cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Benefits of Avoiding Cancer (or Dying from Cancer): Evidence from a Four-country Study
Creators: name: Alberini, Anna
name: Ščasný, Milan
name: Alberini, Anna
name: Ščasný, Milan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Cancer Risk
subject: Value of a Statistical Life
subject: Value of a Statistical Case of Cancer
subject: Mortality Risk Reduction
subject: Stated Preferences

description: We use stated-preference methods to estimate the cancer Value per Statistical Life (VSL) and Value per Statistical Case (VSCC) from a representative sample of 45-60-year olds in four countries in Europe. We ask respondents to report information about their willingness to pay for health risk reductions that are different from those used in earlier valuation work because they are comprised of two probabilities—that of getting cancer, and that of dying from it (conditional on getting it in the first place). The product of these two probabilities is the unconditional cancer mortality risk. Our hypothetical risk reductions also include two qualitative attributes—quality-of-life impacts and pain. The results show that respondents did appear to have an intuitive grasp of compound probabilities, and took into account each component of the unconditional cancer mortality risk when answering the valuation questions. We estimate the cancer VSL to be between € 1.9 and 5.7 million, depending on whether the (unconditional) mortality risk was reduced by lowering the chance of getting cancer, increasing the chance of surviving cancer, or both. The VSCC is estimated to be up to € 0.550 million euro, and its magnitude depends on the initial (conditional) cancer mortality and on the improvement in survival. We interpret these as “pure” mortality and cancer risk values, stripped of morbidity, pain or quality-of-life effects. The survey responses show that impacts on daily activities and pain have little or no effect on the WTP to reduce the adverse health risks.
THE 'VIRGIN FRESH' APICULTURAL PROJECT: DEVELOPMENT AND EXPANSION OF THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS APICULTURE INDUSTRY
Creators: name: Crossman, Stafford
name: Robles, Carlos
name: Stanley, Daniel
name: Petersen, Louis
name: Crossman, Stafford
name: Robles, Carlos
name: Stanley, Daniel
name: Petersen, Louis
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Production Economics
subject: apiculture
subject: beekeeping
subject: Apis mellifera
subject: honey
subject: hive management
subject: bees

description: The Virgin Fresh Apicultural Project, sponsored by the Virgin Islands Department of Agriculture and the University of the Virgin Islands Cooperative Extension Service, explored the production and market potential of apicultural products. These commodities are usually available from local beekeepers, but there was no organized system to increase their supply and market them as packaged specialty items to the hospitality industry and local markets. Agriculture professionals, farmers and interested residents participated in beekeeping classes designed to create a group of entrepreneurs to develop and expand the local apiculture industry. The topics included in a series of twelve-week training classes were basic first aid; safety in and around the hive; tools of the trade; hive management; business planning and marketing; and bee biology and diseases. Over one hundred persons completed the training classes. The Virgin Fresh Apicultural Project increased the number of ecologically-sustainable and economically-profitable apicultural businesses in the U.S. Virgin Islands. This project established a model system for the production, harvesting, and marketing processes required to create and maintain sustainable, profitable apicultural businesses and to stimulate growth of the local apicultural industry. The increased beekeeping activity has allowed the implementation of a marketing campaign highlighting apicultural products, the most popular of which is honey. The campaign consists of branding the locally produced honey with the 'Virgin Fresh' seal to differentiate it from imported honey. The project has increased the public's awareness of locally produced apicultural products and is creating a source of alternative, agricultural, entrepreneurial ventures to stimulate economic development.
Additional file 2 of Donor type and 3-month hospital readmission following kidney transplantation: results from the Netherlands organ transplant registry
Creators: name: Yiman Wang
name: Heemskerk, Martin B. A.
name: Michels, Wieneke M.
name: De Vries, Aiko P. J.
name: Dekker, Friedo W.
name: Meuleman, Yvette
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Hematology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2 Figure S2. DAG for the effect of donor type on post-transplant 3-month hospital readmission: kidney transplantation with donation after cardiac death (DCD) versus donation after brain death (DBD).
All-optical single-electron read-out devices based on GaN quantum dots
Creators: name: D'Amico, Irene
name: Rossi, Fausto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study few-particle interactions in GaN-coupled quantum dots and discuss how the built-in field characteristic of these structures strongly reinforce dipole-dipole and dipole-monopole interactions. We introduce a semi-analytical model which allows for a rapid and easy estimate of the magnitude of few-particle interactions and whose predictions are closer than 10% to ``exact'' results. We apply our study to the design of an all-optical read-out device which exploits long-range dipole-monopole interactions and may be also used to monitor the charge status of a quantum dot system.
description: accepted for publication on Appl. Phys. Lett
Der Einfluss von generativer Künstlicher Intelligenz auf Softareentwickler
Creators: name: Trippel, Andreas S.
Publisher: name: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2024
Subjects: 006: Spezielle Computerverfahren
332.38: Versicherungen

description: Mit dem Chatbot ChatGPT der Firma Open AI wurde 2022 generative künstliche Intelligenz (KI) der breiten Bevölkerung zugänglich. Diese Technologie ist nicht nur für den Alltag von Privatpersonen, sondern ebenso für den Einsatz in Unternehmen interessant. Das Thema erhält sowohl medial wie auch in der Forschung viel Aufmerksamkeit.

In dieser Masterarbeit geht es um die Anwendung von generativer KI in Schweizer Versicherungen aus der Sicht von Softwareentwickler:innen. Welche praktischen Anwendungsfälle, Risiken und Potenziale sehen die Softwareentwickler:innen und wie nehmen sie die Effektivität von generativer künstlicher Intelligenz wahr?

Mit einer Literaturrecherche wurden der Stand der Forschung und die technischen Grundlagen erarbeitet. In einem darauffolgenden Schritt wurden durch semistrukturierte Experteninterviews die Erfahrung und Einschätzung von Softwareentwickler:innen zur Forschungsfrage ermittelt, sowie systematisch ausgewertet und analysiert.

In diesen Gesprächen mit Softwareentwickler:innen von SWICA wurden bestehende und neue Anwendungsfälle von generativer KI sowie deren Potenziale, Risiken und die Effektivität erfragt. Es konnten einige bestehende und viele mögliche Anwendungsfälle für generative KI identifiziert werden, wie zum Beispiel Softwareentwicklung, Datenanalyse, Kundeninteraktionen etc. Die meistgenannten Risiken aus der Befragung waren: Falschaussagen, Datenschutzbedenken und Bedenken in der Ethik. Als Potenziale kristallisierten sich Effizienzsteigerung, hochwertigere Dienstleistungen und bessere Servicequalität heraus.

Aufgrund dieser Auswertung konnte die Bedeutung von generativer KI für Versicherungen in der Schweiz ermittelt werden. Daraus resultierten folgende Handlungsempfehlungen: ein Konzept für die Verwendung von generativer KI erstellen, Gesetze und gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen verfolgen, mögliche Anwendungsfälle prüfen, Mitarbeitende schulen und falls möglich domänenspezifische generative KI verwenden.
Post-Newtonian approximation for isolated systems calculated by matched asymptotic expansions
Creators: name: Poujade, Olivier
name: Blanchet, Luc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two long-standing problems with the post-Newtonian approximation for isolated slowly-moving systems in general relativity are: (i) the appearance at high post-Newtonian orders of divergent Poisson integrals, casting a doubt on the soundness of the post-Newtonian series; (ii) the domain of validity of the approximation which is limited to the near-zone of the source, and prevents one, a priori, from incorporating the condition of no-incoming radiation, to be imposed at past null infinity. In this article, we resolve the problem (i) by iterating the post-Newtonian hierarchy of equations by means of a new (Poisson-type) integral operator that is free of divergencies, and the problem (ii) by matching the post-Newtonian near-zone field to the exterior field of the source, known from previous work as a multipolar-post-Minkowskian expansion satisfying the relevant boundary conditions at infinity. As a result, we obtain an algorithm for iterating the post-Newtonian series up to any order, and we determine the terms, present in the post-Newtonian field, that are associated with the gravitational-radiation reaction onto an isolated slowly-moving matter system.
description: 61 pages, to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Iphiclus (Neobarytopus) nigripennis Skelley 2020, new combination
Creators: name: Skelley, Paul E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Erotylidae
Iphiclus
Iphiclus nigripennis

description: Iphiclus (Neobarytopus) nigripennis (Demay), new combination
 Erotylus nigripennis Demay 1838: 24.
 Brachysphoenus (Brachymerus) nigripennis (Demay) ~ Lacordaire 1842: 412.
 Morphoides nigripennis (Demay) ~ Gemminger and Harold 1876: 3710.
 Brachysphaenus [sic] (Brachymerus) nigripennis (Demay) ~ Kuhnt 1909: 30.
 Brachysphaenus [sic] (Barytopus) nigripennis (Demay) ~ Kuhnt 1911: 17.
 Iphiclus (Brachymerus) nigripennis (Demay) ~ Alvarenga 1994: 83.
description: Published as part of Skelley, Paul E., 2020, Nomenclatural notes for the Erotylinae (Coleoptera: Erotylidae), pp. 1-35 in Insecta Mundi 2020 (767) on page 17, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5353590
Using patchy particles to prevent local rearrangements in models of non-equilibrium colloidal gels
Creators: name: Immink, Jasper N.
name: Maris, J. J. Erik
name: Schurtenberger, Peter
name: Stenhammar, Joakim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Simple models based on isotropic interparticle attractions often fail to capture experimentally observed structures of colloidal gels formed through spinodal decomposition and subsequent arrest: the resulting gels are typically denser and less branched than their experimental counterparts. Here we simulate gels formed from soft particles with directional attractions ("patchy particles"), designed to inhibit lateral particle rearrangement after aggregation. We directly compare simulated structures with experimental colloidal gels made using soft attractive microgel particles, by employing a "skeletonization" method that reconstructs the 3-dimensional backbone from experiment or simulation. We show that including directional attractions with sufficient valency leads to strongly branched structures compared to isotropic models. Furthermore, combining isotropic and directional attractions provides additional control over aggregation kinetics and gel structure. Our results show that the inhibition of lateral particle rearrangements strongly affects the gel topology, and is an important effect to consider in computational models of colloidal gels.
Circumnuclear obscuration of the Circinus galaxy by a starburst-radiation supported wall
Creators: name: Ohsuga, Ken
name: Umemura, Masayuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the radiation-hydrodynamical formation of a dusty wall in the circumnuclear regions of the Circinus Seyfert 2 galaxy. We focus on the radiative flux force due to the circumnuclear starburst, the nuclear starburst and the active galactic nucleus (AGN), and analyze the equilibrium configuration and stability of the dusty gas in the circumnuclear regions. The mass distributions used to model the gravitational fields are determined by the observed rotation velocities of the stars and of the gas. Moreover, by using the simple stellar evolution in the circumnuclear starburst, the bolometric luminosity of the starburst is estimated as a function of time. As a result, it is shown that the radiation force by the circumnuclear starburst does play an important role to build up a radiatively-supported dusty wall of $\la$ 100 pc, which obscures the circumnuclear regions with $A_V$ of a few magnitudes. It is also found that the age of a circumnuclear starburst when the circumnuclear regions are enshrouded by the dusty wall is constrained to be $\la 10^8$ yr, which is consistent with the age observationally inferred for the starburst, $4 10^7$ yr $-1.5 10^8$ yr.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Additional file 11 of Transcriptomic analysis reveals differential gene expression, alternative splicing, and novel exons during mouse trophoblast stem cell differentiation
Creators: name: Ullah, Rahim
name: Naz, Ambreen
name: Akram, Hafiza Sara
name: Ullah, Zakir
name: Tariq, Muhammad
name: Mithani, Aziz
name: Faisal, Amir
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 11: Figure S3. Differentiation phenotype induced by the Aurora inhibitors in TSCs. TSCs were treated with 1 μM concentration of Aurora inhibitors (identified in the primary chemical genetic screen; Table S3 and unpublished data) in 96-well plates for 72 h. Cells were fixed with paraformaldehyde and stained with phalloidin (green) and DAPI (blue). Images were taken at 60x magnification.
Identify the key characteristics of pedestrian collisions through in-depth interviews: a pilot study
Creators: name: Perkins, Monica
name: Casalaz, Sam
name: Biswadev Mitra
name: Gabbe, Belinda
name: Brown, Julie
name: Oxley, Jennifer
name: Cameron, Peter
name: Beck, Ben
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: This study aimed to assess the feasibility of recruiting injured pedestrians from the emergency department of a major trauma centre, using an in-depth interview shortly post collision. Convenience sampling was used to prospectively recruit injured pedestrians from the Alfred Hospital Emergency and Trauma Centre. Of the 102 injured pedestrians, 39 met eligibility criteria and of these, 30 (77%) consented and completed the questionnaire. Over half of the collisions occurred at an intersection (57%), and of these the most common pre-impact vehicle manoeuvre was a vehicle turning into the street the pedestrian was crossing. In-depth interview during the early post-crash period was a feasible and effective method of collecting detailed data in an accessible sample. However, only 38% of patients met eligibility criteria. To enhance representativeness, supplementing interview data with police-reported crash data, recruiting from hospital wards and crash location assessment is recommended.
Belomitra torquata
Creators: name: Kantor, Yuri I.
name: Puillandre, Nicolas
name: Rivasseau, Audrey
name: Bouchet, Philippe
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Neogastropoda
Belomitridae
Belomitra
Belomitra torquata

description: Belomitra torquata (Barnard, 1963)
Figures 3D, 5
 Prosipho torquatus Barnard, 1963: 433, fig. 6c, d, e.
 Belomitra torquata (Barnard, 1963) — Bouchet and Warén, 1986: 472–473, fig. 75 (holotype illustrated).
 Type material: Holotype and 2 paratypes in SAM.
 Type locality: off Cape Town, South Africa, 34º37’S, 17º03’E, 2910–2980 m (Fig. 5).
 Distribution: Known only from the type locality.
 Remarks: The radula illustrated by Barnard (and re-examined by Bouchet and Warén) clearly demonstrated its affinities with other species included in Belomitra. It has typical long bicuspid lateral teeth and tricuspid central ones. Conchologically it is easily distinguished by its short and broad shell. The species has apparently not been collected since its original description.
description: Published as part of Kantor, Yuri I., Puillandre, Nicolas, Rivasseau, Audrey & Bouchet, Philippe, 2012, 3496, pp. 1-64 in Zootaxa 3496 on page 13
Iphiclus (Neobarytopus) nigropictus Skelley 2020, new combination
Creators: name: Skelley, Paul E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Erotylidae
Iphiclus
Iphiclus nigropictus

description: Iphiclus (Neobarytopus) nigropictus (Lacordaire), new combination
 Brachysphoenus (Barytopus) nigropictus Lacordaire 1842: 387.
 Morphoides nigropictus (Lacordaire) ~ Gemminger and Harold 1876: 3710.
 Brachysphaenus [sic] (Barytopus) nigropictus (Lacordaire) ~ Kuhnt 1909: 22.
 Iphiclus (Brachymerus) nigropictus (Lacordaire) ~ Alvarenga 1994: 83.
 Brachysphoenus nigropictus var. decoloratus Crotch, 1876: 502.
 Brachysphoenus (Barytopus) nigropictus ab. taeniatus Mader, 1942a: 553.
description: Published as part of Skelley, Paul E., 2020, Nomenclatural notes for the Erotylinae (Coleoptera: Erotylidae), pp. 1-35 in Insecta Mundi 2020 (767) on page 17, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5353590
Coda consonant production in French-speaking children
Creators: name: Kehoe, Margaret
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: This study examined coda production in French-speaking children, aged 2;6 to 6;10 (n = 141). The primary aim was to provide normative information on coda production with a large group of children. The secondary aim was to investigate factors which influence coda production such as age, manner and place of articulation, word length, word position, and bilingualism. Children took part in a word-naming task in which they produced words containing word-final and -medial codas. Results indicated that French-speaking children, as young as 2;6, produce word-final codas with a high degree of accuracy (i.e. 80%). Age had minimal effects on coda presence (i.e., whether a coda was realized or not) but it did influence coda accuracy (i.e. whether a coda was realized target-like). Older children had better coda accuracy scores than younger children. Manner of articulation influenced coda production: the younger children had the lowest scores for liquid and fricative codas whereas the older children, for fricative codas. A closer examination of coda production according to voicing revealed it was voiced obstruent codas which obtained low accuracy scores across age groups. Word-length influenced coda realization with the youngest age group producing codas more often in one- versus two-syllable words. Children produced codas more often in word-final versus word-medial position with the greatest differences evident in the youngest children. Bilinguals obtained better coda scores than monolinguals at the youngest ages and poorer ones at the oldest ages. The study concludes with a discussion of the clinical implications of the findings.
Additional file 12 of Transcriptomic analysis reveals differential gene expression, alternative splicing, and novel exons during mouse trophoblast stem cell differentiation
Creators: name: Ullah, Rahim
name: Naz, Ambreen
name: Akram, Hafiza Sara
name: Ullah, Zakir
name: Tariq, Muhammad
name: Mithani, Aziz
name: Faisal, Amir
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 12: Figure S4. Experimental validation of differentially expressed exons in 9 selected genes. a IGV snapshots of the selected differentially expressed exons. Read coverage for TG-specific exons in Tmem40, P2ry2 and Ptprk genes and TS-specific exons in Garnl3, Lrrfip, Lmo7, Dnmbp, Kalrn and Asic1 genes are shown in all three replicates. Reference gene track is shown at the bottom (gray line) with bars representing the corresponding exons and arrowhead (black) showing the orientation of the gene. b The primer pair design strategy for the amplification of differentially expressed exons. Primer pairs for the amplification of differentially expressed exons in Tmem40, Ptprk, Lrrfip, Asic1, Garnl3 and Lmo7 were designed in different exons while in Dnmbp, P2ry2 and Kalrn, the primer pairs were designed only in differentially expressed exons. Rectangles represent differentially expressed (black) and non-differentially expressed (dark gray) exons while arrows (black) represent forward (top) and reverse (bottom) primers. The two exons are separated by the intronic region (black line). c mRNA expression analysis of differentially expressed exons in TSCs and TGCs by quantitative real-time PCR. Actin was employed as an internal control for all genes. Error bars represent SEM of 3 independent biological replicates.
Discovery of a close-separation binary quasar at the heart of a z~0.2 merging galaxy and its implications for low-frequency gravitational waves
Creators: name: Goulding, Andy D.
name: Pardo, Kris
name: Greene, Jenny E.
name: Mingarelli, Chiara M. F.
name: Nyland, Kristina
name: Strauss, Michael A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries with masses of ~10^8--10^9 Msun are expected to dominate the contribution to the as-yet undetected gravitational wave background (GWB) signal at the nanohertz frequencies accessible to Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTA). We currently lack firm empirical constraints on the amplitude of the GWB due to the dearth of confirmed SMBH binaries in the required mass range. Using HST/WFC3 images, we have discovered a z~0.2 quasar hosted in a merger remnant with two closely separated (0.13'' or ~430pc) continuum cores at the heart of the galaxy SDSSJ1010+1413. The two cores are spatially coincident with two powerful [OIII]-emitting point sources with quasar-like luminosities (L_AGN ~ 5x10^46 erg/s, suggesting the presence of a bound SMBH system, each with M_BH > 4x10^8 Msun. We place an upper limit on the merging timescale of the SMBH pair of 2.5 billion years, roughly the Universe lookback time at z~0.2. There is likely a population of quasar binaries similar to SDSSJ1010+1413 that contribute to a stochastic GWB that should be detected in the next several years. If the GWB is not detected this could indicate that SMBHs merge only over extremely long timescales, remaining as close separation binaries for many Hubble times, the so-called `final-parsec problem'.
description: Accepted to ApJL (in press), 9 pages, 5 figures
Belomitra problematica Kantor & Puillandre & Rivasseau & Bouchet 2012, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Kantor, Yuri I.
name: Puillandre, Nicolas
name: Rivasseau, Audrey
name: Bouchet, Philippe
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Neogastropoda
Belomitridae
Belomitra
Belomitra problematica

description: Belomitra problematica (Thiele, 1925) comb. nov.
Figures 3E, 5
 Mangelia? problematica Thiele 1925: 188, pl. 40 (28), fig. 7.
 Type material: Holotype ZMB /Moll—61021.
 Type locality: Southern Indian Ocean, New Amsterdam I., 37°47'S, 77°33'7"E, 496 m [Valdivia, Deutsche Tiefsee-Expedition, Sta. 167] (Fig. 5).
 Remarks: The species so far is known from a single dead collected specimen with a shell length of 17.6 mm (based on the original drawing, specimen not seen). Judging from the shell sculpture with a row of very characteristic subsutural knobs, its assignment to Belomitra, suspected by Bouchet and Warén (1986), is confirmed. It is most similar to B. admete n. sp. from much greater depths in the northern Indian Ocean (see under that species).
 Mangelia problematica Thiele, 1925 was listed in error by Tucker (2004) as being a nomen novum for " Mangilia exsculpta Dall, 1889 " non Pleurotoma (Drillia) exsculpta Watson, 1882 [a junior objective synonym of Belomitra pourtalesii (Dall, 1881)]. Dall did not establish a new nominal species, but identified his material with Watson's species and classified it in Mangelia.
description: Published as part of Kantor, Yuri I., Puillandre, Nicolas, Rivasseau, Audrey & Bouchet, Philippe, 2012, 3496, pp. 1-64 in Zootaxa 3496 on page 14
Geospatial data for forecasting global change impacts on ecosystems. GeoComputation 2019
Creators: name: Franklin, Janet
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 90903 Geospatial Information Systems
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering

description: Human activities have altered global patterns of biodiversity, and key processes of energy balance and biogeochemical cycling in the Earth system, especially over the last 500 years. These changes have been so profound that they are detectable in the geological record and some have suggested that this is a new geological era, The Anthropocene. Owing to the anthropogenic global change agents -- land use change, climate change, nitrogen deposition, altered disturbance regimes and transport of invasive species -- the planet may have already moved outside of a safe operating space for humanity in several dimensions. I use geospatial data in my research for monitoring and forecasting the effects of land-use change (deforestation and urbanization leading to habitat loss and fragmentation), and climate change on biodiversity and ecosystem function. Processes leading to biodiversity loss are inherently spatial. Knowing where biodiversity is found is the basis for spatial conservation planning. Knowing where on the landscape threats occur in relation to biodiversity is prerequisite to monitoring impacts. Forecasting where threats might occur in the future allows prediction of future impacts. The effects of climate change on species and ecosystems is already detectable globally, with earlier arrival of spring affecting plant and animal phenology, bird and other animal migrations, and so forth, and with species distributions shifting in directions consistent with observed climate changes. I will show how static species distribution models, and dynamic population and community simulations, have been used to forecast the separate and combined impacts of climate and land use change on plant distributions. Geospatial data scientists play a critical role in these efforts.
Additional file 3 of Donor type and 3-month hospital readmission following kidney transplantation: results from the Netherlands organ transplant registry
Creators: name: Yiman Wang
name: Heemskerk, Martin B. A.
name: Michels, Wieneke M.
name: De Vries, Aiko P. J.
name: Dekker, Friedo W.
name: Meuleman, Yvette
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Hematology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3 Table S1. Demographic and clinical characteristics between kidney transplant recipients with and without missing values in the outcome (n = 1917).
EXOTIC PEST INFORMATION COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS (EPICA): PLANT HEALTH BIOSURVEILLANCE FOR THE UNITED STATES
Creators: name: Fritz, Jennifer M.
name: Moan, M. Jessica
name: Emerine, Sherrie E.
name: Meissner, Heike E.
name: Fritz, Jennifer M.
name: Moan, M. Jessica
name: Emerine, Sherrie E.
name: Meissner, Heike E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Early warning
subject: safeguarding
subject: exotic pest
subject: plant pest
subject: information

description: Early warning about potential pest threats allows the U.S. government to better protect U.S. agriculture and natural resources from the risks associated with the entry, establishment, or spread of exotic pests. Early warning requires up-to-date information on pest developments worldwide. To a large degree, this information is publicly available on the internet (www); however, time and effort are needed to find relevant information. Exotic Pest Information Collection and Analysis (EPICA) continuously monitors internet and other global information sources and collects, analyzes, communicates, and archives relevant news about exotic plant pests, thus providing a systematic, streamlined, and efficient approach to plant health biosurveillance for the U.S. government. This paper describes EPICA's plant health biosurveillance process.
Millimeter-Wave Aperture Synthesis Imaging of Vega: Evidence for a Ring Arc at 95 AU
Creators: name: Koerner, D. W.
name: Sargent, A. I.
name: Ostroff, N. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first millimeter-wave aperture synthesis map of dust around a main sequence star. A 3'' resolution image of 1.3 mm continuum emission from Vega reveals a clump of emission 12'' from the star at PA 45 deg, consistent with the location of maximum 850 micron emission in a lower resolution JCMT/SCUBA map. The flux density is 4.0+/-0.9 mJy. Adjacent 1.3 mm peaks with flux densities 3.4+/-1.0 mJy and 2.8+/-0.9 mJy are located 14'' and 13'' from the star at PA 67 deg and 18 deg, respectively. An arc-like bridge connects the two strongest peaks. There is an additional 2.4 +/-0.8 mJy peak to the SW 11'' from the star at PA 215 deg and a marginal detection, 1.4+/-0.5 mJy, at the stellar position, consistent with photospheric emission. An extrapolation from the 850 micron flux, assuming F_{1.3mm-0.85mm} proportional to lambda^{-2.8}, agrees well with the total detected flux for Vega at 1.3 mm, and implies a dust emissivity index, beta, of 0.8. We conclude that we have detected all but a very small fraction of the dust imaged by SCUBA in our aperture synthesis map and that these grains are largely confined to segments of a ring of radius 95 AU.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure, 1 table, accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal Letters
Robust Building-based Registration of Airborne LiDAR Data and Optical Imagery on Urban Scenes
Creators: name: Nguyen, Thanh Huy
name: Daniel, Sylvie
name: Gueriot, Didier
name: Sintes, Christophe
name: Caillec, Jean-Marc Le
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The motivation of this paper is to address the problem of registering airborne LiDAR data and optical aerial or satellite imagery acquired from different platforms, at different times, with different points of view and levels of detail. In this paper, we present a robust registration method based on building regions, which are extracted from optical images using mean shift segmentation, and from LiDAR data using a 3D point cloud filtering process. The matching of the extracted building segments is then carried out using Graph Transformation Matching (GTM) which allows to determine a common pattern of relative positions of segment centers. Thanks to this registration, the relative shifts between the data sets are significantly reduced, which enables a subsequent fine registration and a resulting high-quality data fusion.
description: Copyright 2019 IEEE. Published in the IEEE 2019 International Geoscience & Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2019), scheduled for July 28 - August 2, 2019 in Yokohama, Japan
Grundlagen zum Verständnis von Substanzkonsum und Substanzabhängigkeit
Creators: name: Herzig, Michael
name: Stolz, Katja
Publisher: name: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2024
Subjects: edX-MOOC PHRS1x
Harm reduction service
Drogenkonsum
Sexarbeit
362: Gesundheits- und Sozialdienste

description: This text is also available in English: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-2481
Dieser Text wurde für den Course Reader im MOOC «Harm Reduction Services für Drogenkonsument:innen und Sexarbeiter:innen» auf der Plattform edX geschrieben. Zu diesem Thema sind acht weitere Texte verfügbar. Sie sind am Ende des Dokuments aufgeführt.
description: Sie können erklären, weshalb und wozu Menschen Drogen oder andere psychoaktive Substanzen konsumieren und warum einige davon abhängig werden, andere nicht.
Elliptic variational problems with mixed nonlinearities
Creators: name: Han, Qi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we study the existence and multiplicity results of nontrivial positive solutions to a quasilinear elliptic equation in $\RN$, when $N\geq2$, as \begin{equation} \Lp u+u^{p-1}=λ\hspace{0.2mm}k(x)u^{r-1}-h(x)u^{q-1}.\nonumber \end{equation} Here, $h(x),k(x)>0$ are Lebesgue measurable functions, $10$ is a parameter.
title: Comics as communication: Developing more awareness and understanding of high-functioning autistic individuals through depiction of their lived experience
Creators: name: Keioskie, Meryl
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Autism Spectrum Disorder
subject: Comics (Graphic works)
subject: graphic medicine

description: Through creative synthesis, this research produced a comic in a bid to test whether comics could be utilized to effectively communicate a serious topic matter: the lived experience of autism spectrum disorder (HFA). Literature suggests that in-depth depictions of HFA individuals' consciousness are still left largely unexplored within fictional representations (Atwood, 2015; DSM-5, 2013; Grandin, 2012; Grandin & Panek, 2013; Silberman, 2015). Comics refer to a convergence of creative deliveries, which consists of many different formats. This project exclusively focuses on graphic narratives, which are also colloquially known by the term graphic novels. However, all terms are used interchangeably within. The means of address to the research inquiry posited is a comic titled Every Head A World (2023). The research argues that comics introduce a wealth of possibilities for communicating ideas effectively, through the medium's combination of word and imagery. The comic aimed to demonstrate a lived experience of HFA respectively and empathetically, through the synthesis of various lines of research, to address the aims and objectives outlined. Due to the vested motive of depicting human experience, the identified methodology deemed most appropriate is the qualitative research paradigm phenomenology. Both the pure and heuristic principles of phenomenology have been employed through methods of recorded interviews, surveys, case studies, and systematic review of relevant data. An auxiliary framework, also employed throughout this project is arts-based research (ABR). This is demonstrated through the process of creative synthesis, and the creation of the comic. The nature of arts-based research is noted to be largely multidisciplinary; therefore, phenomenological inquiry is identified as the core methodology in informing theoretical and ontological components of the research. The resulting comic proved the potential of graphic narrative for providing commentary on serious topic matters. The findings within this paper are based upon three phases of fieldwork conducted: Phase I surveys a subset of the population for their current perception and understanding of ASD; Phase II interviews high-functioning ASD individuals; and Phase III tests whether the comic addresses the research topic as well as question postulated.
Iphiclus (Neobarytopus) nigrofasciatus Skelley 2020, new combination
Creators: name: Skelley, Paul E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Erotylidae
Iphiclus
Iphiclus nigrofasciatus

description: Iphiclus (Neobarytopus) nigrofasciatus (Mader), new combination
 Brachysphoenus (Barytopus) nigrofasciatus Mader 1942b: 178.
 Iphiclus (Brachymerus) nigrofasciatus (Mader) ~ Alvarenga 1994: 83.
description: Published as part of Skelley, Paul E., 2020, Nomenclatural notes for the Erotylinae (Coleoptera: Erotylidae), pp. 1-35 in Insecta Mundi 2020 (767) on page 17, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5353590
European Robotics in agri-food Production: Opportunities and Challenges
Creators: name: Slawomir Sander (Post@Slawomir.De)
name: Eldert Van Henten (Eldert.Vanhenten@Wur.Nl)
name: Kees Lokhorst  (Kees.Lokhorst@Wur.Nl)
name: Erik Pekkeriet (Erik.Pekkeriet@Wur.Nl)
name: Thilo Steckel (Thilo.Steckel@Claas.Com)
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: robotics; agriculture; AI; food; technology; ecosystem; use-case; innovation; mechanized tasks;

description: Agricultural production is a key economic activity providing a growing world population with resources like food, fibers, fuels, and chemical basic components. Yet, agriculture also plays a crucial role in the depletion of resources like fresh water, fossil fuels, and nutrients (e.g., phosphate) and has a significant impact on our living environment through emissions and the use of chemicals. Despite a growing world population, labor participation in agricultural production is declining. Technology has been instrumental in the very successful development of agriculture throughout the centuries and will play a crucial role in the European Green Deal that addresses the transition to a more sustainable agri-food production in the years that lay ahead of us. It is expected that technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Data, and Robotics will be leading in this transition. During this transition, it is critically important to support agri-food production with novel technologies. Covering the value chain from breeding, through on-farm production, post-harvest storage, logistics, packaging, and food processing, the agri-food production network is an ecosystem providing agri-food products and services. Besides food, other off-farm productions do exist including harvesting of wild food, fisheries, indoor farming, both large scale commercial, and home growing, forestry, and, last but not least, urban landscaping and maintenance where robot technologies can and will be applied as well. The current release of this agenda mainly focuses on the food production part. Being a working document, the authors wish to express the hope that it will serve as a basis for further elaboration to encompass the whole agrifood domain in its full width and depth. With an emphasis on robotics and to a lesser extent on AI and Data, this report provides a vision and mission on what robotics should contribute and how to facilitate the transition to a more sustainable agri-food production. Key challenges in terms of technology, ecosystem, and market are derived from 12 use-case themes within the agri-food production domain. Use-case themes represent classes of functionality that go beyond specific individual applications and application domains. Despite of aiming to identify high-level cross-domain challenges in robotics, AI, and Data agri-food and offering the opportunity to connect to other technical and application domains, this classification is not considered to be exhaustive.
Magnetic Inflation and Stellar Mass III: Revised Parameters for the Component Stars of NSVS 07394765
Creators: name: Healy, Brian F.
name: Han, Eunkyu
name: Muirhead, Philip S.
name: Skiff, Brian
name: Polakis, Tom
name: Rilinger, Anneliese M.
name: Swift, Jonathan J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a new analysis of the M dwarf-M dwarf eclipsing binary system NSVS 07394765 in order to investigate the reported hyper-inflated radius of one of the component stars. Our analysis is based on archival photometry from the Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP), new photometry from the 32 cm {Command Module Observatory (CMO) telescope in Arizona and the 70 cm telescope at Thacher Observatory in California}, and new high-resolution infrared spectra obtained with the Immersion Grating Infrared Spectrograph (IGRINS) on the Discovery Channel Telescope. The masses and radii we measure for each component star disagree with previously reported measurements. We show that both stars are early M-type main-sequence stars without evidence for youth or hyper-inflation ($M_1= 0.661\ ^{+0.008}_{-0.036}\ \rm{M_{sun}}$, $M_2= 0.608\ ^{+0.003}_{-0.028}\ \rm{M_{sun}}$, $R_1= 0.599\ ^{+0.032}_{-0.019}\ \rm{R_{sun}}$, $R_2= 0.625\ ^{+0.012}_{-0.027}\ \rm{R_{sun}}$), and we update the orbital period and eclipse ephemerides for the system. We suggest that the likely cause of the initial hyper-inflated result is the use of moderate-resolution spectroscopy for precise radial velocity measurements.
description: 14 pages, 11 figures. Accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal
Additional file 13 of Transcriptomic analysis reveals differential gene expression, alternative splicing, and novel exons during mouse trophoblast stem cell differentiation
Creators: name: Ullah, Rahim
name: Naz, Ambreen
name: Akram, Hafiza Sara
name: Ullah, Zakir
name: Tariq, Muhammad
name: Mithani, Aziz
name: Faisal, Amir
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 13: Figure S5. Experimental validation of novel exon identified in 8 selected genes. a IGV snapshot of the identified novel exons showing read coverage in all 3 replicates of TSCs (red) and TGCs (blue). Reference gene track is shown at the bottom (blue) with bars representing the corresponding exons and arrowhead (black) showing the orientation of the gene. Novel exons are enclosed by red boxes. b The primer pair design strategy for the amplification of novel exons. Primer pairs for the amplification of novel exons in Asprv1, Zbtb7c, Eps8l1, Snx29 and Gramd1c were designed in different exons while in Sil1, Ai506816 and Map2k2, the primer pairs were designed only in novel identified exons. Rectangles represent novel (red) and known (blue) exons while arrows (black) represent forward (top) and reverse (bottom) primers. The two exons are separated from each other by a line (black) representing intronic region. c PCR amplification of novel exons from TSCs and TGCs. Agarose gel image of the PCR amplified products of novel exon in 9 genes. Amplification of actin from RT+ and RT- (with and without reverse transcriptase) represents positive and negative controls, respectively.
Geospatial data for forecasting global change impacts on ecosystems
Creators: name: Franklin, Janet
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 90903 Geospatial Information Systems
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering

description: Human activities have altered global patterns of biodiversity, and key processes of energy balance and biogeochemical cycling in the Earth system, especially over the last 500 years. These changes have been so profound that they are detectable in the geological record and some have suggested that this is a new geological era, The Anthropocene. Owing to the anthropogenic global change agents -- land use change, climate change, nitrogen deposition, altered disturbance regimes and transport of invasive species -- the planet may have already moved outside of a safe operating space for humanity in several dimensions. I use geospatial data in my research for monitoring and forecasting the effects of land-use change (deforestation and urbanization leading to habitat loss and fragmentation), and climate change on biodiversity and ecosystem function. Processes leading to biodiversity loss are inherently spatial. Knowing where biodiversity is found is the basis for spatial conservation planning. Knowing where on the landscape threats occur in relation to biodiversity is prerequisite to monitoring impacts. Forecasting where threats might occur in the future allows prediction of future impacts. The effects of climate change on species and ecosystems is already detectable globally, with earlier arrival of spring affecting plant and animal phenology, bird and other animal migrations, and so forth, and with species distributions shifting in directions consistent with observed climate changes. I will show how static species distribution models, and dynamic population and community simulations, have been used to forecast the separate and combined impacts of climate and land use change on plant distributions. Geospatial data scientists play a critical role in these efforts.
Additional file 4 of Donor type and 3-month hospital readmission following kidney transplantation: results from the Netherlands organ transplant registry
Creators: name: Yiman Wang
name: Heemskerk, Martin B. A.
name: Michels, Wieneke M.
name: De Vries, Aiko P. J.
name: Dekker, Friedo W.
name: Meuleman, Yvette
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Hematology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 4 Table S2. Demographic and clinical characteristics between KTRs included in the analysis and the eligible KTRs from the excluded medical centre.