cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Conditional expectations of random holomorphic fields on Riemann surfaces
Creators: name: Feng, Renjie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study two conditional expectations: the expected density of critical points of Gaussian random holomorphic sections of powers of a positive holomorphic line bundle over Riemann surfaces given that the random sections vanish at a point and the expected density of zeros given that the random sections has a fixed critical point. The main result is that these two rescaling conditional expectations have universal limits as the power of the line bundle tends to infinity. We will see that the short distance behavior between critical points and the conditioning zero is neutral while there is a repulsion between zeros and the conditioning critical point. But the long distance behaviors are the same.
The role of motivation in a personalized lifestyle intervention for anhedonia
Creators: name: Gieles, Eveline
name: van Roekel, Eeske
name: Oldehinkel, Albertine
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Anhedonia is not only characterized by deficits in experiencing pleasure, but also by lack of motivation to pursue pleasurable experiences. However, this does not mean that people suffering from anhedonia cannot be motivated at all. Although pleasure is an important source of motivation in healthy individuals, motivation can also come from other sources, for example from external encouragement. Personalized lifestyle advice, based on observed individual patterns of lifestyle factors and pleasure using experience sampling data, could be a source of external encouragement, and could therefore increase motivation in those suffering from anhedonia. Previous research showed that personalized lifestyle advice increases positive affect and pleasure in the daily lives of anhedonic young adults. The current study investigates the role of motivation in explaining how and for whom personalized lifestyle advice works, using interrupted time series analysis within a multilevel model.
Stability of patterns on thick curved surfaces
Creators: name: Nampoothiri, Sankaran
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider reaction-diffusion equations on a thick curved surface and obtain a set of effective R-D equation to ${\cal O}(ε^2)$, where $ε$ is the surface thickness. We observe that the R-D systems on these curved surfaces can have space- dependent reaction kinetics. Further, we use linear stability analysis to study the Schnakenberg model on spherical and cylindrical geometries. The dependence of steady state on the thickness is determined for both cases, and we find that a change in the thickness can stabilize the unstable patterns, and vice versa. The combined effect of thickness and curvature can play an important role in the rearrangement of spatial patterns on thick curved surfaces.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures
Protocol for Fermionic Positive-Operator-Valued Measures
Creators: name: Arvidsson-Shukur, David R. M.
name: Lepage, Hugo V.
name: Owen, Edmund T.
name: Ferrus, Thierry
name: Barnes, Crispin H. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we present a protocol for the implementation of a positive-operator-valued measure (POVM) on massive fermionic qubits. We present methods for implementing non-dispersive qubit transport, spin rotations and spin polarizing beam-splitter operations. Our scheme attains linear optics-like control of the spatial extent of the qubits by considering groundstate electrons trapped in the minima of surface acoustic waves in semiconductor heterostructures. Furthermore, we numerically simulate a high-fidelity POVM that carries out Procrustean entanglement distillation in the framework of our scheme, using experimentally realistic potentials. Our protocol can be applied, not only to pure ensembles with particle pairs of known identical entanglement, but also to realistic ensembles of particle pairs with a distribution of entanglement entropies. This paper provides an experimentally realisable design for future quantum technologies.
Electric quadrupole and magnetic dipole moments of odd nuclei near the magic ones in a self-consistent approach
Creators: name: Co', G.
name: De Donno, V.
name: Anguiano, M.
name: Bernard, R. N.
name: Lallena, A. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a model which describes the properties of odd-even nuclei with one nucleon more, or less, with respect to the magic number. In addition to the effects related to the unpaired nucleon, we consider those produced by the excitation of the closed shell core. By using a single particle basis generated with Hartree-Fock calculations, we describe the polarization of the doubly magic-core with Random Phase Approximation collective wave functions. In every step of the calculation, and for all the nuclei considered, we use the same finite-range nucleon-nucleon interaction. We apply our model to the evaluation of electric quadrupole and magnetic dipole moments of odd-even nuclei around oxygen, calcium, zirconium, tin and lead isotopes. Our Random Phase Approximation description of the polarization of the core improves the agreement with experimental data with respect to the predictions of the independent particle model. We compare our results with those obtained in first-order perturbation theory, with those produced by Hartree-Fock-Bogolioubov calculations and with those generated within the Landau-Migdal theory of finite Fermi systems. The results of our universal, self-consistent, and parameter free approach have the same quality of those obtained with phenomenological approaches where the various terms of the nucleon-nucleon interaction are adapted to reproduce some specific experimental data. A critical discussion on the validity of the model is presented.
description: 18 pages, 7 figures, 7 tables
Socio-cultural group influences parent report on the child behavior checklist and clinical diagnostic impressions
Creators: name: Martínez, María Isabel
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: This study examines the relationship of the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) and clinician intake diagnoses across diverse socio-cultural groups drawn from an urban Midwest community mental health clinic. Four socio-cultural groups were defined for the purposes of this study: 1) Black; 2) White; 3) Hispanic with English CBCL administration; and 4) Hispanic with Spanish CBCL administration. Socio-cultural differences in diagnostic rates of anxiety disorder, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and conduct disorder were found in this sample. Caregivers in all socio-cultural groups reported similar levels of externalizing problems, but different levels of internalizing problems. Socio-cultural group moderated the relationship between CBCL ratings and clinician diagnoses of anxiety diagnoses. These results support the hypothesis that sociocultural factors contribute to parental beliefs about behavior and health. Socio-cultural differences may impact the assessment process. Further research is needed to examine these patterns and how they affect valid assessment and treatment of culturally diverse clients.
THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF TEN YEARS' WORK AT SAXMUNDHAM EXPERIMENTAL STATION, Rothamsted Experimental Station Report for 1974 Part 2
Creators: name: G. W. COOKE
Publisher: name: Lawes Agricultural Trust
Year: 1975
Subjects: subject: rothamsted research
subject: saxmundham experimental station

description: Scanned PDF of THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF TEN YEARS' WORK AT SAXMUNDHAM EXPERIMENTAL STATION, part of Rothamsted Experimental Station Report for 1974 Part 2
CRISPR-based platform for carbapenemases and emerging viruses detection using Cas12a (Cpf1) effector nuclease
Creators: name: Curti, Lucia Ana
name: Pereyra-Bonnet, Federico
name: Repizo, Guillermo Daniel
name: Fay, Jessica Vannina
name: Salvatierra, Karina
name: Blariza, María José
name: Ibañez-Alegre, Daiana
name: Rinflerch, Adriana Raquel
name: Miretti, Marcos
name: Gimenez, Carla Alejandra
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: CRISPR-Cas12a (also called Cpf1) has been commonly used for genomic editing, based on its ability to generate precise double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) breaks. Recently, it was demonstrated that Cas12a exhibits unspecific ssDNAse activity upon target recognition. This feature allows CRISPR-Cas to be coupled with a ssDNA reporter and generate a fast, accurate and ultrasensitive molecular detection method. Here, we demonstrate that Cas12a was able to detect DNA target sequences corresponding to carbapenemases resistance genes such as KPC, NDM and OXA. Also, with the addition of a reverse-transcription step, we were able to detect viral RNA sequences from DENV, ZIKV and HANTV genomes. In all cases, assay run time was less than two hours. Additionally, we report attomolar levels of detection. This methodology was validated using clinical samples from patients infected with Dengue virus. Reactions were visualized by detection of a fluorescent signal, as well as by the use of a simple lateral flow strip. These results indicate that Cas12a is able to detect both DNA and RNA targets, making it an appropriate and convenient tool to detect all types of pathogens.
Prebiotic supplementation for dairy calves
Creators: name: Lopes, Rubia
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Large or Food Animal and Equine Medicine
subject: Veterinary Medicine
subject: Dairy Science
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Life Sciences
subject: Animal Sciences

description: California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA)-funded systematic review and meta-analysis about the supplementation of prebiotic for dairy calves.
Orders of reductions of elliptic curves with many and few prime factors
Creators: name: Troupe, Lee
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11N37, 11N36, 11G05

description: In this paper, we investigate extreme values of $ω(E(\mathbb{F}_p))$, where $E/\mathbb{Q}$ is an elliptic curve with complex multiplication and $ω$ is the number-of-distinct-prime-divisors function. For fixed $γ> 1$, we prove that \[ \#\{p \leq x : ω(E(\mathbb{F}_p)) > γ\log\log x\} = \frac{x}{(\log x)^{2 + γ\logγ- γ+ o(1)}}. \] The same result holds for the quantity $\#\{p \leq x : ω(E(\mathbb{F}_p)) < γ\log\log x\}$ when $0 < γ< 1$. The argument is worked out in detail for the curve $E : y^2 = x^3 - x$, and we discuss how the method can be adapted for other CM elliptic curves.
description: 15 pages
Synoptic Monitoring For Migrant Insect Pests In Great Britain And Western Europe. Vii. Annual Population Fluctuations Of Macrolepidoptera Over Great Britain For 17 Years, Rothamsted Experimental Station Report for 1986
Creators: name: I. P. Woiwod And K. J. Dancy
Publisher: name: Lawes Agricultural Trust
Year: 1987
Subjects: subject: rothamsted research
subject: migratory pests
subject: Lepidoptera
subject: population dynamics

description: Scanned PDF of Synoptic Monitoring For Migrant Insect Pests In Great Britain And Western Europe. Vii. Annual Population Fluctuations Of Macrolepidoptera Over Great Britain For 17 Years, part of Rothamsted Experimental Station Report for 1986
Use Of Fertilizers In England And Wales, 1986, Rothamsted Experimental Station Report for 1986
Creators: name: J. I. Elsmere
Publisher: name: Lawes Agricultural Trust
Year: 1987
Subjects: subject: rothamsted research

description: Scanned PDF of Use Of Fertilizers In England And Wales, 1986, part of Rothamsted Experimental Station Report for 1986
Programmable Extreme Pseudomagnetic Fields in Graphene by a Uniaxial Stretch
Creators: name: Zhu, Shuze
name: Stroscio, Joseph A.
name: Li, Teng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many of the properties of graphene are tied to its lattice structure, allowing for tuning of charge carrier dynamics through mechanical strain. The graphene electro-mechanical coupling yields very large pseudomagnetic fields for small strain fields, up to hundreds of Tesla, which offer new scientific opportunities unattainable with ordinary laboratory magnets. Significant challenges exist in investigation of pseudomagnetic fields, limited by the non-planar graphene geometries in existing demonstrations and the lack of a viable approach to controlling the distribution and intensity of the pseudomagnetic field. Here we reveal a facile and effective mechanism to achieve programmable extreme pseudomagnetic fields with uniform distributions in a planar graphene sheet over a large area by a simple uniaxial stretch. We achieve this by patterning the planar graphene geometry and graphene-based hetero-structures with a shape function to engineer a desired strain gradient. Our method is geometrical, opening up new fertile opportunities of strain engineering of electronic properties of 2D materials in general.
description: 3 figures
Thermodynamic formalism and $k$-bonacci substitutions
Creators: name: Emme, Jordan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study $k$-bonacci substitutions. For each we define a renormalization operator associated to it and examine its iterates over potentials in a certain class. We also study the pressure function associated to potentials in this class and prove the existence of a freezing phase transition which is realized by the only ergodic measure on the subshift associated to the substitution.
Genetically distinct pestiviruses pave the way to improved classical swine fever marker vaccine candidates based on the chimeric pestivirus concept
Creators: name: Postel, Alexander
name: Becher, Paul
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Classical swine fever (CSF) is one of the most important viral diseases of pigs. In many countries, the use of vaccines is restricted due to limitations of subunit vaccines with regard to efficacy and onset of protection as well as failure of live vaccines to differentiate infected from vaccinated animals (DIVA principle). Chimeric pestiviruses based on CSF virus (CSFV) and the related bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) have been licensed as live marker vaccines in Europe and Asia, but cross-reactive antibodies can cause problems in DIVA application due to close antigenic relationship. To develop marker vaccine candidates with improved DIVA properties, three chimeric viruses were generated by replacing Erns of CSFV Alfort-Tübingen with homologue proteins of only distantly related pestiviruses. The chimeric viruses “Ra”, “Pro”, and “RaPro” contained Erns sequences of Norway rat and Pronghorn pestiviruses or a combination of both, respectively. In porcine cells, the “Pro” chimera replicated to high titers, while replication of the “Ra” chimera was limited. The “RaPro” chimera showed an intermediate phenotype. All vaccine candidates were attenuated in a vaccination/ challenge trial in pigs, but to different extents. Inoculation induced moderate to high levels of neutralizing antibodies that protected against infection with a genetically heterologous, highly virulent CSFV. Importantly, serum samples of vaccinated animals did not show any cross-reactivity in a CSFV Erns antibody ELISA. In conclusion, the Erns antigen from distantly related pestiviruses can provide a robust serological negative marker for a new generation of improved CSFV marker vaccines based on the chimeric pestivirus concept.
Shapes of a liquid droplet in a periodic box
Creators: name: Prestipino, S.
name: Caccamo, C.
name: Costa, D.
name: Malescio, G.
name: Munaò, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Within the coexistence region between liquid and vapor the equilibrium pressure of a simulated fluid exhibits characteristic jumps and plateaus when plotted as a function of density at constant temperature. These features exclusively pertain to a finite-size sample in a periodic box, as they are washed out in the bulk limit. Below the critical density, at each pressure jump the shape of the liquid drop undergoes a morphological transition, changing from spherical to cylindrical to slab-like as the density is increased. We formulate a simple theory of these shape transitions, which is adapted from a calculation originally developed by Binder and coworkers [{\em J. Chem. Phys.} {\bf 120}, 5293 (2004)]. Our focus is on the pressure equation of state (rather than on the chemical potential, as in the original work) and includes an extension to elongated boxes. Predictions based on this theory well agree with extensive Monte Carlo data for the cut-and-shifted Lennard-Jones fluid. We further discuss on the thermodynamic stability of liquid drops with shapes other than the three mentioned above, like those found deep inside the liquid-vapor region in simulations starting from scratch. Our theory classifies these more elaborate shapes as metastable.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures
VIRUS DISEASES OF THE HONEYBEE, Rothamsted Experimental Station Report for 1970 - Part 2
Creators: name: L. BAILEY
Publisher: name: Lawes Agricultural Trust
Year: 1971
Subjects: subject: rothamsted research
subject: apiculture
subject: viral diseases

description: Scanned PDF of VIRUS DISEASES OF THE HONEYBEE, part of Rothamsted Experimental Station Report for 1970 - Part 2
Engaging search firms in the hiring process for Division I athletic departments
Creators: name: Lutz, Natalie V.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: The trend of using search firms to assist in the hiring process for coaches and administrators has recently emerged in intercollegiate athletics. This study utilized institutional isomorphism for the theoretical framework. The purpose of this study was to explore the prevalence of search firms in intercollegiate athletics, pinpoint the reasons administrators cite for choosing whether or not to engage search firms, identify the investment associated with search firms, and examine the perceptions and experiences that Division I athletics administrators have with these firms. The response rate from these administrators was 24.96 percent. Descriptive statistics were tabulated, and t-tests, one-way ANOVA's, and a linear regression were performed to determine if administrators' responses were significantly different. Institutional isomorphism was found to be a factor in the decision, but several other factors were also present. The data collected provides a solid foundation of the current role of search firms in intercollegiate athletics.
End Users Needs Report: Weather And Climate Data For Northern Finnish Winter Tourism Centers (D5.1)
Creators: name: Lesser, Pamela
name: Toivonen, Jusu
name: Coath, Martin
name: Contreras, Roxana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: climate change
tourism
tourism industry
Lapland
ski industry
blue growth

description: About this document
 Deliverable: D5.1 End User Needs Report
 Work package in charge: WP5 Developing and Valuing Climate Services
 Actual delivery date for this deliverable: 1 July 2017
 Dissemination level: CO
 Lead authors: Arctic Centre University of Lapland: Pamela Lesser Rukakeskus Corporation Ltd: Jusu Toivonen Other contributing authors: Arctic Centre, University of Lapland: Roxana Contreras and Martin Coath Reviewer: Danish Meteorological Institute: Chiara Bearzotti
description: We support the Blue Growth! Visit us on: www.blue‐action.eu Follow us on Twitter: @BG10Blueaction The Blue‐Action project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No 727852.
Directional antennas improve the link-connectivity of interference limited ad hoc networks
Creators: name: Georgiou, Orestis
name: Wang, Shanshan
name: Bocus, Mohammud Z.
name: Dettmann, Carl P.
name: Coon, Justin P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We study wireless ad hoc networks in the absence of any channel contention or transmit power control and ask how antenna directivity affects network connectivity in the interference limited regime. We answer this question by deriving closed-form expressions for the outage probability, capacity and mean node degree of the network using tools from stochastic geometry. These novel results provide valuable insights for the design of future ad hoc networks. Significantly, our results suggest that the more directional the interfering transmitters are, the less detrimental are the effects of interference to individual links. We validate our analytical results through computer simulations.
description: 6 pages, 7 figures, conference proceedings of PIMRC'2015
New Military Humanitarians: Competition and Cooperation between NATO and Humanitarian Agencies in 1999 Kosovar Refugee Assistance in Albania
Creators: name: Walters, Mary
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Year: 2014
Subjects: History
Military history
International relations

description: Within the larger context of Serbian ethnic cleansing of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo in 1999, a complex relationship developed between NATO and civilian humanitarian organizations as they responded to the unexpected magnitude of the Kosovar refugee crisis. For the first time in NATO's 50-year history, the military organization took action in alleviating a humanitarian disaster. Civilian humanitarian organizations, rather than being in the lead, took a backseat to NATO military planning. NATO's soldiers, meanwhile, were on the frontlines not of battle, but of providing humanitarian assistance to Kosovar refugees. NATO and civilian humanitarian organizations, including the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, both competed and cooperated in their ad hoc efforts to establish refugee camps in Albania as the international media scrutinized the situation. Competition for funding and resources between NATO and civilian humanitarian organizations shaped and limited efforts at cooperation across a wide range of Kosovar refugee assistance efforts.
A probabilistic decomposition-synthesis method for the quantification of rare events due to internal instabilities
Creators: name: Mohamad, Mustafa A.
name: Cousins, Will
name: Sapsis, Themistoklis P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the problem of probabilistic quantification of dynamical systems that have heavy-tailed characteristics. These heavy-tailed features are associated with rare transient responses due to the occurrence of internal instabilities. Here we develop a computational method, a probabilistic decomposition-synthesis technique, that takes into account the nature of internal instabilities to inexpensively determine the non-Gaussian probability density function for any arbitrary quantity of interest. Our approach relies on the decomposition of the statistics into a `non-extreme core', typically Gaussian, and a heavy-tailed component. This decomposition is in full correspondence with a partition of the phase space into a `stable' region where we have no internal instabilities, and a region where non-linear instabilities lead to rare transitions with high probability. We quantify the statistics in the stable region using a Gaussian approximation approach, while the non-Gaussian distributions associated with the intermittently unstable regions of the phase space are inexpensively computed through order-reduction methods that take into account the strongly nonlinear character of the dynamics. The probabilistic information in the two domains is analytically synthesized through a total probability argument. The proposed approach allows for the accurate quantification of non-Gaussian tails at more than 10 standard deviations, at a fraction of the cost associated with the direct Monte-Carlo simulations. We demonstrate the probabilistic decomposition-synthesis method for rare events for two dynamical systems exhibiting extreme events: a two-degree-of-freedom system of nonlinearly coupled oscillators, and in a nonlinear envelope equation characterizing the propagation of unidirectional water waves.
Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays using virus-like particles containing mutations of conserved residues on envelope protein can distinguish three flavivirus infections
Creators: name: Tsai, Wen-Yang
name: Driesse, Kaitlin
name: Tsai, Jih-Jin
name: Hsieh, Szu-Chia
name: Granat, Robert Sznajder
name: Jenkins, Olivia
name: Chang, Gwong-Jen
name: Wang, Wei-Kung
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: The recent outbreaks of Zika virus (ZIKV) in flavivirus-endemic regions highlight the need for sensitive and specific serological tests. Previously we and others reported key fusion loop (FL) residues and/or BC loop (BCL) residues on dengue virus (DENV) envelope protein recognized by flavivirus cross-reactive human monoclonal antibodies and polyclonal sera. To improve ZIKV serodiagnosis, we employed wild type (WT) and FL or FL/BCL mutant virus-like particles (VLP) of ZIKV, DENV1 and West Nile virus (WNV) in enzyme linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA), and tested convalescent-phase serum or plasma samples from reverse-transcription PCR-confirmed cases with different ZIKV, DENV and WNV infections. For IgG ELISA, ZIKV WT-VLP had a sensitivity of 100% and specificity of 52.9%, which was improved to 83.3% by FL/BCL mutant VLP and 92.2% by the ratio of relative optical density of mutant to WT VLP. Similarly, DENV1 and WNV WT-VLP had a sensitivity/specificity of 100%/70.0% and 100%/56.3%, respectively; the specificity was improved to 93.3% and 83.0% by FL mutant VLP. For IgM ELISA, ZIKV, DENV1 and WNV WT-VLP had a specificity of 96.4%, 92.3% and 91.4%, respectively, for primary infection; the specificity was improved to 93.7–99.3% by FL or FL/BCL mutant VLP. An algorithm based on a combination of mutant and WT-VLP IgG ELISA is proposed to discriminate primary ZIKV, DENV and WNV infections as well as secondary DENV and ZIKV infection with previous DENV infections; this could be a powerful tool to better understand the seroprevalence and pathogenesis of ZIKV in regions where multiple flaviviruses co-circulate.
Quasiopen and p-path open sets, and characterizations of quasicontinuity
Creators: name: Björn, Anders
name: Björn, Jana
name: Malý, Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary: 31E05, Secondary: 28A05, 30L99, 31C15, 31C40, 31C45, 46E35

description: In this paper we give various characterizations of quasiopen sets and quasicontinuous functions on metric spaces. For complete metric spaces equipped with a doubling measure supporting a p-Poincaré inequality we show that quasiopen and p-path open sets coincide. Under the same assumptions we show that all Newton-Sobolev functions on quasiopen sets are quasicontinuous.
description: 17 pages
Rapid dopamine signaling in the nucleus accumbens shell, but not core, encodes reward magnitude-based decision making
Creators: name: Sackett, Deirdre
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Effective decision making requires organisms to predict reward values and bias behavior toward the best available option. The mesolimbic dopamine system, including the nucleus accumbens (NAc) core and shell, is involved in this process. While studies support a differential role of the core and shell in subjective versus outcome based decision making, no studies have examined dopamine release to cues signaling the availability of different reward magnitudes. Here, electrochemical methods were used in rats to measure shell versus core dopamine release during a magnitude decision making task in which discrete cues signaled the availability of different reward sizes. Dopamine release in the shell (not core), preferentially tracks cues that predict the large preferred reward. Further, unique dopamine release dynamics are observed in the shell, but not core, upon lever press. These findings indicate a differential role of the core and shell in subjective, versus outcome-based, aspects of value-based decision-making.
The therapeutic potential of inflamed gingiva- derived mesenchymal stem cells in preclinical studies: A scoping review of a unique biomedical waste.
Creators: name: AL-Qadhi, Gamilah
name: Hafed, Layla
name: AL-Rai, Sarah
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Translational Medical Research
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Dentistry
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: The objective of the current scoping review is to systematically present the potential therapeutic role of inflamed gingival mesenchymal stem cells (GMSCs), certainty, to address the following question; to what extent would GMSCs derived from inflamed tissue be considered as an alternative therapeutic approach to healthy one in pre-clinical studies?
Light propagation and fluorescence quantum yields in liquid scintillators
Creators: name: Buck, C.
name: Gramlich, B.
name: Wagner, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For the simulation of the scintillation and Cherenkov light propagation in large liquid scintillator detectors a detailed knowledge about the absorption and emission spectra of the scintillator molecules is mandatory. Furthermore reemission probabilities and quantum yields of the scintillator components influence the light propagation inside the liquid. Absorption and emission properties are presented for liquid scintillators using 2,5-Diphenyloxazole (PPO) and 4-bis-(2-Methylstyryl)benzene (bis-MSB) as primary and secondary wavelength shifter. New measurements of the quantum yields for various aromatic molecules are shown.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures, 1 table
Limiting shape of profile due to dual-mode fretting wear in contact with an elastomer
Creators: name: Mao, Xinyu
name: Liu, Wei
name: Ni, Yuanzhi
name: Popov, Valentin L.
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 620 Ingenieurwissenschaften und Maschinenbau
subject: wear
subject: fretting
subject: elastomers
subject: method of dimensionality reduction

description: Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.
description: This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.
description: We consider fretting wear due to superimposed normal and tangential oscillations of two contacting bodies, one of which is an elastomer with a linear rheology. Similarly to the contact of elastic bodies, at small oscillation amplitudes, the wear occurs only in a circular slip zone at the border of the contact area and the wear profile tends to a limiting form, in which no further wear occurs. It is shown that under assumption of a constant coefficient of friction at the contact interface, the limiting form of the wear profile does depend neither on the particular wear criterion nor on the rheology of the elastomer and can be calculated analytically in a general form. The general calculation procedure and explicit analytic solutions for two initial forms, parabolic and conical, are presented for various combinations of frequencies and phases of normal and tangential oscillations as well as for various linear rheologies of the elastomer.
The Spectral Amplitude of Stellar Convection and its Scaling in the High-Rayleigh-Number Regime
Creators: name: Featherstone, Nicholas A.
name: Hindman, Bradley W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Convection plays a central role in the dynamics of any stellar interior, and yet its operation remains largely-hidden from direct observation. As a result, much of our understanding concerning stellar convection necessarily derives from theoretical and computational models. The Sun is, however, exceptional in that regard. The wealth of observational data afforded by its proximity provides a unique testbed for comparing convection models against observations. When such comparisons are carried out, surprising inconsistencies between those models and observations become apparent. Both photospheric and helioseismic measurements suggest that convection simulations may overestimate convective flow speeds on large spatial scales. Moreover, many solar convection simulations have difficulty reproducing the observed solar differential rotation due to this apparent overestimation. We present a series of 3-dimensional (3-D) stellar convection simulations designed to examine how the amplitude and spectral distribution of convective flows are established within a star's interior. While these simulations are non-magnetic and non-rotating in nature, they demonstrate two robust phenomena. When run with sufficiently high Rayleigh number, the integrated kinetic energy of the convection becomes effectively independent of thermal diffusion, but the spectral distribution of that kinetic energy remains sensitive to both of these quantities. A simulation that has converged to a diffusion-independent value of kinetic energy will divide that energy between spatial scales such that low-wavenumber power is overestimated, and high-wavenumber power is underestimated relative to a comparable system possessing higher Rayleigh number. We discuss the implications of these results in light of the current inconsistencies between models and observations.
description: Submitted to The Astrophysical Journal
When you must take responsibility though you're not to blame
Creators: name: Svirsky, Larisa
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2014

description: There are many situations where an agent's responsibility for morally problematic behavior, attitudes, or aspects of her character seems to entail that she is blameworthy. There are some cases, however, where intuitively claims about responsibility and blameworthiness can and should come apart. In this paper, I argue that there is a sense of responsibility that agents have in virtue of having an obligation to take responsibility for behavior and features of their psychology that are attributable to them. In contrast, for agents to be blameworthy for some bad state they find themselves in, there must have been some reasonable expectation that they could have avoided that state. I illustrate this distinction between moral responsibility for something bad on the one hand and blameworthiness on the other with several cases, with the aim of arguing for additional subtlety in our evaluation of agents as morally responsible.
Do acute hepatopancreatic necrosis disease-causing PirABVP toxins aggravate vibriosis?
Creators: name: Tran, Phuong Thi Ngoc
name: Kumar, Vikash
name: Bossier, Peter
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Gram-negative marine bacterium Vibrio parahaemolyticus is an important aquatic pathogen and has been demonstrated to be the causative agent of acute hepatopancreatic necrotic disease (AHPND) in shrimp aquaculture. The AHPND-causing V. parahaemolyticus strains contain a pVA1 plasmid encoding the binary PirAVP and PirBVP toxins, are the primary virulence factor that mediates AHPND and mortality in shrimp. Since PirABVP toxins are secreted extracellularly, one can hypothesize that PirABVP toxins would aggravate vibriosis in the aquatic environment. To address this, in vivo and in vitro experiments were conducted. Germ-free Artemia franciscana were co-challenged with PirABVP toxins and 10 Vibrio spp. The in vivo results showed that PirABVP toxin interact synergistically with MM30 (a quorum sensing AI-2 deficient mutant) and V. alginolyticus AQ13-91, aggravating vibriosis. However, co-challenge by PirABVP toxins and V. campbellii LMG21363, V. parahaemolyticus CAIM170, V. proteolyticus LMG10942, and V. anguillarum NB10 worked antagonistically, increasing the survival of Artemia larvae. The in vitro results showed that the addition of PirABVP toxins significantly modulated the production of the virulence factors of studied Vibrio spp. Yet these in vitro results did not help to explain the in vivo results. Hence it appears that PirABVP toxins can aggravate vibriosis. However, the dynamics of interaction is strain dependent.
Impact of baseline cases of cough and fever on UK COVID-19 diagnostic testing rates: estimates from the Bug Watch community cohort study - Supplementary material, code and data
Creators: name: Eyre, Max
name: Burns, Rachel
name: Kirkby, Victoria
name: Smith, Catherine
name: Denaxas, Spiros
name: Nguyen, Vincent
name: Hayward, Andrew
name: Shallcross, Laura
name: Fragaszy, Ellen
name: Aldridge, Robert
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Respiratory Tract Diseases
subject: Diseases
subject: Public Health
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Epidemiology
subject: Virus Diseases
subject: community baseline incidence
subject: cough and fever
subject: COVID-19
subject: diagnostic testing rates
subject: United Kingdom

description: This project contains anonymised data, R scripts for analysis and supplementary material for this secondary analysis of the Bug Watch prospective community cohort study. In this analysis we estimated the incidence of cough or fever in England in 2018-2019. We then estimated the COVID-19 diagnostic testing rates required in the UK for baseline cough or fever cases for the period July 2020-June 2021. This was explored for different rates of the population requesting tests and four COVID-19 second wave scenarios. Estimates were then compared to current national capacity.
Persepsi dan Pengetahuan Mahasiswa Akademi Kebidanan Tahirah Al Baeti Terhadap Gizi Remaja
Creators: name: Kamaruddin, Mudyawati
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition
subject: Public Health
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Medical Education
subject: Adolescent nutrition;
subject: knowledge
subject: Perception

description: Gizi remaja merupakan bagian dari sektor kesehatan yang penting dan menjadi perhatian besar dari pemerintah. Gizi yang baik merupakan pondasi bagi kesehatan masyarakat pengaruh gizi terhadap pertumbuhan, perkembangan, intelektual, dan produktivitas menunjukan besarnya peranan gizi bagi kehidupan manusia.
'Know before you go': information-seeking behaviour of German patients receiving health services abroad in light of the provisions of Directive 2011/24/EU
Creators: name: Panteli, Dimitra
name: Wagner, Caroline
name: Verheyen, Frank
name: Busse, Reinhard
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 610 Medizin, Gesundheit
subject: cross-border care
subject: European Union
subject: patient information

description: Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.
description: This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.
description: Objective While Directive 2011/24/EU on cross-border patient mobility makes specific provisions in relation to information availability and accessibility, little empirical evidence exists to guide best practice. This paper explores the information-seeking behaviour of German patients who received planned care abroad. Methods A postal survey among German patients treated in other European countries was carried out by Techniker Krankenkasse, a major German sickness fund. The influence of certain predictors on whether patients informed themselves before travelling for care was investigated using multiple logistic regression. Types and sources of information were analysed using descriptive statistics. Results Information activity was contingent on patients' level of education, type of service, regularity of treatment abroad and awareness of entitlement to cross-border services. Respondents most frequently enquired about elements of reimbursement, entitlement to services and cost-saving, and consulted their sickness fund for information. Differences in both content and medium of choice were observed between patient groups. Conclusion A structured and inclusive approach to information provision should be adopted. National Contact Points should collaborate with a range of stakeholders, who will vary depending on the health care system; however, patient organizations, health professionals and third-party payers should always be represented. Dynamically monitoring cross-border movements can help determine the range, medium and language of relevant information.
Deskripsi Pengetahuan dan Pemahaman Mahasiswa Akademi Kebidanan Tahirah Al Baeti Tentang Anemia Ibu Hamil
Creators: name: Kamaruddin, Mudyawati
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Anemia; Knowledge; Understanding

description: Anemia terjadi ketika tubuh kekurangan sel darah merah. Hal ini sangat berbahaya untuk kesehatan, mengingat sel darah merah merupakan kunci penting dalam menjaga tercukupinya pasokan oksigen untuk menunjang kehidupan dan kerja sel-sel tubuh. Bila diibaratkan, sel darah merah merupakan “kendaraan” yang membawa oksigen dan zat gizi, yang kemudian diedarkan ke setiap sel di dalam tubuh.
Incircular nets and confocal conics
Creators: name: Akopyan, Arseniy
name: Bobenko, Alexander I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 51A05, 51B15, 52C35

description: We consider congruences of straight lines in a plane with the combinatorics of the square grid, with all elementary quadrilaterals possessing an incircle. It is shown that all the vertices of such nets (we call them incircular or IC-nets) lie on confocal conics. Our main new results are on checkerboard IC-nets in the plane. These are congruences of straight lines in the plane with the combinatorics of the square grid, combinatorially colored as a checkerboard, such that all black coordinate quadrilaterals possess inscribed circles. We show how this larger class of IC-nets appears quite naturally in Laguerre geometry of oriented planes and spheres, and leads to new remarkable incidence theorems. Most of our results are valid in hyperbolic and spherical geometries as well. We present also generalizations in spaces of higher dimension, called checkerboard IS-nets. The construction of these nets is based on a new 9 inspheres incidence theorem.
description: 33 pages, 24 Figures
In-resonator variation of waveguide cross-sections for dispersion control of aluminum nitride micro-rings
Creators: name: Jung, Hojoong
name: Poot, Menno
name: Tang, Hong X.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose and demonstrate a dispersion control technique by combination of different waveguide cross sections in an aluminum nitride micro-ring resonator. Narrow and wide waveguides with normal and anomalous dispersion, respectively, are linked with tapering waveguides and enclosed in a ring resonator to produce a total dispersion near zero. The mode-coupling in multimoded waveguides is also effectively suppressed. This technique provides new degrees of freedom and enhanced flexibility in engineering the dispersion of microcomb resonators.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
Book Reviews and the Consolidation of Genre
Creators: name: Underwood, William
name: Shang, Wenyi
name: Hu, Yuerong
name: Singhal, Shubhangi
name: Sharma, Aniruddha
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Arts and Humanities
subject: Library and Information Science
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: genre

description: Several interconnected experiments that use book reviews of fiction to trace the rise and fall of genre concepts.
Nigger: interpretations of the word's prevalence on the Chappelle's Show, throughout entertainment, and in everyday life
Creators: name: Coward, Kyle Antar
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: This study analyzes the prevalence of the word nigger in the television sketch comedy the Chappelle's Show – in particular, the word's prevalence in a 2004 skit entitled The Niggar Family – by performing a textual reading of the five-act skit, along with conducting in-depth interviews with ten black individuals. In addition to the comprehension of sentiments regarding the word's prevalence on the Chappelle's Show, this study also analyzes how participants construct meaning out of the word as it is prevalent not only throughout entertainment in general, but in everyday life outside of entertainment as well. The data from the in-depth interviews is gathered and analyzed by the utilization of the grounded theory framework of Strauss and Corbin (1998).