cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Dimensionality reduction with subpixel refinement for SLAM
Creators: name: Gamage, Dinesh Srikantha
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: A simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) system continuously explores the environment to causally estimate the ego-motion of a robot and map the environment. Visual SLAM using a single video camera is particularly challenging. Although visual SLAM allows incorporating thousands of features into the system to improve the accuracy, this gain comes with a computational overhead. This thesis advances the state of the art in visual SLAM in terms of efficiency, accuracy and robustness. First, a sub-pixel refinement algorithm is presented to permit efficient pose estimation in monocular SLAM. The algorithm extends spatial domain Gauss-Newton parameter estimation into the frequency domain. Then corresponding features are sub-pixel refined by estimating the affine parameters between the two surrounding patches. Here, the correct frequency range is selected by identifying a direct relationship between the Gabor phase response and the frequency response of a Gaussian multiplied image patch. Further it is shown how parameter estimation can be made more accurate by operating in the frequency domain, which naturally gives rise to a multi-resolution optimisation framework. Next, a novel method is proposed to handle the dimensionality of the SLAM problem which permits the handling of a large number of parameters. The proposed method dramatically reduces the computational complexity of the Kalman-filters by reducing the dimensionality as information is acquired. The validity of the method is proved by applying it to monocular SLAM, where there are a large number of dimensions in the filter that are not subject to process noise (the landmark locations). This has the effect of reducing the cost of running a filter or allowing a single filter to process a much larger set of landmarks. Then, the dimensionality reduction is extended into a relative formulation, which is extensible into a large-scale system. The formulation uses the higher degree of linearity available with the relative formulation to build a Kalman-filter based reduced SLAM system. An un-delayed method for adding features to the filter is also introduced. Then the effect of the number of features used in the system on the final estimation uncertainty is analyzed, and it is shown that the actual number of dimensions that has to be optimised is far less than the number of original dimensions in the problem. Finally, we introduce a novel method to retrieve the pose estimation Jacobian on limited platforms through an efficient partitioning of the matrix, which removes the Jacobian computation overhead. Instead of recalculating the Jacobian every time, we show how it can be precalculated and saved for later retrieval.
Nonresponse analysis in a longitudinal smartphone-based travel study
Creators: name: Lugtig, Peter
name: Roth, Katie
name: Schouten, Barry
Publisher: name: Survey Research Methods
Year: 2022

description: Currently, travel surveys are the standard method for measuring mobility in official statistics. Nonresponse and measurement are problematic in travel surveys, due to the high burden and non-centrality of the requested information. To overcome these issues, new methods emerge. The aim of this paper is to assess nonresponse in an experimental travel study carried out in the Netherlands. A smartphone application was developed that passively collects GPS coordinates and automatically populates a travel diary, Participants are then asked for additional information, such as travel mode. In the experiment, respondents from a random sample of the Dutch population participated in a 7-day study that varied how respondents were recruited into the study, and the size and timing of a monetary incentive. We study at what stage of the study respondents choose to participate and dropout, and study nonresponse bias across 13 variables from the Dutch population register in order to understand how selective nonresponse in the different stage of the app-study was. We found that incentive group, age and education were strong predictors of nonresponse. The overall representativity of the study, as expressed in R-indicators and Coefficients of Variation was rather low because of this bias. However, we found the same biases going in opposite directions when we computed R-indicators for an earlier web-based travel-diary study. This implies that in the future, diary studies should focus on methods to successfully combine smartphone apps and diaries through the web or on paper in order to limit nonresponse successfully.
description: Survey Research Methods, Vol 16 No 1 (2022)
К ВОПРОСУ РАЗГРАНИЧЕНИЯ ТРУДОВОГО ДОГОВОРА И ДОГОВОРА ПОДРЯДА
Creators: name: Сливинский Елисей Владимирович
name: Ворона-Сливинская Любовь Григорьевна
Publisher: name: Colloquium-journal
Year: 2020
Subjects: трудовой договор
договор подряда
процесс правоприменения.

description: В данной статье показаны подходы к определению правовой природы трудового договора в российском праве, рассмотрены сложности разграничения трудового и гражданско-правового договора в процессе правоприменения, и предложен новый критерий для их разграничения.
Non-Compliance with Indirect Questioning Techniques:
Creators: name: Krause, Thomas
name: Wahl, Andreas
Publisher: name: Survey Research Methods
Year: 2022

description: Indirect questioning techniques are widely discussed and used as methods to avoid or reduce the effects of social desirability in interview situations on sensitive topics. Nevertheless, current evaluation studies suggest that indirect questioning techniques have a bigger compliance problem than evaluation studies based on the "more is-better" principle would suggest. In our study, we investigate the extent to which question compliance problems can be identified for a variant of the Randomized Response Technique, for the Crosswise Model and Triangular Model. By means of an aggregate and an individual level validation, we examine the response patterns of the participants. Contrary to the actual empirical application context of sensitive topics, we use a non-sensitive question that cannot be distorted by social desirability bias. The resulting "same-is-best" rationale differs from most evaluation studies to date, which work according to the "more" or "less-is-better" principle. Our analyses are based on the data of a convenience sample of 1277 students in the form of an online survey experiment. The results suggest that the indirect questioning techniques show substantial weaknesses in terms of compliance and encourage further individual level evaluations.
description: Survey Research Methods, Vol 16 No 1 (2022)
Additional file 1: Figure S1. of RNase If -treated quantitative PCR for dsRNA quantitation of RNAi trait in genetically modified crops
Creators: name: Wang, Po-Hao
name: Schulenberg, Greg
name: Whitlock, Shannon
name: Worden, Andrew
name: Zhou, Ning
name: Novak, Stephen
name: Chen, Wei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology

description: RNase If -qPCR assay inter-assay precision. A 10-point dilution of dsRNA was analyzed by different analysts for at least three times. Cp and log2 of dsRNA amount for each dilution were shown. (DOCX 42Â kb)
Measurement Equivalence in Sequential Mixed-Mode Surveys
Creators: name: Sakshaug, Joseph
name: Cernat, Alexandru
name: Silverwood, Richard J.
name: Calderwood, Lisa
name: Ploubidis, George B.
Publisher: name: Survey Research Methods
Year: 2022

description: Many surveys collect data using a mixture of modes administered in sequential order. Although the impacts of mixed-mode designs on measurement quality have been extensively studied, their impacts on the measurement quality of unobservable (or latent) constructs is still an understudied area of research. In particular, it is unclear whether latent constructs derived from multi-item scales are measured equivalently across different sequentially-administered modes – an assumption that is often made by analysts, but rarely tested in practice. In this study, we assess the measurement equivalence of several commonly-used multi-item scales collected in a sequential mixed-mode (Web-telephone-face-to-face) survey: the Age 25 wave of the Next Steps cohort study. After controlling for selection via an extensive data-driven weighting procedure, a multi-group confirmatory factor analysis was performed to assess measurement equivalence across the three modes. We show that cross-mode measurement equivalence is achieved for the majority of scales, with partial equivalence established for the remaining scales. Although measurement equivalence was achieved, some differences in the latent means were observed between the modes. We conclude with a discussion of these findings, their potential causes, and implications for survey practice.
description: Survey Research Methods, Vol 16 No 1 (2022)
title: Appel manifestation internationale 2018
Creators: name: LabexMed
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020

description: Appel à manifestation internationale, diffusé dans le cadre du LabexMed.
Additional file 1: Table S1. of The antihyperlipidemic effects of fullerenol nanoparticles via adjusting the gut microbiota in vivo
Creators: name: Li, Juan
name: Lei, Runhong
name: Li, Xin
name: Xiong, Fengxia
name: Zhang, Quanyang
name: Zhou, Yue
name: Yang, Shengmei
name: Chang, Yanan
name: Chen, Kui
name: Gu, Weihong
name: Wu, Chongming
name: Xing, Gengmei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: The Zeta potential and hydrodynamic sizes of Fol1 and Fol113. Table S2. Oligonucleotide primers used in this work. Figure S1. Physicochemical characterization of fullerenols. (a) Pictures of respective solutions, (b) UV-vis spectra, (c) FTIR spectra, (d) and (e) XPS spectra of Fol 1 and Fol 113. (f) and (g) MALDI-TOF spectra of Fol 1 and Fol 113. Figure S2. The Rarefaction curves (a) and Shannon-Wiener curves (b) indicated a sufficient coverage of the phylotypes by the current sampling number and sequencing depth. Figure S3. OTU Venn analysis. Figure S4. Responses of top 50 abundant OTUs to fullerenols treatment. (a) Heatmap showing the abundance of top 50 OTUs. (b) Represented abacterial taxa information (phylum, family, genus and species) of 50 OTUs from a. White and black circles indicate decreased and increased OTUs, respectively, in the Fol1- and Fol113-treated groups compared to control. Blank indicates similar abundance between fullerenol-treated and control groups. Figure S5. Quantitative analysis of fullerenols in gut flora fermentation solution by MALDI-TOF-MS. (a) MALDI-TOF-MASS spectra of samples; (b) the standard curve of C60/ C70 and the concentration of C60. Figure S6. Diversity and richness of the gut microbiota in mice. (a) OTU estimates, (b) Observed species, (c) Chao1 diversity index, (d) Shannon diversity index. Data are represented as means ± standard error. Differences were assessed by ANOVA and denoted as follows: ***P < 0.001. (DOCX 3554 kb)
Studies in shoulder disorders and tendinopathy
Creators: name: Ostor, Andrew James Knowles
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The human shoulder is the most complex of any peripheral synovial joint. Despite the high incidence and prevalence of symptomatic shoulder disorders, particularly of the rotator cuff, a paucity of robust research exists into this area. Lack of consensus on the most appropriate clinical method of assessing the shoulder and lack of adequate diagnostic criteria has inhibited the development of effective management strategies. This has substantial implications for individuals, health systems and society. Improvement in the evidence-base for appropriate classification and treatment of shoulder disease is therefore required. The aim of my research was to address limitations in the knowledge base in this context as a first step to optimising outcomes for individuals suffering from shoulder pain. In relation to the epidemiology I undertook a prospective observational study in two large general practices to determine the spectrum of shoulder pathology presenting to primary care and the impact shoulder disorders have on the individual. Shoulder pain was most commonly due to rotator cuff tendinopathy (85%) and this was associated with significantly reduced health outcomes. The results have highlighted the burden of shoulder disease and will inform where best to direct therapeutic interventions. Due to limited healthcare resources I then evaluated whether non-shoulder specialists could undertake an appropriate initial assessment of the shoulder joint and found that they could reliably assess the rotator cuff and other common shoulder diseases following a short, structured training period by a rheumatology specialist. The results have implications for delegation of shoulder assessment to community settings, to the development of a simplified evaluation schedule, and to improve uniformity in epidemiological research and inclusion criteria for intervention studies. Although commonly used in practice and research the validity of clinical examination tests for shoulder disease have not been adequately determined. I investigated this using MRI changes and arthroscopic diagnosis as the gold standard and found that the sensitivity of clinical examination for any cuff pathology was high however its specificity was low. This work highlighted the significant limitations of examination alone and that judicious use of imaging is necessary to inform management decisions. As the optimal management of shoulder disease, specifically tendinopathy of the rotator cuff, remains unclear further therapeutic options are required. I therefore evaluated whether a novel intervention (low intensity ultra-sound) would be an appropriate for the treatment of tendinopathies. In a randomised controlled trial using lateral epicondylitis (a prototype tendinopathy), as a surrogate for rotator cuff tendinopathy, low intensity ultrasound was ineffective for a large treatment effect and thus further assessment of its usefulness was not pursued
Approche intégrée pour la prise en compte des incertitudes dans l’estimation des taux de réparations des conduites enterrées
Creators: name: Soulimane, Ilyas
name: Zendagui, Djawad
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2020

description: Les modèles d’estimation du taux de réparations (RR) donnent le RR en fonction des paramètres du sol. Ces modèles ne prennent pas en considération l’incertitude qui caractérise les paramètres du sol. L’objectif de ce papier est de prendre en considération les incertitudes citées plus haut à travers une méthodologie qui permet en plus, d’intégrer plusieurs modèles de prédiction les paramètres du sol avec leurs incertitudes. Quatre méthodes d’estimations du RR sont établies. Les résultats obtenus montrent qu’à travers cette méthodologie, la prise en compte de l’ensemble des incertitudes est la plus stable et se caractérise par une faible variation
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 35 No 1 (2017): Special Issue - RUGC 2017 Nantes
MOESM10 of Working towards recalcitrance mechanisms: increased xylan and homogalacturonan production by overexpression of GAlactUronosylTransferase12 (GAUT12) causes increased recalcitrance and decreased growth in Populus
Creators: name: Biswal, Ajaya
name: Atmodjo, Melani
name: Pattathil, Sivakumar
name: Amos, Robert
name: Yang, Xiaohan
name: Winkeler, Kim
name: Collins, Cassandra
name: Mohanty, Sushree
name: Ryno, David
name: Tan, Li
name: Gelineo-Albersheim, Ivana
name: Hunt, Kimberly
name: Sykes, Robert
name: Turner, Geoffrey
name: Ziebell, Angela
name: Davis, Mark
name: Decker, Stephen
name: Hahn, Michael
name: Mohnen, Debra
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 10. Glycosyl linkage analysis of the residual insoluble cell wall that remained after sequential extractions of AIR from P. deltoides WT, PdGAUT12.1-KD, and PtGAUT12.1-OE lines. Data are in mol percentages, provided by CCRC Analytical Services.
РАБОТА ГОРСКОЙ СЕКЦИИ КУБАНСКОЙ ЗАКОНОДАТЕЛЬНОЙ РАДЫ В ОКТЯБРЕ – ДЕКАБРЕ 1918 ГОДА
Creators: name: Тхаркахо Марина Меджидовна
name: Атажахова Джульета Джабраильевна
Publisher: name: Colloquium-journal
Year: 2020
Subjects: Кубанская Законодательная Рада
большевики
горцы
казаки
земельная реформа
горская секция.

description: Статья посвящена исследованию деятельности политически активной группы адыгской интеллигенции в Кубанской Законодательной Раде. В ходе исследования нами рассмотрены вопросы, связанные с позицией горской секции Кубанской Законодательной Рады, направленные как на удовлетворение политических, социальноэкономических интересов своего народа, так и на консолидацию всех сил в регионе для защиты достижений Февральской буржуазнодемократической революции.
An Evaluation of the quality of interviewer and virtual observations and their value for nonresponse bias reduction
Creators: name: Ren, Weijia
name: Krenzke, Tom
name: West, Brady
name: Cantor, David
Publisher: name: Survey Research Methods
Year: 2022

description: With the decline of survey response rates over the past decade, survey researchers need to gather useful auxiliary variables for all sampled units and reduce nonresponse bias through adaptive design or nonresponse weighting adjustments. One potential source of auxiliary information is interviewer observations of characteristics of sampled units. Compared with area-level characteristics, which researchers often have available for reducing bias due to survey nonresponse, characteristics at the dwelling unit level may provide more information about survey variables of interest and result in weight adjustments that could potentially reduce bias further. These observations, however, may vary greatly among observers, and may lack the quality needed for survey data producers. To investigate the quality and usefulness of such observations, this study assesses completeness, validity, interviewer variance, and predictive power for bias reduction in a national pilot study for both in-person interviewer observations and virtual observations. This paper sheds light on the dwelling unit characteristics that are harder to observe, differences among interviewer and virtual observations, the potential value added beyond area-level characteristics for nonresponse adjustments, and ways to improve the observations.
description: Survey Research Methods, Vol 16 No 1 (2022)
RUSSIAN-TURKISH CONFLICT, IN THE CONTEXT OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND BUSINESS CONTRACTS
Creators: name: Shapsugova Marietta, D.
Publisher: name: Colloquium-journal
Year: 2020
Subjects: human rights
business contracts
international law
international private law

description: The article discusses the consequences for the business of the Russian-Turkish conflict of 2015 in the conditions of freedom of contract. Freedom of contract is a fundamental value. Its origins are native to the human right to act at one’s discretion, to freely enter into relations with other people. However, often this freedom is limited by the interests of the state.
ХАРАКТЕРИСТИКА КОМПЕТЕНТНОСТНЫХ КАТЕГОРИЙ В ОТЕЧЕСТВЕННОЙ ПЕДАГОГИКЕ
Creators: name: Гасанова Мехрибан Ага кызы
Publisher: name: Colloquium-journal
Year: 2020
Subjects: компетентность
кризис
подход.

description: В данной статье рассмотрены педагогические термины, близкие по значению понятия «компетенция». Перечислено наименование этих терминов. Ссылаясь на различные словари, изложены значения этих слов. Было обращено внимание на тонкие оттенки близкие по значению слов и на актуальность понятия «кризис компетентности». В результате анализа был сделан вывод, что компетентностный подход следует признать наиболее отвечающим современному пониманию качества образования в обществе высоких технологий, требующем высокого профессионализма от работников, постоянного совершенствования их профессионального уровня. Показаны особенности компетентностного подхода в отечественной педагогике.
Additional file 1: of microRNA-124 inhibits bone metastasis of breast cancer by repressing Interleukin-11
Creators: name: Cai, Wei-Luo
name: Huang, Wen-Ding
name: Li, Bo
name: Chen, Tian-Rui
name: Li, Zhen-Xi
name: Zhao, Cheng-Long
name: Li, Heng-Yu
name: Wu, Yan-Mei
name: Yan, Wang-Jun
name: Xiao, Jian-Ru
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Supplemental Information. (DOCX 7445Â kb)
Capacité des modèles analytiques de carbonatation à appréhender la variabilité spatiale
Creators: name: Rakotovao, N.
name: Bastidas-Artega, E.
name: Schoefs, F.
name: De Larrard, T.
name: Duprat, F.
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2020

description: Le présent travail vise à étudier la capacité des modèles analytiques de carbonatation du béton à reproduire la corrélation spatiale des sorties de modèles en prenant en compte la variabilité spatiale des paramètres d’entrée. Cette étude se concentre sur les modèles analytiques étant donné qu’ils ont été conçus pour des applications pratiques en ingénierie. Des mesures de propriétés physiques du béton et des profondeurs de carbonatation ont été réalisées par des techniques destructives en plusieurs points sur une portion linéaire d'un mur dans le cadre du projet ANR EVADEOS. Les incertitudes liées aux dispositifs et procédures expérimentaux sont estimées et propagées à travers les modèles puis prises en comptes dans l’estimation de la corrélation spatiale. Des indices de correspondance simples sont ensuite proposés pour classer les modèles de carbonatation par rapport à leur capacité à refléter les profils de corrélation des profondeurs réelles de carbonatation. Les résultats mettent évidence les limites des modèles analytiques de carbonatation à appréhender la variabilité spatiale, en particulier en présence d’incertitudes.
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 35 No 1 (2017): Special Issue - RUGC 2017 Nantes
Additional file 1 of In transition with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): children’s services clinicians’ perspectives on the role of information in healthcare transitions for young people with ADHD
Creators: name: Price, Anna
name: Mitchell, Siobhan
name: Janssens, Astrid
name: Eke, Helen
name: Ford, Tamsin
name: Newlove-Delgado, Tamsin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Themes and sub-themes in details, with illustrative quotes.
Toxicity of the peptidyl halomethylketone z-FA-CMK in T cells
Creators: name: Liow, Kiat Yee
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Peptidyl halomethylketones are synthetic proteas inhibitors designed to block the activity of cysteine or serine proteases. Recently, the cathepsin inhibitor, benzyloxycarbonyl-phe-ala-fluoromethylketone (z-FA-FMK) with alanine and phenylalanine at the P1 and P2 positions, respectively, has been shown to have immunosuppressive properties in vitro and in vivo. Structure-activity relationship studies on z-FA-FMK revealed that replacing the fluorine atom with chlorine at the methylketone moiety renders the chloromethylketone (CMK) analogue, z-FA-CMK very toxic to Jurkat T cells. Due to the highly reactive CMK moiety, peptidyl CMKs are known to be potentially toxic. However, the present study showed that peptide derived with a CMK moiety is not necessary toxic to Jurkat T cells and that almost all the structural components is crucial in z-FA-CMK toxicity, suggesting that the toxicity mediated by z-FA-CMK is rather specific. Dose-dependent studies revealed that lower concentrations of z-FA-CMK induced apoptosis in Jurkat T cells whereas higher concentrations induced necrosis. Apoptosis but not necrosis induced by z-FA-CMK is readily blocked by caspase inhibitors. However, both apoptosis and necrosis were blocked by the antioxidant N-acetylcysteine, suggesting that oxidative stress may be involved in the mechanism of z-FA-CMK toxicity. Further studies showed that toxicity of z-FA-CMK in T cells involves the depletion of intracellular glutathione, generation of reactive oxygen species, and the collapse of the mitochondrial membrane potential. As predicted for peptidyl CMK, z-FA-CMK depleted glutathione, an effect which can cause ROS generation and oxidative stress. However, results in the present study suggested that the generation of ROS plays a more important role than glutathione depletion in the mechanism of oxidative stress induced by z-FA-CMK toxicity. In conclusion, the peptidyl halomethylketone z-FA-CMK was found to be highly toxic in the leukemic T cell line, Jurkat and exert its toxicity via oxidative stress. Compared with primary T cells (mouse thymocytes), Jurkat T cells appeared to be more susceptible to z-FA-CMK toxicity. However, this remained to be furthered investigated.
Three experiments on corruption
Creators: name: Wu, Kevin Xin Chi
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis comprises three papers investigating the mechanisms surrounding the exchange of petty bribes prevalent in many parts of the developing world. The first two papers utilise laboratory experiments to investigate the efficacy of a self-reporting mechanism in deterring the exchange of a petty bribe. In the final paper I conduct a natural field experiment in New Delhi, India where we directly observe bribes being requested. In the first paper my co-author and I investigate whether offering a monetary reward to whistle-blowers who report their own involvement in petty bribery is able to destabilise trust and deter agents from offering or accepting a bribe. The mechanism is not dissimilar to laws instituted in the United States and EU that extend full or partial leniency to whistle-blowers who report on their organisation’s involvement in forming a cartel. We conduct a laboratory study to test this mechanism and find the mechanism approximately halves the number of bribes being exchanged. This outcome arises despite the participants engaging with the same partners over several periods and potential payouts being significantly higher for agents to exchange bribes and favours over several periods without self-reporting. In the second paper I investigate whether the monetary reward for whistle-blowing is as effective in scenarios where agents do not anticipate interacting with one another repeatedly. This is more reflective of many interactions where individuals pay bribes to public officials but even if bribery is routine they seldom interact with the same public official repeatedly. As trust is more difficult to establish in such scenarios the base level of bribery exchange was anticipated to be lower which allowed the possibility that a reward for whistle-blowing would not further erode trust. The results reveal the whistle-blowing mechanism again approximately halves the level of bribes being exchanged despite a lower baseline incidence of bribes. In the final paper my co-authors and I directly approach notaries public in New Delhi and request they attest a copy of a document as being genuine. In a control treatment we check whether prices above the legal rate are demanded for legitimate requests. In further treatments we request the attestation be backdated (mildly illegitimate request) and certified when the copy is shown to be augmented from the original (highly illegitimate request). We observe only a low degree of overcharging in the control treatment but substantial bribes being demanded in the backdating treatment. About half of the notaries refuse to attest the augmented document but those who consent demand significantly higher bribes. We also study the effect of competition by comparing notaries at court (high competition) and in isolated home offices (low competition). Surprisingly, notaries with high competition demand higher bribes. We attribute this effect to the crowding out of altruism by competition.
Feedback control of atomic Fermi gases
Creators: name: Goh, Matthew
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2019
Subjects: ultracold atoms
degenerate Fermi gases
quantum control
feedback control
quantum measurement
open quantum systems

description: Ultracold atomic Fermi gases are the leading platform for analogue quantum simulation, and provide a promising avenue to study the origin of high-temperature superconductivity in cuprates. However, current experimental approaches to cooling Fermi gases use evaporative cooling, which is limited by poor thermalisation properties of fermions and is non-number-conserving. This prevents the creation of useful analogue simulators of many collective phenomena. This thesis is the first theoretical investigation into the use of continuous-measurement feedback control as an alternative means of cooling an atomic Fermi gas. Since tractable simulation of Fermi gas dynamics requires simplifications to the full quantum field theory, we derive and simulate a fermionic equivalent to the Gross-Pitaevskii equation, generalising a model of feedback-controlled BECs by Haine et al. to multimode ultracold atomic Fermi gases. We demonstrate that in the absence of measurement effects, a suitable control can drive an interacting Fermi gas arbitrarily close to its ground state. However, although control schemes based upon damping spatial density fluctuations work well for single-spatial-mode BECs, we show that they perform poorly for Fermi gases with a large number of atoms due to counter-oscillation of multiple spatial modes, which must exist due to Pauli exclusion. We generalise a feedback-measurement model of BECs by Szigeti et al. to a multimode atomic Fermi gas, and perform stochastic simulations of measured, feedback-controlled fermions in the single-atom and many-atom mean-field limits. The effects of measurement backaction are an important consideration, since in a realistic experiment knowledge of the system state used for feedback must be obtained from measurement, leading to competition between measurement-induced heating and feedback cooling. We show that weaker and less precise measurements cool the system to a lower equilibrium excitation energy, but are unable to place practical lower bounds on measurement strength due to the lack of a system-filter separation. When measurement-induced heating is accounted for, we find that the equilibrium energy per particle scales superlinearly, suggesting that existing control schemes which work well for bosons would not be effective for fermions. In light of this, we propose several avenues of future investigation to overcome this limitation, leaving open the possibility of feedback control of atomic Fermi gases as a pathway to analogue quantum simulation.
Additional file 1 of A new finding in the key prognosis-related proto-oncogene FYN in hepatocellular carcinoma based on the WGCNA hub-gene screening trategy
Creators: name: Huang, Chenkai
name: Zhou, Juanjuan
name: Nie, Yuan
name: Guo, Guihai
name: Wang, Anjiang
name: Zhu, Xuan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Figure 1. (A) (B) The quantitative analysis of Hep3B and Huh-7 cell migration and invasion in Ctrl and FYN-OE group. (C) The quantitative analysis of TUNEL staining of Hep3B and Huh-7 in Ctrl and FYN-OE group. (D) The quantitative analysis of Ki67 and FYN IHC staining of tumor section. (E) The quantitative analysis of TUNEL staining of tumor section. * P <0.05, ** P <0.01 and *** P <0.001 using two-tailed Student ’s t-tests. Experiments performed in triplicate, and data are presented as means ± SD
The effect of vegetation in stormwater biofiltration systems: influences on infiltration rate and nutrient removal
Creators: name: Pham, Tracey Pham
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Population growth and human activity have caused changes to the environment, such as climate change, deforestation and degradation of natural landscapes. The consequence is that it is difficult for the earth to support other life forms. As the primary cause of environmental destruction, it is our duty to address and mitigate environmental problems. WSUD aims to alleviate some of the environmental concerns, and in particular, reduce waterway degradation. This investigation sought to improve our understanding of WSUD technology, focusing on vegetative effects on biofiltration performance. Biofiltration systems (also known as biofilters, bioretention systems and rain gardens) are a vegetated basin or trench containing a sand-based filter media. Past research has demonstrated that biofilters are able to attenuate flows as well as reduce concentrations of various pollutants, including sediment, nitrogen, phosphorus and heavy metals. However, one aspect of biofilter design which has not been thoroughly investigated is vegetation selection and its influence on infiltration rates and nutrient removal. This research investigated the effect of plant selection on infiltration capacity and nutrient removal performance of biofiltration systems. A large laboratory column study that included 22 plant species that represented a wide range of plant types (lawn grasses, grasses, sedges, rushes and shrubs). The results emphasised the influence of seasonal effects on infiltration and pollutant removal capacities. The study also found that design elements can influence biofiltration performance. The inclusion or exclusion of submerged zones, presence or absence of vegetation and vegetation selection influenced results observed. Plant traits were more influential to infiltration rate and nitrogen removal than phosphorus removal. Plants with large root systems in the study tended to impede the flow of water, hence lowering the infiltration rate and lengthening the detention time in the columns. However, plants with larger and faster growing root systems were able to removal nitrogen more efficient than smaller and slower growing ones. While the infiltration rates and nutrient removal results appear to conflict, further investigation showed that other factors act to ensure that the nutrient outflow concentration is minimal during winter and spring seasons. In practice, the findings indicate that: 1. A submerged zone should always incorporated into biofiltration system 2. Plant type was generally not an indication of plant species performance (except for Lawn Grass). Poor-performing or best-performing plant species were often within the same plant type. 3. Plants that have large root systems are preferable to plants with smaller root systems of the same plant type. Plants with larger root systems are likely to provide better treatment as they are able to reach more areas in the soil matrix to directly uptake nutrients.
MOESM1 of Lipoblastoma: a clinicopathologic review of 23 cases from a major tertiary care center plus detailed review of literature
Creators: name: Abdul-Ghafar, Jamshid
name: Ahmad, Zubair
name: Tariq, Muhammad
name: Kayani, Naila
name: Uddin, Nasir
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Follow up of patients (nÂ =Â 14).
Additional file 1 of Adherence to hemodialysis and medical regimens among patients with end-stage renal disease during COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Sultan, Basma Osman
name: Fouad, Ahmed Mahmoud
name: Zaki, Heba M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Distribution of the adherence scores of the ESRD-AQ in the studied sample.
Additional file 1: of Comparison of modified wet suction technique and dry suction technique in endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) for solid lesions: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Wang, Yun
name: Chen, Qian
name: Wang, Jinlin
name: Wu, Xiaoli
name: Duan, Yaqi
name: Yin, Ping
name: Guo, Qiaozhen
name: Hou, Wei
name: Cheng, Bin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: SPIRIT 2013 checklist. (DOC 124 kb)
MOESM11 of Working towards recalcitrance mechanisms: increased xylan and homogalacturonan production by overexpression of GAlactUronosylTransferase12 (GAUT12) causes increased recalcitrance and decreased growth in Populus
Creators: name: Biswal, Ajaya
name: Atmodjo, Melani
name: Pattathil, Sivakumar
name: Amos, Robert
name: Yang, Xiaohan
name: Winkeler, Kim
name: Collins, Cassandra
name: Mohanty, Sushree
name: Ryno, David
name: Tan, Li
name: Gelineo-Albersheim, Ivana
name: Hunt, Kimberly
name: Sykes, Robert
name: Turner, Geoffrey
name: Ziebell, Angela
name: Davis, Mark
name: Decker, Stephen
name: Hahn, Michael
name: Mohnen, Debra
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 11. Field design of the multi-year field trial of P. deltoides PtGAUT12.1-OE and control lines. The field was divided into three replicate plots, each contained completely randomized genotype subplots. Each subplot contained two vegetatively propagated clonal trees, planted 3 m × 3 m apart from each other and from other trees in the neighboring subplots. Border trees were also planted surrounding the whole plot to control for shading effects. Grey boxes represent subplots containing transgenics lines with genotypes other than the PtGAUT12.1-OE, vector control, and WT lines.
Instrumentation d’un quai portuaire pour le suivi de vieillissement de l’ouvrage : présentation des objectifs, des protocoles et des résultats de mesure issus du suivi de fabrication
Creators: name: Lecieux, Yann
name: Lupi, Cyril
name: Gaillard, Virginie
name: Guyard, Romain
name: Leduc, Dominique
name: Rozière, Emmanuel
name: Roche, Michel
name: Schoefs, Franck
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2020

description: La communication présentée ici, a pour objet l’instrumentation du quai d’un terminal à marchandises commandé par le Grand Port Maritime de Nantes – Saint Nazaire. Cet ouvrage de 350 m de long par 50 m de large est équipé de capteurs pour un suivi de l’ouvrage en continu avec pour objectif d’acquérir la performance de l’infrastructure dans le temps. Deux résultats sont attendus. Il s’agira d’une part de proposer une instrumentation optimale pour analyser la pénétration des ions chlorures dans le béton et quantifier les risques de corrosion des armatures associées. On s’intéressera d’autre part à l’analyse du comportement réel des éléments structuraux, du quai (les poutres) afin de prolonger leur durée de vie vis à vis du dimensionnement conservatif des règlements de calcul
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 35 No 1 (2017): Special Issue - RUGC 2017 Nantes
Additional file 1: of The impact of age on the implementation of evidence-based medications in patients with coronary artery disease and its prognostic significance: a retrospective cohort study
Creators: name: Xia, Tian-li
name: Huang, Fang-yang
name: Li, Yi-ming
name: Chai, Hua
name: Huang, Bao-tao
name: Ou, Yuan-Wei-Xiang
name: Li, Qiao
name: Pu, Xiao-bo
name: Zuo, Zhi-liang
name: Peng, Yong
name: Chen, Mao
name: Huang, De-jia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Number of matched pairs, before-matched and c-statistic. (DOCX 16 kb)
title: 01_1993
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
title: OFROM: interview avec unine15b29m
Creators: name: Delafontaine, François
name: Schwab, Anna
Publisher: name: COCOON - https://cocoon.huma-num.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Français
subject: fra

description: Conforms to: Praat textgrid
description: Conforms to: doi:10.34847/cocoon.69c4fa74-f324-3ddb-9f1a-580867fd5826
description: Conforms to: doi:10.34847/cocoon.69c4fa74-f324-3ddb-9f1a-580867fd5826
description: Source: https://nakala.fr/10.34847/nkl.74d1o796.v2#d388c834296295bca65f0a96017487d668e14106
Bloch classification surface for three-band systems
Creators: name: Abramovici, Gilles
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Topologically protected states can be found in physical systems, that show singularities in some energy contour diagram. These singularities can be characterized by winding numbers, defined on a classification surface, which maps physical state parameters. We have found a classification surface, which applies for three-band hamiltonian systems in the same way than standard Bloch surface does for two-band ones. This generalized Bloch surface is universal in the sense that it classifies a very large class of three-band systems, which we have exhaustively studied, finding specific classification surfaces, applying for each one.
description: 20 pages, 19 figures
Additional file 2 of Adherence to hemodialysis and medical regimens among patients with end-stage renal disease during COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Sultan, Basma Osman
name: Fouad, Ahmed Mahmoud
name: Zaki, Heba M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Distribution of studied patients according to their responses to Fears-of-COVID-19 statements (N = 205).
Der Schutz von Biodiversität braucht angepasste Politik- und Finanzierungsinstrumente
Creators: name: Rode, Julian
Publisher: name: German Research Centre for Geosciences GFZ
Year: 2020

description: ESKP-Themenspezial: Biodiversität
description: Wie findet man die geeigneten Instrumente, um allgemeine Biodiversitätsziele konkret umzusetzen? Hierzu wurde ein Leitfaden entwickelt, der gesellschaftlichen und politischen Akteuren das Vorgehen erleichtern soll.
Additional file 3 of Advances in the study of extracellular vesicles of Naegleria fowleri and their role in contact-independent pathogenic mechanisms
Creators: name: Castelan-Ramírez, Ismael
name: Flores-Maldonado, Catalina
name: Hernández-Martínez, Dolores
name: Salazar-Villatoro, Lizbeth
name: Saucedo-Campos, Alberto Daniel
name: Segura-Cobos, David
name: Méndez-Cruz, Adolfo René
name: Omaña-Molina, Maritza
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3: Table S1. Proteins contained in Naegleria fowleri extracellular vesicles commonly reported in exosomes (ExoCarta: Exosome markers).
Additional file 1: Figure S1. of Prenatal exposure to perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances and childhood atopic dermatitis: a prospective birth cohort study
Creators: name: Chen, Qian
name: Huang, Rong
name: Hua, Li
name: Guo, Yifeng
name: Huang, Lisu
name: Zhao, Yanjun
name: Wang, Xia
name: Zhang, Jun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Direct Acyclic Graph (DAG) of the association between prenatal PFASs exposure and childhood AD. (DOCX 305Â kb)