cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Acute Relationships Among Daily Mortality, Air Pollution, and Climate
Creators: name: Lave, Lester B.
name: Seskin, Eugene P.
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: "Killer fogs" and other acute air pollution episodes have occurred in the past fifty years.' The highly industrialized Meuse Valley of Belgium experienced climatic conditions permitting the buildup of abnormally high levels of air pollutants (particularly sulfur dioxide) during December 1930. Over a five-day period, approximately 6,000 people became ill and approximately 60 died (most of whom were elderly persons or those with previous heart and lung conditions). This was more than 10 times the number of deaths which would normally be expected.
Designing the Quantum Channels Induced by Diagonal Gates
Creators: name: Hu, Jingzhen
name: Liang, Qingzhong
name: Calderbank, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The challenge of quantum computing is to combine error resilience with universal computation. Diagonal gates such as the transversal $T$ gate play an important role in implementing a universal set of quantum operations. This paper introduces a framework that describes the process of preparing a code state, applying a diagonal physical gate, measuring a code syndrome, and applying a Pauli correction that may depend on the measured syndrome (the average logical channel induced by an arbitrary diagonal gate). It focuses on CSS codes, and describes the interaction of code states and physical gates in terms of generator coefficients determined by the induced logical operator. The interaction of code states and diagonal gates depends very strongly on the signs of $Z$-stabilizers in the CSS code, and the proposed generator coefficient framework explicitly includes this degree of freedom. The paper derives necessary and sufficient conditions for an arbitrary diagonal gate to preserve the code space of a stabilizer code, and provides an explicit expression of the induced logical operator. When the diagonal gate is a quadratic form diagonal gate (introduced by Rengaswamy et al.), the conditions can be expressed in terms of divisibility of weights in the two classical codes that determine the CSS code. These codes find application in magic state distillation and elsewhere. When all the signs are positive, the paper characterizes all possible CSS codes, invariant under transversal $Z$-rotation through $π/2^l$, that are constructed from classical Reed-Muller codes by deriving the necessary and sufficient constraints on $l$. The generator coefficient framework extends to arbitrary stabilizer codes but there is nothing to be gained by considering the more general class of non-degenerate stabilizer codes.
description: Jingzhen Hu and Qingzhong Liang contribute equally to this work. The paper was accepted to Quantum on 31 Aug 2022
Overwintering survivorship and growth of young-of-the-year black sea bass Centropristis striata
Creators: name: Nye, J.A.
name: Younes, A.F.
name: Cerrato, R.M.
Publisher: name: Public Library of Science
Year: 2020

description: Overwintering conditions have long been known to affect fish survival and year-class strength as well as determine the poleward range limit of many temperate fishes. Despite this known importance, mechanisms controlling overwintering mortality are poorly understood and the tolerance of marine fishes to the combined effects of winter temperature, salinity, and size is rarely quantified. In recent years, higher abundances of the temperate Serranid, black sea bass Centropristis striata, have been observed at latitudes further north than their traditional range suggesting that warming water temperatures, particularly during winter, may be facilitating the establishment of a population at more northern latitudes. To examine overwintering survival of C. striata, the combined effects of temperature, salinity and body mass were quantified in laboratory experiments. We identified 6°C as the lower incipient lethal temperature for C. striata, below which fish cease feeding, lose weight rapidly and die within 32 days. A short cold exposure experiment indicated that temperatures below 5°C resulted in mortality events that continued even as the temperature increased slowly to 10°C, indicating that even short cold snaps can impact survival and recruitment in this species. Importantly, fish in lower salinity lived significantly longer than fish at higher salinity at both 3°C and 5°C, suggesting that osmoregulatory stress plays a role in overwintering mortality in this species. Size was not a critical factor in determining overwintering survival of young-of-the-year (YOY) C. striata. Overwintering survival of YOY C. striata can be effectively predicted as a function of temperature and salinity and their interaction with an accelerated failure model to project future range limits. Identifying temperature thresholds may be a tractable way to incorporate environmental factors into population models and stock assessment models in fishes.
Additional file 2 of Tools to guide clinical discussions on physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and/or sleep for health promotion between primary care providers and adults accessing care: a scoping review
Creators: name: Morgan, Tamara L.
name: Faught, Emma
name: Ross-White, Amanda
name: Fortier, Michelle S.
name: Duggan, Mary
name: Jain, Rahul
name: Lane, Kirstin N.
name: Lorbergs, Amanda
name: Maclaren, Kaleigh
name: McFadden, Taylor
name: Tomasone, Jennifer R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 2: Search strategy.
Charge Singlets and Orbital-Selective Charge Density Wave Transitions
Creators: name: Zhang, Yuxi
name: Feng, Chunhan
name: Mondaini, Rubem
name: Batrouni, George G.
name: Scalettar, Richard T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The possibility of "orbitally selective Mott transitions" within a multiband Hubbard model, in which one orbital with large on-site electron-electron repulsion $U_1$ is insulating and another orbital, to which it is hybridized, with small $U_{-1}$, is metallic, is a problem of long-standing debate and investigation. In this paper we study an analogous phenomenon, the co-existence of metallic and insulating bands in a system of orbitals with different electron-phonon coupling (EPC). To this end, we examine two variants of the bilayer Holstein model: a uniform bilayer and a "Holstein-Metal interface" where the electron-phonon coupling, $λ$, is zero in the "metallic" layer. In the uniform bilayer Holstein model, charge density wave (CDW) order dominates at small interlayer hybridization $t_3$, but decreases and eventually vanishes as $t_3$ grows, providing a charge analog of singlet (spin liquid) physics. In the interface case, we show that CDW order penetrates into the metal layer and forms long-range CDW order at intermediate ratio of inter- to intra-layer hopping strengths, $1.4 \lesssim t_3/t \lesssim 3.4$. This is consistent with the occurrence of an "orbitally selective CDW" regime at weak $t_3$ in which the layer with $λ_{1} \neq 0$ exhibits long-range charge order, but the "metallic layer" with $λ_{-1}=0$, to which it is hybridized, does not.
description: 10 pages, 11 figures
Algorithms for Efficient Near-Perfect Phylogenetic Tree Reconstruction in Theory and Practice
Creators: name: Srinath  Sridhar
name: Kedar  Dhamdhere
name: Blelloch, Guy
name: Halperin, Eran
name: Ramamoorthi Ravi
name: Schwartz, Russell
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: We consider the problem of reconstructing near-perfect phylogenetic trees using binary character states (referred to as
BNPP). A perfect phylogeny assumes that every character mutates at most once in the evolutionary tree, yielding an algorithm for
binary character states that is computationally efficient but not robust to imperfections in real data. A near-perfect phylogeny relaxes
the perfect phylogeny assumption by allowing at most a constant number of additional mutations. We develop two algorithms for
constructing optimal near-perfect phylogenies and provide empirical evidence of their performance. The first simple algorithm is fixedparameter
tractable when the number of additional mutations and the number of characters that share four gametes with some other
character are constants. The second, more involved, algorithm for the problem is fixed-parameter tractable when only the number of
additional mutations is fixed. We have implemented both algorithms and have shown them to be extremely efficient in practice on
biologically significant data sets. This work proves that the BNPP problem is fixed-parameter tractable and provides the first practical
phylogenetic tree reconstruction algorithms that find guaranteed optimal solutions while being easily implemented and computationally
feasible for data sets of biologically meaningful size and complexity
Melatonin regulates oxidative stress and apoptosis in fetal hearts of pinealectomised RUPP rats
Creators: name: Doğanlar, Oğuzhan
name: Doğanlar, Zeynep Banu
name: Ovali, Mehmet Akif
name: Güçlü, Orkut
name: Demir, Ufuk
name: Doğan, Ayten
name: Uzun, Metehan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Mental Health

description: Objective: This study aimed to investigate the effects of melatonin on cardiac oxidative stress and apoptosis in the fetal heart in RUPP rats. Methods: The fetal heart samples were obtained from melatonin administrated RUPP rats Results: Our results indicate that preeclampsia exacerbated by melatonin deficiency triggers hypoxic conditions, both mis/un-folded protein response, oxidative stress-induced DNA damage and apoptosis. Melatonin treatment provided significant therapeutic effects on fetal hearts via regulating all these stress response at cellular and molecular levels. Conclusion: Melatonin may be considered as a potential molecule for development of preventive strategies to reduce the PE induced risk of cardiovascular diseases in offspring.
An Examination of Adams' Theory of Inequity
Creators: name: Goodman, Paul S.
name: Friedman, Abraham
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This paper examines the empirical evidence for Adams' theory of inequity. Studies testing propositions concerning the effects of inequity on performance and on allocation of rewards, and concerning the determinants and the psychological state of inequity are analyzed. There seems to be initial support for the theory. Some methodological and theoretical issues relevant for further validating the theory are reviewed.
Nuclear fusion catalyzed by doubly charged scalars: Implications for energy production
Creators: name: Akhmedov, Evgeny
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A number of popular extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics predict the existence of doubly charged scalar particles $X^{\pm\pm}$. Such particles may be long-lived or even stable. If exist, $X^{--}$ could form atomic bound states with light nuclei and catalyze their fusion by essentially eliminating the Coulomb barrier between them. Such an $X$-catalyzed fusion ($X$CF) process does not require high temperatures or pressure and may have important applications for energy production. A similar process of muon-catalyzed fusion ($μ$CF) has been shown not to be a viable source of energy because of the sticking of negative muons to helium nuclei produced in the fusion of hydrogen isotopes, which stops the catalytic process. We analyze $X$CF in deuterium environments and show that the $X$-particles can only stick to $^6$Li nuclei, which are produced in the third-stage reactions downstream in the catalytic cycle. The corresponding sticking probability is very low, and, before getting bound to $^6$Li, each $X$-particle can catalyze $\sim 3.5\cdot 10^{9}$ fusion cycles, producing $\sim 7\cdot 10^{4}$ TeV of energy. We also discuss the ways of reactivating the $X$-particles from the Coulomb-bound (${\rm ^6Li}X$) states, which would allow re-using them in $X$CF reactions.
description: RevTeX, 17 pages,3 tables. v3: Note on recent ATLAS results on events with anomalously large ionization energy loss and their interpretation in terms of charge-2 long lived particles by Giudice et al. added; references added; supplemented material turned into appendices. v4: minor typos corrected
Effects of coastal acidification on North Atlantic bivalves: Interpreting laboratory responses in the context of in situ populations
Creators: name: Nye, J.A.
name: Grear, J.S.
name: O'Leary, C.A.
name: Gobler, C.J.
name: Tettelbach, S.T.
Publisher: name: Inter-Research
Year: 2020

description: Experimental exposure of early life stage bivalves has documented negative effects of elevated pCO2 on survival and growth, but the population consequences of these effects are unknown. We substituted laboratory responses into baseline population models of northern quahog Mercenaria mercenaria and bay scallop Argopecten irradians. The models were constructed using inverse demography with time series of size-structured field data from New York, USA, whereas the stress-response relationships were developed using data from published laboratory studies. We used stochastic projections and diffusion approximations of extinction probability to estimate cumulative risk of 50% population decline during 5 yr projections at pCO2 levels of 400, 800, and 1200 μatm. Although the A. irradians field population exhibited higher growth (12% yr-1) than the declining M. mercenaria population (-8% yr-1), cumulative risk was higher due to variance in the stochastic growth rate estimate (log λs = -0.02, σ2 = 0.24). This 5 yr risk increased from 56% at 400 μatm to 99 and >99% at 800 and 1200 μatm, respectively. For M. mercenaria (log λs = -0.09, σ2 = 0.01), 5 yr risk was 25, 79, and 97% at 400, 800, and 1200 μatm, respectively. These estimates could be improved with detailed consideration of harvest, disease, restocking, compensatory re sponses, and interactions between these and other effects. However, results clearly indicate that early life stage responses to plausible levels of pCO2 enrichment have the potential to cause significant increases in risk to these marine bivalve populations.
How the agent-based banking model might facilitate financial inclusion and sustainability in Emerging Markets and Developing Economies (EMDEs) via economic circularity?
Creators: name: UDDIN, MOHAMMAD JALAL
Publisher: name: European Journal of Social Impact and Circular Economy
Year: 2020

description: Transformation of business models with the interaction of technological breakthrough, innovation, socio-economic, geostrategic and environmental transition are historical. Context based adjustment of business value chain also not rare. In fact, such adjustment might prove essential to survive in the market at certain point, especially in case of corporate transformation due to economic recession/depression, industry downturn and ecological correction like COVID-19. However, some business models are smart enough to cope with both kinds of transformations. Agent-based banking model is one of such kind, which not only sustains during adverse situation but also facilitates the momentum of adversity. This ultimately defined as a sustainable innovation in banking industry that drives via circular economy. The mode of economic circularity in product and service level or goods and service industry are not identical and while articulating circular business model in service industry, like Banking, than it denotes generating values for broader range of stakeholders and transmitting this value in such a way that minimize the ecological and social costs. How an agent-based banking model might help the conventional banks of Emerging Markets & Developing Economies (EMDEs) toward the business model sustainability, is the centre of this study. This type of inclusion in EMDEs will not only assist to bring the World’s 1.7 billion unbanked adult community into regulated financial system but also facilitate the physically challenged, illiterate & marginal people on financial inclusion and pave the way of global development in a sustainable manner.
description: European Journal of Social Impact and Circular Economy, Vol. 1 Núm. 2 (2020)
title: The deinstitutionalisation debate in India : throwing the baby out with the bathwater?
Creators: name: Ramaswamy, Sheila
name: Seshadri, Shekhar
Publisher: name: Strathprints - University of Strathclyde
Year: 2020

description: In recent times, India has joined the growing global consensus on the need to promote family-based alternatives to institutional care for children. However, despite the UN Guidelines' push for deinstitutionalisation, and in theory, our agreement with its position, it is critical to examine what principles of 'necessity', 'child's best interests', and 'appropriateness' mean in practice and how they actually play out in systemic decisions about alternative care. It makes a case for moving towards feasible forms of residential care for its vulnerable children, rather than merely pushing for de-institutionalization agendas. In order to do this, it provides contexts of institutionalisation and the current state of child care institutions in India; considers child rights and child-centric approaches that take into account children's viewpoints and preferences on placement-related matters; and finally presents the functional challenges of adoption and foster care systems and the limitations in systemic capacities of child welfare systems in the country. The article highlights the importance of making decisions about (de)institutionalisation not only through child care reforms, policies and systems but more critically, through children's participation in their residential and care arrangements, by dialoguing with them to understand their unique situations and universes, their aspirations and desires.
Analysis of Backtrack Algorithms for Listing All Vertices and All Faces of a Convex Polyhedron
Creators: name: Komei  Fukuda
name: Liebling, Thomas M.
name: Francois Margot
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: In this paper, we investigate the applicability of backtrack technique to solve the vertex enumeration problem and the face enumeration problem for a convex polyhedron given by a system of linear inequalities. We show that there is a linear-time backtrack algorithm for the face enumeration problem whose space complexity is polynomial in the input size, but the vertex enumeration problem requires a backtrack algorithm to solve a decision problem, called the restricted vertex problem, for each output, which is shown to be NP-complete. Some related NP-complete problems associated with a system of linear inequalities are also discussed, including the optimal vertex problems for polyhedra and arrangements of hyperplanes.
Additional file 3 of Tools to guide clinical discussions on physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and/or sleep for health promotion between primary care providers and adults accessing care: a scoping review
Creators: name: Morgan, Tamara L.
name: Faught, Emma
name: Ross-White, Amanda
name: Fortier, Michelle S.
name: Duggan, Mary
name: Jain, Rahul
name: Lane, Kirstin N.
name: Lorbergs, Amanda
name: Maclaren, Kaleigh
name: McFadden, Taylor
name: Tomasone, Jennifer R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 3: Physical activity tools (n = 51).
International radio broadcasting – a case of Radio Poland – an external service of Polish public radio
Creators: name: Political Preferences
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 160699 Political Science not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Since its beginning radio has also been used as an instrument of international communication. Broadcast stations sending messages abroad began to appear shortly after the first wireless transmissions were successfully performed with the use of the Morse code. The discovery of radio waves enabled sending information on long distances without wire. This invention gave the new possibilities to communicate between continents, from ships to shores and back, or between military troupes during wartime. International broadcasting was also used to communicate with allies and with enemies during military conflicts. At that time an ability to transmit voice using radio waves had already been developed, then radio transmissions entered the dimension of entertainment as well as political communication with citizens and foreigners. The international voice broadcasting service has been developed from 1927 with the purpose of keeping the citizens in touch with the mother countries and also of helping the governments to disseminate its culture throughout the world. In this context the article is an analysis of the legal basis, purposes, directions and technical aspects of broadcasting, and organisational structure of the Radio Poland (former Polish Radio External Service).
title: Home and belonging : mapping what matters when moving on
Creators: name: Dallas-Childs, Robin
name: Henderson, Danny
Publisher: name: Strathprints - University of Strathclyde
Year: 2020

description: Senses of home and belonging are closely linked to feelings of security, connection and positive identity for young people in residential childcare. Following the delivery of a number of workshops by the authors with residential care staff and care experienced young people, this article presents our reflections on the concepts of home and belonging. We explore what home and belonging mean to young people and how residential child care can provide the conditions for the experience of home and a sense of belonging through care worker-young person relationships, grounded in everyday activities and exchanges. We reflect on some of the consequences for the sector if we take these ideas seriously. The findings of the Independent Care Review in Scotland provides some hope for a broader consensus around the centrality of relationships in Scottish care, though there are significant systemic challenges to translating these into practice, not least the ways in which historically risk-averse practice cultures can accommodate a shift towards the more autonomous professional identity required to enable residential care workers to foreground relationships in their practice.
Comparison of multiple approaches to calculate time-varying biological reference points in climate-linked population-dynamics models
Creators: name: O'Leary, C.A.
name: Thorson, J.T.
name: Miller, T.J.
name: Nye, J.A.
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press
Year: 2020

description: Fisheries managers use biological reference points (BRPs) as targets or limits on fishing and biomass to maintain productive levels of fish stock biomass. There are multiple ways to calculate BRPs when biological parameters are time varying. Using summer flounder (Paralichthys dentatus) as a case study, we investigated time-varying approaches in concert with climate-linked population models to understand the impact of environmentally driven variability in natural mortality, recruitment, and size-At-Age on two commonly used BRPs [B0(t) and F35%(t)]. We used the following two approaches to calculate time-varying BRPs: dynamic-BRP and moving-Average-BRP. We quantified the variability and uncertainty of different climate dependencies and estimation approaches, attributed BRP variation to variation in life-history processes, and evaluated how using different approaches impacts estimates of stock status. Results indicate that the dynamic-BRP approach using the climate-linked natural mortality model produced the least variable reference points compared to others calculated. Summer flounder stock status depended on the estimation approach and climate model used. These results emphasize that understanding climate dependencies is important for summer flounder reference points and perhaps other species, and careful consideration is warranted when considering what time-varying approach to use, ideally based upon simulation studies within a proposed set of management procedures.
WORK MORALE AND ENCOURAGEMENT WITH THE OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE OF PERSONNEL IN HOSPITALS: A CASE STUDY OF BANNANG SATA HOSPITAL, YALA PROVINCE, THAILAND
Creators: name: Nutnapha LEKHAWICHIT
Publisher: name: Asian Political Science Review
Year: 2023
Subjects: Work Morale and Encouragement
Operational Performance
Responsibilities
Personnel
Hospital

description: Asian Political Science Review, 7, 1, 28-40
Additional file 1 of Psychometric properties of the Pride in Eating Pathology Scale in a Spanish population
Creators: name: Rodríguez-Testal, Juan Francisco
name: Trinidad-Montero, Juana M.
name: Rosales Becerra, Ángela
name: Faija, Cintia
name: Senín-Calderón, Cristina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Medicine
Cell Biology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Appendix A, Supplementary tables.
Additional file 4 of Tools to guide clinical discussions on physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and/or sleep for health promotion between primary care providers and adults accessing care: a scoping review
Creators: name: Morgan, Tamara L.
name: Faught, Emma
name: Ross-White, Amanda
name: Fortier, Michelle S.
name: Duggan, Mary
name: Jain, Rahul
name: Lane, Kirstin N.
name: Lorbergs, Amanda
name: Maclaren, Kaleigh
name: McFadden, Taylor
name: Tomasone, Jennifer R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 4: Sleep tools (n = 1).
Magneto-convective models of red dwarfs: constraints imposed by the lithium abundance
Creators: name: MacDonald, J.
name: Mullan, D. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetic fields impede the onset of convection, thereby altering the thermal structure of a convective envelope in a low mass star: this has an effect on the amount of lithium depletion in a magnetized star. In order to quantify this effect, we have applied a magneto-convective model to two low mass stars for which lithium abundances and precise structural parameters are known: YY Gem and CU Cnc. For both stars, we have obtained models which satisfy empirical constraints on the following parameters: R, L, surface magnetic field strength, and Li abundance. In the case of YY Gem, we have obtained a model which satisfies the empirical constraints with an internal magnetic field of several megagauss: such a field strength is within the range of a dynamo where the field energy is in equipartition with rotational energy deep inside the convection zone. However, in the case of CU Cnc, the Li requires an internal magnetic field which is probably too strong for a dynamo origin: we suggest possible alternatives which might account for the reported Li abundance in CU Cnc.
description: Accepted for publication by MNRAS
Plasma levels of increased miR-195-5p correlates with the sFLT-1 levels in preeclampsia
Creators: name: Sandrim, Valeria Cristina
name: Eleuterio, Nibia
name: Pilan, Eliane
name: Tanus-Santos, Jose Eduardo
name: Fernandes, Karla
name: Cavalli, Ricardo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Although the role of soluble fms-like tyrosine kinase 1 (sFLT-1) in preeclampsia is well-established, the mechanism related to its synthesis remains poorly understood. We evaluated the association among the circulating microRNAs (miRs) and sFLT-1 levels in preeclampsia pregnant women. For this purpose, we measured the plasma sFLT-1 levels in 24 preeclampsia women and selected from these, three subjects with the lowest and three with the highest levels of sFLT-1 in order to screen for potential miRs associated with plasmatic sFLT-1 concentrations using a polymerase chain reaction-array (PCR-array) methodology. From screening results, we found three statistically different expressed miRs with fold change (FC-high/low levels) ≥3.0: miR-195-5p (FC = 5.2 increase in group with high sFLT-1 levels), miR-16-5p (FC = 3.2; increase in group with high sFLT-1 levels), and miR-375 (FC = −3.0; decrease in group with high sFLT-1 levels) which were later validated in all samples (n = 24). To correlate these miRs and plasma sFLT-1 levels, we used two extremes of analysis. In one part, we compared 12 preeclampsia women with the lowest sFLT-1 levels (L-50% group) to 12 with the highest levels (50% H group); and in the second analysis, 6 preeclampsia women (L-25%) from the L group to 6 preeclampsia women from the H group (H-25%). Our results showed increased expression of miR-195-5p in the H group, considering both the analyses with 50%, FC = 2.1 and 25%, FC = 4.2. Regarding other miRs, lack of correlation was found in both analyses (50% and 25%). In conclusion, our data demonstrate an association of higher levels of sFLT-1 with increased expression of miR-195-5p in preeclampsia pregnant women.
Preeclampsia and superimposed preeclampsia: The same disease? The role of angiogenic biomarkers
Creators: name: Costa, Rafaela A.
name: Hoshida, Mara S.
name: Alves, Eliane A.
name: Zugaib, Marcelo
name: Francisco, Rossana P. V.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Objective: We aimed to compare sFlt-1 and placental growth factor (PlGF) levels and the sFlt-1/PlGF ratio between women with preeclampsia and superimposed preeclampsia to, respectively, normotensive and chronic hypertensive ones. Study design: We performed a prospective two-armed cohort in a tertiary teaching hospital in Sao Paulo, Brazil, including 37 normotensive and 60 chronic hypertensive pregnant women. We assessed the serum levels of sFlt-1 and PlGF at 20, 26, 32, and 36 gestational weeks by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Main outcome measures: Having preeclampsia and superimposed preeclampsia. Results: Among normotensive and chronic hypertensive pregnancies, 4 (10.8%) and 14 (23.3%) women developed preeclampsia and superimposed preeclampsia, respectively. Compared with those who remained normotensive, the preeclampsia women presented higher sFlt-1 levels at 32 gestational weeks (4323.45 pg/mL vs. 2242.04 pg/mL, p = 0.019), lower PlGF levels at 20 (183.54 pg/mL vs. 337.38 pg/mL, p = 0.034), 32 (169.69 pg/mL vs. 792.53 pg/mL, p = 0.001), and 36 gestational weeks (252.99 pg/mL vs. 561.81 pg/mL, p = 0.029), and higher sFlt-1/PlGF ratios at 26 (9.02 vs. 1.84, p = 0.004), 32 (23.61 vs. 2.55, p = 0.001), and 36 gestational weeks (49.02 vs. 7.34, p = 0.029). On the other hand, compared with those who remained chronic hypertensive, the superimposed preeclampsia women only presented a higher sFlt-1/PlGF ratio at 32 gestational weeks (9.98 vs. 2.51, p = 0.039). Conclusion: Although angiogenic imbalance is clearly related to preeclampsia, it seems to play a more modest role in superimposed preeclampsia, in which other mechanisms should also be investigated.
Investigation of meson-meson interaction
Creators: name: Wu, Yuheng
name: Jin, Xin
name: Huang, Hongxia
name: Ping, Jialun
name: Zhu, Xinmei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the framework of the quark delocalization color screening model, we investigate the meson-meson interaction in the fully light four-quark system . The calculation of the effective potentials of all the $S-$wave states shows that for most states the interaction between two vector mesons is attractive; the one between a pseudoscalar meson and a vector meson is repulsive or weakly attractive; and the one between two pseudoscalar mesons is always repulsive. However, there is still some exception. The interaction of the $IJ=00$ $ππ$ channel is attractive, while the one of the $IJ=02$ $ϕϕ$ channel is repulsive. So it is difficult to use the $S-$wave $ϕϕ$ state to explain the $X(2239)$ at present calculation. The $S-$wave $ρρ$ states are more likely to be resonance states, which are worthy of investigating in future work. The study of the contribution of each interaction term shows that both the one-gluon exchange and the kinetic energy interaction are important in the interaction between two mesons. The study of the variation of the delocalization parameter indicates that the contribution of the kinetic energy relates to the intermediate-range attraction mechanism in QDCSM, which is achieved by the quark delocalization.
description: 8 pages, 11 figures
Observational Needs Supporting Marine Ecosystems Modeling and Forecasting: From the Global Ocean to Regional and Coastal Systems
Creators: name: Pozo Buil, M.
name: Nye, J.A.
name: Cheng, W.
name: Guidi, L.
name: Kavanaugh, M.
name: Lehodey, P.,
name: Pirhalla, D.
name: Bowler, C.
name: Subramanian, A.
name: Barrie, D.
name: Not, F.
name: Capotondi, A.
name: Dias, D.F.
name: Di Lorenzo, E.
name: Jacox, M.
name: Merrifield, M.
name: Ortiz, I.
name: Saba, V.
name: Hermann, A.J.
name: Iudicone, D.
name: Pesant, S.
name: Sheridan, S.
name: Joyce, T.
name: Chaffron, S.
name: Brodie, S.
name: Miller, A.J.
name: Doney, S.C.
name: Eveillard, D.
name: de Vargas, C.
name: Lovenduski, N.S.
name: Siedlecki, S.
Publisher: name: Frontiers Media S.A.
Year: 2019

description: Many coastal areas host rich marine ecosystems and are also centers of economic activities, including fishing, shipping and recreation. Due to the socioeconomic and ecological importance of these areas, predicting relevant indicators of the ecosystem state on sub-seasonal to interannual timescales is gaining increasing attention. Depending on the application, forecasts may be sought for variables and indicators spanning physics (e.g., sea level, temperature, currents), chemistry (e.g., nutrients, oxygen, pH), and biology (from viruses to top predators). Many components of the marine ecosystem are known to be influenced by leading modes of climate variability, which provide a physical basis for predictability. However, prediction capabilities remain limited by the lack of a clear understanding of the physical and biological processes involved, as well as by insufficient observations for forecast initialization and verification. The situation is further complicated by the influence of climate change on ocean conditions along coastal areas, including sea level rise, increased stratification, and shoaling of oxygen minimum zones. Observations are thus vital to all aspects of marine forecasting: statistical and/or dynamical model development, forecast initialization, and forecast validation, each of which has different observational requirements, which may be also specific to the study region. Here, we use examples from United States (U.S.) coastal applications to identify and describe the key requirements for an observational network that is needed to facilitate improved process understanding, as well as for sustaining operational ecosystem forecasting. We also describe new holistic observational approaches, e.g., approaches based on acoustics, inspired by Tara Oceans or by landscape ecology, which have the potential to support and expand ecosystem modeling and forecasting activities by bridging global and local observations.
WISEs’ Social Impact Measurement in the Baltic States
Creators: name: Urmanaviciene, Audrone
Publisher: name: European Journal of Social Impact and Circular Economy
Year: 2020

description: WISEs devote most of their time and resources to working with the target group - not only organizing their employment activities and developing skills but also adapting their work environment, improving the psychological climate, organizational culture, etc. Thus, the implementation of the social mission of this type of social enterprise requires a particularly large amount of time and other resources. In addition, they have to take care of the financial sustainability of their organization. However, WISEs as all social enterprises face the pressure from society and other stakeholders to measure their social impact. Nevertheless, it is also important to note that scientists still disagree on the definition of social impact. It is noteworthy that there are no common criteria for measuring social impacts and there are many different methods and tools for impact assessment and measurement (Arena et al. al., 2015; Hadad and Găucă, 2014). Thus, it remains unclear what and how WISEs should measure their social impact. However, it can be argued that social impact measurement it’s very important for the WISE itself. The aim of this article - to identify what and how WISEs should measure their social impact in the organization. The methods of the research are an analysis of scientific literature and experts’ interview. The results of the research disclosed the possible measurement framework and indicators.
description: European Journal of Social Impact and Circular Economy, Vol. 1 Núm. 2 (2020)
The effective methods and practices for accelerating social entrepreneurship through corporate social responsibility
Creators: name: Urmanaviciene, Audrone
name: Arachchi, Udara Suwanda
Publisher: name: European Journal of Social Impact and Circular Economy
Year: 2020

description: The concepts of Social entrepreneurship and Corporate Social Responsibility have similar values from the social value perspective. Social entrepreneurship focuses on solving social issues, creating a positive social impact in an innovative entrepreneurial way, and profit maximization is not the primary target. Corporations focus on creating economic values and profit maximization; and use the CSR concept as a tool to maintain socially responsible business conduct. Both CSR and social entrepreneurship concepts represent the same sustainable values in different ways. Thus, finding effective methods for accelerating social entrepreneurship through CSR activities will be fruitful for the betterment of the corporation’s stakeholders, social entrepreneurs, and society at large. This paper aims to explore the current CSR activities of corporations that influence social entrepreneurship development and to identify the most effective methods/practices to accelerate social entrepreneurship. This study follows the qualitative inductive research methodology; and, the content analysis method has been used to analyze the collected data through the in-depth semi-structured expert interviews. It has been found that the current CSR practices for social entrepreneurship development are comparatively less than other community development and philanthropic considerations. Moreover, the challenges for social entrepreneurs and the expectations of corporations have been thoroughly discussed. The effective methods and practices have been suggested for both corporations and social entrepreneurs to accelerate social entrepreneurship by CSR activities with mutual benefits and creating social value; as a win-win situation.
description: European Journal of Social Impact and Circular Economy, Vol. 1 Núm. 2 (2020)
Effects of Many-body Interactions in Hypernuclei with Korea-IBS-Daegu-SKKU Functionals
Creators: name: Choi, Soonchul
name: Hiyama, Emiko
name: Hyun, Chang Ho
name: Cheoun, Myung-Ki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the properties of $Λ$ hyperon in $Λ$-hypernuclei using an effective nuclear density functional theory which is based on the low-energy effective field theory. It expands the energy density in the power of Fermi momentum, and consequently has multiple density dependence for the effective many-body interactions. Starting from the effective density functional for nucleons, we determine the parameters for the two- and many-body $Λ$-$N$ interactions added to the nucleon energy density functional by fitting to $Λ$-hypernuclear data. The experimental data consist of the energy levels of a $Λ$ hyperon in the $p$-, and $d$-states as well as $s$-state of $Λ$-hypernuclei in the mass range from $_Λ^{16}$O to $_Λ^{208}$Pb. The results turn out to properly explain the data relevant to hypernuclei owing to the effective many-body interaction apart from a few data in light hypernuclei. This hyperon functional is applied to study the $Λ$ hyperon binding energy of the neutron-rich $^{124-136}_Λ$Sn isotopes which are under consideration for the measurement at J-PARC. Our results are shown to be insensitive to the density dependence of symmetry energy. We also examine the nuclear matter including $Λ$ hyperon. We note that the hyperon threshold density depends on the nuclear matter properties.
description: 22 pages, 3 tables, 8 figures
A Policy for Japanese Recovery
Creators: name: Meltzer, Allan
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The United States Treasury has been giving Japan bad advice for several years.
Repeatedly, the message has been to reduce tax rates permanently and maintain the exchange
rate for the yen in its recent range, about 125 to 135 yen per dollar. A permanent tax cut was
supposed to do what previous fiscal efforts had failed to do -- generate sustained expansion of
the Japanese economy.

No one should doubt that Japanese expansion is desirable for Japan, its neighbors, and the
rest of the world. The Treasury is right about that. The Japanese government has watched the
economy stagnate much too long. A policy change is long overdue
Green and sustainable construction practices impact on Organizational Development
Creators: name: Ur Rehman, Ubaid
name: Shafiq, Muhammad
name: Ali, Hasan
name: Abdullah, Mohammad
Publisher: name: European Journal of Social Impact and Circular Economy
Year: 2020

description: Green Marketing plays important role in the organizational performance irrespective to the industry and the type of project. However green construction research lacks in the field of a construction project. The basic purpose of this work was to highlight the impact of modern techniques such as green construction on organizational performance through the adoption of sustainable practices in business strategies in the construction industry. Data were collected from 132 organizations, working on different construction projects located within the city of Rawalpindi and Islamabad, through an online questionnaire survey in two strata in terms of consultant and contractors. Data were analyzed through different tests, included Pearson’s correlation coefficient as well as regression using IBM SPSS Statistics Version 20. The study indicated that green construction has a strong correlation and positive impact on organizational performance, and this correlation partially mediated by sustainable development. The research findings have practical implications both in organizational and project manager’s perspectives. This research was limited to a specific geographic area due to time and cost constraints. Future researchers may opt to conduct the study in other geographic areas of Pakistan and in different industries. Moreover, additional or different mediating variables can also be used in future work.
description: European Journal of Social Impact and Circular Economy, Vol. 1 Núm. 2 (2020)
Solutions to nonlocal nonisospectral (2+1)-dimensional breaking soliton equations
Creators: name: Xu, Hai-jing
name: Feng, Wei
name: Zhao, Song-lin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 35Q51, 35Q55, 35C08

description: Nonlocal reductions of a nonisospectral (2+1)-dimensional breaking soliton Ablowitz-Kaup-Newell-Segur equation are discussed on the base of double Wronskian reduction technique. Various types of solutions, including soliton solutions and Jordan-block solutions, for the resulting nonlocal equations are derived. Dynamics of these obtained solutions are analyzed and illustrated.
description: 15 pages, 21 figures
Transport, Aharonov-Bohm, and Topological Effects in Graphene Molecular Junctions and Graphene Nanorings
Creators: name: Yannouleas, Constantine
name: Romanovsky, Igor
name: Landman, Uzi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The unique ultra-relativistic, massless, nature of electron states in two-dimensional extended graphene sheets, brought about by the honeycomb lattice arrangement of carbon atoms in two-dimensions, provides ingress to explorations of fundamental physical phenomena in graphene nanostructures. Here we explore the emergence of new behavior of electrons in atomically precise segmented graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) and graphene rings with the use of tight-binding calculations, non-equilibrium Green's function transport theory, and a newly developed Dirac continuum model that absorbs the valence-to-conductance energy gaps as position-dependent masses, including topological-in-origin mass-barriers at the contacts between segments. Through transport investigations in variable-width segmented GNRs with armchair, zigzag, and mixed edge terminations we uncover development of new Fabry-Perot-like interference patterns in segmented GNRs, a crossover from the ultra-relativistic massless regime, characteristic of extended graphene systems, to a massive relativistic behavior in narrow armchair GNRs, and the emergence of nonrelativistic behavior in zigzag-terminated GNRs. Evaluation of the electronic states in a polygonal graphene nanoring under the influence of an applied magnetic field in the Aharonov-Bohm regime, and their analysis with the use of a relativistic quantum-field theoretical model, unveils development of a topological-in-origin zero-energy soliton state and charge fractionization. These results provide a unifying framework for analysis of electronic states, coherent transport phenomena, and the interpretation of forthcoming experiments in segmented graphene nanoribbons and polygonal rings.
description: 5 figures. For related papers, see http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~ph274cy/. in J. Phys. Chem. C (2015), article ASAP. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1502.00205