cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Cost-effectiveness of terlipressin for hepatorenal syndrome: The United States hospital perspective
Creators: name: Carter, John A
name: Huang, Xingyue
name: Jamil, Khurram
name: Corman, Shelby
name: Ektare, Varun
name: Niewoehner, John
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Hepatorenal syndrome (HRS) is characterized by severely reduced renal perfusion that precipitates rapid morbidity and mortality. Terlipressin is the only US Food and Drug Administration-approved treatment to improve kidney function for adults with HRS with a rapid reduction in kidney function. Prior to the approval of terlipressin, unapproved vasoconstrictive agents used in HRS treatment were octreotide/midodrine and norepinephrine with albumin. A cohort decision-tree model representing a US hospital perspective, assessed the clinical outcomes and direct medical costs (based primarily on hospital charges) of treating HRS with terlipressin + albumin (ALB) versus midodrine/octreotide (MID/OCT)+ ALB, or norepinephrine (NorEp)+ALB. Treatment efficacy was defined by clinical response (complete/HRS reversal, partial, or no response) based on change of serum creatinine derived from published clinical trial reports. The proportions of patients with complete response were: terlipressin + ALB (36.2%), NorEp + ALB (19.1%), and MID/OCT + ALB (3.1%). Model outcomes included utilization of HRS-related healthcare resources (hospital and intensive care, outpatient and emergency department, dialysis, and transplantations), adverse events, and HRS-related mortality. Outcomes were assessed for the initial hospitalization in the base case and at 30, 60, and 90 days post discharge. Total costs incurred over the initial hospitalization with terlipressin + ALB were lower vs NorEp + ALB primarily due to higher ICU costs with NorEp + ALB ($7,433 vs $61,897). TER + ALB was associated with higher total costs vs MID/OCT + ALB due to higher pharmacy costs with terlipressin + ALB. The cost per complete response achieved of terlipressin + ALB ($451,605) was half that of NorEp + ALB ($930,571) and one-tenth that of MID/OCT + ALB ($4,942,123). HRS patients treated with terlipressin experienced better clinical outcomes and a lower cost per treatment response vs alternative treatments. ICU days and pharmacy costs were key cost drivers distinguishing the treatment groups. These outcomes suggest that terlipressin is cost-effective on the basis of total cost per response achieved.
Cold gas across cosmic time from CO and [C II] serendipitous discoveries
Creators: name: Loiacono, Federica
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Studying molecular gas in high-redshift galaxies is important to unveil the mechanisms regulating the cosmic star formation history. Molecular gas is indeed the fuel from which stars form and investigating its evolution across cosmic time is crucial to constrain the drivers of galaxy growth. Targeted observations of galaxies pre-selected based on their stellar mass, star formation rate and/or far-infrared luminosity have been instrumental to shape our understanding of the connection between the gaseous reservoirs and the build-up of galaxies; however, the pre-selection may introduce biases associated to our prior knowledge of the emitting systems. On the other hand, blind surveys, as well as serendipitous discoveries in observations targeting other sources, allow us to circumvent any potential selection bias, thus enabling a proper census of the molecular gas properties in a volume-limited region of the universe. Here I will present a study on the evolution of cold gas based on serendipitous discoveries in ALPINE, an ALMA large program intended to study the [C II] 158um emission in 122 galaxies at high-redshift (z ~ 4-5). Our "blind" search revealed more than 70 serendipitous detections of high-J CO and [C II] line candidates, as well as continuum sources, in the redshift range 0.6 < z < 5. These serendipitous sources allow us to investigate how the cold gas content of galaxies evolved across cosmic time. In particular, these line emitters allow us to place first constraints on the luminosity function of [CII] and high-J CO lines throughout a wide span of cosmic history.
GMC: A General Framework of Multi-stage Context Learning and Utilization for Visual Detection Tasks
Creators: name: Wang, Xuan
name: Tang, Hao
name: Zhu, Zhigang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Various contextual information has been employed by many approaches for visual detection tasks. However, most of the existing approaches only focus on specific context for specific tasks. In this paper, GMC, a general framework is proposed for multistage context learning and utilization, with various deep network architectures for various visual detection tasks. The GMC framework encompasses three stages: preprocessing, training, and post-processing. In the preprocessing stage, the representation of local context is enhanced by utilizing commonly used labeling standards. During the training stage, semantic context information is fused with visual information, leveraging prior knowledge from the training dataset to capture semantic relationships. In the post-processing stage, general topological relations and semantic masks for stuff are incorporated to enable spatial context reasoning between objects. The proposed framework provides a comprehensive and adaptable solution for context learning and utilization in visual detection scenarios. The framework offers flexibility with user-defined configurations and provide adaptability to diverse network architectures and visual detection tasks, offering an automated and streamlined solution that minimizes user effort and inference time in context learning and reasoning. Experimental results on the visual detection tasks, for storefront object detection, pedestrian detection and COCO object detection, demonstrate that our framework outperforms previous state-of-the-art detectors and transformer architectures. The experiments also demonstrate that three contextual learning components can not only be applied individually and in combination, but can also be applied to various network architectures, and its flexibility and effectiveness in various detection scenarios.
Estimation of the utilities of attributes of intravenous iron infusion treatment for patients with iron-deficiency anemia: a conjoint analysis in Japan
Creators: name: Takeshima, Tomomi
name: Ha, Chise
name: Iwasaki, Kosuke
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: This study aimed to estimate the utility values of the factors associated with intravenous (IV) iron infusion treatment in Japanese patients with iron-deficiency anemia (IDA) from the patient’s perspective. A conjoint analysis based on online survey data was conducted in May 2022 (registration number: UMIN000047756). Respondents in the main group were selected from the general population (20–69 years). Seven attributes were included in this analysis: waiting time before receiving an IV infusion, pain due to IV infusion, time required for IV infusion, number of IV infusions required to achieve treatment effect, frequency of hypophosphatemia as a side effect of IV infusion, frequency of skin discoloration by the drug solution, and out-of-pocket cost for one IV infusion visit. The utility of each level for each attribute was estimated using a logistic regression model as the difference from non-treatment. The responses were collected from 1,026 people. The utilities decreased with higher pain (-0.189 for pain level of 3.05), longer time for the IV infusion (-0.145 or -0.212 for 5 or 15 min), greater number of required IV infusions (-0.773 or -1.899 for 3 or 25 times), and higher frequency of adverse events (-0.373 or -0.385 for 13.0% or 14.2% of hypophosphatemia incidences; -0.502 for 2.3% of skin discoloration per one infusion). Since this study was based on an online survey, the reliability of the results depends on whether the respondents understood the questions accurately. Further, the respondents were selected from an online panel, potentially affecting finding generalizability. The results indicate that utilities differ depending on the factors associated with IV iron infusion treatment. The findings of this study may be useful for informing future treatments or improving current treatment regimes, supporting the achievement of complete iron repletion for Japanese patients with IDA.
Dissipation of stop-and-go waves via control of autonomous vehicles: Field experiments
Creators: name: Stern, Raphael E.
name: Cui, Shumo
name: Monache, Maria Laura Delle
name: Bhadani, Rahul
name: Bunting, Matt
name: Churchill, Miles
name: Hamilton, Nathaniel
name: Haulcy, R'mani
name: Pohlmann, Hannah
name: Wu, Fangyu
name: Piccoli, Benedetto
name: Seibold, Benjamin
name: Sprinkle, Jonathan
name: Work, Daniel B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Traffic waves are phenomena that emerge when the vehicular density exceeds a critical threshold. Considering the presence of increasingly automated vehicles in the traffic stream, a number of research activities have focused on the influence of automated vehicles on the bulk traffic flow. In the present article, we demonstrate experimentally that intelligent control of an autonomous vehicle is able to dampen stop-and-go waves that can arise even in the absence of geometric or lane changing triggers. Precisely, our experiments on a circular track with more than 20 vehicles show that traffic waves emerge consistently, and that they can be dampened by controlling the velocity of a single vehicle in the flow. We compare metrics for velocity, braking events, and fuel economy across experiments. These experimental findings suggest a paradigm shift in traffic management: flow control will be possible via a few mobile actuators (less than 5%) long before a majority of vehicles have autonomous capabilities.
Sparse Reduced Rank Huber Regression in High Dimensions
Creators: name: Tan, Kean Ming
name: Sun, Qiang
name: Witten, Daniela
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer

description: We propose a sparse reduced rank Huber regression for analyzing large and complex high-dimensional data with heavy-tailed random noise. The proposed method is based on a convex relaxation of a rank- and sparsity-constrained non-convex optimization problem, which is then solved using a block coordinate descent and an alternating direction method of multipliers algorithm. We establish non-asymptotic estimation error bounds under both Frobenius and nuclear norms in the high-dimensional setting. This is a major contribution over existing results in reduced rank regression, which mainly focus on rank selection and prediction consistency. Our theoretical results quantify the tradeoff between heavy-tailedness of the random noise and statistical bias. For random noise with bounded (1+δ)th moment with δ∈(0,1), the rate of convergence is a function of δ, and is slower than the sub-Gaussian-type deviation bounds; for random noise with bounded second moment, we obtain a rate of convergence as if sub-Gaussian noise were assumed. We illustrate the performance of the proposed method via extensive numerical studies and a data application.
The sensual and the moral: "Kongzi shilun" 孔子詩論 as an exegesis of the Shijing 詩經
Creators: name: Lee, Daniel Sai Keung
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The „sensual‟ and the „moral‟ are two different interpretive strategies for reading the Shijing 詩經 (Book of Odes), exemplified on the one hand by the bamboo manuscript “Kongzi shilun” 孔子詩論 (Confucian poetics) adopting the „sensual‟ and on the other, the Han漢 (202 BCE- 220 CE) commentarial tradition engaging in the „moral‟. This thesis is a textual study and critical review of the manuscript alleged to be Confucius‟ commentaries on the poems. As a monographic exegesis on the Shijing “Kongzi shilun” antedates all extant commentaries and has, so far, no parallel transmitted text. By rendering a comprehensively annotated translation and review of the manuscript, this project contributes to the current research on the topic. The commentarial tradition of the Shijing since the Han, particularly the Maoshi 毛詩, has had profound influence over later scholarship. Although the Han erudition recognizes qing 情 (emotions, passions) as the motivation behind poetic creativity, it shies away from the concept by shifting to a prudish reading of the poems. In this thesis „the moral‟ is meant to be the paradigmatic interpretation of poetry through li禮 (rules of propriety) as a means used by the sage kings to instruct the people, and „the sensual‟ is meant to be qing, which embraces the rich sentiments of human emotions, passions and feelings that “Kongzi shilun” reads from the odes. Between the poiesis of qing and the bounds of li, “Kongzi shilun” has now bridged the gap left by the Han scholarship regarding the notion that germinates poetry. This thesis does not seek to subvert the concept of li in the hermeneutics of the Shijing, but to claim that the Confucian precept represented by the manuscript author does not censure qing or the poems that celebrate it, and espouses the use of li as a means of transcending human desires and regulating social and spiritual relations. “Kongzi shilun” has certainly enhanced current understanding of Confucius‟ didactics represented by the manuscript and inspired our appreciation of the Shijing embracing both the sensual and the moral aspects of the poems.
Public health impact and economic value of booster vaccination with Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, bivalent (Original and Omicron BA.4/BA.5) in the United States
Creators: name: Di Fusco, Manuela
name: Marczell, Kinga
name: Thoburn, Elizabeth
name: Wiemken, Timothy L.
name: Yang, Jingyan
name: Yarnoff, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: To assess the public health impact and economic value of booster vaccination with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, Bivalent in the United States. A combined cohort Markov decision tree model estimated the cost-effectiveness and budget impact of booster vaccination compared to no booster vaccination in individuals aged ≥5 years. Analyses prospectively assessed three scenarios (base case, low, high) defined based upon the emergence (or not) of subvariants, using list prices. Age-stratified parameters were informed by literature. The cost-effectiveness analysis estimated cases, hospitalizations and deaths averted, Life Years (LYs) and Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) gained, the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER), the net monetary benefit (NMB), and the Return on Investment (ROI). The budget impact analyses used the perspective of a hypothetical 1-million-member plan. Sensitivity analyses explored parameter uncertainty. Conservatively, indirect effects and broad societal benefits were not considered. The base case predicted that, compared to no booster vaccination, the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, Bivalent could result in ∼3.7 million fewer symptomatic cases, 162 thousand fewer hospitalizations, 45 thousand fewer deaths, 373 thousand fewer discounted QALYs lost, and was cost-saving. Using a conservative value of $50,000 for 1 LY, every $1 invested yielded estimated $4.67 benefits. Unit costs, health outcomes and effectiveness had the greatest impact on results. At $50,000 per QALY gained, the booster generated a 34.2 billion NMB and probabilistic sensitivity analyses indicated a 92% chance of being cost-saving and 98% of being cost-effective. The bivalent was cost-saving or highly cost-effective in high and low scenarios. In a hypothetical 1-million-member health plan population, the vaccine was predicted to be a budget-efficient solution for payers. Booster vaccination with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, Bivalent for the US population aged ≥5 years could generate notable public health impact and be cost-saving based on the findings of our base case analyses.
MOESM2 of Prospective cohort study of early biosignatures of response to lithium in bipolar-I-disorders: overview of the H2020-funded R-LiNK initiative
Creators: name: Scott, Jan
name: Hidalgo-Mazzei, Diego
name: Strawbridge, Rebecca
name: Young, Allan
name: Resche-Rigon, Matthieu
name: Etain, Bruno
name: Andreassen, Ole
name: Bauer, Michael
name: Bennabi, Djamila
name: Blamire, Andrew
name: Boumezbeur, Fawzi
name: Brambilla, Paolo
name: Cattane, Nadia
name: Cattaneo, Annamaria
name: Chupin, Marie
name: Coello, Klara
name: Cointepas, Yann
name: Colom, Francesc
name: Cousins, David
name: Dubertret, Caroline
name: Duchesnay, Edouard
name: Ferro, Adele
name: Garcia-Estela, Aitana
name: Goikolea, Jose
name: Grigis, Antoine
name: Haffen, Emmanuel
name: HĂ¸egh, Margrethe
name: Jakobsen, Petter
name: Kalman, Janos
name: Kessing, Lars
name: Klohn-Saghatolislam, Farah
name: Lagerberg, Trine
name: LandĂŠn, Mikael
name: Lewitzka, Ute
name: Lutticke, Ashley
name: Mazer, Nicolas
name: Mazzelli, Monica
name: Mora, Cristina
name: Muller, Thorsten
name: Mur-Mila, Estanislao
name: Oedegaard, Ketil
name: Oltedal, Leif
name: PĂĽlsson, Erik
name: Papadopoulos Orfanos, Dimitri
name: Papiol, Sergi
name: Perez-Sola, Victor
name: Reif, Andreas
name: Ritter, Philipp
name: Rossi, Roberto
name: Schulze, Thomas
name: Senner, Fanny
name: Smith, Fiona
name: Squarcina, Letizia
name: Steen, Nils
name: Thelwall, Pete
name: Varo, Cristina
name: Vieta, Eduard
name: Vinberg, Maj
name: Wessa, Michele
name: Westlye, Lars
name: Bellivier, Frank
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 2: Appendix S2. Proposed list of instruments used for baseline clinical assessments and longitudinal monitoring of symptoms, medication adherence and lithium response.
Impact of using the International Risk Scoring Tool on the cost-utility of palivizumab for preventing severe respiratory syncytial virus infection in Canadian moderate-to-late preterm infants
Creators: name: Rodgers-Gray, Barry S.
name: Fullarton, John R.
name: Carbonell-Estrany, Xavier
name: Keary, Ian P.
name: Tarride, Jean-Éric
name: Paes, Bosco A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: To assess the cost-utility of palivizumab versus no prophylaxis in preventing severe respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection in Canadian moderate-to-late preterm (32-35 weeks’ gestational age) infants using an: i) International Risk Scoring Tool (IRST); ii) Canadian RST (CRST). A decision tree was developed to assess cost-utility. Infants assessed at moderate- and high-risk of RSV-related hospitalization (RSVH) by the IRST or CRST received palivizumab or no prophylaxis and then progressed to either: i) RSVH; ii) emergency room/outpatient medically attended RSV-infection (MARI); or, iii) were uninfected/non-medically attended. Infants admitted to intensive care could incur mortality (0.43%). Respiratory morbidity was accounted in all uninfected surviving infants for 6 years or 18 years (RSVH/MARI). Palivizumab efficacy (72.2% RSVH reduction) and hospital outcomes were from the Canadian CARESS, PICNIC and RSV-Quebec studies. Palivizumab costs (50mg: CAN$752; 100mg: $1,505) were calculated from Canadian birth statistics combined with a growth algorithm. Healthcare/payer and societal costs (May 2022; 1.5% discounting) were included. Cost per quality-adjusted life year (QALY) was $29,789 with the IRST (0.79 probability of being <$50,000) and $15,833 with the CRST (0.96 probability). The model was most sensitive to utility scores, long-term sequelae, and palivizumab cost. Vial sharing improved the incremental cost-utility ratio (IRST: $22,319; CRST: $9,231). Palivizumab was highly cost-effective (vs no prophylaxis) in Canadian moderate-to-late preterm infants using either the IRST or CRST. The IRST has fewer risk factors than the CRST (3 vs 7, respectively), captures more potential RSVHs (85% vs 54%) and provides another option to guide cost-effective RSV prophylaxis in Canada.
The budget impact of utilizing the Oncotype DX Breast Recurrence Score® test from a US healthcare payer perspective
Creators: name: Berdunov, Vladislav
name: Laws, Ewan
name: Carter, Gebra Cuyun
name: Luo, Roger
name: Russell, Christy
name: Campbell, Sara
name: Force, Jeremy
name: Abdou, Yara
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Background and objectives The Oncotype DX Breast Recurrence Score® test is used to estimate distant recurrence risk of hormone receptor-positive (HR+) and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 negative (HER2-) early-stage breast cancer and inform decisions on the use of adjuvant chemotherapy. A model-based budget impact analysis compared the Oncotype DX test in combination with clinical-pathological risk against using clinical-pathological risk alone for HR+/HER2- node-negative (N0) and node-positive (N1; 1-3 axillary lymph nodes) early-stage breast cancer patients. Materials and methods Test and medical costs associated with treatment of breast cancer were assessed through a US healthcare payer perspective. Distributions of patients by Recurrence Score result and distant recurrence probabilities with chemo-endocrine and endocrine therapy were derived from the TAILORx (N0) and RxPONDER (N1) trials. Changes in budget impact were evaluated over a five-year horizon for a 1,000,000-member hypothetical health plan. Results With the Oncotype DX test, there was an incremental budget impact of $261,067, (per member per month (PMPM): $0.004), in the N0 population, and $56,143, (PMPM: $0.001) in the N1 population over the five-year period. The largest budget impact reduction in the N0 population was attributed to reduced breast cancer recurrence costs (incremental: -$633,457, PMPM: -$0.011), whilst chemotherapy sparing reduced costs in the N1 population (incremental: -$94,884, PMPM: -$0.002). Conclusion The clinical benefit of using the Oncotype DX test to inform adjuvant chemotherapy decisions has been shown in multiple randomized controlled trials. This analysis demonstrated that while using the Oncotype DX test to inform adjuvant chemotherapy decisions may slightly increase US healthcare costs over an initial five-year time horizon (driven by a cost increase in the first year with cost savings reflected in remaining 4 years), there is significant scope for cost savings when assessing beyond this period due to avoided downstream costs of distant recurrence and long-term chemotherapy adverse events. PMPM costs also remain low across all populations examined, demonstrating a close to neutral budget impact.
The use of force sensing resistive sensors in robotic hand applications
Creators: name: Ross, Angus
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The development and advancement of smaller and more powerful electronics has opened up many new areas where control systems and robotics can now be applied. This includes lighter and smaller robotics being used in prosthetics, such as hands, arms and legs. This has led to the development of many different types of sensors to be used in the prosthetics. The ability to have sensors on the surface of robotic hands allows for greater control and awareness of what the device is doing. This project explores the use of flexible MEMS sensors, specifically Force Sensing Resistors (FSR), on a prosthetic hand, with the goal of being able to pick up delicate objects without breaking them. We will incorporate the remote control of a robotic hand via a specially fitted out glove with flexible sensors attached to it which will allow the robotic hand to mimic its movement and strength of grip applied by the user to an object. This project will focus on sourcing tactile sensors to be placed on the fingers of the robotic hand so as to detect objects placed in the hand's grip. The sensors will stop the robotic finger that the sensor is located on from closing any tighter and will therefore be able to pick up delicate objects without crushing them. This project looks to extend our knowledge in the use of sensors in prosthetics and various other fields in giving a robotic hand a better sense of the world around it and allowing it to interact more efficiently and accurately.
Additional file 1: of Pregabalin versus gabapentin in the treatment of sciatica: study protocol for a randomised, double-blind, cross-over trial (PAGPROS)
Creators: name: Robertson, Kelvin
name: Marshman, Laurence
name: Hennessy, Maria
name: Harriss, Linton
name: Plummer, David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: Medicine
Science Policy

description: SPIRIT 2013 checklist: recommended items to address in a clinical trial protocol and related documents. (PDF 131Â kb)
Effect of dewatering conditioners on phosphorus removal efficiency of sludge biochar
Creators: name: Deng, Peiyao
name: Liu, Chang
name: Wang, Maoqing
name: Lan, Guoxin
name: Zhong, Yinhai
name: Wu, Yan
name: Fu, Chuan
name: Shi, Hongyi
name: Zhu, Rui
name: Zhou, Linlin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Based on the best dehydration effect, this study compared the adsorption phosphorus effect of sludge biochar after sludge conditioning with FeCl3, KMnO4, and cationic polyacrylamide (CPAM). This provided insights into the effects of chemical conditioning during the sludge dewatering stage on the overall phosphate adsorption of the dewatered sludge biochar. The phosphorus adsorption mechanism of the dewatering sludge biochar was analysed by scanning electron microscopy, energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, and Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy. Under the optimal pyrolysis temperature (300°C), the phosphate adsorption capacity of FeCl3-conditioned sludge biochar (SB-FeCl3) was increased 77 times of the unconditioned sludge biochar. In different solution environments (e.g. pH and coexisting anions), Phosphate adsorption of SB-FeCl3 was srtrongest when the pH of 9 and contained CO32-. Through the analysis of surface elements and functional groups, it was explained that the phosphorus removal effect of SB-FeCl3 comes from abundant active sites containing iron. Phosphorus release occurred in sludge biochar (SB) during the study. SB-FeCl3 solved SB the release of phosphorus, and improved the adsorption capacity of phosphorus.
Additional file 1 of CUILESS2016: a clinical corpus applying compositional normalization of text mentions
Creators: name: Osborne, John D.
name: Neu, Matthew B.
name: Danila, Maria I.
name: Solorio, Thamar
name: Bethard, Steven J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Annotation Guidelines for Annotating CUI-less Concepts in BRAT. (PDF 1050 kb)
Spatial compression of a particle state in a parabolic potential by spin measurements
Creators: name: Pyshkin, P. V.
name: Sherman, E. Ya.
name: Luo, Da-Wei
name: You, J. Q.
name: Wu, Lian-Ao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a scheme for engineering compressed spatial states in a two-dimensional parabolic potential with a spin-orbit coupling by selective spin measurements. This sequence of measurements results in a coordinate-dependent density matrix with probability maxima achieved at a set of lines or at a two dimensional lattice. The resultant probability density depends on the spin-orbit coupling and the potential parameters and allows one to obtain a broad class of localized pure states on demand. The proposed scheme can be realized in spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensates.
Overlaying business protocols with social networks
Creators: name: Kim, Eui Dong
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Nowadays many companies have invested a large amount of money in information technology, especially in improving business processes. The decision to invest in information technology is made by top management who have requirements and expectations on IT. However, there are gaps in business processes between management’s viewpoint and what really takes place. This is a significant gap valuable to examine because it can have a great impact on work effectiveness and productivity. Thus, we need to know how processes are different, we can interpret this difference, and how we can narrow these gaps. In order to examine the reality of business process, we employ Social Network Analysis which plays a role in capturing actual employee work processes. Through overlaying SNA with business processes, we can compare work process in reality with management’s expectation, and this can help to determine the fit of tasks to people. This research is being conducted at selected actual organizations through interviews and questionnaire surveys. Through this case study, we aim to determine if gaps in understanding of business processes exist, and if so analyse these gaps both qualitatively and quantitatively. This research may also provide recommendations on improving or re-designing business processes to narrow any gaps uncovered. Based on data from the real world, this study will propose explanations on currently issued social phenomena, re-illuminating human aspects of Business Process Management and providing foundations to be developed to a generalized theory.
A comparative study of ultraluminous infrared galaxies in the IRAS and SDSS Surveys
Creators: name: Zhang, Shaohua
name: Luo, Zhijian
name: Shi, Xiheng
name: Shu, Chenggan
name: Xiao, Hubing
name: Zhou, Hongyan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a comprehensive study of Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies (ULIRGs), leveraging data from the IRAS Faint Source Catalogue (FSC) and the spectroscopic catalog in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) DR16. Our meticulous cross-matching technique significantly enhances the reliability of ULIRG identification, resulting in the identification of 283 reliable ULIRGs, including 102 new detections, while discarding 120 previously reported false sources. Covering a redshift range of $z = 0.018 - 0.996$, with a median redshift of $\bar{z} = 0.259$, our uniform sample reveals apparent interaction features in approximately 40\% of ULIRGs, increasing to 92\% for those with $z < 0.1$. Through optical spectra analysis, it is indicated that over 58\% of ULIRGs host an AGN, which is twice as high as the detections based solely on infrared colors. Moreover, a pronounced excess of radio emissions associated with AGN activity results in a steeper radio-far-infrared correlation. Notably, Type I ULIRGs exhibit properties similar to those of narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s), with an elevated incidence rate of \ion{Mg}{2} BALs (16.7\%), surpassing that of typical optically selected quasars by over tenfold, consistent with current evolutionary models. We anticipate that forthcoming telescopes such as the China Space Station Telescope (CSST) and Leighton Chajnantor Telescope (LCT) will provide deeper insights into ULIRG morphology, dust distribution, molecular gas, and AGN activity.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJS, 33 pages, 13 figures, and 1 table
title: Pelle à feu (Inv. 2014.34.1009.12)
Creators: name: Martin, Fanny
name: Fochesato, Andrea
name: Bavay, Laurent
name: Vitali, Daniele
Publisher: name: Conservatoire National des Données 3D (CND3D)
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: outil
subject: Artefact
subject: ACQUISITION

description: Modèle 3D
Additional file 1: of The function of tcf3 in medaka embryos: efficient knockdown with pePNAs
Creators: name: Doenz, Gerlinde
name: Dorn, Sebastian
name: Aghaallaei, Narges
name: Baubak Bajoghli
name: Riegel, Elisabeth
name: Aigner, Michaela
name: Bock, Holger
name: Werner, Birgit
name: Lindhorst, Thomas
name: Czerny, Thomas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Overview of the PNA and MO induced loss of function phenotypes. Embryos at the 1-cell stage were injected with PNAs or MOs at the indicated concentrations. Phenotypes were categorized according to the size of the eyes into: weak, slightly smaller eyes; moderate, smaller eyes; strong, eye-less. Abbreviations: PNA, peptide nucleic acid; MO, morpholino oligonucleotides. (PDF 10028Â kb)
Researchers Develop Flexible Tags that Communicate with Standard Touch Screens
Creators: name: Everything RF
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: CAPID

description: Leading technical research hub, imec, in partnership with leading technology organization, TNO and digital gaming & solutions expert, Cartamundi, has developed a flexible capacitive identification tag that communicates with standard touch screens (C-touch). These C-touch tags can be integrated in a wide range of paper and plastic based objects such as tickets, certified documents, payment cards, realizing smart products. The connection to the internet is established simply by placing the tagged object on the touchscreen or vice-versa.
Effect of dewatering conditioners on phosphorus removal efficiency of sludge biochar
Creators: name: Deng, Peiyao
name: Liu, Chang
name: Wang, Maoqing
name: Lan, Guoxin
name: Zhong, Yinhai
name: Wu, Yan
name: Fu, Chuan
name: Shi, Hongyi
name: Zhu, Rui
name: Zhou, Linlin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Based on the best dehydration effect, this study compared the adsorption phosphorus effect of sludge biochar after sludge conditioning with FeCl3, KMnO4, and cationic polyacrylamide (CPAM). This provided insights into the effects of chemical conditioning during the sludge dewatering stage on the overall phosphate adsorption of the dewatered sludge biochar. The phosphorus adsorption mechanism of the dewatering sludge biochar was analysed by scanning electron microscopy, energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, and Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy. Under the optimal pyrolysis temperature (300 °C), the phosphate adsorption capacity of FeCl3-conditioned sludge biochar (SB-FeCl3) was increased 77 times of the unconditioned sludge biochar. In different solution environments (e.g., pH and coexisting anions), Phosphate adsorption of SB-FeCl3 was srtrongest when the pH of 9 and contained CO32-. Through the analysis of surface elements and functional groups, it was explained that the phosphorus removal effect of SB-FeCl3 comes from abundant active sites containing iron. Phosphorus release occurred in sludge biochar (SB) during the study. SB-FeCl3 solved SB the release of phosphorus, and improved the adsorption capacity of phosphorus.
Two-Path GMM-ResNet and GMM-SENet for ASV Spoofing Detection
Creators: name: Lei, Zhenchun
name: Yan, Hui
name: Liu, Changhong
name: Ma, Minglei
name: Yang, Yingen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: The automatic speaker verification system is sometimes vulnerable to various spoofing attacks. The 2-class Gaussian Mixture Model classifier for genuine and spoofed speech is usually used as the baseline for spoofing detection. However, the GMM classifier does not separately consider the scores of feature frames on each Gaussian component. In addition, the GMM accumulates the scores on all frames independently, and does not consider their correlations. We propose the two-path GMM-ResNet and GMM-SENet models for spoofing detection, whose input is the Gaussian probability features based on two GMMs trained on genuine and spoofed speech respectively. The models consider not only the score distribution on GMM components, but also the relationship between adjacent frames. A two-step training scheme is applied to improve the system robustness. Experiments on the ASVspoof 2019 show that the LFCC+GMM-ResNet system can relatively reduce min-tDCF and EER by 76.1% and 76.3% on logical access scenario compared with the GMM, and the LFCC+GMM-SENet system by 94.4% and 95.4% on physical access scenario. After score fusion, the systems give the second-best results on both scenarios.
Public health impact and economic value of booster vaccination with Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, bivalent (original and omicron BA.4/BA.5) in the United States
Creators: name: Di Fusco, Manuela
name: Marczell, Kinga
name: Thoburn, Elizabeth
name: Wiemken, Timothy L.
name: Yang, Jingyan
name: Yarnoff, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: To assess the public health impact and economic value of booster vaccination with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, Bivalent in the United States. A combined cohort Markov decision tree model estimated the cost-effectiveness and budget impact of booster vaccination compared to no booster vaccination in individuals aged ≥5 years. Analyses prospectively assessed three scenarios (base case, low, high) defined based upon the emergence (or not) of subvariants, using list prices. Age-stratified parameters were informed by literature. The cost-effectiveness analysis estimated cases, hospitalizations and deaths averted, Life Years (LYs) and Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) gained, the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER), the net monetary benefit (NMB), and the Return on Investment (ROI). The budget impact analyses used the perspective of a hypothetical 1-million-member plan. Sensitivity analyses explored parameter uncertainty. Conservatively, indirect effects and broad societal benefits were not considered. The base case predicted that, compared to no booster vaccination, the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, Bivalent could result in ∼3.7 million fewer symptomatic cases, 162 thousand fewer hospitalizations, 45 thousand fewer deaths, 373 thousand fewer discounted QALYs lost, and was cost-saving. Using a conservative value of $50,000 for 1 LY, every $1 invested yielded estimated $4.67 benefits. Unit costs, health outcomes and effectiveness had the greatest impact on results. At $50,000 per QALY gained, the booster generated a 34.2 billion NMB and probabilistic sensitivity analyses indicated a 92% chance of being cost-saving and 98% of being cost-effective. The bivalent was cost-saving or highly cost-effective in high and low scenarios. In a hypothetical 1-million-member health plan population, the vaccine was predicted to be a budget-efficient solution for payers. Booster vaccination with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, Bivalent for the US population aged ≥5 years could generate notable public health impact and be cost-saving based on the findings of our base case analyses.
Antipodean agricultural and resource economics at 60: natural resource management
Creators: name: Pannell, David
name: Doole, Graeme
name: Cheung, Jimmy
name: Pannell, David
name: Doole, Graeme
name: Cheung, Jimmy
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: environmental economics
subject: individual transferable quota
subject: resource economics
subject: soil conservation
subject: water market

description: Australian and New Zealand research on the economics of natural resource management (NRM) has a relatively short history. Defining NRM as including water, fisheries, agricultural land, nature conservation and forestry, 65 per cent of all Australasian journal articles in the area have been published since 2005. The most researched NRM issue is water, followed by fisheries and agricultural land. Most of the NRM issues with a high level of economic research are issues that have had major policy initiatives in place at around the time of the studies, highlighting the high policy relevance of most of the research. For each NRM issue, we identify important contributions that have been made by Australian economists. These include the design and implementation of well-functioning water markets, the provision of strong critiques of agricultural NRM programs, advice on the design and implementation of individual transferable quotas for fisheries and many more.
A statistical study of super-luminous supernovae in the magnetar engine model and implications for their connection with gamma-ray bursts and hypernovae
Creators: name: Yu, Yun-Wei
name: Zhu, Jin-Ping
name: Li, Shao-Ze
name: Lü, Hou-Jun
name: Zou, Yuan-Chuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By fitting the bolometric light curves of 31 super-luminous supernovae (SLSNe) with the magnetar engine model, we derive the ejecta masses and magnetar parameters for these SLSNe. The lower boundary of magnetic field strengths of SLSN magnetars can be set just around the critical field strength $B_{\rm c}$ of electron Landau quantization. In more details, SLSN magnetars can further be divided into two subclasses of magnetic fields of $\sim(1-5)B_{\rm c}$ and $\sim(5-10)B_{\rm c}$, respectively. It is revealed that these two subclasses of magnetars are just associated with the slow-evolving and fast-evolving bolometric light curves of SLSNe. In comparison, the magnetars harbored in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and associated hypernovae are usually inferred to have much higher magnetic fields with a lower boundary about $\sim10B_{\rm c}$. This robustly suggests that it is the magnetic fields that play the crucial role in distinguishing SLSNe from GRBs/hypernovae. The rotational energy of SLSN magnetars are found to be correlated with the masses of supernova ejecta, which provides a clue to explore the nature of their progenitors. Moreover, the distribution of ejecta masses of SLSNe is basically intermediate between those of normal core-collapse supernovae and hypernovae. This could indicate an intrinsic connection among these different stellar explosions.
description: 18 pages, 10 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in ApJ
Periodicity in the continua and broad line curves of a quasar E1821+643
Creators: name: Kovacevic, Andjelka
name: Popovic, Luka C.
name: Shapovalova, Alla I.
name: Ilic, Dragana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Here we present an in-depth analysis of the periodicity of the continua and broad emission lines of a quasar E1821+643. We applied non-parametric composite models, the linear sum of stationary and non-stationary Gaussian processes, and quantified contribution of their periodic parts. We found important qualitative differences among the three periodic signals. Periods of $\sim 2200$ and $\sim 4500$ days appear in both continua 5100 Å\, and 4200 Å\,, as well as in the H$γ$ emission line. Their integer ratio is nearly harmonic $\sim \frac{1}{2}$, suggesting the same physical origin. We discuss the nature of these periods, proposing that the system of two objects in dynamically interaction can be origin of two largest periods.
description: accepted for publication in Astrophysics and Space Science,13 pages, 6 figures