cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
An approximate block factorization preconditioner for mixed-dimensional beam-solid interaction
Creators: name: Firmbach, Max
name: Steinbrecher, Ivo
name: Popp, Alexander
name: Mayr, Matthias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents a scalable physics-based block preconditioner for mixed-dimensional models in beam-solid interaction and their application in engineering. In particular, it studies the linear systems arising from a regularized mortar-type approach for embedding geometrically exact beams into solid continua. Due to the lack of block diagonal dominance of the arising 2 x 2 block system, an approximate block factorization preconditioner is used. It exploits the sparsity structure of the beam sub-block to construct a sparse approximate inverse, which is then not only used to explicitly form an approximation of the Schur complement, but also acts as a smoother within the prediction step of the arising SIMPLE-type preconditioner. The correction step utilizes an algebraic multigrid method. Although, for now, the beam sub-block is tackled by a one-level method only, the multi-level nature of the computationally demanding correction step delivers a scalable preconditioner in practice. In numerical test cases, the influence of different algorithmic parameters on the quality of the sparse approximate inverse is studied and the weak scaling behavior of the proposed preconditioner on up to 1000 MPI ranks is demonstrated, before the proposed preconditioner is finally applied for the analysis of steel-reinforced concrete structures in civil engineering.
Understanding the experiences and needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans Australians living with dementia, and their partners
Creators: name: Barrett, Catherine
name: Crameri, Pauline
name: Lambourne, Sally
name: Latham, J.R.
name: Whyte, Carolyn
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 3202
subject: Clinical sciences
classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 4203
subject: Health services and systems
classificationCode: 420301
subject: Aged health care
classificationCode: 4205
subject: Nursing

description:  No description supplied
Scorpiops (Scorpiops) spitiensis Zambre, Sanap & Mirza 2014
Creators: name: Lourenço, Wilson R.
name: Ythier, Eric
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Scorpiones
Scorpiopidae
Scorpiops
Scorpiops spitiensis

description: - S. (Scorpiops) spitiensis Zambre, Sanap & Mirza, 2014
India
description: Published as part of Lourenço, Wilson R. & Ythier, Eric, 2022, A new species of the genus Scorpiops Peters, 1861, subgenus Euscorpiops Vachon, 1980 from Laos (Scorpiones: Scorpiopidae), pp. 1-9 in Faunitaxys 10 (27) on page 2, DOI: 10.57800/faunitaxys-10(27), http://zenodo.org/record/15352467
10-SINF BIOLOGIYA DARSLIGINING IRSIYATNING UMUMIY QONUNYATLARI. G.MENDELNING IRSIYAT QONUNLARI VA ULARNING MOHIYATI MAVZUSINI O'QUVCHILARGA TUSHUNTIRISHDA QO'LLANILADIGAN SAMARALI METOD VA USLUBLAR
Creators: name: Abdurayeva, Parizoda
name: Yo'ldashaliyeva, Nilufar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ushbu maqolada 10-sinf biologiya fanini o'rganishdagi metodlar,  uslublar va yondashuvlar haqida so'z boradi.
Deep Learning for Cross-Domain Data Fusion in Urban Computing: Taxonomy, Advances, and Outlook
Creators: name: Zou, Xingchen
name: Yan, Yibo
name: Hao, Xixuan
name: Hu, Yuehong
name: Wen, Haomin
name: Liu, Erdong
name: Zhang, Junbo
name: Li, Yong
name: Li, Tianrui
name: Zheng, Yu
name: Liang, Yuxuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: As cities continue to burgeon, Urban Computing emerges as a pivotal discipline for sustainable development by harnessing the power of cross-domain data fusion from diverse sources (e.g., geographical, traffic, social media, and environmental data) and modalities (e.g., spatio-temporal, visual, and textual modalities). Recently, we are witnessing a rising trend that utilizes various deep-learning methods to facilitate cross-domain data fusion in smart cities. To this end, we propose the first survey that systematically reviews the latest advancements in deep learning-based data fusion methods tailored for urban computing. Specifically, we first delve into data perspective to comprehend the role of each modality and data source. Secondly, we classify the methodology into four primary categories: feature-based, alignment-based, contrast-based, and generation-based fusion methods. Thirdly, we further categorize multi-modal urban applications into seven types: urban planning, transportation, economy, public safety, society, environment, and energy. Compared with previous surveys, we focus more on the synergy of deep learning methods with urban computing applications. Furthermore, we shed light on the interplay between Large Language Models (LLMs) and urban computing, postulating future research directions that could revolutionize the field. We firmly believe that the taxonomy, progress, and prospects delineated in our survey stand poised to significantly enrich the research community. The summary of the comprehensive and up-to-date paper list can be found at https://github.com/yoshall/Awesome-Multimodal-Urban-Computing.
Cholinesterase inhibitor therapy does not affect time spent in nursing homes in patients with Alzheimer’s disease
Creators: name: Wattmo, Carina
name: Londos, Elisabet
name: Minthon, Lennart
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Introduction: The time spent in nursing homes (NHs) by patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) might be affected by many factors, e.g. sociodemographic and clinical characteristics, rate of AD progression, and other concomitant diseases. Whether different aspects of cholinesterase inhibitor (ChEI) therapy (type of drug agent, dose, and duration) influence survival time in NHs has not been investigated. We studied the association between these possible predictors and time spent in NHs.

Methods: The Swedish Alzheimer Treatment Study (SATS) is a prospective, observational, multicenter study for the longitudinal evaluation of ChEI treatment in routine clinical practice. This presentation includes 220 deceased SATS patients clinically diagnosed with mild-to-moderate AD (Mini-Mental State Examination score, 10–26 at the start of ChEI therapy) who were admitted to NHs during the study. Cognitive and activities of daily living (ADL) abilities were assessed at the baseline and every 6 months over 3 years. The dates of nursing home placement (NHP) and death were documented. Variables that determined time spent in NHs were analyzed using general linear models.

Results: The mean (95% confidence interval) survival time spent in NHs was 4.06 (3.69–4.43) years: 2.78 (2.19–3.38) years for men vs 4.53 (4.09–4.96) years for women; p < 0.001. When taking into account the interaction effect of sex and living status, males living with a family member spent a shorter time in NHs (2.15 (1.48–2.83) years) vs the other groups: females living with family, 4.75 (4.00–5.50) years; males living alone, 4.00 (2.96–5.05) years; and females living alone, 4.41 (3.87–4.95) years; p < 0.001. The multivariate model showed that a shorter stay in NHs was independently associated with being a man living with family, lower basic ADL capacity at NHP, and a larger number of concomitant medications. Age, cognitive or instrumental ADL performance at NHP, rates of deterioration in cognition or function, and ChEI type, dose, and treatment duration were not significant predictors in the model.

Conclusions: Women cared for their spouses with AD at home longer than did men. The situation of these female informal caregivers needs attention and possibly support. There was no indication that any aspects of ChEI treatment affected the time spent in NHs.
Are clinical measures of foot posture and mobility associated with foot kinematics when walking?
Creators: name: Buldt, Andrew
name: Murley, George
name: Levinger, Pazit
name: Menz, Hylton
name: Nester, Christopher
name: Landorf, Karl
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Background: There is uncertainty as to which foot posture measures are the most valid in terms of predicting kinematics of the foot. The aim of this study was to investigate the associations of clinical measures of static foot posture and mobility with foot kinematics during barefoot walking. Method: Foot posture and mobility were measured in 97 healthy adults (46 males, 51 females; mean age 24.4±6.2years). Foot posture was assessed using the 6-item Foot Posture Index (FPI), Arch Index (AI), Normalised Navicular Height (NNHt) and Normalised Dorsal Arch Height (DAH). Foot mobility was evaluated using the Foot Mobility Magnitude (FMM) measure. Following this, a five-segment foot model was used to measure tri-planar motion of the rearfoot, midfoot, medial forefoot, lateral forefoot and hallux. Peak and range of motion variables during load acceptance and midstance/propulsion phases of gait were extracted for all relative segment to segment motion calculations. Hierarchical regression analyses were conducted, adjusting for potential confounding variables. Results: The degree of variance in peak and range of motion kinematic variables that was independently explained by foot posture measures was as follows: FPI 5 to 22%, NNHt 6 to 20%, AI 7 to 13%, DAH 6 to 8%, and FMM 8%. The FPI was retained as a significant predictor across the most number of kinematic variables. However, the amount of variance explained by the FPI for individual kinematic variables did not exceed other measures. Overall, static foot posture measures were more strongly associated with kinematic variables than foot mobility measures and explained more variation in peak variables compared to range of motion variables. Conclusions: Foot posture measures can explain only a small amount of variation in foot kinematics. Static foot posture measures, and in particular the FPI, were more strongly associated with foot kinematics compared with foot mobility measures. These findings suggest that foot kinematics cannot be accurately inferred from clinical observations of foot posture alone.
Extending partial haplotypes to full genome haplotypes using chromosome conformation capture data
Creators: name: Ben-Elazar, Shay
name: Chor, Benny
name: Yakhini, Zohar
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Motivation: Complex interactions among alleles often drive differences in inherited properties including disease predisposition. Isolating the effects of these interactions requires phasing information that is difficult to measure or infer. Furthermore, prevalent sequencing technologies used in the essential first step of determining a haplotype limit the range of that step to the span of reads, namely hundreds of bases. With the advent of pseudo-long read technologies, observable partial haplotypes can span several orders of magnitude more. Yet, measuring whole-genome-single-individual haplotypes remains a challenge. A different view of whole genome measurement addresses the 3D structure of the genome – with great development of Hi-C techniques in recent years. A shortcoming of current Hi-C, however, is the difficulty in inferring information that is specific to each of a pair of homologous chromosomes.

Results: In this work we develop a robust algorithmic framework that takes two measurement derived datasets: raw Hi-C and partial short-range haplotypes, and constructs the full-genome haplotype as well as phased diploid Hi-C maps. By analyzing both data sets together we thus bridge important gaps in both technologies – from short to long haplotypes and from un-phased to phased Hi-C. We demonstrate that our method can recover ground truth haplotypes with high accuracy, using measured biological data as well as simulated data. We analyze the impact of noise, Hi-C sequencing depth and measured haplotype lengths on performance. Finally, we use the inferred 3D structure of a human genome to point at transcription factor targets nuclear co-localization.
BILOGIYA O'QITISHNING RIVOJLATIRUVCHI METODLARI VA ULARNING KLASSIFIKATSIYASI HAMDA QO'LLASH USLUBLARI
Creators: name: Abdurayeva, Parizoda
name: Yo'ldashaliyeva, Nilufar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ushbu maqolada biologiya o'rganishdagi metodlar, usullar va yondashuvlar haqida so'z boradi.
title: Policy Watch: Putin's Munich speech
Creators: name: Katz, Mark N.
Publisher: name: UPI.com (United Press International, Inc.)
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: International affairs
subject: Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1952-
subject: Munich Conference on Security Policy

description: © 2007 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Deposited with permission from UPI.com.
description: Russian President Vladimir Putin's Feb. 10 speech at the Munich Conference on Security Policy received a lot of press coverage in the West for its criticism of U.S. foreign policy. Less noted in the United States, however, was that his speech was also critical of European governments. Putin's unhappiness with American foreign policy was evident from his denunciation of the "unipolar world." Putin particularly objects to the "almost unrestrained, exaggerated use of force" and what he sees as America imposing its legal norms "on other states in all spheres." He also stated his opposition to the deployment of American missile defense systems in Europe and the militarization of outer space. Putin said that while Russia will "strictly adhere to the obligation" that Washington and Moscow agreed upon to each reduce its deliverable strategic nuclear warhead inventory to 1,700-2,200 by the end of 2012, he expressed fear that the U.S. will not.
Supplementary document for Effect of tissue fixation on the optical properties of structural components assessed by non-linear microscopy imaging - 6409272.pdf
Creators: name: Markus, Andrea
name: Ferrari, Daniele Pereira
name: Alves, Frauke
name: Gomes, Fernanda Ramos
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary Figure 1
Informed and Assessable Observability Design Decisions in Cloud-native Microservice Applications
Creators: name: Borges, Maria C.
name: Bauer, Joshua
name: Werner, Sebastian
name: Gebauer, Michael
name: Tai, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Observability is important to ensure the reliability of microservice applications. These applications are often prone to failures, since they have many independent services deployed on heterogeneous environments. When employed "correctly", observability can help developers identify and troubleshoot faults quickly. However, instrumenting and configuring the observability of a microservice application is not trivial but tool-dependent and tied to costs. Architects need to understand observability-related trade-offs in order to weigh between different observability design alternatives. Still, these architectural design decisions are not supported by systematic methods and typically just rely on "professional intuition". In this paper, we argue for a systematic method to arrive at informed and continuously assessable observability design decisions. Specifically, we focus on fault observability of cloud-native microservice applications, and turn this into a testable and quantifiable property. Towards our goal, we first model the scale and scope of observability design decisions across the cloud-native stack. Then, we propose observability metrics which can be determined for any microservice application through so-called observability experiments. We present a proof-of-concept implementation of our experiment tool OXN. OXN is able to inject arbitrary faults into an application, similar to Chaos Engineering, but also possesses the unique capability to modify the observability configuration, allowing for the assessment of design decisions that were previously left unexplored. We demonstrate our approach using a popular open source microservice application and show the trade-offs involved in different observability design decisions.
description: 21st IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA'24)
Accounting for dominance to improve genomic evaluations of dairy cows for fertility and milk production traits
Creators: name: Aliloo, H
name: Pryce, Jennie
name: Gonzalez-Recio, O
name: Cocks, Benjamin
name: Hayes, BJ
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 3105
subject: Genetics

description: Background: Dominance effects may contribute to genetic variation of complex traits in dairy cattle, especially for traits closely related to fitness such as fertility. However, traditional genetic evaluations generally ignore dominance effects and consider additive genetic effects only. Availability of dense single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) panels provides the opportunity to investigate the role of dominance in quantitative variation of complex traits at both the SNP and animal levels. Including dominance effects in the genomic evaluation of animals could also help to increase the accuracy of prediction of future phenotypes. In this study, we estimated additive and dominance variance components for fertility and milk production traits of genotyped Holstein and Jersey cows in Australia. The predictive abilities of a model that accounts for additive effects only (additive), and a model that accounts for both additive and dominance effects (additive + dominance) were compared in a fivefold cross-validation. Results: Estimates of the proportion of dominance variation relative to phenotypic variation that is captured by SNPs, for production traits, were up to 3.8 and 7.1 % in Holstein and Jersey cows, respectively, whereas, for fertility, they were equal to 1.2 % in Holstein and very close to zero in Jersey cows. We found that including dominance in the model was not consistently advantageous. Based on maximum likelihood ratio tests, the additive + dominance model fitted the data better than the additive model, for milk, fat and protein yields in both breeds. However, regarding the prediction of phenotypes assessed with fivefold cross-validation, including dominance effects in the model improved accuracy only for fat yield in Holstein cows. Regression coefficients of phenotypes on genetic values and mean squared errors of predictions showed that the predictive ability of the additive + dominance model was superior to that of the additive model for some of the traits. Conclusions: In both breeds, dominance effects were significant (P < 0.01) for all milk production traits but not for fertility. Accuracy of prediction of phenotypes was slightly increased by including dominance effects in the genomic evaluation model. Thus, it can help to better identify highly performing individuals and be useful for culling decisions.
Electronic structure and conductivity in functionalized multilayer black phosphorene
Creators: name: Khabthani, Jouda Jemaa
name: Chika, Khouloud
name: Jemaï, Ghassen
name: Mayou, Didier
name: de Laissardière, Guy Trambly
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Phosphorene and its components are highly reactive to oxygen when exposed to ambient conditions due to the presence of lone pairs of electrons on phosphorus atoms. Functionalization serves as a solution to prevent the chemical degradation of these materials. In this paper, we investigate the impact of relatively strong covalent or noncovalent functionalization on phosphorene (monolayer black phosphorus (BP)), few-layer BP, and bulk BP. We use an effective tight-binding Hamiltonian that corresponds to one orbital per site, wherein covalent functionalization is simulated by atomic vacancies, and noncovalent functionalization is simulated by Anderson disorder. We demonstrate that these two types of functionalization act differently on the electronic structure and quantum diffusion, particularly affecting the gap and mobility characteristics, especially with a high degree of functionalization. However, we also show that the mobility gap is not significantly modified by the two types of defect. We also analyze the electron-hole asymmetry that is more important for multilayer and bulk BP.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures, supplemental material
title: The Lived Experiences of Asian Indian Adoptees in White America
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Adoption
subject: Identity issues
subject: Racism
subject: Women
subject: Culture
subject: Asian Indian adoptees

description: The purpose of this study is to understand Asian Indian women adoptees’ life history, primarily focusing on what it means to be adopted into White families. This research examines their biological and adopted cultures and its effect on their identity formation. Through a qualitative study, nine women participated in in-depth interviews and surveys. Their narratives were reflections of: their sense of identity, whether Indian and American, or one identity exclusively; racism; assimilation; and racial and cultural belonging. A major finding of this study is the different types of racism that the participants experienced as children within their communities even though they felt accepted as South Asian. Another finding is how their adoptive parent(s) avoided discussing the topics of race and racism during their childhoods.
Ganzheitliche Optimierung einer Axialkolbenpumpe durch bedarfsangepasste Entlastung tribologischer Kontakte
Creators: name: Haug, Stefan
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2022
Subjects: Axialkolbenpumpe
Tribologie
Hydrostaten
Verdängereinheiten
Hydraulik
Axial piston pump
tribology
hydrostat
displacement pump
hydraulic

description: Schrägscheiben Axialkolbenpumpen werden in diversen mobilen sowie stationären Anwendungen zur Leistungsübertragung eingesetzt. Eine Optimierung dieses Verdrängerprinzips kann durch die aktive Beeinflussung der Schmierspaltausprägung in tribologischen Kontaktstellen erzielt werden. Anhand der beschriebenen kennfeldbasierten Druckregelung von Druckreservoirs, anhand derer betriebspunktspezifisch der Entlastungsgrad der einzelnen betrachteten Kontaktflächen ausgeregelt werden kann.
Scorpiops (Scorpiops) ingens Yin, Zhang, Pan, Li & Di 2015
Creators: name: Lourenço, Wilson R.
name: Ythier, Eric
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Scorpiones
Scorpiopidae
Scorpiops
Scorpiops ingens

description: - S. (Scorpiops) ingens Yin, Zhang, Pan, Li & Di, 2015
China
description: Published as part of Lourenço, Wilson R. & Ythier, Eric, 2022, A new species of the genus Scorpiops Peters, 1861, subgenus Euscorpiops Vachon, 1980 from Laos (Scorpiones: Scorpiopidae), pp. 1-9 in Faunitaxys 10 (27) on page 2, DOI: 10.57800/faunitaxys-10(27), http://zenodo.org/record/15352467
Finite elements for Matérn-type random fields: Uncertainty in computational mechanics and design optimization
Creators: name: Duswald, Tobias
name: Keith, Brendan
name: Lazarov, Boyan
name: Petrides, Socratis
name: Wohlmuth, Barbara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: J.6; J.2; I.6.3; I.6.5; G.1.2; G.1.8; G.3

description: This work highlights an approach for incorporating realistic uncertainties into scientific computing workflows based on finite elements, focusing on applications in computational mechanics and design optimization. We leverage Matérn-type Gaussian random fields (GRFs) generated using the SPDE method to model aleatoric uncertainties, including environmental influences, variating material properties, and geometric ambiguities. Our focus lies on delivering practical GRF realizations that accurately capture imperfections and variations and understanding how they impact the predictions of computational models and the topology of optimized designs. We describe a numerical algorithm based on solving a generalized SPDE to sample GRFs on arbitrary meshed domains. The algorithm leverages established techniques and integrates seamlessly with the open-source finite element library MFEM and associated scientific computing workflows, like those found in industrial and national laboratory settings. Our solver scales efficiently for large-scale problems and supports various domain types, including surfaces and embedded manifolds. We showcase its versatility through biomechanics and topology optimization applications. The flexibility and efficiency of SPDE-based GRF generation empower us to run large-scale optimization problems on 2D and 3D domains, including finding optimized designs on embedded surfaces, and to generate topologies beyond the reach of conventional techniques. Moreover, these capabilities allow us to model geometric uncertainties of reconstructed submanifolds, such as the surfaces of cerebral aneurysms. In addition to offering benefits in these specific domains, the proposed techniques transcend specific applications and generalize to arbitrary forward and backward problems in uncertainty quantification involving finite elements.
description: 38 pages, 21 figures
title: An Evaluation of Non-invasive Sampling Methods in Determining River Herring Abundance
Creators: name: Melton, Jessie
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: River herring
subject: Video
subject: Alewife
subject: EDNA
subject: Abundance
subject: Blueback

description: Alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus) and Blueback Herring (Alosa aestivalis), collectively known as river herring, are two anadromous species of fish that spend a majority of their life in marine waters, but migrate to freshwaters in order to spawn. The Potomac Environmental Research and Education Center (PEREC) has been conducting river herring run count studies for the last few decades in tributaries to the Potomac River, by using block nets to find adult river herring abundance, and plankton nets to examine ichthyoplankton abundance during the spawning season. The objective of this study is to compare the adult river herring abundance between block net abundance, video surveillance, and environmental DNA (eDNA) copy number, with the ultimate goal to determine if non-invasive collection methods can be effectively used to determine river herring run count. eDNA analysis allows for detection of shed DNA in a water sample from species present in the water. The study also examines the impact of abiotic factors such as salinity, pH, temperature, and flow rate on river herring eDNA, as it is expected that these factors will have an impact on DNA shedding rates and residence time, and will allow for predictive modeling. Ichthyoplankton abundance is compared with eDNA findings as well, as ichthyoplankton may shed DNA that contributes to total eDNA found in water samples. Video counts and eDNA are both non-invasive methods, which will provide a way to determine river herring abundance without stress to the fish or damage to the environment. Both video and eDNA as methods require less staff, and are not necessarily weather dependent, in comparison to block nets. While the study showed that video surveillance is not effective in this format for finding abundance of the target species, it was beneficial in showing the impacts that the block nets have. The use of eDNA does seem beneficial in a number of cases in not only showing correlation of presence, but also species-specific presence. The aim here is to explore the relationship between eDNA copy number and river herring abundance to determine whether abundance can be deduced from copy number alone, or in conjunction with abiotic factors in the system. This study showed that there is a significant correlation between copy number and river herring abundance, and that in this case abiotic factors do not significantly impact the abundance. However, further studies should be done to further explore abiotic factors in relation to eDNA longevity within the system, as well as what determines the DNA shedding rates of both adult and larval river herring.
Additional file 1 of Impact of agitation/activation strategies on the antibiofilm potential of sodium hypochlorite/etidronate mixture in vitro
Creators: name: Cai, Ming
name: Cai, Yanling
name: Yang, Ruiqi
name: Xu, Zhezhen
name: Neelakantan, Prasanna
name: Wei, Xi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Bacterial counts of E. faecalis (a) and S.gordonni (b) before preparation (S1), after preparation (S2) and after final irrigation (S3).
ProMoAI: Process Modeling with Generative AI
Creators: name: Kourani, Humam
name: Berti, Alessandro
name: Schuster, Daniel
name: van der Aalst, Wil M. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: ProMoAI is a novel tool that leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) to automatically generate process models from textual descriptions, incorporating advanced prompt engineering, error handling, and code generation techniques. Beyond automating the generation of complex process models, ProMoAI also supports process model optimization. Users can interact with the tool by providing feedback on the generated model, which is then used for refining the process model. ProMoAI utilizes the capabilities LLMs to offer a novel, AI-driven approach to process modeling, significantly reducing the barrier to entry for users without deep technical knowledge in process modeling.
title: Development and Validation of a Real-time Multiplex PCR Assay for Diagnosis of Carbapenem Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii
Creators: name: Cash, Dana Marie
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Acinetobacter baumannii
subject: Real-time PCR
subject: MALDI-TOF MS
subject: 16s rRNA gene sequencing

description: Bacterial antibiotic resistance, particularly in nosocomial infections, has become an increasing problem over the last few decades. Overuse of antibiotics in medical and agricultural settings has contributed to the alarming rise of multi-drug resistant bacterial species. Of significant concern are multi-drug resistant (MDR) gram-negative hospital acquired infections that are extremely difficult to treat. In particular, the species Acinetobacter baumannii has been a source of many of these infections, not only in the civilian setting, but in military treatment facilities (MTFs) in combat areas and those treating wounded soldiers abroad and at home. A. baumannii harbors many drug resistance genes and mechanisms but the OXA-type carbapenemase encoding genes have been shown to confer resistance to the standard method of treatment for MDR bacteria, carbapenems of the β-lactam group. This project aimed to develop and implement a real-time PCR assay on the SmartCycler platform to detect the presence of relevant multiple carbapenem resistance genes, as well as to identify A. baumannii specifically. The validated assay tests for the carbapenem resistance genes OXA -23, -24, -51 and -58, of which OXA-23 is a reliable indicator of antibiotic resistance while OXA-24 and -58 have also been shown to confer resistance. In our experiments, we also showed that OXA-51 was present in 100% of A. baumannii samples, indicating its use in species identification. This study was successful in producing an assay with a quick turn-around time to detect the presence of multiple carbapenem resistance genes, as well as identifying A. baumannii at the species level.
Supplementary document for Femtosecond-laser-based full-field three-dimensional imaging with phase compensation - 6409338.pdf
Creators: name: Shi, Liheng
name: wang, yue
name: Zhang, Ruixue
name: Zhang, Jinxu
name: Yang, Yuetang
name: Li, Yang
name: Chen, Jiayang
name: Zhou, Siyu
name: Wu, Guanhao
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Photodetectors, Optical Sensors and Solar Cells
Optical Technology

description: Algorithm, Limitation of exposure duration on the downsampling method, and Precision analysis results with different parameters
Scorpiops (Scorpiops) taxkorgan Lourenco 2018
Creators: name: Lourenço, Wilson R.
name: Ythier, Eric
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Scorpiones
Scorpiopidae
Scorpiops
Scorpiops taxkorgan

description: - S. (Scorpiops) taxkorgan Lourenço, 2018
China
description: Published as part of Lourenço, Wilson R. & Ythier, Eric, 2022, A new species of the genus Scorpiops Peters, 1861, subgenus Euscorpiops Vachon, 1980 from Laos (Scorpiones: Scorpiopidae), pp. 1-9 in Faunitaxys 10 (27) on page 2, DOI: 10.57800/faunitaxys-10(27), http://zenodo.org/record/15352467
Oncogenic epithelial cell-derived exosomes containing Rac1 and PAK2 induce angiogenesis in recipient endothelial cells
Creators: name: Gopal, SK
name: Greening, David
name: Hanssen, EG
name: Zhu, H-J
name: Simpson, Richard
name: Mathias, RA
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The metastatic cascade describes the escape of primary tumour cells to distant secondary sites. Cells at the leading tumour edge are thought to undergo epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), to enhance their motility and invasion for spreading. Whether EMT cells directly promote tumour angiogenesis, and the role of exosomes (30-150 nm extracellular vesicles) remains largely unknown. We examined the functional effects of exosomes from MDCK cells, MDCK cells stably expressing YBX1 (MDCKYBX1, intermediate EMT), and Ras-transformed MDCK cells (21D1 cells, complete EMT). 2F-2B cell motility and tube formation (length and branching) was significantly increased following supplementation with MDCKYBX1 or 21D1 exosomes, but not MDCK exosomes. Next, Matrigel™ plugs containing exosome-supplemented 2F-2B cells were subcutaneously injected into mice. Systemic perfusion was only observed for plugs supplemented with MDCKYBX1 or 21D1 exosomes. Comparative proteomics revealed that 21D1 exosomes contained VEGF-associated proteins, while MDCKYBX1 exosomes were enriched with activated Rac1 and PAK2. To validate, 2F-2B cells and HUVECs were pre-treated with PAK inhibitors prior to exosome supplementation. PAK inhibition nullified the effects of MDCKYBX1 exosomes by reducing the tube length and branching to baseline levels. By contrast, the effects of 21D1 exosomes were not significantly decreased. Our results demonstrate for the first time that oncogenic cells undergoing EMT can communicate with endothelial cells via exosomes, and establish exosomal Rac1/PAK2 as angiogenic promoters that may function from early stages of the metastatic cascade.
Fermionic vacuum stresses in models with toroidal compact dimensions
Creators: name: Saharian, A. A.
name: Avagyan, R. M.
name: Harutyunyan, G. H.
name: Nikoghosyan, G. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate vacuum expectation value of the energy-momentum tensor for a massive Dirac field in flat spacetime with a toroidal subspace of a general dimension. Quasiperiodicity conditions with arbitrary phases are imposed on the field operator along compact dimensions. These phases are interpreted in terms of magnetic fluxes enclosed by compact dimensions. The equation of state in the uncompact subspace is of the cosmological constant type. It is shown that, in addition to the diagonal components, the vacuum energy-momentum tensor has nonzero off-diagonal components. In special cases of twisted (antiperiodic) and untwisted (periodic) fields the off diagonal components vanish. For untwisted fields the vacuum energy density is positive and the energy-momentum tensor obeys the strong energy condition. For general values of the phases in the periodicity conditions the energy density and stresses can be either positive or negative. The numerical results are given for a Kaluza-Klein type model with two extra dimensions.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures
Additional file 2 of Success and patient satisfaction of immediately loaded zirconia implants with fixed restorations one year after loading
Creators: name: Rutkowski, Rico
name: Smeets, Ralf
name: Neuhöffer, Leon
name: Stolzer, Carolin
name: Strick, Kilian
name: Gosau, Martin
name: Sehner, Susanne
name: Volz, Karl Ulrich
name: Henningsen, Anders
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file2: Supplement 2: OHIP questionnaire
Pilot test of an interactive education toolkit on drug use
Creators: name: Olaniyi Olayinka
name: MyNgoc Nguyen
name: Hall, Savannah
name: Muge Akpinar-Elci
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Use of alcohol, prescription drugs, and new psychoactive substances have increased among teens in the United States and globally. In 2010, the National Institute on Drug Abuse launched the National Drug & Alcohol Facts Week (NDAFW), an annual event that link teens to scientific experts to discuss topical issues related to substance use and addiction. To help create a drug-free environment for teens within the local community, we developed a new interactive drug education toolkit (NIDET). The aim was to help teens identify the harmful effects of using drugs and educate them on the critical role awareness play in preventing substance use disorders and addiction using an interactive game
The effect of female sex hormone supplementation on tendon in pre and postmenopausal women: A systematic review
Creators: name: Ganderton, Charlotte
name: Semciw, Adam
name: Cook, Jillianne
name: Pizzari, Tania
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences
classificationCode: 3202
subject: Clinical sciences
classificationCode: 3208
subject: Medical physiology

description: Objectives: Oestrogen deprivation has been shown to have a negative effect on connective tissue and its turnover. A link may exist between supplemental oestrogen, preservation of tendon collagen and less tendon abnormality. The aim was to determine the effects of female sex hormone supplementation (FSHS) on tendon. Methods: A systematic search of nine key health databases; Medline, CINAHL, EMBASE, SPORTDiscus, AUSPORT and AMI, Cochrane Library, SafetyLit and PEDro was completed (to Feb 24, 2016). The search yielded 6378 records using terms relating to hormone (oestrogen, estrogen, hormone replacement therapy, HRT, estrogen therapy, oestrogen therapy, oral contraceptive pill) and tendon. Quality assessment, data extraction and data synthesis of included papers was undertaken. Results: Low level of evidence for all outcomes; no positive or negative link between FSHS and molecular, mechanical and morphological tendon response outcomes, and the addition of exercise to FSHS, had minimal effects on tendon CSA. Conclusions: The effect of oestrogen supplementation on tendon is contradictory and inconsistent. This review suggests there is a need for further studies to understand the effects of FSHS on tendon tissue at a mechanical, morphological and molecular level.
Entanglement of bosonic systems under monitored evolution
Creators: name: Liu, Quancheng
name: Ziegler, Klaus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The evolution of non-interacting bosons in the presence of repeated projective measurements is studied. Following the established approach, this monitored evolution is characterized by the first detected return and the first detected transition probabilities. We show that these quantities are directly related to the entanglement entropy and to the entanglement spectrum of a bipartite system. Calculations with specific values for the number of bosons, the number of measurements and the time step between measurements reveal a sensitive and often strongly fluctuating entanglement entropy. In particular, we demonstrate that in the vicinity of special values for the time steps the evolution of the entanglement entropy is either stationary or performs dynamical switching between two or more stationary values. In the entanglement spectrum, on the other hand, this complex behavior can be associated with level crossings, indicating that the dominant quantum states and their entanglement respond strongly to a change of the system parameters. We discuss briefly the role of time averaging to remove the fluctuations of the entanglement entropy.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures
Additional file 1 of Success and patient satisfaction of immediately loaded zirconia implants with fixed restorations one year after loading
Creators: name: Rutkowski, Rico
name: Smeets, Ralf
name: Neuhöffer, Leon
name: Stolzer, Carolin
name: Strick, Kilian
name: Gosau, Martin
name: Sehner, Susanne
name: Volz, Karl Ulrich
name: Henningsen, Anders
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file1: Supplement 1: Example for Pink Esthetic Score questionnaire
Genome sequence annotation of Salinicoccus sp BAB_3246 strain isolated from salt Pan, Gujarat, India
Creators: name: Patel, Rajesh
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: In present work genome sequence of strain Salinicoccus sp BAB_3246 from salt pan of little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat, India was annotated with Rapid Annotation using Subsystem Technology (RAST). Comparison of genome data was done with Salinicoccus roseus, Salinicoccus carnicancri Crm, Salinicoccus albus DSM 19776, Salinicoccus luteus DSM 17002 and Salinicoccus halodurans H3B36. S. halodurans strain was having the highest genome size of 2,778,379 bp followed by 873,136bp, 713,204bp, 679,606bp, 461,933bp and 342,819bp respectively for S.carnicancri Crm, Salinicoccus sp BAB_3246, S. luteus DSM 17002, S. roseus and S.albus DSM 19776 strain. Maximum 2839 coding sequences were reported for S. halodurans followed by 1691,863, 668, 449 and 334 correspondingly for Salinicoccus sp BAB_3246, S. carnicancri Crm, S. luteus DSM 17002, S. roseus and S. albus DSM 19776 strain. Maximum 73 RNAs was reported for S. halodurans followed by 71 for Salinicoccus sp BAB_3246 and 46 for S. carnicancri Crm strain. Total 27 subsystem annotations resulted from the RAST based annotation process. Only two subsystems Motility and Chemotaxis; and Photosynthesis were absent in all the six strain. Highest subsystem reported in Salinicoccus halodurans with compare to other strain. Data mining of relevant the presence of stress response genes and operator pathway for degradation of various environmental pollutants. Annotation data and analysis indicate the possibility of explore the stress for pollution control in industrial influent and marine environment.
Chemical Cartography with APOGEE: Two-process Parameters and Residual Abundances for 288,789 Stars from Data Release 17
Creators: name: Sit, Tawny
name: Weinberg, David H.
name: Wheeler, Adam
name: Hayes, Christian R.
name: Hasselquist, Sten
name: Masseron, Thomas
name: Sobeck, Jennifer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Stellar abundance measurements are subject to systematic errors that induce extra scatter and artificial correlations in elemental abundance patterns. We derive empirical calibration offsets to remove systematic trends with surface gravity $\log(g)$ in 17 elemental abundances of 288,789 evolved stars from the SDSS APOGEE survey. We fit these corrected abundances as the sum of a prompt process tracing core-collapse supernovae and a delayed process tracing Type Ia supernovae, thus recasting each star's measurements into the amplitudes $A_{\text{cc}}$ and $A_{\text{Ia}}$ and the element-by-element residuals from this two-parameter fit. As a first application of this catalog, which is $8\times$ larger than that of previous analyses that used a restricted $\log(g)$ range, we examine the median residual abundances of 14 open clusters, nine globular clusters, and four dwarf satellite galaxies. Relative to field Milky Way disk stars, the open clusters younger than 2 Gyr show $\approx 0.1-0.2$ dex enhancements of the neutron-capture element Ce, and the two clusters younger than 0.5 Gyr also show elevated levels of C+N, Na, S, and Cu. Globular clusters show elevated median abundances of C+N, Na, Al, and Ce, and correlated abundance residuals that follow previously known trends. The four dwarf satellites show similar residual abundance patterns despite their different star formation histories, with $\approx 0.2-0.3$ dex depletions in C+N, Na, and Al and $\approx 0.1$ dex depletions in Ni, V, Mn, and Co. We provide our catalog of corrected APOGEE abundances, two-process amplitudes, and residual abundances, which will be valuable for future studies of abundance patterns in different stellar populations and of additional enrichment processes that affect galactic chemical evolution.
description: Updated to ApJ accepted version. 35 pages, 18 figures, 5 tables. Catalog available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10659205