cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Opportunities For Prevention And Intervention With Young Children: Lessons From The Canadian Incidence Study Of Reported Child Abuse And Neglect
Creators: name: Fallon, Barbara (Autor/in)
name: Ma, Jennifer (Autor/in)
name: Allan, Kate (Autor/in)
name: Pillhofer, Melanie (Autor/in)
name: Trocmé, Nico (Autor/in)
name: Jud, Andreas (Co-Autor/in)
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Child welfare
Child maltreatment
Infants
Young parents
Referral source
Decision-making
Ongoing services

description: Abstract

Background: The most effective way to provide support to caregivers with infants in order to promote good health, social, emotional and developmental outcomes is the subject of numerous debates in the literature. In Canada, each province adopts a different approach which range from universal to targeted programs. Nonetheless, each year a group of vulnerable infants is identified to the child welfare system with concerns about their wellbeing and safety. This study examines maltreatment-related investigations in Canada involving children under the age of one year to identify which factors determine service provision at the conclusion of the investigation.

Methods: A secondary analysis of the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect CIS-2008 (PHAC, 2010) dataset was conducted. Multivariate analyses were conducted to understand the profile of investigations involving infants (n=1,203) and which predictors were significant in the decision to transfer a case to ongoing services at the conclusion of the investigation. Logistic Regression and Classification and Regression Trees (CART) were conducted to examine the relationship between the outcome and predictors.

Results: The results suggest that there are three main sources that refer infants to the Canadian child welfare system: hospital, police, and non-professionals. Infant maltreatment-related investigations involve young caregivers who struggle with poverty, single-parenthood, drug/solvent and alcohol abuse, mental health issues, lack of social supports, and intimate partner violence. Across the three referral sources, primary caregiver risk factors are the strongest predictor of the decision to transfer a case to ongoing services.

Conclusions: Multivariate analyses indicate that the presence of infant concerns does not predict ongoing service provision, except when the infant is identified with positive toxicology at birth. The opportunity for early intervention and the need to tailor interventions for specific caregiver risk factors is discussed.
description: + ID der Publikation: hslu_10834 + Art des Beitrages: Wissenschaftliche Medien + Jahrgang: 7 + Sprache: Englisch + Letzte Aktualisierung: 2016-05-25 09:11:31
Long-lived submicrometric bubbles in very diluted alkali halide water solutions
Creators: name: Duval, Eugene
name: Adichtchev, Sergey
name: Sirotkin, Sergey
name: Mermet, Alain
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Solutions of LiCl and of NaCl in ultrapure water were studied through Rayleigh/Brillouin scattering as a function of the concentration (molarity, M) of dissolved salt from 0.2M to extremely low concentration (2.10^-17 M ). The Landau-Placzek ratio, R/B, of the Rayleigh scattering intensity over the total Brillouin, was measured thanks to the dynamically controlled stability of the used Fabry-Perot interferometer. It was observed that the R/B ratio follows two stages as a function of increasing dilution rate: after a strong decrease between 0.2M and 2.10^-5 M, it increases to reach a maximum between 10^-9 M and 10^-16 M. The first stage corresponds to the decrease of the Rayleigh scattering by the ion concentration fluctuations with the decrease of salt concentration. The second stage, at lower concentrations, is consistent with the increase of the Rayleigh scattering by long-lived sub-microscopic bubbles with the decrease of ion concentration. The origin of these sub-microscopic bubbles is the shaking of the solutions which was carried out after each centesimal dilution. The very long lifetime of the sub-microscopic bubbles and the effects of aging originate in the electric charge of bubbles. The increase of R/B with the decrease of the low salt concentration corresponds to the increase of the sub-microscopic bubble size with the decrease of concentration, that is imposed by the bubble stability due to the covering of the surface bubble by negative ions.
description: 6 figures. To be published in Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics (PCCP)
Fon Sağlayıcılar Için Açık Erişim Politikası Geliştirme Ve Uygulama İlkeleri Ve Örnek Politika
Creators: name: Tsoukala, Victoria
name: Angelaki, Marina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Open Access
PASTEUR4OA
Funder
Open Access policy
Research
Good Practice
Policy alignment
Guidelines

description: The present guidelines aim to assist in the development of efficient Open Access policies among Funders.  They provide the context, the process and a model policy (template) that will enable Funders to develop and implement their own Open Access policy.
Additional file 2 of Integrating expert opinions with clinical trial data to analyse low-powered subgroup analyses: a Bayesian analysis of the VeRDiCT trial
Creators: name: Thirard, Russell
name: Ascione, Raimondo
name: Blazeby, Jane M.
name: Rogers, Chris A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Medicine
Pharmacology
Biotechnology
Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. STAN model code.
Electrospun cellulose fibres from kraft pulp
Creators: name: Yeoh, Sang Ju
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Cellulose, the most abundant biomass extractable from wood, was generated in fibre form from kraft pulp by electrospinning, a fibre-producing process using electrostatic forces. Kraft pulping is the most dominant pulping technique in North America. Kraft pulp fibres (diam. 30μm) have a tensile strength of 700MPa and elastic modulus of 20GPa. In comparison, individual cellulose nanofibrils (diam. 5nm) have a tensile strength of 10GPa and elastic modulus of 150GPa. The strength displayed by cellulose nanofibrils suggests that the smaller fibre diameter could lead to a lower probability of including smaller flaw sizes in the fibre. Electrospinning has been successfully demonstrated as a one-step process to produce cellulose fibres directly from kraft pulp, thereby showing great potential for reducing cost and making the fibre-producing process more environmental friendly. Based on SEM and XRD, the electrospun fibres have a fibrillation-free, nano-filament structure with a seemingly cellulose I crystal structure, indicating significant potential for making crystalline cellulose fibres directly from kraft pulp. Contact angle measurements show that the electrospun fibres appear more hydrophobic than kraft pulp. The mechanical properties of the electrospun fibres have a large variation, suggesting the need for further process optimization. The ability to produce cellulose fibres directly from kraft pulp with improved moisture resistance and mechanical properties could potentially result in the development of more high value-added products for the Canadian pulp and paper industry, and perhaps even globally.
Star Formation Rates and Stellar Masses of H-alpha Selected Star-Forming Galaxies at z=0.84: A Quantification of the Downsizing
Creators: name: Villar, V.
name: Gallego, J.
name: Pérez-González, P-G.
name: Barro, G.
name: Zamorano, J.
name: Noeske, K. G.
name: Koo, D. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we analyze the physical properties of a sample of 153 star forming galaxies at z~0.84, selected by their H-alpha flux with a NB filter. B-band luminosities of the objects are higher than those of local star forming galaxies. Most of the galaxies are located in the blue cloud, though some objects are detected in the green valley and in the red sequence. After the extinction correction is applied virtually all these red galaxies move to the blue sequence, unveiling their dusty nature. A check on the extinction law reveals that the typical extinction law for local starbursts is well suited for our sample but with E(B-V)_stars=0.55 E(B-V)_gas. We compare star formation rates (SFR) measured with different tracers (H-alpha, UV and IR) finding that they agree within a factor of three after extinction correction. We find a correlation between the ratios SFR_FUV/SFR_H-alpha, SFR_IR/SFR_H-alpha and the EW(H-alpha) (i.e. weighted age) which accounts for part of the scatter. We obtain stellar mass estimations fitting templates to multi-wavelength photometry. The typical stellar mass of a galaxy within our sample is ~10^10 Msun. The SFR is correlated with stellar mass and the specific star formation rate (sSFR) decreases with it, indicating that massive galaxies are less affected by star formation processes than less massive ones. This result is consistent with the downsizing scenario. To quantify this downsizing we estimated the quenching mass M_Q for our sample at z~0.84, finding that it declines from M_Q ~10^12 Msun to M_Q ~8x10^10 Msun at the local Universe.
description: Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal. 18 pages, 18 figures
Review of OCS gas-phase reactions in dark cloud chemical models
Creators: name: Loison, Jean-Christophe
name: Halvick, Philippe
name: Bergeat, Astrid
name: Hickson, Kevin M.
name: Wakelam, Valentine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The association reaction S + CO {\to} OCS + hnu has been identified as being particularly important for the prediction of gas-phase OCS abundances by chemical models of dark clouds. We performed detailed ab-initio calculations for this process in addition to undertaking an extensive review of the neutral-neutral reactions involving this species which might be important in such environments. The rate constant for this association reaction was estimated to be several orders of magnitude smaller than the one present in current astrochemical databases. The new rate for this reaction and the introduction of other processes, notably OH + CS {\to} OCS + H and C + OCS {\to} CO + CS, dramatically changes the OCS gas-phase abundance predicted by chemical models for dark clouds. The disagreement with observations in TMC-1 (CP) and L134N (N), suggests that OCS may be formed on grain surfaces as is the case for methanol. The observation of solid OCS on interstellar ices supports this hypothesis.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Efficacité Des Politiques De Libre Accès: Un Document D’Information Pour Les Financeurs De La Recherche
Creators: name: Swan, Alma
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Open Access
PASTEUR4OA
Funder
Open Access policy
Research
Good practice
Policy alignment
ROARMAP
Briefing paper

description: Based on the analysis of over 120 mandatory policies from ROARMAP, this briefing paper lays out the main issues that affect the effectiveness of a policy in providing high levels of Open Access research material.
A classification of HII regions based on Oxygen and Helium lines: The cases of TOL2146-391 and TOL0357-3915
Creators: name: Peimbert, Antonio
name: Peña-Guerrero, Maria A.
name: Peimbert, Manuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present long slit spectrophotometry of two HII regions: TOL2146-391 and TOL0357-3915. We performed a detailed analysis that involves abundance determinations relaxing the assumption of homogeneous temperature. The temperature inhomogeneities values, t^2, were obtained through two methods: (i) comparing abundances from oxygen recombination lines to abundances from collisionally excited lines and (ii) by using the line intensity ratios of a set of HeI lines together with the HELIO10 program. We find that the HELIO10 program is a good alternative to obtain a t^2 value in photoionized regions where recombination lines of heavy elements are not available. We have plotted 27 high and low metallicity HII regions in an oxygen degree of ionization versus t^2 diagram; we find areas populated by HII regions and areas void of them; the physical characteristics of each area are discussed. In addition, an average t^2 value can be determined for the objects in each area. We propose to use this value for the cases where a direct measurement of t^2 cannot be determined
description: 41 pages (preview), 5 figures. Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal
In vivo characterization of the lysine-methyltransferases Set7/9 and G9a by conditional mutagenesis in the mouse
Creators: name: Lehnertz, Bernhard
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Increasing evidence suggests that site-specific lysine methylation of histone and non-histone proteins is fundamentally involved in epigenetic regulation of gene expression during cellular differentiation and tumorigenesis. To study the in vivo relevance of the lysine methyltransferases Set7/9 and G9a, I have generated and characterized two conditional knockout mouse strains. Despite its widely proposed role in transcriptional activation through the methylation of histone H3 lysine 4 (H3K4) and a number of transcription factors, I found that Set7/9 knockout mice develop normally and do not display any overt phenotypic alteration. Since Set7/9 was shown to methylate the tumor suppressor protein p53 and was suggested to be important for its activity, I mainly focused my characterization of the Set7/9 knockout strain towards the proposed impairment of p53 function in these mice. Contrary to all reports, I found that in the absence of Set7/9, the p53 target genes p21WAF¹/CIP¹, Mdm2, Puma and Bax are normally expressed under basal and stressed conditions in different cell types. As a consequence, no functional p53 impairment was detectable upon DNA damage or in response to ectopic oncogene expression in Set7/9⁻/⁻ cells. Hence, my data demonstrates that Set7/9-mediated methylation of p53 represents, if at all, only a minor event in its regulation and does not appreciably control p53 activity in vivo. In the generated conditional G9a knockout strain, I primarily focused my efforts towards describing its role in the hematopoietic system. Mice that conditionally lack G9a expression in the blood, develop normally and can sustain the development of all hematopoietic cell types under homeostatic conditions. Interestingly however, when performing competitive bone marrow transplantation assays, I detected a marked impairment in G9a knockout bone marrow cells in the reconstitution of the hematopoietic system. Consistently, G9a-deficient myeloid and erythroid progenitors are dramatically reduced in their proliferation capacity. My experiments indicate for the first time, that G9a is specifically important for the biology of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells under stress conditions and its inactivation might represent a promising way to interfere with blood development in pathological and regenerative settings.
Additional file 2 of Measles-mumps-rubella vaccine at 6 months of age, immunology, and childhood morbidity in a high-income setting: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Vittrup, Dorthe Maria
name: Laursen, Anne Cathrine Lund
name: Malon, Michelle
name: Soerensen, Jesper Kiehn
name: Hjort, Jakob
name: Soren Buus
name: Svensson, Jannet
name: Stensballe, Lone Graff
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 2. Adverse events diary.
Chemical compositions of thin-disk, high-metallicity red horizontal-branch field stars
Creators: name: Afşar, M.
name: Sneden, C.
name: For, B. -Q.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a detailed abundance analysis and atmospheric parameters of 76 stars from a survey to identify field Galactic red horizontal-branch (RHB) stars. High-resolution echelle spectra (R\simeq60,000, S/N>=100) were obtained with 2.7 m Smith Telescope at McDonald Observatory. The target stars were selected only by color and parallax information. Overall metallicities and relative abundances of proton-capture elements (C I, N I, O I, Li I), alpha-elements (Ca I and Si I), and neutron-capture elements (Eu II and La II) were determined by either equivalent width or synthetic spectrum analyses. We used CN features at 7995-8040 Å region in order to determine 12^C/13^C ratios of our targets. Investigation of the evolutionary stages, using spectroscopic T_eff and log g values along with derived 12^C/13^C ratios, revealed the presence of 18 probable RHB stars in our sample. We also derived kinematics of the stars with available distance information. Taking into account both the kinematics and probable evolutionary stages, we conclude that our sample contains five thick disk and 13 thin disk RHB stars. Up until now, RHB stars have been considered as members of the thick disk, and were expected to have large space velocities and sub-solar metallicities. However, our sample is dominated by low velocity solar-metallicity RHB stars; their existence cannot be easily explained with standard stellar evolution.
description: manuscript format, 65 pages, 18 figures, 8 tables, accepted for publication in AJ
Modele Obecności Kościoła W Sferze Publicznej. Model Obecności I Naturalnego Napięcia
Creators: name: Burgoński, Piotr
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: kościół
sfera publiczna

description: Obecność Kościoła katolickiego w sferze publicznej demokratycznego państwa prawa. Przykład współczesnej Polski 4. Opis i analiza modeli obecności Kościoła w sferze publicznej 4.1. Model obecności i naturalnego napięcia W " modelu obecności i naturalnego napięcia między Kościołem a świecką sferą publiczną " sferę pu-bliczną ujmuje się jako przestrzeń niezależną od władzy politycznej, a zarazem przekraczającą prywat-ną partykularność. Jest ona otwarta dla każdego pod warunkiem, że akceptuje on zasady wolności sumienia i wolności religijnej. W modelu tym zakłada się, że Kościół uznaje zasadę wolności religijnej, a sfera publiczna stanowi naturalną przestrzeń jego aktywności. Usuwanie religii ze sfery publicznej i zamykanie jej w sferze prywatnej oznaczałoby – w tym ujęciu – ograniczenie nowoczesnych wolności indywidualnych obywateli, a zwłaszcza wolności religijnej.
Gravitational deflection of light in Rindler-type potential as a possible resolution to the observations of Bullet Cluster 1E0657-558
Creators: name: Li, Xin
name: Chang, Zhe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The surface density $Σ$-map and the convergence $κ$-map of Bullet Cluster 1E0657-558 show that the center of baryonic matters separates from the center of gravitational force, and the distribution of gravitational force do not possess spherical symmetry. This hints that a modified gravity with difference to Newtonian inverse-square law at large scale, and less symmetry is worth investigating. In this paper, we study the dynamics in Randers-Finsler spacetime. The Newtonian limit and gravitational deflection of light in a Rindler-type potential is focused in particular. It is shown that the convergence in Finsler spacetime could account for the observations of Bullet Cluster.
description: 11 pages
Europeizacja W Czasach Kryzysu
Creators: name: Burgoński, Piotr
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Unia Europejska
Kryzysy
Europeizacja

description:  Burgoński P., Europeizacja w czasach kryzysu, w: A. Skolimowska, K. Grzybowska-Walecka (red.), Dlaczego Europeistyka? Europa w czasie kryzysu, Instytut Politologii UKSW, Warszawa 2015, s. 44-51.
Study of wavelength-shifting chemicals for use in large-scale water Cherenkov detectors
Creators: name: Sweany, M.
name: Bernstein, A.
name: Dazeley, S.
name: Dunmore, J.
name: Felde, J.
name: Svoboda, R.
name: Tripathi, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cherenkov detectors employ various methods to maximize light collection at the photomultiplier tubes (PMTs). These generally involve the use of highly reflective materials lining the interior of the detector, reflective materials around the PMTs, or wavelength-shifting sheets around the PMTs. Recently, the use of water-soluble wavelength-shifters has been explored to increase the measurable light yield of Cherenkov radiation in water. These wave-shifting chemicals are capable of absorbing light in the ultravoilet and re-emitting the light in a range detectable by PMTs. Using a 250 L water Cherenkov detector, we have characterized the increase in light yield from three compounds in water: 4-Methylumbelliferone, Carbostyril-124, and Amino-G Salt. We report the gain in PMT response at a concentration of 1 ppm as: 1.88 $\pm$ 0.02 for 4-Methylumbelliferone, stable to within 0.5% over 50 days, 1.37 $\pm$ 0.03 for Carbostyril-124, and 1.20 $\pm$ 0.02 for Amino-G Salt. The response of 4-Methylumbelliferone was modeled, resulting in a simulated gain within 9% of the experimental gain at 1 ppm concentration. Finally, we report an increase in neutron detection performance of a large-scale (3.5 kL) gadolinium-doped water Cherenkov detector at a 4-Methylumbelliferone concentration of 1 ppm.
description: 7 pages, 9 figures, Submitted to Nuclear Instruments and Methods A
A spectacular outflow in an obscured quasar
Creators: name: Greene, Jenny E.
name: Zakamska, Nadia L.
name: Smith, Paul S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: SDSS J1356+1026 is a pair of interacting galaxies at redshift z=0.123 that hosts a luminous obscured quasar in its northern nucleus. Here we present two long-slit Magellan LDSS-3 spectra that reveal a pair of symmetric ~10 kpc-size outflows emerging from this nucleus, with observed expansion velocities of ~250 km/s in projection. We present a kinematic model of these outflows and argue that the deprojected physical velocities of expansion are likely ~1000 km/s and that the kinetic energy of the expanding shells is likely 10^44-10^45 erg/s, with an absolute minimum of >10^42 erg/s. Although a radio counterpart is detected at 1.4GHz, it is faint enough that the quasar is considered to be radio-quiet by all standard criteria, and there is no evidence of extended emission due to radio lobes, whether aged or continuously powered by an ongoing jet. We argue that the likely level of star formation is probably insufficient to power the observed energetic outflow and that SDSS J1356+1026 makes a strong case for radio-quiet quasar feedback. In further support of this hypothesis, polarimetric observations show that the direction of quasar illumination is coincident with the direction of the outflow.
description: To appear in ApJ, 11 pages, 6 figures
Gaps in Protoplanetary Disks as Signatures of Planets: I. Methodology and Validation
Creators: name: Jang-Condell, Hannah
name: Turner, Neal J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the observational consequences of partial gaps being opened by planets in protoplanetary disks. We model the disk using a static alpha-disk model with detailed radiative transfer, parametrizing the shape and size of the partially cleared gaps based on the results of hydrodynamic simulations. Shadowing and illumination by stellar irradiation at the surface of the gap leads to increased contrast as the gap trough is deepened by shadowing and cooling and the far gap wall is puffed up by illumination and heating. In calculating observables, we find that multiple scattering is important and derive an approximation to include these effects. A gap produced by a 200 M_Earth (70 M_Earth) planet at 10 AU can lower/raise the midplane temperature of the disk by up to ~-25/+29% (~-11/+19%) by shadowing in the gap trough and illumination on the far shoulder of the gap. At the distance of Taurus, this gap would be resolvable with ~0.01" angular resolution. The gap contrast is most significant in scattered light and at thermal continuum wavelengths characteristic of the surface temperature, reducing or raising the surface brightness by up to order of magnitude. Since gaps sizes are correlated to planet mass, this is a promising way of finding and determining the masses of planets embedded in protoplanetary disks.
description: 11 pages, 9 figures. Accepted to ApJ
Sobór Watykański Ii I Samookreślenie Kościoła: W Kierunku Nowoczesnej Religii Publicznej?
Creators: name: Burgoński, Piotr
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Religia
Sobór Watykański II
Kościół katolicki

description: Burgoński P., Sobór Watykański II i samookreślenie Kościoła: w kierunku nowoczesnej religii publicznej?, w: J. Grosfeld (red.), 50 lat później. Posoborowe dylematy współczesnego Kościoła, Instytut Politologii UKSW, Centrum Myśli Jana Pawła II, Warszawa 2014, s. 47-60.
Gravity Dual for Cyclic Renormalization Group Flow without Conformal Invariance
Creators: name: Nakayama, Yu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct a gravity dual for scale invariant but non-conformal field theories with a cyclic renormalization group flow. A slight modification of our construction gives a gravity dual of discretely scale invariant field theories. The underlying gravitational theory breaks the null energy condition.
description: 4 pages, v2: typos corrected, references added
Mycorrhizal inoculation, endophytic colonization, and allelopathic potential of Wollemi Pine (Wollemia nobilis) roots
Creators: name: Biggs, Laura Ellen
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Mycorrhizas are ubiquitous symbiotic relationships between soil-inhabiting fungi and the roots of over 90 % of terrestrial plants. Mycorrhizal colonization of Wollemia nobilis Jones, Hill & Allen (Wollemi Pine), a newly discovered and extremely rare conifer native to southeastern Australia, is a largely unexplored subject. The objectives of this work were: (1) to assess mycorrhizal colonization of Wollemi Pines following fungal inoculation, (2) to identify endophytic fungi associated with Wollemi Pine roots growing in the field and in horticultural substrates, and (3) to evaluate the allelopathic activity of Wollemi Pines. In both laboratory and field environments, juvenile trees were inoculated with several different arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and one fungus known to form ectendomycorrhizas on members of the Pinaceae. Mycorrhizal colonization was not evident in any of the inoculated plants; however, endophytic fungal structures formed by Cylindrocarpon pauciseptatum and Phialocephala fortinii were consistently present in the roots of plants grown in the field or in growth chambers. Preliminary evidence of allelopathic chemical production by Wollemi Pines was also found. Extracts of soil used to grow Wollemi Pines suppressed germination of leek seeds but not sorghum seeds. This thesis presents the results from the first mycorrhizal fungal inoculation of Wollemi Pine, the first identification of fungal endophytes colonizing Wollemi Pine roots, and the first evidence for the production of allelopathic chemicals by Wollemi Pine.
A Statistical Survey of Hard X-ray Spectral Characteristics of Solar Flares with Two Footpoints
Creators: name: Saint-Hilaire, Pascal
name: Krucker, Sam
name: Lin, Robert P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using RHESSI data, we have analyzed some 172 hard X-ray peaks during 53 solar flares which exhibited a double-footpoint structure. Fitting both footpoints with power-laws, we find that spectral index differences range mostly between 0 to 0.6, and only rarely go beyond. Asymmetries between footpoints were not observed to be significantly dependent on their mean heliographic position, their relative position with respect to each other, nor their orientation with respect to the solar equator. Assuming a symmetric acceleration process, it is also clear that differences in footpoint spectral indices and footpoint flux ratios can seldom be attributed to a difference in column densities between the two legs of a coronal loop. Our results corroborate better the magnetic mirror trap scenario. Moreover, footpoint asymmetries are more marked during times of peak HXR flux than when averaging over the whole HXR burst, suggesting that the magnetic configuration evolves during individual HXR bursts. We observed also a linear correlation between the peak 50-keV flux and the peak GOES 1-8A channel flux, and that HXR burst duration seem correlated with loop length.
description: 20 pages, 13 figures. Published in Solar Physics
Additional file 1 of Measles-mumps-rubella vaccine at 6 months of age, immunology, and childhood morbidity in a high-income setting: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Vittrup, Dorthe Maria
name: Laursen, Anne Cathrine Lund
name: Malon, Michelle
name: Soerensen, Jesper Kiehn
name: Hjort, Jakob
name: Soren Buus
name: Svensson, Jannet
name: Stensballe, Lone Graff
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1. Questionnaire regarding backgroud information.
Additional file 1 of Falling bacterial communities from the atmosphere
Creators: name: Cheolwoon Woo
name: Yamamoto, Naomichi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 20199 Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Numbers of high-quality sequence reads by Illumina MiSeq. Table S2. Flux densities (CN cm-2month-1) of atmospheric bacterial deposition in dry and wet forms. The percentage values in parentheses indicate relative contributions. Table S3. Correlation coefficients between peak aerodynamic diameters of total bacterial particles and parameters related to weather conditions observed in each sampling month. Table S4. Correlation coefficients between deposition flux densities and airborne concentrations of bacteria and parameters related to weather conditions. The Spearman’s rank correlation coefficients are shown with or without asterisk (*) representing statistical significance (p< 0.05). Figure S1. Rarefaction curves based on 97% OTUs of 16S rRNA gene sequences. a Deposition samples. b Air samples. Figure S2. Relationship between amounts of precipitation and flux densities of wet deposition of total bacteria. Figure S3. Reproducibility based onduplicates of deposition samples.
Ionized Gas Kinematics and Morphology in Sgr B2 Main on 1000 AU Scales
Creators: name: De Pree, Christopher G.
name: Wilner, David J.
name: Goss, W. Miller
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have imaged the Sgr B2 Main region with the Very Large Array in the BnA configuration ($θ_{beam}$ = 0\farcs13) in both the H52$α$ (45.453 GHz) radio recombination line (RRL) and 7 mm continuum emission. At a distance of 8500 pc, this spatial resolution corresponds to a physical scale of 0.005 pc ($\sim$1100 AU). The current observations detect H52$α$ emission in 12 individual ultracompact (UC) and hypercompact (HC) HII regions. Two of the sources with detected H52 $α$ emission have broad ($Δ$V$_{FWHM}\sim$50 \kms) recombination lines, and two of the sources show lines with peaks at more than one velocity. We use line parameters from the H52$α$ lines and our previous H66$α$ line observations to determine the relative contribution of thermal, pressure and kinematic broadening, and electron density. These new observations suggest that pressure broadening can account for the broad lines in some of the sources, but that gas motions (e.g. turbulence, accretion or outflow) contribute significantly to the broad lines in at least one of the sources (Sgr B2 F3).
description: 10 pages, 2 figures
Additional file 1 of Fecal microbiota composition is linked to the postoperative disease course in patients with Crohn’s disease
Creators: name: Strömbeck, Anna
name: Lasson, Anders
name: Strid, Hans
name: Sundin, Johanna
name: Per-Ove Stotzer
name: Simrén, Magnus
name: Magnusson, Maria K.
name: Öhman, Lena
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1 : Table S1. List of the 54 probes included in GA-map™ Dysbiosis Test; bacteria names and taxonomy and comparison of abundance between CD patients at 1-year follow up and healthy subjects (HS).
Search for Bs -> mu mu and B0 -> mu mu decays in CMS
Creators: name: Martini, Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A search for the rare decays (Bs -> μμ) and (B0 -> μμ) performed in pp collisions at sqrt{s} = 7 TeV is presented. The data sample, collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC, corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 1.14 /fb. In both cases the number of events observed after all selection requirements is consistent with expectations from background and standard model signal predictions. The resulting upper limits on the branching fractions are BF(Bs -> μμ) < 1.9 * 10^{-8} and BF(B0 -> μμ) < 4.6 * 10^{-9} at 95% confidence level (CL). Furthermore, the combination of the results of the search for the decay (Bs -> μμ) by the CMS and LHCb experiments is presented. The combined upper limit is BF < 1.1 * 10^{-8} at 95% CL.
description: Presented at the 2011 Hadron Collider Physics symposium (HCP-2011), Paris, France, November 14-18 2011, 3 pages, 5 figure
An intuitive turn : understanding the roles of rational and intuitive processes in moral decision-making
Creators: name: Newitt, Christopher Scott
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The relative contribution of reason and intuition to everyday moral decision-making is an issue that predates psychology as a distinct academic discipline. In the past several years this debate has become one of the most contentious issues in the social sciences. Although most researchers now accept that intuition plays some role in everyday moral decision-making, there is little conceptual agreement on what processes shape moral intuition. To date there have been no attempts to demonstrate convergent validity between competing measures of moral intuition. The goals of this project are to examine the convergent validity demonstrated by measures of moral intuition and to examine whether the concept of moral autonomy is a useful framework for understanding individual differences in the propensity to rely on intuition or reason when making moral decisions. This project comprises a series of three studies. Study 1 examines the relation between moral autonomy, general cognitive styles, and performance on a causal deviance task which taps intuitive judgments. Study 2 represents the first step in the search for convergent validity among measures of moral intuition; responses from the causal deviance task and the moral dumbfounding task are compared. In Study 3, two new measures of moral intuition are introduced and compared with existing measures. The results of this project suggest that the conceptualization of moral intuition differs significantly across theoretical perspectives and, as such, there is little convergent validity between measures derived from the heuristics-and-biases tradition and those from the sentimentalist tradition. A richer conception of intuition, one that captures the distinction between affective appraisals and decisions arrived at without conscious deliberation, offers the potential to bridge theoretical differences. This project represents the first attempt to demonstrate convergent validity between opposing theoretical conceptualizations of moral intuition. The lack of agreement between these theoretical approaches highlights the need to take a more conceptually rich view of intuition. Intuition is not simply an error, as suggested by the heuristics-and-biases approach, nor is it simply an affective response, as suggested by sentimentalists; rather, intuition is a concept characterized by non-inferential, non-deliberative understanding.
FuzzSlice: Pruning False Positives in Static Analysis Warnings Through Function-Level Fuzzing
Creators: name: Murali, Aniruddhan
name: Mathews, Noble Saji
name: Alfadel, Mahmoud
name: Nagappan, Meiyappan
name: Xu, Meng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Manual confirmation of static analysis reports is a daunting task. This is due to both the large number of warnings and the high density of false positives among them. Fuzzing techniques have been proposed to verify static analysis warnings. However, a major limitation is that fuzzing the whole project to reach all static analysis warnings is not feasible. This can take several days and exponential machine time to increase code coverage linearly. Therefore, we propose FuzzSlice, a novel framework that automatically prunes possible false positives among static analysis warnings. Unlike prior work that mostly focuses on confirming true positives among static analysis warnings, which requires end-to-end fuzzing, FuzzSlice focuses on ruling out potential false positives, which are the majority in static analysis reports. The key insight that we base our work on is that a warning that does not yield a crash when fuzzed at the function level in a given time budget is a possible false positive. To achieve this, FuzzSlice first aims to generate compilable code slices at the function level and then fuzzes these code slices instead of the entire binary. FuzzSlice is also unlikely to misclassify a true bug as a false positive because the crashing input can be reproduced by a fuzzer at the function level as well. We evaluate FuzzSlice on the Juliet synthetic dataset and real-world complex C projects. Our evaluation shows that the ground truth in the Juliet dataset had 864 false positives which were all detected by FuzzSlice. For the open-source repositories, we were able to get the developers from two of these open-source repositories to independently label these warnings. FuzzSlice automatically identifies 33 out of 53 false positives confirmed by developers in these two repositories. Thus FuzzSlice reduces false positives by 62.26% in the open-source repositories and by 100% in the Juliet dataset.
description: The paper has been accepted for publication at ICSE 2024 (Research Track)
Additional file 2 of Protracted viral shedding and viral load are associated with ICU mortality in Covid-19 patients with acute respiratory failure
Creators: name: L. Bitker
name: F. Dhelft
name: L. Chauvelot
name: E. Frobert
name: L. Folliet
name: M. Mezidi
name: S. Trouillet-Assant
name: A. Belot
name: B. Lina
name: F. Wallet
name: Richard, J. C.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 2. Multivariate linear regression of variables associated with cycle threshold values (the inverse of viral load) in positive RT-PCR samples.
Shiba impurity bound states as a probe of topological superconductivity and Fermion parity changing quantum phase transitions
Creators: name: Sau, Jay D.
name: Demler, Eugene
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spin-orbit coupled superconductors are potentially interesting candidates for realizing topological and potentially non-Abelian states with Majorana Fermions. We argue that time-reversal broken spin-orbit coupled superconductors generically can be characterized as having sub-gap states that are bound to localized non-magnetic impurities. Such bound states, which are referred to as Shiba states, can be detected as sharp resonances in the tunneling spectrum of the spin-orbit coupled superconductors. The Shiba state resonance can be tuned using a gate-voltage or a magnetic field from being at the edge of the gap at zero magnetic fields to crossing zero energy when the Zeeman splitting is tuned into the topological superconducting regime. The zero-crossing signifies a Fermion parity changing first order quantum phase transition, which is characterized by a Pfaffian topological invariant. These zero-crossings of the impurity level can be used to locally characterize the topological superconducting state from tunneling experiments.
description: 5 pages; 3 figures: minor reference updates
Radial molecular abundances and gas cooling in starless cores
Creators: name: Sipilä, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Aims: We aim to simulate radial profiles of molecular abundances and the gas temperature in cold and heavily shielded starless cores by combining chemical and radiative transfer models. Methods: A determination of the dust temperature in a modified Bonnor-Ebert sphere is used to calculate initial radial molecular abundance profiles. The abundances of selected cooling molecules corresponding to two different core ages are then extracted to determine the gas temperature at two time steps. The calculation is repeated in an iterative process yielding molecular abundances consistent with the gas temperature. Line emission profiles for selected substances are calculated using simulated abundance profiles. Results: The gas temperature is a function of time; the gas heats up as the core gets older because the cooling molecules are depleted onto grain surfaces. The contributions of the various cooling molecules to the total cooling power change with time. Radial chemical abundance profiles are non-trivial: different species present varying degrees of depletion and in some cases inward-increasing abundances profiles, even at t > 10^5 years. Line emission simulations indicate that cores of different ages can present significantly different line emission profiles, depending on the tracer species considered. Conclusions: Chemical abundances and the associated line cooling power change as a function of time. Most chemical species are depleted onto grain surfaces at densities exceeding ~10^5 cm^-3. Notable exceptions are NH_3 and N2H^+; the latter is largely undepleted even at n_H~10^6 cm-3. On the other hand, chemical abundances are not significantly developed in regions of low gas density even at t~10^5 years, revealed by inward-increasing abundance gradients. The gas temperature can be significantly different from the dust temperature; this may have implications on core stability.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A, above abstract shortened to fit arXiv format
Great Britain Ministry of Information – Daily Press Notices and Bulletins (1944-11-01)
Creators: name: Great Britain. Ministry Of Information.
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1944
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 – Social aspects
World War, 1939-1945 -- History
World War II
Second World War
World War Two
Great Britain

description: From the UK National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/theartofwar/inf3.htm “Formed on September 4th 1939, the day after Britain’s declaration of war, the Ministry of Information (MOI) was the central government department responsible for publicity and propaganda in the Second World War. The initial functions of the MOI were threefold: news and press censorship; home publicity; and oversees publicity in Allied and neutral countries”. This collection contains Press Notices and Bulletins published by the MOI between 1939-1945. The Press Notices and Bulletins are among many publications and films issued by the agency during the war.
Additional file 1 of Protracted viral shedding and viral load are associated with ICU mortality in Covid-19 patients with acute respiratory failure
Creators: name: L. Bitker
name: F. Dhelft
name: L. Chauvelot
name: E. Frobert
name: L. Folliet
name: M. Mezidi
name: S. Trouillet-Assant
name: A. Belot
name: B. Lina
name: F. Wallet
name: Richard, J. C.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1. Timing of rt-pcr sampling.
FUZZY BASED CONTROL OF VOLUME AND PRESSURE ASSIST MEDICAL VENTILATOR
Creators: name: MANDEFRO BESHAHWURED
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Positive pressure ventilation (PPV) mode is the direct application of air to the patient’s

lungs and is the most commonly used ventilation mode for passive patients. Mechanical

ventilators are life-saving medical equipment if a person is unable to breathe on their own.

Due to the scarcity and unavailability of the machines, patients are not getting assistance.

The proposed thesis aims to design a low-cost volume and pressure-controlled mechanical

ventilator for pandemic emergencies and scarcity. A Fuzzy logic controller is used to

control both the pressure and volume parameters. The designed system can be used for

different patients that need different tidal volumes and pressure. The clinician can set the

tidal volume and airway pressure depending on the lung requirements. A piston cylinder

mechanism is used to deliver the required volume and pressure of gas to the pneumatic

circuit. Armature controlled DC motor is used to drive the ventilator mechanism, and its

model is used to determine the maximum displacement, velocity, and delivery capacity of

the mechanism. The testing is done by interfacing the sensors and actuators and deploying

the Simulink model on an Arduino mega controller. A medical linear test lung simulator is

used for the test