cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Verb-Interessentest (VIT)
Creators: name: Hell, Benedikt
name: Wetzel, Eunike
name: Päßler, Katja
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Interessentest, interest assessment

description: Der VIT dient der genderfairen Erfassung arbeitsbezogener Interessen. Hierzu wurden drei verschiedene Konstruktionsprinzipien erprobt. Als Ergebnis dieses Prozesses stehen drei Testvarianten zur Verfügung: "Klassisch" und "Balanciert" auf der Grundlage der Klassischen Testtheorie (KTT), IRT auf der Grundlage differentieller Itemfunktionen (DIF). Die Skalen des VIT mit 45 Items entsprechen den sechs Dimensionen von Hollands RIASEC-Modell: (1) Realistisch, (2) Forschend, (3) Künstlerisch, (4) Sozial, (5) Unternehmerisch und (6) Konventionell. Reliabilität: Es liegen Reliabilitäten in Form von Cronbachs Alpha (VIT-Klassisch: Alpha = .83-.91, VIT-Balanciert: Alpha = .84-.87) sowie in Form von Andrich's Reliabilitäten (VIT-IRT: .66-.85) vor. Validität: Hypothesenkonforme Zusammenhänge zwischen dem VIT und dem konstruktnahen Verfahren Allgemeiner Interessen-Struktur-Test (AIST-R) unterstützen Annahmen zur konvergenten und diskriminanten Validität des Verfahrens. Der Vergleich der Passung zwischen individuellen und fächerspezifischen Interessen zeigte sowohl substanzielle Validitäten als auch einige schwächere Zusammenhänge zu Passungskriterien. Ausführliche Beschreibung: https://.doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.7774
description: {"references": ["Wetzel, E., Hell, B. & P\u00e4\u00dfler, K. (2012). Comparison of different test construction strategies in the development of a gender fair interest inventory using verbs. Journal of Career Assessment, 20 (1), 86 - 102. doi: 10.1177/1069072711417166"]}
Class-Based Service Connectivity using Multi-Level Bandwidth Adaptation in Multimedia Wireless Networks
Creators: name: Chowdhury, Mostafa Zaman
name: Jang, Yeong Min
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: Performance (cs.PF)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Due to the fact that quality of service requirements are not very strict for all traffic types, more calls of higher priority can be accommodated by reducing some bandwidth allocation for the bandwidth adaptive calls. The bandwidth adaptation to accept a higher priority call is more than that of a lower priority call. Therefore, the multi-level bandwidth adaptation technique improves the overall forced call termination probability as well as provides priority of the traffic classes in terms of call blocking probability without reducing the bandwidth utilization. We propose a novel bandwidth adaptation model that releases multi-level of bandwidth from the existing multimedia traffic calls. The amount of released bandwidth is decided based on the priority of the requesting traffic calls and the number of existing bandwidth adaptive calls. This prioritization of traffic classes does not reduce the bandwidth utilization. Moreover, our scheme reduces the overall forced call termination probability significantly. The proposed scheme is modeled using the Markov Chain. The numerical results show that the proposed scheme is able to provide negligible handover call dropping probability as well as significantly reduced new call blocking probability of higher priority calls without increasing the overall forced call termination probability.
description: Journal paper
Character Varieties of Free Groups are Gorenstein but not always Factorial
Creators: name: Lawton, Sean
name: Manon, Christopher
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14D20, 14L30, 16U30, 13H10, 16E65

description: Fix a rank g free group F and a connected reductive complex algebraic group G. Let X(F,G) be the G-character variety of F. When the derived subgroup DG in G is simply connected we show that X(F,G) is factorial (which implies it is Gorenstein), and provide examples to show that when DG is not simply connected X(F,G) need not even be locally factorial. Despite the general failure of factoriality of these moduli spaces, using different methods, we show that X(F,G) is always Gorenstein.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures; accepted for publication in the Journal of Algebra
In silico, in vitro VEGFR-2 inhibition, and anticancer activity of a 3-(hydrazonomethyl)naphthalene-2-ol derivative
Creators: name: Elkaeed, Eslam B.
name: Yousef, Reda G.
name: Elkady, Hazem
name: Mehany, Ahmed B. M.
name: Alsfouk, Bshra A.
name: Husein, Dalal Z.
name: Ibrahim, Ibrahim M.
name: Metwaly, Ahmed M.
name: Eissa, Ibrahim H.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biochemistry
Neuroscience
Pharmacology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Virology

description: In agreement with the general features of VEGFR-2 inhibitors, a new naphthalene analog (compound 7) has been designed and synthesized. The inhibitory potential of compound 7 was indicated by the proper binding and the perfect energy of −21.10 kcal/mol compared to sorafenib (−21.22) in the molecular docking studies. Next, six MD simulation studies over 100 ns (RMSD, RMSF, SASA, RoG, hydrogen bonding, and distance between the center of mass) confirmed the accurate interaction of compound 7 with the catalytic pocket of VEGFR-2. Similarly, an MM-GBSA established proper binding showing an exact total binding energy of −36.95 ± 3.03 kcal/Mol. Additionally, the MM-GBSA experiment indicated the vital amino acids in the binding process. Types and number of interactions of compound 7 with catalytic pocket of VEGFR-2 were determined through Protein-Ligand Interaction Profiler (PLIP). As a new compound, the DFT was employed to optimize the molecular structure of compound 7. The DFT experiments also verified the interaction features of compound 7 with the VEGFR-2 active site. In silico ADMET experiments revealed the general drug-likeness of compound 7. Fascinatingly, the in vitro examinations were consistent with the in silico experiments as compound 7 inhibited the VEGFR-2 enzyme with an IC50 value of 37 nM. Captivatingly, compound 7 inhibited both MCF-7 and HCT 116 cancer cells exhibiting IC50 values of 10.56 and 7.07 µM exhibiting excellent selectivity indexes of 9.04 and 13.50, respectively. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma
Additional file 1 of Natural essential oils as a new therapeutic tool in colorectal cancer
Creators: name: Garzoli, Stefania
name: Alarcón-Zapata, Pedro
name: Seitimova, Gulnaz
name: Alarcón-Zapata, Barbara
name: Martorell, Miquel
name: Sharopov, Farukh
name: Fokou, Patrick Valere Tsouh
name: Dize, Darline
name: Yamthe, Lauve Rachel Tchokouaha
name: Les, Francisco
name: Cásedas, Guillermo
name: López, Víctor
name: Iriti, Marcello
name: Rad, Javad Sharifi
name: Gürer, Eda Sönmez
name: Calina, Daniela
name: Pezzani, Raffaele
name: Vitalini, Sara
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biochemistry
Pharmacology
Biotechnology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. CRC preclinical models.
Distributed Value Functions
Creators: name: Schneider, Jeff
name: Weng-Keen  Wong
name: Moore, Andrew
name: Riedmiller, Martin
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Many interesting problems, such as power
grids, network switches, and traffic
flow, thatare candidates for solving with reinforcementlearning (RL), also have properties that makedistributed solutions desirable. We propose an algorithm for distributed reinforcement
learning based on distributing the
representation of the value function across nodes. Each node in the system only has the ability to
sense state locally, choose actions locally, and
receive reward locally (the goal of the system
is to maximize the sum of the rewards over all
nodes and over all time). However each node
is allowed to give its neighbors the current
estimate of its value function for the states it
passes through. We present a value function
learning rule, using that information, that allows each node to learn a value function that
is an estimate of a weighted sum of future
 rewards for all the nodes in the network. With
this representation, each node can choose
actions to improve the performance of the over-
all system.

We demonstrate our algorithm on the
distributed control of a simulated power grid.
We compare it against other methods
 including: use of a global reward signal, nodes
that act locally with no communication, and
nodes that share rewards (but not value
function) information with each other. Our
 results show that the distributed value function
algorithm outperforms the others, and we
conclude with an analysis of what problems
are best suited for distributed value functions
and the new research directions opened up by
this work.
Evolution of Goldstone mode in binary condensate mixtures
Creators: name: Roy, Arko
name: Gautam, S.
name: Angom, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the third Goldstone mode in the two-species condensate mixtures, which emerges at phase-separation, gets hardened when the confining potentials have separated trap centers. The {\em sandwich} type condensate density profiles, in this case, acquire a {\em side-by-side} density profile configuration. We use Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov theory with Popov approximation to examine the mode evolution and density profiles for these phase transitions at $T=0$.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures. Some part of the theory is common to arXiv:1307.5716 and arXiv:1405:6459, so that the article is self-contained for the benefit of the readers
Improving pollen substitutes to maintain development and hemolymph parameters of honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) during pollen dearth periods
Creators: name: Omar, Eslam M.
name: Amro, Abdulraouf M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology
classificationCode: 110309
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: To enhance the performance of honey bee colonies and to improve the physiological characteristics of honey bee workers in late winter and early spring (dearth period) in Assiut region, Upper Egypt—three pollen substitutes rich in protein and available in the local market were used and compared with bee bread as a control. The pollen substitutes were administrated at 7-day intervals for 15 wk, from December 2018 to March 2019. The rate of food consumption, sealed brood areas, bee population size, and characteristics of hemolymph of honey bee individuals were measured. Stored bee bread was the best protein source for developing honey bee colonies, continued with date syrup, recording the highest sealed brood areas compared with the rest of the diets. All hemolymph parameters under substitute feeding conditions were less than those determined under control conditions (bee bread), and the numbers of spring bees were more than those of winter bees. Total soluble solids (TSS), total hemolymph count (THC), differential hemolymph count (DHC), and hemolymph protein concentration (HPC) differed significantly among the experimental treatments with a significant superiority of date syrup (diet 3) over the others. It can be concluded that the date syrup was more suitable for honey bee colonies which was more favorable than traditional pollen substitute and improved physiological status of honey bee individuals during pollen scarcity periods. So under Upper Egypt conditions, pollen substitute feeding especially date syrup during the winter-early spring period under pollen scarcity helped honey bee colonies to be developed in the early spring seasons.
Synthesis of 4-hydroxy-L-proline derivatives as new non-classical inhibitors of human carbonic anhydrase II activity: an in vitro study
Creators: name: Moghoufei, Leila
name: Mehrabi, Masomeh
name: Adibi, Hadi
name: Khodarahmi, Reza
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biochemistry
Medicine
Pharmacology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Carbonic anhydrase (CA) is a zinc metalloenzyme that facilitates the rapid conversion of water and carbon dioxide into proton and bicarbonate ion. CA isozymes have been broadly studied in many pathological/physiological processes. In the current research, a series of 4-hydroxy-L-proline derivatives were designed and chemically synthetized, and interaction of these carboxylic acid-based compounds with hCA II were evaluated. Results indicated that different derivatives had different potencies on hCAII inhibitory activity and among them, compounds 3 b and 3c had the lowest IC50 and Kd values than 4-hydroxy-L-proline and other derivatives and therefore had the most affinity to the hCA II enzyme. As a result, compounds 3 b and 3c were chosen for additional testing in this research. The Kinetic data demonstrated that 3 b and 3c inhibit the hCA II esterase activity in a linear competitive way, with Ki values in the low micromolar range. Fluorescence tests showed that the hCA II surface hydrophobicity is diminished in the presence of compounds 3 b and 3c, as confirmed by the decrease in ANS binding to hCA II in their presence. Docking results revealed that 3 b and 3c had more binding energy than 4-hydroxy-L-proline. Furthermore, these compounds could occupy the active site of hCA II, where they would interact with critical amino acid residues via non-covalent forces to inhibit hCA II. Overall, the strengthening of inhibitory activity and the binding power of these carboxylic acid derivatives (3 b and 3c) for the hCA II makes these compounds interesting for designing novel hCA II inhibitors. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma
Additional file 3 of An overview of the trypanosomatid (Kinetoplastida: Trypanosomatidae) parasites infecting several mammal species in Colombia
Creators: name: Castillo-Castañeda, Adriana C.
name: Patiño, Luz H.
name: Zuñiga, Maria Fernanda
name: Cantillo-Barraza, Omar
name: Ayala, Martha S.
name: Segura, Maryi
name: Bautista, Jessica
name: Urbano, Plutarco
name: Jaimes-Dueñez, Jeiczon
name: Ramírez, Juan David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Table S2. BLASTn results for the 337bp Hsp70 gene fragment of the samples analyzed herein.
Theoretical approach to Api-tourism routes as a paradigm of sustainable and regenerative rural development
Creators: name: Izquierdo-Gascón, Mario
name: Rubio-Gil, Ángeles
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Routes in general, including agritourism routes focused on beekeeping, activate the socio-economic and sustainable development of the territories. A route is a unit of analysis that acts as a cluster, dynamizing several tourist centers, services, resources, and attractions while reducing environmental impacts. These synergies are much needed in the poorest and most depopulated rural areas. However, these areas, generally of high ecological and landscape value require a type of tourist activity with controlled impacts that favors the regeneration of the social and natural environment. To delve into all this, a pioneering theoretical analysis of Api-tourism and its routes was carried out. These premises and underlying models were contrasted deductively through the exploitation of secondary sources and empirically during fieldwork on “honey routes”, as case studies. It is concluded that Api-tourism routes are an emerging model of tourism activity and a significant representation of the new model of regenerative tourism.
Dynamic Heterogeneous Robot Teams Engaged in Adversarial Tasks
Creators: name: M. Bernardine  Dias
name: Browning, Brett
name: Veloso, Manuela M.
name: Stentz, Anthony
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: As we progress towards a world where robots play an integral role, a critical
problem that remains to be solved is that of dynamically formed heterogeneous
robot teams where little information is known a-priori about the tasks, the robots,
and the environments in which they will operate. We define this challenge as the
Pickup Team Challenge. Successful solutions to forming pickup teams will enable
researchers to experiment with larger numbers of robots; beyond what they
can support and maintain. Additionally, enabling such teams will have a large
impact on the ability of industry to efficiently and cost-effectively integrate new
robot technology with existing legacy teams. In this paper, we define the challenge
of pickup teams and relate its importance to multi-robot research. In our
prior work, we have developed techniques for effective collaboration using marketbased
techniques and for synchronizing team activity through plays. We build on
these prior approaches to move towards a complete system that is able to allocate
roles amongst robots in a pickup team, and to execute synchronized team actions
to accomplish a complex task.
Improving pollen substitutes to maintain development and hemolymph parameters of honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) during pollen dearth periods
Creators: name: Omar, Eslam M.
name: Amro, Abdulraouf M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: To enhance the performance of honey bee colonies and to improve the physiological characteristics of honey bee workers in late winter and early spring (dearth period) in Assiut region, Upper Egypt—three pollen substitutes rich in protein and available in the local market were used and compared with bee bread as a control. The pollen substitutes were administrated at 7-day intervals for 15 wk, from December 2018 to March 2019. The rate of food consumption, sealed brood areas, bee population size, and characteristics of hemolymph of honey bee individuals were measured. Stored bee bread was the best protein source for developing honey bee colonies, continued with date syrup, recording the highest sealed brood areas compared with the rest of the diets. All hemolymph parameters under substitute feeding conditions were less than those determined under control conditions (bee bread), and the numbers of spring bees were more than those of winter bees. Total soluble solids (TSS), total hemolymph count (THC), differential hemolymph count (DHC), and hemolymph protein concentration (HPC) differed significantly among the experimental treatments with a significant superiority of date syrup (diet 3) over the others. It can be concluded that the date syrup was more suitable for honey bee colonies which was more favorable than traditional pollen substitute and improved physiological status of honey bee individuals during pollen scarcity periods. So under Upper Egypt conditions, pollen substitute feeding especially date syrup during the winter-early spring period under pollen scarcity helped honey bee colonies to be developed in the early spring seasons.
Efficient 3-D Scene Analysis from Streaming Data
Creators: name: Hanzhang  Hu
name: Munoz, Daniel
name: J. Andrew  Bagnell
name: Hebert, Martial
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Rich scene understanding from 3-D point clouds is a challenging task that requires contextual reasoning, which is typically computationally expensive. The task is further complicated when we expect the scene analysis algorithm to also efficiently handle data that is continuously streamed from a sensor on a mobile robot. We are forced to make a choice between 1) using a precise representation of the scene at the cost of speed, or 2) making fast, though inaccurate, approximations at the cost of increased misclassifications. In this work, we demonstrate that we can achieve the best of both worlds by using an efficient and simple representation of the scene that also obtains state-of-the-art classification performance. Furthermore, as our efficient representation is naturally suited for streaming data, we demonstrate that we can achieve these high-performance predictions at a rate 3x faster than when using precise representations and without any loss in performance.
Mapping the Optical Absorption of a Substrate-Transferred Crystalline AlGaAs Coating at 1.5um
Creators: name: Steinlechner, Jessica
name: Martin, Iain W
name: Bell, Angus
name: Cole, Garrett
name: Hough, Jim
name: Penn, Steven
name: Rowan, Sheila
name: Steinlechner, Sebastian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The sensitivity of 2nd and 3rd generations of interferometric gravitational wave detectors will be limited by thermal noise of the test-mass mirrors and highly reflective coatings. Recently developed crystalline coatings show a promising thermal noise reduction compared to presently used amorphous coatings. However, stringent requirements apply to the optical properties of the coatings as well. We have mapped the optical absorption of a crystalline AlGaAs coating which is optimized for high reflectivity for a wavelength of 1064nm. The absorption was measured at 1550nm where the coating stack transmits approximately 70% of the laser light. The measured absorption was lower than (30.2 +/- 11.1)ppm which is equivalent to (3.6 +/- 1.3)ppm for a coating stack that is highly reflective at 1530nm. While this is a very promising low absorption result for alternative low--loss coating materials, further work will be necessary to reach the requirements of <1ppm for future gravitational wave detectors.
Investigation of cannabidiol’s potential targets in limbic seizures. In-silico approach
Creators: name: Olafuyi, Olabimpe
name: Kapusta, Karina
name: Reed, Alexander
name: Kolodziejczyk, Wojciech
name: Saloni, Julia
name: Hill, Glake A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biophysics
Biochemistry
Medicine
Molecular Biology
Pharmacology
Biotechnology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer

description: Even though the vast armamentarium of FDA-approved antiepileptic drugs is currently available, over one-third of patients do not respond to medication, which arises a need for alternative medicine. In clinical and preclinical studies, various investigations have shown the advantage of specific plant-based cannabidiol (CBD) products in treating certain groups of people with limbic epilepsy who have failed to respond to conventional therapies. This work aims to investigate possible mechanisms by which CBD possesses its anticonvulsant properties. Molecular targets for CBD’s treatment of limbic epilepsy, including hyperpolarization-activated cyclic nucleotide-gated channel 1 (HCN1), gamma-aminobutyric acid aminotransferase (GABA-AT), and gamma-aminobutyric acid type A receptor (GABAA), were used to evaluate its binding affinity. Interactions with the CB1 receptor were initially modeled as a benchmark, which further proved the efficiency of proposed here approach. Considering the successful benchmark, we further used the same concept for in silico investigation, targeting proteins of interest. As a result of molecular docking, molecular mechanics, and molecular dynamics simulations models of CBD-receptor complexes were proposed and evaluated. While CBD possessed decently high affinity and stability within the binding pockets of GABA-AT and some binding sites of GABAA, the most effective binding was observed in the CBD complex with HCN1 receptor. 100 ns molecular dynamics simulation revealed that CBD binds the open pore of HCN1 receptor, forming a similar pattern of interactions as potent Lamotrigine. Therefore, we can propose that HCN1 can serve as a most potent target for cannabinoid antiepileptic treatment. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma
Experimental analysis of Harmonic Shape Images
Creators: name: Dongmei  Zhang
name: Hebert, Martial
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In our early work, a representation called Harmonic Shape Images for 3D free-form surfaces was proposed and applied to solve the surface matching problem (D. Zhang and M. Hebert, 1999). Extensive experiments using real data are conducted to analyze the performance of Harmonic Shape Images with respect to discriminability, stability and robustness to resolution and occlusion. The results show that Harmonic Shape Images are an appropriate representation for 3D surface comparison. Examples of surface comparison using real data are presented.
Monte Carlo Simulations of the two-dimensional dipolar fluid
Creators: name: Caillol, Jean-Michel
name: Weis, Jean-Jacques
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a two-dimensional fluid of dipolar hard disks by Monte Carlo simulations in a square with periodic boundary conditions and on the surface of a sphere. The theory of the dielectric constant and the asymptotic behaviour of the equilibrium pair correlation function in the fluid phase is derived for both geometries. After having established the equivalence of the two methods we study the stability of the liquid phase in the canonical ensemble. We give evidence of a phase made of living polymers at low temperatures and provide a tentative phase diagram.
description: 20 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables
title: An exploration of disclosure and psychological outcomes in individuals with Turner Syndrome.
Creators: name: Nisbet, Mhairi
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Turner Syndrome, Growth Hormone Treatment, Psychological Outcomes, Disclosure, Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis

description: Objectives Previous literature exploring diagnostic disclosure in girls with Turner Syndrome (TS) is limited and has not yet examined how girls feel about disclosing their condition to others. Moreover, research conducted from the joint perspectives of girls and their parents is lacking. The primary aim of this study was to explore the experiences of diagnostic disclosure and disclosure to others in adolescent girls with TS and their parents/guardians. The secondary aim was to examine the impact of TS on girls and on their family’s lives. Design A qualitative method utilising Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) was employed within this study. Methods Five girls with TS and one parent/guardian of each girl completed dyadic and individual semi-structured interviews. Interviews were audio recorded and analysed verbatim. Data were analysed in accordance with IPA guidelines, with a focus on the dynamic interactions within dyads. Results Analysis identified three superordinate themes across the ten participants’ accounts: (i) Communication and Support, (ii) Stigmatisation of TS and (iii) Psychological Consequences. Eleven related sub-themes are described alongside relevant quotations. Conclusions The present findings provide insight into the lived experience of receiving a diagnosis of TS, highlighting a desire from both girls and their parents to conceal TS from others and demonstrating the varying impact TS can have within families. These insights provide potential recommendations for both clinicians and parents, such as ensuring direct conversations about infertility occur within treatment and facilitating open, honest communication. Future research exploring barriers around disclosure to others may enable girls and their families to facilitate this conversation.
Instancabile studioso esploratore e vagabondo "nato con l'istinto del pellegrino". Recensione a: Giuseppe Tucci, Il paese delle donne dai molti mariti, Neri Pozza Editore, Vicenza 2005
Creators: name: Daniotti, Claudia
Publisher: name: La Rivista di Engramma
Year: 2006
Subjects: Neri Pozza Editore
Giuseppe Tucci
Asia
Tibet
Il paese delle donne dai molti mariti

description: Review of the book “Il paese delle donne dai molti mariti“ written by Giuseppe Tucci and published by Neri Pozza Editore.
It is a selection of reports, notes, articles, short essays, often accompanied by beautiful photographs, which Tucci published in various magazines. Twenty-one travel stories written over the span of twenty-five years, between 1931 and 1956: stories that wind along the roads that were the scene of the professor's numerous expeditions to Central Asia, close to and astride the Himalayas, Nepal and, above all , in Tibet, in that country, that is, that Tucci himself defined elsewhere "the greatest love of my life".
Synthesis of 4-hydroxy-L-proline derivatives as new non-classical inhibitors of human carbonic anhydrase II activity: an in vitro study
Creators: name: Moghoufei, Leila
name: Mehrabi, Masomeh
name: Adibi, Hadi
name: Khodarahmi, Reza
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biochemistry
Medicine
Pharmacology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Carbonic anhydrase (CA) is a zinc metalloenzyme that facilitates the rapid conversion of water and carbon dioxide into proton and bicarbonate ion. CA isozymes have been broadly studied in many pathological/physiological processes. In the current research, a series of 4-hydroxy-L-proline derivatives were designed and chemically synthetized, and interaction of these carboxylic acid-based compounds with hCA II were evaluated. Results indicated that different derivatives had different potencies on hCAII inhibitory activity and among them, compounds 3 b and 3c had the lowest IC50 and Kd values than 4-hydroxy-L-proline and other derivatives and therefore had the most affinity to the hCA II enzyme. As a result, compounds 3 b and 3c were chosen for additional testing in this research. The Kinetic data demonstrated that 3 b and 3c inhibit the hCA II esterase activity in a linear competitive way, with Ki values in the low micromolar range. Fluorescence tests showed that the hCA II surface hydrophobicity is diminished in the presence of compounds 3 b and 3c, as confirmed by the decrease in ANS binding to hCA II in their presence. Docking results revealed that 3 b and 3c had more binding energy than 4-hydroxy-L-proline. Furthermore, these compounds could occupy the active site of hCA II, where they would interact with critical amino acid residues via non-covalent forces to inhibit hCA II. Overall, the strengthening of inhibitory activity and the binding power of these carboxylic acid derivatives (3 b and 3c) for the hCA II makes these compounds interesting for designing novel hCA II inhibitors. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma
Enhanced Negotiation and Opportunistic Optimization for Market-Based Multirobot Coordination
Creators: name: M. Bernardine  Dias
name: Stentz, Anthony
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Multirobot coordination, if made efficient and robust, promises high impact on automation. The
challenge is to enable robots to work together in an intelligent manner to execute a global task. The market
approach has had considerable success in the multirobot coordination domain. However the implementation
of this approach to date restricts the negotiations to two-party, single-task deals which often forces the task
allocation solution into a local minimum. This report investigates the effects of introducing multi-party and
multi-task negotiations to enhance the market-based approach to multirobot coordination. Multi-party
negotiations are enabled by implementing a combinatorial exchange mechanism, while multi-task
negotiations are accomplished via clustering of tasks in cost space. Presented results show that global costs
can be considerably reduced (on average to within 10% of the optimal solution for the tested scenarios),
and hence task allocation can be considerably improved, by enhancing the negotiation capabilities of the
robots.

This report also investigates the effects of introducing opportunistic optimization with leaders to enhance
market-based multirobot coordination. Leaders are able to optimize within subgroups of robots by
collecting information about their tasks and status, and re-allocating the tasks within the subgroup in a more
profitable manner. The presented work also considers the effects of introducing pockets of centralized
optimization into an otherwise distributed system. The implementations were tested on a variation of the
traveling salesman problem. Presented results show that global costs can be reduced, and hence, task
allocation can be improved, utilizing leaders. Note the presented work only addresses scenarios where
leaders run exchanges to optimize task allocation within a group of robots. Some leaders are also capable
of clustering tasks and hence can conduct combinatorial exchanges. But these are not the only opportunities
for leaders to optimize within the market. It is also possible to have combinatorial exchanges and leaders
as distinct entities within the economy. Leaders could also use other approaches to generate plans for a
subgroup of robots. Finally, a leader could simply act as a means of enabling trade between subgroups of
robots who are otherwise unable to communicate, thus enriching the set of possible trades. Thus, leaders
can enhance the market-based approach by several means including optimizing task-allocation, generating
plans, optimizing plans, and enabling better trade opportunities between groups of traders.
Exploiting Passthrough Information for Multi-view Object Reconstruction with Sparse and Noisy Laser Data
Creators: name: Herrmann, Martin
name: Siddhartha Srinivasa
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We describe a probabilistic model for utilizing passthrough information for producing 3D geometry models from a rotating laser scanner. Our method is fast, performs particularly well with relatively sparse data, is robust to noise of the depth data and naturally handles grazing points. We demonstrate our results on the HERB platform where the robot automatically builds a watertight 3D model of an object it is handed.
Emergence of coherence in a uniform quasi-two-dimensional Bose gas
Creators: name: Chomaz, Lauriane
name: Corman, Laura
name: Bienaimé, Tom
name: Desbuquois, Rémi
name: Weitenberg, Christof
name: Nascimbène, Sylvain
name: Beugnon, Jérôme
name: Dalibard, Jean
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Phase transitions are ubiquitous in our three-dimensional world. By contrast most conventional transitions do not occur in infinite uniform two-dimensional systems because of the increased role of thermal fluctuations. Here we explore the dimensional crossover of Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) for a weakly interacting atomic gas confined in a novel quasi-two-dimensional geometry, with a flat in-plane trap bottom. We detect the onset of an extended phase coherence, using velocity distribution measurements and matter-wave interferometry. We relate this coherence to the transverse condensation phenomenon, in which a significant fraction of atoms accumulate in the ground state of the motion perpendicular to the atom plane. We also investigate the dynamical aspects of the transition through the detection of topological defects that are nucleated in a quench cooling of the gas, and we compare our results to the predictions of the Kibble-Zurek theory for the conventional BEC second-order phase transition.
description: main text = 24 pages, 6 figures + supplementary material = 10 pages, 5 figures
Additional file 3 of Anesthesia and analgesia for common research models of adult mice
Creators: name: Ahmadi-Noorbakhsh, Siavash
name: Farajli Abbasi, Mohammad
name: Ghasemi, Maedeh
name: Bayat, Gholamreza
name: Davoodian, Nahid
name: Sharif-Paghaleh, Ehsan
name: Poormoosavi, Seyedeh Mahsa
name: Rafizadeh, Melika
name: Maleki, Maryam
name: Shirzad-Aski, Hesamaddin
name: Kargar Jahromi, Hossein
name: Dadkhah, Masoomeh
name: Khalvati, Bahman
name: Safari, Tahereh
name: Behmanesh, Mohammad Amin
name: Khoshnam, Seyed Esmaeil
name: Houshmand, Gholamreza
name: Talaei, Sayyed Alireza
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 3. Pharmacology of common anesthetic drugs in adult mice. The pharmacology of common anesthetic drugs in adult mice are discussed in this supplement.
Deformed wings in introduced solitary bees, Megachile spp., independent of virus infections
Creators: name: Lanner, Julia
name: Yañez, Orlando
name: Cilia, Giovanni
name: Bortolotti, Laura
name: Meimberg, Harald
name: Neumann, Peter
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Insect wing deformities can be caused by various factors, including the Deformed wing virus (DWV). Symptomatic and asymptomatic specimens of the introduced solitary wild bees Megachile sculpturalis and Megachile disjunctiformis collected at eleven Central European locations were screened for DWV infections. Even though virus spillover is common, and DWV was detected in other bee species collected in the same habitat as Megachile spp., neither DWV-A nor DWV-B were found in any of the samples (N = 54) including two symptomatic males with deformed wings. This indicates that other stressors were responsible for the observed clinical symptoms, thereby highlighting the necessity of differential diagnostics.
Additional file 1 of Antenna-enhanced mid-infrared detection of extracellular vesicles derived from human cancer cell cultures
Creators: name: Temperini, Maria Eleonora
name: Di Giacinto, Flavio
name: Romanò, Sabrina
name: Di Santo, Riccardo
name: Augello, Alberto
name: Polito, Raffaella
name: Baldassarre, Leonetta
name: Giliberti, Valeria
name: Papi, Massimiliano
name: Basile, Umberto
name: Niccolini, Benedetta
name: Krasnowska, Ewa K.
name: Serafino, Annalucia
name: De Spirito, Marco
name: Di Gaspare, Alessandra
name: Ortolani, Michele
name: Ciasca, Gabriele
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. Incident field enhancement at a distance of 25 nm from the unit cell of one of our patterned plasmonic surfaces, as computed with the Green Dyadic Method. Fig. S2. Enlarged detail of the near-field enhancement for the long nanoantenna as a function of the distance from the patterned surface in the range of 0-400 nm. Fig. S3. Representative SEM micrograph of HT29 cancer cells utilized for EVs precipitation from cell media. Scale bar 5 μm. Fig. S4. Western Blot (left) and NTA analysis (right) of the EVs extracted form Caco2 cacer cells. Fig. S5. NA redshift due to the interaction between EVs and the metasurface in the presence (blue filled dots ) and the absence ( open black dots) of Anti-CD63 functionalization. A schematic representation of the two hypothesized interaction models is reported in the top right and bottom right diagrams. Fig. S6. Representative FD curves acquired on EV particles captured on a gold functionalized surface (left). Topographical image of two different Nanoantennas, measured before gold functionalization and after EV immunocapture (right). A line profile with roughness is reported to show increased roughness.
Extracting shape and reflectance of Lambertian, specular, and hybrid surfaces
Creators: name: Shree K. Nayar
name: Ikeuchi, Katsushi
name: Kanade, Takeo
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Robotics Institute
Deformed wings in introduced solitary bees, Megachile spp., independent of virus infections
Creators: name: Lanner, Julia
name: Yañez, Orlando
name: Cilia, Giovanni
name: Bortolotti, Laura
name: Meimberg, Harald
name: Neumann, Peter
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology

description: Insect wing deformities can be caused by various factors, including the Deformed wing virus (DWV). Symptomatic and asymptomatic specimens of the introduced solitary wild bees Megachile sculpturalis and Megachile disjunctiformis collected at eleven Central European locations were screened for DWV infections. Even though virus spillover is common, and DWV was detected in other bee species collected in the same habitat as Megachile spp., neither DWV-A nor DWV-B were found in any of the samples (N = 54) including two symptomatic males with deformed wings. This indicates that other stressors were responsible for the observed clinical symptoms, thereby highlighting the necessity of differential diagnostics.
Fast Planning for Dynamic Preferences
Creators: name: Ziebart, Brian D.
name: Anind K. Dey
name: J. Andrew  Bagnell
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present an algorithm that quickly ﬁnds optimal plans for
unforeseen agent preferences within graph-based planning
domains where actions have deterministic outcomes and action costs are linearly parameterized by preference parameters. We focus on vehicle route planning for drivers with personal trade-offs for different types of roads, and speciﬁcally
on settings where these preferences are not known until planning time. We employ novel bounds (based on the triangle
inequality and on the the concavity of the optimal plan cost
in the space of preferences) to enable the reuse of previously
computed optimal plans that are similar to the new plan preferences. The resulting lower bounds are employed to guide
the search for the optimal plan up to 60 times more efﬁciently
than previous methods.
Radio Resource Allocation for Scalable Video Services over Wireless Cellular Networks
Creators: name: Chowdhury, Mostafa Zaman
name: Nguyen, Tuan
name: Kim, Young-Il
name: Ryu, Won
name: Jang, Yeong Min
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Good quality video services always require higher bandwidth. Hence, to provide the video services e.g., multicast/broadcast services (MBS) and unicast services along with the existing voice, internet, and other background traffic services over the wireless cellular networks, it is required to efficiently manage the wireless resources in order to reduce the overall forced call termination probability, to maximize the overall service quality, and to maximize the revenue. Fixed bandwidth allocation for the MBS sessions either reduces the quality of the MBS videos and bandwidth utilization or increases the overall forced call termination probability and of course the handover call dropping probability as well. Scalable Video Coding (SVC) technique allows the variable bit rate allocation for the video services. In this paper, we propose a bandwidth allocation scheme that efficiently allocates bandwidth among the MBS sessions and the non-MBS traffic calls (e.g., voice, unicast, internet, and other background traffic). The proposed scheme reduces the bandwidth allocation for the MBS sessions during the congested traffic condition only to accommodate more calls in the system. Instead of allocating fixed bandwidths for the BMS sessions and the non-MBS traffic, our scheme allocates variable bandwidths for them. However, the minimum quality of the videos is guaranteed by allocating minimum bandwidth for them. Using the mathematical and numerical analyses, we show that the proposed scheme maximizes the bandwidth utilization and significantly reduces the overall forced call termination probability as well as the handover call dropping probability.
Additional file 3 of Methodological guidance for the evaluation and updating of clinical prediction models: a systematic review
Creators: name: Binuya, M. A. E.
name: Engelhardt, E. G.
name: Schats, W.
name: Schmidt, M. K.
name: Steyerberg, E. W.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 3: Table S2. Summary of performance measures from the selected methodological literature.
Supplementary document for Free-electron-driven X-ray caustics from strained van der Waals materials - 6221849.pdf
Creators: name: Shi, Xihang
name: Shentcis, Michael
name: Kurman, Yaniv
name: Wong, Liang Jie
name: de Abajo, Javier García
name: Kaminer, Ido
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: supplemental document
High-pT Charged-Hadron Suppression in Au + Au Collisions at √sNN = 200 GeV.
Creators: name: Jia, Jiangyong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: azimuthal
anisotropy
suppression
centrality
qgp
gluon shadowing

description: The PHENIX experiment at RHIC has measured charged hadron yields at mid-rapidity over a wide range of transverse momentum (0.5 < pT < 10 GeV/c) in Au + Au collisions at √sNN = 200 GeV. For both charged hadrons and neutral pions, the yields per nucleon-nucleon collision are significantly suppressed in central collisions compared to both peripheral and nucleon-nucleon collisions. The suppression sets in gradually and increases with increasing centrality of the collisions. The measured centrality dependence of suppression of hadron yield, suppression of back-to-back correlation and azimuthal anisotropy all imply a strong dependence on the underlying collision geometry.We present a simple model of jet absorption in dense matter which incorporates a realistic nuclear geometry. This model describes quantitatively the observed suppression of the high pT hadron yield and of the back-to-back angular correlations.