cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
LncRNA ZEB1-AS1/miR-1224-5p / MAP4K4 axis regulates mitochondria-mediated HeLa cell apoptosis in persistent Chlamydia trachomatis infection
Creators: name: Luo, Fangzhen
name: Wen, Yating
name: Zhao, Lanhua
name: Su, Shengmei
name: Lei, Wenbo
name: Chen, Lili
name: Chen, Chaoqun
name: Huang, Qiulin
name: Li, Zhongyu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Persistent infection of Chlamydia trachomatis is thought to be responsible for the debilitating sequelae of blinding trachoma and infertility. Inhibition of host cell apoptosis is a persistent C. trachomatis infection mechanism. ZEB1-AS1 is a long non-coding RNA (lncRNA), which was up-regulated in persistent C. trachomatis infection in our previous work. In this study, we investigated the role of ZEB1-AS1 in persistent infection and the potential mechanisms. The results showed that ZEB1-AS1 was involved in the regulation of apoptosis, and targeted silencing of ZEB1-AS1 could increase the apoptosis rate of persistently infected cells. Mechanically, interference ZEB1-AS1 caused an apparent down-regulation of the Bcl-2/Bax ratio and the repression of the mitochondrial membrane potential with the remarkable release of cytochrome c, resulting in the significant elevation level of caspase-3 activation. Meanwhile, the luciferase reporter assay confirmed that ZEB1-AS1 acted as a sponge for miR-1224-5p to target MAP4K4. The regulatory effect of miR-1224-5p/MAP4K4 on persistent infection-induced antiapoptosis was regulated by ZEB1-AS1. In addition, ZEB1-AS1 inhibited the apoptosis of Chlamydia-infected cells by activating the MAPK/ERK pathway. In conclusion, we found a new molecular mechanism that the ZEB1-AS1/miR-1224-5p/MAP4K4 axis contributes to apoptosis resistance in persistent C. trachomatis infection. This work may help understand the pathogenic mechanisms of persistent C. trachomatis infection and reveal a potential therapeutic strategy for its treatment.
Inverse Edelstein effect of the surface states of a topological insulator
Creators: name: Geng, Hao
name: Luo, Wei
name: Deng, W. Y.
name: Sheng, L.
name: Shen, R.
name: xing, D. Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The surface states of three-dimensional topological insulators posses the unique property of spin-momentum interlocking. This property gives rise to the interesting inverse Edelstein effect (IEE), in which an applied spin bias $μ$ is converted to a measurable charge voltage difference $V$. We develop a semiclassical theory for the IEE of the surface states of $\text{Bi}_2\text{Se}_3$ thin films, which is applicable from the ballistic regime to diffusive regime. We find that the IEE efficiency ratio $γ=V/μ$ exhibits universal dependence on sample size, and approaches $π/4$ in the ballistic limit and $1$ in the diffusive limit.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Connectivity and effective population size of east Australian grey nurse sharks
Creators: name: Reid-Anderson, Sarah Jame Merle
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Knowledge of connectivity and effective population size (Ne) can be used to evaluate the impacts of various threatening processes. Estimating total population size or connectivity through direct field observation is often difficult and genetic techniques provide an alternative approach. This study uses thousands of single nucleotide polymorphisms to investigate connectivity and Ne of the critically endangered grey nurse shark (Carcharias taurus) across 1400 km of their east Australian range. This population has suffered a severe decline in numbers over the past few decades, has low genetic diversity, and is extremely susceptible to anthropogenic mortality. Genetic connectivity among aggregation sites in east Australia was previously unknown. This study revealed that east coast grey nurse sharks are genetically and demographically connected, with the population approximating genetic panmixia. Estimates of Ne were around 400 using two different estimation methodologies. Forward simulations that used current genetic variation to estimate the effect of genetic drift in the future, revealed that maintaining an Ne of 400 will lead to a loss of genetic diversity over the next 50 generations. This highlights the importance in effective cross-jurisdictional management of this critically endangered population of grey nurse sharks.
People on Media: Jointly Identifying Credible News and Trustworthy Citizen Journalists in Online Communities
Creators: name: Mukherjee, Subhabrata
name: Weikum, Gerhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Media seems to have become more partisan, often providing a biased coverage of news catering to the interest of specific groups. It is therefore essential to identify credible information content that provides an objective narrative of an event. News communities such as digg, reddit, or newstrust offer recommendations, reviews, quality ratings, and further insights on journalistic works. However, there is a complex interaction between different factors in such online communities: fairness and style of reporting, language clarity and objectivity, topical perspectives (like political viewpoint), expertise and bias of community members, and more. This paper presents a model to systematically analyze the different interactions in a news community between users, news, and sources. We develop a probabilistic graphical model that leverages this joint interaction to identify 1) highly credible news articles, 2) trustworthy news sources, and 3) expert users who perform the role of "citizen journalists" in the community. Our method extends CRF models to incorporate real-valued ratings, as some communities have very fine-grained scales that cannot be easily discretized without losing information. To the best of our knowledge, this paper is the first full-fledged analysis of credibility, trust, and expertise in news communities.
Probabilistic Diffeomorphic Registration: Representing Uncertainty
Creators: name: Wassermann, Demian
name: Toews, Matt
name: Niethammer, Marc
name: Wells, William
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents a novel mathematical framework for representing uncertainty in large deformation diffeomorphic image registration. The Bayesian posterior distribution over the deformations aligning a moving and a fixed image is approximated via a variational formulation. A stochastic differential equation (SDE) modeling the deformations as the evolution of a time-varying velocity field leads to a prior density over deformations in the form of a Gaussian process. This permits estimating the full posterior distribution in order to represent uncertainty, in contrast to methods in which the posterior is approximated via Monte Carlo sampling or maximized in maximum a-posteriori (MAP) estimation. The frame-work is demonstrated in the case of landmark-based image registration, including simulated data and annotated pre and intra-operative 3D images.
Characterization of a novel HIV-1 circulating recombinant form, CRF91_cpx, comprising CRF02_AG, G, J, and U, mostly among men who have sex with men
Creators: name: Topcu, Cicek
name: Georgiou, Vasilis
name: Rodosthenous, Johana Hezka
name: Demetriades, Ioannis
name: Foley, Brian Thomas
name: Kostrikis, Leondios G.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Prospective molecular studies of HIV-1 pol region (2253–5250 in HXB2 genome) sequences from sequenced samples of 269 HIV-1-infected patients in Cyprus (2017–2021) revealed a transmission cluster of 14 unknown HIV-1 recombinants that were not classified as previously established CRFs. The earliest recombinant was collected in September 2017, and the transmission cluster continued to grow until November 2020. Near full-length HIV-1 genome sequences of the 11 of the 14 recombinants were successfully obtained (790–8795 in HXB2 genome) and aligned against a reference dataset of HIV-1 subtypes and CRFs. We employed MEGAX for maximum-likelihood tree construction (GTR model, 1000 bootstrap replicates), Cluster-Picker for phylogenetic clustering analysis (genetic distance ≤0.045, bootstrap support value ≥70%), and REGA-3.0 for subtype determination. Bootscan and similarity plot analyses (sliding window of 400 nucleotides overlapped by 40 nucleotides) were conducted using SimPlot-v3.5.1, and subregion confirmatory neighbour-joining tree analyses were conducted using MEGAX (Kimura two-parameter model, 1000 bootstrap replicates, ≥70% bootstrap-support value). Exclusive clustering of the HIV-1 recombinants revealed their uniqueness. The recombination analyses illustrated the same unique mosaic pattern with six putative intersubtype recombination breakpoints, seven fragments of subtypes CRF02_AG, G, J and an unclassified fragment. We conclusively characterized the mosaic structure of the novel HIV-1 CRF, named CRF91_cpx, by the Los Alamos HIV Sequence Database. Additionally, we identified a URF of CRF91_cpx with two additional recombination sites, generated by a recombination event between subtype B and CRF91_cpx. Since the identification of CRF91_cpx, two additional patient samples have been entered into the CRF91_cpx transmission cluster, demonstrating active growth.
Additional file 1: of Examining the validity and utility of two secondary sources of food environment data against street audits in England
Creators: name: Wilkins, Emma
name: Radley, Duncan
name: Morris, Michelle
name: Griffiths, Claire
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional information on methodology and results. (DOCX 657 kb)
Arabic Language Sentiment Analysis on Health Services
Creators: name: Alayba, Abdulaziz M.
name: Palade, Vasile
name: England, Matthew
name: Iqbal, Rahat
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.7; I.2.6

description: The social media network phenomenon leads to a massive amount of valuable data that is available online and easy to access. Many users share images, videos, comments, reviews, news and opinions on different social networks sites, with Twitter being one of the most popular ones. Data collected from Twitter is highly unstructured, and extracting useful information from tweets is a challenging task. Twitter has a huge number of Arabic users who mostly post and write their tweets using the Arabic language. While there has been a lot of research on sentiment analysis in English, the amount of researches and datasets in Arabic language is limited. This paper introduces an Arabic language dataset which is about opinions on health services and has been collected from Twitter. The paper will first detail the process of collecting the data from Twitter and also the process of filtering, pre-processing and annotating the Arabic text in order to build a big sentiment analysis dataset in Arabic. Several Machine Learning algorithms (Naive Bayes, Support Vector Machine and Logistic Regression) alongside Deep and Convolutional Neural Networks were utilized in our experiments of sentiment analysis on our health dataset.
description: Authors accepted version of submission for ASAR 2017
Stability of the boundary zero modes in one-dimensional topological superconductors
Creators: name: Samokhin, K. V.
name: Truong, B. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the spectrum of the Andreev bound states in a one-dimensional superconductor with a strong Rashba spin-orbit coupling. We focus on the fate of the zero-energy Andreev modes in the presence of time reversal symmetry-breaking perturbations, both at the boundary and in the bulk. It is shown that the zero modes are destroyed by time reversal symmetry-breaking fluctuations, even if the mean-field state of the system is time-reversal invariant and topologically nontrivial.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures
Additional file 1: Table S1. of Isoprenoids responsible for protein prenylation modulate the biological effects of statins on pancreatic cancer cells
Creators: name: Gbelcová, Helena
name: Rimpelová, Silvie
name: Zdeněk Knejzlík
name: Šáchová, Jana
name: Kolář, Michal
name: Strnad, Hynek
name: Repiská, Vanda
name: D’Acunto, Walter
name: Tomáš Ruml
name: Vítek, Libor
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Plant Biology

description: List of primers used for quantitative real-time PCR analyses. Table S4. Quantitative RT PCR analysis of selected genes. (DOCX 18 kb)
Reconstruction of~3-D Rigid Smooth Curves Moving Free when Two Traceable Points Only are Available
Creators: name: Kłopotek, Mieczysław A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper extends previous research in that sense that for orthogonal projections of rigid smooth (true-3D) curves moving totally free it reduces the number of required traceable points to two only (the best results known so far to the author are 3 points from free motion and 2 for motion restricted to rotation around a fixed direction and and 2 for motion restricted to influence of a homogeneous force field). The method used is exploitation of information on tangential projections. It discusses also possibility of simplification of reconstruction of flat curves moving free for prospective projections.
Cyanidin chloride protects mice from methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus-induced pneumonia by targeting Sortase A
Creators: name: Su, Xin
name: Yu, Hangqian
name: Wang, Xingye
name: Zhang, Chi
name: Wang, Heming
name: Kong, Xiangri
name: Qu, Yishen
name: Luan, Yanhe
name: Meng, Ying
name: Guan, Jiyu
name: Song, Guangqi
name: Wang, Li
name: Song, Wu
name: Zhao, Yicheng
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has been developing rapidly in recent years. It poses a severe peril to global health care, and the new strategies to against the MRSA is urgently needed. Sortase A (SrtA) regulates the anchoring of many surface proteins. Compounds repress Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) cysteine transpeptidase SrtA are considered adequate potent virulence inhibitors. Then, we describe the identification of an effective SrtA inhibitor, cyanidin chloride, a bioflavonoid compound isolated from various plants. It has a reversible inhibitory effect on SrtA activity at an IC50 of 21.91 μg/mL. As a SrtA inhibitor, cyanidin chloride antagonizes SrtA-related virulence phenotypes due to its breadth and specificity, including fibrinogen adhesion, A549 cell invasion, biofilm formation, and surface protein (SpA) anchoring. Subsequently, molecular docking and fluorescence quenching revealed that SrtA and cyanidin chloride had robust mutual affinity. Further mechanistic studies revealed that Arg-197, Gly-167, and Sep-116 were the key-binding sites mediating the interaction between SrtA and cyanidin chloride. Notably, a significant therapeutic effect of cyanidin chloride in vivo was also observed on the mouse pneumonia model induced by MRSA. In conclusion, our study indicates that cyanidin chloride potentially represents a new candidate SrtA inhibitor for S. aureus and potentially be developed as a new antivirulence agent.
Using a species distribution model to guide NSW surveys of the long-footed potoroo (Potorous Longipes)
Creators: name: Wauchope-Drumm, Mareshell
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Current knowledge on threatened species' distributions is essential for effective conservation decision-making. Species distribution models (SDM) are widely used to map species geographic ranges and identify new areas of suitable habitat. This paper uses a SDM to identify regions in NSW that may have suitable habitat for the long-footed potoroo (Potorous longipes) and guide the selection of field survey sites. In NSW, there are grave doubts surrounding the persistence of this critically endangered species and identification of occupied sites is a high priority for its conservation. The SDM, Maxent, had strong predictive performance (AUC: 0.94 to 0.95) and enabled identification of new areas of climatically suitable habitat, beyond areas of known occurrence in NSW and prior survey locations. Importantly, ground-validation of the SDM output was undertaken and showed that projected habitat suitability values were: a) significantly higher at independent presence locations than absence locations (H=55.61, DF=1, P=0.000); and b) correlated with six out of ten microhabitat variables. However, baited camera trapping, undertaken at 58 sites in NSW, did not detect any long-footed potoroos. Refinement of binary regression models found that the combination of connectivity, i.e. larger, connected areas of climatically suitable habitat (χ2=5.51, P=0.019), understorey cover (χ2=6.86, P=0.009) and soil moisture (χ2=7.6, P=0.006) best predicted this species presence. If the long-footed potoroo remains extant in NSW, it is extremely rare. The findings indicate that, in addition to climatic factors, microhabitat features and connectivity are important predictors of presence of the long-footed potoroo and should be incorporated into any future distribution modelling and survey site selection.
Relaxation of the EM Algorithm via Quantum Annealing for Gaussian Mixture Models
Creators: name: Miyahara, Hideyuki
name: Tsumura, Koji
name: Sughiyama, Yuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a modified expectation-maximization algorithm by introducing the concept of quantum annealing, which we call the deterministic quantum annealing expectation-maximization (DQAEM) algorithm. The expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm is an established algorithm to compute maximum likelihood estimates and applied to many practical applications. However, it is known that EM heavily depends on initial values and its estimates are sometimes trapped by local optima. To solve such a problem, quantum annealing (QA) was proposed as a novel optimization approach motivated by quantum mechanics. By employing QA, we then formulate DQAEM and present a theorem that supports its stability. Finally, we demonstrate numerical simulations to confirm its efficiency.
description: Presented at IEEE CDC 2016, the 2016 IEEE 55th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)
Additional file 2: Figure S2. of Draft genome sequence of Dethiosulfovibrio salsuginis DSM 21565T an anaerobic, slightly halophilic bacterium isolated from a Colombian saline spring
Creators: name: Díaz-Cárdenas, Carolina
name: López, Gina
name: Alzate-Ocampo, José David
name: González, Laura
name: Shapiro, Nicole
name: Woyke, Tanja
name: Kyrpides, Nikos
name: Restrepo, Silvia
name: Baena, Sandra
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Multiple alignment of Penicillin binding protein, 1A family. Multiple alignment contained a 4 aa deletion which is specific for Dethiosulfovibrio, Jonquetella and Pyramidobacter clade. The analysis was done using Mafft. (DOCX 34 kb)
Understanding the therapeutic capacities of music for people with dementia
Creators: name: Brancatisano, Olivia Helen
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Music is unique in its therapeutic value for people with neurological disorders, such as dementia. This thesis proposes and evaluates the Therapeutic Music Capacities Model (TMCM) which posits that seven specific capacities of music make it a uniquely effective therapeutic tool; namely that music is persuasive, engaging, emotional, personal, physical, social and encourages synchronisation. The thesis explores how these seven attributes of music lead to cognitive, psychosocial, behavioural and motor benefits in a specific neurological population, namely people with dementia. Following an overview of the thesis, two detailed review manuscripts are provided. The first review introduces the TMCM and reviews the existing evidence that demonstrates each capacity's role in a wide range of neurological impairments. The second review focuses on the TMCM in people with dementia specifically, such as facilitating memory recall, fluent speech and the restoration of other cognitive and non-cognitive abilities. These reviews are followed by two empirical manuscripts. The first describes the Music Mind and Movement (MMM) program which is derived from the TMCM. The MMM program involved seven weekly group sessions in which two groups of ten individuals with mild to moderate dementia participated. Group 1 completed the MMM program first and Group 2 acted as a wait list control receiving standard care for the first 7 weeks, completing the program second. Results indicated that there was an overall decline in cognition as measured by Addenbrooke's Cognition Examination, in the control group who received standard care. In the MMM condition, there was a trend for an increase in cognition and these differences were present in domains of attention and verbal fluency. The second empirical manuscript focusses on the personal and emotional capacity of the TMCM. Positive facial expressions (smiles) were examined to measure objectively the emotional characteristics of music evoked autobiographical memories (MEAMs) in people with Alzheimer's Dementia. The frequency of smiles and memories elicited by 16 famous songs was measured in nine participants with Alzheimer's Dementia and ten healthy elderly. There were no differences in the presence of smiles between healthy elderly and participants with Alzheimer's Dementia during MEAMs. In people with Alzheimer's dementia, there were significantly more smiles during the presence of MEAMs triggered by songs from personally pertinent lifetime periods. Taken together, the findings of this thesis shed new light on the way in which targeted therapeutic uses of music can provide value for cognition and autobiographical memory. Specifically, the seven capacities of music and subsequent TMCM provide a framework for the development and optimisation of future music-based treatments in dementia.
Partial discharge measurements of DC insulation systems: the influence of the energization transient
Creators: name: Seri, Paolo
name: Ghosh, Riddhi
name: Cirioni, Leonardo
name: Montanari, Gian Carlo
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2019
Subjects: ING-IND/33 Sistemi elettrici per l'energia

description: This paper introduces techniques for partial discharge, PD, recognition under DC, both in steady state and in transient condition, during which the field in insulation varies slowly from a permittivity-driven to a conductivity-driven profile. This transient can be significantly long, depending on insulating material characteristics, and condition PD phenomenology and impact of PD on insulation life. Focusing mainly on the behavior of PD repetition rate as a function of time, after insulation energization by a DC voltage step, PD triggered by transient field can be separated from those relevant to steady state, which may indicate a criterion to estimate the partial discharge inception voltage, PDIV, under DC supply.
Creation of a Bose-condensed gas of rubidium 87 by laser cooling
Creators: name: Hu, Jiazhong
name: Urvoy, Alban
name: Vendeiro, Zachary
name: Crépel, Valentin
name: Chen, Wenlan
name: Vuletić, Vladan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate direct laser cooling of a gas of rubidium 87 atoms to quantum degeneracy. The method does not involve evaporative cooling, is fast, and induces little atom loss. The atoms are trapped in a two-dimensional optical lattice that enables cycles of cloud compression to increase the density, followed by degenerate Raman sideband cooling to decrease the temperature. Light-induced loss at high atomic density is substantially reduced by using far red detuned optical pumping light. Starting with 2000 atoms, we prepare 1400 atoms in 300 ms at quantum degeneracy, as confirmed by the appearance of a bimodal velocity distribution as the system crosses over from a classical gas to a Bose-condensed, interacting one-dimensional gas with a macroscopic population of the quantum ground state. The method should be broadly applicable to many bosonic and fermionic species, and to systems where evaporative cooling is not possible.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures (main text)
Additional file 1: Table S1. of Acute coronary syndromes occurring while driving: frequency and patient characteristics
Creators: name: Inamasu, Joji
name: Miyatake, Satoru
name: Yagi, Takashi
name: Shigetaka Noma
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Comparison of variables between male patients who sustained ACS while driving and male patients who sustained ACS while performing other activities. (DOC 32Â kb)
The ethical paradox: exploring the pedagogical potential of ethical gender relations between pre-service teacher and student
Creators: name: Parr, Aimee Louise
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Providing children with ethical experiences has been an educational struggle fraught with theoretical and practical incompatibilities. Post Foucauldian theorists, such as Deborah Youdell and Laura Teague, have attempted to disrupt processes of inequality in schools by exploring how teachers might utilise performatives to constitute their students in ways that let them live. These ethical experiences disrupt unethical pedagogies that may injuriously constitute students – limiting the freedom of their existence. This study focuses on gendered constitutions specifically by engaging in discourses with pre-service teachers that explore their perceptions, beliefs and attitudes of gender. This study found that pre-service teachers were apprehensive when grappling with gendered discourses which diminished their agency. The roles of teachers, schools and institutions were considered whereby this study found that each struggled to implement ethical pedagogies that let students live. Finally, suggestions were made in an attempt to bridge the gap between theory and practice; promoting pre-service institutional training in performative politics to allow for ethical relations between teachers and students.
Electrical properties of nanostructured polypropylene: a matter of morphology?
Creators: name: Seri, Paolo
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2019
Subjects: ING-IND/33 Sistemi elettrici per l'energia

description: This work investigates an alternative view on the mechanisms behind the modification of electrical properties in a filled dielectric, based on the variation of morphological properties of materials. The case of a nanostructured polypropylene-based blend will be analysed, highlighting the morphological changes observed in the bulk of the material with modifications of electrical properties such as space charge accumulation, dielectric strength and conductivity. Results show that nanofillers help inducing an enhanced morphology of the bulk material, with a reduction of phase separation. This in turn results in better breakdown voltage and lower conductivity, but also an increase in space charge accumulation characteristics to unacceptable levels. On the other hand, functionalization of nanoparticles has been proven to be able to reduce charge accumulation to levels lower than the neat base material, despite a similar polymeric morphology. This must be due to the improved filler dispersion observed, clearly showing the added value carried by nanostructuring.
Language contact and change through translation in Afrikaans and South African English: a diachronic corpus-based study
Creators: name: Redelinghuys, K. R.
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Languages are constantly changing and there are numerous reasons as to why languages change. One of these is contact-induced language change. It refers to the situation where languages synchronically influence one another in shared socio-semiotic environments. Translation is a site of language contact, but it has hardly been considered a factor in contact-induced language change. This study sets out to investigate the role of translation-induced change using an innovative corpus design developed specifically for the purpose of testing the role of translation in multilingual settings. The corpus combines a bidirectional comparable and parallel design with both synchronic and diachronic components. The corpus is furthermore divided into four time frames based on key events in South Africa’s history (1910-1947, 1948-1975, 1976-1993, 1994-2016) and four registers (creative writing, instructional writing, persuasive writing and popular writing). The corpus design, in other words, will help determine how certain linguistic features are treated the same or differently in English and Afrikaans writing, across time periods and registers, both in original writing, in translations and their source texts, and in comparable translated and non-translated texts in each language. The linguistic features selected to study the role of translation in language change are genitive variation and modality. Ultimately, the study aims to determine (a) how translation-induced language change can be differentiated from other factors that are involved in contact-induced change and (b) if there is evidence for translation-induced language change in the development of Afrikaans and South African English in the twentieth century. The results show that while it is possible to distinguish the role of translation from other factors that are involved in language change, there is limited evidence for translation-induced change in Afrikaans and South African English. This is because translators are quite aware of target-language norms, which gives the ability to adapt and normalise their translations in such a way that it closely follows the norms and linguistic tendencies of original texts in the same language.
Kähler moduli stabilization in semi-realistic magnetized orbifold models
Creators: name: Abe, Hiroyuki
name: Kobayashi, Tatsuo
name: Sumita, Keigo
name: Uemura, Shohei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study Kähler moduli stabilizations in semi-realistic magnetized D-brane models based on $ Z_2\times Z_2'$ toroidal orbifolds. In type IIB compactifications, 3-form fluxes can stabilize the dilaton and complex structure moduli fields, but there remain some massless closed string moduli fields, Kähler moduli. The magnetic fluxes generate Fayet-Iliopoulos terms, which can fix ratios of Kähler moduli. On top of that, we consider D-brane instanton effects to stabilize them in concrete D-brane models and investigate the brane configurations to confirm that the moduli fields can be stabilized successfully. In this paper, we treat two types of D-brane models. One is based on D9-brane systems respecting the Pati-Salam model. The other is realized in a D7-brane system breaking the Pati-Salam gauge group. We find suitable configurations where the D-brane instantons can stabilize the moduli fields within both types of D-brane models, explaining an origin of a small constant term of the superpotential which is a key ingredient for successful moduli stabilizations.
description: 21 pages, 2 figures
BODY OBJECTS
Creators: name: Ward-Davies, Anastaszia
Publisher: name: The University of Melbourne
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 360602
subject: Fine arts
classificationCode: 360299
subject: Creative and professional writing not elsewhere classified

description: To see a flipbook version of this zine, click here. A physical version of this zine was published as an edition of 50.The first zine in this project was a series of hundred-word reflections (Lauren & Berlandt, 2019) [“four hundreds for me”] I wrote sitting under my desk at 7am in the middle of winter, underneath my a/r/tographic playmat. Somewhat compulsively, I wrote zine after zine as a sense-making exercise (Greene, 1987; Haynes, 2001), initially to examine my inability to participate in my own research. The turn occurs when I see these zines as a/r/tographic openings (Irwin, 2013) for and as research.These zines unfolded to story reasons why I could not participate in my own research, including being tired [“four hundreds for me”], being overwhelmed [“how to do dishes”], discomfort around being a working mother [“Re/searching, art/making, m/othering”] and the feeling of drowning [“What Are You Doing in Gloomy Hollow?”]. I explored my inability to participate in a living inquiry that felt haunted by postpartum psychosis and the unravelling of significant childhood trauma [“eeexxxccceessss” and “[sur]renderings: contiguity and living inquiry”]. I folded a longtime friend into the process [“how to make a zine when your life is falling apart”] and started to see the boundaries between my personal zine-making and the zines made as da/r/ta by participants shift; they started to overlap. I started to see their grief for their schools mirrored in my own grief for my research [“an ode to our goals for education (or something”] and my drowning in motherhood as contiguous with their drowning in schools [“neither of these wolves can do it”].This is a 12-page zine of scanned images from my visual diary throughout this candidature, exploring complex emotions about research, relationships and mental health.
Orbital and spin order in spin-orbit coupled $d^1$ and $d^2$ double perovskites
Creators: name: Svoboda, Christopher
name: Randeria, Mohit
name: Trivedi, Nandini
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider strongly spin-orbit coupled double perovskites A$_2$BB'O$_6$ with B' magnetic ions in either $d^1$ or $d^2$ electronic configuration and non-magnetic B ions. We provide insights into several experimental puzzles, such as the predominance of ferromagnetism in $d^1$ versus antiferromagnetism in $d^2$ systems, the appearance of negative Curie-Weiss temperatures for ferromagnetic materials, and the size of effective magnetic moments. We develop and solve a microscopic model with both spin and orbital degrees of freedom within the Mott insulating regime at finite temperature using mean field theory. The interplay between anisotropic orbital degrees of freedom and spin-orbit coupling results in complex ground states in both $d^1$ and $d^2$ systems. We show that the ordering of orbital degrees of freedom in $d^1$ systems results in coplanar canted ferromagnetic and 4-sublattice antiferromagnetic structures. In $d^2$ systems we find additional colinear antiferromagnetic and ferromagnetic phases not appearing in $d^1$ systems. At finite temperatures, we find that orbital ordering driven by both superexchange and Coulomb interactions may occur at much higher temperatures compared to magnetic order and leads to distinct deviations from Curie-Weiss law.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures
Three dimensional Compton scattering tomography
Creators: name: Webber, James
name: Lionheart, William
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We propose a new acquisition geometry for electron density reconstruction in three dimensional X-ray Compton imaging using a monochromatic source. This leads us to a new three dimensional inverse problem where we aim to reconstruct a real valued function $f$ (the electron density) from its integrals over spindle tori. We prove injectivity of a generalized spindle torus transform on the set of smooth functions compactly supported on a hollow ball. This is obtained through the explicit inversion of a class of Volterra integral operators, whose solutions give us an expression for the harmonic coefficients of $f$. The polychromatic source case is later considered, and we prove injectivity of a new spindle interior transform, apple transform and apple interior transform on the set of smooth functions compactly supported on a hollow ball. A possible physical model is suggested for both source types. We also provide simulated density reconstructions with varying levels of added pseudo random noise and model the systematic error due to the attenuation of the incoming and scattered rays in our simulation.
description: 31 pages, 15 figures
title: Combined Rail-Road Transport in Europe - Improvement Potential and Impact of Environmental Policy on Competitiveness
Creators: name: Gleser, Michael
Publisher: name: UNSPECIFIED
Year: 2024

description: This dissertation investigates the topic of combined rail-road transport with a focus on Europe. In addition to an introduction to the subject and a description of the research design utilized, it consists of three distinct studies whose results build upon one another. In the first study, a Delphi study combined with a systematic literature review, explicit measures were identified on how combined transport can be strengthened from a practical perspective and which topic areas related research deals with. By synthesizing the results of both methods, a practice-oriented research agenda was created. It is intended to be a document of the current challenges of combined transport and an effective solution to them. The second study deals with port competition through hinterland connectivity, in which combined transport plays a major role. Using the example of the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, which is within the geographical scope of ports of the northern range, the influence of the CO2 tax introduced in 2021 is examined. A simulation model is used to investigate the impact of the tax, leading to interesting insights into the potential shift in competitive scope. The third and final study deals with the new possibilities of the China Railway Express, a direct train connection between Europe and China. Since the connection is enjoying increasing popularity, a simulation model, inspired by the second study, was used to examine which areas in China are economically accessible to exporters in Hesse utilizing this train connection. In addition, it was examined how this area would change if a (hypothetical) global carbon tax was introduced. All three studies together provide an overview of the current challenges of combined transport in Europe, its medium-term changes due to political and environmental regulations, and an outlook on the possibilities of intercontinental rail transport.
Distribution and antifungal susceptibility pattern of Candida species from mainland China: A systematic analysis
Creators: name: Bilal, Hazrat
name: Shafiq, Muhammad
name: Hou, Bing
name: Islam, Rehmat
name: Khan, Muhammad Nadeem
name: Khan, Rahat Ullah
name: Zeng, Yuebin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Antifungal resistance to Candida pathogens increases morbidity and mortality of immunosuppressive patients, an emerging crisis worldwide. Understanding the Candida prevalence and antifungal susceptibility pattern is necessary to control and treat candidiasis. We aimed to systematically analyse the susceptibility profiles of Candida species published in the last ten years (December 2011 to December 2021) from mainland China. The studies were collected from PubMed, Google Scholar, and Science Direct search engines. Out of 89 included studies, a total of 44,716 Candida isolates were collected, mainly comprising C. albicans (49.36%), C. tropicalis (21.89%), C. parapsilosis (13.92%), and C. glabrata (11.37%). The lowest susceptibility was detected for azole group; fluconazole susceptibilities against C. parapsilosis, C. albicans, C. glabrata, C. tropicalis, C. guilliermondii, C. pelliculosa, and C. auris were 93.25%, 91.6%, 79.4%, 77.95%, 76%, 50%, and 0% respectively. Amphotericin B and anidulafungin were the most susceptible drugs for all Candida species. Resistance to azole was mainly linked with mutations in ERG11, ERG3, ERG4, MRR1–2, MSH-2, and PDR-1 genes. Mutation in FKS-1 and FKS-2 in C. auris and C. glabrata causing resistance to echinocandins was stated in two studies. Gaps in the studies’ characteristics were detected, such as 79.77%, 47.19 %, 26.97%, 7.86%, and 4.49% studies did not mention the mortality rates, age, gender, breakpoint reference guidelines, and fungal identification method, respectively. The current study demonstrates the overall antifungal susceptibility pattern of Candida species, gaps in surveillance studies and risk-reduction strategies that could be supportive in candidiasis therapy and for the researchers in their future studies.
Additional file 3: Table S4. of Antimicrobials for the treatment of drug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii pneumonia in critically ill patients: a systemic review and Bayesian network meta-analysis
Creators: name: Jung, Su
name: Lee, Seung
name: Lee, Soo
name: Seungwon Yang
name: Hayeon Noh
name: Chung, Eun
name: Jangik Lee
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
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: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Inconsistency assessment. (DOCX 14 kb)
Suppl. material to: The phylogeny of the tribe Podonomini (Chironomidae: Podonominae) is clarified by new inclusion of Rheochlus Brundin in molecular analysis
Creators: name: Siri, Augusto
name: Cranston, Peter S.
name: Marin Viegas, Vanesa
name: Donato, Mariano
Publisher: name: Brill Online
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 310401
subject: Animal systematics and taxonomy

description: The immature stages of the patagonian podonomine (Diptera: Chironomidae) genus Rheochlus (Diptera:Chironomidae) have been unknown although the adult stage was described over half a century ago. Newpupal associations with described adults belonging to two species of Rheochlus allow better understandingof the genus, its diversity and its phylogeny. The pupa of Rheochlus insignis Brundin is the sameas an unreared damaged pupal taxon designated Podochlus sp. “Canteras’‘ by Brundin and is describedmore completely here. Inclusion of R. insignis in a molecular phylogenetic analysis shows it to be sisterto two specimens (one a male, the other pharate female) allocated previously to Podochlus but bettertransferred to Rheochlus. The male morphology is compatible with Rheochlus prolongatus Brundin but werefrain from asserting identity by using ‘cfr.’ prolongatus to indicate the status. Molecular evidence alsoprovides association of the female adult and pupa that are newly described here. We validate Rheochlusas distinguished on pupa and adult, with the type-species Rheochlus insignis from Patagonian Chile andArgentina, Rheochlus prolongatus Brundin from Southern Patagonia Argentina and possibly also fromcentral Patagonia, Rheochlus latisetus Siri & Brodin from Patagonia, and the eastern Australian Rheochluswirthi Brundin. The latter two species remain known only from their original adult male descriptions.Strengthened support for our concept of Rheochlus as a valid genus, sister group to Podochlus, derives alsofrom an expanded and reanalysed morphological matrix.