cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Filtering harbor craft vessels’ fuel data using statistical, decomposition, and predictive methodologies
Creators: name: Tay, Zhi Yung
Publisher: name: Singapore Institute of Technology
Year: 2023
Subjects: Maritime transportation and freight services

description: Filtering is the process of defining, recognizing, and correcting flaws in given data so that the influence of inaccuracies in input data on subsequent studies is minimized. This paper aims to discuss the characteristics of some filtering methods from various topics. Wavelet transform and frequency (Fourier) transform are considered for the decomposition methodologies whereas descriptive statistics is used for the statistical methodology. The Kalman filter and autoencoder neural network are also explored for the predictive methodologies. All the aforementioned methodologies are discussed empirically using two metrics of R-squared and mean absolute error. This paper aims to study the effectiveness of these filtering techniques in filtering noisy data collected from mass flowmeter reading in an unconventional situation i.e., on a tugboat while in operation to measure fuel consumption. Finally, the performance of various filtering methods is assessed, and their effectiveness in filtering noisy data is compared and discussed. It is found that the Haar wavelet transforms, Kalman filter and the descriptive statistics have a better performance as compared to their counterparts in filtering out spikes found in the mass flow data.
Deformation Processes Adjacent to Active Faults: Examples from Eastern California
Creators: name: Shelef, Eitan
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2008

description: Major seismogenic faults occur within bands of inelastic off-fault deformation (OFD), where both distributed displacement and modification of rock properties occur. Active distributed displacement may affect slip-rate estimates, understanding of seismic energy radiation and geodynamic models. This study addresses the role of OFD in the displacement history and mechanical behavior of major seismogenic faults. Here I present a multi-site study of planar and linear geologic features next to active strike-slip faults in the central Mojave Desert. Conservative estimates suggest that distributed displacement accommodates 19 ± 3 % of the total displacement over zones of 1 to 4 km width. Most of this displacement occurs within 100-200 m of faults and decreases exponentially with distance from the main fault. Distributed displacement is accommodated by a combination of block rotation and simple shear across secondary faults. Analysis of block dimensions show that blocks tend to decrease in size toward faults. Conservative estimates indicate that the cumulative length of secondary faults is at least a factor of ten greater then the length of the main fault. Finally, I argue that distributed displacement is an active feature and suggests that zones of diminished rigidity near faults may be at least in part driven by formation and lengthening of secondary faults and their associated OFD zones.
A matter of life and breath: childhood socioeconomic status is related to young adult pulmonary function in the CARDIA study
Creators: name: Jackson, Benita
name: Kubzansky, Laura D
name: Cohen, Sheldon
name: Weiss, Scott
name: Wright, Rosalind J
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Background Socioeconomic status (SES) may contribute to the trajectory of pulmonary function over the life course. Studies suggest that people with lower (versus higher) SES during childhood subsequently have lower levels of adult pulmonary function. But prospective studies are sparse across young adulthood, an important phase in pulmonary development.

Methods Participants were from the Coronary Artery (Disease) Risk Development in (Young) Adults (CARDIA) study: 5113 young adults ages 18–30 at baseline, approximately balanced within centres across gender, self-identified race/ethnicity (Black, White), and current SES. Childhood SES was ascertained from baseline self-reports of parents' highest completed education. Pulmonary function in young adulthood was measured using FEV1 (forced expiratory volume in one second) and FVC (forced vital capacity), assessed on three occasions over a period of 5 years.

Results Longitudinal analyses suggested that rates of change in both FEV1 and FVC differed in a gradient fashion by childhood SES. As shown by significant childhood SES by time interaction terms, these associations with FEV1 were robust for men (b = 1.59E–3, SE = 5.21E–4, P < 0.001) and women (b = 1.93E–3, SE = 4.80E–4, P < 0.001), and adjusted for multiple potential confounders including smoking. Results were similar for FVC. Subsequent examination of the interaction terms suggested that FEV1 and FVC declined for participants in the lowest childhood SES group, showed continued plateau or growth for those in the highest group, and were intermediate for the middle group.

Conclusions Childhood SES may influence men's and women's young adult pulmonary function in two ways. First, individuals with lower childhood SES may not attain as high levels of pulmonary function in early adulthood relative to individuals with higher childhood SES. Second, pulmonary function may decline earlier and faster for individuals with lower childhood SES.
Laplacian flow for closed G_2 structures: Shi-type estimates, uniqueness and compactness
Creators: name: Lotay, Jason D.
name: Wei, Yong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C44, 53C25, 53C10

description: We develop foundational theory for the Laplacian flow for closed G_2 structures which will be essential for future study. (1). We prove Shi-type derivative estimates for the Riemann curvature tensor Rm and torsion tensor T along the flow, i.e. that a bound on $Λ(x,t)=\left(|\nabla T(x,t)|_{g(t)}^2+|Rm(x,t)|_{g(t)}^2\right)^{\frac 12}$ will imply bounds on all covariant derivatives of Rm and T. (2). We show that $Λ(x,t)$ will blow up at a finite-time singularity, so the flow will exist as long as $Λ(x,t)$ remains bounded. (3). We give a new proof of forward uniqueness and prove backward uniqueness of the flow, and give some applications. (4). We prove a compactness theorem for the flow and use it to strengthen our long time existence result from (2). (5). Finally, we study compact soliton solutions of the Laplacian flow.
description: 59 pages, v2: minor corrections and additions, accepted version for GAFA
A multiple process solution to the logical problem of language acquisition.
Creators: name: Macwhinney, Brian
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Many researchers believe that there is a logical problem at the centre of language acquisition theory. According to this analysis, the input to the learner is too inconsistent and incomplete to determine the acquisition of grammar. Moreover, when corrective feedback is provided, children tend to ignore it. As a result, language learning must rely on additional constraints from universal grammar. To solve this logical problem, theorists have proposed a series of constraints and parameterizations on the form of universal grammar. Plausible alternatives to these constraints include: conservatism, item-based learning, indirect negative evidence, competition, cue construction, and monitoring. Careful analysis of child language corpora has cast doubt on claims regarding the absence of positive exemplars. Using demonstrably available positive data, simple learning procedures can be formulated for each of the syntactic structures that have traditionally motivated invocation of the logical problem. Within the perspective of emergentist theory (MacWhinney, 2001), the operation of a set of mutually supportive processes is viewed as providing multiple buffering for developmental outcomes. However, the fact that some syntactic structures are more difficult to learn than others can be used to highlight areas of intense grammatical competition and processing load.
A secure base: responsive support of goal strivings and exploration in adult intimate relationships.
Creators: name: Feeney, Brooke
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: A theoretical framework is proposed for examining the interpersonal processes involved in the support of a relationship partner's goal strivings, personal growth, and exploratory behavior, and for examining consequences of receiving either responsive or unresponsive support in this domain. These processes were examined using both observational and experimental methods. In Phase 1, couples were videotaped as they discussed personal goals for the future. In Phase 2, support behavior was experimentally manipulated to examine immediate effects on the recipient. Results indicated that responsive (nonintrusive) support of a relationship partner's goal strivings and explorations have important implications for the recipient's happiness, self-esteem, and perceived likelihood of achieving specific goals. The importance of research examining this type of support is discussed.
Isometry-invariant geodesics and the fundamental group, II
Creators: name: Macarini, Leonardo
name: Mazzucchelli, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 58E10, 53C22

description: We show that on a closed Riemannian manifold with fundamental group isomorphic to $\mathbb{Z}$, other than the circle, every isometry that is homotopic to the identity possesses infinitely many invariant geodesics. This completes a recent result of the second author.
description: 23 pages. Version 2: added the proof of Lemma 2.2. To appear in Advances in Mathematics
Telomere-to-telomere haplotype-resolved reference genome reveals subgenome divergence and disease resistance in triploid Cavendish banana
Creators: name: Huang, Hui-Run
name: Liu, Xin
name: Arshad, Rida
name: Wang, Xu
name: Li, Wei-Ming
name: Zhou, Yongfeng
name: Ge, Xue-Jun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 460203
subject: Evolutionary computation

description: Banana is among the most popular fruits worldwide. Cavendish-type bananas, which have a monospecific Musa acuminata origin (AAA), account for around half of the global banana production, thereby are of great significance for human societies. However, until now, the high-quality haplotype-resolved reference genome is still undecoded for banana cultivars. Here, we reported the telomere-to-telomere (T2T) and haplotype-resolved reference genome of ‘Baxijiao’ (Cavendish) consisting of three haploid assemblies. The sizes of the three haploid assemblies were estimated to be 477.16 Mb, 477.18 Mb and 469.57 Mb, respectively. Although with monospecific origins, the three haploid assemblies showed great differences with low levels of sequence collinearity. Several large reciprocal translocations were identified among chromosomes 1, 4 and 7. An expansion of gene families that might affect fruit quality and aroma was detected, such as those belonging to sucrose/disaccharide/oligosaccharide catabolic processes, sucrose metabolic process, starch metabolic process, and aromatic compound biosynthetic process. Besides, an expansion of gene families associated with anther and pollen development was observed, which could be related to parthenocarpy and sterility of the Cavendish cultivar. Finally, loss of resistance genes in the ‘Baxijiao’ genome was observed, particularly in the gene clusters in chromosomes 3 and 10, providing potential targets to investigate for molecular dissection of disease resistance in banana. This T2T haplotype-resolved reference genome will thus be a valuable genetic resource for biological studies, molecular breeding and genetic improvement of banana.
Longitudinal prediction of adolescent nonsuicidal self-injury: examination of a cognitive vulnerability-stress model
Creators: name: Guerry, John D.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: Virtually no research has examined psychological characteristics or events that may lead to adolescent nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI). While recent work has implicated the role of stressful life events, little is known regarding how stress might combine with other factors to predict NSSI. The present study tested whether a cognitive-vulnerability stress model could predict longitudinal trajectories of NSSI. Adolescent participants (n = 143; 72% female) recruited from a psychiatric inpatient facility reported on measures of NSSI, depression, attributional style, and interpersonal stressors during baseline hospitalization. Levels of NSSI were reassessed at 3, 6, 9, 15, and 18 months post-baseline. Latent growth curve analyses partially supported hypotheses. Although the cognitive vulnerability-stress interaction was not significantly associated with "remission" of NSSI between baseline and 6-month follow-up, this interaction significantly predicted "maintenance" of NSSI between 9, 15, and 18 months post-baseline. These findings further support theoretical models of NSSI which posit emotion regulation functions.
Additional file 1 of Expression characteristics and their functional role of IGFBP gene family in pan-cancer
Creators: name: Liu, Yingnan
name: Shen, Shixuan
name: Yan, Ziwei
name: Yan, Lirong
name: Ding, Hanxi
name: Wang, Ang
name: Xu, Qian
name: Sun, Liping
name: Yuan, Yuan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. The 33 cancer types in TCGA pan-cancer project. Table S2. Primer Sequences. Table S3. IGFBP6 and IGFBP7 protein expression levels across 20 cancer types in the Human Protein Atlas (HPA). Table S4. Correlation between IGFBPs expression and signal transduction pathways. Table S5. Correlation between IGFBPs expression and immune cell infiltration in pan-cancer. Table S6. Correlation between IGFBPs CNV and IGFBPs expression. Table S7. The effects of IGFBPs on cancer.
Large-area, low-voltage, anti-ambipolar heterojunctions from solution-processed semiconductors
Creators: name: Jariwala, Deep
name: Sangwan, Vinod K.
name: Seo, Jung-Woo Ted
name: Xu, Weichao
name: Smith, Jeremy
name: Kim, Chris H.
name: Lauhon, Lincoln J.
name: Marks, Tobin J.
name: Hersam, Mark C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The emergence of semiconducting materials with inert or dangling bond-free surfaces has created opportunities to form van der Waals heterostructures without the constraints of traditional epitaxial growth. For example, layered two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors have been incorporated into heterostructure devices with gate-tunable electronic and optical functionalities. However, 2D materials present processing challenges that have prevented these heterostructures from being produced with sufficient scalability and/or homogeneity to enable their incorporation into large-area integrated circuits. Here, we extend the concept of van der Waals heterojunctions to semiconducting p-type single-walled carbon nanotube (s-SWCNT) and n-type amorphous indium gallium zinc oxide (a-IGZO) thin films that can be solution-processed or sputtered with high spatial uniformity at the wafer scale. The resulting large-area, low-voltage p-n heterojunctions exhibit anti-ambipolar transfer characteristics with high on/off ratios that are well-suited for electronic, optoelectronic, and telecommunication technologies.
description: Manuscript (5 figures)+ supporting information, Nano Letters (2014)
Additional file 2 of Expression characteristics and their functional role of IGFBP gene family in pan-cancer
Creators: name: Liu, Yingnan
name: Shen, Shixuan
name: Yan, Ziwei
name: Yan, Lirong
name: Ding, Hanxi
name: Wang, Ang
name: Xu, Qian
name: Sun, Liping
name: Yuan, Yuan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 2: Figure S1. The kaplan-meier survival curve plots for the IGFBP expression on overall survival in pan-cancer. Figure S2. The correlation between IGFBPs expression in 24 types of cancers from TCGA. Figure S3. The correlation between IGFBPs expression and (A) TMB and (B) MSI in pan-cancer. Figure S4. The mutation details of IGFBPs in pan-cancer.
title: Νέες Τάσεις του Παιδικού Θεάτρου στην Ελλάδα
title: New trends in Children's Theater in Greece
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Πολυδωροπούλου, Χριστίνα
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής
Year: 2023
Subjects: Εκπαίδευση
Ανήλικοι θεατές
Παιδικό θέατρο

description: Εισαγωγή: Το παιδικό θέατρο συμβάλλει αναμφίβολα στην καλλιέργεια των νέων ατόμων, όσον αφορά την έκφραση των σκέψεων, των συναισθημάτων τους και τον εμπλουτισμό του γνωστικού κεφαλαίου τους. Ειδικά από τα τέλη του 20ου αιώνα, το παιδικό θέατρο έχει διαδραματίσει καθοριστικό ρόλο στην ολιστική εξέλιξη του παιδιού, καθώς προάγει φιλόδοξες προτάσεις προς τους νεαρούς θεατές, βασιζόμενο σε καινοτόμες πρακτικές και σε σύγχρονες μεθόδους, όσον αναφορά τα θεατρικά έργα και την σκηνική γλώσσα. Σκοπός: Σκοπός της παρούσας εργασίας είναι να διερευνήσει τις νέες τάσεις του παιδικού θεάτρου στην Ελλάδα, σε μία προσπάθεια να σχηματιστεί μία πληρέστερη άποψη για τον ρόλο που το παιδικό θέατρο διαδραματίζει στους ανήλικους θεατές. Μέθοδος: Η μέθοδος που εφαρμόζεται στην παρούσα έρευνα είναι η συστηματική βιβλιογραφική ανασκόπηση. Συγκεκριμένα μελετώνται πρωτογενείς πηγές που αναφέρονται στην εικόνα που παρουσιάζει το σύγχρονο θέατρο στην Ελλάδα, από το 1920 και έπειτα. Τα δεδομένα της συστηματικής βιβλιογραφικής ανασκόπησης αναλύονται με βάση την ανάλυση περιεχομένου. Στην έρευνα συμπεριλήφθηκαν 19 πρωτογενείς έρευνες που αφορούν τη συμβολή του ελληνικού θέατρου στην ανάπτυξη των ανηλίκων θεατών. Αποτελέσματα: Η έρευνα κατέδειξε την πολύπλευρη συμβολή του παιδικού θεάτρου στο παιδί καθώς επιδρά σε αυτό, παιδαγωγικά, κοινωνικά, ψυχοπαιδαγωγικά. Το παιδικό θέατρο βοηθά το παιδί να αναπτύξει το γνωστικό κεφάλαιο του, την μαθησιακές, κοινωνικές ψυχικές, συμπεριφορές δεξιότητές του και να αναπτυχθεί ολιστικά ως προσωπικότητα Συμπεράσματα: Το παιδικό θέατρο συμβάλει στην πολύπλευρη ανάπτυξη του ανήλικου θεατή, τόσο σε επίπεδο προσωπικότητας, όσο και εκπαίδευσης. Παρατηρήθηκε βελτίωση του γνωστικού κεφαλαίου των παιδιών, καλλιέργεια της κριτικής σκέψης τους, βελτίωση της δημιουργικότητας τους και της φαντασίας τους. Επίσης ανάπτυξαν οι ανήλικοι θεατές τις κοινωνικές και διαπροσωπικές δεξιότητες τους, την συμπεριφορά τους, την αυτοπεποίθηση και αυτοαντίληψη τους, με αποτέλεσμα την ολιστική ανάπτυξη της προσωπικότητας τους. Λέξεις κλειδιά: Παιδικό Θέατρο, Εκπαίδευση, Ανήλικοι Θεατές
The $γ^* γ^*$ total cross section in NLA BFKL
Creators: name: Ivanov, Dmitry Yu.
name: Murdaca, Beatrice
name: Papa, Alessandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the $γ^* γ^*$ total cross section in the NLA BFKL approach. We have extracted the NLO corrections to the photon impact factor from two recent papers of Balitsky and Chirilli and Chirilli and Kovchegov and used them to build several representations of the total cross section, equivalent within the NLA. We have combined these different representations with two among the most common methods for the optimization of a perturbative series, namely PMS and BLM, and compared their behavior with the energy with the only available experimental data, those from the LEP2 collider.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures; presented at "Diffraction 2014", Primosten, Sept. 10-16, 2014
A neural network model of the articulatory-acoustic forward mapping trained on recordings of articulatory parameters.
Creators: name: Kello, Christopher T.
name: Plaut, David
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Three neural network models were trained on the forward mapping from articulatory positions to acoustic outputs for a single speaker of the Edinburgh multi-channel articulatory speech database. The model parameters (i.e., connection weights) were learned via the backpropagation of error signals generated by the difference between acoustic outputs of the models, and their acoustic targets. Efficacy of the trained models was assessed by subjecting the models' acoustic outputs to speech intelligibility tests. The results of these tests showed that enough phonetic information was captured by the models to support rates of word identification as high as 84%, approaching an identification rate of 92% for the actual target stimuli. These forward models could serve as one component of a data-driven articulatory synthesizer. The models also provide the first step toward building a model of spoken word acquisition and phonological development trained on real speech.
Impact of gestational treatment or prenatal cocaine exposure on early postpartum oxytocin synthesis and receptor binding
Creators: name: McMurray, Matthew S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: Prior research reported decreased oxytocin levels in specific brain regions and disruptions in maternal care following gestational cocaine treatment in rats. Similarly, prenatal exposure to cocaine impaired maternal behavior in adulthood, but this was not associated with oxytocin level disruptions. To determine if cocaine alters other aspects of the oxytocin system, oxytocin mRNA transcription and receptor binding were examined on postpartum day two in relevant brain regions following gestational treatment with, or prenatal exposure to, either cocaine or saline. Results indicated an increase in oxytocin mRNA levels in the paraventricular nucleus of dams treated with cocaine gestationally with no group differences in brain regions dependent upon prenatal exposure. No significant differences in receptor binding were found in any region examined for either group of dams. These findings suggest that cocaine affects multiple aspects of the oxytocin system in the early postpartum that could be associated with altered maternal behavior.
Is There Scale-Dependent Bias in Single-Field Inflation?
Creators: name: de Putter, Roland
name: Doré, Olivier
name: Green, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Scale-dependent halo bias due to local primordial non-Gaussianity provides a strong test of single-field inflation. While it is universally understood that single-field inflation predicts negligible scale-dependent bias compared to current observational uncertainties, there is still disagreement on the exact level of scale-dependent bias at a level that could strongly impact inferences made from future surveys. In this paper, we clarify this confusion and derive in various ways that there is exactly zero scale-dependent bias in single-field inflation. Much of the current confusion follows from the fact that single-field inflation does predict a mode coupling of matter perturbations at the level of $f_{NL}^{loc} \approx -5/3$, which naively would lead to scale-dependent bias. However, we show explicitly that this mode coupling cancels out when perturbations are evaluated at a fixed physical scale rather than fixed coordinate scale. Furthermore, we show how the absence of scale-dependent bias can be derived easily in any gauge. This result can then be incorporated into a complete description of the observed galaxy clustering, including the previously studied general relativistic terms, which are important at the same level as scale-dependent bias of order $f_{NL}^{loc} \sim 1$. This description will allow us to draw unbiased conclusions about inflation from future galaxy clustering data.
description: 25 pages; v2 matches version published in JCAP (only minor changes relative to v1)
Comparing biological effectiveness guided plan optimization strategies for cranial proton therapy: potential and challenges
Creators: name: Hahn, Christian
name: Heuchel, Lena
name: Ödén, Jakob
name: Traneus, Erik
name: Wulff, Jörg
name: Plaude, Sandija
name: Timmermann, Beate
name: Bäumer, Christian
name: Lühr, Armin
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Proton therapy
subject: Treatment plan optimization
subject: Linear energy transfer (LET)
subject: Relative biological effectiveness (RBE)
subject: Track ends
subject: Dirty dose
subject: 530

description: Background: To introduce and compare multiple biological effectiveness guided (BG) proton plan optimization strategies minimizing variable relative biological effectiveness (RBE) induced dose burden in organs at risk (OAR) while maintaining plan quality with a constant RBE. Methods: Dose-optimized (DOSEopt) proton pencil beam scanning reference treatment plans were generated for ten cranial patients with prescription doses ≥ 54 Gy(RBE) and ≥ 1 OAR close to the clinical target volume (CTV). For each patient, four additional BG plans were created. BG objectives minimized either proton track-ends, dose-averaged linear energy transfer (LETd), energy depositions from high-LET protons or variable RBE-weighted dose (DRBE) in adjacent serially structured OARs. Plan quality (RBE = 1.1) was assessed by CTV dose coverage and robustness (2 mm setup, 3.5% density), dose homogeneity and conformity in the planning target volumes and adherence to OAR tolerance doses. LETd, DRBE (Wedenberg model, α/βCTV = 10 Gy, α/βOAR = 2 Gy) and resulting normal tissue complication probabilities (NTCPs) for blindness and brainstem necrosis were derived. Differences between DOSEopt and BG optimized plans were assessed and statistically tested (Wilcoxon signed rank, α = 0.05). Results: All plans were clinically acceptable. DOSEopt and BG optimized plans were comparable in target volume coverage, homogeneity and conformity. For recalculated DRBE in all patients, all BG plans significantly reduced near-maximum DRBE to critical OARs with differences up to 8.2 Gy(RBE) (p < 0.05). Direct DRBE optimization primarily reduced absorbed dose in OARs (average ΔDmean = 2.0 Gy; average ΔLETd,mean = 0.1 keV/µm), while the other strategies reduced LETd (average ΔDmean < 0.3 Gy; average ΔLETd,mean = 0.5 keV/µm). LET-optimizing strategies were more robust against range and setup uncertaintes for high-dose CTVs than DRBE optimization. All BG strategies reduced NTCP for brainstem necrosis and blindness on average by 47% with average and maximum reductions of 5.4 and 18.4 percentage points, respectively. Conclusions: All BG strategies reduced variable RBE-induced NTCPs to OARs. Reducing LETd in high-dose voxels may be favourable due to its adherence to current dose reporting and maintenance of clinical plan quality and the availability of reported LETd and dose levels from clinical toxicity reports after cranial proton therapy. These optimization strategies beyond dose may be a first step towards safely translating variable RBE optimization in the clinics.
description: Radiation oncology;17
A single-system account of semantic and lexical deficits in five semantic dementia patients.
Creators: name: Dilkina, Katia
name: McClelland, James L
name: Plaut, David
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: In semantic dementia (SD), there is a correlation between performance on semantic tasks such as picture naming and lexical tasks such as reading aloud. However, there have been a few case reports of patients with spared reading despite profound semantic impairment. These reports have sparked an ongoing debate about how the brain processes conceptual versus lexical knowledge. One possibility is that there are two functionally distinct systems in the brain-one for semantic and one for lexical processing. Alternatively, there may be a single system involved in both. We present a computational investigation of the role of individual differences in explaining the relationship between naming and reading performance in five SD patients, among whom there are cases of both association and dissociation of deficits. We used a connectionist model where information from different modalities feeds into a single integrative layer. Our simulations successfully produced the overall relationship between reading and naming seen in SD and provided multiple fits for both association and dissociation data, suggesting that a single, cross-modal, integrative system is sufficient for both semantic and lexical tasks and that individual differences among patients are essential in accounting for variability in performance.
Aberrant functioning of the Theory-of-Mind network in children and adolescents with autism.
Creators: name: Kana, Rajesh
name: Maximo, Jose
name: Williams, Diane
name: Keller, Timothy
name: Schipul, Sarah
name: Cherkassky, Vladimir
name: Minshew, Nancy
name: Just, Marcel
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Background: Theory-of-Mind (ToM), the ability to infer people’s thoughts and feelings, is a pivotal skill in effective social interactions. Individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have been found to have altered ToM skills, which significantly impacts the quality of their social interactions. Neuroimaging studies have reported altered activation of the ToM cortical network, especially in adults with autism, yet little is known about the brain responses underlying ToM in younger individuals with ASD. This functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study investigated the neural mechanisms underlying ToM in high-functioning children and adolescents with ASD and matched typically developing (TD) peers.
Methods: fMRI data were acquired from 13 participants with ASD and 13 TD control participants while they watched animations involving two “interacting” geometrical shapes.
Results: Participants with ASD showed significantly reduced activation, relative to TD controls, in regions considered part of the ToM network, the mirror network, and cerebellum. Functional connectivity analyses revealed underconnectivity between frontal and posterior regions during task performance in the ASD participants.
Conclusions: Overall, the findings of this study reveal disruptions in the brain circuitry underlying ToM in ASD at multiple levels, including decreased activation, and decreased functional connectivity.
Acoustic analysis of perceptual sound categories
Creators: name: Heller, Laurie M.
name: Skerritt, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Acoustic analyses were conducted on several groups of sound events. The sound events were derived from a combination of physical analyses and perceptual data. The acoustic analyses utilized both low‐level properties, such as spectral centroid, and higher‐level properties. The higher‐level properties were based on a combination of the physical sourcecharacteristics of basic classes of sound‐generating events, statistical methods, and perceptual characteristics. A range of metrics are used to evaluate the success and generality of these acoustic properties, including classification performance and comparison to other results in the literature.
title: Η επίδραση της τεχνολογίας στη μεταφορά επικίνδυνων φορτίων
title: The impact of technology on the Transport of Dangerous Goods (TDG)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Δημουλάκης, Ανδρέας
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Μεταφορά επικίνδυνων φορτίων (TDG)
subject: ADR
subject: Διαδίκτυο των Πραγμάτων (IoT)
subject: Blockchain
subject: Γεωγραφικά Συστήματα Πληροφοριών (GIS)
subject: Συστήματα Υποστήριξης Αποφάσεων (DSS)

description: Καθημερινά χρησιμοποιούμε χιλιάδες προϊόντα για να καλύψουμε τις ανάγκες μας. Πολλά από αυτά ανήκουν στην κατηγορία των επικίνδυνων φορτίων (π.χ. καύσιμα, απορρυπαντικά, αποσμητικά, αλκοολούχα ποτά κ.λπ.). Η μεταφορά τέτοιου είδους φορτίων εγκυμονεί πολλούς κινδύνους τόσο για τον άνθρωπο όσο και για το περιβάλλον. Σε αυτή την εργασία, παρουσιάζεται η έννοια των επικίνδυνων φορτίων, οι κατηγορίες στις οποίες ταξινομούνται και οι κύριοι κανονισμοί, όπως η συμφωνία ADR, που συνοδεύουν τη μεταφορά και αποθήκευσή τους. Στη συνέχεια, αναλύονται οι βασικές προκλήσεις που προκύπτουν από τη μεταφορά αυτών των φορτίων, όσον αφορά στο νομοθετικό πλαίσιο, τους διάφορους εμπλεκόμενους, τις εγκληματικές επιθέσεις καθώς και κινδύνους που προκύπτουν από τη φύση των συγκεκριμένων υλικών. Επίσης, αναφέρονται οι τεχνολογίες που χρησιμοποιούνται, όπως τα Συστήματα Υποστήριξης Αποφάσεων (DSS), το Διαδίκτυο των Πραγμάτων (IoT), το Blockchain, τα Γεωγραφικά Συστήματα Πληροφοριών (GIS) κ.λπ., για τη βελτίωση της αποτελεσματικότητας των διαδικασιών, που απαιτούνται για τη μεταφορά επικίνδυνων φορτίων, τη μείωση των κινδύνων και τη μείωση του χρόνου απόκρισης σε περίπτωση έκτακτης ανάγκης. Τέλος, βλέπουμε παραδείγματα εφαρμογών των τεχνολογιών αυτών καθώς και τα αποτελέσματά τους.
Additional file 1 of A myeloid leukemia factor homolog is involved in tolerance to stresses and stress-induced protein metabolism in Giardia lamblia
Creators: name: Wu, Jui-Hsuan
name: Lee, Jen-Chi
name: Ho, Chun-Che
name: Chiu, Pei-Wei
name: Sun, Chin-Hung
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary figures and tables.
An ERP investigation of the co-development of hemispheric lateralization of face and word recognition.
Creators: name: Dundas, Eva
name: Plaut, David
name: Behrmann, Marlene
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: The adult human brain would appear to have specialized and independent neural systems for the visual processing of words and faces. Extensive evidence has demonstrated greater selectivity for written words in the left over right hemisphere, and, conversely, greater selectivity for faces in the right over left hemisphere. This study examines the emergence of these complementary neural profiles, as well as the possible relationship between them. Using behavioral and neurophysiological measures, in adults, we observed the standard finding of greater accuracy and a larger N170 ERP component in the left over right hemisphere for words, and conversely, greater accuracy and a larger N170 in the right over the left hemisphere for faces. We also found that although children aged 7-12 years revealed the adult hemispheric pattern for words, they showed neither a behavioral nor a neural hemispheric superiority for faces. Of particular interest, the magnitude of their N170 for faces in the right hemisphere was related to that of the N170 for words in their left hemisphere. These findings suggest that the hemispheric organization of face recognition and of word recognition does not develop independently, and that word lateralization may precede and drive later face lateralization. A theoretical account for the findings, in which competition for visual representations unfolds over the course of development, is discussed.
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TRAINING LOAD, CORTISOL AWAKENING RESPONSE AND ORTHOSTATIC HEART RATE
Creators: name: Anderson, Travis
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: The cortisol awakening response (CAR) is used as a marker of stress, however it is unknown whether CAR will vary in response to acute training load. The orthostatic heart rate test (OHR) is commonly used by athletes, but the evidence for its use is not well established. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship of CAR and OHR with acute training loads (TRIMP). TRIMP, CAR and OHR data were collected in endurance athletes (n = 15) during two weeks of training. No significant relationships were found between any variables and TRIMP (all: p > 0.05). The lack of relationships between CAR and OHR suggest these biomarkers are not useful for tracking TRIMP in endurance athletes. However, when accounting for distance, significant relationships were found between CAR and OHR with TRIMP. CAR and OHR can be used to track training load in endurance athletes, as long as both internal and external loads are accounted for.
Additional file 1 of Utility of diffusion weighted imaging-based radiomics nomogram to predict pelvic lymph nodes metastasis in prostate cancer
Creators: name: Liu, Xiang
name: Tian, Jingyi
name: Wu, Jingyun
name: Zhang, Yaofeng
name: Wang, Xiangpeng
name: Zhang, Xiaodong
name: Wang, Xiaoying
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. S1: Radiomics feature extraction. Table S1: Radiomic features used in this study. Table S2: Available options for each step in the radiomics model development pipeline. S2: Details of the radiomics modeling pipelines.
Improvement of the Energy Resolution via an Optimized Digital Signal Processing in GERDA Phase I
Creators: name: Agostini, M.
name: Allardt, M.
name: Bakalyarov, A. M.
name: Balata, M.
name: Barabanov, I.
name: Barros, N.
name: Baudis, L.
name: Bauer, C.
name: Becerici-Schmidt, N.
name: Bellotti, E.
name: Belogurov, S.
name: Belyaev, S. T.
name: Benato, G.
name: Bettini, A.
name: Bezrukov, L.
name: Bode, T.
name: Borowicz, D.
name: Brudanin, V.
name: Brugnera, R.
name: Budjáš, D.
name: Caldwell, A.
name: Cattadori, C.
name: Chernogorov, A.
name: D'Andrea, V.
name: Demidova, E. V.
name: di Vacri, A.
name: Domula, A.
name: Doroshkevich, E.
name: Egorov, V.
name: Falkenstein, R.
name: Fedorova, O.
name: Freund, K.
name: Frodyma, N.
name: Gangapshev, A.
name: Garfagnini, A.
name: Grabmayr, P.
name: Gurentsov, V.
name: Gusev, K.
name: Hegai, A.
name: Heisel, M.
name: Hemmer, S.
name: Heusser, G.
name: Hofmann, W.
name: Hult, M.
name: Inzhechik, L. V.
name: Csáthy, J. Janicskó
name: Jochum, J.
name: Junker, M.
name: Kazalov, V.
name: Kihm, T.
name: Kirpichnikov, I. V.
name: Kirsch, A.
name: Klimenko, A.
name: Knöpfle, K. T.
name: Kochetov, O.
name: Kornoukhov, V. N.
name: Kuzminov, V. V.
name: Laubenstein, M.
name: Lazzaro, A.
name: Lebedev, V. I.
name: Lehnert, B.
name: Liao, H. Y.
name: Lindner, M.
name: Lippi, I.
name: Lubashevskiy, A.
name: Lubsandorzhiev, B.
name: Lutter, G.
name: Macolino, C.
name: Majorovits, B.
name: Maneschg, W.
name: Medinaceli, E.
name: Misiaszek, M.
name: Moseev, P.
name: Nemchenok, I.
name: Palioselitis, D.
name: Panas, K.
name: Pandola, L.
name: Pelczar, K.
name: Pullia, A.
name: Riboldi, S.
name: Rumyantseva, N.
name: Sada, C.
name: Salathe, M.
name: Schmitt, C.
name: Schneider, B.
name: Schönert, S.
name: Schreiner, J.
name: Schütz, A. -K.
name: Schulz, O.
name: Schwingenheuer, B.
name: Selivanenko, O.
name: Shirchenko, M.
name: Simgen, H.
name: Smolnikov, A.
name: Stanco, L.
name: Stepaniuk, M.
name: Ur, C. A.
name: Vanhoefer, L.
name: Vasenko, A. A.
name: Veresnikova, A.
name: von Sturm, K.
name: Wagner, V.
name: Walter, M.
name: Wegmann, A.
name: Wester, T.
name: Wilsenach, H.
name: Wojcik, M.
name: Yanovich, E.
name: Zavarise, P.
name: Zhitnikov, I.
name: Zhukov, S. V.
name: Zinatulina, D.
name: Zuber, K.
name: Zuzel, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An optimized digital shaping filter has been developed for the GERDA experiment which searches for neutrinoless double beta decay in 76Ge. The GERDA Phase I energy calibration data have been reprocessed and an average improvement of 0.3 keV in energy resolution (FWHM) at the 76Ge Q value for 0νββdecay is obtained. This is possible thanks to the enhanced low-frequency noise rejection of this Zero Area Cusp (ZAC) signal shaping fillter.
description: 12 pages, 16 figures
Achieving Fuel Efficiency of Harbour Craft Vessel via Combined Time-series and Classification Machine Learning Model with Operational Data
Creators: name: Tay, Zhi Yung
Publisher: name: Singapore Institute of Technology
Year: 2023
Subjects: Maritime transportation and freight services

description: This paper presents work on forecasting the fuel consumption rate of a harbour craft vessel through the combined time-series and classification prediction modelling. This study utilizes the machine learning tools which is trained using the 5-month raw operational data, i.e., fuel rate, vessel position and wind data. The Haar wavelet transform filters the noisy readings in the fuel flow rate data. Wind data are transformed into wind effect (drag), and the vessel speed is acquired through transforming GPS coordinates of vessel location to vessel distance travelled over time. Subsequently, the file:///C:/Users/a100705/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image002.png-means clustering groups the tugboat operational data from the same operations (i.e., cruising and towing) for the training of the classification model. Both the time-series (LSTM network) and classification models are executed in parallel to make prediction results. The comparison of empirical results is made to discuss the effect of different architectures and hyperparameters on the prediction performance. Finally, fuel usage optimization by hypothetical adjustment of vessel speed is presented as one direct application of the methods presented in this paper.
Additional file 1 of Tau in cerebrospinal fluid induces neuronal hyperexcitability and alters hippocampal theta oscillations
Creators: name: Brown, Jessica
name: Camporesi, Elena
name: Lantero-Rodriguez, Juan
name: Olsson, Maria
name: Wang, Alice
name: Medem, Blanca
name: Zetterberg, Henrik
name: Blennow, Kaj
name: Karikari, Thomas K.
name: Wall, Mark
name: Hill, Emily
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1. Figure 1. Dose response for the effect of CSF-tau on neuronal function. Figure 2. Protocol for analysis of hippocampal CA3 theta oscillations. Figure 3. Validation of tau effects using CSF-mock-depleted.
Uniform bounds for the number of rational points on curves of small Mordell--Weil rank
Creators: name: Katz, Eric
name: Rabinoff, Joseph
name: Zureick-Brown, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14G05 (Primary) 11G20, 11G30, 14G22, 14H25, 14K20, 14T05 (Secondary)

description: Let $X$ be a curve of genus $g\geq 2$ over a number field $F$ of degree $d = [F:Q]$. The conjectural existence of a uniform bound $N(g,d)$ on the number $\#X(F)$ of $F$-rational points of $X$ is an outstanding open problem in arithmetic geometry, known by [CHM97] to follow from the Bombieri--Lang conjecture. A related conjecture posits the existence of a uniform bound $N_{{\rm tors},\dagger}(g,d)$ on the number of geometric torsion points of the Jacobian $J$ of $X$ which lie on the image of $X$ under an Abel--Jacobi map. For fixed $X$ this quantity was conjectured to be finite by Manin--Mumford, and was proved to be so by Raynaud [Ray83]. We give an explicit uniform bound on $\#X(F)$ when $X$ has Mordell--Weil rank $r\leq g-3$. This generalizes recent work of Stoll on uniform bounds on hyperelliptic curves of small rank to arbitrary curves. Using the same techniques, we give an explicit, unconditional uniform bound on the number of $F$-rational torsion points of $J$ lying on the image of $X$ under an Abel--Jacobi map. We also give an explicit uniform bound on the number of geometric torsion points of $J$ lying on $X$ when the reduction type of $X$ is highly degenerate. Our methods combine Chabauty--Coleman's $p$-adic integration, non-Archimedean potential theory on Berkovich curves, and the theory of linear systems and divisors on metric graphs.
description: 41 pages, 4 figures. Important corrections from v.2 due to Christian Vilsmeier
Additional file 1 of Knee osteoarthritis pre-screening questionnaire (KOPS): cross-cultural adaptation and measurement properties of the brazilian version—KOPS Brazilian version
Creators: name: Trombini-Souza, Francis
name: Macedo, Ingrid
name: Yázigi, Flávia
name: Veiga, Diogo
name: Carnide, Filomena
name: Espanha, Margarida
name: Oliveira, George
name: Goldenstein-Schainberg, Claudia
name: Fuller, Ricardo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Comparison between KOPS versions.
MPEC 2023-O102 : 2023 ON4
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 ON4

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Additional file 2 of Sodium selenite preserves rBM-MSCs’ stemness, differentiation potential, and immunophenotype and protects them against oxidative stress via activation of the Nrf2 signaling pathway
Creators: name: Rahimi, Bahareh
name: Panahi, Mohammad
name: Lotfi, Hajie
name: Khalili, Mostafa
name: Salehi, Astireh
name: Saraygord-Afshari, Neda
name: Alizadeh, Effat
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biochemistry
Medicine
Cell Biology
Neuroscience
Biotechnology
Developmental Biology
Cancer
Hematology

description: Additional file 2: S2. The bands for western blot analysis after visualization by chemiluminscence.