cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: ADCO, Neuvième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661 - 1684), Cart. 32 (G 136), 745 folios, f. 0644
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
name: Petot, Frédéric
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: cartulaire

description: Neuvième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661 - 1684), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 32 (G 136), 745 folios, f. 0644, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Neuvième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661 - 1684), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 32 (G 136), 745 folios, f. 0644, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye Saint-Étienne de Dijon
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15945019
Additional file 1: of Autocrine motility factor promotes endometrial cancer progression by targeting GPER-1
Creators: name: Li, Yiran
name: Jia, Yuanhui
name: Bian, Yiding
name: Tong, Huan
name: Qu, Junjie
name: Wang, Kai
name: Wan, Xiao-Ping
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Hematology

description: Figure S1. Y2H assay to detect the AMF-GPER-1 interaction. Table S1. Target guide sequences for GPER-1 and AMFR. Table S2. Oligonucleotides used for the RT-qPCR analyses. Table S3. Residue information of AMF and GPER-1 interaction. Figure S2. Protein and mRNA expression analyses of shGPER-1. Figure S3. Protein and mRNA expression analyses of cells overexpressing GPER-1. (DOCX 412 kb)
Fickian yet non-Gaussian behaviour: A dominant role of the intermittent dynamics
Creators: name: Acharya, Sayantan
name: Nandi, Ujjwal Kumar
name: Bhattacharyya, Sarika Maitra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a study of the dynamics of small solute particles in a solvent medium where the solute is much smaller in size, mimicking the diffusion of small particles in crowded environment. The solute exhibits Fickian diffusion arising from non-Gaussian Van Hove correlation function. Our study shows that there are at least two possible origins of this non-Gaussian behaviour: the decoupling of the solute-solvent dynamics and the intermittency in the solute motion, the latter playing a dominant role. In the former scenario when averaged over time long enough to explore different solvent environments, the dynamics recovers the Gaussian nature. In the case of intermittent dynamics the non-Gaussianity remains even after long averaging and the Gaussian behaviour is obtained at a much longer time. Our study further shows that only for an intermediate attractive solute-solvent interaction the dynamics of the solute is intermittent. The intermittency disappears for weaker or stronger attractions.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures and 2 tables
ADVANCEMENTS IN DIGITAL DEVICE TECHNOLOGIES: A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW
Creators: name: Allayorov, Abdumalik
name: Xalilova, Laylo
name: Xudayberdiyev, Rustamjon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Digital devices have become indispensable tools in modern society, permeating various aspects of daily life from communication and entertainment to work and education. This article provides a comprehensive review of recent advancements in digital device technologies, encompassing smartphones, tablets, laptops, wearables, and emerging devices. It examines key technological innovations, such as advances in processing power, display technologies, connectivity options, battery technologies, and user interfaces. Furthermore, it discusses the impact of emerging trends such as artificial intelligence, internet of things (IoT), and augmented reality (AR) on the evolution of digital devices. The review highlights the potential applications, challenges, and future prospects of digital devices in addressing societal needs and driving technological innovation.
Trait values and not invasive status determine competitive outcomes between native and exotic invasive species under varying soil nutrient availability
Creators: name: Tabassum, Samiya
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: 1. Invasion by exotic plants presents a major threat to global biodiversity and is often associated with nutrient enrichment of soils, particularly on soils of naturally low fertility. It is likely that the outcome of competitive interactions between native and exotic invasive plants may be mediated by soil nutrient availability. 2. I independently investigated competitive effect and response and the occurrence of asymmetric competition in a glasshouse experiment where seedlings of eight functionally similar pairs of exotic invasive and native species from low fertility Hawkesbury Sandstone derived soil were grown under low and high nutrient availability. 3. I tested the hypotheses that native species would be competitively superior in low nutrient environments because they employ a resource conservation strategy and exotic invasive species would be competitively superior in high nutrient environments because they employ a resource acquisition strategy. I also hypothesised that exotic invasive species would be more plastic in their response to increased nutrient availability compared to native species. 4. I found that nutrient availability did not mediate competitive interactions between exotic invasive and native species. Instead, two exotic invasive and one native species were competitively superior irrespective of nutrient availability. Competitively superior species displayed a mixture of both nutrient conservation and acquisition strategies in the low and high nutrient treatments. Exotic invasive species were also not found to have higher degrees of trait plasticity compared with native species. 5. Synthesis. This study provides evidence that the a priori classification of exotic invasive and native species does not predict competitive superiority at varying nutrient levels but rather species specific differences in trait values provide a competitive advantage in response to nutrient availability.
Long noncoding RNAs are potentially involved in the degeneration of virulence in an aphid-obligate pathogen, Conidiobolus obscurus (Entomophthoromycotina)
Creators: name: Ye, Guofang
name: Zhang, Lvhao
name: Zhou, Xiang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Virulence attenuation frequently occurs in in vitro culturing of pathogenic microbes. In this study, we investigated the total putative long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) in an aphid-obligate pathogen, Conidiobolus obscurus, and screened the differentially expressed (DE) lncRNAs and protein-coding genes involved in the virulence decline. The virulence was significantly attenuated after eight subculturing events, in which the median lethal concentration of the conidia ejected from mycelial mats relative to the bamboo aphid, Takecallis taiwanus, increased from 36.1 to 126.1 conidia mm–2, four days after inoculation. In total, 1,252 lncRNAs were identified based on the genome-wide transcriptional analysis. By characterizing their molecular structures and expression patterns, we found that the lncRNAs possessed shorter transcripts, lower expression, and fewer exons than did protein-coding genes in C. obscurus. A total of 410 DE genes of 329 protein-coding genes and 81 lncRNAs were identified. The functional enrichment analysis showed the DE genes were enriched in peptidase activity, protein folding, autophagy, and metabolism. Moreover, target prediction analysis of the 81 lncRNAs revealed 3,111 cis-regulated and 23 trans-regulated mRNAs, while 121 DE lncRNA-mRNA pairs were possibly involved in virulence decline. Moreover, the DE lncRNA-regulated target genes mainly encoded small heat shock proteins, secretory proteins, transporters, autophagy proteins, and other stress response-related proteins. This implies that the decline in virulence regulated by lncRNAs was likely associated with the environmental stress response of C. obscurus. Hence, these findings can provide insights into the lncRNA molecules of Entomophthoromycotina, with regards to virulence regulators of entomopathogens.
Glycosylation on envelope glycoprotein of duck Tembusu virus affects virus replication in vitro and contributes to the neurovirulence and pathogenicity in vivo
Creators: name: Liu, Dejian
name: Xiao, Xuyao
name: Zhou, Peng
name: Zheng, Huijun
name: Li, Yaqian
name: Jin, Hui
name: Jongkaewwattana, Anan
name: Luo, Rui
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology

description: Duck Tembusu virus (DTMUV), an emergent flavivirus, causes domestic waterfowls to suffer from severe egg-drop syndrome and fatal encephalitis, greatly threatens duck production globally. Like other mosquito-borne flaviviruses, the envelope (E) protein of all DTMUV strains was N-glycosylated at the amino acid position 154. Thus far, the biological roles of DTMUV E glycosylation have remained largely unexplored. Herein, we demonstrated the key roles of E glycosylation in the replication and pathogenicity of DTMUV in ducks by characterizing the reverse-genetics-derived DTMUV wild-type MC strain and MC bearing mutations (N154Q and N154I) that abolish the E glycosylation. Our data showed that the disruption of E glycosylation could substantially impair virus attachment, entry, and infectivity in DEFs and C6/36 cells. Notably, ducks inoculated intracerebrally with the wild-type virus exhibited severe disease onset. In contrast, those inoculated with mutant viruses were mildly affected as manifested by minimal weight loss, no mortality, lower viral loads in the various tissues, and reduced brain lesions. Attenuated phenotypes of the mutant viruses might be partly associated with lower inflammatory cytokines expression in the brains of infected ducks. Our study offers the first evidence that E glycosylation is vital for DTMUV replication, pathogenicity, and neurovirulence in vivo.
Response of periphyton to current velocities in the Nepean River, NSW
Creators: name: Lynch, Kelly-Anne
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Warragamba Dam is the largest water supply dam on the Hawkesbury-Nepean River system. It greatly reduces flow variability and volume downstream, impacting water quality, periphyton, macrophyte growth and ecological processes dependent on these. The benefits of variable environmental flows from Warragamba Dam have been investigated by the NSW Government. Environmental flows can scour nuisance algae and reset periphyton communities; however the flow regime required to achieve this in the Nepean River is unknown. The study was conducted in a cobble-dominated riffle in the Nepean River at Penrith, NSW. Eighty-four algal genera were identified. Leptolynhbya dominated all samples during the study. A flow of 5440 ML/day reduced biomass, overall abundance, particularly filamentous green algae and stimulated algal succession, resulting in increased community richness. Periphyton communities are influenced by current velocity; however, the similarity if flow velocities between scouring and non-scouring events suggests that thresholds may exist. This study investigated responses of periphyton to current velocity using Threshold Indicator Taxa Analysis (TITAN). Scenedesmus, Navicula and Cymbella has loss thresholds, whilst others exhibited positive associations with increasing current velocity. This study will help finalise an environmental flow regime for Warragamba Dam and supports the existence current velocity scouring thresholds for some periphyton taxa.
Luteolin decreases the pathogenicity of Aeromonas hydrophila via inhibiting the activity of aerolysin
Creators: name: Dong, Jing
name: Zhang, Lushan
name: Liu, Yongtao
name: Xu, Ning
name: Zhou, Shun
name: Yang, Yibin
name: Yang, Qiuhong
name: Ai, Xiaohui
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Aeromonas hydrophila (A. hydrophila) can cause a number of diseases in both human and animals. A. hydrophila-related infections in aquaculture cause severe economic losses every year throughout the world. The emergence of antibiotic resistance that is due to the abuse of antibiotics has limited the application of antibiotics. Thus, novel approaches are needed to combat with treatment failure of antibiotics caused by resistant bacterial strains. Aerolysin plays a critical role in the pathogenesis of A. hydrophila and has been considered as a novel target for developing drugs based on anti-virulence strategies. Here, we reported that luteolin, a natural product with no anti-A. hydrophila activity, could reduce aerolysin-induced hemolysis by inhibiting aerolysin activity. The binding mode was simulated by molecular docking and dynamics simulation. Then the main binding sites were confirmed by fluorescence quenching assays. We found that luteolin could hindered the formation of functional heptamer of aerolysin according to the results of the oligomerization assay. Moreover, luteolin could protect A549 cells from aerolysin mediated cell death and increase the survival rate of A. hydrophila-infected channel catfish. These findings suggest a novel approach to developing drugs fighting against A. hydrophila, and luteolin can be a promising drug candidate for treatment of A. hydrophila-associated infections.
Modulation of mechanical resonance by chemical potential oscillation in graphene
Creators: name: Chen, Changyao
name: Deshpande, Vikram V.
name: Koshino, Mikito
name: Lee, Sunwoo
name: Gondarenko, Alexander
name: MacDonald, Allan H.
name: Kim, Philip
name: Hone, James
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The classical picture of the force on a capacitor assumes a large density of electronic states, such that the electrochemical potential of charges added to the capacitor is given by the external electrostatic potential and the capacitance is determined purely by geometry. Here we consider capacitively driven motion of a nano-mechanical resonator with a low density of states, in which these assumptions can break down. We find three leading-order corrections to the classical picture: the first of is a modulation in the static force due to variation in the internal chemical potential, the second and third are change in static force and dynamic spring constant due to the rate of change of chemical potential, expressed as the quantum (density of states) capacitance. As a demonstration, we study a capacitively driven graphene mechanical resonators, where the chemical potential is modulated independently of the gate voltage using an applied magnetic field to manipulate the energy of electrons residing in discrete Landau levels. In these devices, we observe large periodic frequency shifts consistent with the three corrections to the classical picture. In devices with extremely low strain and disorder, the first correction term dominates and the resonant frequency closely follows the chemical potential. The theoretical model fits the data with only one adjustable parameter representing disorder-broadening of the Landau levels. The underlying electromechanical coupling mechanism is not limited the particular choice of material, geometry, or mechanism for variation in chemical potential, and can thus be extended to other low-dimensional systems.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures
Guanxi as a relationship commitment and loyalty behavior: a study of Chinese banking customers
Creators: name: Lee, Liane Wai Ying
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: A guanxi network, or relationship network, is considered an essential strategic asset for organizations doing business in the People’s Republic of China. Yet outside Asia, the mechanics of this business tool are barely understood. Using Ajzen and Fishbein’s theory of reasoned action, this study examines the relationship between the independent variables of guanxi, ingroup identification and affective investment; two outcome variables, being loyalty behavior and word-of-mouth intention; and two mediators, calculative trust and affective attitude towards the bank. A mixed-method approach was used in this research. To establish the role guanxi plays in cultivating brand loyalty, a preliminary qualitative study employed grounded theory methodology. A quantitative questionnaire used the structural equation modeling method to test and validate the conceptual framework. Five hypotheses were tested against a sample of 429 bank customers who were asked to evaluate the relationship with their primary bank and banker. The findings confirm that guanxi drives customer loyalty and word-of-mouth behavior through the two mediators and that ingroup identification has a direct influence on customer’s loyalty. The effect of affective investment, such as gifting, was found to be insignificant, which may indicate that the largely superficial act of building interpersonal guanxi is less relevant in contemporary China. This study adds to relationship marketing theory of guanxi when applied to the business-to-consumer market segment in mainland China. The research offers insights for managers on how they might best do business in China and illustrates that the deeper constructs underlying guanxi are rooted not in superficial acts, but in the development of ever-deeper relationships through social and business-based transactions. Managers should understand that the subtle difference between business relationships in the Western cultural context and in the Chinese setting lies in the strength of interpersonal ties involving the buyer and seller, and that successful managers in China build those interpersonal ties. Guanxi requires building GRX – an abbreviation of ganqing (long-term affection between individuals), renqing (interpersonal give and take), and xinren (inter-personal trust). By assessments of a customer’s calculative trust and brand’s affective attitude, practitioners can assess guanxi’s impact on loyalty intentions. This research also helps refine the measurement of guanxi and ingroup biases for future research.
A 1420 MHz Catalog of Compact Sources in the Northern Galactic Plane
Creators: name: Taylor, A. R.
name: Leahy, D. A.
name: Wenwu, T.
name: Sunstrum, C.
name: Kothes, R.
name: Landecker, T. L.
name: Ransom, R. R.
name: Higgs, L. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a catalog of compact sources of radio emission at 1420 MHz in the northern Galactic plane from the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey. The catalog contains 72,787 compact sources with angular size less than 3$'$ within the Galactic longitude range $52^{\circ} < \ell < 192^{\circ}$ down to a 5$σ$ detection level of $\sim$1.2 mJy. Linear polarization properties are included for 12,368 sources with signals greater than 4$σ_{QU}$ in the CGPS Stokes $Q$ and $U$ images at the position of the total intensity peak. We compare CGPS flux densities with cataloged flux densities in the Northern VLA Sky Survey catalog for 10,897 isolated unresolved sources with CGPS flux density greater than 4 mJy to search for sources that show variable flux density on time scales of several years. We identify 146 candidate variables that exhibit high fractional variations between the two surveys. In addition we identify 13 candidate transient sources that have CGPS flux density above 10\,mJy but are not detected in the NVSS.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures (in press in Astronomical Journal, 2017)
Additional file 3: of Purification of nanogram-range immunoprecipitated DNA in ChIP-seq application
Creators: name: Zhong, Jian
name: Zhenqing Ye
name: Lenz, Samuel
name: Clark, Chad
name: Bharucha, Adil
name: Gianrico Farrugia
name: Robertson, Keith
name: Zhiguo Zhang
name: Ordog, Tamas
name: Jeong-Heon Lee
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Hematology
subject: Computational Biology

description: ChIP enrichment analyzed by qPCR. The ChIP DNA was analyzed by qPCR in a region of constitutively active chromatin region (GAPDH-TSS, H3K4me3-positive), a developmentally repressed region (MYT1-TSS, H3K27me3-positive), and an intergenic region (C19, H3K4me3- and H3K27me3-negative) from HeLa cells. Enrichment in the tested loci is shown as the percentage of input. (PDF 87Â kb)
Synthesis and photophysical properties of gold(III) and Pt(II) complexes bearing persistent radicals
Creators: name: Verma, Sandhya
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs) represent the next generation lighting technology. Transition metal complexes that exhibit luminescent properties have been investigated as triplet emitters for applications in OLED devices. Metal complexes bearing a persistent radical offer an interesting avenue to tune the excited-state properties, which could provide alternative emitter systems that has been only scarcely investigated. Presence of coordination sites at the radical ligands allows the metal centres to be coordinated, which is expected to modulate the photophysical and photochemical properties such as luminescence quantum yield, emission wavelength maxima and the stability in the photoexcited state. The organic radicals 2-(4-ethynylphenyl)-4,4,5,5-tetramethylimidazolidine-1,3-diol (nitronyl nitroxide) and (3,5-dichloro-4-pyridyl)bis(2,4,6-trichlorophenyl)-methyl (PyBTM) were chosen as ligands due to their photo- and thermal stability. The present work reports the synthesis, characterization and detailed photophysical investigations of new cyclometalated Au(III) and Pt(II) complexes bearing nitronyl nitroxide and PyBTM as ligands, respectively. The resulting final complexes were stable to air and moisture. The photophysical investigations are strongly suggestive of an interplay between the radical spin and the triplet excited state. The outcomes of the thesis are expected to lead to an efficient strategy for altering the excited state properties of luminescent materials which could be applied for achieving efficient light emitting devices.
RIS LOCALIZATION AND SPATIALLY WIDEBAND FILTERING EFFECTS
Publisher: name: IEEE Signal Processing Society
Year: 2024

description: Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have been considered recently for target localization. While existing literature typically uses fixed RISs in the environment, mounting RISs on targets is a novel approach that can improve target visibility and positioning. This study derives the Cramér-Rao bound (CRB) for pose estimation (i.e., RIS position and orientation) under a generic wideband and near-field model. The theoretical findings show that a pose-dependent filtering phenomenon occurs, impacting the CRB, which is neglected under narrowband approximation. The extent of this effect varies based on factors such as RIS dimensions and signal bandwidth.
Composite operators in functional renormalization group approach
Creators: name: Zyryanova, Olga V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The gauge dependence problem of the effective action for general gauge theories in the framework of a modified functional renormalization group approach proposed recently is studied. It is shown that the effective action remains gauge-dependent on-shell.
Additional file 1 of Cardiovascular mortality in patients with advanced chronic kidney disease with and without diabetes: a nationwide cohort study
Creators: name: Kofod, Dea Haagensen
name: Carlson, Nicholas
name: Ballegaard, Ellen Freese
name: Almdal, Thomas Peter
name: Torp-Pedersen, Christian
name: Gislason, Gunnar
name: Svendsen, Jesper Hastrup
name: Feldt-Rasmussen, Bo
name: Hornum, Mads
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
Modeling of Information Diffusion on Social Networks with Applications to WeChat
Creators: name: Liu, Liang
name: Qu, Bo
name: Chen, Bin
name: Hanjalic, Alan
name: Wang, Huijuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Traces of user activities recorded in online social networks such as the creation, viewing and forwarding/sharing of information over time open new possibilities to quantitatively and systematically understand the information diffusion process on social networks. From an online social network like WeChat, we could collect a large number of information cascade trees, each of which tells the spreading trajectory of a message/information such as which user creates the information and which users view or forward the information shared by which neighbors. In this work, we propose two heterogeneous non-linear models. Both models are validated by the WeChat data in reproducing and explaining key features of cascade trees. Specifically, we firstly apply the Random Recursive Tree (RRT) to model the cascade tree topologies, capturing key features, i.e. the average path length and degree variance of a cascade tree in relation to the number of nodes (size) of the tree. The RRT model with a single parameter $θ$ describes the growth mechanism of a tree, where a node in the existing tree has a probability $d_i^θ$ of being connected to a newly added node that depends on the degree $d_i$ of the existing node. The identified parameter $θ$ quantifies the relative depth or broadness of the cascade trees, indicating that information propagates via a star-like broadcasting or viral-like hop by hop spreading. The RRT model explains the appearance of hubs, thus a possibly smaller average path length as the cascade size increases, as observed in WeChat. We further propose the stochastic Susceptible View Forward Removed (SVFR) model to depict the dynamic user behaviors including creating, viewing, forwarding and ignoring a message on a given social network.
Quantum Sampling Problems, BosonSampling and Quantum Supremacy
Creators: name: Lund, A. P.
name: Bremner, Michael J.
name: Ralph, T. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There is a large body of evidence for the potential of greater computational power using information carriers that are quantum mechanical over those governed by the laws of classical mechanics. But the question of the exact nature of the power contributed by quantum mechanics remains only partially answered. Furthermore, there exists doubt over the practicality of achieving a large enough quantum computation that definitively demonstrates quantum supremacy. Recently the study of computational problems that produce samples from probability distributions has added to both our understanding of the power of quantum algorithms and lowered the requirements for demonstration of fast quantum algorithms. The proposed quantum sampling problems do not require a quantum computer capable of universal operations and also permit physically realistic errors in their operation. This is an encouraging step towards an experimental demonstration of quantum algorithmic supremacy. In this paper, we will review sampling problems and the arguments that have been used to deduce when sampling problems are hard for classical computers to simulate. Two classes of quantum sampling problems that demonstrate the supremacy of quantum algorithms are BosonSampling and IQP Sampling. We will present the details of these classes and recent experimental progress towards demonstrating quantum supremacy in BosonSampling.
description: Survey paper first submitted for publication in October 2016. 10 pages, 4 figures, 1 table
Convergence of carbapenem resistance and hypervirulence in a highly-transmissible ST11 clone of K. pneumoniae: An epidemiological, genomic and functional study
Creators: name: Li, Ping
name: Liang, Qiqiang
name: Liu, Wugao
name: Zheng, Beiwen
name: Liu, Lizhang
name: Wang, Wei
name: Xu, Zhijiang
name: Huang, Man
name: Feng, Youjun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Co-occurrence of hypervirulence and KPC-2 carbapenem resistant phenotypes in a highly-transmissible ST11 clone ofKlebsiella pneumoniae has elicited deep concerns from public health stand point. To address this puzzle, we conducted a large-scale epidemiological, clinical and genomic study of K. pneumonia ST11 clones with both hypervirulence and carbapenem resistance in two tertiary hospitals in Zhejiang province. Most of the patients (15/23) were diagnosed with exclusively carbapenem-resistant K. pneumoniae (CRKP) infections. Ten death cases were reported, some of which are due to the failure of antibiotic therapies. As a result, we identified one new rare sequence types (ST449) to KPC-2-producing CRKP, in addition to the dominant ST11. These clinical isolates of K. pneumoniae are multi-drug resistant and possess a number of virulence factors. Experimental infections of wax moth larvae revealed the presence of hypervirulence at varied level, suggesting the complexity in bacterial virulence factors. However, plasmid curing assays further suggested that the rmpA2-virulence plasmid is associated with, but not sufficient for neither phenotypic hypermucoviscosity nor virulence of K. pneumoniae. Intriguingly, all the rmpA2 genes were found to be inactive due to genetic deletion. In total, we reported 21 complete plasmid sequences comprising 13 rmpA2-positive virulence plasmids and 8 blaKPC-2-harboring resistance plasmids. In addition to the prevalent pLVKP-like virulence plasmid variants (~178kb), we found an unexpected diversity among KPC-2-producing plasmids whose dominant form is IncFII-IncR type (~120kb), rather than the previously anticipated version of ~170kb. These findings provide an updated snapshot of convergence of hypervirulence and carbapenem resistance in ST11 K. pneumoniae.
Graduate voices: the nexus between learning and work
Creators: name: Wood, Leigh Norma
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The aim of this study is to inform curriculum change in the mathematical sciences at university level. This study examines the transition to professional work after gaining a degree in the mathematical sciences. Communication is used as the basis for the analysis of the transition because of the importance of language choices in work situations. These experiences form part of the capabilities that become part of a person's potential to work as a professional. I found a subtle form of power and, of the opposite, lack of power due to communication skills. It is not as obvious as in, say, politics but it is just as critical to graduates and to the mathematical sciences. -- There were 18 participants in the study who were graduates within five years of graduation with majors in the mathematical sciences. In-depth interviews were analysed using phenomenography and examples of text from the workplace were analysed using discourse analysis. Descriptions of the process of gaining employment and the use of mathematical discourse have been reported in the thesis using narrative style with extensive quotes from the participants. -- The research shows that graduates had three qualitatively different conceptions of mathematical discourse when communicating with a non-mathematical audience: jargon, concepts/thinking and strength. All participants modified their use of technical terms when communicating with non-mathematicians. Those who held the jargon conception tried to simplify the language in order to explain the mathematics to their audience. Those who held the concepts/thinking conception believed that the way of thinking or the ideas were too difficult to communicate and instead their intention with mathematical discourse was to inspire or sell their ability to work with the mathematics. The strength conception considers the ethical responsibility to communicate the consequences of mathematical decisions. Not one of the participants believed that they had been taught communication skills as part of their degree. -- Participants gained a 'mathematical identity' from their studies and acquiring a degree gave them confidence and a range of problem-solving skills. Recommendations are made about changes in university curriculum to ensure that graduates are empowered to make a high-quality transition to the workplace and be in a position to use their mathematical skills. Mathematical skills are necessary but not sufficient for a successful transition to the workplace. Without the ability to communicate, graduates are unable to release the strength of their knowledge.
Extreme anisotropy and anomalous transport properties of heavily electron doped Lix(NH3)yFe2Se2 single crystals
Creators: name: Sun, Shanshan
name: Wang, Shaohua
name: Yu, Rong
name: Lei, Hechang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The missing hole packets near the Brillouin zone center render unique electronic structures to the heavily electron doped FeSe-based superconductors with Tc above 40 K. It challenges the existing scenario accounting for the nature of superconductivity in the iron-based family. Yet, one hurdle that has to be overcome is the materials complexity in the rather limited number of compounds. Here we report the growth of heavily electron doped Li-NH3 intercalated FeSe single crystals that are free of such complexities and allow access to the intrinsic superconducting properties. Our results show extremely large electronic anisotropy in both normal and superconducting states. Moreover, the anomalous transport properties appear in normal state, which are believed related to the anisotropy of relaxation time and/or temperature dependent electron carrier concentration. In view of the great chemical flexibility of intercalants, our findings provide novel platform to understanding of superconductivity origin of FeSe-related superconductors.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures
The PirB toxin protein from Vibrio parahaemolyticus induces apoptosis in hemocytes of Penaeus vannamei
Creators: name: Zheng, Zhou
name: Li, Ruiwei
name: Aweya, Jude Juventus
name: Yao, Defu
name: Wang, Fan
name: Li, Shengkang
name: Tuan, Tran Ngoc
name: Zhang, Yueling
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Acute hepatopancreatic necrosis disease (AHPND) is a major debilitating disease that causes massive shrimp death resulting in substantial economic losses in shrimp aquaculture. The Pir toxin proteins secreted by a unique strain of Vibrio parahaemolyticus play an essential role in the pathogenesis of AHPND. At present, most studies on the effects of Pir toxin proteins in shrimp focus on digestive tissues or organs such as hepatopancreas, stomach, etc., with none on the immune organs. In the present study, two recombinant Pir toxin proteins (rPirA and rPirB) of V. parahaemolyticus were expressed with rPirB shown to enter shrimp hemocytes. Employing pull-down and LC-MS/MS analysis, GST-rPirB was found to interact with 13 proteins in hemocytes, including histone H3 and histone H4 and among which histone H4 had the highest protein score. Further analysis using GST pull-down and Far-Western blot analysis revealed that rPirB could interact with histone H4. In addition, using the purified nucleosome protein from Drosophila S2 cells, it was found that PirB protein could specifically bind to histones. When flow cytometry was applied, it was observed that the interaction between PirB and histones in shrimp hemocytes induces apoptosis, which results in the dephosphorylation of Serine 10 in histone H3. Collectively, the current study shows that in addition to its effect on the digestive tract of shrimp, the PirB toxin protein interacts with histones to affect the phosphorylation of histone H3-S10, thereby inducing apoptosis.
Fractional derivatives of constant and variable orders applied to anomalous relaxation models in heat-transfer problems
Creators: name: Yang, Xiao-Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the present paper, we address a class of the fractional derivatives of constant and variable orders for the first time. Fractional-order relaxation equations of constants and variable orders in the sense of Caputo type are modeled from mathematical view of point. The comparative results of the anomalous relaxation among the various fractional derivatives are also given. They are very efficient in description of the complex phenomenon arising in heat transfer.
description: 13 pages, 2 figures
Additional file 2: Table S1. of Lung function discordance in monozygotic twins and associated differences in blood DNA methylation
Creators: name: Bolund, Anneli
name: Starnawska, Anna
name: Miller, Martin
name: SchlĂźnssen, Vivi
name: Backer, Vibeke
name: BĂ¸Rglum, Anders
name: Christensen, Kaare
name: Qihua Tan
name: Christiansen, Lene
name: Sigsgaard, Torben
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional pathways from enrichment analyses for Gene Ontology (GO), KEGG and Pathway Commons (PC) (BH-corrected p-value < 0.1) based on significant findings from EWAS for level of lung function. (DOCX 21Â kb)
Defective apoptotic cell clearance activates innate immune response to protect Caenorhabditis elegans against pathogenic bacteria
Creators: name: Wan, Jinlong
name: Yuan, Lei
name: Jing, Huiru
name: Zheng, Qian
name: Xiao, Hui
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Appropriate clearance of dead cells generated by apoptosis is critical to the development of multicellular organisms and tissue homeostasis. In mammals, the removal of apoptotic cell is mediated by polarized monocyte/macrophage populations of the innate immune system. The innate immune system is essential for anti-viral and anti-microbial defense. However, our current understanding of the relationship between apoptotic cell clearance and the innate immune response has remained rather limited. Here, we study how apoptotic cell clearance programs contribute to the innate immune response in C. elegans. We find apoptotic cell clearance mutant worms are more resistant to pathogenic bacteria of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA14 and Salmonella typhimurium SL1344 due to significant upregulation of innate immune-dependent pathogen response genes. In addition, genetic epistasis analysis indicates that defects in apoptotic cell clearance can activate the innate immune response through PMK-1 p38 MAPK and MPK-1/ERK MAPK pathways in C. elegans. Taken together, our results provide evidence that insufficient clearance of apoptotic cell can protect Caenorhabditis elegans from bacterial infection through innate immune response activation.
Additional file 1 of HMGB3 promotes the malignant phenotypes and stemness of epithelial ovarian cancer through the MAPK/ERK signaling pathway
Creators: name: Ma, Hanlin
name: Qi, Gonghua
name: Han, Fang
name: Gai, Panpan
name: Peng, Jiali
name: Kong, Beihua
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1.
Leadership transformation: what does it take for a traditional manager to transform into a contemporary leader?
Creators: name: Fuda, Peter Andrew
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: My research question is what does it take for a traditional manager to transform into a contemporary leader? It was born from frustration with the extant leadership literature of the positivist tradition and an opportunity to draw on privileged access to seven CEOs who had demonstrated positive shifts in both their leadership effectiveness and organisational performance, supported by additional quantitative third party evidence of their 'leadership transformation'. Invoking the work of key social constructionist authors, I have used a narrative approach to explore how the CEOs interpreted the nature and causes of their transformation 'success'. Drawing on in-depth interviews with the seven CEOs, and collaboration with a broader 'community of research', I developed seven reflective narratives to provide insight into the character and context of each CEO's journey. The narratives are then interpreted by way of seven metaphors designed to be used in a 'generative' fashion to stimulate further insights into leadership transformation. The contribution of this study to management practitioners, my primary audience, is to inspire reflection and action. This contribution has already begun through speaking engagements that have been completed by me and the CEOs in this study to several thousand members of my management practitioner audience.
CALL and English at tertiary level ;: teacher cognition in Bangladesh
Creators: name: Rahman, Jasmine
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This research focuses on university teachers’ cognition regarding the use of computers for teaching English in Bangladesh, one of the developing countries in the world. Though both teachers and students are leading players in CALL environments, teachers, particularly university teachers who teach English as a second language in Bangladesh, are the primary participants of the study. The study aims at seeking answers to the following questions: (1) What conceptions and attitudes do university English teachers hold about CALL in Bangladesh as a developing country? (2) What is the relationship between these conceptions and attitudes and teachers’ reported practices regarding CALL? The research data, collected through online-based questionnaire and interview, reveal that university English teachers conceptualize computers mostly as an essential tool in their CALL practices for various pedagogic and administrative purposes. They conceptualize themselves mostly as ‘resource providers’ and computers mostly as ‘presenters of information’ in CALL lessons. Teachers also hold favourable attitudes towards CALL due to their experienced benefits with CALL despite the presence of certain contextual constraints such as load-shedding and slow Internet. They also hold positive attitude towards the future improvement of CALL in Bangladesh. All these conceptions and attitudes, namely teacher cognition is revealed to be a strong influence on teachers’ reported practices which interacts with contextual constraints directly by altering their practices accordingly. Thus, the study explores the complexity of teacher cognition regarding CALL in Bangladesh.