name: Uezono, Shoichi
name: Ti, Lian Kah
name: Soto, Roy
name: Jiang, Wei
name: Buhre, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Medicine
Science Policy
Mental Health
Hematology

description: Additional file 1: S1 Table. Multivariable Model Prediction of Respiratory Depression, PRODIGY Scoring System, and Utilization.
Task-Level Authoring for Remote Robot Teleoperation
Creators: name: Senft, Emmanuel
name: Hagenow, Michael
name: Welsh, Kevin
name: Radwin, Robert
name: Zinn, Michael
name: Gleicher, Michael
name: Mutlu, Bilge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Remote teleoperation of robots can broaden the reach of domain specialists across a wide range of industries such as home maintenance, health care, light manufacturing, and construction. However, current direct control methods are impractical, and existing tools for programming robot remotely have focused on users with significant robotic experience. Extending robot remote programming to end users, i.e., users who are experts in a domain but novices in robotics, requires tools that balance the rich features necessary for complex teleoperation tasks with ease of use. The primary challenge to usability is that novice users are unable to specify complete and robust task plans to allow a robot to perform duties autonomously, particularly in highly variable environments. Our solution is to allow operators to specify shorter sequences of high-level commands, which we call task-level authoring, to create periods of variable robot autonomy. This approach allows inexperienced users to create robot behaviors in uncertain environments by interleaving exploration, specification of behaviors, and execution as separate steps. End users are able to break down the specification of tasks and adapt to the current needs of the interaction and environments, combining the reactivity of direct control to asynchronous operation. In this paper, we describe a prototype system contextualized in light manufacturing and its empirical validation in a user study where 18 participants with some programming experience were able to perform a variety of complex telemanipulation tasks with little training. Our results show that our approach allowed users to create flexible periods of autonomy and solve rich manipulation tasks. Furthermore, participants significantly preferred our system over comparative more direct interfaces, demonstrating the potential of our approach.
description: Provisionally accepted in Frontiers in Robotics and AI on the 09/03/2021. Abstract has been shortened due to arxiv abstract requirements
Quantum transport in ferromagnetic Permalloy nanostructures
Creators: name: Neumaier, D.
name: Vogl, A.
name: Eroms, J.
name: Weiss, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We studied phase coherent phenomena in mesoscopic Permalloy samples by exploring low temperature transport. Both, differential conductance as a function of bias voltage and magnetoconductance of individual wires display conductance fluctuations. Analysis of these fluctuations yields a phase coherence length of $\sim250$ nm at 25 mK as well as a $1/\sqrt{T}$ temperature dependence. To suppress conductance fluctuations by ensemble averaging we investigated low temperature transport in wire arrays and extended Permalloy films. In these samples we have measured conductance corrections which stem from electron-electron interaction (EEI) but attempts to detect signatures of weak localization were without success.
Excitonic processes in multifunctional organic semiconductors for application in organic-light emitting transistor
Creators: name: Troisi, Stefano <1977>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2013
Subjects: CHIM/02 Chimica fisica

description: In this thesis, I report on a comprehensive study about the photo-physical properties both in solution and in solid-state of a new thiophene based material (2,2’-(2,2’-bithiophene-5,5’-diyl)bis(5-butyl-5H-thieno[2,3-c]pyrrole-4,6)-dione (T4DIM) which shows an ambipolar semiconducting behavior together with electroluminescence in single-layer OLET device architecture[14
Geometric and topological structures related to M-branes
Creators: name: Sati, Hisham
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the topological and geometric structures associated with cohomological and homological objects in M-theory. For the latter, we have M2-branes and M5-branes, the analysis of which requires the underlying spacetime to admit a String structure and a Fivebrane structure, respectively. For the former, we study how the fields in M-theory are associated with the above structures, with homotopy algebras, with twisted cohomology, and with generalized cohomology. We also explain how the corresponding charges should take values in Topological Modular forms. We survey background material and related results in the process.
description: 56 pages, typos and minor corrections, published version
Additional file 5 of Selfish uptake versus extracellular arabinoxylan degradation in the primary degrader Ruminiclostridium cellulolyticum, a new string to its bow
Creators: name: Liu, Nian
name: Gagnot, Séverine
name: Denis, Yann
name: Byrne, Deborah
name: Faulds, Craig
name: Fierobe, Henri-Pierre
name: Perret, Stéphanie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 5. Kinetic analysis of XuaD, XuaE, XuaH and XuaJ with various ligands are presented.
Electrocardiographic examination in calves: a preliminary study
Creators: name: La Maestra, Rocky
name: Murdaca, Bruno
name: Merola, Giordana
name: Albanese, Maura
name: Passantino, Annamaria
name: Pugliese, Michela
Publisher: name: Atti della Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti - Classe di Scienze Medico-Biologiche
Year: 2021
Subjects: ECG, calf, cattle, lead

description: This study aims to describe and evaluate normal electrocardiographic parameters in calves.Twenty healthy male Holstein calves were included and divided into two groups of 10 animals each. Calves aged between 25 and 30 days have been enrolled in the Group 1. Calves aged between 177 and 183 days have been included in Group 2. The electrocardiogram were recorded with minimal restraint and without any sedation. Standard bipolar (I, II, and III) and augmented unipolar limb (aVR, aVL, and aVF) leads were recorded using 50 mm / sec paper speed and 10 mm = 1 mV for at least 5 minutes. QRS complexes, T and P waves were evaluated for duration and amplitude. The duration of the PR, QT and ST intervals was also measured. The analysis of the electrocardiography traces showed that the morphology of the QRS complex was of type Qr, QS or rS in both groups. The duration and amplitude of P, T waves and QRS complex showed minimal variations between two groups. The duration of the QT and RR intervals was higher in the Group 1 than the Group 2, instead the heart rate was decreased.
description: Atti della Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti - Classe di Scienze Medico-Biologiche, Vol 109, No 2 (2021)
Symmetries of degenerate center singularities of plane vector fields
Creators: name: Maksymenko, Sergiy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37C10, 37C27, 37C55

description: Let $D$ be a closed unit $2$-disk on the plane centered at the origin $O$, and $F$ be a smooth vector field such that $O$ is a unique singular point of $F$ and all other orbits of $F$ are simple closed curves wrapping once around $O$. Thus topologically $O$ is a "center" singularity. Let also $\mathrm{Diff}(F)$ be the group of all diffeomorphisms of $D$ which preserve orientation and orbits of $F$. In arXiv:0907.0359 the author described the homotopy type of $\mathrm{Diff}(F)$ under assumption that the $1$-jet of $F$ at $O$ is non-degenerate. In this paper degenerate case is considered. Under additional "non-degeneracy assumptions" on $F$ the path components of $\mathrm{Diff}(F)$ with respect to distinct weak topologies are described.
description: 21 page, 3 figures
Mesostenus funebris GRAVENHORST 1829
Creators: name: Riedel
name: Pénigot
name: Schwarz
name: Diller
name: Johansson
name: Japoshvili, G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Mesostenus
Mesostenus funebris

description: Mesostenus funebris GRAVENHORST, 1829
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Trap 2: 1♁ 27.vii.-10.viii.; trap 7: 1♀ 1♁ 5-20.v., 1♁ 25-29.vi., 1♀ 27.vii.-10.viii.
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Transpalaearctic, known from Georgia (RIEDEL et al. 2018).
description: Published as part of Riedel, Pénigot, Schwarz, Diller, Johansson & Japoshvili, G., 2023, Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) of the Kintrishi National Park, Sakartvelo (Georgia), with descriptions of six new species, pp. 61-153 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 55 (1) on page 81, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10415120
Morphological and immunohistochemical study on photophores of Gonostoma denudatum Rafinesque, 1810 (Fam: Gonostomatidae)
Creators: name: Cavallaro, Mauro
name: Aragona, Marialuisa
name: Germanà, Antonino
Publisher: name: Atti della Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti - Classe di Scienze Medico-Biologiche
Year: 2021
Subjects: bioluminescence, lanternfish, luminous organ, structure, ultrastructure

description: A preliminary contribution to the knowledge of the photophore structure of the mesopelagic fish Gonostomadenudatum from the central Mediterranean Sea (Strait of Messina) is given by means of a structural and immunohistochemical study, to describe the component structures of these luminescent organs.Photophores of G. denudatumare made by different functional parts: the tank with photogenic cells, lens-filter and reflector surrounded the entire organ.
description: Atti della Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti - Classe di Scienze Medico-Biologiche, Vol 109, No 2 (2021)
Reflex cardiovascular and renal responses from the pulmonary arteries of the anesthetized dog
Creators: name: Kan, Wai-On
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: A preparation is described utilizing a constant flow, right-heart bypass for perfusion of the isolated main pulmonary arteries at controlled pressures. It is demonstrated that stepwise increments of pressure in the pulmonary arteries are accompanied by increases in systemic vascular resistance and in hind-limb vascular resistance. These changes were demonstrated over the whole range of 5-120 cm H₂O pressure in the pulmonary arteries. In contrast there were no significant changes in renal vascular resistance or heart rate. It is .also shown that changing the temperature of the perfusate in the pulmonary artery from 37°C to 30°C is associated with a decrease in systemic vascular resistance. The effects of raising the pulmonary arterial pressure and of cooling the pulmonary artery were abolished by cervical vagotomy. It is suggested that there is a tonic reflex vasoconstrictor tone generated by activity of receptors lying in or close to the walls of the pulmonary artery. It is further suggested that the differential effects on systemic vascular resistance and renal resistance may distribute cardiac output preferentially to the kidney providing one mechanism by which changes in blood volume may lead to appropriate changes in renal solute excretion. The later hypothesis was put to test by collecting urine from the intact kidneys of animals with isolated pulmonary pouch preparation. A step increase in the pouch pressure evoked a corresponding rise in the urinary volume, osmolar clearance, sodium excretion rate, but not the free water clearance and the potassium excretion rate. The response may be caused by renal hemodynamic changes as a result of the reflex increase in systemic arterial pressure. The rise in sodium excretion rate continued even after the release of the pressure in the pulmonary artery pouch thus the role of a natriuretic hormone in the reflex was suspected. A series of animals with one kidney intact and one kidney isolated and perfused with constant pressure was used in attempt to demonstrate the natriuretic action. These results confirmed the hemodynamic effect on the urinary function of the intact kidney. In the isolated kidney there was no statistically significant increase in sodium excretion rate, therefore the role of a natriuretic agent in the reflex response to distension of the pulmonary artery is still uncertain.
Additional file 3 of Selfish uptake versus extracellular arabinoxylan degradation in the primary degrader Ruminiclostridium cellulolyticum, a new string to its bow
Creators: name: Liu, Nian
name: Gagnot, Séverine
name: Denis, Yann
name: Byrne, Deborah
name: Faulds, Craig
name: Fierobe, Henri-Pierre
name: Perret, Stéphanie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 3. Analysis of the digestion products released by XuaD and XuaE from AXOS. Chromatograms obtained after High Pressure Anion Exchange Chromatography coupled with Pulsed Amperometric Detection (HPAEC–PAD) are presented.
Additional file 7 of Selfish uptake versus extracellular arabinoxylan degradation in the primary degrader Ruminiclostridium cellulolyticum, a new string to its bow
Creators: name: Liu, Nian
name: Gagnot, Séverine
name: Denis, Yann
name: Byrne, Deborah
name: Faulds, Craig
name: Fierobe, Henri-Pierre
name: Perret, Stéphanie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 7. Growth of R. cellulolyticum wild-type, mutant and derivatives strains on arabinose. Growth curves are presented.
Movement Analysis by means of inertial sensors: from bench to bedside
Analisi del movimento tramite sensori inerziali: dal laboratorio al letto del paziente
Creators: name: Mellone, Sabato <1979>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2013
Subjects: ING-INF/06 Bioingegneria elettronica e informatica

description: in the everyday clinical practice. Having this in mind, the choice of a simple setup would not be enough because, even if the setup is quick and simple, the instrumental assessment would still be in addition to the daily routine. The will to overcome this limit has led to the idea of instrumenting already existing and widely used functional tests. In this way the sensor based assessment becomes an integral part of the clinical assessment. Reliable and validated signal processing methods have been successfully implemented in Personal Health Systems based on smartphone technology. At the end of this research project there is evidence that such solution can really and easily used in clinical practice in both supervised and unsupervised settings. Smartphone based solution, together or in place of dedicated wearable sensing units, can truly become a pervasive and low-cost means for providing suitable testing solutions for quantitative movement analysis with a clear clinical value, ultimately providing enhanced balance and mobility support to an aging population.
description: Una analisi obiettiva richiede un approccio di misura strumentale. La valutazione clinica impiega strumenti veloci e di facile impiego ma i risultati sono spesso dipendenti dall’operatore e ci sono effetti soffitto e pavimento che rendono queste metodiche poco sensibile per poter rilevare e monitorare piccoli cambiamenti di stato. L’analisi strumentale applicata alla valutazione funzionale invece fa uso di algoritmi autimatici per un analisi obiettiva della performance motoria che va al di la delle semplici misure che si ottengono con gli strumenti tradizionalmente in uso come i cronometri. Non solo i clinici hanno bisogno di informazioni chiare ed affidabili ma è altrettanto importante fornire queste informazione con il minimo sforzo da parte dell’utente altrimenti queste metodiche non avranno mai una reale penetrazione nella pratica clinica. Per superare i limiti dell’approccio di valutazione tradizionale si è scelto di andare a strumentare i test di valutazione più utilizzati nella pratica ordinaria. Sono stati quindi sviluppati e validati nuovi metodi di analisi per dati e segnali che diventano parte inegrante della routine clinica. Facendo uso di soluzioni basate su smartphone, queste metodiche sono entrate a far parte dei cosidetti Personal Health Systems che forniscono soluzioni pervasive e a basso costo per l’analisi del movimento in ambiente supervisionato e non supervisionato.
The role of hormones during Equine-Assisted Activity and Therapy: a literature review
Creators: name: Ferlazzo, Adriana
name: Fazio, Esterina
name: Cravana, Cristina
name: Medica, Pietro
Publisher: name: Atti della Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti - Classe di Scienze Medico-Biologiche
Year: 2021
Subjects: cortisol, equine-assisted activity and therapy, hormones, human-animal interaction, total and free iodothyronines.

description: Recent acquisitions on human-animal interaction and on its use in complementary medicine are reported. The contribution of horses to one health concept and the effects of equine-assisted activity and therapy (EAAT) are evaluated, also in the light of need to monitor stress conditions in therapeutic horses. The role of hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis’ hormones and of total and free iodothyronines in stress coping of horses during therapeutic riding is critically discussed
description: Atti della Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti - Classe di Scienze Medico-Biologiche, Vol 109, No 2 (2021)